2021-10-06T21:02:34+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: Hindustan Times|
During the framing of India’s Constitution, multiple models of governance were proposed for the newly independent nation. The framers of the Constitution finally selected the model of “parliamentary democracy”. As the term suggests, there are two equally important constituent elements of this model — Parliament and democracy. [...]
2021-10-06T20:46:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The official launch of the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) started an initiative that will give every citizen a unique digital health ID, linked to a personal health record (PHR). The ID will also be linked to the Aadhaar. […]
2021-10-06T16:50:00+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: The Indian Express|
Context:- The Calcutta High Court has given West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee a deadline to pass an order in the defection case involving MLA Mukul Roy. He had contested and won the 2021 Assembly elections on a BJP ticket and then joined the Trinamool Congress. BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari, [...]
2021-07-26T06:32:53+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|Tags: TH|
Context The Great Indian Bustard, a gravely endangered species, with hardly about 200 alive in India today, came under the protective wings of the Supreme Court of India in a recent judgment. […]
2021-07-21T21:37:25+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
In a major boost for federalism, the Supreme Court recently struck down parts of a Constitution amendment which shrank the exclusive authority of States over its cooperative societies. […]
2021-07-21T19:36:03+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Highlights of the Bill 1) The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 states that adoption of a child is final on the issuance of an adoption order by the civil court. The Bill provides that instead of the court, the district magistrate (including additional district magistrate) [...]
2021-07-17T12:59:37+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Question Before the Supreme Court:- Should people have the right to incite violence against the government? This would be an inevitable question in front of the judiciary while it decides on the fate of the law of sedition (Section 124A, IPC). […]
2021-07-16T14:52:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, has long been dead. It was struck down as unconstitutional six years ago by the Supreme Court, which found that it “arbitrarily, excessively and disproportionately invades the right of free speech”. And yet, this draconian piece of dead law has had an [...]
2024-11-12T11:32:51+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Context ———————————————– The Indian Constitution may face an unprecedented crisis in 2026 when there will be a dramatic change in the composition of the Lok Sabha. Since 1976, seats in the Lok Sabha have reflected the 1971 census and have not taken into account changes in the population. [...]
2021-07-15T12:18:26+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Context:- Recently, the government of Uttar Pradesh released a “Population Policy” in which it stated its intention to bring the gross fertility rate in the State down from the existing 2.7 to 2.1 by 2026. To achieve this, the government says it will consider the enactment of a new piece of [...]
