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 [...]
2023-09-22T18:19:38+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Urban governance is part of the state list under the Constitution. Thus, the administrative framework and regulation of ULBs varies across states. However, experts have highlighted that ULBs across India face similar challenges. For instance, ULBs across the country lack autonomy in city management and several city-level functions are managed [...]
2021-07-03T18:10:40+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Preamble to a constitution is the window to what is there inside the constitution. The Constitution of India has also got a preamble. It is mentioned in the beginning of the Constitution, before the main part, i.e., the part I. If you read the Preamble, it gives you a glimpse [...]
2021-07-02T00:34:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The Constitution of India was adopted on 26 November 1949, [...]
2021-06-11T20:13:16+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Gandhi and Maulana Azad – Both were tried for Sedition. Tilak too was tried for sedition First introduced in 1870, the primary objective of the sedition law was to deal with “increasing Wahabi activities” in India during those times as they posed a challenge to the British colonial government. [...]
2022-08-30T13:17:12+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
THE law of sedition has always been one of the most contentious topics of constitutional law jurisprudence in India, with views ranging from calls for the complete abolition of the provision from our statute books to those advocating for retaining the sedition clause in its entirety with a more vigorous [...]
2021-05-17T11:20:31+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
The concept of sovereignty is widely believed to have originated at the end of Europe’s Thirty Years War, with the Treaty of Westphalia, in which, for the first time, the absolute authority of a nation-state over its territory was recognized. […]
2021-04-29T23:40:05+05:30By UPSCTREE|Categories: Polity|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, replying to the debate on the motion of thanks to the President’s address to the Lok Sabha, made a strong case for the privatisation of PSUs and said: “If one becomes an IAS officer will he also run a fertiliser factory… Will he run a chemical [...]
