6 more seats for Jammu, 1 extra for Kashmir: Delimitation draft
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Main Examination: General Studies II: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act, Statutory, regulatory and various quasi-judicial bodies.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Draft Paper of the Delimitation Commission-key Proposal
• Current Status of the J&K delimitation commission
• Delimitation Commission of India and Delimitation Commission Act
• Delimitation Commission-Members, Power and Independence
• Delimitation commissions in the past (1952, 1962, 1972 and 2002)
• Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019
• Gujjar and Bakarwal Communities
• Key Proposal by the Delimitation Commission-Pros and Cons
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📍 Delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir: how, why
📍 Linking electoral roll to Aadhaar: Opp objects, Govt pushes Bill through
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
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Main Examination: Salient features of the Representation of People’s Act.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Aadhar and Voter ID Linking-Step towards Electoral reforms
• Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021-Key Highlights
• Why Aadhaar-linking is Important or Required?
• Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) Vs Union of India 2017
• Representation of the People Act, 1951-Key Highlights
• The Aadhaar Act, 2016-Key Features
• Election Commission recommendation for electoral Reforms
• Election Commission of India-Constitutional Provisions
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📍 The Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021
IN PARLIAMENT
Amid ruckus, RS passes NDPS (Amendment) Bill
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination:
Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Key Points to Ponder:
• The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Bill, 2021- Key Highlights
• Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985
• Why is there opposition to the amendment?
• Essential Narcotic Drugs (ENDs)
• Narcotics Control Bureau- Role and mandate
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📍 NDPS Act: a drafting error, its implications, and an amendment
GOVT & POLITICS
Anti-conversion Bill gets cabinet nod in Karnataka
Syllabus:
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Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Key Points to Ponder:
• The Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021-Why in News?
• The Karnataka Right to Freedom of Religion Bill 2021-Key Highlights
• Anti-conversion law in other States
• Reason Behind Anti-Conversion Laws
• Article 25 of the Constitution
• Landmark Judgements of Supreme Court and High Courts on Conversion
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📍 3 states, 3 anti-conversion laws: what’s similar, what’s different
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📍 Karnataka’s draft Bill has 10-year jail term for ‘forced conversion
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
A Fairer Test
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies II: Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Avni Prakash v National Testing Agency and Ors-Background
• Article 41 of the Directive Principles of State Policy (DPSP)
• Disability in India-Data’s and statistics
• The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPwD Act)
• United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
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📍 Disability and Rehabilitation Services in India: Issues and Challenges
📍 Explained: How much of India’s population lives with disabilities?
THE IDEAS PAGE
Three decades after a break-up
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Main Examination: General Studies‐ II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s Interest
Key Points to Ponder:
• India-Russia Relations
• Russia’s Impact on Indian Polity and Economy
• India-Russia ties in Present Scenario
• Recent differences between India and Russia bilateral relationship
• Russia China and India (RIC)
• USA-Russia Difference and its impact on India
• USA-Russia bilateral relationship under Biden Administration
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📍 Explained: Why Vladimir Putin visit to India is significant
A legal fix, hard to implement
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance
Main Examination: General Studies I: Social empowerment
Key Points to Ponder:
• Union Cabinet’s decision to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years
• Rationality behind the re-examining marriage age?
• Relative significance of the age of marriage and women’s health-How they are related?
• The Age of Consent Bill, 1927 and Sharda Act 1929
• The Law Commission Report of 2008 on Reforming Family Law
• Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• Raising legal age of marriage for women- Criticism
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📍 Why raise legal age, or why not
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📍 Poverty, not age of marriage, is responsible for women’s poor health indicators
A bigger step forward
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies‐III: Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc
Key Points to Ponder:
• Infrastructure Sector in India
• Infrastructure projects in India-Issues and Challenges
• PM Gati Shakti Master Plan-Highlights
• India as a Manufacturing Hub-Issues and Challenges
• Make in India and Atmanirbhar Bharat
• National Investment and Infrastructure Fund
• Kelkar Committee recommendations
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📍 Explained: What is Gati Shakti Master Plan that PM Modi announced on Independence Day?
EXPLAINED
Revisiting definition of EWS
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Main Examination: General Studies II: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
Key Points to Ponder:
• The economically weaker sections reservation-103rd Constitution (Amendment) Act, 2019
• Indira Sawhney case 1992
• Supreme Court on EWS Reservation Criteria
THE WORLD
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Davos World Economic Forum called off due to Covid: report
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance
Key Points to Ponder:
• World Economic Forum-Formation, Headquarters and Purpose
• Reports Published by World Economic Forum
ECONOMY
15% global minimum tax: Model rules by OECD
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Main Examination: General Studies II: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests
Key Points to Ponder:
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-Members
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and India
• Global Minimum Tax (GMT)-Definition and why it is required?
• Global Minimum Tax and India
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📍 Explained: Taxing Big Tech where it earns profits
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