Who are Chakmas?
The Union government is considering granting citizenship to over a lakh Chakma and Hajong refugees, who have been living in India for over 50 years. This has brought the spotlight…
Article 256 of the Constitution
Article 256 in The Constitution Of India (Obligation of States and the Union): The executive power of every State shall be so exercised as to ensure compliance with the laws…
Background on All India Civil Service
The All India Services have their origin in the conception of ‘Civil servant’used in the British East India Company’s official records in 1765 and it was Governor General Cornwallis who…
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016
Highlights of the Bill Surrogacy is an arrangement whereby an intending couple commissions a surrogate mother to carry their child. The intending couple must be Indian citizens and married for…
Indra Sawhney case
In the famous Mandal case (Indra Sawhney v. Union of India 1992), the scope and extent of Article 16(4), which provides for reservation of jobs in favour of backward classes,…
Right to Privacy Judgment: The Long and Short of It in 21 Points
Key lessons from the said judgment from the perspective of the common man of India: 1. Earlier, the right to privacy was invariably considered a legal right. 2. Various judgments…
States cold to stricter anti-racial law
The Home Ministry has proposed to amend the law to insert two stricter anti-racial discriminationprovisions in the Indian Penal Code Lukewarm response from the States. States and UT’s agreed to the…
Parliament of India
Details about the Indian Parliament The Parliament of India is the supreme legislative authority in the country and it is bicameral. It is divided into two houses – the Rajya…
Jharkhand Religious Independence Bill, 2017
The Jharkhand Cabinet gave its approval to the Jharkhand Religious Independence Bill, 2017. According to an official release here, Section 3 of the Bill prohibits forceful conversion. In the event…
Institutions of Minority Education
What is a minority educational institution? A minority educational institution is one that has been set up by either a linguistic or a religious minority group, to keep alive and…