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Marital rape: Delhi HC judges split on exception to law
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Current events of national and international importance.
Mains Examination:
• General Studies I: General Studies I: Salient features of Indian Society, Social empowerment, Role of women and women’s organization
• General Studies II: Structure, organization and functioning of the Executive and the Judiciary
Key Points to Ponder:
• Status of Constitutionality of the marital rape exception in India? What is Delhi High Court’s recent Verdict on Marital Rape?
• What is the Concept behind marriages in Indian Subcontinent or in the Indian Society?
• The Institution of Marriage-Why marriage is referred as an institution?
• Influence of Legislations like the prevention of Sati Act, 1829, The Hindu widow Remarriage Act, 1856, The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 and The Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 on Hindu Marriage-Know in detail
• What is Section 375 of Indian Penal Code?
• What is Exception 2 to Section 375 of Indian Penal Code?
• What is Marital rape immunity?
• Criminalisation And Non-Criminalisation Of Marital Rape-For and Against
• Status of Marital Rape in India-Latest Data by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and National family health Survey
• “Doctrine of Coverture”, Article 14 and Article 21 of the Indian Constitution and Exception 2 to Section 375 of Indian Penal Code
• Justice Verma Committee Report and Pam Rajput committee’s report ‘Status of Women in India’ on Marital Rape-Know the Key Highlights
• What is Law Commission of India’s Stand on Marital Rape?
• United Nations Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Violence against Women in India
• Government of India’s Stand on Marital Rape?
• Criminalization of Marital Rape-Does the law exists in other Countries?
• What have the courts said in earlier instances like High courts Karnataka and Gujrat on Marital rape?
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📍 Explained: What is the law on marital rape, and what has the Delhi High Court ruled?
Jharkhand mining secy held in money laundering case
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Mains Examination:
• General Studies II: Role of civil services in a democracy
• General Studies III: Money-laundering and its prevention
• General Studies IV: Public/Civil service values and Ethics in Public administration:
Key Points to Ponder:
• Who is IAS officer Pooja Singhal and what’s the case?
• What Is Money Laundering?
• How Money Laundering works? What do you understand by placement, layering and integration?
• Money Laundering and its impact? What influence does money laundering have on economic development?
• How does fighting money laundering help fight crime?
• Steps Taken by Government of India to Prevent Money Laundering
• Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA)-Key Points
• Prevention of Money-Laundering (Amendment) Act, 2012-Key Highlights
• Directorate of Enforcement (ED)-Role and Function
• Directorate of Enforcement (ED) comes under which Ministry or Organisation?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Money Laundering
Beating inflation: RBI may have to kill demand, hike rate, suck liquidity
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Mains Examination: General Studies III: Indian Economy and issues relating to planning, mobilization, of resources, growth, development and employment
Key Points to Ponder:
• Inflation and Various Types of Inflation
• Causes of Inflation in recent time?
• Long term, Medium Term and Short-term impact of Inflation
• How Inflation is Measured in India?
• New Standard for Measuring Inflation in India and Old Standard for Measuring Inflation-Key Differences
• What is the Monetary Policy Committee?
• The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is a Statutory Body-True or False?
• What is the Primary Objective of monetary policy in India?
• There are several direct and indirect instruments that are used for implementing monetary policy-What are they?
• What is REPO rate?
• What is Current Repo Rate?
• What is Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) Rate?
• What happens when Repo Rate and CRR is increased?
• Why did RBI increase the REPO and CRR recently?
• Impact of increase in the REPO and CRR on Money Supply on an Economy-Inflation or Deflation?
• Know about these terms-Bank Rate, Reverse Repo Rate, Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF), Marginal Standing
Facility (MSF) etc.
• Steps or Measures Taken by GOI to Control Inflation
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 How RBI dropped inflation ball
📍 Explained: Federal Reserve signals, and Indian markets
THE EDITORIAL PAGE
A Pregnant Pause
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Mains 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:
• What do you understand by ‘Sedition’?
• Sedition laws in India-Know about them
• Historical Background of Sedition Law-Who drafted it?
• When was sedition law used against Mahatma Gandhi and BG Tilak?
• What is Section 124A of Indian Penal Code?
• Punishment for the Offence of Sedition in India-Know in detail
• What is the fresh challenge to sedition law?
• Sedition laws in other countries-Compare and Contrast
• What is the Supreme Court’s stand on it?
• Supreme Court Decisions and Discussions on Sedition Law?
• Supreme Court’s Landmark decision in Kedar Nath Singh v. State of Bihar (1962) case and the Balwant Singh vs State of Punjab (1995) case-know in detail
• What are the Kedar Nath Singh guidelines?
• What does the Law Commission of India say on sedition?
• National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics on the Sedition Law-Know the facts and figures given by NCRB
• Problems with the sedition laws-Brainstorm
• Has the Law of Sedition Been Misused?
• Legal flaws and spurious interpretation of Sedition Law?
• Mahatma Gandhi on Section 124A as the “prince among the political sections of the Indian Penal Code designed to suppress the liberty of the citizen”-Decode the Quote
• How Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) contradicts Article 14 and Article 21 of the Indian Constitution?
• The Law of Sedition Should Be Repealed Now? Critically Analyse
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
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THE IDEAS PAGE
The good cop
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Indian Polity and Governance
Mains Examination: General Studies II: Role of civil services in a democracy.
Key Points to Ponder:
• Police Reforms-Aims and Objectives
• Police Reforms, need of the hour-Comment
• Expenditure on police is how much of the central and state government budgets?
• Vacancies in State and Central Police Force and the sanctioned police strength -Know the Data
• What are the United Nations recommended standard of police per lakh persons?
• What are the recommendations given by various Committees / Commission on Police Reforms like the National Police Commission (1978-82), the Padmanabhaiah Committee on restructuring of Police (2000) and the Malimath Committee on reforms in Criminal Justice System (2002-03)?
• What are the recommendations of Second Administrative reforms commission on police reforms?
• What were the components of the Modernisation of Police Forces (MPF) scheme?
• What are the Responsibilities of centre and states with regard to police?
• Law and Order and Police is in State List, Union List or in the Concurrent List?
• What is Schedule 7 and Article 355 in the Constitution of India?
• What are the Directions of the Supreme Court in Prakash Singh vs Union of India, 2006?
• What are the Key features of the Model Police Act, 2006?
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 Police Reforms in India
Heading for GST Exit
Syllabus:
Preliminary Examination: Economic and Social Development
Mains Examination: General Studies III: Inclusive growth and issues arising from it.
Key Points to Ponder:
• What Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
• How the Goods and Services Tax (GST) System Works?
• Goods and Services Tax (GST) and 101st Amendment Act, 2016-Know in detail
• GST Council and Article 279A of the Constitution-Key Provisions
• GST Council and Members
• What is Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)?
• What are the benefits of Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
• Which taxes at the Centre and State level are being subsumed into Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
• What were the major chronological events that have led to the introduction of GST?
• Kelkar Task Force on Goods and Services Tax (GST)-what was the recommendations?
• What are the different types of Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
• How would a particular transaction of goods and services be taxed simultaneously under Central GST (CGST) and
State GST (SGST)?
• What are the benefits of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India?
• What items are not taxed or covered under Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
• Goods and Services Tax (GST)-Issues and Challenges
Other Important Articles Covering the same topic:
📍 What is Goods and Services Tax (GST)?
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