CONTEXT The Supreme Court has recently issued notice on a writ petition on the condition that the petition’s prayer seeking a direction to “restrain beggars and vagabonds/homeless from begging on traffic junctions, markets and public places to avoid the spread …
What is it? It is an initiative spearheaded by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) in collaboration with ISRO, DRDO, Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Indian Navy. …
NEWS Bihar government recently announced 33% horizontal reservation for women in State engineering and medical colleges. CONTEXT There are two types of reservations – Horizontal reservation and Vertical reservation. Reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), Other Backward Classes …
Articles 72 and 161 Articles 72 and 161 of the Constitution empower the President of India and the governors of states to grant pardon or suspend, remit or commute sentences in certain cases. Pardon: It removes both the sentence and …