In News Supreme Court stayed the Centre’s May 26 notification, banning cattle sale in livestock markets for slaughter and religious sacrifices. Background Notification for implementation of Prevention of Cruelty to…

In News Rajasthan has become the country’s first State to lay down the minimum educational qualifications for contesting elections to village cooperative societies and various other cooperative bodies. Changes and…

Why In News ? Karnataka state has constituted a nine-member committee headed by Principal Secretary, Department of Kannada and Culture, to study and submit a report to the government on…

In News The government has merged the urban development and housing and urban poverty alleviation ministries. Now this will be known as Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). This is third…

In News The Supreme Court froze the status of legal persons accorded to rivers Ganga and Yamuna by the Uttarakhand High Court in March 2017. Background High Court had invoked…

Formalise Election Commissioners appointment through law Source : The Hindu GS II : Appointment to various Constitutional posts, powers, functions and responsibilities of various Constitutional Bodies In News The court…

In the news Centre informed a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) that it considered all forms of Muslim divorce unilateral, extrajudicial, unequal. Centre enact a new divorce law for…

The presidential nod to a parliamentary panel recommendation that the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) either dubs them or carries Hindi subtitles to regional Cinema. Key Fact Regional movies without…

News The Election Commission is considering revision of its recount rules so that slips generated by the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) devices can be matched with the Electronic…

Need for index Creation of a judicial performance index that could help High Courts and their chief justices keep track of the performance and processes at district courts and subordinate…