The high-level committee on “One Nation, One Election”, led by former President Ram Nath Kovind, submitted its report to President Droupadi Murmu. The high-level committee includes Home Minister Amit Shah, former leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Finance Commission chairman K Singh, former Lok Sabha Secretary General Subhash Kashyap and senior advocate Harish Salve. Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal is a special invitee to the panel. The panel reasoned that the current system of having several elections every year, casts a huge burden on the government, businesses and the society at large. RECOMMENDATIONS Foremost, the panel....Read More
The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the celebration of ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ every year on September 17. Even after India's independence on August 15, 1947, Hyderabad did not get independence and continued to remain under the rule of the Nizams for 13 months. The city was liberated from Nizam's rule on September 17, 1948, after a police action namely 'Operation Polo'. ABOUT OPERATION POLO Operation Polo is the code name for the military operation conducted by the Indian Armed Forces in September 1948 to integrate the princely state of Hyderabad into the independent Union of India. The operation was initiated....Read More
The government officially notified the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024, signalling a significant development in India's citizenship framework. ABOUT CITIZENSHIP (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2019 The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) is a legislative enactment that the Parliament of India passed on December 11, 2019 to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955. This amendment allowed for the grant of Indian citizenship to religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, who fled from neighbouring Muslim-majority countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan due to religious persecution or fear thereof before December 2014. Under the CAA 2019 amendment, migrants who entered India by....Read More
The National Youth Parliament 2024 concluded recently. The National Youth Parliament is being organised this year based on the theme of 'Young Voices: Engage and Empower for Nation’s Transformation’. The National Youth Parliament Festival, 2024 was organised from 9th February 2024 to 6th March 2024 across the country at three levels covering 785 Districts of the country. Winners Yatin Bhaskar Duggal from Haryana won the first prize in the National Youth Parliament Festival, 2024, while Vaishna Pitchai from Tamil Nadu won the second prize and Kanishka Sharma from Rajasthan the third prize. ABOUT NATIONAL YOUTH PARLIAMENT FESTIVAL The Ministry of....Read More
Author and philanthropist Sudha Murty has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha by President Droupadi Murmu. At 73, Sudha Murty is a renowned philanthropist, author, and former chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. Her husband, Narayana Murthy, is the founder of the IT giant Infosys, while UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is her son-in-law. Murty is also a writer in English and Kannada. With 30 books and over 200 titles, including novels, non-fiction, children's books, travelogues, technical books, and memoirs to her name. Her works have been translated into major Indian languages, selling over 26 lakh copies across the country. Awards....Read More
Mysore Paints and Varnish Ltd (MPVL), has received its largest ever order from the Election Commission for 26.55 lakh vials of indelible ink worth ₹55 crore. MPVL is an enterprise started by the Mysore Maharajas and has been supplying ink for every election in the country for over six decades. It is the sole manufacturer of indelible ink. MVPL also exports the ink to other nations. The country will need 26.55 lakh vials of the marker for upcoming general elections. Each 10 mg vial of indelible ink can mark approximately 700 voters, ensuring a free and fair electoral process by....Read More
Keyi Panyor has become the 26th district of Arunachal Pradesh. It has been carved out of Lower Subansiri The new district, which was being demanded by the people of the Nyishi community for long, will have its headquarters at Ter Gapin-Sam Sarth. The 27th district, Bichom, is scheduled to be inaugurated early next week.Read More
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has notified a scheme for internally displaced persons of Manipur to vote at the relief camps. More than 60,000 people were displaced within weeks of the ethnic violence that broke out on May 3, 2023. Most of them are lodged in relief camps. After due consultations with the Central and State governments, it was decided that these electors would “continue to be borne on the electoral rolls of the Assembly and Parliamentary constituencies concerned” in Manipur. The internally displaced electors would be provided with the facility to vote at “special polling stations” to be....Read More
The Education Ministry and the Information and Broadcasting Ministry jointly launched a nationwide awareness campaign “Mera pehla vote desh ke liye (my first vote for the country)” Under this various events will be organised in universities, colleges, and higher education institutions to encourage the first-time voters to participate in the upcoming election.Read More
India has stopped the flow of water from the Ravi river into Pakistan by building a dam that was waiting for completion for 45 years. The Shahpur Kandi barrage -- located in Punjab's Pathankot district -- was held up by a domestic dispute between Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab. But that led to substantial chunk of water that belongs to India, going to Pakistan all these years. Under the Indus water treaty signed under the supervision of the World, India has full rights over the water of Ravi, Sutlej and Beas, while Pakistan has rights over the water of Indus,....Read More
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