Aspects of Governance

Summary: Unjustified arrests and denying bails are increasing in India which needs a course correction. Background: Unlike most democratic countries, […]

Summary: In Thwaha Fasal vs Union of India, the Court has deconstructed the provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). This has

Administrative reforms brought by the government, to encourage greater efficiency, to transparency and create corruption free governance by increasing accountability

Context: Essential Defence Services Bill introduced by Ministry of Defence for maintenance of essential defence services & to prevent government-owned

Preventive Detention: Preventive Detention is the most contentious part of fundamental rights in the Indian constitution. The Article 22 (3)

Context: Announcement of PLI schemes which gives discretionary powers to bureaucrats at Centre. Increase in conditional incentives to states. What

Context: Government has set up a new Ministry of Cooperation. Facts: Over 300 million people are members of around 800,000

Context: China’s development over the last century has been impressive. Hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty and

About UAPA: Originally enacted in 1967, the UAPA was amended to be modelled as an anti-terror law in 2004 and

Who is an Independent Director? An independent director is a non-executive director who does not have any kind of stake in