Mains Marathon Daily Current Affairs Questions and Answer Writing – February 12, 2018

Read the following questions and answer them by clicking on the links in not more than 200 words

Time: 30 Minutes

Kindly review each others answers

Q.1) What do you mean by Gender Responsive Budgeting? What are the schemes and initiatives taken to encourage and empower women in recent the Union Budget 2018? (GS-3)

The Hindu

Q.2) Discuss the problems plaguing the Indian Judiciary for which it is losing its sheen. What are some of the steps taken by the government in order to address the same? (GS–2)

The Hindu

Q.3) Section 375 of the IPC now states that sexual intercourse or acts with a man with his own wife, not being under eighteen years of age, is not rape. What do you understand by marital rape? Do you think that government’s refusal to criminalize marital rape is unjust and inconsistent? Comment critically. (GS-1)

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