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News: In recent, the Delimitation Commission awards for redrawn map for Jammu and Kashmir’s Assembly has been notified.   Background  The State’s Assembly had been dissolved. It was under President’s rule. Thereafter, the State of J&K had been divided into two Union Territories under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019. And fresh elections could be… Continue reading With delimitation over, a look at the slate for J&K 

News: A project called the India Hypertension Control Initiative (IHCI) finds that nearly 23% out of 2.1 million Indians have uncontrolled blood pressure. Contents1 What is Hypertension?2 What is the IHCI?3 What has the IHCI found so far?4 How prevalent is the problem of hypertension? What is Hypertension? Hypertension was defined as having systolic blood… Continue reading The India hypertension control initiative

News: A public interest litigation (PIL) under the consideration of the Supreme Court of India has challenged the power of the Centre to notify minority communities at a national level. Contents1 Who are the minority communities at national level?2 Who is a minority and who decides that?3 What does the PIL argue?4 How has the… Continue reading On the question of notifying minorities

Context: A split verdict in the Delhi High Court on the question of criminalising marital rape has reignited the controversy over legal protection for disregard of consent for sex within marriage. Contents1 What has happened?2 On what points did the judges differ with each other?3 What is the stance of the Central Govt on the… Continue reading On marital rape: The importance of consent

News: India continues to face with the unrelenting heatwave. Although, heat waves are known to have been a reality for hundreds of years. But more extreme, frequent and prolonged heat waves in recent has exposed the long-term effects of climate change which have exacerbated them.   Concept of Ecologism  The concepts emerged in the 1970s,… Continue reading Shallow and deep ecologism 

News: Recently, illegal structures on public land in National Capital Regional of Delhi were razed using bulldozers. This has brought into forefront the major issues of encroachment in the urban areas.  What are the major issues in urban areas?  Traffic  The urban spaces are plagued with the problem of vehicular saturation. There is scarcity of… Continue reading Time to solve a solvable encroachment problem 

News: Recently, the issue of abortion was in the news internationally. This brings into picture the legal status of abortions in India.  Legal Status of abortion in India  Under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), voluntarily causing (if not caused in a good faith) a woman to miscarry is an offence attracting a jail term of… Continue reading Still a long way for termination as an unconditional right 

News: How many people died in India as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? This question has become the subject of a heated argument after the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated India’s pandemic excess deaths at around 4.7 million. The Government of India issued a strongly worded response, while media houses and editors also jumped… Continue reading The bitter dispute over India’s pandemic mortality