In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court(SC) (October 3) struck down the provisions of the Prison Manual based on castes. Lower castes and marginalized sections assigned cleaning and sweeping tasks…
International Day for Older Persons(IDOP) IDOP On 14 December 1990, the United Nations(UN) General Assembly designated October 1 as the International Day of Older Persons (resolution 45/106). This was preceded…
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs,(DESA) Population Division releases World Population(P) Prospects Report 2024. INDIA https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/the-implications-of-the-growing-population-on-human-development-in-india
NITI Aayog released SDG India Index 2023-24. The Index, fourth edition, measure national and subnational progress on the Sustainable Development Goals(SDG). India is commitment to the SDGs since adopting the…
The paper Leakage is persistently plaguing Indian competitive exam system and recently leaked NEET exam is not an aberration; over 67 students got perfect scores against the average of two…
As per the National Commission for Women, the number of domestic violence cases has declined if we compare it to its rise in the pandemic years. LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT…
According to a discussion paper released by NITI Aayog multidimensional poverty (MPI) in India declined from 29.17 percent in 2013-14 to 11.28 percent of the population in 2022-23, In absolute…
Annual 2022 edition of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report was released on Sunday, 3 December. LEARNING FROM HOME/ WITHOUT CLASSES/ BASICS CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND LEGISLATIONS Article 14…
Justice Amitava Roy Committee, a three-member panel, on prison reforms was constituted by the Supreme Court in 2018. . On August 29, the Supreme Court sought the views of the…
READ: Ragging at Jadavpur University: What the law says about the issue (indianexpress.com) Last week in the Jadavpur University campus in Kolkata An 18-year-old undergraduate died and the family alleged…
