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Rajya Sabha recently has approved a bill to declare two food technology institutes at Kundli in Haryana and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu as national institutes. The Rajya Sabha passed the National Institutes of Food Technology, Entrepreneurship and Management Bill, 2019 by voice vote. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Bill declares certain institutes of food […]

The CPI(M) Polit Bureau called the Supreme Court notice to the government seeking a response on the PIL filed by advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, challenging the Places of Worship (Special Provision) Act, 1991, “unfortunate”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Act mandates that the character of all religious places of worship should be maintained as

In an important verdict, the Supreme Court held that a government officer serving a state government or the Central Government cannot be appointed as the State Election Commissioner. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The Court passed this significant direction to ensure the independence of the State Election Commission. It said that giving government employees the

The Delhi high court issued notice to the Centre on a petition filed by the Foundation for Independent Journalism, publisher of The Wire, which pleads that the government’s new Information Technology (IT) Rules which seek to dictate content to digital news media platforms go beyond the scope of what is permissible under the IT Act

The Parliament gave its nod to the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2021. The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill last month. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The legislation seeks to amend the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. The Act contains provisions to deal with domestic and international arbitration and defines the law for

The Lok Sabha passed the National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Second (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that seeks to regularise unauthorised colonies that existed in the National Capital Territory of Delhi as on June 1, 2014, and had seen development up to 50% as on January 1, 2015. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The

The Supreme Courtroom requested the federal government to elucidate why it had not arrange an “impartial surroundings regulator” to supervise inexperienced clearances. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The top court had ordered the setting up of a national environment regulatory body to ensure independent oversight of green clearances way back in July 2011 in Lafarge

The Supreme Court decided to examine whether its nearly three-decade-old judgment, which fixed reservation for the marginalised and the poor in government jobs and educational institutions at 50%, needs a re-look. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In the Indira Sawhney verdict of 1992, a nine-judge Bench of the court had drawn the “Lakshman rekha” for