Category: The Hindu Notes

CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  Privacy ruling to have bearing on beef ban cases: SC{Rights Issues} Nb: Hindu Limited this issue to a sentence,This is from Indian express. News: A day after a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that right to privacy is a fundamental right, a two-judge bench of the court observed that the privacy ruling will have a bearing on the Maharashtra beef ban case pending before it. Beyond news: “The judgment will have some bearing on these cases,” the bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan remarked while hearing cross-appeals against the Bombay High Court order decriminalising possession of beef in case the animal was slaughtered outside the state even as it upheld the ban on slaughtering of…

CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  Citizen vs State {Rights Issues} News: In a rare unanimous verdict pronounced by nine judges, the Supreme Court has ruled that privacy is a fundamental right that requires constitutional protection. Beyond news: This restatement of first principles became necessary mainly due to a strange and perverse argument by the Union government in the course of the hearings on the validity of its Aadhaar-based unique identity scheme that privacy is not a fundamental right. The fact that all the judges unanimously came down on this argument shows how much the government misunderstood the constitutional underpinnings of privacy as a value in itself and as an ineluctable facet of human dignity. The government argued that privacy is “so amorphous as to defy description”, that…

CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  OBC list to be sub-categorized News: In a move that could have a far-reaching political and social impact, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a proposal to set up a commission which will examine the issue of sub-categorization of the Other Backward Classes (OBC). Beyond News: The committee has a three-point mandate. One, it has to examine the “extent of inequitable distribution of benefits of reservation” among various castes and communities that come under the Central OBC list. The committee also has to work out the mechanism, criteria and parameters for the actual sub-categorization. This will be tricky. The actual reservation will continue to be 27% and within this the committee will have to do the re-arranging. Examples: If the committee comes…