Multiplicity of parties and plaints. Questions whether the parties are representative of their respective religious communities. Repeated failure of the mediation efforts. The apprehension of communal disharmony and violence. The volume of text supporting the claims of the parties (15 sealed trunks containing over 30,000 pages). Language of the supporting documents (e.g. Awadhi, Persian, Sanskrit) … Continue reading Ayodhya Dispute – Challenges

Important excerpts from The Hindu: PM-JAY – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana PM-JAY is the flagship scheme of the government with an aim to bring quality healthcare to around 50 crore poor and vulnerable Indians. The scheme gives annual healthcare benefits of up to Rs.5 lakh for every entitled family. PM-JAY aims to ensure improved … Continue reading Performance of PM-JAY

The fundamental rights of the people are jeopardised. There is an adverse impact on the justice delivery system. Lack of essential items like food, fuel etc. Preventing the people from hoarding essential items is a challenge. Restrictions on movement thus affecting daily life of people especially the elderly, children and people in need of medical … Continue reading Problems/challenges during Lock-down

Important excerpts from The Hindu: Government officials face hardly any punishment for violating the law by denying applicants the legitimate information sought by them. The State and Central Information Commissions, which are the courts of appeal under the Act, failed to impose penalties in about 97% of the cases where violations took place in 2018-19. … Continue reading Right to Information

Important excerpts from The Hindu: Darknet, known as the underworld of the Internet. Cyberdome, the Kerala State police department’s premier facility dedicated to prevent cybercrime and mitigate security threats to the State’s critical information infrastructure. Darknet is a layer of the Internet accessible only by using special software like Tor (The Onion Router), or I2P, … Continue reading DarkNet

Important excerpts from The Hindu: In a digital economy, data is the central resource. Data is so important that it has been compared to oil, water, property etc.  How data will be employed fruitfully, and its value captured, will decide a nation’s rank in the emerging new global geo-economic and geo-political hierarchies. A new concept … Continue reading Data Localistation

Important excerpts from The Hindu: The government has decided to put off a proposed visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Ankara as part of a number of measures showing its displeasure over Turkish President Recip Tayyip Erdogan’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last month, in which he criticised its move on … Continue reading India-Turkey Relations

Important excerpts from The Hindu: The NPR links biometric and demographic details of any ordinary resident, thus making it a comprehensive database of residents. It helps in tracking criminal activities. Helps in better planning and execution of government schemes. The NPR links biometric and demographic details of any ordinary resident, thus making it a comprehensive … Continue reading National Population Registry

Important Excerpts from The Hindu: Global economy is witnessing “synchronised slowdown” which will result in slower growth for 90% of the world this year, in contrast to two years ago when nearly 75% of the world witnessed accelerated growth. In July, the IMF cut its FY 2020 growth forecast for the Indian economy by 30 … Continue reading World Economy

Important excerpts from The Hindu: Relevance - Transport workers strike in Telengana. Most of the government run transport department are loss making entities; enterprise of public transport in most urban centres is a difficult proposition economically; bus transport has been beset by problems such as ageing fleets and high operational costs largely due to high … Continue reading Public Transport