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01:- Upholding the autonomy of the Election Commission -  Page No.6 , GS 2 • The issues before the Court are straightforward, but with far-reaching ramifications for Indian democracy:                           is complete executive control over appointments to the ECI constitutional? And if not, what manner of appointment is sufficient to preserve the independence of the ECI, and the fairness of elections?  • According to the classical understanding of modern democracy, there are three “wings” of state: the legislature, the executive, and the judiciary.  The task of the Constitution is to allocate powers between these three wings, and to ensure that there is an adequate degree of checks and balances between them. Traditionally, bodies that are involved with administrative and implementational issues — elections being among them — are believed to fall within the executive domain.  • It is now commonly accepted that healthy constitutional democracies need what are known as “four

  01:- Citizenship path to be eased for 6 minority groups from 3 nations -  Page No.1 , GS 2 • The Union government is all set to ease grant of citizenship to members of six minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh whose passports and visas have ceased to be valid during their stay in India.  • The Home Ministry is expected to revamp the citizenship portal to accept passports and visas with expired validity as supporting documents to process citizenship application of Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians, Buddhists and Jains from the three countries, says a government source.  • The portal run by the Ministry currently accepts expired passports as supporting documents only for those Hindu and Sikh applicants from Pakistan and Afghanistan who entered India before December 31, 2009.            About CAA:  • The CAA provides citizenship on the basis of religion to six undocumented non-Muslim communities (Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians

01:- Kashi Tamil Sangamam -                                                  Page No.1 , GS 1  About:  • Kashi Tamil Sangamam celebrates many aspects of the historical and civilisational connection between India’s North and South.  • The broader objective is to bring the two knowledge and cultural traditions (of the North and South) closer, create an understanding of our shared heritage and deepen the people-to-people bond between the regions.  • It is being organized by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with other ministries like Culture, Textiles, Railways, Tourism, Food Processing, Information & Broadcasting etc. and the Government of Uttar Pradesh.  • The endeavour is in sync with National Education Policy (NEP), 2020’s emphasis on integrating the wealth of Indian Knowledge Systems with modern systems of knowledge.  • IIT Madras and Banaras Hindu University (BHU) are the two implementing agencies for the programme.  02:-Wayanad rice festival promotes climate

 01:-Stop grading terrorists as good and bad: India in UN -                                                               Page No.1 , GS 2 • The era of classifying terrorists as “bad” or “good” on the basis of “political convenience” must end immediately, a concept note circulated by India in the UN Security Council here has said, underlining that categorising terror acts by intent as religious or ideologically motivated will dilute the shared global commitment to fighting terrorism.  • Stressing that terrorism cannot be associated with any religion, nationality, civilisation or ethnic group, the note said all acts of terrorism were criminal. “Terrorism in all its forms and manifestations must be condemned.                                         There cannot be an exception or justification for any act of terrorism, regardless of its motivation and wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed. The era of classifying terrorists as ‘bad’ , ‘not so bad’ or ‘good’ on the bas

 01:-Collegium’s final decisions alone need to be in public domain: SC                                page no.01,gs 02 he Supreme Court on Friday held that only the final decisions of the top court Collegium need to be published in the public domain.   A “final decision” of the Collegium would mean a resolution drawn and signed by all the Collegium members after due deliberations among them, and post consultations  among the other Supreme Court judges, a Bench led by Justice M.R. Shah laid down in a judgment.   The Collegium is composed of the Chief Justice of India and the next four senior­most judges. It unanimously recommends names for Supreme Court and High Court judgeships to the government 02:-RTI activist alleges assault at CAG office for filing application .                                                     page no.04,gs 02  Right to Information activist was allegedly assaulted while filing a query at the Comptroller and Auditor General of India office in Kolkata.  Activist B

 01:-SC reserves verdict on pleas to strike down Tamil Nadu law which protects Jallikattu -                                                                            Page No.4 , GS 1,2 • A Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday reserved for judgment a batch of petitions seeking to strike down a Tamil Nadu law which protects Jallikattu by claiming that the bull-taming sport is a cultural heritage of the State and is protected under Article 29 (1) of the Constitution.  • The bone of contention is the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Tamil Nadu Amendment) Act of 2017 and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Conduct of Jallikattu) Rules of 2017, which had reopened the gates for the conduct of the sport despite a 2014 ban by the Supreme Court.  • The case was referred to the Constitution Bench in February 2018.  • The primary question involved was whether Jallikattu should be granted constitutional protection as a collective cultural right under Article 29 (1).  What

 01:-RBI goes slow on rates, limits increase to 35 bps:-                                                   Page No.1 , GS 3  - • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the policy repo rate by 35 basis points (bps) to 6.25%, downshifting gears from consecutive increases of 50 bps, and scaled down GDP growth hopes for the year to 6.8% from 7% , even as Governor Shaktikanta Das exuded confidence about the economy being resilient and asserted that “the worst of inflation” was behind us.  • A 100 basis points equal one percentage point. The central bank retained its inflation projection for 2022-23 at 6.7%, noting that inflation will ease but stay well above the 6% upper tolerance limit set for the RBI.  • Mr. Das vowed to keep an “Arjuna’s eye” on evolving inflation dynamics, even as cooling global prices for crude oil, commodities and other items extend hope of relief. 02:-Why silent on voiding of NJAC, V-P asks Parliament -