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Principles applying to direct democracy?

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  1. people are soveriegn
  2. sovereignty is inalienable and cannot be represented
  3. people mst express their general will and make decisions
  4. decisions based on majority rule
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DSPs on which laws can be based so that they can’t be challenged for violating RT Equality?

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  • Art 39b: secure equitable distri of material resources
  • art39c: prevent concentration of wealth
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Newspace India ltd?

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  1. one of two commercial arms of (other, Antrix) of ISRO
  2. wholly owned CPSE
  3. under admin control of Deptt of Space
  4. vs Antrix: Antrix facilitates SLVs like SSLVs and PSLVs for foreign mkts while NSIL will expand activities domestically as well
  5. fns:
    1. small satellite tech transfer to industry; NSIL will obtain licence frm ISRO/DOS and sub-license it to industries
    2. mfg if small SLV in collab with pvt sector
    3. productionization (process of turning a prototype of a design into a version that can be more easily mass-produced) of PSLV and other space based products and services with Indian ind
    4. tranfer of tech developed by ISRO centres and units of DOS
    5. mktng spin-off tech and products, both in India and abroad
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Ninth schedule?

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  1. added by 1st CAA in 1951
  2. draws power frm Art 31b
  3. inspiration frm consti of Ireland, that had a separate board for redistributing land and whose actions was immune to judicial interference
  4. putting any law in it-> Art 368 i.e. special majority
  5. SC ruled against blanket immunity in IR Coelho acse in 2007: all amendments after Keshavanand Bharati verdict, that put laws in 9th schedule, can be judged otbo doctrine of basic str, thus a Retrospective ruling
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Members of drafting committee forthe constitution?

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B.R. Ambedkar

AK Aiyyar

N. Gopalaswami

KM Munshi

Mohammad Saadulla

BL Mitter

DPKhaitan

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Arctic council:

  1. established by?
  2. features?
  3. India’s role?
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  1. estab by Ottawa declaration of 1996 by 8 arctic states- Canada, Denmark (incl Greenland and Faroe Is.) Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and USA
    • 6 org representing indigenous people of arctic region also granted permanent participation
  2. features:
    1. nt a formalized treaty based international legal entity
    2. decisionmaking thru consensus
    3. Doesn’t prohibit commercial exploitation of resources in Arctic
  3. ​India was recently re-elected as an observer
    • first time in 2013
    • Indian arctic station at ny Aleusund, Spitsbergen Island, Norway- since 2008
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Arctic’s significance?

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  1. holds a significant portion of 30% of world’s undiscovered NG (Russian region) and 13% of its undiscovered oil reserves (Norwegian region)
  2. unlike Antarctica, Arctic isn’t a Global Common (no over-arching treaty for Arctic like Antarctic treaty of 1959)
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Global commons: what?

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  • resource domains that do not fall within jurisdiction of any one particular country and to which all nations hv access
  • includes Oceans, puter space and Antarctica
  • Not Arctic
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Antarctic treaty?

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  1. 1959
  2. use of Antaarctic only for scientific and peaceful purposes
  3. freed it frm any territorial claims
  4. made it a global common
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Antarctica ad India?

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  • 2 research stations presently: Maitri (since 1989) and Bharati (2013)
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original jurisdiction of HC?

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  1. matter of admiralty, will, marriage, divorce, company laws
  2. contempt of court
  3. dispute related to election of MP/MLAs
  4. revenue matter or an act done in revenue collection
  5. FR
  6. cases tranferred frm sub-ordinate court regarding interpretation of Consti
  7. the 4HCs hv original civil juris in cases of higher value
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Right to privacy?

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  1. recognised as FR under Art 19 and 21
  2. 9 judge bench
  3. it includes Right against unauthorized phone tapping
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Phone tapping?

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  1. dealt in Indian telegraphic Act 1885
  2. Both CG and SG hv right
  3. permission granted by Home ministry
  4. need for phone tapping mst be proved
  5. if illegal, then prosecution ofperson responsible
  6. SC: Art 19 (a) include Right against tapping of phone conversation (PUCL vs UOI,1997)
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changing the name of towns?

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SG can forward the proposal for it to Ministry of Home affairs; HM gives its consent only after taking NOCs frm min of railways, Deptt of posts and Survey of India to confirm that there is no such town or village in their records with a similar name as the proposed one.

Therafter an executive order is passed.

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What is a soft state? vs soft power?

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  1. term introduced by Gunnar Myrdal
  2. prevalent in S. Asia and much of developing world
  3. poor enforcement of law coz of:
    1. destruction of many of traditional centres of local power and lack of alternatives due to colonial rule
    2. developmnet of an attitude of disobedience to central authority; this attitude developed during nationalist politics resistance
    3. thus a lenient attitude towards social deviance
    4. weakens rule of law, increasing crime rate, violence, corruption etc

soft power state is the one which doesn’t possess much military power

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freedom of movement of commodities and commercial transactions betn different parts of country is covered under?

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Part XIII- art 301 to 307

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PM-KISAN?

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  1. Central sector scheme with CG giving 100% funding
  2. earlier limit of 2Ha landholding for the family collectively; nw that limit removed. nw all are eligible except those covered undergiven exclusion criterias:
    1. all institutional landholders (eg. government farms, farms of sugarcane factories, cooperative, trusts etc.)
    2. if one or more members are/were consti post holder, ministers, MPs/MLAs, mayors, chairpersons of district Panchayats, Income tax payers, professionals, employee of CG/SG/CPSEs/SPSEs/Local govts
  3. Group D/ Class IV employees eligible
  4. defn of family: H, W and minor childre
  5. identification of eligibles by SGs and UT admin
  6. Aadhar mandatory; though some alternate docs prscribed for 1st & 2nd install of 2018-19
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term ‘Fraternity’?

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  1. added by Ambedkar to Objectives resolution
  2. its an attitude of mutual respect and reverence towards fellow men
19
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Economic census?

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  1. count of all estab located within geographical boundary of India
  2. by MoSPI; currently 7th EC by MoSPI and CSC e-governance Service India Ltd, a SPV under MEITY as the implementing agnecy
  3. all HH/estab engaged in non-agri (production as well as distribution) econ activities except, Pub Admin, defence and compulsory social security and those for the sole purpose of own consumption.
  4. first in 1977; 5th in 2005; 6th in 2013
20
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new FSSAI packaging regulations,2018?

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  • replaced 2011 regulations
  • compliance with regulations for food packaging material acc to Indian stds hv been made mandatory frm earlier voluntary
  • highlights:
    1. include both general and specific reuirements for packaging material like migration limit
    2. bans recycled plastics and newspapers for packing or wrapping food
    3. refernces specific Indian stds for printing inks for use on food packages
    4. Scedule IV suggests allowed packaging materials fr diff food categories
    5. applies ‘food grade quality requirements’ to all materials that can come in contact with food
    6. tin containers, once used shall nt be re-used for packaging of food
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‘Overall migration limit’ is related to?

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Food packaging

sumof all substances that can migrate frm food contact material to food; its a measure of inertness of the material.

FSSAI regulations, 2018 fixes overall ML at 60mg/kg

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NALSA judgement?

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  1. interpreted ‘dignity’ in art 21, to include diversity in self-expression, placing one’s gender identity within the framework of FR to dignity under art 21
  2. RT Equality and freedom of expression Art 19 (1)(a) was framed in gender neutral term and thus extends to trandgenderstoo
  3. under Art 15adn 16, discrim otbo sex is prohibited, here sex also includes gender
  4. thus transgeders are entitled to FRs under Art 14,15,16, 19(1)(a) and 21
  5. also refernced Yogyakarta priniples (applicationo of international HR laws in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity)
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Yogyakarta priniples?

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application of international HR laws in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity

Binding inetrnational legal stds

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