AAROGYA SETU: PROTECTION OR THREAT?
Introduction The Data of millions of Indians, collected through the Aarogya Setu app, could be vulnerable to threats from adversarial state and non-state actors and pose a national…
OCI CARDHOLDERS: VISA AND TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS EASED
Why in news? The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has relaxed Visa and Travel restrictions imposed in response to COVID -19, permitting certain categories of Overseas Citizen…
INDIA ISN’T PREPARED TO MEET ITS DEFENCE NEEDS
Introduction India’s military security challenges, both current and long-term, came into unintended focus in this month, with the increase in foreign direct investment in defence manufacturing to 74%…
SELF-RELIANCE, NOT SELF ISOLATION
Introduction The spread and severity of Covid-19 have proved to be the perfect foil to re-ignite fears about open borders and stretched out supply chains India’s Position on…
DEVOLUTION OF POWERS TO STATES TO MICRO-MANAGE
Introduction As COVID-19 lockdown is easing up, the states will now have to take care that they open up in a manner that does not aggravate the pandemic,…
THE CHANGING NATURE OF CHINESE DIPLOMACY
Introduction: Foreign Policies of Persuasion and compromise U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt believed that if you “speak softly and carry a big stick: you will go far”. Zhou Enlai,…
VICTIM JUSTICE IS TWO STEPS FORWARD, ONE STEP BACK
In 1996, the 154th Law Commission Report suggested a paradigm shift in India’s criminal justice system towards a victim-centric notion of justice. The Code of Criminal Procedure(Amendment) Act,…
NEED OF THE HOUR: PROTEST AND CAA
Why in news? As protests continue to ripple in many parts of the country against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or the CAA, the National Population Register (NPR) and…
CABINET APPROVES BILL TO REGULATE SURROGACY
Why in news? The Union Cabinet on 26th February 2020 approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020, allowing a “willing” woman to be a surrogate mother and proposing that…
J&K NOTIFIES AMENDED DOMICILE CERTIFICATE RULES
Why in news? The J&K administration on 18th May 2020 notified the J&K grant of domicile certificate procedure rules 2020 and set a fast track process in motion to…