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Once the President is elected, the excitement subsides and for the next five years not much attention is paid to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. What has the Constitution provided regarding the President? Nominal head- Dr. B.R. Ambedkar quoted that our President is merely a nominal figurehead and has no discretion and powers of administration. Article 53-Read more

During the past five years, India and South Korea have experienced considerable divergence in their respective national objectives. There was a clear drift by South Korea away from multilateral security initiatives led by the United States, such as the Quad (the U.S., Australia, India and Japan); meanwhile, India has been actively participating in them. InRead more

The Supreme Court recently underlined that “there is a pressing need” for reform in the law related to bail and called on the government to consider framing a special legislation on the lines of the law in the United Kingdom. The law on bail The CrPC does not define the word bail but only categoriesRead more

Recently, Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice has recommended substantial changes to the Mediation Bill, 2021. The bill introduced in Rajya Sabha in December, 2021, with an aim to reduce the pendency of cases in courts. MEDIATION BILL: The objective of the bill is to settle any civil or commercial disputes through mediation beforeRead more

I2U2 is the new grouping formed by four nations- India, Israel, UAE, and the US. It was given the name International Forum for Economic Cooperation. Background of I2U2 Grouping: Abraham Accords: In 2020, Israel, UAE and Bahrain signed Abraham Accords that led to normalising of relations between Israel and a number of Arab Gulf countriesRead more

According to the 2022 edition of the United Nations ’UN World Population Prospects Report (WPP), India is projecting to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023. What is the WPP? The Population Division of the UN has been publishing the WPP in a biennial cycle since1951. Each revision of the WPP providesRead more

Cloudbursts are short-duration, intense rainfall events over a small area. According to the IMD, it is a weather phenomenon with unexpected precipitation exceeding 100mm/h over a geographical region of approximately 20-30 square km. What causes Cloudburst? A study published last year studied the meteorological factors behind the cloudburst over the Kedarnath region. The results showedRead more

Japan-India ties are 70 years old this year. For the first five post-war decades of the 20th century, bilateral ties were friendly. India was not among the signatories of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, which brokered post-war relations between the defeated Axis power and the Allies. Instead, Delhi established an independent peace treaty andRead more

Ayurveda has been in practice for close to three millennia. Even today, India’s traditional medicine serves the healthcare needs of millions of Indians. But the Ayurveda faces a few challenges that need to be addressed. Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system with historical roots in the Indian subcontinent. The theory and practice of Ayurveda isRead more

Recently, more than 40 people have died in the landslide, which hit a railway construction site in Manipur. Cause of the Landslide: The tragic disaster has been compounded by the debris of the landslide blocking the Ijei river, creating a significant welling up of water which could inundate low-lying areas if the “dam”-like structure isRead more