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Against human rights Encounter killings militate against the rule of law government of laws not of men. The rule of law has rightly been argued to be part of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution. TheWorld Justice Project Index takes into account 44 indicators in 113 countries, and India s rank in 2017 18 was a dismal 62. Denmark topped the list. Nepal is ahead of us on this. Police encounters, which have become a common phenomenon, do contribute to our low rank on rule of law index Rule of law is the fundamental principle of governance of any civilised liberal democracy. It is the anti thesis of arbitrariness(मनम न करन ). Yet, the Uttar Pradesh government looks somewhat determined to disregard
Continue Police encounters have become routine in U.P. in December, Chief MinisterYogi Adityanath introduced in State Assembly the Uttar Pradesh Control of Organised Crime Bill, 2017 on the pattern of the regressive Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA). Such legislation does not promote the rule of law, But is itself a kind of violence, though a legitimate one with due authority of law. Authoritarian regimes, such as of Hitler U.P. police has assumed the role of both investigator and judge Mr.Adityanath himself telling the U.P. Legislative Council in mid February 1,200 encounters since government formation- He said sympathy for criminals is dangerous for a democracy He is also reported to have said that bandook ka jawab bandook se diya jayega The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices on encounter deaths to the U.P. government. Mr.Adityanath should not be alone blamed for the encounter culture. Such deaths have been taken place in States across India, and excesses in Punjab in the 1980s and 1990s 2016 in case of Extra Judicial ExecutionVictim Families Association, where the SC was dealing with more than 1,500 such killings in Manipur
Continue Scrutiny by courts in such cases leads to complaints by state of its having to Fight mil itants, insurgents and terrorists above observations were about terrorists, not ordinary criminals like those being killed in U.P. encounters. They do not look like acts of defence by the U.P. police Government s resolve to adopt the rule by gun in preference to the rule of law. We must recall what the Supreme Court said in the Salwa Judum case (2011): The primordial value is that it is the responsibility of every organ of the State to function within the four corners of constitutional res
United by a common purpose Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, has now established a bench of five judges, which he will head, and which will commence hearing arguments on March 6, to resolve the conflict. At stake is the court s integrity Right to Fair Compensation andtransparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR Act), which replaced the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 Colonial law-landowners were placed at the state s mercy. Didn t go far enough in correcting the wrongs of old. Compensation the key Constitution Bench in Central Board of Dawoodi Bohra Community v. State of Maharashtra (2004). There, the court held that a three judge bench cannot overrule a precedent set by an earlier bench of equal strength
Losing a world-dying language When a language dies, a way of life dies, a way of thinking disappears, a connection between word and world is lost Losing a language is losing a cosmology, a set of myths, rituals of competence. Yet no cost benefit ever calculates the cultural cost of language extinction Futurists warn that over 3,000 languages might disappear over the next ten years. Danger to minority languages and oral languages is high U.R. Ananthamurthy, who said India is a country where the illiterate worker speaks five seven languages and convent schoolchild speaks one. A language disappears as a new generation enters modernity, One senses this as one looks at the UNESCO atlas of world languages in danger. One reads that 230 languages have become extinct since 1950 Needs is a celebration of multilingualism Language loss is a part of a bigger problematic of diversity
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Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1-Sri Jayendra Saraswathi 69th ShankaracharyaGuru and head or pontiff
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1-GDP surges in third quarter
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- Aircel files for bankruptcy Aircel Ltd., along with Aircel Cellular Ltd. and DishnetWireless Ltd., has led for bankruptcy under Section 10 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. This, after the telco s attempt to merge with the Anil Ambani led Reliance Communications failed last year. The Board of Directors acknowledged that it has been facing troubled times in a highly financially stressed industry,
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Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Page-1- CAG pulls up Rajasthan for rampant illegal mining About 98.87 lakh tonnes of minerals worth 204.5 crore were illegally excavated in five districts of Rajasthan between 2011 12 and 2016 17. The mining not only violated rules and regulations but also outed the Supreme Court's direction to stop degradation of environment in the State s Aravalli hills.
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis 9,435 crore arms purchases to get rolling Defence Acquisition Council gives its approval for the procurement proposals for the three services The purchase will include 41,000 light machine guns (LMGs) and over 3.5 lakh close quarter battle (CQB) carbines for the three services.
Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis Nirav refuses to join probe, CBI sends terse reminder
Last Day- Q s- Answers Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDAI) It is an autonomous, statutory agency tasked with regulating and promoting the insurance and reinsurance in India. Headquarter - Hyderabad Chairman -T.S. Vijayan Montagu - Chelmsford Reform It is formed on the basis of Government of India Act 1919. Mont - Ford reforms - 1919
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