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RBI Cuts Key Interest Rate
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slashed the key interest rate, repo rate by 25 basis points or 0.25 per cent to 6 per cent and has decided to maintain the neutral policy stance. Financial Statement of the RBI ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Supreme Court quashes RBI’s circular Mandating Insolvency Proceedings
The Supreme Court has struck down a February 2018 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular which gave lender banks six months to resolve their stressed assets or move under the Insolvency Code against private entities who have defaulted in loans ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
EPCA comes out with parking management plan for Delhi
As per the directions issued by the Supreme Court to prepare a parking plan for the capital the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA). Assessment of the Problem Some Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) have demarcated parking lots and are ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Government Proposes Committees to decide on complaints against CIC and ICs
The government has proposed setting up bureaucrat-led committees that would sit and decide on complaints against the Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) and Information Commissioners (ICs). The government has proposed setting up of two committees: One to receive and decide on ..
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2019
Supreme Court seeks Centre’s view on bringing all tribunals under one Umbrella
Supreme Court has sought the Centre’s view to bring all the quasi-judicial bodies under one central umbrella body to ensure efficient functioning and streamlining the working of tribunals within 2 weeks. The five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan ..
Governments Prerogative to Frame Schemes: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has censured the Uttarakhand High Court for framing a scheme to regularise hundreds of casual workers engaged by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) under the Ministry of Defence in the construction of roads for Char Dham Yatra ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2019
Supreme Court stays Meghalaya HC contempt order against Shillong Times editor
The Supreme Court has issued notice and stayed Meghalaya High Court’s judgment against the Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim and publisher Shobha Chaudhuri guilty of contempt of court. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and other Justices have stayed the ..
Contempt Order against Shillong Times Editor, Publisher Put on Hold
The Supreme Court has put on hold the Meghalaya High Court’s judgment holding The Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim and publisher Shobha Chaudhuri guilty of contempt and fining them Rs 2 lakh each. What was the Case? The Shillong Times ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2019
P S Narasimha appointed as mediator to resolve disputes of cricket administration in BCCI
The Supreme Court of India (SCI) has appointed senior advocate P.S. Narasimha as mediator for resolving various disputes related to cricket administration in the country. Narsimha is also assisting the apex court as amicus curiae in the BCCI matter. A ..
Exclusion from draft Assam NRC will not affect voting rights: ECI
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has stated before the Supreme Court that exclusion of names of persons from draft National Registry of Citizens (NRC) in Assam will not affect their voting rights in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls provided ..