Phani Siddha
@ Super Sixty IAS Academy
Hyd
Current Affairs POLITY For Prelims/Mains 2013
Award
of Death Sentence to Ajmal Kasab – Mercy petition (Judicial Review) ;
Parliament of India – 60 Years of Existence; Law Commission of India(20th);
14th Finance Commission; Scheduled Castes Sub Plan and Tribal Sub
Plan (Planning, Allocation and Utilization of Financial Resources) Act 2013;
CAG, Attorney General, Solicitor General; SC of India, Justice Altamas Kabir 39th
CJI of India; High Courts – 3 New HCs were established in Tripura, Meghalaya
and Manipur; Presidential Election, Controversy
due to Shri P A Sangma’s Challenge on Holding more than one Office of Profit by
President Pranab; Vice President of India; Women’s Reservation Bill, Rights
Issues; Delhi Gang Rape Case, Justice J S Verma Committee, Nirbhaya Act;
Elections, Election Commission of India;
President’s Clemency Power;
Justice Verma Committee, Rape, Juvenile Rapists ; Bill to Prevent Sexual harrassment
at Workplace (Sexual exploitation at workplace); Convicted MPs and MLAs and
Protection to them; Judicial Commission; PIL to implement guidelines on Bandhs;
Canon law to govern Christian divorse; Insurance Laws Amendment Bill; Criminal
Law Amendment Ordinance; Constitution 117th Amndt Bill; Special
Status to backward areas in Hyderabad and Karnataka regions; Judicial Standards
Bill; Elections in Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana; Multi member CAG;
Media Activism and State Powers; Lokayuktas seek power to probe civil servants;
Amndts in SC/STs Atrocities Act; Lokpal Bill; Right to Privacy; Election
Commission for Reform; Religious Right; Rules of Conduct in Parliament;
Sentencing Whistleblowers; Ban on Tourism in Jarawa areas; Issue of Fast Track
Courts; Bills passed by LS and RS in Winter Session; RTI and Attorney General;
Nomination to Upper House; Political Parties and RTI; Land Acquisition and
Rehabilitation; National Water Legislation; Frequent and Arbitrary Transfers of
IAS/Officers; Green Tribunal Law; Post Retirement jobs for Judges; Supreme
Court on CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General); The Question of 69%
Reservation; Disabilities Bill
(Nirbhaya case and President's Clemency/Pardon powers are overlapping classes in the Sessions)