24 August 2020
- A-G declines plea against swara (Polity and Governance)
- SC overreacted in Bhushan case (Polity and Governance)
- More evidence of India's food insecurity (Indian Economy)
- Not possible to fully block Chinese firms: Officials (International Relation)
- Balaghat women curb felling of trees (Polity and Governance)
- Prelims revision
- Question of the day (Polity and Governance)
[{"explanation": "<p>Statement 4 is INCORRECT</p>\n<p>The Attorney-General shall hold office during the pleasure of the President, and shall receive such remuneration as the President may determine. </p>", "question": "<p>Consider the following statements –</p>\n<ol>\n<li>The President shall appoint a person who is qualified to be appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court to be Attorney-General for India.</li>\n<li>Attorney General provides legal advice to the Government of India and represents cases in Courts on behalf of Indian Government.</li>\n<li>In the performance of his duties, the Attorney General shall have the right of audience in all courts in the territory of India.</li>\n<li>Attorney General is appointed for a fixed period of four years and shall receive such remuneration as the Central Government may determine.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Which of the statements given above is/are correct?</p>", "options": [{"option_id": "5f43ea6f7737d44c875b48fa", "is_correct_answer": true, "title": "<p>1, 2 and 3 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43ea6f7737d44c875b48fb", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>2, 3 and 4 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43ea6f7737d44c875b48fc", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>1, 3 and 4 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43ea6f7737d44c875b48fd", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>1, 2 and 4 only</p>"}], "question_id": "5f43ea6f7737d44c875b48f9"}, {"explanation": "<p>The Union government strengthened its top legal team by extending the term of K.K. Venugopal as the Attorney General (AG) for one year, Tushar Mehta as the Solicitor General (SG) for three years and appointing six new Additional Solicitors General (ASGs) besides extending the tenure of five existing ASGs.</p>\n<p>While the AG was reappointed by President Ram Nath Kovind, the other appointments were notified by the Law Ministry after the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC), headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, cleared them.</p>", "question": "<p>Consider the following statements:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>The Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved the re-appointment of Senior Advocate Tushar Mehta as Solicitor General for India.</li>\n<li>Tushar Mehta has been appointed as Solicitor General for India for a period of three years.</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Which of the statements given above is/are correct?</p>", "options": [{"option_id": "5f43eaa67737d44c81c4ef30", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>1 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eaa67737d44c81c4ef31", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>2 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eaa67737d44c81c4ef32", "is_correct_answer": true, "title": "<p>Both 1 and 2</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eaa67737d44c81c4ef33", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>Neither 1 nor 2</p>"}], "question_id": "5f43eaa67737d44c81c4ef2f"}, {"explanation": "<p>Civil contempt refers to the wilful disobedience of an order of any court. So the above case is a civil contempt.</p>\n<p>As per the Section 3 in <strong>The Rules to Regulate Proceedings for Contempt of the Supreme Court, 1975</strong> - The Court may take action on a petition made by any person, and <strong>in the case of a criminal contempt</strong> with the consent in writing of the Attorney-General or the Solicitor-General. No consent is required for civil contempt. So one can directly go to the court.</p>", "question": "<p>Supreme Court in the Prakash Singh case directed the states and the centre to bring Police reform. Suppose if a state had not brought any reform and violated the order of the apex court, then any person can file the contempt case without the consent of the Attorney General because – </p>", "options": [{"option_id": "5f43eafc7737d44c875b490b", "is_correct_answer": true, "title": "<p>It is a case of civil contempt.</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eafc7737d44c875b490c", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>It is a case of criminal contempt.</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eafc7737d44c875b490d", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "It is a case of national importance"}, {"option_id": "5f43eafc7737d44c875b490e", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "Both (b) and (c)"}], "question_id": "5f43eafc7737d44c875b490a"}, {"explanation": "<p><strong>Article 129 </strong>- Supreme Court to be a court of record The Supreme Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the power to punish for contempt of itself</p>", "question": "<p>Which of the following constitutional articles provide inherent power to the Court for punishing the contempt – </p>", "options": [{"option_id": "5f43eb2b7737d44c8a372cbc", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>Article 142</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eb2b7737d44c8a372cbd", "is_correct_answer": true, "title": "<p>Article 129</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eb2b7737d44c8a372cbe", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "Article 130"}, {"option_id": "5f43eb2b7737d44c8a372cbf", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "Article 131"}], "question_id": "5f43eb2b7737d44c8a372cbb"}, {"explanation": "<p><strong>The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) report</strong>, which presents the most authoritative evaluation of hunger and food insecurity in the world, was released recently. It is produced jointly by</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)</li>\n<li>the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD</li>\n<li>the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)</li>\n<li>the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and</li>\n<li>the World Health Organisation (WHO)</li>\n</ul>", "question": "<p>The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 report has been released by the collaboration of which of the following organisation of UN -</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations</li>\n<li>International Fund for Agricultural Development</li>\n<li>United Nations Children’s Fund</li>\n<li>UN World Food Programme</li>\n<li>World Health Organisation</li>\n</ol>\n<p>Select the correct option –</p>", "options": [{"option_id": "5f43eb647737d44c875b4913", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>1 and 2 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eb647737d44c875b4914", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "<p>1, 2 and 4 only</p>"}, {"option_id": "5f43eb647737d44c875b4915", "is_correct_answer": false, "title": "1, 2, 4 and 5 only"}, {"option_id": "5f43eb647737d44c875b4916", "is_correct_answer": true, "title": "All of the above"}], "question_id": "5f43eb647737d44c875b4912"}]
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A-G declines plea against Swara
- Section 15 in the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 talk about the cognisance of criminal contempt.
- Reasons given by the Attorney General for denying the contempt
SC overreacted in bhushan case
- Former Attorney-General (A-G) and jurist Soli Sorabjee has said the Supreme Court “overreacted” by taking suo motu contempt proceedings against civil rights lawyer Prashant Bhushan for his tweets.
- Your opinion on criminal contempt of court for the mains exam could be as follows
More evidence of India's food insecurity
- The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 (SOFI 2020) report, which presents the most authoritative evaluation of hunger and food insecurity in the world, was released recently. It is produced jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
- Since 2017, SOFI presents two key measures of food insecurity:
- State of Food Security and Nutrition in the India as per the SOFI 2020 report
- 2019 Global Hunger Index
Not possible to fully block Chinese firms: Officials
- We know the current outrage of Indians against the Chinese intrusion into our territory.
- Many have suggested the boycott of Chinese firms and their products as one of the ways to teach china a lesson. We have seen how central government banned 59 Chinese apps and cancelled many of the tenders in which Chinese companies had bid.
- Why are Chinese firms a threat?
- So are such companies present in India also ?
- So apart from this, is there any problem?
Balaghat women curb felling of trees
- For years, there had been indiscriminate felling of trees in the Balaghat district in Madhya Pradesh rendering acres of fertile land barren.
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