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Speaking on the separation of powers between the executive, legislature and judiciary, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud said that while the legislature can enact a fresh law to “cure the deficiency” in a law, it cannot “directly overrule” a court judgment.
There is a dividing line between what the legislature can do and what the legislature cannot do when there is a judgment of the court.
If there is a judgment of the court which decides a particular issue and that judgment points out deficiencies in the law, it is always open to the legislature to enact a fresh law to cure the deficiency.
The CJI said that in 1951, when the SC held that provisions for reservation would not extend to educational institutions, the Parliament amended the law to bring reservation in educational institutions.
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J&K police first in country to use GPS anklet for UAPA accused out on bail (Page no. 9)
(GS Paper 3, Internal Security)
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has introduced GPS tracker anklets for monitoring the terror accused out on bail, becoming the first police force in the country to do so.
The GPS tracker anklet is a wearable device affixed around the ankle of the person to be monitored and tracks their movement.
The device is already being used in the USA, UK, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand to track the movement of accused persons on bail, parole and house arrest and accordingly de-congests prisons to a large extent.
State Investigation Agency officials of the J-K Police have introduced the GPS tracker anklet for monitoring of bail-out terror accused, the officials said. They said the J-K Police is the first police department in the country to introduce such a device.
The officials said the devices were introduced after a Special NIA Court, Jammu, passed an order directing the police to affix a GPS tracker anklet on a terror accused—the importance of which was highlighted by the prosecution department of the police.
IIT-Kharagpur study: India’s surface temp may increase by up to 5FC by 2100 (Page no. 9)
(GS Paper 3, Environment)
Surface temperatures over India were likely to increase by 1.1 to 5.1 degree Celsius by the year 2100, a new study by IIT-Kharagpur has indicated.
In a research paper titled “Enhanced surface temperature over India during 1980–2020 and future projections: causal links of the drivers and trends” published in a Nature journal last month, said in high emission scenarios temperature rise over the Indian region could go up to as high as 5.1 degree Celsius, almost at par with the upper-end estimates for the global average rise in temperatures.
The actual rise in temperatures over the Indian region till now has been significantly lower than the global average. “The Earth’s surface temperatures have increased significantly since the beginning of industrialisation.
The high emissions of greenhouse gases have contributed to global warming and climate change, which is expected to continue.
We have investigated the long-term trends of surface temperature in India using surface, satellite and reanalysis data for the period of 1980–2020, and assessed the influence of geophysical drivers on temperature change using the causal discovery,” the research by the Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) at IIT Kharagpur says.
World
Blinken rejects Arab states push for ceasefire: Will benefit Hamas (Page no. 14)
(GS Paper 2, International Relation)
Arab leaders decrying the deaths of thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Israel-Hamas war pushed for an immediate cease-fire Saturday even as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that such a move would be counterproductive and could encourage more violence by the militant group.
After an afternoon of talks with Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi, Qatari and Emirati diplomats and a senior Palestinian official, Blinken stood side by side at a line of podiums with his counterparts from Jordan and Egypt to discuss what he said was their shared desire to protect civilians in Gaza and improve aid flows to the besieged territory.
The dissonance in the messages was evident. Nonetheless, the joint news conference between ministers from the Arab world and the top diplomat from Israel’s closest ally and numerous photo opportunities contrasted with Blinken’s time in Tel Aviv on Friday, when Blinken met alone with reporters after closed-door talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Arab ministers repeatedly called for the fighting to stop now and condemned Israel’s war tactics.