Current Affairs for UPSC IAS

In a latest development, a Supreme Court Bench observed that it is “trying to discourage” individuals from filing petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution.

On this day, 30 years ago – 7 August 1990 – the VP Singh government accepted the Mandal Commission's recommendations and announced that it would implement the reservation scheme – under which 27 percent jobs would be given to members of Other Backward Classes.

• The NSCN-IM, one of the largest Naga groups, signed a framework agreement on August 3, 2015 to end the decades old issue.

Madras High Court is hearing a PIL which asks the court to declare the linking of Aadhaar with a government identity proof, as mandatory for registering email and social media accounts.

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has cancelled the FCRA licence of Infosys Foundation after a request was made by the not-for-profit initiative of the IT major

The criticism that coalition governments are inherently or necessarily unstable is not borne out by facts. Since the 1990s at the Union level, India had three Congress-led governments which were able to complete their full terms. Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was able to complete his full term as the head of a BJP-led coalition.