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CLASS LINK LAND REFORMS Click here to join the live session RECORDED SESSIONS ANCIENT INDIA - GUPTA DYNASY https://youtu.be/bntP6ZhWeQM INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - CENTRAL ASIA https://youtu.be/wWYdTNhCUcA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - INDIA SRI LANKA...
MINSK AGREEMENT
MINSK AGREEMENT The Minsk agreements signed in 2015 when it comes to a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian conflict. Violence escalated in the Ukrainian region of Donbas since Kiev launched a military operation in the country’s southeast in April 2014 after local...
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE The PAC website says the Committee on Public Accounts was first set up in 1921 in the wake of the Montague-Chelmsford Reforms. W M Hailey was its first president, and Bhupendra Nath Mitra its first Indian president. The last president before...
THE FOUNDATIONAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN INDIA & USA
THE FOUNDATIONAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN INDIA & USA The USA enters into ‘foundational or enabling agreements’ with its defence partners. These agreements govern the nature & scope of U.S. defence partnerships. Partners enhance the capabilities of the U.S. military...
TRIPLE TROUBLE FOR MANGROVES
TRIPLE TROUBLE FOR MANGROVES The study found that mangrove forests, their large biodiversity and the coastal protection they provide are under pressure from three distinct threats – sea-level rise, lack of mud and squeezed habitats. The research, conducted by an...
GILGIT-BALTISTAN DISPUTE
GILGIT-BALTISTAN DISPUTE During the first Indo-Pak war of October 1947, Pakistan occupied 78,114 sq km of the land of Jammu and Kashmir, including the ‘Northern Areas’. The Northern Areas is the other name of Gilgit-Baltistan that Pakistan has used for administrative...
REDACTIVE PRICING AUDIT
REDACTIVE PRICING AUDIT Redaction is the selection or adaption by ‘obscuring or removing sensitive information’ from a document prior to publication. Redactive pricing is nowhere used in SAI audit reports. It does not seem to have been used in a government audit by...
PLEA BARGAINING
PLEA BARGAINING Plea bargaining refers to a person charged with a criminal offence negotiating with the prosecution for a lesser punishment than what is provided in law by pleading guilty to a less serious offence It is common in the United States, and has been a...
THEORY OF RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
THEORY OF RELATIVE DEPRIVATION Relative deprivation is a measure of social poverty, often resulting in social isolation, limited social mobility, physical and mental stress, low self‐worth, and an effort–reward imbalance. Marx (1847) captures the intuitive appeal of...
DOCTRINE OF LIVING TREE
DOCTRINE OF LIVING TREE The Living Tree Doctrine was first recognized in the case of Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) popularly known as Persons Case where Viscount Sankey stated that the British North American Act planted a living tree in the Constitution on...