Daily Current Affairs

In News The Supreme Court referred to a Constitution Bench on the question of how to provide accused in death penalty cases a “meaningful, real and effective” hearing of their mitigating circumstances before a trial judge. About Considered Mitigation Investigator: Earlier this year, the court, while reducing the death sentence awarded to a Madhya Pradesh […]

In News The Supreme court has been criticising the CBI for its “actions and inactions” on several occasions and flagged fundamental problems with the functioning of the agency. Efforts to restructure law-enforcement agencies The struggle to free elite law-enforcement agencies such as the CBI and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) from the stranglehold of governments and […]

In Context Monsoon in India has undergone several changes over the recent years, especially on account of climate change.  More about the news The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has sighted that 2022 has seen the second highest extreme events since 1902.  Persistence of intense La Nina conditions,  The abnormal warming of East Indian Ocean,  Negative […]