Hindu notes

1. Tripura government under public privater partnership has initiated tripura bamboo mission & helping farmers to grow KANAK-KAICH bamboo.
2. Bali, Javan  & Caspian teigers are now in extinct cateogry.

MERS-CoV

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, orgininated from middle east countries

Constitution bill 2013

Constitution bill seeks to replace the collegium model of judicial appointments with a Judicial Appointment commission[JAC].

For a constitution amendment to become law when it seeks to make any changes in the "Union Judiciary", it has to undergo these three steps:

1. The bill has to be passed by both the house by a majority of not less than 2/3rd members of that house present & voting & majority  of the total membership of  that house.
2. The amendment also requires to ratified by the legislature of not less than one half of the states by a resolution to that effect.
3. assent by the president

This bill empower JAC to appoint judges to the supremecourt and high court..

JAC will comprise of six members [chief justice of india,two most senior judges of supremecourt, the law minister & two eminent persons)..... two eminent persons are supposed to be appointed by collegium comprising prime minister of india,the leader of the opposition in the lok sabha & chief justice of india.

Condemn to die but not to wait

Supreme court's judgement in Shatrughan Chauhan v. Union of india case has received lot of appreciation & has been counted as one of its finest judgement for its clarity & fidelity to earlier decision.

Supreme court has commuted the life imprisonment the sentence of  15 convicts on death row who were shunned by the society .The legal issue at stake in this case was simple: Are the powers of pardon vested in the president & governor under article  72 & 161 of the constitution amenable to judicial review?  The court held that these powers carried with them a concomitant constitutional duty for the authorities exercising  the powers to conform to due process.
Therefore in exceptional cases where, where the authorities concerned may have abdicated its responsibility in acting contrary to requirement of due process, its decisions would be amenable to judicial scrutiny.

Redeeming the supremecourt

Recently in a span of 45 days there have been two important judgement delivered by supremecourt. Both the judgement have received diametrically opposite response.

1. Justice singhvi's judgement on section 377[ Suresh kumar kaushal case]
2. Sathadivam , the CJI 's judgement on death sentence[ shatrughan chauhan vs union of india]


one will count among the court's most poorly reasoned judgements while other is likely to be as one of its finest for its clarity and fidelity to earlier decisions.