[Mission 2023] INSIGHTS DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS + PIB SUMMARY 27 March 2023

InstaLinks :  help you think beyond the issue but relevant to the issue from UPSC prelims and Mains exam point of view. These linkages provided in this ‘hint’ format help you frame possible questions ina your mind that might arise(or an examiner might imagine) from each current event. InstaLinks also connect every issue to their …

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act:

GS Paper 3: Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security.   Context: The Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights, United Nations, has expressed its concerns over the ongoing use of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act throughout India and has called the situation as ‘worrying.   What’s …

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act

Topics Covered: Security challenges and their management in border areas; linkages of organized crime with terrorism. Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act: Context: A local court in Surat acquitted 122 persons arrested under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act for participating in a meeting organised in December 2001 as members of Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), a …

UAPA

Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. UAPA: Context: Peoples Democratic Party leader Waheed Para has been booked under Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). About the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act: Passed in 1967, the law aims at effective prevention of unlawful activities associations in India. The Act …

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act

Topics Covered: Role of external state and non-state actors in creating challenges to internal security. Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act: Context: The Assam government has informed a UAPA tribunal that major extremist outfits of the northeast had contacted Chinese authorities for assistance in their “fight against India”, but the Chinese had refused to provide assistance directly …

National Investigation Agency (NIA):

Topics Covered: Various Security forces and agencies and their mandate. National Investigation Agency (NIA): It is a central agency to investigate and prosecute offences: affecting the sovereignty, security and integrity of India, security of State, friendly relations with foreign States. against atomic and nuclear facilities. smuggling in High-Quality Counterfeit Indian Currency. It is also the …

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act:

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act: Context: According to the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 3,005 cases were registered in the country under anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and 3,974 people were arrested under the Act About Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act: Passed …

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act

Topics Covered: Linkages between development and spread of extremism. Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act What to study? For Prelims: Key provisions of the act, amendments and recent changes. For Mains: Significance of the law and criticisms surrounding. Context: The police have filed an FIR against Devangana Kalita, who is associated with the ‘Pinjra Tod’ group, under …

Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019

Topics covered: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.   Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019   What to study? For prelims: Key features of the bill. For mains: Need for amendments, concerns associated and other associations issues.   Context: Lok Sabha passes the …