Principles of CAA can apply to Lankan Hindu Tamils,  says HC judge

• Madurai Bench says they were the primary victims of racial strife in the country.
• Persecuted minorities from neighbouring countries now have an opportunity to get Indian citizenship

About Citizenship

• Citizenship defines the relationship between the nation and the people who constitute the nation.
• It confers upon an individual certain rights such as protection by the state, right to vote, and right to hold certain public offices, among others, in return for the fulfilment of certain duties/obligations owed by the individual to the state.

Citizenship in India

• The Constitution of India provides for single citizenship for the whole of India.
• Under Article 11 of the Indian Constitution, Parliament has the power to regulate the right of citizenship by law. Accordingly, the parliament had passed the Citizenship act of 1955 to provide for the acquisition and determination of Indian Citizenship.
• Entry 17, List 1 under the Seventh Schedule speaks about Citizenship, naturalization, and aliens. Thus, Parliament has exclusive power to legislate with respect to citizenship.
• Until 1987, to be eligible for Indian citizenship, it was sufficient for a person to be born in India.

• • Then, spurred by the populist movements alleging massive illegal migrations from Bangladesh, citizenship laws were first amended to additionally require that at least one parent should be Indian.
• In 2004, the law was further amended to prescribe that not just one parent be Indian; but the other should not be an illegal immigrant.

Under the Act, an illegal migrant is a foreigner is who:

• Enters the country without valid travel documents like a passport and visa, or
• Enters with valid documents, but stays beyond the permitted time period.

Illegal migrants may be put in jail or deported under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920.

Features of CAA 2019

• The Act seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955 to make Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian illegal migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, eligible for citizenship of India. In other words, the Act intends to make it easier for persecuted people from India’s neighbouring countries to become citizens of India.

• • The legislation applies to those who were “forced or compelled to seek shelter in India due to persecution on the ground of religion”. It aims to protect such people from proceedings of illegal migration.
• The amendment relaxes the requirement of naturalization from 11 years to 5 years as a specific condition for applicants belonging to these six religions.
• The cut-off date for citizenship is December 31, 2014, which means the applicant should have entered India on or before that date.
• The Act says that on acquiring citizenship:
  • Such persons shall be deemed to be citizens of India from the date of their entry into India, and
  • All legal proceedings against them in respect of their illegal migration or citizenship will be closed.
• It also says people holding Overseas Citizen of India (OCI)  cards – an immigration status permitting a foreign citizen of Indian origin to live and work in India indefinitely – can lose their status if they violate local laws for major and minor offences and violations.

Sir Syed Excellence Award ’22

• American historian Barbara Metcalf conferred Sir Syed Excellence Award ’22
• Sir Syed Excellence Award for 2022 by the Aligarh Muslim University on the 205th birth anniversary of its founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

Rise of women representation in Indian boardrooms

• 18% Percentage representation of women on boards of companies in India in 2022 from 6% in 2013, according to a report by Ernst & Young.
• The report titled, “Diversity in the Boardroom: progress and the way forward” said that the country is still far behind France which topped the chart with 44.5%, followed by Sweden (40%) and the U. K. (35.3%).

Justice Chandrachud appointed the 50^th Chief Justice of India

• President Droupadi Murmu appointed Justice D.Y. Chandrachud as the 50^th Chief Justice of India (CJI)
• Justice Chandrachud will take oath on November 9, a day after incumbent CJI Justice Uday Umesh Lalit demits office on attaining the age of 65.
• Justice Chandrachud, presently the senior most Supreme Court judge after Justice Lalit, was elevated to the Supreme Court on May 13, 2016.
• Before his appointment to the top court, Justice Chandrachud served as the Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court from October 31, 2013.
• He also served as a judge of the Bombay High Court from March 2000 to October 2013.

About 41.5 crore Indians out of multi dimensional poverty since 2005-06

• India has by far the largest number of poor people worldwide at 22.8 crore, followed by Nigeria at 9.6 crore. There were also 9.7 crore poor children in India in 2019-2021
• 5 crore people exited poverty in India during the 15year period between 200506 and 201921, out of which two third exited in the first 10 years, and one third in the next five years, according to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released on Monday.
• The report produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) shows that the incidence of poverty fell from 55.1% in 2005-06 to 16.4% in 201921 in the country and that deprivations in all 10 MPI indicators saw significant reductions as a result of which the MPI value and incidence of poverty more than halved.
• Improvement in MPI for India has significantly contributed to the decline in poverty in South Asia and it is for the first time that it is not the region with the highest number of poor people, at 38.5 crore, compared with 57.9 crore in Sub Saharan Africa.

Amit Shah inaugurate an exhibition of history of Maratha Commanders at Jai Vilas Mahal of Scindias

Telangana and Andhra Pradesh  will be connected with a cable suspension bridge across the Krishna River

Haryana bagged the top position in the category of big states in the Public Affairs Index- 2022

Hyderabad won the World Green City Award 2022 at the Internal Association of Horticulture Producers 2022 in Jeju, South Korea

Justice Prasanna B. Varale appointed as the 32nd Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka

 Microsoft Office be rebranded as Microsoft 365

Shehan Karunatilaka of Sri Lanka won the Britain’s Booker Prize for fiction for his work  for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’

Donnarumma Gukesh become youngest Chess World Champion

Source – THE HINDU