Today in History (Apr 18th, 1951)
The Bhoodan Movement was launched by Vinoba Bhave on April 18, 1951, from Pochampally in Telangana. It was a nonviolent movement that aimed to address the problem of unequal land distribution and to promote the welfare of the rural poor by persuading wealthy landowners to voluntarily donate a portion of their land to landless peasants.
Summary of Today’s News
Demand for same sex marriage’s recognition is ‘urban elitist view’: Centre
The Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that the demand for legal recognition of same sex marriage is merely a voicing of “urban elitist views” for the purpose of social acceptance and the right to personal autonomy does not include a right for the recognition of same sex marriage. The court should not try judicially to create a “new social institution” by endorsing same sex marriages. Hon’ble Supreme Court, held that marriage is considered as an aspect of social policy of a nation, it is the discretion of appropriate legislature to define, recognise, or regulate it.
Chinese shenanigans on Arunachal Pradesh
For the third time in recent years, China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs, on April 2, made a provocative move by releasing new names for 11 places in Arunachal Pradesh under the flag leaf of standardising geographical names in “Zangnan” (a phoney term invented by Beijing to claim that Arunachal Pradesh is “South Tibet”. The Government of India has consistently dismissed such shenanigans on China’s part. After the latest move by China on Arunachal Pradesh, the Ministry of External Affairs said that “this is not the first time that China has made such an attempt. We reject this outright. Arunachal Pradesh is an integral, inalienable part of India. Attempts to assign invented names will not alter this reality”.
Hate speech: SC notice to Delhi Police on plea seeking FIR against Thakur, Verma
The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Delhi Police on a plea by CPI(M) leaders Brinda Karat and K.M. Tiwari against the trial court’s refusal to lodge FIRs against Union Minister Anurag Thakur and BJP leader Pravesh Verma for their alleged hate speeches on ant Citizenship Amendment Act protests at Shaheen Bagh in 2020. The court prima facie remarked orally in the hearing that the lower courts’ conclusion that sanction under Section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) was required before taking cognisance may be wrong.
