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Exam Year:
2014
The ‘Powers, Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and its Members’ as envisaged in Article 105 of the Constitution leave room for a large number of un-codified and un-enumerated privileges to continue. Assess the reasons for the absence of legal codification of the ‘parliamentary privileges’. How can this problem be addressed?
What do you understand by the concept “freedom of speech and expression”? Does it cover hate speech also? Why do the films in India stand on a slightly different plane from other forms of expression? Discuss.
Instances of President’s delay in commuting death sentences has come under public debate as denial of justice. Should there be a time limit specified for the President to accept/reject such petitions? Analyse.
Explain the formation of thousands of islands in Indonesian and Philippines archipelagos.
Critically evaluate the various resources of the oceans which can be harnessed to meet the resource crisis in the world.
Most of the unusual climatic happenings are explained as an outcome of the El-Nino effect. Do you agree?
Why do some of the most prosperous regions of India have an adverse sex ratio for women? Give your arguments.
Why are the world’s fold mountain systems located along the margins of continents? Bring out the association between the global distribution of Fold Mountains and the earthquakes and volcanoes.
To what extent has the urban planning and culture of the Indus Valley Civilization provided inputs to the present day urbanization? Discuss.
The New Economic Policy – 1921 of Lenin had influenced the policies adopted by India soon after independence. Evaluate.