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Plodding reforms

 Saudi Arabia has to do a lot more to begin a new journey in liberalisation
 latest in a series of steps aimed at enhancing women’s rights, Saudi
Arabia has invited women to join its military.
 Saudi nationals aged between 25 and 35
 Earlier this year, women were allowed to attend football matches.
 Last year, King Salman issued a decree ending the ban on women driving
 Saudi women need not wear the abaya
 Steps are part of the Prince’s broader reform agenda+ Economic Reforms
 He’s presenting himself as a reformer and moderniser who could change the way Sa
udi Arabia lives
 The kingdom also executed 133 people between January and early December 2017.
 Saudi Arabia has to do a lot more to ensure basic rights
for its women- End its repressive(दमन) policies against political

Righting wrongs in land acquisition

 Supreme Court Bench will decide whether the law has to be interpreted expansively or in a narrow sense
 In July 2011, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government embarked on an ambitious project to rewrite the law on land acquisition
 Land Acquisition Act, 1894- Continued as an instrument of state oppression(उत्पीड़न) and forced displacement.
 It was a milestone achievement of the UPA government when the historic Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act was passed in September 2013
 Returning land
 It also included a retrospective clause.
 Section 24 of the new Act provided that under certain circumstances, acquired land could be returned to affected families
 Narendra Modi government brought in a draconian ordinance on January 1, 2015
 To render this Section inoperative along with many other progressive
 Protests led by the Congress and other like-minded parties, on August 30, 2016 Mr. Modi
announced in a ‘Mann ki Baat’ speech the withdrawal of the amendments proposed by his government
 Now, the Supreme Court, in Indore Development Authority v. Shailendra (February 2018), has effectively implemented the provisions of the lapsed ordinance with regard to the retrospective clause.
 Led to the constitution of a •five-judge Bench of the Supreme Court to decide whether the Section has to be interpreted expansively or in a narrow sense
 Positively impacted the lives of several farmers/ land owners
 Compensation and all other rehabilitation and resettlement benefits as provided under the new law
 Supreme Court of India has often been at the forefront in theoght for the rights of the individual vis-à-vis the state.
 It has on several occasions secured far-reaching protections for the
 individual and made legislative safeguards stronger.
 We hope that the new •five-judge Bench will continue in this •fine tradition

Prelims Focus Facts-News Analysis

 Page-1- Kerala PSC bats for transgenders
 Seeks govt. directive to include them in recruitment process
 Kerala Public Service Commission is set to write a new chapter in its recruitment history by attempting to carve a space for transgenders in the State government service.
 Rules have to be amended “At present, all application forms of the commission have only two columns, for male and female candidates
 The government will have to amend the Kerala State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958, and identify the posts in which transgenders could be placed.
 Merkel welcomes SPD move for another grand coalition
 Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) voted decisively for another coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives on Sunday,clearing the way for a new government in Europe’s largest economy after months of political uncertainty
 Trump praises Xi, the ‘President for life’
 Pakistan’s legislature gets its first Dalit woman Senator
 Krishna Kumari Kohli, a human rights activist •fielded by the Pakistan Peoples Party, became on Saturday the country’s •first Dalit woman Senator.
 Solar goal for 2022 too hot to handle
 India had been on track to effet its target of 100 Gigawatt (GW) of solar energy capacity by 2022 but momentu m has been severely eroded in the last few months,according to industry players. Issues such as uncertainty around import duties and future tax rates on existing power purchase agreements have dampened investor sentiment.