Telangana High Court Examiner flashcards
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- Telangana Formation Day
- Telangana became India's 29th state on 2 June 2014 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014, with Hyderabad as its capital for ten years.
- Article 32
- The right to move the Supreme Court by appropriate proceedings for enforcement of Fundamental Rights; Dr Ambedkar called it the heart and soul of the Constitution.
- Basic structure doctrine
- Established in Kesavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala (1973), it holds that Parliament cannot amend the Constitution so as to destroy its essential features.
- Fundamental Duties
- Added by the 42nd Amendment Act, 1976, under Article 51A in Part IVA; they list eleven duties of citizens but are non-justiciable in courts.
- Savarnadeergha sandhi
- A Telugu sandhi rule in which similar vowels combine into one long vowel, as in రామ + ఆలయం becoming రామాలయం.
- Kavitrayam
- The trio of Nannaya, Tikkana and Errana who translated the Mahabharata into Telugu; Nannaya is honoured as Adikavi, the first poet.
- Upama alankara
- A Telugu poetic figure of speech in which one object is compared to another using words such as వలె or లాగా, expressing similarity explicitly.
- Subject-verb agreement
- A singular subject takes a singular verb and a plural subject a plural verb; intervening phrases such as 'along with' do not alter the number.
- Reported speech tense shift
- When the reporting verb is in the past, present tense becomes past, present perfect becomes past perfect, and will becomes would in indirect speech.
- Confusables: affect and effect
- 'Affect' is usually a verb meaning to influence; 'effect' is usually a noun meaning a result, though it can be a verb meaning to bring about.
- Compound interest formula
- Amount equals principal multiplied by (1 + rate/100) raised to the time in years; compound interest is the amount minus the principal.
- Net successive percentage change
- Two successive changes of a percent and b percent produce a net change of a + b + ab/100, where the sign of each change is respected.
- Average speed, equal distances
- When equal distances are covered at speeds a and b, the average speed for the whole journey is 2ab divided by (a + b), not the arithmetic mean.
- Time and work formula
- If A finishes a job in x days and B in y days, working together they finish it in xy divided by (x + y) days.
- Odd days in a year
- A normal year has one odd day and a leap year has two, since 365 days give remainder 1 and 366 days give remainder 2 when divided by 7.
- Syllogism validity rule
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the premises; one counterexample diagram is enough to reject it.
- Blood relation: maternal uncle
- The maternal uncle is the brother of one's mother; questions often describe him as the son of the maternal grandparents other than the mother's sisters.
- Direction sense displacement
- Net displacement after a series of turns is found by summing north-south and east-west components, then applying the Pythagorean theorem.
- Absolute cell reference
- In Excel, a reference such as $A$1 with dollar signs before column and row stays fixed when the formula is copied to other cells.
- Excel #DIV/0! error
- This error appears when a formula divides a number by zero or by an empty cell, since Excel cannot compute a quotient with zero denominator.
- Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y
- In Windows applications, Ctrl+Z undoes the last action while Ctrl+Y redoes an action that was previously undone.
- Volatile versus non-volatile memory
- RAM is volatile and loses its contents when power is switched off, whereas ROM retains data permanently and is used for firmware.
- Plaint essentials
- Under Order VII Rule 1 CPC, a plaint states the parties, cause of action, jurisdiction, valuation and the relief claimed by the plaintiff.
- Cause-title format
- The heading of a pleading giving the court's name, case number, names of parties in full and the subject or nature of the proceeding.
- Legal notice period
- A legal notice typically identifies the grievance and demands redress within about fifteen days, warning of civil or criminal proceedings on failure.
- Order V CPC
- This order governs issue and service of summons to defendants in civil suits, including personal, substituted and court-assisted modes of service.
- Examination-in-chief
- The first stage of examining a witness by the party who calls that witness, followed by cross-examination by the opposite party and then re-examination.
- Limitation for money suits
- Under the Limitation Act, 1963, a suit for recovery of money based on a contract must generally be filed within three years.
- Article 215 contempt power
- The High Court is a court of record and has power to punish for contempt of itself, exercised under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971.
- National emergency
- Under Article 352, the President may proclaim a national emergency on grounds of war, external aggression or armed rebellion, subject to parliamentary approval.
- Telangana High Court
- Established on 1 January 2019 after the bifurcation of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, it sits at Hyderabad and exercises jurisdiction over Telangana.