Article 370 Verdict - Supreme Court Calls for Restoration of J&K Statehood The Supreme Court of India has recently passed a monumental verdict on Article 370, calling for the restoration of statehood and an elected government in Jammu and Kashmir. This landmark judgment has major implications for the future of J&K as well as center-state relations in India. Introduction to Article 370 and its Abrogation Article 370 was a constitutional provision that granted special autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir. Under this article, J&K had its constitution, flag, and autonomy over all matters barring defense, communications, and foreign affairs. However, in August 2019, the central BJP-led government unilaterally abolished Article 370 through a presidential order. J&K was also bifurcated into two union territories - Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. This move was extremely controversial with opposition parties calling it 'unconstitutional'. Key High
POPULATION ECOLOGY The word ‘ population’ is derived from the Latin word ‘ populus’ which means people . Organisms in nature rarely grow as separate from each other. Each species in an ecosystem exist as a population. Ecologically, a Population is an assemblage of individuals of a species which potentially interbreed and occupying a particular space at the same time . For example, grasshopper in the field, deer population in the forest, pine trees in a forest etc. Sometimes individuals of some species live solitary but they interact with other members of the same species or others at different times in their lives. The study dealing with structure and dynamics of individuals in a population and their interactions with environment is known as Population Ecology . It has almost the same meaning as that of conventional term Autecology (the study of ecology of individual species or its population), which is less in use now. There are two types of populations: a)