Dear Express Explained reader, Many of you have questions about the Central Universities Entrance Test (CUET) for admission to undergraduate courses. Registrations were to open on Saturday, April 2, but have been deferred to Wednesday, April 6. The official website, cuet.samarth.ac.in, promises that applications would be live "soon". Earlier this week, Sourav Roy Barman answered some of the most common questions about the test and its format, you should check it out. We are also running a live updates page on the examination on our website, you might want to bookmark that; we will also tweet and post on Facebook all important information as soon as we get it. There were two important legal developments this week. The government introduced the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill, 2022 in Lok Sabha, which proposes to allow police and prison authorities to collect, store, and analyse physical and biological samples of suspects and convicts, including retina and iris scans. Apurva Vishwanath unpacked the details of the proposed legislation, and analysed some of the questions that it raises. Second, the government in an affidavit to the Supreme Court on the politically sensitive question of definition of a minority, submitted that individual states have the power to identify a community as a minority within their jurisdictions. Ananthakrishnan G summed up the legal and constitutional debate on this issue so far, summarising key judgments of the Supreme Court. We also asked Prof Faizan Mustafa, one of India's most eminent experts of constitutional law who has been writing on this subject for long, to weigh in - his verdict: the government's affidavit is consistent with the Constitution. Do read his truly enlightening analysis. Around this time a year ago, India's Covid-19 numbers had started to rise alarmingly, peaking in the devastating Delta wave of late April-mid May. Over the last few weeks, the world has been watching with concern the new spike in case numbers in China, and concerns have been expressed over whether India needs to fear a fresh Covid crisis. The short answer, as Amitabh Sinha explained, is no - as long as we do not see the emergence of a new, more dangerous variant of the coronavirus. Read his article also to understand why excessively harsh lockdowns, with the goal of zero-Covid, is not always the ideal response to the pandemic. Stay safe and stay aware. Keep reading The Indian Express Explained. Some of our content is now behind a paywall, so if you haven't subscribed to The Indian Express yet, this may be the perfect time to do so. Click here to subscribe. Sincerely, Monojit (monojit.majumdar@expressindia.com) If you received this newsletter as a forward, you can subscribe to it here | Do read our Explained articles here | 
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