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GS-2JUDICIAL REVIEW OF FILM CERTIFICATION

CBFC Cleared It, A High Court Stayed It: What the Mahaprabhu Jagannath Order Says About Judicial Limits

A Supreme Court bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and R Mahadevan heard a challenge to the Orissa High Court's stay on the CBFC-certified film's release and while it did not lift the stay outright, it fixed a release date after the Rath Yatra rather than upholding an indefinite ban, reopening the long-running debate on how much power courts have over a film that has already cleared statutory certification.

Sub TopicCBFC CERTIFICATION VS JUDICIAL RESTRAINT UNDER ARTICLE…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2INDUS WATERS TREATY

The Number That Makes the Case for Renegotiating the Indus Waters Treaty

The IIT Gandhinagar study is the first data-based confirmation that the hydrological assumptions underpinning the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty - a stable, roughly comparable water balance between India's and Pakistan's allocated river systems - no longer hold, giving India's renegotiation demand an empirical foundation beyond the security argument tied to the treaty's abeyance.

Sub TopicCLIMATE-DRIVEN HYDROLOGY CHANGE AND TRANSBOUNDARY TREATY…SourceINDIAN EXPRESS
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2GLOBAL AI GOVERNANCE & FOREIGN POLICY

China Says It's Giving the Global South a Voice in AI. It's Actually Asking for Their Vote.

China's establishment of WAICO marks its most concrete attempt yet to institutionalize leadership over global AI governance, explicitly pitched at countries wary of Western AI models and export controls - and India's conspicuous absence from a body it was invited to and attended, signals a deliberate strategic choice rather than an oversight.

Sub TopicCHINA'S WAICO INITIATIVE, INDIA'S GLOBAL SOUTH…SourceTHE HINDU
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2RIGHT TO HEALTH & JUDICIAL PENDENCY

When a Court's Calendar Becomes a Matter of Life and Death

A Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant registered the case 'In Re: Access to Life-Saving Medicines and Judicial Expediency in Article 21 Matters' on its own motion, treating the sheer duration of the Kerala High Court's delay as itself a violation of the right to life under Article 21 - establishing that timely adjudication is not a procedural courtesy but a substantive constitutional obligation when the…

Sub TopicARTICLE 21, JUDICIAL DELAY, COMPULSORY LICENSING UNDER…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2INTERSEX RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE

Why the Supreme Court Plea on Intersex Persons Is Not a Transgender Rights Case

A three-judge Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant issued notice on a plea seeking separate statutory guidelines for intersex persons within six months and a ban on non-consensual surgical or hormonal interventions on intersex infants, marking the first time India's top court has been asked to treat intersex identity as legally distinct from transgender identity.

Sub TopicDISTINCT CLASS RECOGNITION, BODILY AUTONOMY, ARTICLES…SourceTHE HINDU
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT - REMOVAL OF TAINTED MINISTERS

When Does "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" Stop Applying to a Minister?

The JPC examining the 130th Constitution Amendment Bill deferred adopting its report on Friday, with sources indicating the government is deprioritising the Bill this Monsoon Session in favour of securing numbers for the Women's Reservation and Delimitation Bills. Opposition members had prepared a dissent note but withheld it once the committee agreed to further consultation, while several ruling coalition members, including…

Sub TopicTHE 130TH CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT BILL, CUSTODY-BASED…SourceBOTH - HINDU + IE
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2ELECTORAL ROLLS & CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS

33.5 Lakh Pending Appeals - and the Line the Supreme Court Just Refused to Let Blur

The Supreme Court heard the matter on July 17, 2026, in a case filed by Congress leader Prasenjit Bose challenging three West Bengal government orders that linked SIR-based electoral roll deletions to the withdrawal of PDS rations, Annapurna Yojana cash transfers and Backward Caste certificate verification. The bench referred back to its own May 2026 Bihar SIR judgment to draw a firm boundary around what SIR exclusion can…

Sub TopicSIR, THE ELECTION COMMISSION'S CONSTITUTIONAL BOUNDARY…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA
UPSC Relevance9/10
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