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GS-4ETHICS - FIDUCIARY DUTY IN RELIGIOUS TRUSTS

Eight Arrests Were Never the Real Story at the Ram Temple

The scale of the widened probe - nearly 40 of 50 cash-handling employees allegedly recruited through personal connections rather than vetted hiring - shifts this from a story about individual theft to a story about whether a public religious trust managing crores in devotee donations discharged its basic fiduciary duty.

Sub TopicINSTITUTIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND FIDUCIARY DUTY IN THE…SourceINDIAN EXPRESS
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GS-4ETHICS - CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN PUBLIC RECRUITMENT

When the Gatekeeper's Own Family Walks Through the Gate

The Governor's suspension of a sitting KPSC Chairman is an unprecedented use of gubernatorial power over a constitutional recruitment body and it has reopened questions about how India's State Public Service Commissions manage conflicts of interest at the very top, where self-declaration has repeatedly failed.

Sub TopicINSTITUTIONAL INTEGRITY, RECUSAL NORMS AND CONFLICT OF…SourceTHE HINDU
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GS-4ETHICS - EXAM INTEGRITY VS INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

A Court Let Him Retake NEET in Custody. The NTA Still Won't Release His Score.

The case presents a rare, clean split between a court's rights-based reasoning and an examining body's integrity-based caution - both institutions acting on legitimate but conflicting logics regarding the same undertrial, in the same exam, at the same time. A Delhi court allowed a NEET-UG paper leak accused to take the re-test in custody to protect his educational rights, but the NTA subsequently withheld his result. This…

Sub TopicCOMPETING OBLIGATIONS - RIGHT TO APPEAR FOR EXAMINATION…SourceTHE INDIAN EXPRESS
UPSC Relevance9/10
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