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GS-2MARITIME CHOKEPOINTS & INTERNATIONAL LAW (UNCLOS/IMO)

When a Legal Right to Passage Meets a Live Warzone

The Strait of Hormuz's legal status as an international strait under UNCLOS guarantees "transit passage" that cannot be tolled or suspended - but Iran has signed, not ratified, UNCLOS and its unilateral Persian Gulf Strait Authority is now testing whether that legal guarantee means anything when a chokepoint becomes an active conflict zone.

Sub TopicUNCLOS TRANSIT PASSAGE, STRAIT OF HORMUZ, IMO, SHIPPING…SourceTHE HINDU

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GS-2WEST ASIA CONFLICT & INDIA'S ENERGY/STRATEGIC EXPOSURE

US Strikes Iran, Iran Hits Gulf States - India's Two Non-Negotiables Are Now Colliding

The Strait of Hormuz carries roughly a fifth to a third of global oil flow and over 80% of India's crude imports transit routes exposed to this corridor. As US-Iran hostilities widen to strike US-allied Gulf states directly, India faces simultaneous exposure on energy supply, diaspora safety in the Gulf and its own balancing act between Washington and Tehran.

Sub TopicSTRAIT OF HORMUZ, US-IRAN CONFLICT, INDIA'S…SourceBOTH - HINDU + IE

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GS-2NATIONAL SYMBOLS LAW & CONSTITUTIONAL BALANCE (PLURALISM VS.…

The Bill That Wants Vande Mataram to Match the National Anthem in Law

The Bill proposes to legally equate India's National Song with its National Anthem for the first time since Independence - a distinction the Constituent Assembly deliberately left unresolved in 1950. It arrives at the start of the Monsoon Session, a year after a special four-day parliamentary discussion marked Vande Mataram's 150th anniversary and reignited a Congress-BJP dispute over the song's history.

Sub TopicPREVENTION OF INSULTS TO NATIONAL HONOUR ACT 1971…SourceRAJYA SABHA

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GS-2CIVIL LIBERTIES, RIGHT TO PROTEST & EXAMINATION REFORM…

Wangchuk's Hunger Strike and the Line Between Care and Control

Climate and education activist Sonam Wangchuk was moved by police from his 20-day hunger strike site at Jantar Mantar to Safdarjung Hospital on medical grounds. His wife's plea to shift him to a private hospital was rejected by the Delhi High Court on July 19, even as Delhi Police issued prohibitory orders blocking a mass march to Parliament planned for the opening of the Monsoon Session.

Sub TopicARTICLE 19(1)(A)/(B), ARTICLE 21, PARENS PATRIAE…SourceDELHI HIGH COURT

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GS-2UNIFORM CIVIL CODE & FEDERALISM/PERSONAL LAW

Madhya Pradesh's UCC Exempts Tribal Communities - So What Exactly Is Left That's "Uniform"?

The MP Cabinet's approval, ahead of the Bill's tabling in the Monsoon Session, makes Madhya Pradesh the latest state to pursue a UCC at the state level while replicating the exact tribal exemption first used in Uttarakhand - raising the question of whether this exemption strengthens or quietly undermines the Bill's constitutional claim to uniformity.

Sub TopicSCHEDULED TRIBE EXEMPTION IN MADHYA PRADESH'S DRAFT UCC…SourceBOTH - HINDU + IE

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GS-2FEDERALISM & CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (DELIMITATION)

The Delimitation Promise the Government Made Out Loud - And the One It Actually Wrote Down

With the Monsoon Session approaching, political parties including the NCP(SP) are split over whether to support a revived delimitation push, amid renewed scrutiny of whether the Centre's oral 50% guarantee can actually be enforced through the Bill's current constitutional language. Debate is intensifying ahead of the Monsoon Session over the revival of the defeated 131st Constitutional Amendment Bill, which sought to expand…

Sub TopicTHE 131ST AMENDMENT BILL'S TEXTUAL GAP ON PROPORTIONAL…SourceBOTH - HINDU + IE

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