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GS-3INTERNAL SECURITY - J&K COUNTER-TERRORISM

The Attack Took Seconds. The Network Behind It Took Months to Build.

Head Constable Ashiq Hussain Qureshi was killed in a targeted shooting at Lal Chowk, Anantnag, while deployed on Amarnath Yatra security duty. The Jammu and Kashmir Police response, mass detentions of suspected Over Ground Workers rather than a narrow manhunt for the shooter, has drawn attention to how the state is now prioritising the dismantling of terror support networks over single-attacker pursuit.

Sub TopicOVER GROUND WORKER NETWORKS AND THE TRADE-OFF IN MASS…SourceJAMMU AND KASHMIR POLICE
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-3HIMALAYAN INFRASTRUCTURE SAFETY

The Teesta-VI Blast Was in NHPC's Own Paperwork Two Years Before It Happened

The explosion at the Teesta-VI project's Adit-3 access tunnel has killed at least 22 of 25 trapped workers, with rescue teams still searching for the remaining three. What has turned this from a tragic accident into a governance question is the discovery that NHPC's own 2024 EUROENGEO paper had already documented repeated gas fires in the exact tunnel faces connected to the blast site.

Sub TopicDOCUMENTED GEOLOGICAL RISK VERSUS ON-GROUND SAFETY…SourceNHPC (NATIONAL HYDROELECTRIC…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-3ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE

India's Antibiotic Problem Isn't Overuse, It's the Wrong Category of Overuse

The Lancet Public Health study is the first global framework estimating how much of each antibiotic category countries actually need based on their infection burden and it places India's prescribing pattern sharply out of line with that estimate: overusing Watch antibiotics, underusing Access antibiotics and underusing Reserve antibiotics despite the country's high resistance burden.

Sub TopicWHO AWARE CLASSIFICATION AND ANTIBIOTIC STEWARDSHIP GAPS…SourceTHE INDIAN EXPRESS
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-3WTO REFORM & MULTILATERALISM

Who Plurilateral Deals Are Actually Built to Serve

The confrontation matters because it is not a routine trade dispute but a structural fight over how global trade rules will be made going forward - through universal consensus, as the WTO's founding architecture intended or through smaller coalitions of powerful economies setting terms that developing countries are pressured to eventually accept. India's stand at its own Trade Policy Review, where 164 members scrutinize its…

Sub TopicINDIA'S OPPOSITION TO PLURILATERAL TRADE PACTS AT THE WTOSourcePIB
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-3INDIA-US TRADE & PHARMA TARIFFS

What a 200% Tariff Actually Does to a $10 Bottle of Pills

The announcement directly threatens India's largest pharmaceutical export market and tests whether India's "pharmacy of the world" position can survive a sustained push by the US to reshore generic drug manufacturing. With over a third of India's pharma exports and nearly half of all US generic prescriptions at stake, the three-year tariff runway forces both Indian industry and policymakers to decide now whether to defend…

Sub TopicRESHORING TARIFFS AND INDIA'S GENERIC DRUG EXPORT EXPOSURESourceBOTH - HINDU + IE
UPSC Relevance9/10
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