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GS-2INDIA-CHINA TRADE DIPLOMACY

The Grievance List India Is Building for Its Own Summit

China has imposed restrictions on ingot and wafer technology, battery cells and cell technology and High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) components critical to India's renewable energy transmission build-out, with most restrictions imposed in the past 12-15 months. A planned Commerce Ministry visit to Beijing this week was postponed due to separate India-China border talks, even as Corps Commander-level talks were held in…

Sub TopicBRICS SUMMIT SIDELINES AND RECIPROCAL TECH-TRADE LEVERAGESourceINDIAN EXPRESS, MINISTRY OF…
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GS-2OBC RESERVATION AND CREAMY LAYER POLICY

The Judgment Won and Still Nobody's Been Trained

The Rohith Nathan judgment, delivered days after the CSE 2025 results on March 6, struck down DoPT's practice of using parental PSU or private-sector salary income to classify OBC candidates as creamy layer, while excluding equivalent government employees from the same test - calling it "hostile discrimination" under Articles 14 and 16. The court ordered corrective measures within six months. Rather than implement this…

Sub TopicROHITH NATHAN JUDGMENT, CIVIL SERVICES ALLOCATION AND…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THE…
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GS-2NRC, CITIZENSHIP AND NORTHEAST FEDERALISM

Two Questions, One Assembly, No Shared Answer

The Manipur Assembly saw the Home Minister formalise the state's NRC push, citing resolutions passed in 2022, 2024 and September 2, while all Naga MLAs abstained from the session's final sitting. The Kuki-Zo Council's memorandum to Union Home Minister Amit Shah insisted the NRC decision "remained within the Centre's constitutional and legal authority," directly disputing the state's unilateral push. Separately, CM Yumnam…

Sub TopicMANIPUR'S NRC-CENSUS STANDOFF AND KUKI-ZO DEMAND FOR…SourceTHE HINDU, INDIA TODAY NE, THE…
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GS-2ELECTORAL ROLL REVISION AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT

The 15-Crore Question the SIR Hasn't Answered

The ECI completed release of the draft SIR voters' list across major states last week, with Nagaland, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh and J&K still pending. Draft-stage deletions total 13.37 crore against a pre-SIR electorate of about 94 crore. The op-ed's authors - who had earlier estimated the Bihar pilot phase would cause disproportionate deletions, an estimate later broadly validated - argue deletions have worsened with each…

Sub TopicSPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION, VOTER DELETIONS AND…SourceELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA…
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GS-2URBAN GOVERNANCE AND CIVIC ENFORCEMENT FAILURE

Seven Dead, Zero Bookings - What "No Record" Actually Means

The Delhi High Court, in a bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia, said the collapse raised concerns extending beyond the property owner to Delhi University and the MCD itself, given the "absolutely inadequate" hostel capacity forcing students into unsafe PGs. The MCD suspended five officials, including South Zone Deputy Commissioner Rakesh Kumar, while confirming it held no record of the collapsed…

Sub TopicMCD ACCOUNTABILITY, BUILDING BYE-LAW ENFORCEMENT AND…SourceLIVE LAW, THE HINDU, INDIAN…
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GS-2PREVENTIVE DETENTION AND BUREAUCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY

When the Court Sends the Bill to the Officer, Not the State

A Bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev quashed the NSA detention of Akriti Chaudhary on September 2, with the detailed order released Monday. Chaudhary, picked up on April 11 over her alleged role in the Noida labour protests, had the NSA invoked against her on May 13 and spent nearly five months in custody. The court held DM Medha Roopam "guilty of violating her oath of allegiance" and ordered Rs 5 lakh…

Sub TopicNSA MISUSE, HABEAS CORPUS AND PERSONAL LIABILITY OF…SourceLIVE LAW, HINDUSTAN TIMES, THE…
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