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GS-2INDIA-PAKISTAN MARITIME SECURITY INCIDENTS

India Summons Pakistan Envoy After Pak Corvette Collides With Indian Warship in Arabian Sea

The collision is the most serious breach of the 1991 India-Pakistan naval confidence-building agreement since 2011, occurring amid sustained naval deployments by both countries in the Arabian Sea and raising questions about whether decades-old crisis-prevention mechanisms can still manage risk between two increasingly active, modernising navies.

Sub TopicTHE 1991 ADVANCE NOTICE AGREEMENT AND NAVAL…SourceMINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY AND POK

India Rejects Pakistan-China Boundary Joint Commission as Having "No Legal Basis"

The statement comes as Pakistan and China operationalise a new joint mechanism to manage their shared boundary in territory India considers illegally occupied, reviving a dispute rooted in the 1963 Sino-Pakistan Boundary Agreement and sharpened by ongoing CPEC infrastructure through PoK. India firmly rejected the newly operationalised Pakistan-China Boundary Joint Commission, stating that neither country has the legal locus…

Sub TopicINDIA'S REJECTION OF THE PAKISTAN-CHINA BOUNDARY JOINT…SourceMINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2ANTI-DEFECTION LAW AND TENTH SCHEDULE

Shiv Sena Row: SC Asks If Legislative Majority Test Is Safe When MLAs Face Disqualification

The case tests how the Election Commission's 2023 decision to award the Shiv Sena name and symbol to the Eknath Shinde faction - based substantially on legislative majority - sits against the 2023 Subhash Desai Constitution Bench ruling, which cautioned against relying on that same test when disqualification proceedings under the Tenth Schedule are pending.

Sub TopicFRICTION BETWEEN THE TENTH SCHEDULE AND THE ELECTION…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, INDIAN…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2INTRA-PARTY DISPUTES AND ELECTION SYMBOL ALLOTMENT

EC Calls Both Trinamool Factions for Hearing: Inside the Legal Test That Decides Who Owns a Party

The dispute follows an internal rift within the Trinamool Congress after the party's defeat in the recent West Bengal assembly elections, with both factions now staking a claim to the party's name and its "twin flowers in grass" symbol ahead of by-elections in Nandigram and Rejinagar. The Election Commission summoned rival Trinamool Congress factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Ritabrata Banerjee to resolve their ongoing…

Sub TopicELECTION COMMISSION'S QUASI-JUDICIAL POWERS UNDER THE…SourceTHE HINDU, TIMES OF INDIA…
UPSC Relevance8/10
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GS-2ELECTORAL ROLL REVISION AND VOTER DELETION

14,575 People Voted in Tughlakabad. The Draft Rolls Say Fewer Than That Now Exist.

The analysis matters because it converts a routine administrative exercise - the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls - into a data anomaly that is difficult to explain through legitimate deletions alone. For 24 constituencies to have fewer registered electors than confirmed 2025 voters would require large-scale outward migration or a mass admission of past ineligibility, neither of which shows any independent…

Sub TopicSIR DELETIONS AND THE TURNOUT-BELOW-ELECTORATE ANOMALY…SourcePIB, THE HINDU, CIVILS DAILY
UPSC Relevance9/10
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GS-2LADAKH UT STATUS AND ASYMMETRIC FEDERALISM

"Two Years Have Already Passed": Omar Abdullah's Warning to Ladakh

Omar Abdullah's remarks matter because they surface, in explicit political language, the mechanism the Centre has repeatedly used to manage constitutional demands from J&K and now Ladakh - an assurance of eventual action rather than a binding timeline or legal guarantee. With Ladakh's Leh Apex Body and Kargil Democratic Alliance in active talks with the MHA over statehood and Sixth Schedule status, Abdullah's warning is…

Sub TopicVERBAL ASSURANCES VS BINDING COMMITMENTS IN CENTRE-UT…SourceTHE HINDU, INDIA TODAY, DECCAN…
UPSC Relevance9/10
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