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GS-2REGIONAL GROUPINGS

A Security Pact at a Half-Empty Chair: What the Delhi Declaration Must Deliver for BIMSTEC

BIMSTEC's interior ministers met as a group for the first time on 13 October 2026 in New Delhi. They adopted the Delhi Declaration and three anti-crime instruments. Amit Shah set out five priority areas for cooperation, while Bangladesh's lower-level representation drew attention to the limits of regional consensus.

Sub TopicBIMSTEC'S FIRST HOME MINISTERS' MEETING AND THE DELHI…SourceMINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS, THE…
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GS-2INDIA-CHINA RELATIONS

Twenty-Eight Names, One Sentence: Why China's Reply Matters More Than India's Map

China publicly rejected India's standardisation of 28 place names in Ladakh on 13 October 2026 and repeated that it does not recognise the Union Territory created in August 2019. India rejected the objection the same day. Several of the named features lie near points of past confrontation on the Line of Actual Control.

Sub TopicCARTOGRAPHIC NAMING IN LADAKH AND CHINA'S RENEWED…SourceMINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS…
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GS-2URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION

A Scheme Can End, Its Debts Cannot: Who Pays for the Urban Livelihood Mission Now?

The Indian Express reported on 13 October 2026 that Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura had written to the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. They warned that the funding gap after DAY-NULM threatens the bank linkages and credit access of urban women's self-help groups. Ministry sources were reported as saying no state demand is pending.

Sub TopicCOMMITTED LIABILITIES OF STATES AFTER DAY-NULM LAPSED…SourceMINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN…
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GS-2ANTI-DEFECTION LAW

A Resignation Is Not an Amnesty: The Madras High Court Writes the Speaker's Calendar

In Agri S.S. Krishnamurthy v. The Speaker, Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, delivered on 13 October 2026, the Madras High Court ruled on the six AIADMK legislators who resigned between 26 May and 29 June 2026 and moved to the TVK. It upheld the resignations but kept disqualification proceedings alive against four of them. Two of those four had already won by-elections from their old seats on TVK tickets, with results…

Sub TopicRESIGNATION UNDER ARTICLE 190(3)(B), PENDING TENTH…SourceTHE HINDU, INDIAN EXPRESS…
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GS-2ELECTORAL PROCESS

Who Decides Who Votes? An Unpublished Software Rule and the Burden It Shifts Onto Delhi's Electors

On 14 October 2026, The Hindu published a data analysis of Delhi's Special Intensive Revision draft roll. It showed that the Election Commission's ERONET software flagged electors for logical discrepancies at markedly different rates across communities, with the heaviest skew on family-size criteria. The Commission did not respond to the paper's questions.

Sub TopicALGORITHMIC "LOGICAL DISCREPANCY" FLAGGING IN THE…SourceTHE HINDU, LEARN THRU PRACTICE…
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GS-2FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS

Two Orders, Then a Summons: When the Supreme Court Stops Directing and Starts Enforcing

The Supreme Court summoned a senior Delhi Police officer on 13 October 2026 after petitions by the Network of Women in Media, India and the Free Speech Collective. The petitions alleged continued detention and harassment of journalists despite the Court's 11 October order. The Court also extended the Centre's deadline in the contempt and transport-shutdown matters to 15 October and issued notice on a separate challenge to…

Sub TopicENFORCING SUPREME COURT DIRECTIONS ON PRESS FREEDOM…SourceSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, THE…
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