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THE HINDU / ELECTORAL REFORM & CONSTITUTIONAL QUALIFICATIONSGS PAPER 2
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A citizen can vote for Parliament at 18, run a Zilla Parishad at 21, but must wait until 25 to sit in the Lok Sabha they helped elect. Telangana wants to know why that gap still exists.

Sub-topic Articles 84(b) and 173(b), Voting Age vs Candidacy Age, Youth Representation

Addressing a youth gathering in Hyderabad, Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy said the state Legislature would convene in the first week of August 2026 to adopt a resolution asking the Union government to reduce the minimu…

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THE HINDU / WELFARE SCHEME ROLLBACK & ACCOUNTABILITYGS PAPER 2
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What happens when the scheme that saved you disappears the year after the election? Ask Manisha Jadhav, a farm widow in Dharashiv, who is one of 92 lakh women just struck off Maharashtra's Ladki Bahin list.

Sub-topic Directive Principles vs Executive Schemes, Legitimate Expectation, Populist Welfare Design

A field investigation by The Hindu has found that Maharashtra's government has removed more than 92 lakh women, nearly 38% of the original 2.4 crore beneficiary base, from the Ladki Bahin scheme since the 2024 electio…

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY / NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION & WEST ASIAGS PAPER 2
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Picture Riyadh enriching uranium on its own soil thirty years from now. Trace that scenario back and it starts on one specific date: July 22, 2026.

Sub-topic International Relations / Nuclear Non-Proliferation & West Asia

The deal marks the first major U.S. civil nuclear agreement in the Gulf that does not require its partner to renounce enrichment, breaking a non-proliferation precedent set in 2009, at the exact moment Iran's own enri…

U.S. Department of EnergyInternational Relations / Nuclear Non-Proliferation & West Asia2 views
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BOTH - HINDU + IE / PARLIAMENTARY LEGISLATION & EXAMINATION GOVERNANCEGS PAPER 2
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Six lakh students show up on exam day and the paper is already gone. No penalty ladder in this Bill was written with that moment in mind.

Sub-topic Polity / Parliamentary Legislation

The Bill responds directly to sustained student protests over the NEET-UG paper leak by escalating deterrence and compressing the investigation-to-trial timeline, but does so entirely through the penalty and process l…

Both - Hindu + IEPolity / Parliamentary Legislation1 views
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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA / RIGHT TO PRIVACY & DATA PROTECTIONGS PAPER 2
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One missing box. That's what three Supreme Court judges just ordered added to a consent form used across every school in the country.

Sub-topic Polity / Right to Privacy & Data Protection

The order settles a live constitutional challenge to APAAR, which parents had called a state-run surveillance mechanism enabling long-term tracking of children's educational data, by making refusal of consent a mandat…

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PIB / MINISTERIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & PROTEST POLITICSGS PAPER 2
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A minister falls to a protest with no leader, no party and no manifesto - and the Constitution's own mechanism for exactly this situation never even got used.

Sub-topic Governance / Ministerial Accountability

Pradhan's resignation ended more than a month of student protests that had become a major political flashpoint for the government and marks the third time in twelve years that a decentralized, leaderless protest movem…

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