13 Aug 2026 : Indian Express Important Articles Today
Total solar eclipse: The best time to study the Sun's 'invisible' part
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GS 1 / GS 3: Geography & Science: Solar eclipse mechanics, path of totality, corona and 'coronal mass ejections', and why eclipses aid solar-atmosphere research (space weather, GPS/communication disruption).
UPI's dramatic growth, and its next challenge
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GS 3: Indian Economy: Digital payments architecture, Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) debate, UPI's market share versus cards, and sustainability of India's zero-MDR digital payments model.
GPS to night bombing: IAF's many challenges during Kargil war's Operation Safed Sagar
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GS 3: Defence & Security: Operation Safed Sagar (1999 Kargil conflict), IAF's air-power employment challenges (terrain, ELINT gaps, precision-strike limitations), and lessons for military modernisation.
Parliament passes Bill to rename Kerala as 'Keralam'
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GS 2: Polity & Governance: Procedure for renaming a state (constitutional amendment vs ordinary legislation), Article 3, and Centre-state relations in nomenclature changes.
Proceedings against Justice Varma likely to continue as removal motion moved before he quits
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GS 2: Polity & Governance: In-House Inquiry process for judicial misconduct, judges' removal procedure under the Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968, and judicial accountability mechanisms.
National Cooperative Development Corporation (Amendment) Bill gets House approval
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GS 2 / GS 3: Governance & Economy: Cooperative sector reform, financing mechanisms for cooperative societies, and the Ministry of Cooperation's expanding institutional role.
Cap Lok Sabha strength at 543: Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution to Centre
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GS 2: Polity: Delimitation of constituencies, the 2026 census-linked delimitation exercise, women's reservation seat-allocation debate, and southern states' concerns over political representation.
WHO says Congo's Ebola outbreak is on track to surpass the deadliest in history
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GS 2 / GS 3: Health & International Relations: Communicable disease outbreaks, WHO's global health emergency framework, and lessons for India's epidemic preparedness.
Trump says US has 'total control' over Hormuz; Iran says no ceasefire talks yet
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GS 2: International Relations: Strait of Hormuz as a strategic chokepoint, US-Iran tensions, and implications for global energy security and India's crude-oil imports.
Colombia earthquake toll tops 250 as rescuers race to find survivors
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GS 1: Geography & Disaster Management: Seismicity along the Pacific 'Ring of Fire', search-and-rescue operations, and international humanitarian relief coordination.
RBI proposes new loan interest-rate framework
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GS 3: Indian Economy: Floating-rate loan benchmarks, interest-rate transmission, borrower protection in retail/MSME lending, and RBI's regulatory role in banking.
Now, from a Rajasthan village, a familiar question: 'If all acquitted, who killed 5 Dalits?'
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GS 1 / GS 2: Social Justice: Caste-based violence, the criminal justice system's handling of atrocity cases, evidentiary standards in acquittals, and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act framework.