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24 Oct 2026 : Indian Express Important Articles Today

  1. ITBP flags Arunachal face-off, Govt says China patrols stray time to time; Shaurya commandos deployed.
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  • GS 3 – Internal Security & Border Management: Indo-China border dynamics.
  1.  29.5 lakh SIR cases resolved, parked for final roll in Delhi; Claims and objections process.
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  • GS 2 – Indian Polity & Governance: Election Commission of India, Special Intensive Revision (SIR) vs Summary Revision.
  1. MHA draft on Ladakh demands: Elected body’s laws need L-G nod, proposed Article 371K.
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  • GS 2 – Indian Polity & Governance: Union Territory governance architectures.
  1. India, Azerbaijan seek to reset ties after Operation Sindoor fallout; INSTC coordination.
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  • GS 2 – International Relations: Bilateral diplomacy, South Caucasus geopolitics, International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).
  1. Cyclone Arnab forming in Bay of Bengal: IMD issues landfall alert for AP-Odisha coast.
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  • GS 1 & GS 3 – Physical Geography & Disaster Management: Tropical cyclones in the North Indian Ocean basin, naming protocol (Bangladesh), cyclogenesis, and disaster preparedness.
  1. Oskar Klein medal for physicist Ashoke Sen: Theoretical physics breakthroughs in String Theory.
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  • GS 3 – Science & Technology: Achievements of Indians in science, String Theory, S-duality.
  1.  On IT, India had early advantage. It hasn’t caught up with AI era.
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  • GS 3 – Science & Technology & Economy: IndiaAI Mission, compute infrastructure (GPUs).
  1. The problem is inflation’s second-round effects; MPC minutes review.
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  • GS 3 – Indian Economy: Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) rate stance (calibrated tightening).
  1.  SIR needs reform. But let’s go by numbers, not protestors’ slogans.
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  • GS 2 – Indian Polity & Governance: Constitutional right to register as an elector under Article 326.
  1.  Childhood obesity deepens the nutrition challenge — WHO guidelines.
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  • GS 2 & GS 3 – Health & Social Justice: Double burden of malnutrition (stunting/underweight vs obesity), Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in children, obesogenic environments, and front-of-package labelling.
  1.  The signs and science of the Shamonda virus; First human fatality reported in France.
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  • GS 3 – Science & Technology & Public Health: Orthobunyavirus, Simbu serogroup, vector-borne diseases (Culicoides biting midges), zoonotic transmission, and immunocompromised risk.
  1. How India’s bullet train project took a long detour — Japanese vs hybrid model.
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  • GS 3 – Infrastructure & Economic Development: Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR), Shinkansen total-systems integration, indigenous high-speed trains (B28 by BEML), and international signalling adoption.
  1. The debates around Legislative Councils, their functions today.
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  • GS 2 – Indian Polity & Governance: Bicameralism in states, constitutional mechanism for creation/abolition (Article 169).
  1. Tata Sons may have to go for listing, hints RBI chief; NBFC-Upper Layer / CIC regulations.
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  • GS 3 – Indian Economy & Financial Market Regulation: Scale-based regulation of NBFCs.