1. Jaishankar meets Putin, focus on trade, energy, fertilisers, high-tech
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- GS 2: International Relations: India-Russia strategic ties, the SCO/BRICS summit calendar, energy and fertiliser cooperation, and India's continued balancing of great-power relationships.
2. Govt on Gor's remarks: Trump unpredictable, so took cautious approach
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- GS 2: International Relations: India-US diplomatic signalling on Kashmir-related remarks, MEA's calibrated public response, and management of a sensitive bilateral relationship.
3. OBC creamy layer candidates in '25 civil services exam: Govt seeks SC directions
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- GS 2: Polity & Social Justice: 'Creamy layer' exclusion within OBC reservation, the Supreme Court's March 11 judgment on CSE-2016 candidates, and its potential cascading effect on the CSE-2025 batch.
4. Tough conversion law kicks in this week, Mumbai pastors ask churchgoers to sign 'free will' declaration forms
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- GS 1/2: Polity & Society: Anti-conversion legislation, freedom of religion under Article 25, self-declaration safeguards, and Centre-State legislative competence on religious conversion.
5. J&K reopens probe into 1998 massacre of 23 Kashmiri Pandits (Wandhama)
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- GS 3: Internal Security: Revisiting cold cases of terrorism-linked killings, SIA's investigative mandate in J&K, and communal-targeted violence during the insurgency years.
6. Lessons from Jantar Mantar: Delhi Police orders intel revamp
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- GS 3: Internal Security: Pre-emptive intelligence gathering on protests, profiling of participant organisations, and police preparedness for public assembly/law-and-order situations.
7. Nearly 33L electors in Capital to get notices to prove eligibility in SIR's next phase
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- GS 2: Polity & Governance: Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Delhi, Booth Level Officers' verification process, and due-process safeguards for flagged electors.
8. NIA searches five locations in cyber terror case
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- GS 3: Internal Security: NIA's jurisdiction over cyber-enabled terrorism, illegitimate use of internet infrastructure for radicalisation/logistics, and inter-agency cyber-terror investigation.
9. Joint elections plan flawed, against basic structure of Constitution: Chidambaram
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- GS 2: Polity: 'One Nation, One Election' proposal, the Basic Structure Doctrine (Kesavananda Bharati), and federalism/democracy as unamendable constitutional features.
10. Suvendu: 10% of CAA applicants got citizenship so far
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- GS 2: Polity & Governance: Implementation status of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, application processing timelines, and its political salience in West Bengal.
11. Maoist acquittal to 'missing' report: Why a 2008 killing is back in focus in Odisha
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- GS 3: Internal Security: Left-Wing Extremism (Naxalism) case investigations, evidentiary gaps in old Maoist-violence prosecutions, and reopening of cold cases under political pressure.
12. Vijay scraps airport plan; free LPG, bus travel scheme widened
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- GS 2/3: Polity & Economy: Tamil Nadu's welfare-scheme expansion (free LPG cylinders, bus travel), land-use/airport-project reversals, and pre-election populist policymaking.
13. Security strategies meet: Focus on tackling terror & infiltration
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- GS 3: Internal Security: The National Security Strategies Conference chaired by the Union Home Minister, counter-terrorism coordination, and strategies against cross-border infiltration.
14. India is Claude's second-largest market, but ranks 101st in per-capita adoption
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- GS 3: Science & Technology / Economy: Generative-AI adoption patterns in India, the gap between aggregate usage and per-capita adoption, and implications for the workforce and digital economy.
15. US declares expansion of sanctions in its 'economic onslaught' on Iran
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- GS 2: International Relations: US Treasury sanctions on entities facilitating Iranian oil trade, dollar-based financial-system restrictions, and their spillover effect on global energy markets.
16. World's breadbaskets are getting pounded by war, weather and trade spats
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- GS 3: Economy / Agriculture: Disruption to global wheat and grain supply chains from the Russia-Ukraine war, extreme weather, and trade tensions, and implications for global food security.
17. The other 'NEET' that India needs to address (Explained)
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- GS 3: Indian Economy: Rising unemployment among the educated youth, the 'Not in Employment, Education or Training' (NEET) cohort, and quality-of-jobs concerns in India's labour market.
18. Tracing Ashoka in Ujjain: What new dig at Vaishya Tekri can reveal
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- GS 1: Art & Culture / Ancient History: Ujjain (ancient Ujjayini), capital of the Avanti Mahajanapada, Ashoka's tenure as Mauryan viceroy there, and archaeological tracing of pre-Ashokan settlement.
19. Why Indian cities flood after heavy rain and overheat in summer every year
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- GS 1/3: Urbanisation & Disaster Management: Urban flooding due to unplanned construction and encroached drainage, the urban heat-island effect, and the Disaster Management Act's amendment on urban risk.