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28 Oct 2026 : Indian Express Important Articles Today

  1. Privacy law can shut newsrooms: media body; SC notice to Centre.
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  • GS 2 – Indian Polity & Judiciary: Data protection laws, Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, freedom of speech and press under Article 19(1)(a), right to privacy under Article 21, and the K.S. Puttaswamy judgment.
  1. First after Op Sindoor: India invites Pak to SCO meeting in Delhi.
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  • GS 2 – International Relations: Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), multilateral cultural diplomacy, Civilisational Dialogue Forum, and India–Pakistan bilateral relations.
  1. Karnataka final roll sees 18% dip after SIR, slide second steepest.
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  • GS 2 – Elections & Governance: Special Intensive Revision (SIR), electoral roll integrity, Election Commission of India (ECI), ASDD (Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate) verification, and Form 6/7/8 dynamics.
  1. SC panel: Need capacity study for tourism hubs in Himachal.
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  • GS 3 – Environment & Ecology: Supreme Court's Central Empowered Committee (CEC), ecological carrying capacity, mountain ecology, compensatory afforestation shortfalls, and highway/hydropower expansion regulation.
  1. Rice at Rs 61.66/kg, Tur Dal at Rs 134.23: TN seeks stock limits.
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  • GS 3 – Indian Economy & Food Security: Essential Commodities Act, 1955, stockholding limits, retail food inflation, and curbing hoarding and black marketing.
  1. Cyclone Arnab hurtles towards Andhra coast, landfall advances.
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  • GS 1 & GS 3 – Physical Geography & Disaster Management: Tropical cyclogenesis in the Bay of Bengal, storm surge dynamics, India Meteorological Department (IMD) early warning systems, and disaster mitigation.
  1. Protest over E20 fuel a paid propaganda, says Nitin Gadkari; CMVR amended for E100 flex-fuel.
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  • GS 3 – Infrastructure & Energy: Ethanol Blending Programme (EBP), flex-fuel vehicles, Central Motor Vehicles Rules (CMVR), 1989 amendments, and bio-fuels.
  1. In Maharashtra textbook, Newton shares gravity chapter with Bhaskaracharya II.
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  • GS 1 & GS 2 – Education & Indian Heritage: National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 curriculum revision, Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS), and ancient Indian scientific contributions (Siddhant Shiromani).
  1. Project GIB shrugs off one lost bird, next batch to be released soon.
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  • GS 3 – Environment & Biodiversity: Great Indian Bustard (GIB) conservation, captive breeding in Desert National Park (Rajasthan), and species reintroduction dynamics.
  1. A visit to Baku, a gateway to a changing Eurasia.
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  • GS 2 – International Relations: Strategic dynamics in the South Caucasus, Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), and India–Azerbaijan relations.
  1. On theatre commands, let's finish arguing, reach a settlement, before next crisis comes.
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  • GS 3 – Security & Defence: Jointness and integration, theaterisation of the Indian Armed Forces, role of Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), and joint command models.
  1. Clean air needs targets, timelines, accountability.
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  • GS 3 – Environment & Pollution: Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan, National Clean Air Programme (NCAP 2.0), particulate matter reduction, and environmental health costs.
  1. LNG imports from Qatar rise to eight-month high in Oct via dark transits through Hormuz.
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  • GS 3 – Energy Security & Global Trade: Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supplies, Strait of Hormuz chokepoints, dark transits, and ship-to-ship (STS) cryogenic cargo operations.
  1. The signs and science of the Shamonda virus.
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  • GS 3 – Health & Science: Zoonotic vector-borne Orthobunyavirus, Culicoides midges, and transmission dynamics.