1. Nearly 60% of TV and digital news regulator orders in 3 years cite communal code violations
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Usage: Media regulation & freedom of speech (Article 19), Role of regulators like News Broadcasting & Digital Standards Authority (NBDSA), Media’s role in exacerbating communal tensions, need for ethical reporting in sensitive societies, hate speech, Media ethics, Public trust

2. SC: Election Commission power to hold SIR not unlimited
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Usage: About SIR, Need, Election Commission, Powers, Duties, Roles and responsibilities, Transparency

3. AI smart glasses equipped with facial recognition system (FRS)
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Usage: Real time identification of criminals, enhance predictive and preventive policing, identity verification, assistive technology, smart surveillance system, Ethical & Legal concern: Privacy invasion, data misuse and profiling, bias and accuracy issues

4. The Rajasthan Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provisions for Protection of Tenants from Eviction from the Premises in Disturbed Areas Bill, 2026
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Usage: Federalism & state legislative powers, land, law & order, Rights vs. reasonable restrictions: Article 19(1)(f)/ Article 300A, Article 19(2), Article 21, preventing communal polarisation

5. ‘Made in India’ C-295 aircraft
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Usage: Defence manufacturing, Atmanirbhar bharat, Make in India, Defence production and export policy, Technology transfer, aerospace manufacturing ecosystem, National security & strategic capacity, economy & industrial growth

6. Need robust military: IAF chief
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Usage: Centre for Aerospace Power and Strategic studies (CAPSS), military gap preparedness, indigenisation of defence production, modernisation of armed forces, air power & deterrence (declining squadron strength, force multipliers- UAVs, AEW&C, air defence system)

7. Global water bankruptcy
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Usage: Water stress, resource depletion, over-extraction of groundwater, river basin stress, climate change, hydrological cycle, river water dispute, weak global water governance, disaster management (drought)

8. RBI: State of the Economy
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Usage: RBI’s economic indicators, High Frequency Indicators (HFIs), growth trends, economic recovery, fiscal/ monetary policy stance, employment and industrial activity

9. Rupee falls 72 paise to 91.70, pressured by global tensions and trade deal doubts
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Usage: Rupee-Dollar exchange rate, Factors affecting INR (trade deals, FDI inflows, global tensions, oil prices), weaker rupee makes imports costlier, influence monetary policy, forex reserves strategy, Geopolitical tensions (US-China, Middle east crises)