1. Corruption cloud: Skill Ministry blacklists 178 training partners.
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• GS2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation; Transparency & accountability and institutional and other measures

2. Rain in Punjab, Haryana lowers farm count.
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• GS3: Major crops, cropping patterns, irrigation, e-technology in aid of farmers, issues related to direct and indirect farm subsidies and minimum support prices; issues of buffer stocks and food security; Technology missions; economics of animal rearing.

3. Pollution pushes risk of Autism among kids, Alzheimer’s symptoms.
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• GS3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

4. 3rd home for Cheetahs coming, but there’s a challenge: 25 tigers there.
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• GS3: Biodiversity, Environment.

5. Starlink enters India, signs deal with Maharashtra.
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• GS3: Science and technology—developments and their applications and effects in everyday life; Achievements of Indians in science & technology; Indigenization of technology and developing new technology.

6. Trump looms over COP, even after pulling the US out of the Paris pact.
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• GS2: Bilateral, regional and global groupings and agreements involving India and/or affecting India’s interests.

7. Mamdani’s win in New York reminds us that identity is no substitute for strategy.
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• GS4: Ethics in public administration; Probity in governance; Values and ethics in public life.

8. Pakistan’s double game with China and America is its ticket to disaster.
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• GS2: International Relations.

9. Plans on funding sought from developed nation.
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• GS3: Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment.

10. Scientists spot the brightest flare yet from a super massive black hole.
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• GS3: Awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights.

11. Govt panel working on new SEZ norms for exporters to access domestic market.
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• GS3: Effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth.

12. US may ask the UN to mandate the global peace force in Gaza for two years.
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• GS2: Important international institutions, agencies and fora – their structure, mandate.