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In a first, three frontline platforms - INS Nilgiri, INS Vaghsheer, and INS Surat were commissioned on the same day in the Navy on Wednesday. Hailing the first tri-commissioning as a significant leap towards Atmanirbhar Bharat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the naval platforms - two warships and a submarine - to the nation. INS Nilgiri is the lead ship of Project 17A frigates, INS Vaghsheer is the sixth and the final submarine of Project 75 Kalvari class, and INS Surat is the fourth and final ship of Project 15B destroyers.
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Depending on the depths that they plumb, the odds are high that their pickaxes will often unleash a torrent of water from a hidden aquifer that can suddenly inundate the excavated tunnel as it is suspected to have happened at Dima Hasao. Because such accidents have recurred over the decades, along with the attendant health and environmental hazards, this mode of mining was banned by the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2014. The Supreme Court of India, in 2019, had asked whether it was possible for such mining to continue without the "connivance" of officials, when it was examining the rescue of 15 miners trapped in a rathole mine in the East Jaintia Hills in December 2018. A report submitted by a monitoring committee set up by the NGT observed that despite the ban, the demand for coal to pow- er cement manufacturing and thermal power plants in the northeast had sustained and supported rat-hole coal mining.
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India has the highest number of religious stampedes globally. According to National Crime Records Bureau data, between 1996 and 2022, over 3,000 lives were lost in stampedes at religious events nationwide. This statistic starkly highlights the need for systemic changes in the way large-scale gatherings are organised and managed. The Tirupati stampede, which resulted in six devotees passing away and injuries to over 40 others, was despite the extensive arrangements by the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) and the Andhra Pradesh government.
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In response to China's ambitious hydropower project, India has expressed concern, noting that it is monitoring the situation and will take necessary measures to safeguard its national interests. These developments are particularly disturbing given the recent consensus on troop disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). These new moves further underscore the unpredictability of China's approach in the region. Other South Asian countries such as Nepal and Bhutan have been subjected in a similar manner to Chinese territorial encroachments. Disputes over land boundaries persist between China and several of its South Asian neighbours, and China's unilateral actions with respect to transboundary rivers, particularly the Brahmaputra and Indus River systems, have the potential to jeopardise water security in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Pakistan.
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Government schools have notably improved in the provision of basic infrastructure facilities to students over the past 10 years, and are almost on a par with private schools, data show. More than 80% of government schools in India are equipped with functional electricity, ramps, boys' and girls' toilets, handwash, and libraries. Compared to 2013-14, more schools have equipped themselves with functional electricity. A decade ago, the share of government schools with functional electricity was less than 50% in States such as Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal. The share has increased close to 80% and above in all these States.
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'Blood money', or 'diya', finds footing in the Islamic Sharia law, and is followed in countries that incorporate these laws in their legislation. Under the rule of 'diya', a select quantity of a valuable asset, primarily monetary, has to be paid by the perpetrator of the crime to the victim, or the victim's family if the latter has died. Provisions for the grant or receiving of 'blood money' do not find a place in India's formal legal system. However, the system does provide a way for the accused to negotiate with the prosecution through 'plea bargaining'. Introduced into legal parlance through the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2005, which added Chapter XXI A to the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, plea bargaining comes with an array of limitations unlike 'blood money', which has a broader purview. For instance, plea bargaining can be taken up only for offences that are penalised with imprisonment of less than seven years.
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The United States removed restrictions on three Indian nuclear entities, over a week after National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced that Washington was finalising steps to "remove" hurdles for civil nuclear partnership between Indian and American firms. The three entities are Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Indira Gandhi Atomic Research Centre (IGCAR) and the Indian Rare Earths (IRE), according to the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
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The Supreme Court declared that easy access to clean public toilets for all including men, women, persons with disabilities, and transgender people – is not just a matter of convenience but a basic right and an essential part of human dignity. "Though public toilets are built near every toll plaza in the National Highways across the country, we seldom find them to be maintained and accessible," a Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan observed in a 34-page judgment.
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The Union Home Ministry is considering a proposal to regularise vast areas of government land in the Union Territory of Ladakh in the names of residents who have been using, or tending to, these barren acres over the years. The proposal was discussed at a high-powered committee meeting between Ladakhi civil society leaders and Ministry officials. The practice of cultivating wasteland, known as nautor, has its origin in a rule framed by Hari Singh, the erstwhile king of Jammu and Kashmir, in 1932. Himachal Pradesh has also had a nautor land policy since 1968, though its implementation has now been halted in the Congress-governed State due to queries posed by Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla.
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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) plans to pare the high costs telecom operators and Internet service providers charge operators providing public Wi-Fi hotspots in a bid to boost such hotspots. The draft Telecommunication Tariff (Seventy First Amendment) Order, 2025 proposes that the "broad- band tariff (fiber to the home [FTTH]) for Public Data Office (PDO) under the PM-WANI scheme shall not exceed twice the tariff applicable for retail broad- band FTTH services for the corresponding capacity offered by the respective service provider." The proposal comes after India missed a key goal on public Wi-Fi hotspots. As of last July, only a fifth of these hotspots have been rolled out.
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