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"Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization."

The Supreme Court has invoked its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution and issued binding directions to all High Courts to curb delays in the pronouncement of judgments. A bench led by CJI Surya Kant directed all High Courts to pronounce reserved judgments within three months. It ordered courts to deliver bail orders on the same day or, if reserved, on the next day. The Court also directed immediate communication of regular bail orders to trial courts and said undertrial prisoners granted bail should be released the same day, subject to formalities. All judgments once pronounced must be uploaded on High Court websites within 24 hours, the Court observed. The Court further held that the date of pronouncement of the operative part of a judgment will be treated as the date of pronouncement of the judgment itself. The Court said that the High Courts are the primary institutions where thousands of people flock to seek justice and timely delivery of judgments is essential. It clarified that the directions were not intended to cast aspersions on any individual judge or any institution. The judgment came in a case concerning long delays in pronouncement and uploading of judgments, particularly in the Jharkhand High Court.

During the world war, the Allies mapped bullet holes on planes that returned from missions. The instinct was simple: reinforce the areas most damaged. More armour. More steel. More money. But mathematician Abraham Wald saw what others didn’t. “These are the planes that survived,” he said. The real danger lay in the places without bullet holes because those were the hits that caused the planes not to return. That insight became known as survivorship bias. It’s not just about planes, it’s about everything we think we know.

survivorship bias

Solicitor General of India and top IAS officers unable to tell Supreme Court as to what is the quorum requirements of a Cabinet meeting. When asked they look at each other totally clueless. Sad reflection on the state of legal practice as well as bureaucratic standards.

Dopamine fasting: Man does a "dopamine fast" for 45 minutes daily with the goal of reducing anxiety.

Taxila(1000 BC old) Around 500 BC, the grammarian Panini composed the Ashtadyayi here - the world's first generative algorithm, which used a mere 4000 axioms to generate every possible usage of the Sanskrit langauge. Crucially, its composition marks the start of Classical (as opposed to Vedic) Sanskrit literature. -Shared by Sam Dalrymple

SOMP cutoff prediction for CSE 2026: 73+_2 marks. All the best.

Chola Copper Plates dating back to the 11th Century will be repatriated to India from the Netherlands. The Chola Copper Plates are a set of 21 large plates and 3 small plates and largely contain texts in Tamil .They relate to the great Rajendra Chola I formalising an oral commitment made by his father, King Rajaraja I.