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Daily exam-oriented current affairs for UPSC aspirants. ✔️ Prelims-ready facts ✔️ Mains value-addition lines ✔️ UPSC trap news & concept ✔️ Infographics & 2-minute revisions Contact for promotion and query: @current_scenario

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Channel Current scenario (@upsccurrentscenario) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 16 210 subscribers, ranking 12 395 in the Education category and 25 862 in the India region.

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According to the latest data from 10 July, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by 444 over the last 30 days and by -5 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.

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Daily exam-oriented current affairs for UPSC aspirants. ✔️ Prelims-ready facts ✔️ Mains value-addition lines ✔️ UPSC trap news & concept ✔️ Infographics & 2-minute revisions Contact for promotion and query: @current_scenario

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🚨 IE EXPLAINED | 3 July 2026 | UPSC Quick Review ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛕 Temple Donations: Who Controls the Money? 📚 GS-II | Governance 🔹 Ram Temple row revives debate on temple administration. 🔹 Models: TTD, Devaswom Boards, HR&CE & Temple Acts. 🔹 Debate: Religious autonomy vs State regulation. 🎯 UPSC: Article 26 • HR&CE Act • TTD ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 WhatsApp Username Under Govt Lens 📚 GS-II/III | Governance & Cyber Security 🔹 Govt flags risks of impersonation & digital identity misuse. 🔹 Key debate: Privacy vs Security. 🎯 UPSC: IT Rules 2021 • Digital Identity • Intermediary Liability ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇯🇵 India–Japan Business Ties 📚 GS-II/III | IR & Economy 🔹 1,900 Japanese firms in India vs 6,000 in Thailand. 🔹 China+1 offers opportunities in investment and supply chains. 🎯 UPSC: Quad • FDI • China+1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Prelims Keywords: Article 26 • HR&CE Act • TTD • IT Rules 2021 • China+1 • Quad • FDI 🔖 Read • Revise • Share @CurrentScenario

📰 आज के हिन्दी संपादकीय | 2 जुलाई 2026 1. महंगाई से आर्थिक संकट की आहट 📚 GS-III | अर्थव्यवस्था 🔹 WPI में तेज बढ़ोतरी से लागत और उत्पादन पर दबाव। 🔹 ऊर्जा कीमतें व वैश्विक तनाव प्रमुख कारण। 2. जोखिम पूंजी पर कर 📚 GS-III | अर्थव्यवस्था 🔹 स्टार्टअप व नवाचार के लिए जोखिम पूंजी महत्वपूर्ण। 🔹 संतुलित कर नीति निवेश और रोजगार को बढ़ावा देती है। 3. विवेक की कसौटी 📚 GS-IV | नैतिकता 🔹 आलोचनात्मक सोच, संवाद और आत्ममंथन लोकतंत्र की शक्ति हैं। 🎯 UPSC: Ethics • Critical Thinking 4. वाल्मीकि टाइगर रिजर्व विवाद 📚 GS-II/III | IR + Environment 🔹 भारत–नेपाल सीमा विवाद का असर संरक्षण पर। 🔹 सीमा स्पष्टता और पारिस्थितिक संतुलन दोनों आवश्यक। 5. नागरिकता: अधिकार और कर्तव्य 📚 GS-II | संविधान 🔹 नागरिकता केवल कानूनी नहीं, नैतिक जिम्मेदारी भी है। 6. सिंधु जल संधि 📚 GS-II | अंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंध 🔹 जल सुरक्षा भारत–पाक संबंधों का रणनीतिक मुद्दा बनती जा रही है। 📌 Prelims Keywords: WPI • Cost-push Inflation • Venture Capital • Valmiki Tiger Reserve • Citizenship • Fundamental Duties • Indus Waters Treaty 👉 @CurrentScenario

🐟 Himalayan Ray-Finned Fish Conservation | Arunachal Pradesh ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 What Happened? The Sangno clan of the Nyi
🐟 Himalayan Ray-Finned Fish Conservation | Arunachal Pradesh ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌿 What Happened? The Sangno clan of the Nyishi tribe released 52 fingerlings of Schizothorax pelzami into the Richaso stream (East Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh) to conserve the native species and strengthen community-led fisheries management. 🎯 UPSC Relevance 📌 Prelims 🔹 Schizothorax pelzamiRay-finned fish (Carp family) 🔹 Local name: Ngarsing 🔹 Mahseer — "Tiger of the Water" 🔹 Habitat: Cold-water Himalayan streams 📌 Mains 🔹 Community-led biodiversity conservation (GS-III) 🔹 Nyishi tribe's indigenous knowledge (GS-I) 🔹 Sustainable fisheries & eco-tourism (GS-III) 📝 Keywords Schizothorax pelzamiMahseerNyishi TribeEast KamengCommunity ConservationRay-finned Fish 🔖 Save • Revise • Share @CurrentScenario

📰 THE HINDU | TEXT & CONTEXT | 2 JULY 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📄 Maharashtra TET Paper Leak 📚 Education & Governance ▪ Maharashtra TET was postponed after an inter-state paper leak racket was exposed. ▪ Over 6 lakh candidates affected; links suspected with NEET and Odisha paper leak cases. ▪ Maharashtra may invoke MCOCA, highlighting organised crime in recruitment exams. ▪ Raises concerns over exam integrity and institutional accountability. 🎯 UPSC: GS-II | GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📡 New Telecom Rules 📚 Telecom Regulation ▪ New rules under the Telecommunications Act, 2023 replace licensing with authorisation. ▪ Strengthen anti-spam measures while retaining interception powers for national security. ▪ Satellite internet (Starlink/GMPCS) framework still awaits regulatory clarity. 🎯 UPSC: GS-II | GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Prelims Keywords RTE Act • TET • MCOCA • Telecommunications Act 2023 • TRAI • GMPCS • Starlink • Interception Orders 🔖 Save • Revise • Share @CurrentScenario

📰 THE INDIAN EXPRESS | EXPLAINED | 2 JULY 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥚 Why Eggs Matter for School Nutrition 📚 Nutrition ▪ Eggs are a complete protein with all 9 essential amino acids. ▪ 94% bioavailability makes them a high-quality protein source. ▪ Rich in choline, essential for brain development. ▪ Supports evidence-based nutrition under PM POSHAN. 🎯 UPSC: GS-II | GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍛 Tamil Nadu's Midday Meal Model 📚 Governance ▪ Midday meals began in the Madras Presidency (1920s). ▪ A successful model of nutrition-focused welfare. 🎯 UPSC: GS-I | GS-II ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇺🇸🇮🇷 US–Iran MoU & India's Energy Security 📚 International Relations ▪ The 14-point US–Iran MoU could reshape West Asian geopolitics. ▪ Stability in the Strait of Hormuz is critical for global oil trade. ▪ India must diversify energy imports and strengthen strategic reserves. 🎯 UPSC: GS-II | GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Prelims Keywords PM POSHAN • Complete Protein • Choline • MGR • Strait of Hormuz • JCPOA @CurrentScenario

📰 आज के हिन्दी संपादकीय | 2 जुलाई 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇮🇳 भारत–अमेरिका व्यापार समझौते की अड़चनें 📚 भारत–अमेरिका संबंध • टैरिफ, कृषि, डिजिटल व्यापार और पेटेंट प्रमुख मुद्दे। • नई वार्ता से समझौते की संभावनाएँ बढ़ीं। 🎯 GS-II | GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 पारंपरिक मछलियों को बचाए बिना नहीं बचेंगी नदियाँ 📚 पर्यावरण • स्वस्थ नदियाँ जैव विविधता पर निर्भर हैं। • पारिस्थितिक प्रवाह और स्थानीय मछली संरक्षण आवश्यक। 🎯 GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🪪 एक भारतीय के अनेक पहचान पत्र 📚 शासन • आधार, PAN, वोटर ID आदि की अलग-अलग भूमिका। • डिजिटल पहचान और डेटा सुरक्षा पर ध्यान। 🎯 GS-II ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 कर्ज और संकेत 📚 अर्थव्यवस्था • बाह्य ऋण बढ़ा, पर तत्काल संकट नहीं। • ऋण की गुणवत्ता और विदेशी मुद्रा भंडार अधिक महत्वपूर्ण। 🎯 GS-III ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Prelims Keywords: USTR • Tariff • Ecological Flow • Biodiversity • Aadhaar • Digital Identity • External Debt • Debt-to-GDP Ratio 🔖 Read • Revise • Share @CurrentScenario

📰 THE HINDU | SCIENCE | JULY 1, 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 Climate Tipping Points at Bonn Talks 📌 Topic: Climate Change At the Bonn Climate Talks, India sought scientific clarity on "climate tipping points", while the EU criticized its stand. 🎯 UPSC Focus GS-II: Climate Diplomacy | GS-III: Climate Change 🔑 Key Points Tipping Point: Irreversible change in the climate system. Examples: AMOC, Arctic ice melt, Amazon dieback. 1.5°C is a policy target, not a tipping point. 🛰️ NASA's Swift Telescope Rescue 📌 Topic: Space Technology NASA launched a robotic mission to save the Swift Observatory, which is losing altitude due to increased solar activity. 🎯 UPSC Focus GS-III: Space Technology 🔑 Key Points Swift (2004): Studies Gamma-ray Bursts. Rescue by Katalyst Space Technologies. Demonstrates future satellite servicing technology. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Prelims Keywords AMOC • Bonn Climate Talks • Climate Tipping Points • Swift Observatory • Gamma-ray Bursts • Satellite Servicing @CurrentScenario

📰 THE HINDU | TEXT & CONTEXT | JULY 1, 2026 💰 State Finances: Welfare vs Fiscal Sustainability 📌 Why in News? The article
📰 THE HINDU | TEXT & CONTEXT | JULY 1, 2026 💰 State Finances: Welfare vs Fiscal Sustainability 📌 Why in News? The article highlights the fiscal stress faced by Kerala and Tamil Nadu, where high welfare spending and limited fiscal capacity have increased debt. 🎯 UPSC Relevance GS-II: Centre–State Relations GS-III: Fiscal Federalism & Public Finance 🔑 Key Facts Kerala's tax devolution: 1.92% (Population share: 2.6%) Capital expenditure: 10% of Budget Pensions: 15.3% Interest payments: 16.5% SDL borrowing rate: 6.5–7.5% Credit-Deposit Ratio: 66% 📝 Why It Matters High revenue expenditure limits infrastructure investment. Costly borrowing increases State debt. Calls for fairer tax devolution, lower borrowing costs, and higher capital expenditure. 📚 Prelims Keywords SDLs • Tax Devolution • Revenue vs Capital Expenditure • Finance Commission • Credit-Deposit Ratio 🔖 Read • Revise • Share @CurrentScenario

📰 THE INDIAN EXPRESS | EXPLAINED | JULY 1, 2026 🇮🇳🇯🇵 India–Japan Relations: A Strategic Partnership Why in News? Japanes
📰 THE INDIAN EXPRESS | EXPLAINED | JULY 1, 2026 🇮🇳🇯🇵 India–Japan Relations: A Strategic Partnership Why in News? Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi is visiting India (July 1–3) for the 16th India–Japan Annual Summit, focusing on AI, semiconductors, defence, clean energy, critical minerals, and resilient supply chains. 📌 UPSC Keywords India–Japan Annual Summit • CEPA • JICA • FOIP • Quad • Act East Forum • Critical Minerals • Semiconductors 🔑 Key Facts • Annual Summit since 2006Special Strategic & Global Partnership (2014) • Bilateral trade: $27.5 billion (2025–26) • Around 1,400 Japanese companies in India • Japan's investment target: JPY 10 trillion (~$65 billion)Act East Forum (2017) supports Northeast development 🎯 Why It Matters Strengthens India's Indo-Pacific strategy, boosts technology and investment, builds resilient supply chains, and reinforces Quad cooperation while supporting the Act East Policy. Read • Revise • Share @CurrentScenario

📰 आज के हिन्दी संपादकीय | UPSC परीक्षा फोकस 30 जून 2026 | Prelims + Mains के लिए महत्वपूर्ण विश्लेषण 🌍 1. वेनेजुएला में भूकंप का सबक GS: GS-I (भूगोल) | GS-III (आपदा प्रबंधन) क्यों महत्वपूर्ण? वेनेजुएला में आए भीषण भूकंप ने भूकंप-रोधी अवसंरचना, आपदा तैयारी और भवन निर्माण मानकों के महत्व को फिर उजागर किया। भारत जैसे भूकंप-संवेदनशील देश के लिए यह महत्वपूर्ण सीख है। UPSC Focus Prelims: प्लेट विवर्तनिकी • भूकंपीय क्षेत्र • भूकंपीय तरंगें • आपदा जोखिम न्यूनीकरण Mains: भूकंप-रोधी अवसंरचना शहरी आपदा प्रबंधन भवन निर्माण मानकों का पालन Sendai Framework एवं NDMA 🌊 2. भारत के लिए बांग्लादेश–चीन की बढ़ती निकटता: सामरिक चुनौतियाँ ★★★★★ GS: GS-II (अंतरराष्ट्रीय संबंध) क्यों महत्वपूर्ण? बांग्लादेश-चीन सहयोग, मोंगला बंदरगाह, तीस्ता परियोजना और हिंद महासागर में चीन की बढ़ती मौजूदगी भारत की सामरिक एवं कूटनीतिक चिंताओं को बढ़ाती है। UPSC Focus Prelims: मोंगला बंदरगाह • तीस्ता नदी • बंगाल की खाड़ी • BRI Mains: भारत–बांग्लादेश संबंध दक्षिण एशिया में चीन का प्रभाव पड़ोसी प्रथम नीति समुद्री सुरक्षा एवं SAGAR 🐝 3. बढ़ती गर्मी से मधुमक्खियों के अस्तित्व पर संकट GS: GS-III (पर्यावरण) क्यों महत्वपूर्ण? शोध के अनुसार बढ़ते तापमान से मधुमक्खियों की संख्या एवं परागण क्षमता प्रभावित हो सकती है, जिससे कृषि उत्पादन और जैव विविधता पर असर पड़ेगा। UPSC Focus Prelims: परागण • जैव विविधता • जलवायु परिवर्तन Mains: जलवायु परिवर्तन जैव विविधता संरक्षण खाद्य सुरक्षा सतत कृषि 🐕 4. आवारा कुत्ते: इंसानों की सुरक्षा के साथ जानवरों से न्याय भी ज़रूरी GS: GS-II (शासन) UPSC Focus Prelims: Animal Birth Control Rules • रेबीज़ • पशु कल्याण Mains: शहरी शासन सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य पशु कल्याण नगर प्रशासन ⚖️ 5. भ्रष्टाचार का रोग GS: GS-II | GS-IV UPSC Focus Mains: सुशासन पारदर्शिता एवं जवाबदेही सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य प्रशासन नैतिक प्रशासन मुख्य विषय: सुशासन एवं भ्रष्टाचार 🧠 6. अहं की दीवारें GS: GS-IV (नैतिकता) | निबंध UPSC Focus Mains: भावनात्मक बुद्धिमत्ता नेतृत्व संवाद कौशल मानवीय मूल्य मुख्य विषय: नैतिकता एवं मानवीय मूल्य 📚 Read • Revise • Share @UPSCCURRENSCENARIO

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📰 THE HINDU | JUNE 30, 2026 🦅 White-rumped Vulture Reintroduction Faces Setback 📌 GS-III | Environment | Biodiversity 🔍 W
📰 THE HINDU | JUNE 30, 2026 🦅 White-rumped Vulture Reintroduction Faces Setback 📌 GS-III | Environment | Biodiversity 🔍 Why in News? A radio-tagged White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis) released at Mudumalai Tiger Reserve died due to power-line electrocution, dealing a setback to India's captive-breeding and reintroduction programme. 📖 Prelims Keywords White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis)Critically Endangered (IUCN) Mudumalai Tiger Reserve (Tamil Nadu) BNHS Radio-tagging Captive Breeding Diclofenac Power-line Electrocution 📝 Mains Value Issues Threat to species recovery. Power lines remain a major mortality factor. Need for wildlife-friendly infrastructure. Way Forward Insulate high-risk power lines. Improve reintroduction protocols. Strengthen inter-state conservation efforts. 🎯 UPSC Takeaway Vulture conservation now requires both habitat protection and safer infrastructure, alongside continued captive-breeding efforts. 📰 Read • Revise • Share @UPSCCURRENTSCENARIO

📰 THE HINDU | TEXT & CONTEXT 📅 30 June 2026 | UPSC Quick Review ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇮🇳🇺🇸 1. INDIA–US TRADE DEAL DELAY 📌 GS-II | IR & Economy Why in News? India and the US have delayed the proposed Trade Deal due to differences over agriculture, Russian oil imports and evolving US tariff policies. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) • Section 301 • IEEPA • Reciprocal Tariffs • Trade Act, 1947 • Forced Labour Investigation 🎯 UPSC Focus • India-US Trade Relations • Tariff Policy • WTO & Trade Diplomacy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏛️ 2. RBI'S NEW SCAM COMPENSATION RULES 📌 GS-III | Banking & Cyber Security Why in News? RBI has expanded compensation for victims of digital banking scams, including OTP fraud and digital arrest scams. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • RBI • Digital Arrest Scam • OTP Fraud • Social Engineering • Unauthorised Electronic Banking Transactions • Cyber Fraud • Consumer Protection 📌 Key Highlights ✅ Rules effective 1 January 2027 ✅ Reporting period increased to 30 days ✅ Compensation up to ₹25,000 (subject to conditions) 🎯 UPSC Focus • Digital Banking • Cyber Security • Financial Consumer Protection ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 EXAM TAKEAWAYS ✔ India–US Trade Negotiations ✔ Section 301 & Tariff Measures ✔ RBI Digital Fraud Framework ✔ Cyber Fraud & Consumer Rights ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 Priority: ⭐⭐⭐⭐☆ (GS-II • GS-III) 📰 Read • Revise • Share @UPSCCurrentScenario

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📰 THE INDIAN EXPRESS | EXPLAINED 📅 30 June 2026 | UPSC Quick Review ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 1. EUROPE'S RECORD HEATWAVE 📌 GS-III | Climate Change Why in News? WWA study concludes climate change made Europe's extreme heatwave virtually inevitable. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • World Weather Attribution (WWA) • Attribution Science • Paris Agreement • ENSO • Climate Extremes UPSC Focus: Climate Attribution • Global Warming • Climate Policy ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💊 2. QR CODES ON MEDICINES 📌 GS-II | Health Governance Why in News? Government mandates QR codes on vaccines, antimicrobials, narcotics and anti-cancer drugs to strengthen drug traceability. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • Drugs Rules, 1945 • Track & Trace • Counterfeit Drugs • AMR • NDPS Act UPSC Focus: Drug Regulation • Patient Safety • Public Health ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌊 3. STRAIT OF HORMUZ & INTERNATIONAL LAW 📌 GS-II | IR & Maritime Security Why in News? Iran plans transit fees for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, raising questions under UNCLOS. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • UNCLOS • Transit Passage • Innocent Passage • Strait of Hormuz • Corfu Channel Case (1949) UPSC Focus: Maritime Law • Energy Security • India-West Asia Relations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 EXAM TAKEAWAYS ✔ Climate Change Attribution (WWA) ✔ QR-based Drug Authentication ✔ UNCLOS & International Straits ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 Save • Revise • Share @UPSCCurrentScenario

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📰 THE HINDU | OPINION | 29 June 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥗 ADOLESCENT MALNUTRITION: INDIA'S SILENT HEALTH CRISIS 📌 GS-II
📰 THE HINDU | OPINION | 29 June 2026 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🥗 ADOLESCENT MALNUTRITION: INDIA'S SILENT HEALTH CRISIS 📌 GS-II | Health & Social Justice Why in News? NFHS-6 highlights India's double burden of malnutrition—rising obesity alongside persistent undernutrition, making adolescent nutrition a major public health challenge. 📌 Key Highlights ✅ Women (15–49) obesity: 24% → 30.7%27.4% adolescents remain stunted. ✅ Rising UPF consumption is increasing diabetes and obesity risks. ✅ Schools can play a key role through healthier meals and physical activity. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 PRELIMS FACTSThin-Fat Phenotype → Lean body with high metabolic risk. ✔ HFSS Foods → High Fat, Sugar & Salt foods. ✔ LFOF → ICMR-NIN initiative for healthier food environments. ✔ Dietary Guidelines 2024 → Half the plate should be fruits & vegetables. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✍️ MAINS THEMES • Double Burden of Malnutrition • Preventive Healthcare • School-based Nutrition ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ @UPSCCurrentScenario

Hindi News & Articles: 29~06~ 2026 #PRELIMS #GS1 #GS2 #GS3 #GS4 #ESSAY #UPSC #UKPSC #UPPSC #BPSC #RAS @UPSCCurrentScenario
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Hindi News & Articles: 29~06~ 2026 #PRELIMS #GS1 #GS2 #GS3 #GS4 #ESSAY #UPSC #UKPSC #UPPSC #BPSC #RAS @UPSCCurrentScenario

📰 THE HINDU | TEXT & CONTEXT 📅 29 June 2026 | UPSC Quick Review 🚢 CAN NEUTRAL SHIPS BE ATTACKED? 📌 GS-II | International
📰 THE HINDU | TEXT & CONTEXT 📅 29 June 2026 | UPSC Quick Review 🚢 CAN NEUTRAL SHIPS BE ATTACKED? 📌 GS-II | International Law Recent attacks on merchant vessels carrying Indian seafarers have revived debate over the protection of neutral ships under international law. 📌 Key Points ✅ Neutral merchant ships are generally protected. ❌ Protection is lost if they: • Carry contraband • Breach blockades • Participate in hostilities 🎯 UPSC Focus Maritime Security • Law of the Sea • IHL 📚 PRELIMS FACTS ✔ UNCLOS → "Constitution of the Oceans" ✔ Territorial Sea → 12 NM ✔ EEZ → 200 NM ✔ Geneva Conventions (1949) → Core of IHL ✔ Jus ad Bellum → Legality of war ✔ Jus in Bello → Conduct of war ✍️ MAINS THEMES • Maritime Security • Neutral Shipping Rights • UNCLOS & International Law • India's Diplomatic Options Read • Revise • Share @UPSCCurrentScenario

📰 THE INDIAN EXPRESS | EXPLAINED 📅 29 June 2026 | UPSC Quick Review ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤖 AI AGENTS = NEW INSIDER THREAT? 📌 GS-III | Science & Tech Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap warns that advanced AI agents should be treated like potential insider threats. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • AI Agents • DeepMind • Defense-in-Depth • AI Alignment • Chain-of-Thought • Cybersecurity 🎯 Mains Focus Autonomous AI • AI Governance • Responsible AI • Cyber Security ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛢️ IRAN OIL RETURNS, INDIA STAYS CAUTIOUS 📌 GS-II & GS-III | IR + Economy Despite a temporary US sanctions waiver, Indian refiners remain cautious due to payment issues, insurance concerns and cheaper Russian crude. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • Iran Oil • Energy Security • Crude Oil Imports • Russia Oil • CAD 🎯 Mains Focus India–Iran Relations • Energy Security • Global Oil Politics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 WHY ARE INDIA'S BUILDINGS STILL FIRE-PRONE? 📌 GS-III | Disaster Management Recent fires exposed major safety gaps—poor compliance, lack of fire exits, combustible materials and weak enforcement of safety norms. 🔑 Prelims Keywords • NBC 2016 • Compartmentation • Sprinklers • Fire Escape 🎯 Mains Focus Urban Governance • Disaster Management • Building Safety ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Read • Revise • Share @UPSCCurrentScenario