CONTENTS
- The concerns around Aadhaar-Voter ID linkage
- S. Subramaniam Balaji vs Tamil Nadu judgment
- Nuclear matrix
- Tigray crisis
The Concerns Around Aadhaar-Voter ID linkage
Context:
Reports have surfaced online of instances where block level officers have asked individuals to link their Aadhaar with their Voter IDs, failing which their Voter IDs could be cancelled.
Relevance:
GS II: Government policies and Interventions
Dimensions of the Article:
- Is the linking of Aadhaar with one’s Voter ID mandatory?
- Why does the government want this?
- Why is the mandatory linking of Aadhaar to the Voter ID an issue?
- What are the operational difficulties?
- Way forward
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S. Subramaniam Balaji vs Tamil Nadu judgment
Context:
The Supreme Court referred to a three-judge Bench a series of petitions seeking a judicial direction that political parties who make “wild” promises of largesse should also reveal in their poll manifestos where they will get the money to pay for them.
- The reference is a shift from the court’s own stand in the S. Subramaniam Balaji vs Tamil Nadu judgment of 2013.
Relevance:
GS II: Governance
Dimensions of the Article:
- About Balaji case judgment:
- What triggered the Balaji case?
- Why is the Court’s move to review the Balaji judgment significant?
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Nuclear Matrix
Context:
Using a novel method, a group of researchers from CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad (CCMB) and Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bengaluru (TIGS), have established a way of studying the nuclear matrix of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) without removing the nucleus from the embryo.
Relevance:
GS III: Science and Technology
Dimensions of the Article:
- What is Nuclear matrix?
- Different way in which the genome is folded and packaged in different types of cell:
- NuMat preparation
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Tigray Crisis
Context:
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) director-general has suggested that racism is behind a lack of international attention and interest in Ethiopia’s war-stricken northern Tigray region, where millions of civilians are living in dire conditions.
- The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), described the Tigray crisis region as the “worst humanitarian disaster on earth”.
Relevance:
GS II: International Relations
Dimensions of the Article:
- The conflict in Tigray
- What is the current humanitarian situation?
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