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Chief Editor’s Note

Twenty stories today, from GS1 to GS4, and most of them share one thread: rules written for the last problem are meeting a new one.<br><b>Built for the last crisis:</b> NDMA’s GLOF programme watches 189 lakes but not Badrinath’s hanging glaciers (GS1). The RBI’s 2017 zero-liability circular misses authorised digital-arrest payments (GS3). The Ganges Treaty still shares water on 1949–88 flows (GS2), and NavIC lost 6 of 11 satellites with no spares (GS3). Each is a Prelims trap on what a framework actually covers.<br><b>Power and its paper limits:</b> Karnataka’s 2022 Validation Act fell because

  1. GS1

    Not a Lake, Not a Landslide: The Himalayan Hazard India Has Not Yet Named

  2. GS1

    Counting Caste Again: Why India's 2027 Census Risks Repeating the SECC's Silence

  3. GS2

    More Days, Same Door: The SIR Extension and a Commission That Waits to Be Asked

  4. GS2

    A Law That Cured Nothing: Why Karnataka Could Not Legislate Away a Corrupt Recruitment

  5. GS2

    Independence Begins at the Registry: Why the NCLT Cannot Be Run by the Ministry It Judges

  6. GS2

    One Word, Two Meanings: Who Decides What "Sex" Means in Article 15?

  7. GS2

    A Treaty Built on 1988's River: Why India Must Renegotiate the Ganges Deal, Not Roll It Over

  8. GS3

    The Fraud the Rulebook Missed: Why Digital Arrest Losses Belong With Banks and Why the RBI Should Say So

  9. GS3

    A Constellation Is Only as Strong as Its Spares: What NavIC's Collapse Teaches India

  10. GS3

    A Dam Built Against an Unknown: Testing the China Case for the Siang Project

  11. GS3

    Refining Is India's Energy Shield, So Who Gets Protected When Diesel Runs Short?

  12. GS3

    Three Filters Between a Nutrient and a Child: Why Kufri Jamunia Must Win the Field Before It Can Fight Hidden Hunger

  13. GS4

    Lawful, Disclosed and Still Untenable: Why the Equitas Chief's Exit Was the Right Call and What It Cost

  14. GS4

    A Face Is Not a Fingerprint: The Duty to Verify Before You Knock

  15. GS4

    Humiliation Does Not Become Justice When the State Performs It

  16. Editorial

    Cap the Chain or Price the Source? The Unfinished Arithmetic of Affordable Cancer Drugs

  17. Editorial

    Room to Grow or Proof of Progress? The Choice Inside India's Climate Targets

  18. Opinion

    Reform the Reformer: Judge Administrative Reforms 3.0 by Trust and Devolution, Not Procedure

  19. Essay

    Is Silence Ever Neutral? Who Pays for Speaking and Who Pays When No One Does

  20. Ethics

    You Are Writing the First Line of a Life Sentence: Whose Morality Belongs in It?

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