It is a nationwide youth-led public-participation initiative against substance abuse. The Prime Minister’s Office announced its launch for 2 August 2026. The campaign is planned for 100 weeks, with activities every Sunday to promote awareness, healthy choices and community action.

The announced duration is 100 weeks. Weekly activities are to be held every Sunday across the country. The design aims to sustain public engagement through sport, walkathons, meditation, culture, street theatre, discussion, art and other community programmes.

No. Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan is the Social Justice Ministry’s established demand-reduction programme, launched in 2020 and expanded nationwide in 2023. The 2026 Sankalp Abhiyan is a distinct youth-mobilisation campaign; it fits the wider prevention ecosystem but doesn’t replace NMBA.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment leads the national demand-reduction track, including awareness, counselling, rehabilitation support and NAPDDR. The Health Ministry supports clinical treatment, while NCB and other enforcement agencies focus on illicit supply and trafficking.

MY Bharat is the Department of Youth Affairs’ national youth platform. For this campaign, its volunteer and institutional network helps mobilise young people, educational institutions, youth clubs, civil society, industry groups and partner organisations for weekly local action.

Scarborough Shoal is a coral atoll in the South China Sea, west of Luzon in the Philippines. China calls it Huangyan Dao, while the Philippines calls it Bajo de Masinloc or Panatag Shoal. Both countries claim the feature, and.

The rules reported in August 2026 restrict activities including unauthorized fishing, mining and coral harvesting within China’s nature-reserve framework. The measures are presented as ecological protection, but their enforcement also asserts China’s claimed authority to regulate access and conduct.

No. The 2016 arbitral tribunal decided issues concerning maritime entitlements, traditional fishing and the lawfulness of certain conduct under UNCLOS. It did not determine territorial sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal and did not delimit a maritime boundary between China and the.

No. The tribunal classified Scarborough Shoal’s high-tide features as rocks under Article 121(3) of UNCLOS. Such rocks may generate a territorial sea, but they cannot generate an exclusive economic zone or continental shelf of their own.

The tribunal found that fishermen from the Philippines, China and potentially other states had long used the shoal as a traditional fishing ground. It held that China unlawfully prevented Filipino fishermen from exercising those rights after May 2012, while.

It dismissed petitions seeking to invalidate Section 5(ii) of the Hindu Succession Act. The Court said the 1971 abolition of rulers’ recognition and privy purses did not automatically repeal this separate statutory exception, but confined it to a proved covenant-based.

No. The Supreme Court and Karnataka High Court distinguished a symbolic gaddi or proved impartible estate from ordinary private property. Private assets normally devolve under the applicable personal law. Anyone claiming a special rule for a specific asset must plead.

An impartible estate is property that descends as one undivided unit to a single heir under a valid covenant, enactment, law or proved custom. In this context, it is a narrow legal category and cannot be assumed merely because property.

The 1971 amendment ended constitutional recognition of former rulers and successors, abolished privy purses, deleted Articles 291 and 362, inserted Article 363A and amended Article 366(22). Former rulers thereafter stood within the ordinary citizenry and remained subject to general civil.

No. The Court found no sufficient ground in these petitions to declare it obsolete or invalid. It stressed limited application, proof of the relevant covenant and estate, and the need for a challenger to show concrete adverse impact before seeking.

The government said the Tribal Affairs Department would be the nodal department for FRA implementation and warned the Forest Department against evicting forest dwellers before claim recognition and verification are complete. The direction follows Section 4(5) and does not confer.

Section 4(5) protects a forest-dwelling Scheduled Tribe member or Other Traditional Forest Dweller from eviction or removal from forest land under occupation until the recognition and verification procedure is complete. It preserves due process while eligibility and the claimed right.

The Gram Sabha begins the statutory process. It receives, consolidates and verifies individual and community claims, prepares maps and passes a resolution. The SDLC examines the resolution and appeals, while the DLC finally approves the record of forest rights.

No. The pause prevents premature eviction of people whose rights require recognition and verification. A claimant must still satisfy the FRA’s category, occupation-date and evidence requirements. Authorities may act against fresh occupation through lawful procedure without prejudicing genuine pending claims.

Evidence may include government records, maps, voter or ration documents, physical improvements, court records, traditional structures, genealogy and written statements of elders. Authorities must consider multiple forms and cannot demand one particular document as the sole route to recognition.

It is a central Indian landscape connection between the Satpura tiger habitat in Madhya Pradesh and the Melghat tiger habitat in Maharashtra. Its forests and intervening lands support animal movement, dispersal and genetic exchange. A corridor is valued for ecological.

No unconditional final clearance is described. The Standing Committee recommended in-principle wildlife clearance with a rider: scientific findings and engineering review must guide the location, dimensions, design and connectivity of mitigation structures, and the inspection committee must revisit the area.

Official proposal records describe 206.09 hectares within the notified corridor, comprising 74.69 hectares of forest land and 131.4 hectares of non-forest land. The proposed Jujharpur-Chichonda railway section is about 160.6 km long and forms part of a wider Itarsi-Nagpur capacity.

The issue was not only the count. The inspection committee noted that the proposed sites relied largely on field inputs and mortality records while a comprehensive landscape-level assessment and final engineering designs were still pending. A passage succeeds only if.

The process involves the Standing Committee of the National Board for Wildlife, the National Tiger Conservation Authority, the Wildlife Institute of India, the Union environment ministry, Madhya Pradesh forest authorities and Central Railway. The State Forest Research Institute, Jabalpur, prepared.

Samudra Manthan is the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas’s National Offshore Exploration Scheme. The central sector scheme funds better offshore data, 60 deepwater exploration wells, common production infrastructure, and domestic manufacturing and services. Its approved outlay is ₹84,084 crore.

For an eligible deepwater exploration well, government support may cover up to 50% of eligible drilling cost or ₹675 crore, whichever is lower. The ceiling shares part of the geological and capital risk; it does not assure that drilling will.

PIB identifies the Krishna-Godavari, Cauvery and Mahanadi basins and the Andaman region as major deepwater and ultra-deepwater frontiers. These areas may hold future hydrocarbon potential, but they need advanced seismic interpretation, costly drilling and careful marine environmental assessment.

Seismic surveys record reflected energy waves to infer rock structures below the seabed. Two-dimensional surveys provide broad profiles, while three-dimensional surveys create a more detailed subsurface model. They help identify prospects and plan wells, but only drilling can directly test.

No. The government projects higher domestic output and potential annual import savings if exploration succeeds. Actual gains depend on discoveries, recoverable volumes, costs and production timelines. India will still need a broader strategy of supplier diversification, efficiency, electrification, renewables and.