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Highlights of Current Affairs 13 October 2026
- France’s IMEC Special Envoy urged alternative routes amid Strait of Hormuz shipping risks; the corridor, announced at the 2023 New Delhi G20, has an eastern maritime leg and a northern Gulf–Haifa rail-and-sea leg, but the original MoU is not a binding financing or construction agreement.
- All 100 PM Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana districts raised their average performance score from 18.85 (April 2026) to 46.89 (August 2026), under a six-year scheme that converges 36 Central schemes across 11 ministries and ranks districts monthly on 121 indicators.
- Mobile internet was suspended for 24 hours in parts of central Delhi before a Jantar Mantar protest, spotlighting the Telecommunications (Temporary Suspension of Services) Rules, 2024, which cap suspensions at 15 days and require reasoned, published orders and Review Committee scrutiny.
- The Anuradha Bhasin (2020) ruling underpins these rules, holding that indefinite internet shutdowns are impermissible and that orders must be published, necessary, proportionate and periodically reviewed.
- Experts raised fresh concerns over the UAPA, 1967, including the stringent bail bar under Section 43D(5) and prolonged pre-trial detention, though K.A. Najeeb (2021) affirmed that constitutional courts can still grant bail where delay violates fundamental rights.
- At least 130 civil society groups urged the UN carbon-market body to suspend credits issued to a Myanmar cookstove project, the first under the Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism, citing integrity, verification and human-rights concerns.
- India rejected OHCHR remarks on the detention of protesters in Delhi, with the OHCHR (established 1993, headquartered in Geneva) distinct from the Human Rights Council and the ICCPR’s Human Rights Committee.
- Scientists from Europe and China reported progress toward the first working nuclear clock using thorium-229 in calcium fluoride crystals, exploiting a ~8.4 eV nuclear transition driven by a ~148 nm vacuum-ultraviolet laser.
- An IARC analysis highlighted that over 90% of adults worldwide carry the Epstein–Barr virus, the first virus linked to cancer, discovered in 1964 from Burkitt lymphoma cells.
- The Navy launched INS Shreyas, the third of four Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels built by GRSE in Kolkata, while World Mental Health Day (10 October) carried the 2026 theme “Lived experiences heard: real voices, real change.”
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