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Daily Current Affairs – 10 December, 2025

    Citizenship Under CAA Only After Scrutiny: SC

    Context

  • The Supreme Court of India has recently clarified that citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) is not automatic.
  • Applicants must meet all conditions of naturalisation, and the Union government must examine each case individually.

    • Key Features of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019

  • Purpose and Objective: The CAA amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 to provide Indian citizenship to certain persecuted minorities from neighboring countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh. 
  • Eligible Communities: The Act specifically covers six non-Muslim religious communities of Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians.
  • Individuals from these communities who entered India on or before December 31, 2014, without valid travel documents or whose documents expired, are eligible for citizenship.
  • Exemption from ‘Illegal Migrant’ Status: Such persons shall not be treated as illegal migrants under the Act, enabling them to apply for citizenship through naturalization.
  • The required period of residence in India for naturalization has been reduced from 11 years to 5 years for these groups.
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    Human Rights Day 2025

    Context

  • Human Rights Day is observed annually around the world on 10th December.

    • About Human Rights Day

  • The day marks the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.
  • Human Rights Day has been observed every year since 1950.
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    House Panel on Education Recommends Reforms Across Testing, Accreditation

    Context

  • The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports tabled its 371st report on the autonomous bodies under the Department of Higher Education.

    • Major Highlights of the Report

  • Performance of NTA: It highlighted the performance of the National Testing Agency (NTA), noting recent irregularities in examinations.
  • Repeated delays and errors in major examinations, including NEET-UG, UGC-NET, CUET, and JEE (Main).
  • It urged that such avoidable errors must not recur. 
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    US Unveils National Security Strategy 2025

    In News

  • The US has released the National Security Strategy (NSS) 2025, marking a decisive departure from post-Cold War American foreign policy frameworks to the "Make America Great Again (MAGA)" agenda at the heart of U.S. global strategy.

    • How does MAGA shape the new NSS?

  • Focused national interest: Only issues directly affecting core US security and prosperity are treated as strategic; the document explicitly criticises earlier “global domination” ambitions.
  • Regional Priorities: It puts the Western Hemisphere at the top, announcing a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine to re‑assert US pre‑eminence in the Americas, curb Chinese and other extra‑regional influence.
  • The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy principle declared by US President James Monroe in 1823, asserting that the Western Hemisphere was closed to future European colonization, the US would oppose any European intervention in independent American states.
  • Primacy of nations and sovereignty: It asserts the nation‑state as the fundamental unit, defends US sovereignty against international institutions and “transnationalism”, and encourages all states to put their own interests first.
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    AI–copyright Overhaul with ‘One Nation, One Licence, One Payment’ Model

    Context

  • The DPIIT-led committee has released a working paper titled ‘One Nation, One License, One Payment: Balancing AI Innovation and Copyright’.

    • About

  • The DPIIT-led committee has recommended a “hybrid model” of compensation for use of copyrighted content in AI training.
  • If implemented, India would become the only country to prescribe a statutory licensing regime for AI developers, with royalty rates prescribed by a government-appointed committee.
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    News In Short 10-12-2025

    In News

  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to C. Rajagopalachari popularly known as Rajaji on his birth anniversary (10th December).

    • C. Rajagopalachari

  • Early Life and Education: 
  • He was a  close associate of Mahatma Gandhi.
  • Completed Bachelor of Law (1899) and began practicing law in Salem.
  • Early political consciousness was shaped by Curzon’s Partition of Bengal (1905) and Tilak’s call for Swaraj.
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