Posted on August 16, 2025 · 2 minutes read
Stay updated with the latest current affairs crucial for UPSC CSE preparation! This post presents a concise news summary of 15 August 2025, covering key national and international developments.
📝 Supreme Court (SC) tells Election Commission to publish deleted voters’ list during Bihar SIR
✅ SC demands a detailed list of excluded Bihar electors to be published with specific reasons ⇒ Upheld voters’ right to know and their right to remain on the electoral roll in a democracy.
💡The Representation Of The People Act, 1950 (Section 16) prescribes three reasons for disqualifying a person for registration in an electoral roll: non-citizenship, unsound mind, and corruption/offences related to elections. Section 22 of the same Act provides for removing an elector from the rolls after holding an enquiry ⇒ The elector in question must be given an opportunity to be heard.
💡Lal Babu Hussain case (1995): Supreme Court held that existing voters cannot be arbitrarily required to re-prove citizenship. Removal from electoral rolls demands credible reasons and due process ⇒ Burden of proof is on authorities, and a fair opportunity must be given to the individual.
Read: Bihar Special Intensive Revision (SIR)
📝 Dravidian language expert Njattyela Sreedharan dies
✅ He was celebrated for compiling ‘Chathur Dravida Bhasha Padhaparichayam‘, a dictionary of four Dravida languages: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
📝 Sudan’s worst cholera outbreak in years
✅ Several people have died, and nearly one lakh cases are suspected ⇒ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said that war, displacement, and clean water scarcity have worsened the outbreak.
💡Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae ⇒ Usually spreads through contaminated water or food.
💡Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is a Geneva-based international, independent medical humanitarian organization founded in 1971.
📝 Palestine-2 missile
✅ A hypersonic ballistic missile owned by the Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement in Yemen ⇒ Developed with significant technological support from Iran.
📝 UNHRC commission highlights widespread and systematic violence against Alawites
✅ UNHRC’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria found that sectarian violence and massacres have been committed against the Alawite religious minority.
💡 Alawites: Arab ethnoreligious group who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism, an offshoot of Shia Islam.
💡Levant region: Generally includes Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel, and southern Turkey.
💡UNHRC: United Nations Human Rights Council is a 47-member body founded in 2006 and based in Geneva.
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