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UPSC Key: Red Sea, Retrospective Environmental Clearance and IRDAI
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Key Points to Ponder:• Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026-what the key provisions?
What’s the ongoing story: The theatre of the West Asia conflict, earlier limited to the Strait of Hormuz from the perspective of India’s crude oil imports, has now widened.
Key Points to Ponder:• Map Work—Bab al-Mandab, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea• Can the Red Sea replace Hormuz?
• What steps have been taken by the Government of India to reduce the imports of crude oil?
Before the war, over 40% of India’s oil imports came from West Asia via the Strait of Hormuz.