Legal Current Affairs for 9 March 2026

It was revamped as PMBJP in 2015.
Nodal Agency: Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers.
Implementation Agency: The Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Bureau of India.

India’s development approach has evolved from development for women to women-led development, recognising women as drivers of economic and social progress.
Steps taken for Women Led Development in India:
Gender-responsive public investment: FY26 features India’s highest-ever gender budget at ₹5.01 lakh crore (9.37% of the Union Budget).
Women building rural economies:
Lakhpati Didi: Over 3 crore rural women are actively progressing toward building sustainable, high-income livelihoods
NaMo Drone Didi Yojana: Provides agricultural drones to 15,000 SHGs with an 80% subsidy, integrating women into the tech ecosystem.

The internet depends on three types of web: the surface, the deep, and the dark web.
Surface web is a part that we can access through a normal browser.
Deep web and the dark web, are not accessible through search engines like Google.
It operates on overlay networks, requiring specific software or configurations to access. Ex.Tor (The Onion Router).
Only about 10% of the internet is the surface web, while the remaining 90% of it constitutes the deep web and the dark web.

Constitutional Provision:
Article 94: It deals with vacation, resignation, and removal of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
Article 94(c): The Speaker/Deputy Speaker can be removed by a resolution passed by a majority of all the then members of the Lok Sabha.
Procedure for removal
Notice: Written notice to Secretary-General of Lok Sabha, supported by at least 50 members.
Minimum 14 days’ notice is required before the resolution can be moved.
Discussion stage: Speaker cannot preside, but can participate and vote in the first instance (no casting vote).

Established in 1901 by Rabindranath Tagore located in West Bengal.
The site was established as an ashram and given its name in 1863 by Tagore’s father, Debendranath Tagore.
It was a residential school and centre for art based on ancient Indian traditions.
In 1921, a ‘world university’ was established at Santiniketan, later recognised as ‘Visva Bharati’.
It was recognized by UNESCO as India’s 41st World Heritage Site in 2023.
Recent World Heritage Sites in India: Moidams – Mound-Burial System of the Ahom Dynasty (2024); Maratha Military Landscapes (2025).

Advanced missile defence system designed to intercept short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles.
Developer: Lockheed Martin Corporation (USA).
Technology: Uses “hit-to-kill” kinetic interception, destroying targets inside and outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
Components: A THAAD battery includes ~95 personnel, truck-mounted launchers, interceptor missiles, AN/TPY-2 radar and fire-control system.
Note: India operates the S-400 Triumf air defence missile system procured from Russia.

Established in 1946 and functions under the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Function: It is the principal global intergovernmental body dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
It also monitors implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
Membership: 45 UN Member States elected for 4 year period by ECOSOC on the basis of equitable geographical distribution:
13 members from Africa
11 from Asia (India is a current member)
9 from Latin America and Caribbean
8 from Western Europe and other States

Oxygen produced in the deep ocean without sunlight, unlike photosynthesis-based oxygen production.
Source: Linked to electrochemical reactions involving polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor.
Significance: Challenges the belief that photosynthesis is the only major natural source of oxygen on Earth.