Legal Current Affairs for 12 February 2026

Contribution: Supports 46% of workforce and contributes ~14% to Gross Value Added (GVA).
Role in Food Security: Between 2011 and 2019, food grain production increased to ~285 million tonnes and to ~332 million tonnes in 2023-24.
Key Challenges:
Dominance of small and marginal farmers.
Dual challenge of meeting food demand and managing environmental food prints:
Sector currently accounts for ~14% of national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, driven by methane from enteric fermentation and rice cultivation and nitrous oxide from agricultural soils.
Consumes ~18% of national electricity primarily to power groundwater irrigation and expanding mechanisation.

He was born in Gujarat.
He established Arya Samaj in the year 1875.
He opposed the evil practicesof child marriage and enforced widowhood.
He was in favour of an educational system which would emphasize on grammar, philosophy, Vedas, sciences, medicine, music and art.
He visualized a polity which would be the embodiment of decentralization (a vast commonwealth with the village as the unit).
Important Literary work: Satyartha Prakasha.
Spiritual works: He put forward the Vedic concept of Traitavada.
The concept of three eternal things (Ishwara, Jiva, Prakriti).

About 1267 Sanctions Committee
It is a subsidiary body of the UN Security Council charged with overseeing sanctions against ISIL (Da’esh), Al-Qaida and associated individuals and groups.
Origins: Established by Resolution 1267 (1999), which originally imposed an air embargo and assets freeze specifically on the Taliban.
Composition: Comprises all 15 members of the Security Council and makes decisions by consensus.
Functions: Designating individuals for the sanctions list, considering requests for delisting or exemptions and reporting annually to the Security Council.

About NMPB (HQ: New Delhi)
Origin: Established in 2000 by a Government Resolution.
Ministry: Union Ministry of AYUSH.
Chairperson: Union Minister for AYUSH
Mandate: To promote coordination among State, central Governments, etc., on all matters relating to medicinal plants.
Other functions related to medicinal plants: Policy implementation, export promotion, Research and development, conservation, etc.
Important initiatives related to medicinal plants
E charak portal: online market mechanism for information exchange between various stakeholders
Central Sector Scheme on Conservation, Development and Sustainable Management of Medicinal Plants

Source: Designated under the Advocates Act, 1961.
Authority: Committee for Designation of Senior Advocates consisting of Chief Justice of India (Chairperson) and 2 senior-most Judges of the Supreme Court of India.
Elligibility: Minimum 10 years’ experience as an advocate, or combined 10 years as advocate and District & Sessions Judge/judicial tribunal member.
Based on ability, standing at the Bar, or special knowledge/experience in law. It is a title/label, not a post.
at least 45 years of age, unless relaxed, and must be practising in the Supreme Court.

Origin: It was first published in 1875.
Prior to its publication in book form, Anand Math (1882) was serialised in the Bengali monthly magazine Bangadarshan, of which Bankim was the founder editor.
Adopted as India’s National Song by the Constituent Assembly in 1950.
On January 24, 1950, it was declared that Vande Mataram would have equal status with the National Anthem (Jana-gana-mana).
It was recited, for the first time in public, by Rabindranath Tagore in 1896 at the 12th Annual Session of the Indian National Congress.