All Editorials Snapshot & Free Vocabulary PDF – 05 Dec 2025

The Hindu Editorials snapshot

Editorial 1

Cyber Crackdown: On the Investigation into Cyber-Crime

The Supreme Court directed the CBI to probe cyber-crimes nationwide, especially “digital arrest” scams where fraudsters pose as officials via video calls to extort money by faking arrests, targeting elders with losses over ₹3,000 crore. This overrides state consent due to the threat’s scale across borders. The Court tasked CBI with checking banking staff enabling “mule” accounts, RBI to use AI/ML for tracing layered funds, and online platforms to assist under IT Rules 2021; it also covers investment and job scams.

Editorial 2

​Freeze and Thaw: On the Winter Session of Parliament

India’s Parliament winter session started on December 1, 2025, and will run for 19 days with 15 sittings until December 19, as approved by President Droupadi Murmu. The government claims readiness to discuss any topic but Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautions against turning it into a drama stage, while opposition leaders like Rahul Gandhi criticise its brevity and exclusion from diplomatic meets, breaking past norms. Tension persists between ruling and opposition sides, though Rajya Sabha Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan may help calm matters; key bills include the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill 2025 to ease criminal laws, Higher Education Commission of India Bill to reshape regulators like UGC—sparking state disputes—the National Highways (Amendment) Bill, Atomic Energy Bill, Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, and Health Security se National Security Cess Bill repackaging tobacco taxes. Discussions cover electoral reforms amid Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls, Vande Mataram’s 150th year, national security post-Delhi blasts, farmers’ issues from trade talks, price rises, pollution, and alleged misuse of agencies; BJP pushes synchronised polls while opposition flags roll irregularities.​

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Editorial 3

Trump’s Migration Ban is Full of Contradictions. It Will Hurt America

Following the tragic shooting of two National Guard members in Washington by a 29-year-old Afghan who aided the CIA against the Taliban and gained asylum in April, President Donald Trump’s administration paused immigration applications from 19 countries under partial travel bans since June, including full bans on Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and partial on Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, Venezuela. National security demands action after such a deplorable event, yet this seems a political response rife with contradictions that demonises populations and blocks legal immigration plus asylum. Trump cited a Colorado attack by an Egyptian yet excluded ally Egypt, and omitted Spain despite 2023 data of over 20,000 visa overstays there exceeding seven banned African nations, so the policy misses the target. Counterterrorism experts lack support for bans reducing threats, as 52 former officials argued against the 2017 Muslim ban for undermining cooperation via blanket restrictions. No strong links bind the 19 countries beyond apparent bias by birthplace, skin colour—like prioritising white Afrikaner refugees—or ethnicity; scapegoating nationalities risks tearing families apart, denying safe haven to persecution flee-ers, clashing with Trump’s anti-illegal migration stance amid rising economic costs from migrant hostility

Editorial 4

Message to Maoists, from One of Their Own: Violence Doesn’t Wor

Maoist commander Modiyam Vella of Company No 2 in the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army died with 12 others in a Bijapur, Chhattisgarh encounter on Wednesday, after past attacks like the 2022 one killing 22 security personnel; this weakens Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), now limited to 11 districts (three severely affected) from over 200 in the early 2000s, per Home Ministry data. Surrendered CPI(Maoist) politburo ideologue Mallojula Venugopal Rao (Sonu) told media the group underestimated India’s state power and ignored legal paths to unite masses, crediting success to expanded welfare like MGNREGA, rights-based schemes, jobs, police posts in forests, and deeper democracy addressing vulnerable needs. LWE stems from marginalised disaffected led astray; government security ops, surrenders, and rehab shatter violent revolution dreams, with inclusive growth ensuring lasting peace.

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