All Editorials Snapshot & Free Vocabulary PDF – 30 Dec 2025

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The Hindu Editorials snapshot

Editorial 1

Model Conduct: On India, AI Use

India regulates AI through due diligence under IT Rules, financial sector oversight, and data privacy laws but lacks a specific consumer safety framework for psychological harms, unlike China’s new rules targeting emotional AI interactions with warnings and interventions that risk invasive monitoring. While RBI and SEBI address model risks and MeitY tackles deepfakes reactively, India lags in building frontier AI models compared to US and China, relying on foreign ones amid risks of over-regulation stifling growth; it should boost compute access, workforce skills, public procurement, and research-to-industry links while regulating high-risk uses via incident reporting and accountability without emotion surveillance to balance innovation and safety.

Editorial 2

Mindless Bombing: U.S. and Nigeria Bombings

US President Donald Trump bombed two alleged Islamic State camps in Nigeria’s Sokoto on Christmas Day, claiming to protect Christians from genocide—a charge denied by Abuja—amid his pattern of strikes on Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Iran, and Venezuelan boats, despite campaign promises to end forever wars. Nigeria’s 237 million people split between northern Muslims and southern Christians face surging Islamist militancy from Boko Haram and ISWAP in the porous Lake Chad region, where Muslims suffer most, worsened by state failures, weapon flows, and past US-led Libya intervention unleashing chaos. Trump fuses aggression with religious appeals to his base, but lacks coherent regional counter-terrorism via state-building and cooperation; instead, his strikes risk aiding jihadists exploiting coups and vacuums.

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The Indian Express Editorials snapshot

Editorial 3

SC Stay on New Aravalli Definition Protects Ecological Integrity

The Supreme Court stayed its November 20 order redefining the Aravalli range to only hills over 100 metres high, which would have shrunk the 650-km ancient mountains and risked illegal mining by contradicting past rulings like Godavarman (1996) that pushed mining-friendly states—Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi—to protect the ecosystem amid groundwater depletion and Delhi pollution. Experts including Forest Survey of India warned the narrow criteria excluded over 90% of hills, sparking Rajasthan protests; now a new committee will remap the range holistically as ridges, plateaus, and forests acting as one anti-pollution shield for Indo-Gangetic plains, reaffirming the court’s role against ecological harm.

Editorial 4

Brigitte Bardot was a Star Who Went Against the Grain

Brigitte Bardot burst into 1950s French cinema with her bold look and unapologetic sexuality in films like And God Created Woman, challenging conservative norms and patriarchal views as noted by Simone de Beauvoir, becoming a symbol of modern womanhood despite mixed critical success. At the peak of fame in 1973, she quit acting to focus on animal rights through her foundation, fiercely opposing bullfighting, wolf hunting, industrial farming, and seal culling. Her later controversial stances—disdain for #MeToo, support for Gerard Depardieu amid assault conviction, backing Marine Le Pen’s far-right politics, and repeated fines for racial hatred comments on immigration—defied easy labels, marking a life of contradictions that highlighted originality over tidy conformity.

Vocabulary from the Editorial: 1

Word	Simple Meaning	Synonym	Antonym
Due diligence	Proper care and checks	Careful review	Negligence
Vis-à-vis	In relation to	Regarding, compared to	Unrelated
Preemptive	Acting before problem	Preventive, anticipatory	Reactive
Articulated	Expressed clearly	Stated, defined	Vague
Nurture	Help grow or develop	Foster, support	Neglect
Sidestepping	Avoiding carefully	Dodging, evading	Facing
Pitfall	Hidden danger or trap	Hazard, snare	Advantage
Paralysis	Inability to act	Stagnation, freeze	Action
Assertively	Boldly and firmly	Confidently, forcefully	Passively

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