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The IDIA Odisha Chapter of NLUO is excited to announce the PACITAS Model United Nations (MUN) 2026. It is an academic conference which aims to marry intense policy debate with the ideals of social justice and inclusivity.

Committed to the ideals of academic excellence and meaningful involvement, PACITAS MUN is very enthusiastic about providing students a platform to debate the most urgent national and global challenges of todays world.

PACITAS is a programme of IDIA (Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education), a movement across the country, which was established by Dr. Shamnad Basheer, an alumnus of NLSIU and a reputed legal scholar. IDIA identifies talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds and, apart from preparing them for law entrance examinations over two to three years, provides them with mentorship and academic support. Thanks to its student volunteer network spread all over India, IDIA has been instrumental in the diversification of the student community in top law schools and the strengthening of the legal education ecosystem.

The five committees of PACITAS MUN 2026 will be aimed at deep, issue, based discussions and the development of policy, related ideas. These include the Lok Sabha, which will deliberate on judicial overreach and the need for comprehensive judicial reforms; UNFCCC, with double delegation, focusing on the feasibility of an international carbon emission trading system and pathways to achieving a blue economy while limiting deep-sea exploitation; DISEC, examining nuclear proliferation in the Middle East and military escalation in the Indo-Pacific; and UNHRC, discussing the role of artificial intelligence in advancing human rights and ensuring equitable sustainable development. The conference will also include an International Press committee.

Registration is happening in various stages. The early bird registration is available till January 10, 2026, and the next phases will be open until February 6, 2026. Delegate fees for single delegations vary between 1, 500 and 2, 000. There are separate double delegation rates in the UNFCCC committee. PACITAS MUN 2026 has a combined prize pool of 80, 000. The prizes include Best Delegate, High Commendation, and Special Mention at the committee level, as well as recognitions for journalists and photographers in the International Press.

Through the fusion of academic engagement and a social mission, PACITAS MUN 2026 is really a space where one can see the chain from informed debate to purposeful action.

An Amendment to the Madras University (Amendment) Bill by President Droupadi Murmu prevented Tamil Nadu from changing the way Vice-Chancellor appointments take place within State Universities.

This bill was already approved by the Tamil Nadu Assembly in April 2022, and among other things, the proposed changes would have allowed the State to appoint and remove Vice-Chancellors.

Currently, the Governor has power to appoint Vice-Chancellors because the Governor is the Ex-Officio Chancellor of University, and The proposed Amendment would remove from the Act any reference to Chancellor's Authority.

In reserving the Bill for the President, Governor R.N. Ravi has expressed concern that the proposed changes to the Vice-Chancellor Appointment Process conflict with the VC Appointment Regulation established by the University Grant Commission (UGC).

Ongoing Conflicts with the DMK over Administration Higher Education Institutions

The ongoing tension between the state of Tamil Nadu's H.E. and the state's DMK government has resulted in management problems for the majority of state universities. The DMK government is not recognizing the constitutional authority of the governor, who is responsible for appointing VCs at state universities. In total, approximately 14 of the 22 state-operated universities, including the 168-year-old Madras University, currently do not have VCs or have their operations overseen by committees of academic officials.

The Supreme Court of India has also addressed this issue by delivering a judgment in April that dealt with the governor's role in relation to the legislative assembly of Tamil Nadu and granting 10 of the amendment bills that were introduced into the Tamil Nadu Assembly in 2022 automatic approval under Article 142 of the Indian Constitution.

AILET 2026 will take place on Sunday, December 14, for candidates who wish to take admission to UG and PG courses that are offered by National Law University Delhi. This guide includes information on how to access it.

National Law University Delhi has published the answer key of 2026 All India Law Entrance Test (AILET). This PDF contains the master answer booklet for B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) and LL.M., as well as each of their respective answer key files.

The exam was scheduled to be held on Sunday, the 14th of December 2025, from 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM for candidates applying to undergraduate as well as postgraduate courses offered by the National Law University in Delhi. The papers for B.A.LL.B. and LL.M. had a maximum mark of 150 and 100 respectively.

The provisional master keys for the respective programs can be obtained by clicking the ‘Notifications’ option available on the National Law University Delhi official university website.

Objection Submission Procedure

The candidates can provide their objections at the university portal.

• In the first step, they have to login to their AILET account. >>>
• Locate the ‘View Objections’ section and click on it >>>
• Please click the Submit Objection button >>>

The candidates can opt for two forms of sections regarding the question or regarding the answer key.

After selecting the correct section in which the objection is to be made, the candidate is able to type in the details of the objection and click on 'Submit Objection.'

The applicants are required to pay Rs 500 for each objection, and this amount has to be paid online. But if the objection is valid, the amount will be refunded to the source of the payment. After raising objections against the selected answer, the applicants are required to click on the "Make Payment" button.

Objections must be submitted starting December 14, 2025, at 8:00 PM onwards. The last date for submission is December 16, 2025, 12:00 Noon. It is recommended to save and download the confirmation page for future purposes.

Four pressing bills are to be introduced by the government in the parliament on Monday, the 15th of December, as the Winter Session of the parliament is currently ongoing. This development has also taken place at a time when the Narendra Modi 3.0 government has introduced various legislative bills during this session of parliament; this is soon to be followed by the Budget session in February end.

The four bills are:

• The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025
• The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan
• The Sustainable Harnessing & Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transformation of India Bill, 2025
• Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin): VB G RAM G Bill, 2025

The purpose of the Repealing and Amending Bill is to repeal and/or amend some enactments, as stated in their published objectives. This bill is to be introduced by the Union Minister of Law Arjun Ram Meghwal.

The bill of legislation proposed aims at ensuring universities and other institutions of higher learning have more power to ensure the education systems of the country are stronger as autonomous entities. The Bill is to be introduced by Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill 2025

The relevance of the bill is found in its attempts at promoting the growth of nuclear energy within the country, specifically in the realms of health, food, and agriculture. It will be launched by Union Minister Jitendra Singh. Viksit Bharat Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Viksit Bharat-G The proposed act has been framed keeping in mind the satisfaction that a framework for the development of the countryside will be produced under the vision of "Viksit Bharat by 2047," which stands for the ‘Developed India by 2047’ vision of the Government. 

The proposed act would involve the insertion of the guarantee for statutory 125 days of wage employment in a financial year for all countryside families. The government’s plan to bring the proposed act to parliament has the notion to replace the present Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act with a new scheme related to countryside employment that will offer more employment opportunities. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act offers a guarantee to all countryside families who have members wanting to work voluntarily, that at least 100 wage employment opportunities will be provided in a financial year.

The expulsion of three students from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) after they were not allowed a promotion from first to second year coursework in the Doctoral Programme in Management (DPM) course has been set aside by the Gujarat high court, since the institute did not have such powers to expel them in accordance with its manual.

"The institute did not have powers to expel students at the end of their first year based on academic deficiency," Justice Nikhil S Kariel explained. "The expulsion notifications issued on June 7 and affirmed in appeal on June 18 were not in accordance with authority of law," he added.

Abhilasha Kumar, Atul Gupta, and another candidate named Uthara PK were given a notice on May 22 to respond within 24 hours with reasons why their candidacy for a second year may not be withdrawn for not satisfying a requirement for a promotion.

The expulsions were decided by the executive committee of the institute based on academic deficiencies. The students appealed against the expulsions, but they were rejected by the director of the institute.

Advocates Anand Yagnik and Biju Nair, representing the students, told the court that under the DPM Manual, it is mandatory for the institute to Review & Rectify & take other Remedial Steps in case of minor deficiency in studies and that this ought to have been done prior to asking the students to leave.

They stated it did not allow expulsion on the basis of academic deficiency at the end of the first year of coursework studies. A student got a poor performance because she cited references produced by Artificial Intelligence in her work, which were discovered to be false.

"The students presented a case in which they claim they were discriminated against because they were not given an opportunity to be heard despite being in a situation in which they hadn’t had a chance to prove their capabilities," according to a

The court negatived the institute’s stance. The court observed that according to the manual, students were given two years to do their coursework, with an extra year to attain the required standard. The court stated that students can be asked to leave only after this time.

Days after the Supreme Court asked a committee headed by a retired judge to suggest a list of names for the post of regular vice chancellors in two government universities in Kerala, Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar lambasted the apex court over its intervention.

“Kannur University judgment respects the right of the Chancellor in choosing the V-Cs. After some years, all those provisions are overlooked by the Supreme Court and its judges. Search committees should be constituted by the Chancellor. In the Kannur University judgement, they accepted this fact. But later on, the judges say “no, the search committee will be constituted by us. You have got to follow this (the court’s decision)””, said Arlekar on Sunday (December 14), reported The Hindu.

Arlekar made the remarks while conferring the Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer Award 2025 to former Chief Justice of India -CJI and former Kerala governor P. Sathasivam in Thiruvananthapuram.

"Taking away the tasks of every institution and doing them themselves-by the courts-is not correct," Arlekar said.

He said that amounts to judicial overreach, reported The Hindu.

The bench said so on December 11 while a Supreme Court bench, comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K.V. Viswanathan, asked a committee headed by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia (retired) to suggest a list of names for vice chancellors to the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University and the University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology in Kerala.

A long stalemate between the Kerala government and the state's governor had earlier this year prompted the apex court to constitute the search committee headed by Justice Dhulia to shortlist names for VC appointments.

It had said so after it noted that the two authorities have not been able to form a consensus and there is no possibility of it in the future as well. The top court ordered that the Justice Dhulia Committee will now recommend one name each.