THE HINDU DATED 3rd SEP 2026

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THE HINDU DATED 3rd SEP 2026

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1. Supreme Court orders oversight of Bar Council decisions

The Supreme Court has asserted greater institutional oversight over the Bar Council of India (BCI) amid controversies concerning its chairman and decision-making processes. The Court clarified that Manan Kumar Mishra would function only as a “pro tem” chairman, while directing the BCI to consult the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General on policy issues until elections are completed. Allegations before the Court include extension of office-bearers’ tenure, expenditure on felicitation events, and concentration of powers. The Court stressed that elected representatives cannot convert temporary positions into entrenched authority and that institutional integrity requires timely elections and financial accountability. It also ordered elections to State Bar Councils within a specified timeframe. The larger logic concerns democratic governance of professional regulatory institutions. Bodies regulating lawyers must themselves demonstrate transparency, accountability and respect for electoral procedures. Since Bar Councils influence professional standards and legal education, prolonged concentration of power can undermine credibility. Institutional autonomy is valuable, but autonomy cannot mean absence of accountability or indefinite continuation in office.

2. UN pathway for an ‘inevitable breach’ of the 1.5°C warming limit

A United Nations report has outlined a pathway for managing a possible temporary breach of the 1.5°C global-warming threshold, acknowledging that existing national commitments remain insufficient. The report’s Limiting Overshoot scenario examines how global temperatures could temporarily exceed the Paris Agreement benchmark before being brought down through rapid emission reductions and carbon removal. Current policies could produce warming substantially above safe levels, while even existing nationally determined contributions leave the world off-track. The central logic is that crossing 1.5°C does not make climate action meaningless: every additional fraction of a degree increases risks of coral-reef collapse, glacier loss, sea-level rise, extreme heat, food insecurity and ecosystem disruption. Therefore, overshoot must be kept as small and short-lived as possible. The report favours accelerated decarbonisation, reduced fossil-fuel dependence, protection of natural carbon sinks and carefully governed carbon-removal technologies. The policy message is urgency rather than resignation: temporary threshold exceedance cannot justify postponing mitigation.