UPSC Key: Tribunals bill, alcohol policy, Mecca Agreement and more

On Monday, India's Parliament passed a new law that will create a special group called the National Tribunals Commission.

This group will choose the leaders of tribunals, which are special courts that solve certain kinds of cases more quickly.

In Tamil Nadu, the chief minister made a rule that a special song honouring Mother Tamil must be sung first at official events.

Some people in the state were upset because, at a university ceremony, the national song was played before the Tamil song.

A research group called NCAER said Bihar's ban on alcohol should end because the ban costs the state a lot of money and has not stopped crimes against women.

Bihar has had the alcohol ban since April 2016.

A scientist named Deepak Dhar won a famous physics prize called the Dirac Medal for his work that helps explain things like earthquakes and traffic jams.

Three countries, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, signed an agreement saying that if one of them is attacked, it is treated as an attack on all of them.

India is watching this new agreement closely because it involves countries that matter to its region.