UPSC Daily Current Affairs for 23 June 2025

Draft Registration Bill 2025

In News

The Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) has invited suggestions on the new draft Registration Bill 2025.

Issues and Challenges

Concerns about the Bill include the need for stronger cybersecurity to protect digital records and e-signature data.

Additionally, delegating registration tasks to Common Services Centres (CSCs), which handle legally sensitive processes like stamp duty valuation and title transfer, may lead to procedural gaps.

Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) with Insect-Based Livestock Feed

Context

In light of growing concerns over antibiotic overuse in animal husbandry, India is advancing insect-based feed innovations through ICAR-led partnerships to create AMR-resilient food systems.

What is Antimicrobial Resistance?

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites change over time and no longer respond to medicines making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.

Nearly 700,000 people die of AMR every year. The toll can rise to as many as 10 million by 2050 and eat up 3.8 per cent of annual global gross domestic product (GDP).

How Will Foreign Universities Impact Higher Education in India?

Context

The entry of several foreign universities into India, enabled by the UGC (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Regulations, 2023, marks a major development in Indian higher education.

Background

Prominent foreign institutions are setting up branch campuses, mainly in GIFT City and Navi Mumbai.

NYU Abu Dhabi and Yale-NUS in Singapore are notable successes—due to strong local partnerships, generous state support, and academic autonomy.

This move is in line with the vision of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which encourages the internationalisation of education.

Expansionary Policies in a Slowing Economy

Context

India is currently witnessing a rare phase where both fiscal and monetary policies are expansionary.

Benefits of Expansionary Policies in India

Boosts Aggregate Demand: Expansionary fiscal policies like tax cuts and increased public spending raise disposable incomes and consumption.

Similarly, lower interest rates encourage borrowing and investment, helping revive demand across sectors.

Supports Employment: Government-funded infrastructure projects and MSME support schemes can generate jobs, especially in rural and informal sectors, reducing unemployment during downturns.

Encourages Private Investment: Lower borrowing costs and improved consumer sentiment can incentivize businesses to invest in capacity expansion, innovation, and hiring.

Quantum Communication

Context

India has successfully demonstrated quantum secure communication using quantum entanglement over free space by the DRDO-Industry-Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE), IIT Delhi.

Quantum Communication

Quantum communication uses quantum physics, especially quantum entanglement, to create ultra-secure channels for sending information.

Quantum Entanglement: When two photons are entangled, measuring one instantly determines the state of the other — even if they are far apart.

Main purpose: To make communication leak-proof. Any eavesdropping attempt will disturb the entangled state, revealing the intrusion.

News In Short-23-06-2025

In News

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Bharatiya Jana Sangh's founding president Syama Prasad Mukherjee on his death anniversary.

Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee

He was born on 6th July 1901 in Calcutta.

He was a multifaceted personality -patriot, educationist, parliamentarian, statesman, and humanitarian.

He inherited a legacy of erudition and nationalism from his father, Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee, an esteemed Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University and Judge of the Calcutta High Court.