India has long faced the challenge of brain drain in STEM migration abroad for better research opportunities, which has led to a gap between India’s intellectual potential and the resources available domestically.
Brain Drain in India
Brain Drain refers to the emigration of highly skilled and educated individuals from one country to another, usually in search of better opportunities.
In India engineers, doctors, scientists, IT professionals, and academics move to developed countries like the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia.
Between 2015 and 2022, 1.3 million Indians left the country, many of whom were highly educated professionals.
In 2022 alone, 225,000 Indians renounced their citizenship, the highest number recorded.
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has proposed amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 under powers granted by the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Key Proposed Amendments
Authorized Officers for Content Regulation: Only Joint Secretary-rank officers (or equivalent in Central Government) and Director General of Police-rank officers (for states) can issue takedown requests.
This would prevent misuse of lower-level bureaucratic orders and ensure accountability.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) approached the Supreme Court seeking to intervene in a criminal appeal related to alleged match-fixing in the Karnataka Premier League (KPL) in 2018-19.
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The Karnataka High Court quashed the criminal proceedings, holding that while match-fixing was reprehensible, it did not amount to the offence of cheating as defined by Section 420 IPC.
BCCI argues that match-fixing should be viewed as cheating as there is an implied promise to spectators/sponsors that the match will be played fairly.
When players fix outcomes, they deceive the public and breach that promise — satisfying the elements of Section 420.
BCCI has framed its own anti-corruption code for cricketers, but stated that criminal prosecution is also necessary.
India has moved up to the 9th position in terms of total forest area globally, as per the Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2025, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Bali.
Key Findings
Globally, forests cover 4.14 billion hectares, accounting for about 32% of total land area, translating to 0.5 hectares of forest per person.
Russia has the largest forest cover followed by Brazil, Canada, the USA, China, Congo, Australia, Indonesia, India and Peru.
The report highlights that global deforestation has slowed in the past decade.
However the world continues to lose 10.9 million hectares of forest every year (2015–2025), a rate still considered alarmingly high.
Israel’s Parliament, the Knesset, has given preliminary approval to the bill titled “Application of Israeli Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, 2025,” aimed at applying Israeli law to the occupied West Bank.
About West bank
The West Bank is a landlocked territory in the Middle East that is a central part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
It lies to the west of the Jordan River and is bordered by Israel to the west, north, and south, and by Jordan and the Dead Sea to the east.
