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Daily Current Affairs – 27 October, 2025

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    Classical Languages of India

    Context

  • As of 2025, a total of 11 Indian languages hold the status of Classical Language.

    • About Classical Languages

  • The Government of India conferred the ‘Classical Language’ status to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali languages in 2024.
  • Six Indian languages —Tamil, Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, and Odia—were earlier accorded the status of classical languages between 2004 to 2024.
  • All the Classical Languages are listed in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution.
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    Freedom of Religion and Right to Privacy Interlinked: Supreme Court

    Context

  • The Supreme Court of India has recently held that the freedom of religion under Article 25 and the right to privacy under Article 21 are deeply interlinked.

    • Supreme Court ruling

  • The judgment arose in response to multiple petitions challenging provisions of the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, highlighting the constitutional balance between individual autonomy and state control.
  • It stated that privacy is a “condition precedent” for exercising freedom of religion, as personal faith choices are rooted in internal belief and conscience.
  • The court observed that state interference in personal belief systems, such as mandatory disclosure of conversion or prior state approval, can violate both privacy and religious freedom.
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    Google AI Model Helps Unmask Cancer Cells to the Immune System

    In News

  • Google DeepMind announced that its AI model C2S-Scale generated a new hypothesis about cancer cell behavior that was later confirmed in lab experiments. 

    • C2S-Scale 

  • It is a family of large language models (LLMs) built upon Google’s Gemma-2 architecture.
  • It is designed to interpret biological data by converting single-cell RNA sequencing into simplified “cell sentences”.
  • It is trained on over 50 million cells and the 27-billion-parameter model learns gene expression patterns across tissues and diseases, enabling it to reason about cellular behavior in natural language. 
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    India-Japan Ties & QUAD

    Context

  • The newly elected Prime Minister of Japan has pledged to increase defence spending and deepen strategic ties with India and fellow members of the QUAD alliance — the United States, Australia, and India.

    • About the India–Japan Ties

  • Historical Overview: India and Japan share a long-standing civilizational bond, underpinned by Buddhist cultural linkages and post–World War II diplomatic outreach.
  • Modern strategic cooperation began with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s 2007 visit and his ‘Confluence of the Two Seas’ speech before the Indian Parliament—an intellectual precursor to the QUAD framework.
  • Strategic Partnership: Bilateral relations were elevated to a ‘Special Strategic and Global Partnership’ in 2014 during the Indian Prime Minister's visit to Japan. 
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    News in Short – 27 October, 2025

    Context

  • The Kittur Rani Chennamma Utsav, a three-day festival to honour the bravery of Rani Chennamma, began in Kittur, Karnataka.

    • About

  • She was among the earliest Indian rulers to rebel against British rule — decades before the 1857 Revolt.
  • Today, she is remembered as both a symbol of Karnataka’s pride and an early feminist icon.
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