Daily Current Affairs — 27 October 2025
4 articles • UPSC Prelims & Mains
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 ‘Confluenc
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”.
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 re
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.