Current Affairs Quiz 23 June 2026

The FCRA, 2010 replaced the FCRA, 1976, which had been enacted during the Emergency to insulate Indian politics from foreign influence. The Act regulates the acceptance and utilisation of foreign contribution by individuals, associations and companies.
Registration or prior permission is required to receive foreign funds, which must be routed through a single designated FCRA bank account (the State Bank of India, New Delhi main branch, since the 2020 amendment). The 2020 amendments barred sub-granting of foreign funds and capped administrative expenses at 20%.
The Supreme Court upheld the 2020 amendments in Noel Harper v Union of India (2022). The 2026 rule amendment further tightened renewal and disclosure norms.

Five Eyes comprises the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, all English-speaking democracies. Its joint 2026 advisory warned that frontier AI models capable of advanced offensive hacking are “months, not years” away.
The flagged weaknesses, namely legacy systems, slow patching, weak identity and access management (IAM), and absent incident-response plans, apply equally to India. India’s relevant agencies are CERT-In (Computer Emergency Response Team) under MeitY, and the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) under the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO).
The IndiaAI Mission and the AI Impact Summit hosted by India in February 2026 frame India’s AI-safety posture.

India’s MSME sector contributes about 30.1% of GDP, 45.73% of exports and 35.4% of manufacturing output. RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra urged banks and NBFCs to use the DPI stack, namely the Account Aggregator (AA) framework, ULI, the Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS), GST data trails and Aadhaar authentication, to deepen MSME credit (outstanding at about Rs 36.79 trillion as on 31 December 2025).
The revised MSME classification (effective 1 April 2025) uses composite criteria of investment in plant and machinery plus annual turnover, with Medium enterprises capped at Rs 125 crore investment and Rs 500 crore turnover.

SOFIA is the flagship biennial report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN agency headquartered in Rome and founded in 1945. SOFIA 2026 reported record global fisheries and aquaculture production of 235 million tonnes (2024), with aquaculture of aquatic animals overtaking capture fisheries for the first time.
India’s key schemes are the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY, launched 2020, Rs 20,050 crore), the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Kisan Samridhi Sah-Yojana (PM-MKSSY), and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF). Fisheries fall under the Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

The NMC functions through four autonomous boards: the Under-Graduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB), the Post-Graduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB), the Medical Assessment and Rating Board (MARB), and the Ethics and Medical Registration Board (EMRB). The phase-out makes 2026-27 the last admission year for PG Diploma courses, with no admissions from 2027-28; existing seats are to be converted into MD or MS degree seats through MARB. The aim is to standardise postgraduate medical education and expand higher-qualification capacity amid India’s specialist-doctor shortage.
The relevant entrance exam is NEET-PG.

Coal gasification converts coal into synthesis gas (syngas, a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen) rather than burning it, and the syngas can be processed into methanol, urea or ammonium nitrate. Ammonium nitrate is used in mining explosives and fertilizers, much of which India currently imports.
The plant’s capacity is about 2,000 tonnes per day. The National Coal Gasification Mission targets 100 million tonnes of coal gasification by 2030, supported by a Rs 8,500-crore incentive scheme approved in 2024, with an expected Rs 2.5 to 3 lakh crore of investment across around 25 projects.
Coal falls under the Ministry of Coal.

The World Bank uses three main instruments: Investment Project Financing (IPF) for specific projects, Development Policy Financing (DPF) for budget support against policy reforms, and Program-for-Results (PforR) which disburses against achieved results. The 2026 operation, “Boosting Job Creation in the Private Sector”, backs reforms in business taxation, trade integration and labour laws, with an emphasis on raising women’s workforce participation.
This connects to India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) data and the persistently low Female Labour Force Participation Rate.

UIDAI was created in 2009 as an attached office of the Planning Commission and was given statutory status by the Aadhaar Act, 2016, after the Supreme Court’s scrutiny of Aadhaar. In K.S. Puttaswamy v Union of India (2017), the nine-judge bench affirmed privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21; the 2018 Aadhaar judgment upheld the scheme but read down Section 57 (private use).
The new app crossed 31 million downloads within five months. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 now governs personal data, including biometric data, in this ecosystem.

The NCRB was established in 1986 and compiles the annual Crime in India report, which is now mapped to the new criminal laws, namely the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA), which replaced the IPC, CrPC and Evidence Act in 2024. In 2024, the largest category of crimes against women was “Cruelty by Husband or his Relatives” (1,20,227 cases); Uttar Pradesh reported the most cases (66,396); the crime rate was 64.6 per lakh women.
NCRB also runs the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS).

Lithium is a critical mineral for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and grid storage. The Lithium Triangle (Bolivia, Argentina, Chile) sits in the Andes; Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat.
India sources critical minerals through Khanij Bidesh India Ltd (KABIL) and the National Critical Mineral Mission. Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz declared the emergency after the cancellation of fuel subsidies triggered blockades.
Resource nationalism and political risk in the producing countries are central themes in critical-mineral geopolitics.

Type-1 diabetes is distinct from type-2 (a metabolic, lifestyle-linked insulin-resistance condition). Teplizumab retrains the immune system to slow the destruction of beta cells, delaying clinical onset by a median of around two years in high-risk pre-symptomatic individuals, and is given as a single course.
The US FDA approved it earlier, and the NHS approval brings it into a major public-health system. Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory-produced proteins that bind specific targets, a fast-growing class of biologic drugs relevant to GS3 science and technology.

The IOC is the supreme authority of the Olympic Movement, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland. June 23 also coincides with two UN observances: United Nations Public Service Day (designated by the UNGA on 20 December 2002) and International Widows’ Day (proclaimed by the UNGA in 2010, highlighting the rights of an estimated 259 million widows worldwide).
India has expressed interest in hosting the 2036 Olympics, and is developing sports governance through the National Sports Policy and the Khelo India programme.

Article 21 has been progressively expanded by the Supreme Court to include the right to a clean environment, livelihood, health, and dignity. By linking footpaths to Articles 19 and 21, the Court framed safe pedestrian infrastructure as a state obligation.
The case also enhanced compensation in a child’s death matter. This connects to urban-mobility policy, the idea of “complete streets”, non-motorised transport under smart-city planning, and India’s high road-accident fatalities.
The judgment reflects judicial activism through the public-interest expansion of fundamental rights.