Recently, NCLAT held that Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016 cannot override Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002.

About NCLAT

• Constituted under the Companies Act, 2013 for hearing appeals against the orders of National Company Law Tribunal(s) (NCLT).

• It also acts as Appellate Tribunal for hearing appeals against the orders passed Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India, Competition Commission of India (CCI), and National Financial Reporting Authority. 

• Principal bench: New Delhi

A Delhi court declared the U.K.-based arms consultant, a fugitive economic offender under the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018

About Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018

• It defines a Fugitive Economic Offender (FEO).
  • He/she is an Individual with an arrest warrant for a scheduled offence who has left India to avoid prosecution or refuses to return from abroad.
  • Scheduled Offence: Offences specified in the Schedule with total value of ₹100 crore or more.
• To be declared a FEO, the concerned authority must submit an application with a Special Court. 
  • A Court of Session designated as a Special Court under the Prevention of Money-laundering Act, 2002. 

NMC has notified the Medical Institutions (Qualifications of Faculty) Regulations, 2025.

• Regulations have been issued by Post Graduate Medical Education Board (PGMEB), autonomous body under the NMC.

About NMC

• It is India's premier regulatory body overseeing medical education and practice
• Genesis: Constituted under National Medical Commission Act, 2019.
  • It superseded the Medical Council of India (MCI).
• Functions: Lay down policies for regulating medical institutions, medical researches and medical professionals, etc. 

More than 1,000 earthquakes have rattled the Tokara Islands in southern Japan. 

• Japan is one of the world’s most seismically active countries, sitting on top of four major tectonic plates along the western edge of the Pacific “ring of fire”.

About Tokara Island

• It is an archipelago in Japan, south of Kyushu and north of Amami Islands.
• Toshima (Japan’s longest village) is located here.

Paris in France opened the Seine River to public swimming for first time since 1923. 

• This came after an extensive clean-up operation spurred by the Paris Olympics last year, in which the river was used as a venue for certain swimming events.

• Earlier, the river was contaminated with E. coli from untreated sewage discharge from Paris’ sewage system.

About Seine River

• It is the second longest river  in France after the Loire River. 
• Originating 30km northwest of Dijon, it flows northwest through Paris, emptying into the English Channel at Le Havre.

Leopard population in the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve (DTR) has grown by 198.91% since 2022.

About DTR

• Location: In Terai region of Uttar Pradesh, along Indo-Nepal Border. 
• It includes Dudhwa National Park and two wildlife sanctuaries - Katerniaghat and Kishanpur.
• It is a typical Tarai-Bhabar habitat of the upper Gangetic plains Bio-geographic province and consists of vast alluvial plain.
• Rivers: Mohana, Suheli, Joraha, Nagro etc.
• Fauna: Tiger, Leopard, Rhinoceros, Swamp Deer, Elephant, Sambar, Hog deer, Sloth Bear etc. 

Himachal Pradesh became the first state to introduce Aadhaar-basedface authentication (FaceAuth) for distribution of ration under Public Distribution System (PDS).

About Aadhaar-based face authentication 

• Face authentication has been introduced by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) as an additional mode of authentication. 
  • Other modes of authentication include OTP-based, fingerprint and iris-based.
• Face authentication is based on a 1:1 matching which means that the facial image captured during authentication is matched with the facial image which is stored in the Repository against the Aadhaar Number.

NASA funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Chile discovered an interstellar Comet named 3I/ATLAS.

• 3I/ATLAS is an active comet and if it heats up sufficiently as it nears Sun, it could begin to sublimate – a process in which frozen gases transform directly into vapour, carrying dust and ice particles into space to form a glowing coma and tail. 
• It is only the third of its kind ever observed, following the famous 1I/ʻOumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019.