Daily Current Affairs and GK | 18 December 2025

Topic: Indian Polity

1. The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025 has been passed in Lok Sabha.

• The Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025 allows the repeal of certain enactments and the amendment of certain other enactments.
• It repeals 71 Acts. These acts include Indian Tramways Act, 1886, the Levy Sugar Price Equalisation Fund Act, 1976, and the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (Determination of Conditions of Service of Employees) Act, 1988.
• It amends four Acts. These include the General Clauses Act, 1897 and the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908.
• It amends previously mentioned Acts to update terminologies for registered posts.
• The Bill also amends the Indian Succession Act, 1925 to remove the requirement to obtain validation of wills by the Courts in certain cases.
• Disaster Management Act, 2005 is being amended to rectify a drafting error. 
• As per Union Minister of Law and Justice Arjun Ram Meghwal, government (since May 2014) has repealed a total of 1,577 laws.
• These repealed laws had become redundant and obsolete.
• Government has completely repealed 1,562 laws and 15 laws have been re-enacted.
• The objective of the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025, is to repeal or amend 71 Acts.
• Out of 71 Acts,  65 are Amendment Acts and six are Principal Acts.

Topic: Summits/ Conferences/ Meetings

2. The Second WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine started on 17 December 2025 in New Delhi.

• World Health Organization and the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India are co-hosting the event.
• It is a three-day event. It causes policymakers, scientists, practitioners, indigenous knowledge holders and civil society leaders from across the world to come together.
• Its aim is to promote a vision of balanced, inclusive, and sustainable health systems.
• The theme of the summit is “Restoring balance: The science and practice of health and well-being.”
• This years' summit follows the first Summit held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, in 2023.
• The New Delhi edition aims to increase global recognition of Traditional Medicine.
• The summit is guided by the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034.
• It explores how Traditional Medicine can support people-centered healthcare and planetary well-being.
• Over 170 expert speakers across 25 sessions are participating in the summit.