🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 29 DEC 2025

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Infrastructure
✅ China opens world’s longest expressway tunnel
✅ Name: Tianshan Shengli Tunnel
✅ Length: 22.13 km
✅ Location: Xinjiang (Tianshan Mountains)
✅ Cuts travel time to ~20 minutes

📍 India–EU Relations
✅ EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen & António Costa to be Chief Guests at Republic Day 2026
✅ Visit coincides with India–EU Summit
✅ Focus: India–EU FTA, trade, defence, technology
✅ EU is India’s largest trading partner (USD 135 bn trade)

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Labour & Social Security
✅ Govt announces major EPFO reforms
✅ Any-office service & single-window delivery
✅ Faster digital claim settlement
✅ Mission-mode KYC for inoperative accounts
✅ Target: Social security coverage for 100 crore people by March 2026

📍 Disaster Preparedness
✅ India to have 100+ Tsunami-Ready villages
✅ First country in Indian Ocean Region to achieve this
✅ Programme by UNESCO-IOC
✅ Implemented by INCOIS, Ministry of Earth Sciences
✅ Odisha: 24 villages certified, 72 in pipeline

📍 Healthcare Technology
✅ VoxelGrids develops India’s first indigenous MRI scanner
✅ Strength: 1.5 Tesla, no liquid helium
✅ ~40% cheaper than imported machines
✅ Deployed in Chandrapur (Maharashtra)

📍 Defence & Security
✅ Indian Army updates social media usage policy
✅ Limited use of messaging apps for unclassified info
✅ Passive viewing only on public platforms
✅ Strict restrictions to prevent data leakage

📍 Internal Security
✅ India launches first Organised Crime Network Database
✅ Prepared by NIA, launched by Amit Shah
✅ Tracks lost, looted & recovered firearms
✅ Covers State Police & CAPFs

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Missile Capability
✅ India successfully tests K-4 SLBM
✅ Range: ~3,500 km
✅ Launched from INS Arighaat (Bay of Bengal)
✅ Strengthens sea-based nuclear deterrence

📍 Military Exercises
✅ Exercise Siyom Prahar conducted in Arunachal Pradesh
✅ Focus: drone-based surveillance & precision strikes

📍 Marine Environment
✅ Indian Coast Guard conducts RPREX-2025 in Mumbai
✅ Tests preparedness for oil spill response

🔆 SCHEMES

📍 UJALA Scheme
✅ Launched: 2015
✅ Promotes affordable LED lighting
✅ Over 36 crore LED bulbs distributed
✅ World’s largest zero-subsidy lighting programme

📍 Horticulture
✅ MIDH Scheme supports end-to-end horticulture development
✅ Centre–State funding: 60:40 (90:10 for NE/Himalayan states)
✅ Covers fruits, vegetables, spices, coconut, bamboo

🔆 IMPORTANT DAY

📍 27 December
✅ International Day of Epidemic Preparedness

🔆 APPOINTMENTS

📍 Sports Administration
✅ P. V. Sindhu elected Chair, BWF Athletes’ Commission
✅ Term: 2026–2029

🔆 AWARDS

📍 Environment
✅ Sundarbans’ SAIME Model wins FAO Global Recognition
✅ Community-based climate-adaptive aquaculture model

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Space Science
✅ New analysis challenges existence of global subsurface ocean on Titan
✅ Based on data from NASA’s Cassini mission

📍 Biodiversity
✅ ZSI discovers new species Neelus sikkimensis in Sikkim
✅ First record of genus Neelus in India

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Cricket
✅ England’s Josh Tongue takes five-wicket haul at MCG
✅ First England bowler this century to do so

📍 Women’s Cricket
✅ Deepti Sharma becomes first Indian to take 150 T20I wickets
✅ Total international wickets: 333

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International organization and government schemes:
Topics-
Schemes, programs,policies in news

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UPSC Prelims Accelerator Program

🔆 Competition Commission of India (CCI)

📍 Why in News
✅ CCI took cognizance of IndiGo flight disruption to examine possible abuse of market dominance

📍 About CCI
✅ Type: Statutory body under Competition Act, 2002
✔️ Amended by Competition (Amendment) Act, 2007

📍 Administrative Control
✅ Ministry: Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA)

📍 Composition
✅ Chairperson + 2 to 6 Members
✔️ Appointed by Central Government

📍 Mandate & Functions
✅ Prohibits anti-competitive agreements
✅ Prevents abuse of dominant position
✅ Regulates combinations (M&A, acquisitions, control)
✅ Advises statutory authorities on competition issues
✅ Protects consumer interests & ensures freedom of trade

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India’s GI-tagged Indi Lime from Vijayapura, Karnataka has marked a significant export milestone with its first shipment to Oman

🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 30 DEC 2025


📍 Industrial Output
✅ IIP grows 6.7% YoY (Nov 2025) — 2-year high
✅ Fastest growth in 25 months
📍 Sectoral Growth:
✅ Mining: 5.4%
✅ Manufacturing: 8.0%
✅ Electricity: –1.5%

🔆 ECONOMY / RURAL DEVELOPMENT

📍 VB-G RAM G Scheme (SBI Research)
✅ Replaces MGNREGA
✅ States likely to gain ₹17,000 crore
✅ Centre’s share ~11% higher than MGNREGA (FY26)
✅ Average employment days ↑ 45.9 → 50.4
✅ Aims to reduce demand–supply gap in rural work

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Medical Breakthrough
✅ World’s first ITVISMA gene therapy administered
✅ Location: Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi
✅ Disease: Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
✅ Developed by Novartis
✅ UAE becomes 2nd country after USA to authorise it

📍 Tourism & Culture
✅ 19th Chitwan Elephant & Tourism Festival concludes
✅ Venue: Sauraha, Nepal

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Economic Outlook (PIB)
✅ GDP growth: 8.2% (Q2 FY26)
✅ GDP size: $4.18 trillion — world’s 4th largest economy
✅ Likely to become 3rd largest by 2030
✅ Unemployment rate: 4.7% (Nov 2025)
✅ CPI inflation: 0.71% (Nov 2025)

📍 Shipbuilding Reforms
✅ Govt notifies Shipbuilding Assistance & Development Guidelines
📍 SBFAS
✅ Corpus: ₹24,736 crore
✅ Assistance: 5–25% per vessel
📍 SbDS
✅ Outlay: ₹19,989 crore
✅ Valid till 2036 (extendable to 2047)

📍 Environment
✅ Parvati–Arga Bird Sanctuary (UP) declared Eco-Sensitive Zone
✅ Ramsar site with oxbow lakes
✅ Migratory birds from Central Asia & Tibet

📍 Energy & Minerals
✅ REPM Scheme approved for rare-earth magnets
✅ Capacity target: 6,000 MTPA
✅ Outlay: ₹7,000+ crore
✅ Supports EVs, renewables, defence & electronics

📍 Fuel Retail
✅ India becomes 3rd largest fuel retail market globally
✅ Crosses 1 lakh petrol pumps
✅ Rural outlets: 29% of total

📍 Standards & Safety
✅ BIS notifies IS 19445:2025 — first Indian standard for Bomb Disposal Systems

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Supercomputing
✅ Param Rudra supercomputer launched at IIT Patna
✅ Bihar’s first supercomputer
✅ Under National Supercomputing Mission

📍 Artificial Intelligence
✅ Sharad Pawar Centre of Excellence in AI inaugurated
✅ Location: Baramati, Maharashtra
✅ Fully funded by Adani Group

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Presidential Sortie
✅ President Droupadi Murmu undertakes dived sortie
✅ Platform: INS Vaghsheer (Kalvari-class submarine)
✅ First woman President to do so

📍 Defence Procurement
✅ DAC clears proposals worth ₹79,000 crore
✅ Focus: drones, radars, guided rockets, naval support systems

📍 Coast Guard
✅ ICG signs deal with L&T for 6 Rail-Less Helo Traversing Systems

🔆 MoUs

📍 Research & Testing
✅ National Test House + DRDO lab (DMSRDE) MoU
✅ Cooperation in testing, evaluation & training

📍 Skill Development
✅ NIFTEM-K + Ministry of Minority Affairs MoU
✅ For PM VIKAS scheme (food processing skills)

🔆 STATES

📍 Rajasthan
✅ Launches e-Swasthya Samvad platform
✅ Improves governance in medical education

📍 Himachal Pradesh
✅ Legalises regulated industrial hemp cultivation
✅ THC capped at 0.3%
✅ Projected revenue: ₹1,000–2,000 crore/year

🔆 SCHEMES

📍 PM-Shram Yogi Maandhan
✅ Pension: ₹3,000/month after 60 years
✅ For unorganised workers (18–40 yrs)
✅ Govt matches worker contribution
✅ Implemented via LIC & CSCs

🔆 APPOINTMENTS

📍 Law Officers
✅ Three new Additional Solicitors General appointed for Supreme Court

🔆 OBITUARIES

📍 Sports & Arts
✅ Former England cricketer Hugh Morris (62)
✅ French icon Brigitte Bardot (91)
✅ Veteran art director K. Shekhar (72)

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Global Events
✅ Rashtriya Raksha University (Gujarat) to host World Police & Fire Games 2029
✅ India’s first time as host nation

📍 Research & Olympics
✅ International Olympic Research Conference 2026
✅ Venue: Gandhinagar
✅ Theme: Sustainable Olympic ecosystem

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🔆 Ethics Through Quotes – Tukaram

📍 Thinker: Tukaram (17th Century)
📍 Theme: Inner Ethics, Humility, Power & Moral Authenticity

📍 Quote 1 – Inner Ethics over External Show
“Outer purity is meaningless if the mind remains impure.”

✅ Ethics begins with intent and conscience, not appearances
✅ Useful for: Integrity, hypocrisy, probity, GS-4 case studies

📍 Quote 2 – Power & Humility
“Pride in power blinds judgment and weakens morality.”

✅ Ethical failure often begins with ego, not ignorance
✅ Useful for: Misuse of authority, leadership ethics

📍 Quote 3 – Knowledge without Ethics
“Learning without humility only sharpens arrogance.”

✅ Knowledge must be guided by character
✅ Useful for: Education ethics, expert dominance, bureaucratic arrogance

📍 Quote 4 – Ritual vs Real Morality
“Rituals do not make one virtuous; conduct does.”

✅ Ethics judged by behavioural outcomes, not symbolism
✅ Useful for: Token reforms, symbolic governance, moral pretence

📍 Quote 5 – Simplicity & Ethical Life
“Excess weakens virtue; simplicity strengthens the soul.”

✅ Simplicity as a foundation of ethical restraint
✅ Useful for: Probity, lifestyle of public servants

📍 Quote 6 – Justice & Equality
“The divine does not ask who you are, only how you act.”

✅ Equality based on conduct, not status or birth
✅ Useful for: Social justice, impartial administration

📍 Quote 7 – Ethics in Public Life
“When words are righteous but actions are not, morality collapses.”

✅ Gap between policy intent and implementation
✅ Useful for: Governance failure, accountability

📌 Model UPSC-Style Concluding Line:
“As Tukaram reminds us, ethical governance rests not on ritual, rhetoric, or rank, but on humility, inner discipline, and consistency between word and deed.”

🔆 उद्धरणों के माध्यम से नैतिकता – तुकाराम

📍 विचारक: Tukaram (17वीं शताब्दी)
📍 विषय: आंतरिक नैतिकता, विनम्रता, सत्ता व नैतिक प्रामाणिकता

📍 उद्धरण 1 – बाहरी दिखावे से ऊपर आंतरिक नैतिकता
“यदि मन अशुद्ध है, तो बाहरी पवित्रता का कोई मूल्य नहीं।”

✅ नैतिकता की शुरुआत नियत और अंतरात्मा से होती है
✅ उपयोगी: ईमानदारी, पाखंड, प्रोबिटी, GS-4 केस स्टडी

📍 उद्धरण 2 – सत्ता और विनम्रता
“अहंकार से भरी सत्ता विवेक को अंधा कर देती है।”

✅ नैतिक पतन का कारण अक्सर अहंकार होता है
✅ उपयोगी: सत्ता का दुरुपयोग, नेतृत्व नैतिकता

📍 उद्धरण 3 – नैतिकता के बिना ज्ञान
“विनम्रता के बिना ज्ञान अहंकार को ही तेज करता है।”

✅ ज्ञान का मूल्य तभी है जब वह चरित्र से जुड़ा हो
✅ उपयोगी: शिक्षा नैतिकता, विशेषज्ञों का अहंकार

📍 उद्धरण 4 – कर्म बनाम कर्मकांड
“कर्मकांड किसी को नैतिक नहीं बनाते; आचरण बनाता है।”

✅ नैतिकता का मूल्यांकन व्यवहार से होता है, प्रतीकों से नहीं
✅ उपयोगी: प्रतीकात्मक सुधार, दिखावटी शासन

📍 उद्धरण 5 – सादगी और नैतिक संयम
“अतिशयता गुणों को कमजोर करती है, सादगी उन्हें मजबूत करती है।”

✅ सादगी = नैतिक संयम और उत्तरदायित्व
✅ उपयोगी: प्रोबिटी, लोकसेवकों की जीवनशैली

📍 उद्धरण 6 – न्याय और समानता
“ईश्वर यह नहीं पूछता कि तुम कौन हो, बल्कि यह देखता है कि तुम कैसे आचरण करते हो।”

✅ समानता का आधार आचरण, न कि जन्म या पद
✅ उपयोगी: सामाजिक न्याय, निष्पक्ष प्रशासन

📍 उद्धरण 7 – कथनी और करनी का अंतर
“जब वचन नैतिक हों और कर्म नहीं, तब नैतिकता ढह जाती है।”

✅ नीति और क्रियान्वयन के बीच की खाई
✅ उपयोगी: शासन विफलता, जवाबदेही

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Day 14: 31 December target:

International organization and government schemes:
Topics-
Revision - Governmental and non-governmental organizations,Schemes, programs,policies in news

Sources:Any coaching magazine

PYQs - UPSC Prelims 2017,2018,2019



Current Affairs:
Polity - July 2025 Revision

#UpscRevisionProgram

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