🔆 Personality in News: Srimanta Shankar Dev

📍 In News
✅ Batadrava Than, the birthplace of Mahapurush Srimanta Shankar Dev, has been inaugurated.

📍 About Srimanta Shankar Dev (1449–1568)
✅ Born at Aali-pukhuri, Nagaon district, Assam
✅ Saint-scholar, polymath & socio-religious reformer
✅ Key figure of the Bhakti movement in Assam

📍 Religious & Cultural Contributions
✅ Propounded Eka-Sarana Hari-Nama Dharma (Vaishnavism centred on Lord Krishna)
✅ Established Namghars and Sattras as spiritual & cultural centres
✅ Authored Kirtana Ghosha, Bhakti Pradipa and other devotional works
✅ Initiated Borgeets (devotional music)
✅ Founder of Sattriya (classical dance form)
✅ Developed Ankia Naat and Bhaona (theatrical traditions)

📍 Social Reforms
✅ Challenged caste hierarchies
✅ Advocated social equality and dignity
✅ Emphasised inclusive participation in worship

📍 Core Values
✅ Equality
✅ Humanism
✅ Spiritualism

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🔆The General Prohibition (Article 15(1) & 15(2))
​The State shall not discriminate against any citizen only on the grounds of:
✅​Religion
✅​Race
✅Caste
✅​Sex
✅​Place of birth (Mnemonic: RR-CSP)

​Critical Prelims Note: The word "Only" is crucial. Discrimination based on other grounds (e.g., residence, language, or educational qualification) is not prohibited under this article.

📍​Scope of Liability:
✅​Article 15(1): Applies only to the State.
✅​Article 15(2): Prohibits discrimination in access to shops, public restaurants, hotels, places of public entertainment, or use of wells/tanks/roads maintained by State funds or dedicated to the general public.
​Significance: This clause is enforceable against both the State and Private Individuals.

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🔆 WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS — DEC 22–27, 2025

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Global Governance
✅ India takes over as Vice-Chair of Kimberley Process (Chair from 1 Jan 2026)
✅ Objective: prevent trade in conflict diamonds

📍 Infrastructure
✅ China opens world’s longest expressway tunnel – Tianshan Shengli (22.13 km)

📍 Disaster Relief
✅ India announces $450 million assistance for Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah
➡ $350 mn LoC + $100 mn grants

🔆 ECONOMY & FINANCE

📍 MSME Credit (SIDBI–CRIF)
✅ PSB share declines: 39.3% → 37.8%
✅ NBFCs dominate sole-proprietor lending (41%+)
✅ Working capital loans form ~57% of MSME credit

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Critical Minerals
✅ CoE + VR Mine Simulator inaugurated at IIT Dhanbad
✅ Under National Critical Minerals Mission
➡ Outlay: ₹34,300 cr | 7 years

📍 Oil & Gas Reforms
✅ New P&NG Rules, 2025 notified
➡ Single licence | Lease up to 30 yrs | Decisions in 180 days

📍 Governance
✅ 5 digital reforms launched by DoPT on Good Governance Day
➡ AI recruitment rules, e-HRMS 2.0, iGOT AI features

📍 Health
✅ Malaria cases ↓ 80%, deaths ↓ 78%
✅ MMR reduced to 88 per lakh, IMR to 27

📍 Heritage
✅ India’s largest circular stone labyrinth discovered (Solapur, MH)

🔆 DEFENCE & SECURITY

📍 Strategic Forces
✅ India successfully tests K-4 SLBM (~3,500 km range)

📍 Maritime Heritage
✅ INSV Kaundinya sails on historic route
➡ Porbandar → Muscat

📍 Internal Security
✅ India launches Organised Crime Network Database (NIA)

🔆 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

📍 Space
✅ ISRO’s LVM3-M6 (BlueBird Block-2) mission launches US comm satellite

📍 AI
✅ IIT Delhi develops AILA – AI Lab Assistant for real experiments

🔆 STATES

📍 Maharashtra
✅ Sangli to get Raisin Research Centre

📍 Uttar Pradesh
✅ Parvati–Arga Bird Sanctuary declared Eco-Sensitive Zone

📍 Himachal Pradesh
✅ Regulated industrial hemp cultivation approved (THC ≤0.3%)

🔆 AWARDS / BOOKS

📍 International Honour
✅ Malayalam publisher Ravi Deece gets France’s Knight of Arts & Letters

📍 Books
✅ VP releases Sanatan Sanskriti Ki Atal Drishti
✅ Urjit Patel releases The Great Sanctions Hack

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Cricket
✅ Vaibhav Suryavanshi hits fastest List-A 150 (59 balls)

📍 Global Sports
✅ India to host World Police & Fire Games 2029 (Gujarat)

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