🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 1 DECEMBER 2025

📍 INTERNATIONAL
✅ India re-elected to IMO Council (Category B) with highest votes (154).
✅ Riyadh Metro becomes world’s longest driverless network – 176 km, 6 lines, 85 stations.
✅ India supplies 73 tonnes of medicines & vaccines to Afghanistan.
✅ India deploys NDRF teams to Sri Lanka for Cyclone Ditwah relief under Operation Sagar Bandhu.

📍 NATIONAL AFFAIRS
✅ BAHS 2025 Report — Animal Husbandry gains across milk, eggs, meat & wool:
• Milk: 247.87 MT, Eggs: 149.11 Bn, Meat: 10.50 MT, Wool: 34.57 Mn kg
• India retains #1 in milk, #2 in eggs, #4 in meat globally.

✅ 60th DGP/IGP Conference inaugurated in Raipur (PM chairs; theme: Viksit Bharat — Security Dimensions).
✅ PMML now offers remote digital access to 25+ million archival records.
✅ ICAI sets Guinness World Record – largest single-day career guidance programme (6,166 students at venue; 1.3 lakh nationwide).
✅ 2 Doppler Weather Radars, Solar Plant & Meteorology Museum launched by Dr. Jitendra Singh (Raipur & Mangaluru).
✅ IIT Madras deploys India’s first indigenous VTMS (Vessel Traffic Management System) for ports.
✅ INS Taragiri (4th Nilgiri-class frigate) delivered to Indian Navy.

📍 STATES
✅ Telangana launches India’s first ‘1 Bio’ bioprocess design & scale-up facility (Genome Valley).
✅ Assam launches Prerona Scheme – ₹300/month for all Class 10 students (HSLC).

📍 SCHEMES
✅ Credit Guarantee Scheme launched for e-NWR pledge loans → farmers can obtain credit using warehouse receipts.
✅ PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana:
• 6.3 lakh solar rooftop installations in 9 months
• Target: 10 lakh (2025) → 1 crore (2027)

📍 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ International Jaguar Day – 29 November.
✅ International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People – 29 November.
✅ National Newborn Week – 15–21 November (Theme: Newborn Safety).

📍 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Vivek Chaturvedi appointed Chairman, CBIC.
✅ Paschal Donohoe appointed MD & Chief Knowledge Officer, World Bank Group.

📍 AWARDS
✅ Jay Shah wins Indian of the Year – Outstanding Achievement.
✅ IFFI 2025 Awards (Goa):
• Best Film (Golden Peacock): Skin of Youth (Vietnam)
• Best Director: Santosh Davakhar (Gondhal)
• Best Actor: Ubeimar Rios (A Poet)
• Best Actress: Jara Sofija Ostan (Little Trouble Girls)
• Best Debut Directors: Hesam Farahmand & Tõnis Pill
• Best Web Series: Bandish Bandits – S2
• ICFT–UNESCO Gandhi Medal: Safe House (Norway)

📍 SPORTS
✅ 10-year-old Giovanna de Sequeira wins bronze at World Jiu-Jitsu Championship (Abu Dhabi).

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 2 DECEMBER 2025

🌍 INTERNATIONAL
✅ Pakistan–Egypt renew cooperation; political consultations to resume in 2026.
✅ 10,000-year-old pottery found in Japan (Lake Biwa) – among world’s oldest intact artifacts.
✅ Oxford Word of the Year 2025: “Rage Bait” (content designed to provoke anger).

🇮🇳 NATIONAL
✅ DoT tightens norms – messaging apps to work only with active SIM; applies to WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal.
✅ GIFT City to become IP hub – attract firms to register/hold IP in India.
✅ CAG launches Centre of Excellence for Financial Audit (Hyderabad).


🛡 DEFENCE
✅ CSIR–NAL unveils Hansa-3 – India’s first all-composite 2-seat trainer aircraft.
✅ SARAS Mk-2 – 19-seater; full flight in 2027; supports UDAN.
✅ NaviMET aviation weather system launched at HAL.
✅ MoU for 150-kg loitering munition UAV with Solar Defence.
✅ Bayraktar Kızılelma – Türkiye’s UAV that shot down aircraft beyond visual range.

🤝 MoUs
✅ Maruti Suzuki India merges with Suzuki Motor Gujarat; share capital ↑ ₹15,000 crore.

🏛 STATES
✅ Nagaland celebrates 63rd Statehood Day; Hornbill Festival opens at Kisama.
✅ Andhra University–Survey of India MoU (5 years) for geospatial collaboration.

🏫 SCHEMES
✅ Jan Shikshan Sansthan (JSS) – originally Shramik Vidyapeeth (1967).
Convergence Initiatives: DAJGUA, ULLAS, PM Vishwakarma, PM JANMAN, Skill Hub, NAVYA.

📅 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ Victims of Chemical Warfare Day – 30 Nov.
✅ World AIDS Day 2025 – 1 Dec (Theme: Transforming AIDS response).

👤 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Abhishek Sharma becomes Brand Ambassador for DP World.

⚽ SPORTS
✅ Manipur beats Colombia to win 15th Manipur Polo International Title.
✅ Bisleri becomes Official Beverage Partner for Tata WPL.
✅ Rajasthan United FC wins Governor’s Gold Cup; Sreevics FC runner-up.

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🔆 India’s Adoption of Technology in Agriculture

📍 AI & IoT in Agriculture
✅ Kisan e-Mitra – AI chatbot for instant farmer support.
✅ National Pest Surveillance System (NPSS) – Uses AI + IoT for early pest attack detection.
✅ Smart sensors for soil health, irrigation control, crop monitoring.

📍 Space Technology in Agriculture
✅ FASAL Project – Uses satellite data + agro-meteorology for:
• Crop yield forecasting
• Drought/flood assessment
• Crop acreage estimation

📍 Drone Technology
✅ Namo Drone Didi Scheme – Training women SHGs to use drones for spraying & monitoring.
✅ SVAMITVA Scheme – Drone surveys for village land mapping & ownership records.
✅ Drones used for precision spraying, crop scouting, and real-time field monitoring.

📍 Conclusion
✅ India is moving toward data-driven, precision agriculture, improving productivity, transparency, and farmer empowerment.

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🔆 India Approves Rare Earth Magnet Scheme

✅ Govt launches ₹7,280 cr scheme to make sintered REPMs in India
✅ Build 6,000 MTPA capacity; 5 beneficiaries (up to 1,200 MTPA each)
✅ Full chain: Oxides → Metals → Alloys → Magnets
✅ 7-year scheme: 2 yrs setup + 5 yrs incentives
✅ Key for EVs, wind turbines, defence, electronics

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✅Sanchar sathi app must pre-installed on phones, department of telecommunications.
✅ It will use Imei number of mobile phone to verify the authentication of users.. It will also help to curb digital frauds and spoofing

Symbols of new governance

🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 3 DEC 2025

🔆 REGULATORY / ECONOMY
✅ RBI Ombudsman complaints ↑ 13.55% (13.34 lakh)
✅ CAD moderates to $12.3 bn (Q2 FY26)
✅ 98.39% of ₹2000 notes returned
✅ House Price Index: +2.2% YoY
✅ IIP slows to 0.4% (14-month low)
✅ FDI inflows ↑ 18% → $35.18 bn
✅ GST collection ₹1.70 lakh cr
✅ Manufacturing PMI at 56.6
✅ RBI launches NSFI 2025–30

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

✅ WHO backs GLP-1 therapy for obesity

🔆 NATIONAL
✅ APY enrolments: 8.34 cr (48% women)
✅ PM Vishwakarma: 2.72 cr artisans enrolled
✅ PAHAL DBT: 20,000 inactive LPG connections removed
✅ Sanchar Saathi app mandatory on all new phones
✅ Saras Ajeevika Food Festival begins in New Delhi
✅ TEAM Scheme for MSMEs via ONDC

🔆 DEFENCE
✅ Indian Army BrahMos combat launch successful
✅ India–Maldives EKUVERIN 2025 begins in Kerala

🔆 STATES
✅ Konark Festival (36th) & Sand Art Festival (15th) inaugurated in Odisha
✅ Darjeeling Mandarin Orange gets GI Tag

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ BSF Raising Day – 1 Dec
✅ Abolition of Slavery Day – 2 Dec

🔆 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Usha Janakiraman → ED, RBI
✅ Ramakrishnan Chander → MD, LIC

🔆 AWARDS
✅ IGI Airport becomes India’s 1st water-positive airport
✅ Archery Premier League wins Emerging Sports Event Award
✅ Duplantis & McLaughlin-Levrone → World Athletes of the Year

🔆 SCIENCE & TECH
✅ ISRO Chief inaugurates ACEN – India’s 1st private navigation centre

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🔆 RBI Integrated Ombudsman Scheme (RB-IOS, 2021)

📍 Current Update
✅ Credit cards generated the highest customer grievances under RB-IOS in FY25.

📍 About RB-IOS (2021)
✅ Aim: Speedy, low-cost, accessible grievance redressal for customers of RBI-regulated entities
✅ Covers: Banks, RRBs, NBFCs, CICs, payment & digital transaction entities

📍 Key Features
✅ Merged 3 earlier schemes → Banking Ombudsman (2006), NBFC Ombudsman (2018), Digital Transactions Ombudsman (2019)
✅ Implements “One Nation, One Ombudsman” model
✅ Ombudsman can award:
• ₹20 lakh compensation
• + ₹1 lakh for time, expenses & mental distress

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🔆 PAHAL Scheme

📍 Basics
✅ PAHAL (DBT for LPG) launched in 2013
✅ Ministry: Petroleum & Natural Gas
📍 Objectives
✅ Make LPG distribution efficient, transparent & inclusive
✅ Prevent diversion of subsidised LPG for commercial use
✅ Ensure subsidy goes directly to genuine consumers
📍 How It Works
✅ All LPG cylinders sold at uniform RSP
✅ Subsidy is transferred directly to the consumer’s bank account

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🔆 Femicide

📍 Current Update
✅ Italy has passed a law formally recognising femicide.

📍 What is Femicide?
✅ Intentional killing of women/girls due to gender-related motivation
✅ Among the most severe forms of violence against women

📍 UN (2022) Classification
✅ Intimate-partner femicide
✅ Family-related femicide (blood relatives / marriage / adoption)
✅ Other-perpetrator femicide

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