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🔆 Moh Juj

📍 Current Update
✅ Assam Assembly passes Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Assam Amendment) Bill, 2025 to allow Moh Juj.

📍 About Moh Juj
✅ Traditional buffalo fights in parts of Assam
✅ “Moh” = buffalo; “Juj” = fight → buffalo-fight
✅ Linked to Magh Bihu / Bhogali Bihu — Assam’s harvest festival

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 4 DEC 2025

🔆 REGULATORY / ECONOMY
✅ RBI lists SBI, HDFC, ICICI as D-SIBs (Too Big To Fail)
✅ Banks fully implement ISO 20022 SWIFT messaging
✅ Govt blocks 87 illegal loan apps
✅ FDI inflow ↑ 16% in H1 FY26 to $50.36 bn
✅ BRAP 2024 & LEADS 2024 rankings released
✅ New PMO complex renamed Seva Teerth
✅ Unemployment rate falls to 3.2% (PLFS 2023–24)
✅ Numaligarh Refinery gets Navratna status

🔆 NATIONAL
✅ Meta adds 5 Indian languages for AI dubbing (Marathi, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil)
✅ Govt launches Credit Assessment Model (CAM) for MSME digital loan appraisal
✅ PM SVANidhi extended till 2030; UPI-linked RuPay credit card added
✅ WCD Ministry launches 100-day “Bal Vivah Mukt Bharat” campaign
✅ UIDAI logs 231 crore Aadhaar authentications (Nov)
✅ Kochi to host International Seaweed Expo 2026
✅ Centre releases ₹68,393 cr to states under MGNREGS
✅ NCDC introduces community disease reporting system
✅ Top foreign tourist states (2024): Maharashtra > West Bengal > UP > Gujarat > Rajasthan

🔆 DEFENCE
✅ Italy unveils “Michelangelo Dome” – AI-based air defence shield
✅ Indian Army conducts BrahMos combat launch
✅ India–Maldives Exercise EKUVERIN begins in Kerala

🔆 MoUs
✅ NHAI + Jio: Highway safety alert system via 4G/5G
✅ Indian Navy + IIT Madras + Apollo Micro Systems for indigenous armaments

🔆 STATES
✅ Tamil Nadu gets 5 new GI Tags (Woraiyur Sarees, Thooyamalli Rice, Choppu Samaan, Soapstone utensils, Nattu Sarkarai)

🔆 SCHEMES
✅ National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM): ₹1,480 cr outlay; 168 projects supported
✅ PM VIKAS Scheme to support minority artisans; merges 5 older schemes

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ Assam Statehood Day – 2 Dec
✅ World Computer Literacy Day – 2 Dec
✅ National Pollution Control Day – 2 Dec
✅ International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 3 Dec

🔆 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Vikram Sahu → CEO, Bank of America India
✅ Arun Singh → ONGC Chief (extension)
✅ Praveen Kumar → DG, BSF (additional charge)
✅ MS Dhoni → Brand Ambassador, Panasonic AC
✅ Ishaan Khatter → Brand Ambassador, EUME

🔆 OBITUARIES
✅ Tom Stoppard (Oscar-winning playwright) passes away at 88
✅ Former England cricketer Robin Smith dies at 62

🔆 AWARDS / SPORTS
✅ UNFPA India honours IUSSP (UN Population Award 2025)
✅ Syed Modi International 2025 held in Lucknow
✅ Rohit Sharma becomes highest six-hitter in ODI history

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🔆 Promoting Alternative Income Sources for Farmers

📍 Why in Focus?
Government highlighted a comprehensive strategy and multiple schemes aimed at boosting farmer incomes and diversifying agriculture.

📍 Key Highlights:
✅ Integrated strategy: higher productivity, lower production cost, better remunerative returns, diversification, post-harvest value addition & climate adaptation.
✅ DA&FW budget rose from ₹21,933 cr (2013-14) to ₹1,27,290 cr (2025-26).
✅ 28+ schemes support income enhancement: PM-KISAN, PM-KMY, PMFBY, AIF, FPO promotion, NBHM, NMNF, PM-AASHA, AgriSURE, PMDMC, SH&F, etc.
✅ MSPs fixed for 22 crops + FRP for sugarcane on CACP recommendations.
✅ MSP considerations: cost of production, demand–supply, price trends, inter-crop parity, ToT, and 50% margin over production cost.

📍 Implications:
✅ Strengthens farm resilience & income stability.
✅ Encourages crop diversification & allied activities.
✅ Supports long-term agricultural sustainability.

✅ Prelims Question:
Which of the following bodies recommends MSPs to the Government of India?
A. NITI Aayog
B. Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP)
C. NABARD
D. Krishi Vigyan Kendra
Ans: B

✅ Mains Question:
Explain how the Government of India’s multi-scheme strategy supports alternative income sources for farmers and strengthens long-term agricultural sustainability. (150 words)

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🔆 National Statistical Commission (NSC)

📍 Establishment
✅ Set up in 2005 as an autonomous institution
✅ Based on Rangarajan Commission (2000) recommendations
✅ Under MoSPI

📍 Composition
✅ Part-time Chairperson (eminent statistician/social scientist)
✅ 4 Part-time Members (specialised fields)
✅ CEO, NITI Aayog — ex-officio member
✅ Chief Statistician of India — Secretary to NSC

📍 Mandate
✅ Identify core statistics for the country
✅ Frame national statistical policies & priorities
✅ Lay down quality standards
✅ Ensure coordination across ministries on statistical matters

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Q.Which river forms the largest delta in the world along with its distributaries?
कौन सी नदी अपनी सहायक नदियों के साथ विश्व का सबसे बड़ा डेल्टा बनाती है?
(a) Nile 😂
(b) Amazon ❤️
(c) Ganga–Brahmaputra👍🏻
(d) Mississippi🙏🏻


👉 Answer With Emojis✅☝️

The Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, along with their distributaries and the Meghna River, form the largest delta in the world, known as the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta or the Sundarbans Delta.

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🔆INDIA PHYSICAL OVERVIEW

✅82.5 degree East longitude passes almost through middle of India and hence considered as the Standard Meridian of India or Indian Standard Time (IST) . It passes through Naini, near Allahabad. Standard time is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of International standard Greenwich .
✅Indian states through which the Indian Standard Time longitude passes: 1.Uttar Pradesh 2. Madhya Pradesh 3.Chhattisgarh 4. Odisha 5. Andhra Pradesh
✅Tropic of Cancer passes through 8 states: Gujarat ,Rajasthan ,Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh , Jharkhand , West Bengal, Tripura & Mizoram.
✅Geographical area of the World India ranks 7th in terms of geographical area after Russia, Canada ,China, USA, Brazil and Australia.
✅ Total coastline (including the coastline of island) is 7515.5 kilometres.
✅ Gujarat has largest coastline among states because of Creeks(narrow inlet in shoreline) - 1214km.
✅ Overall - Andaman Nicobar - 1962 kilometres
✅ India is the only country after which an ocean has been named.
✅ Immediate neighbour Pakistan ,Afghanistan, China ,Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Bangladesh .
✅ Palk strait separates India mainland from Sri Lanka.
✅India shares longest International border with Bangladesh 4096.7 km. Indira Point in the southernmost point of India and located in Great Nicobar Island

▪️Important Latitudes:

✅ 6 degree latitude separates Indira Point and Indonesia
✅ 8 degree latitude separates Minicoy Island and Maldives
✅9 degree latitude separates Kavaratti and Minicoy Island
✅ 10 degree latitude separates Andaman and Nicobar Island

#geography

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 5 DEC 2025

🔆 REGULATORY / ECONOMY
✅ RBI directs banks to offer customer services in regional languages; all communication must be trilingual
✅ Fitch raises FY26 growth forecast to 7.4%
✅ OECD retains India’s FY26 outlook at 6.7%
✅ Razorpay gets RBI’s Payment Aggregator–Cross Border licence
✅ India to update GDP base year → 2022–23 from Feb 2026
✅ Child nutrition data: 34% stunted, 15% underweight, 5% wasted
✅ IRCTC uptime improves to 99.98%; 87% of reserved tickets via e-ticketing

🔆 INTERNATIONAL
✅ WPS Index 2025/26: Denmark 1st; India 131st (0.607 score)
✅ 676 million women exposed to conflict globally

🔆 NATIONAL
✅ Govt launches GIRG Initiative to improve India’s rank in 26 global indices
✅ Govt launches Credit Assessment Model (CAM) for MSME digital lending
✅ New PMO complex named ‘Seva Teerth’
✅ UIDAI records 231 crore Aadhaar authentications (Nov)
✅ Kochi to host International Seaweed Expo 2026 (Jan 29–30)
✅ Centre releases ₹68,393 cr to states under MGNREGS
✅ NCDC introduces community disease reporting system

🔆 DEFENCE
✅ India–US sign ₹7,995 cr sustainment deal for MH-60R Seahawk helicopters
✅ DRDO successfully tests fighter aircraft escape system
✅ GSL hands over ICGS Amulya (3rd FPV)
✅ Bharat Dynamics secures orders worth ₹2,462 cr

🔆 STATES
✅ Odisha to host Global Energy Leaders’ Summit (5–7 Dec, Puri)
✅ Tamil Nadu gets 5 new GI tags (Woraiyur Sarees, Thooyamalli Rice, Choppu Samaan, Soapstone Utensils, Nattu Sarkarai)

🔆 SCHEMES
✅ Govt expands JI-VAN Yojana for advanced biofuels; supports 2G & 3G ethanol plants
✅ Govt approves 25 lakh PMUY LPG connections for FY26
✅ Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) framework notified

🔆 IMPORTANT DAYS
✅ Navy Day – 4 Dec; celebrated in Kerala with maritime display
✅ International Day Against Unilateral Coercive Measures – 4 Dec
✅ International Day of Banks – 4 Dec
✅ International Cheetah Day – 4 Dec

🔆 APPOINTMENTS
✅ Rohit Rajpal → India’s Davis Cup Captain

🔆 OBITUARIES
✅ Italian tennis legend Nicola Pietrangeli dies at 92

🔆 SPORTS
✅ Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, age 3, becomes youngest FIDE-rated player ever

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🔆 Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025

📍 Context
✅ Lok Sabha passed the Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025 to update taxation on tobacco products.

📍 Background
✅ After GST (2017), most central excise duties were repealed except on:
• Tobacco, liquor, petroleum, etc.
✅ Tobacco currently attracts GST + Compensation Cess + Central Excise
✅ GST Compensation Cess on tobacco is planned to be discontinued

📍 Objective of the Bill
✅ Impose higher central excise duty on tobacco & related products after cess ends
→ Ensures overall tax burden stays the same
→ Maintains revenue & discourages tobacco consumption

📍 Key Concept
✅ Excise Duty = Indirect tax on domestic production of goods by the central government

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