OPSC OCS 2025 Notification !

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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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MPPSC 2026 Updated Calendar

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Exam Date : 11 January, 2026

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🔆Useful Government Websites For Civil Service Preparation.

✅ ncert.nic.in – Download NCERT Texts as PDF.
✅ nios.ac.in – Download NIOS Online Materials.
✅ egyankosh.ac.in – Download IGNOU Books.
✅ yojana.gov.in – Download Yojana and Kurukshetra Magazines.
✅ upsc.gov.in – Official Website of UPSC.
✅ pib.nic.in – Press Information Bureau Website, for government updates.
✅ prsindia.org – PRS Website for tracking bills in Parliament.
✅ idsa.in – IDSA website for Defense and Foreign relations.
✅ gatewayhouse.in – Indian Council for Global relations.
✅ envfor.nic.in – Ministry of Environment and Forests.
✅ mea.gov.in – Ministry of External Affairs.
✅ indiabudget.gov.in – Download Budget and Economic Survey.
✅ ptinews.com – Press Trust of India.
✅ ibef.org – India Brand Equity Foundation for economy and business.
✅ vikaspedia.in – Knowledge initiative by InDG.
✅ makeinindia.com – Make in India initiative for manufacturing-related info.

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Taxation Explained | Economics Basics

This video explains taxation in a clear and simple manner—what it means, why governments levy taxes, and the types of taxes (direct and indirect).

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🔆 CURRENT AFFAIRS — 31 DEC 2025

🔆 REGULATORY / RBI

📍 Banking Data Publication
✅ RBI releases Statistical Tables relating to Banks in India: 2024–25
✅ Coverage: Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs)
✅ Excludes: Regional Rural Banks (RRBs)
✅ Data includes: assets, liabilities, income–expenditure, maturity profile
✅ Indicators: CRAR, NPAs, priority sector lending, unclaimed deposits
✅ Available on DBIE portal (web publication)

📍 NBFC Sector (RBI)
✅ NBFC balance sheets expand 18.9% in FY25
✅ Total size: ₹61.09 lakh crore
✅ Upper-layer NBFC profits up 26.5% (H1 FY26)
✅ Overall GNPA improves to 2.9%
⚠️ Microfinance stress persists
✅ NBFC-MFI GNPA rises 2.0% → 4.1%
✅ RBI asks MFIs to closely monitor stress build-up

🔆 ECONOMY

📍 Growth Outlook (EY Report)
✅ India projected $26 trillion economy by 2047–48
✅ Per capita income: >$15,000
✅ Average growth: ~6% annually

📍 Global Ranking
✅ India becomes 4th largest economy ($4.18 tn GDP)
✅ Overtakes Japan
✅ Likely to surpass Germany by 2030

📍 RBI Forecast
✅ FY26 GDP growth revised upward to 7.3%

🔆 NATIONAL

📍 Science & Innovation
✅ PSA Ajay Kumar Sood unveils National Technology Readiness Assessment Framework
✅ Objective: assess tech maturity from lab → market
✅ Partner: CII

📍 Agriculture
✅ Rabi sowing crosses 614 lakh hectares
✅ Pulses: 133 lakh ha
✅ Oilseeds: 94+ lakh ha
✅ Shri Anna/coarse cereals: 49+ lakh ha

📍 Renewable Energy
✅ India’s solar installed capacity crosses 130 GW (Nov 2025)
✅ YoY growth: 41%

📍 Trade
✅ From 1 Jan 2026, 100% Australian tariff lines become zero-duty for Indian exports
✅ Under India–Australia ECTA

🔆 INTERNATIONAL

📍 Rare Earths
✅ India ranks 3rd globally in rare-earth reserves
✅ REO reserves: 6.9 million tonnes
⚠️ Production < 1% of global output (strategic gap)

🔆 DEFENCE

📍 Missile Systems
✅ DRDO successfully tests Pinaka LRGR
✅ Range: 120 km
✅ Test site: Chandipur, Odisha

📍 Procurement
✅ MoD signs contracts worth ₹4,666 crore
✅ Includes CQB carbines & heavyweight torpedoes

📍 Regional Security
✅ China conducts “Justice Mission 2025” drills around Taiwan

🔆 SCIENCE & SKILLING

📍 AI & Skills
✅ President to confer AI certificates under SOAR Programme
✅ Objective: AI-ready workforce
✅ Led by MSDE + Skill India Mission

🔆 SPORTS

📍 Chess
✅ Arjun Erigaisi & Koneru Humpy win bronze
✅ FIDE World Rapid Championships 2025 (Doha)

📍 Cricket
✅ Smriti Mandhana becomes fastest to 10,000 international runs
✅ 4th woman globally to achieve milestone
✅ Date: 28 Dec 2025

📍 Records
✅ Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshey takes historic 8-wicket T20I haul
✅ First ever in men’s T20Is

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