WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 29TH DECEMBER 2025 TO 4TH JANUARY 2026

1) A MoU Signed Between The Indian Naval Academy And International Institute Of Information Technology Bengaluru ( IIIT-B) To Strengthen Academic And Research.

2) Paypal Partnership With NPCI To Launch Global UPI Based Payment Platform.

3) President Droupadi MURMU Became The 2nd Indian President To Maiden Sortie Onboard To a Kalvari Class Submarine INS VAGHSHEER At Karwar Naval Base, Karnataka.

4) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Has Launched The Infrastructure Projects Worth Rs 200 Crores in NIT ROURKELA.

5) AN ACCIDENTAL LAWYER: Book Author - K K Venugopal With Suhasini Sen 

6) Union Minister Prahlad Joshi Has Released The Indian Standard For Electric Agricultural Tractor. ( TEST CODE - ) Developed By The BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS ( BIS) 

7) Vaidehee Chaudhari Wins The Women's Single Title At ITF W35 SOLAPUR.

8) Researchers From IIT - Hyderabad Have Developed a Non - Invasive AI - Powered Tool To Predict Brain Cancer 

9) FORMER Australian Cricketer Brett Lee Set To Inducted into Australian Cricket Hall Of Fame 

10) Taiwan Recorded 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake.

11) French Actress And Singer Brigitte Bardot Passed Away.

12) Indian Women Cricketer Smriti Mandhana Completed 10,000 International Runs in 281 Innings, After Mithali Raj 

13) India Has Introduced its First Dedicated Standard For Bomb Disposal SYSTEM.

14) The Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar On visit To Odisha, He Visited To Raghurajpur.

15) Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Has Released The BHUPEN DA KA SURILA SAFAR Book Author - Azhar Alam ( Bhupen Hazarika Life Story) 

16) Hompy Koneru Wins Bronze In The World Rapid Championship 2025 (Women's) 

17) Magnus Carlsen Wins The 2025 World Rapid Championship ( Men's) 

18) Aleksandra Goryachikina Wins The 2025 Women's Rapid Championship 

19) Arjun Erigaisi Wins The Bronze In Men's 2025 World Rapid Championship 

1) Television Maker And FOUNDER Of Krishnaswamy Associate S Krishnaswamy Passed Away.

2) Former England Cricket Board Chief Executive Hugh Morris PASSED AWAY.

3) Magnus Carlsen Wins The Men's World Rapid Championship 2025 (6th Rapid Title) 

4) Contribution Of Indian Sectors in GDP 2025 

( Services 55%, INDUSTRY 27%, Agriculture 18%)

5) Rithvik Became The First Tamil To Win A Title In 87th Senior National Badminton Championships 2025 

6) SANGRAM KESARI SENAPATI Wins The Timepass Prathama Award 2025 For Novel Cigarette.

7) Dr. C S Pramesh From Tata Memorial Hospital Has Been Recognised As Among The 100 Most Influential People in Oncology 2025 

8) Human CAPITAL For VIKSIT BHARAT, 2025 Theme For 5th Conference of Chief Secretariat.

9) SOURCE CODE: My Beginning Book Author - Bill Gates 

10) India's Defence GROWTH in 2025 

11) A R RAHMAN Has Announced The Establishment Of Naga International Studio In Kohima, 

12) Kandla International Container Terminal Has Achieved A Historical Milestone By Handling 78,06,220 MT In 2025 

13) A Century Old Sculpture Has Been Evacuate In Kashmir (Avantipura) 

14) India Ranked 3rd In Rare Earth Elements In World 

15) The RBI has Released The Trend And Progress Of Banking in india 2024/25 Report.

16) ODISHA To Establish The First All Women Protection Squad Of 5 Members To Safe Guard In Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Bargarh, ODISHA.

17) Union Home Minister Amit Shah Has Inaugurated The World Class Jyoti Bishnu Antarjatik Kala Mandir in Assam.

* Union Home Minister Amit Shah Has Inaugurated The Srimanta Sankaradeva Abhirbhav Kshetra In Assam 

18) New Delhi To Host The AI IMPACT SUMMIT In February 2026 

19) SCROLL's Vaishnavi Rathore Wins IPI Award In Excellence In JOURNALISM.

20) Sonata Gold Collection Wins 2025 Good Design Award.

1) 55 Tigers Died in Madhya Pradesh Since 1973 Project TIGER.

2) Union Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu Flagged Off The Inaugural Flight Of The Dhruv NG Helicopter In Bengaluru.

3) Syria Unveiled New Currency.

4) 26 Years Of The Trade Marks Act 1999.

5) Former PRIME MINISTER ( First Female Prime Minister) Of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia Passed Away 

6) Serbian Tennis Star NOVAK DJOKOVIC Received The Global Lifetime achievement Award At The 13th MOHAMMED Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Sports Award 

7) India Level II Plus Hospital in Monusco Honoured With SRSG & Head Of Mission Unit appreciation.

8) SOCIALISM And The Indian Constitution Book Author - Prabhat Pattnaik 

9) Professor Ajay Sood Has CONFERRED With HONORARY DOCTORATE OF Science By Governor Of Uttar Pradesh.

10) Filmmaker Rima Das Has Been Honoured With The New York WOMEN in Film And Television ( NYWFT) Award For Excellence in Directing 2025 

11) Six New Spider Species Has Been Discovered in Srilanka.

12) Former Srilankan Under 19 Cricketer Akshu Fernando Passed Away.

13) Legendary Srilankan Singer Kalasuri Latha Walpola Passed Away.

14) Dr Hemen Kumar Kalita, Guwahati University Assistant PROFESOR IN Department Of Physics Became The First GU Faculty To Be COMMISIONED As Flying Officer in The Indian Air Force ( IAF)

15) Ms Kaamya Karthikeyan, 18 Years Old Daughter Of Naval OFFICER Became The Youngest Indian And The 2nd Youngest Female To Ski To The South Pole 

16) Raj Athwal Stepped Down As CEO Of Odisha Football Club.

17) The Three Times Women's Euro Winning Coach Sarina Wiegman Has Been Awarded An HONORARY Damehood in KING Charles III's 

18) Arjun Wins Bronze in FIDE Blitz World Championships 2025 

* Bibisara Assaubayeva Wins Women's FIDE Blitz World Championships 2025 

* Magnus Carlsen Wins The Men's FIDE Blitz World Championships 2025 

19) WILD CAPITAL: Discovering Nature in Delhi Book Author - Neha Sinha

 

20) Former England Cricketer Isa Guha Awarded An MBE in The Kings New Year Honour.

21) China Launched The Live Drills Around Taiwan - JUSTICE MISSION 2025 

22) Ms Roshni Aparanji Korati, IAS Assumed Charged As The First Woman Deputy Chairperson Of Visakhapatnam Port Authority ( VPA)

1) Bibisara Assaubayeva Wins The FIDE Women's World Blitz Championship 2025 

Silver - Anna Muzychuk 

Bronze - Eline Roebers & Zhu Jiner 

2) India Surpass Japan Became The World's 4th Largest Economy Countries ( 4.18 Trillion USD) 

3) Gyan Ranjan Das, Former National Football PLAYER From Odisha Passed Away.

4) Delhi Government Has Approved The Delhi Jan Viswas ( Amendment Of Provision) Bill 2026.

5) India's Exports In 2025 ( State Wise) 

6) Nayanima Basu ( Book - The Fall Of Kabul) Has Win The Best Debut Author At Aut Her Award 2025 

7) scientist Have Developed Simulation Of Rare Molecular Events.

8) Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Has Virtually Launched The Rs 75 Crores High Performance Centre 

9) ODISHA Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Has Announced The Development Project In Bargarh District, 

10) Ajay Singhal Has Been Appointed As The New DGP Of Haryana.

11) Iran Appoints New Central Bank Governor After Mass Protest in COUNTRY.

( ABDOLNASSER HEMMATI, FORMER ECONOMICS MINISTER OF IRAN ) 

12) Ambassador Of QUAD Nations Meeting Held At Beijing, China 

13) GRSE Laid The Keel For The 2nd Vessel Of Multi Purpose Vessel ( MPV) 

14) ONDC Completed 4 Years.

15) Warren Buffett Has Steps Down As Berkshire Hathway As CEO After 6 DECADES.

16) Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari Retires As Vice Chief Of The Air Staff, Indian Air Force. ( JOINED IN 1986) 

17) Senior IAS OFFICER Aravinda Padhee Promoted As Additional Chief Secretary Of ODISHA.

18) West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose Has Appoints Nandini Chakraborty As Additional Chief Secretary Home Affairs, West Bengal. ( 1994 Batch IAS)!

* 1991 Batch EX IAS OFFICER Manoj Pant Appointed As The Principal Secretary To West Bengal Chief Minister 

19) Department Of Post And Small Industries Development Bank Of India ( SIDBI) Signed MoU For Contact Point Verification Of Informal Micro Entreprise On Udyam Assist Platform.

20) Union Cabinet Has Cleared The Rs 1526 Crores Up gradation Of NH-326 In Odisha.

21) Government Of India Has Prohibits Sale And Manufacturing Of All Oral Formulating Contains Nimesulide Above 100 Mg 

68th DRDO Raising Day - 1st JANUARY 

1) Government Of India Collected Rs 1.75 Lakh Crores GST In December 2025. 

Maharashtra With 16,140 Crores 

Uttar Pradesh With 6,671 Crores 

Karnataka With 6716 Crores 

Gujarat With 6351 Crores 

Tamilnadu With 5992 Crores 

West Bengal With 3559 Crores 

Telengana With 3552 Crores 

Rajasthan With 3455 Crores 

Haryana With 3629 Crores 

Delhi With 2684 Crores 

Andhra Pradesh With 2652 Crores 

Kerala With 2643 Crores 

2) Former National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General Sadanand Date Has Been Appointed As Maharashtra's New DGP For Next Two Years. 

3) 2004 West Bengal IAS Officer Jagdish Prasad Meena Appointed As New Home Secretary Of West Bengal. 

4) 21.63 billion UPI Transaction Count In December 2025 

27.97 Lakh Crores UPI Transaction Amount In December 2025 

698 Million Average Daily Transaction Count In December 2025 

5) Department Of Financial Services Successfully Concluded The Nation Wide 3 Months Long Campaign YOUR MONEY YOUR Right 

6) Tenure Of Sonal V Mishra IPS, IG CRPF Extended For a Period Of One Year. 

7) The Ministry Of Statistics And Programme Implementation Unveiled It's New Logo And Mascot. 

8) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Has Announced The Launch Of The BABU ASONI Scheme From February 1 2026. 

( Under This Scheme Male Students Pursuing Post Graduates Courses Will Receive a Monthly Stipend Of Rs 2000 While Those Enrolled In Undergraduate Programmes Will Get Rs 1000 Per Month) 

9) Hyundai Motor India Limited ( HMIL) Announced Tarun Garg As MD & CEO 

10) Eminent Meghalaya Artist Raphael Warjri Honoured With PRANAB BARUAH ARTIST Award 

11) Sashi Tharoor Has Received The MALAYALI Of The Year Award Of CNN News 18 From Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. 

12) Assam Reports Zero Rhino Poaching In 2025. 

13) Shri Skylance G Momin, The First GARO MPS Officer Of Nagaland Passed Away. 

14) Subedar Major Durgesh Singh Appointed As The Army Subedar Major. 

15) Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor Appointed As Vice Chief Of Indian Air Force. 

16) LT General Harpal Singh Assumed As The Director General Border Roads 

17) Bulgaria Adopts EURO As Its Official Currency. ( Became The 21st Nation To Adopt) 

18) Professor Amarendra Kumar Das Has Been Appointed As Pro - Vice Chancellor OF Tezpur University.

19) India Loses 165 Tigers in 2025

MADHYA PRADESH - 55 

MAHARASHTRA - 28 

KARNATAKA - 22 

UTTARAKHAND - 18 

ASSAM - 12 

RAJASTHAN -11 

20) Indian Army Declared 2026 As Year Of Networking And Data Centricity 

21) Dr Neeraj Mittal Has Been Appointed As The Secretary, Ministry Of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government Of India 

22) Manipur Celebrates The Gaan Ngai Festival.

23) Deposit Insurance And Credit Guarantee Corporation ( DICGC) Celebrates 64th Foundation Day.

 1) Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo Of Odisha High Court Has Been Appointed As The Chief Justice Of Patna High Court.

* Justice Soumen Sen Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Justice Of Kerala High Court.

* Justice Revati Mohite Dere Has Been Appointed As The Chief Justice Of Meghalaya High Court.

* Ms Sonak Appointed As Chief Justice Of Jharkhand. 

2) Zohran Mamdani Sworn In As New York City's 112th Mayor.

3) Violinist R K Shriram Kumar Conferred With Sangita Kalanidhi Award.

4) DEEN DAYAL LADO LAXMI Yojana, Haryana 

5) India Approved USD 8.7 Billion Purchase Of 1000 Spice 1000 AIR TO AIR Surface Missile From ISRAEL.

6) Major General Vikas Lal Has Assumed As The Command As General OFFICER Commanding Madhya Pradesh.

7) Two Times MLA From Nilgiri, Odisha Shri Akshay Acharya Passed Away.

8) The UN HAS Declared 2026 As The International Year Of The WOMAN FARMER.

9) Ministry Of Ayush To Celebrates The 9th Siddha Day  on 6th January 2026 (Theme 2026 - Siddha For Global Health)

10) JUSTICE G R Swaminathan, Madras High Court Has Take A Historic Decision To allowed A Memorial Stupa For 1755 Natham Kanavai War Heroes.

11) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma Has Launched The New Welfare Scheme For Udasin Bhakat Of Recognised Sattaras, 

( Providing Monthly Assistance Of Rs 1500 To 620 Bhakat)!

12) Sjoerd Marijine Has Been Appointed As The Chief Coach Of Indian Women's Hockey Team.

13) Dong, Arunachal Pradesh Has Welcome The First Sunrise Of 2026 

14) Senior IAS OFFICER Deoranjan Kumar Singh Took Charge As The Development Commissioner Of Odisha.

15) Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa Declared 60 Days State Emergency in 9 Province And 3 Municipality.

16) For The First Time Indian Army's Animal Contingent Will March On Kartavya Path In Republic Day Parade 2026 

17) Siddhartha Bhaiya, Managing Director Of Aequitas Passed Away.

18) Union Health Minister JP Nadda Has Released The 10th Edition Of Indian Pharmacopeia 

* India Rank 8th From 123 At WHO Pharma Co Vigilance 

19) Mamta Verma Appointed As The ADG Of DD News.

20) 2004 Batch IPS OFFICER Homkar Vinukant Has Been Appointed As The Inspector General In Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)

21) Manish Raj Gupta Has Takes Additional Charge Of CMD Of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited ( RINL)

22) Dr Meenesh Shah Appointed As Chairman Of National Dairy Development Board ( NDDB)

23) Guwahati, Assam To Host The National Textile Minister's Conference on 9th January 2026 

( Theme 2026 - India's Textile: Weaving GROWTH, Heritage And Innovation) 

24) Mukesh Singh Has Been Appointed As The New DGP Of Ladakh.

25) SD Singh Jamwal Has Been Appointed As The New DGP Of Arunachal Pradesh.

26) Anand Mohan Appointed As The DGP Of Delhi.

27) Venus Williams Became The Oldest Player (45 Years) To Play US OPEN 2026 

28) Dr Shyam Bihari Lal, MLA From Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh PASSED AWAY.

29) Meghalaya Riiohlang Dhar Has Been Selected For FIFA Referring International List For 2026 

30) ISRO Has Been Awarded Tagore Prize For Social Achievement 2024/25 Award 

1) Sreekumar G Pillai Has Been Appointed As The New Director Of Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research I GCAR).

2) Mamady Doumbouya Wins The Guinea Presidential Election.

3) Assam Became The First State To Continue The 8th Pay COMMISION.

4) Goa Set To Add Third District Named - Kushavati 

5) UTS Mobile Application Will Be Discontinue From March 2026:

6) Professor Shekhar C Mande Has Taken Charge As The President Of The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) 

7) India Rolls Out a Rs 7295 Crores Exporters Credit Package 

8) Shri Ram College Of Commerce Completed 100 Years.

9) Professor Ashok Gajanan Modak, FORMER National President Of The Akhila BHARATIYA Vidyarthi Parishad Has Passed Away.

10) IT IS MY SPACE Book Author - Astrophysicist And Astronomer Aswin Sekhar 

11) India's First AI Clinic Inaugurated In GIMS, Greater Noida.

12) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurates The Grand International Exposition Of Sacred Piprahwa Relics Of Buddha.

13) Ameerah Arshad Wins Women's 10 Meter Air Rifle Gold in National Shooting Championships.

14) Maharashtra's First WOMAN Director General Of Police ( DGP) Rashmi SHUKLA Retired. ( CAREER SPAN OF 37 YEARS) 

15) Mexico Recorded A Earthquake Of Magnitude 6.4 

16) Rupa Bayor, From Arunachal Pradesh Became The First Indian To Achieve World Number 6 And Asia Ranked 1 

17) Zambia Become The First' African Country To Take Mining Taxes in China's Yuan 

18) India Government Has Launched The Interest Subvention For Pre And Post Shipment Export Credit Under The Export Promotion Mission - NIRYAT PROTSAHAN To Reduce The Cost Of Export Finance For MSME Exporters.

19) 1996 Batch Andhra Pradesh Cadre IAS Officer Lav Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The DG Of The Directorate General Of Foreign Trade In The Ministry Of Commerce & Industry.

20) IDFC First Bank Has Launched The GAJ Metal Credit Card.

21) India Government Appoints N Venkatram As Part Time Member Of SEBI.

22) Sameer Sondhi Appointed As The CFO Of Affleind

23) IAS Rabindra Kumar Agarwal Appointed As The Chairman And Managing Director Of FCI.

24) IIT BOMBAY And NTPC HAVE Successfully Completed The Drilling Of India's First Well For Testing The Viability Of Geological CARBON Dioxide Storage 

25) Karnataka Records Its First' Sandalwood Leopard 

26) Senior Journalist Punam Thakur Passed Away.

27) Dr Hari Babu Kambhampati, Governor Of Odisha Witnessed The Book Launch Of AGNISARASSULO VIKASINCHINA KAMALAM - Droupadi MURMU Author - Acharya Yarlagadda Lakshmi PRASAD 

28) Indian Army Has Signed MoU with National Institute Of Electronic & Information Technology ( NELIT) For Development Of Army Educational Corps.

29) SDS Jamwal Has Been Appointed As The New DGP Of Arunachal Pradesh.

30) Shri Amit Tandon Assumed As The Project Director Of RVNL.

31) Odisha Chief Minister  Mohan Charan Majhi Has Launched The Book ADHUNIKA ODISHARA NIRMATA : JANAKI BALLABH PATTNAIK ( Author - Navajyoti Pattnaik) 

32) URMILA SATYANARAYAN Presented With NRITYA KALANIDHI Award.

33) Mauritius President Dharambeer Gokhool Has Visited To Andhra Pradesh,