GI TAG IN DECEMBER 2025

TAMILNADU - 

* 5 PRODUCTS OF TAMILNADU GETS GI TAG.

* WORAIYUR COTTON SARI - 

* KAVINDAPADI NATTU SAKKARAI ( JAGGERY POWDER) 

* NAMAKKAL MAKKAL PATHIRANGAL SOAPSTONE ) 

* THOOYAMALLI RICE VARIETY 

* AMBASAMUDRAM CHOPPU SAMAN ( WOODEN TOYS) 

* TAMILNADU HAS NOW 74 GI TAGS BEHIND UTTAR PRADESH 

* MADHYA PRADESH - 

* MADHYA PRADESH GETS 5 GI TAG 

* KHAJURAHO STONE CRAFT 

* CHHATARPUR FURNITURE 

* BAITUL BHAIRAVA METAL CRAFT 

* GWALIOR ROCK ART 

* GWALIOR PAPER MESO CRAFT 

* ANDHRA PRADESH - 

* Ponduru Khadi From Andhra Pradesh Get GI TAG.

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EXERCISE IN DECEMBER 2025

* Indian Navy And Royal Thailand Navy Successfully Conducted The Maritime Exercise SITMEX 2025 With Singapore Navy At Andaman and Nicobar.

*  The 10th Edition Of India - Indonesia Joint Special Forces Exercise ( EX - GARUDA SHAKTI) Set To Conducted From 3rd December To 12th December 2025 At Bakloh 

* The 14th Edition Of The ANNUAL Bilateral Exercise EKUVERIN Between Indian ARMY And Maldives NATIONAL DEFENSE Forces Will Conducted From 2nd To 15th December At Thirumalapuram, Kerala.

* The 5th Edition Of The Joint Military Exercise HARIMAUSHAKTI Between Indian Army And Malaysian ARMY Will Conducted From 5th To 18th December 2025 At Mahajan Field Firing Range, Rajasthan 

* The INDIAN Air Force Is Hosting The Exercise AVIAINDRA 2025 , A Joint Exercise With Russian Federation Aerospace Force (RFASF) From 15-25 December 2025 

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*  Indian Army Contingent Set To Participate In The 2nd Edition Of The India - UAE Joint Military Exercise DESERT CYCLONE - II At Abu Dhabi From 18th To 30th December 2025 

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*  QUAD Countries Carried Out The First Indo - Pacific Logistics Network Field Training Exercise (!8-12 December 2025) 

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PORTAL APP LAUNCHED IN DECEMBER 2025

* Union Minister Of Jal SHAKTI Shri C R Patil Has Launched The JAL - SHAKTI Hackathon 2025 And BHARAT -WIN Portal.

* Union Minister CR Patil Has Launched The SUJALAM Bharat Application ( For Geo - Referencing Monitoring And Management Of Rural Water Supply Infrastructure Under Jal Jeevan Mission (

* Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushakar Singh Dhami Has Launched The my Scheme Portal In Uttarakhand.

MOU SIGNED IN DECEMBER 2025

* Northern Coal Limited ( NCL) And Oil India Limited ( OIL) Signed MoU With NSTFDC For Execution Of CSR Funded Infrastructure Development Of Ekalavya Model Residential School.

* Department Of Post And JSC Russia Post Forge Landmark Pact To Boost Cross - BORDER E- Commerce With International Tracked Packed SERVICES.

* Microsoft Announced The USD 17.5 Billions Investment To Advance India's AI INFRASTRUCTURE 

* The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) And The Italian NATIONAL Olympics Committee ( CONI) Signed A MoU To Enhance Bilateral Cooperation In Sports At New Delhi 

* Ministry Of Labour And Employment Signed MoU With Microsoft For Job Opportunity 

* India' And Liberia Signed MoU On Pharmacopeia To Promote Shared Quality Standard 

*  India - Oman Signed The CEPA 

* India And Nederlands Announced The Establishment Of India - Nederlands Joint Trade And Investment Committee ( JTC ) Through MoU.

* Ministry Of SOCIAL JUSTICE And Patanjali University & Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Ashram Signed MoU For Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan.

INDIA - RUSSIA  

* * RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS VISITED TO INDIA 

* PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI GIFTED SACRED GITA TO VLADIMIR PUTIN 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Gifted To Russian President Vladimir Putin 

- Assam black Tea 

- Silver Tea Set From Murshidabad 

- Handicrafts Silver Horse From Maharashtra 

- Agar Made Marble Chess 

MOU SIGNED - 

*  India Handed Over Letter Of Intent ( LOI) To Australia University Of New South Wales For Setting Up It's New Campus.

PM NARENDRA MODI O VISIT TO 3 NATION ( JORDAN, ETHIOPIA, OMAN) - 

ON VISIT TO JORDAN - 

* PM NARENDRA MODI AT JORDAN 

* CAPITAL CITY' - AMMAN 

* CURRENCY - JORDANIAN DINAR 

* PM OF JORDAN - JAFAR HASSAN 

* PM MODI MET WITH KING ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN 

MOU EXCHANGE - 

ON VISIT TO ETHIOPIA - 

* PM NARENDRA MODI ON VISIT TO ETHIOPIA ON 16/12/2025 

* FIRST INDIAN PM TO VISIT ETHIOPIA 

* CAPITAL OF ETHIOPIA - ADDIS ABABA 

* CURRENCY OF ETHIOPIA - ETHIOPIAN BIRR 

* ETHIOPIA PM - ABIY AHMED ALI 

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3 MOU SIGNED BW INDIA & ETHIOPIA - 

* MoU For Establishing Data Centre At The Ministry Of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia 

* Implementing Arrangement For Co-operation In United Nation Peacekeeping Operation Training.

* Agreement On Cooperation And Mutual Administrative Assistance In Custom Matters 

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HONOURED - 

* * ETHIOPIA PM DR ABIY AHMED ALI PRESENTED COUNTRY'S HIGHEST HONOUR TO PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI 

* GRAND ORDER OF STAR OF ETHIOPIA 

ON VISIT TO OMAN - 

* PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI ON VISIT TO OMAN 

* CAPITAL - MUSCAT 

* CURRENCY - OMANI RIAL 

* OMAN PRIME MINISTER - SULTAN HAITHAM Bin Tariq Al Said ( Sultan Of Oman) 

MOU/AGREEMENT SIGNED - 

* INDIA AND OMAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS LINK SIGNED (FTA) 

( CEPA SIGNED BETWEEN TWO NATION) 

HONOURS - 

* PM NARENDRA MODI RECEIVED THE OMAN'S HIGHEST HONOUR 

[[ THE FIRST CLASS OF THE ORDER OF OMAN ]]]

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SCHEMES LAUNCHED IN DECEMBER 2025

* Ministry Of Women's And Child Development Has Launched The Campaign Child Marriage Free Bharat 100 Days Awareness Campaign 

* The Union HEALTH Ministry In Collaboration With WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION ( WHO) Launched A Month Long Campaign At Sultanpur Metro Station Focusing On Women's And Girls Health And Well Being - 

* Will Spread Awareness Regarding Women's Safety, Mental Health And Digital Inclusion, TB AWARENESS 

* UPSC Introduced The Centre Of Choice Facility For All Persons With Benchmark Disabilities Candidate.

* Cabinet Approved Rs 11,718 Crores For CENSUS 2027 

* Cabinet Approved The Minimum Support Price For COPRA For 2026 Season 

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STATE - 

*  Tamilnadu CM Launched The WINNING TAMIL WOMEN And WOMEN'S RIGHT Allowance Scheme.

* Ozempic, Has Been Approved By USFDA For Diabetes 2 

* Uttarkhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami Has Launched The Uttarakhand Aroma Revolution Policy 2026-2036 

* The Union Cabinet Has Approved The POLICY For Auction Of Coal Linkage For Seamless, Efficient, And Transparent, 

* The UNION Government Has Approved The Development Of The Viksit Bharat Mumbai Marina 

*  National Commission For WOMEN ( NCW,) Launched The SHAKTI Scholars Young Research Fellowship For WOMEN.

* * PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI HAS LAUNCHED THE BARAPUTRA AITHIYA GRAM YOJANA ( SCHEME) ON JUNE 2025 IN ODISHA.

* IT AIMS TO TRANSFORMS THE BIRTH PLACE OF EMINENT ODIAS TO LIVING MEMORIAL THROUGH MUSEUMS.

* ON  25TH DECEMBER 2025 ODISHA GOVERMENT APPROVED 

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ISRO & SPACE CA IN DECEMBER 2025

AWARDS - 

* Tessy Thomas, Missile Woman Of India Received The Dr Paulos Mar Gregorios Award 2025: ( For Her Contribution In Agni Missile Agni -IV & Agni -V) Ballistic Missile.

* SELECTED FOR - 

Urbasi Sinha, From Raman Research Institute ( RRI) Selected For The Quantum 100 Under The International Year Of Quantum Science & Technology 2025

LAUNCHED - 

* INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION (ISRO) HAS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED ITS 100TH SATELLITE ON 24TH DECEMBER 2025.

* THE LVM3-M6 / BLUE -BIRD BLOCK -2 a COMMERCIAL MISSION ON LVM-3 VEHICLE.

* THIS IS THE 6TH OPERATIONAL FLIGHT OF LVM-3.

* THE WORLD'S HEAVIEST COMMERICAL COMSAT in LEO - AST MOBILE SPACE 

* ISRO SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED FROM SRIHARIKOTA, ANDHRA PRADESH.

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FINDS - 

* Pune Researchers Rashi Jain And Yogesh Wadadekar Have Discovered Alaknanda, A Massive Spiral Galaxy That Existed When Universe Was Just 1.5 Billion Years Old 

* THE WEEK Felicitated Shubhranshu Shukla As Men Of The Year 2025.

* Since 2014 ISRO Has Been Launched Over 390 Foreign Satellites.

* ISRO SUCCESSFULLY Completed Drogue Parachute Deployment Qualification Test For The Gaganyaan Crew Module At Chandigarh.

APPOINTMENTS IN DECEMBER 2025

*  2012 IDAS Prasanth Dubey Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Secretary in The Department Of Consumer Affairs Under Central Staffing Scheme.

* Telengana First State To Appointed Transgender As Traffic Marshal.

* Veteran BJP Leader Prem Kumar Elected As The Speaker Of Bihar Assembly.

*  Indian Railway Promotes Women's World Cup Stars Pratika Rawal, Sneh Rana And Renuka Singh Thakur Has To Prestigious GROUP B OFFICE Grade - Post Of OFFICER On Special Duty ( OSD) 

*  The Council Member Of States Of International IDEA Has Elected India To Chair For 2026 

- CEC Gyanesh Kumar Assumed The Post 

- HQ - STOCKHOLM, Sweden 

* 2000 BATCH IAS OFFICER of UTTAR PRADESH Cadre Deepak Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Managing Director Of Small Farmer's Agri Business Consortium ( SFAC)

*  1987 BATCH Indian Railway Accounts Service ( IRAS) APARNA GARG Has Been Appointed As The Member ( Finance,) Of Railway Board.

* Sadanand Date Has Assumed As The New DGP Of Maharashtra.

* Professor Dhruba K Bhattacharya Has Been Appointed As The Vice Chancellor OF Tezpur University.

* Professor Anindaya Datta Appointed As The Director Of The Institute Of Nano Science & Technology ( INST) MOHALI.

* Renuka Iyer Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Medical Officer Of National Comprehensive Cancer Network ( NCCN) 

*  Milind Sathe Appointed As The Advocate General Of Maharshtra.

* Runjhun Sharma Has Been Appointed As The Head Of News RT India 

* * UDAYA NAGARAJU, A NATIVE OF SHANIGARAM VILLAGE IN KARIM NAGAR DISTRICT IN TELENGANA HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO HOUSE OF LORDS AT BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

* Ashok Bagriya Has Been Appointed As The CEO Of RT India'.

* IRS Vatsa Sehra Has Been Appointed As The Joint Director At Economic Advisory Council To Prime Minister 

* * SENIOR JOURNALIST SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY ELECTED AS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF PRESS CLUB OF INDIA 

* VICE PRESIDENT - JATIN GANDHI 

* BJP Parliamentary Board Has Appointed Senior Party LEADER Nitin Nabin As National Working President 

* Raj Kumar Goyal Took Oath As The Chief Information Commissioner By President Droupadi MURMU 

* Baijayant Panda Has Been Appointed As BJP Election In Charge For Upcoming Assam Election.

* Union Minister Piyush Goyal Has Been Appointed As The BJP Election In Charge For Tamilnadu.

* Sanjay Saraogi Has Been Appointed As BJP State President Of Bihar.

* 2012 Batch IPS OFFICER Richa Sharma Has Been Appointed As The Director Of The Department Of Higher Education, Government of India'.

* India Elected To Chair At The UN Backed Kimberly Process From 1st January 2026. 

* Shri M S Patiyal Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Timor leste 

*  Shri Nagesh Singh Has Been Appointed As Indian High Commissioner To Australia 

* Shri Abhishek Singh Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Benin.

* FORMER Uttar Pradesh DGP Prashant Kumar Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission.

*  Er.  Ashok Kumar Basa, Became The First Indian To Be Appointed As The Internal Auditor Of The World Federation Of Engineering Organisation ( WFEO) 

( He Served President Of NIT ROURKELA) 

* 1991 Batch IAS OFFICER Anu Garg Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Secretary Of Odisha.

( She Became The First Female Chief Secretary Of Odisha) 

* Senior BJP Leader V V RAJESH Becoming The BJP's First Mayor Of Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation.

JUDICIAL - 

* Justice B R Gavai, Former CJI APPOINTED As Dr B R AMBEDKAR Chair Professor On Constitutional Law At NALSAR, Hyderabad.

* West Bengal Governor C V Anand Bose Has Appointed Retired JUSTICE Rabindranath Samantha As The Lokayukta For WEST BENGAL.

* Center Appoints Senior Advocate DP Singh And K Ravinder Kumar As Additional Solicitor General.

RESIGNED - 

* Prasar BHARATI Chairman Navneet Sahgal Has Been Resigned From HIS Post 

PRIME MINISTER - 

* * CZECH REPUBLIC PRESIDENT PETR PAVEL APPOINTS ANDREJ BABIS AS NEW PRIME MINISTER.

* CAPITAL - PRAGUE 

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PRESIDENT - 

* CHIE HAS ELECTED FAR RIGHT LEADER JOSE ANTONIO KAST AS ITS NEXT PRESIDENT. 

* CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE NASRY ASFURA DECLARED AS THE WINNER OF PRESIDENT ELECTION IN HONDURAS 

* CAPITAL OF HONDURAS - TEGUCIGALPA 

* CURRENCY - HONDURAN LEMPIRA 

BRAND AMBASSADOR - 

* Actress Sobhita Dhulipala Has Appointed As Brand Ambassador Of Aditya Birla Group Aadyam Handwoven 

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