11-12 December 2025 Current Affair

🇮🇳 NATIONAL AFFAIRS – 12 DECEMBER

1) Telangana Rising Global Summit 2025

• State secures ₹5.75 lakh crore investments .

• Focus: Energy transition, AI data infra, next-gen technologies.

2) NABARD RECSS Survey (8th Round)

• Shows broad-based rural demand revival , rising incomes.

3) SBI + Bank of Baroda to Set Up Digital Payments Intelligence Platform

• Approved by RBI.

​​​​​​​ 4) RBI Issues Master Direction: Rupee IRD Directions 2025

• Permits resident + non-resident participation in rupee-denominated interest rate derivatives

• Effective 1 March 2026 .

5) Wise Travel Card Launched in India

• Low-cost cross-border spending card.

6) Bank of Baroda Wins “Best Bank in India”

• The Banker – Bank of the Year Awards 2025 (Asia-Pacific).

7) MoF "Aapki Poonji, Aapka Adhikar" Campaign

• Addresses unclaimed financial assets (Oct–Dec 2025).

8) TRAI–RBI Digital Consent Acquisition Pilot

• Customers receive SMS to manage promotional communication opt-ins.

9) Sahaj Insurance gets IRDAI Corporate Agency Licence

10) Australia Enforces Social Media Ban

• Children under 16 banned from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube.

11) Bank of Baroda launches new ad campaign

• Featuring Sachin Tendulkar as global brand ambassador.

12) ICICI Bank acquires 2% stake

• Buys additional stake in ICICI Prudential AMC for ₹2,140 crore.

13) JSW Paints acquires 61.2% in Akzo Nobel India

14) SINE–IIT Bombay launches Y-Point VC Fund

• India’s first deep-tech VC fund by an academic incubator.

• Size: ₹250 crore .

15) IIT Madras launches Samgnya Technologies Foundation

• India’s National Quantum Communication Hub .

16) India Post opens Kerala’s first Gen-Z Post Office

• At CMS College, Kottayam.

17) TIME Magazine

• Names Neal Mohan (YouTube CEO) as 2025 CEO of the Year .

18) Jasprit Bumrah becomes first Indian

• To take 100 wickets each in Tests, ODIs & T20Is .

19) India to host Squash World Cup 2025

• At SDAT Stadium, Chennai (10–14 December).

20) SEA Games 2025 begin

• Host: Thailand .

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🌍 IMPORTANT DAY — 12 DECEMBER

Universal Health Coverage Day

Theme: Access to quality healthcare without financial hardship .

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🇮🇳 NATIONAL AFFAIRS – 11 DECEMBER

1) PMJDY Deposits Touch ₹2.75 Lakh Crore (Nov 2025)

• Reflects deepening financial inclusion.

2) Adani Group to Set Up 48 MW Green Data Centre in Telangana

• Boost to digital infra & sustainability.

3) India Launches Gyan Bharatam

• A Ministry of Culture programme to digitise & conserve manuscript heritage .

4) WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine 2025

• India begins official countdown.

• Venue: Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi (17–19 Dec 2025).

5) NATGRID

• Integrated digital intelligence platform for real-time access to govt + private databases.

• Supports counter-terrorism .

6) Maharashtra Sets Guinness Record

• Installed 45,911 off-grid solar pumps in 30 days (2nd fastest globally after China).

7) Awards

• Raveena Tandon → PETA India Person of the Year 2025.

• Anant Ambani → Youngest & first Asian to receive Global Humanitarian Award for Animal Welfare .

8) Semiconductors: Tata Electronics + Intel MoU

• Collaboration on manufacturing & advanced packaging in India.

9) RBI Updates

• Revised rules for import/export of Indian currency to/from Nepal & Bhutan.

• PSBs wrote off ₹6.15 lakh crore loans (last 5 FYs + FY25 till Sep 30).

• Halted new OneCard co-branded issuances (FPL Technologies).