🧪 Science, Technology & Innovation

• VoxelGrids, a Zoho-backed startup, developed India’s first indigenously built MRI scanner, boosting Make in India in medical technology.
• IIT Patna inaugurated Bihar’s first supercomputer ‘Param Rudra’ under the National Supercomputing Mission.

🏛️ National Affairs & Governance

• PM Narendra Modi will chair the 5th National Conference of Chief Secretaries in New Delhi.
• Gujarat reinstated as a tiger-bearing state after 33 years, confirmed by NTCA.
• India’s first national weapon database launched to combat terrorism, extremism & organised crime.
• EPFO reforms announced to modernise systems and expand social security coverage.

🏦 Banking, Finance & Economy

• SBI Life Insurance launched New Smart Samriddhi, an individual, non-linked, non-participating life insurance savings plan.

• NPCI launched a centralised portal npci.org.in to view, manage and revoke all UPI Autopay standing instructions from a single platform.

• India’s tax structure is shifting, with small and mid-sized states emerging as the fastest-growing contributors to GST and direct taxes.

• Goldman Sachs Macro Outlook 2026 projected India to remain among the fastest-growing major economies globally.

🛣️ Infrastructure & Transport

• NHAI received SEBI approval for its sponsored Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (RIIT) to operate as a public InvIT.

• Union Cabinet approved Delhi Metro Phase V(A) with a project cost of ₹12,014.91 crore to improve urban connectivity.

• DFCCIL signed a historic refinancing agreement with IRFC to refinance ₹10,000 crore foreign currency debt, a first domestic refinancing under Atmanirbhar Bharat.

🏛️ Governance & Policy

• Good Governance Day 2025 is observed on 25 December to commemorate the birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, former Prime Minister and Bharat Ratna awardee.

• The Central Government approved the establishment of a Bureau of Port Security to strengthen India’s maritime security architecture.

• NITI Aayog released the policy report “Internationalisation of Higher Education in India” to position India as a global education and research hub.