Khaleda Zia – Bangladesh’s First Female Prime Minister Passes Away
Why in news? Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister and a central figure in its pro‑democracy movement, passed away on 30 December ...
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Why in news? Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s first female prime minister and a central figure in its pro‑democracy movement, passed away on 30 December ...
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Why in news? India has been elected to serve as vice chair of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) in 2025 and will assume the chairmansh...
Why in news? The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on 19 December 2025 a disbursement of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) ...
Why in news? The 11th forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 14–15 December 2025. India�...
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Why in news? In December 2025 the Goa police sought Interpol’s help to track owners of a night club wanted in a human‑trafficking case. Media repo...
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Why in news? The seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA‑7) opened on 8 December 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya. It brought togethe...
Why in news? On 2 December 2025 the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) and the Madhya Pradesh State Tiger Strike Force arrested an international wil...
Why in news? At the annual meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held in Vienna in early December 2025, Ukraine’...
Why in news? Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have officially declared an end to the country’s latest Ebola outbreak...
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Why in news? At the 50th‑anniversary conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar urged...
Why in news? The Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index 2025 ranks India as the third most powerful country in Asia, after the United States and China. T...
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Why in news? The Israeli Cabinet approved a plan to relocate the remaining members of the Bnei Menashe community from India’s northeastern states to...
Why in news? India hosted the 10th session of the Asian and Pacific Centre for Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) in New Delhi on ...
Why in news? An Indian delegation led by P. Sivakumar, Member Secretary of the Central Silk Board and Secretary General of the International Sericultu...