Current Affairs One-liners — 15 December 2025

Mon, 15 Dec 2025

• Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan introduced the Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha on 15 December 2025, proposing a single apex body for higher education that subsumes the UGC, AICTE and NCTE.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with King Abdullah II of Jordan at Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman on 15 December 2025, as the two countries mark 75 years of diplomatic relations.
• The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed five loan agreements totalling over US$ 2.2 billion on 15 December 2025 for skilling, rooftop solar, healthcare in Assam, Chennai Metro and ecotourism in Meghalaya.
• Raj Kumar Goyal assumed office as Chief Information Commissioner of the Central Information Commission on 15 December 2025 and administered the oath of office to eight new Information Commissioners.
• The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on 15 December 2025 that annual inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) was (-) 0.32% (provisional) in November 2025.
• Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh introduced the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025 in Parliament on 15 December 2025.
• Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma launched the Heal in Rajasthan Policy 2025 for medical tourism and inaugurated 11 mother labs and 400 spokes under a free-diagnostics hub-and-spoke model at RUHS Hospital, Jaipur, on 15 December 2025.
• The Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on 15 December 2025 that India's total exports of goods and services in November 2025 were an estimated US$ 73.99 billion, up 15.52% over November 2024.
• Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti, Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff, began an official visit to the Maldives on 15 December 2025 to attend the closing ceremony of Exercise Ekatha 2025, the eighth edition of the India–Maldives maritime exercise.
• Telangana Agriculture Minister Tummala Nageswara Rao announced in Hyderabad on 15 December 2025 that farmers will be able to book urea through a mobile app, to be introduced on an experimental basis from 20 December.
• The Punjab Government's Home Department issued a notification on 15 December 2025 according 'holy city' status to the walled city of Amritsar, Sri Anandpur Sahib and Talwandi Sabo.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan paid tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 75th death anniversary on 15 December 2025.