Current Affairs One-liners — 20 December 2025

Sat, 20 Dec 2025

• The Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB—G RAM G) Bill, 2025 received the President's assent on 20 December 2025 and became Act No. 36 of 2025, replacing MGNREGA, 2005 with a guarantee of 125 days of wage employment.
• Union Minister Manohar Lal and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav inaugurated the Bhopal Metro's Orange Line Priority Corridor on 20 December 2025, making Bhopal the 26th Indian city with an operational Metro.
• The first leaders' summit of the 'Central Asia plus Japan' Dialogue (CA+JAD) was held in Tokyo on 20 December 2025, chaired by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi with the presidents of all five Central Asian countries.
• Union Minister Manohar Lal released the toolkit for the 10th edition of Swachh Survekshan (2025-26) in Bhopal on 20 December 2025, with the theme 'Swacchata Ki Nayi Pehel – Badhayein Haath, Karein Safai Saath'.
• India and the Netherlands exchanged an MoU on 20 December 2025 linking the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat with the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, during talks between S. Jaishankar and Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the New Terminal Building of Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi International Airport in Guwahati, Assam on 20 December 2025 and unveiled a statue of Assam's first Chief Minister Gopinath Bardoloi.
• The BCCI named India's 15-member squad for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026 and the T20I series against New Zealand on 20 December 2025, with Suryakumar Yadav as captain and Axar Patel as vice-captain.
• The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), which guards India's borders with Nepal and Bhutan, marked its 62nd Raising Day on 20 December 2025 with a ceremony at its training centre at Sapri near Jawalamukhi in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
• Minister of State for Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar inaugurated Andhra Pradesh's first Gen-Z themed campus Post Office at VIT-AP University, Amaravati on 20 December 2025.
• Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched 'VijAIpatha', a pilot AI, STEM and robotics education initiative for government schools in Hosapete taluk of Karnataka's Vijayanagara district, on 20 December 2025.