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Highlights of 18 December 2025 Current Affairs
- The Viksit Bharat – G-RAM G Bill, 2025 proposes replacing MGNREGA with a new rural employment framework offering 125 days of guaranteed work, prioritising durable asset creation and climate-resilient infrastructure.
- The Bill strengthens grassroots planning through Viksit Gram Panchayat Plans, integrates them with PM Gati Shakti, and uses a national rural infrastructure stack for coordinated planning and performance-based funding.
- The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha Bill, 2025 raises FDI in insurance to 100%, enhances policyholder protection through a dedicated fund, reduces capital requirements for foreign re-insurers, and increases IRDAI’s enforcement powers.
- LIC is granted greater operational autonomy, enabling expansion without prior government approval and improving competitiveness in the insurance sector.
- The SHANTI Bill, 2025 opens India’s nuclear power sector to private players, revises nuclear liability rules with a tiered compensation structure, and removes the operator’s right of recourse to boost investment.
- The Bill grants statutory status to AERB, strengthens regulatory oversight, and expands compensation to cover nuclear incidents affecting foreign territories.
- The US has questioned the WTO’s role due to MFN-related constraints, outdated rules, dispute settlement paralysis, and rising geopolitical fragmentation in global trade governance.
- The UNGA’s new declaration on NCDs and mental health expands recognised health risks, includes digital harm for the first time, and urges stronger regulation of unhealthy products and pollutants.
- The Goldar Committee recommends revising India’s GDP base year to 2022–23, integrating modern datasets like GSTN and PLFS to better capture the digital and informal economy.
- India plans to build the advanced Maitri-II Antarctica research station by 2032, while its defence capability gets a boost with the induction of AH-64E Apache helicopters; tensions rise as Iran seizes a tanker in the Gulf of Oman, underscoring the region’s strategic significance.
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