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Daily Current Affairs – 31 December, 2025

    India’s 2025 Economic Reforms

    Context

  • Economic reforms in 2025 reflect a maturing phase of India’s governance, where the emphasis shifted decisively from “expanding regulatory frameworks” to “delivering measurable outcomes”.

    • Income Tax Reforms

  • The Union Budget 2025-26 exempted the annual incomes up to ₹12 lakh from income tax under the new regime, with the effective exemption rising to ₹12.75 lakh for salaried taxpayers on account of the standard deduction.
  • The Government announced a comprehensive overhaul of the Income-tax Act, 1961, resulting in the New Income Tax Act, 2025. 
  • The Act strengthens digital-first enforcement, faceless tax administration, consolidates compliance provisions such as Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) under a single section etc.
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    Abhinav Bindra-led Panel Flags Systemic Gaps in Indian Sports Governance

    Context

  • Recently, a government-empowered task force led by Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra has revealed serious systemic weaknesses and structural deficiencies within India’s sports governance framework.

    • Key Findings: A System Under Strain

  • Systemic Deficiencies in Key Sports Institutions: India’s major sports institutions, including the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and state sports departments, suffer from chronic understaffing, poor inter-agency coordination, and excessive reliance on generalist civil servants or short-term contractual employees lacking domain expertise.
  • These shortcomings impede the effective implementation of national sports policies, weaken coordination with federations, and undermine India’s capacity to build a modern, athlete-centric ecosystem.
  • Absence of Professional Sports Administration Framework: India is lacking a national institute or structured framework for sports administration and governance.
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    Ministry tells Social Media Platforms to Block Obscene Content

    Context

  • The government has issued a fresh advisory to social media platforms to be stricter in taking down obscene, vulgar, pornographic and other illegal content from their platforms.

    • About

  • Reason: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has repeatedly received complaints that certain content circulating online does not comply with laws on decency and obscenity.
  • Under the IT Rules, 2021, platforms are required to make “reasonable efforts” to ensure that users do not upload or share content that is obscene, pornographic or illegal. 
  • MeitY asked platforms to ensure that users have easy access to reporting and grievance redressal systems. 
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    100 Years of Quantum Mechanics

    Context

  • 2025 has been declared the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology by UNESCO, marking 100 years since the formal development of quantum mechanics in 1925.
  • The milestone commemorates the Helgoland breakthrough by Werner Heisenberg, which laid the foundations of modern quantum theory.

    • What is Quantum Mechanics?

  • Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics that explains the behaviour of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales.
  • It departs from classical Newtonian physics and is based on principles such as quantisation of energy, wave–particle duality, uncertainty, and superposition.
  • It explains how extremely small objects simultaneously have the characteristics of both particles (tiny pieces of matter) and waves (a disturbance or variation that transfers energy).
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    India’s Domination of Global Rice Trade Stokes Looming Water Crisis

    Context

  • India is the world’s largest rice exporter despite being a highly water-stressed country which represents a policy paradox.

    • About

  • India overtook China as the world’s largest rice producer and now accounts for ~40% of global rice exports.
  • Rice exports crossed 20 million metric tonnes in the latest fiscal year.
  • India exports rice to 179 other countries.
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    Issues with Gig Workers in India 

    In Context

  • Gig and platform worker unions have called for a strike, protesting the denial of basic labour rights and alleged exploitation by food delivery and taxi platforms. 

    • What is the Gig Economy?

  •  According to the World Economic Forum, The gig economy involves short-term, task-based work facilitated by digital platforms connecting workers with customers. 
  • In India, gig workers are defined as “self-employed” workers, and the gig labour force has seen increasing participation of women. 
  • Gig workers provide a wide range of services like driving, beauty, housework, food delivery, etc.
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    News In Short 31-12-2025

    Context

  • A new study has suggested that ulcerative colitis may be triggered when a normally hidden layer of immune cells, located just beneath the gut lining, becomes thinner. 

    • About

  • Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes long-lasting inflammation and ulcers in the inner lining of the large intestine (colon) and rectum.
  • It is an auto-inflammatory/immune-mediated condition with periods of flare-ups and remission.
  • Causes: Immune system dysfunction attacking the gut lining, Genetic susceptibility, environmental factors (diet, infections, gut microbiome imbalance).
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