Monthly Compilation
66 current affairs published in December 2025
December 2025 Current Affairs for UPSC — every Why-in-News article AnantamIAS published in December 2025, mapped to the GS syllabus and packaged for revision. This December 2025 monthly current affairs compilation runs to 66 articles spanning Polity, Economy, Environment, Science & Technology, International Relations, Geography, History, Society and Internal Security — every entry written in the Why-in-News + GS-paper-mapping + UPSC-style practice-question format the Compass uses across every monthly digest on the site.
Each December 2025 entry opens with a Why in News? hook so you know exactly why the story matters for the exam, maps to the precise GS paper and sub-topic, summarises the development in scannable sub-headings, and closes with a UPSC-style practice question plus an FAQ accordion. The structure is deliberately repeatable: the same skeleton across every article in this December 2025 compilation, so revision feels familiar by week two and weak topics surface fast.
Use this December 2025 monthly current affairs page three ways. Read sequentially for a single-sitting scan of everything that mattered in December 2025. Download the December 2025 PDF for offline revision, printing or last-mile cycles before Prelims and Mains. Or filter by GS paper from the Monthly Current Affairs hub to focus on Polity, Economy, IR or Environment in isolation. For day-by-day study, jump to Daily Current Affairs; for the full year, see the 2025 Current Affairs archive. Working backwards? The previous month is November 2025 Current Affairs; the next is January 2026 Current Affairs.
Monthly current affairs for UPSC is the spine of revision — daily reading is for awareness, monthly compilations are what you actually re-read. The December 2025 set below is built for exactly that: open the article, skim the Why-in-News, lock the GS mapping, attempt the practice question, move on. Every piece links to its own per-article PDF if you'd rather collect the high-yield few than the full month.
Context: India’s methane emissions are significantly under-estimated in official inventories. Satellite observations reveal that methane leaks at key sites may be up to 10 times higher than current estimates based on ground data and models. UPSC Relevance: Environment UPSC PYQ: Q. With reference to the…
Introduction The Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 — the SHANTI Bill, with the acronym standing for Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India — is the single most consequential legislative pivot in India's six-decade-old civil…
Context: Nubian ibexes climbing a hill in Israel southern Negev Desert. UPSC Relevance: Species in news UPSC PYQ: Q. Consider the following fauna: (2023) Lion-tailed Macaque Malabar Civet Sambar Deer How many of the above are generally nocturnal or most active after sunset? (a) Only one…
Why in News? The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, notified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on 14 November 2025 under Section 40 of the DPDP Act, 2023, moved into phased implementation through December 2025. The subordinate Rules supply the operational…
Why in News? The G20 Leaders' Summit met in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 22-23, 2025 — the first G20 summit ever hosted on the African continent. The theme was 'Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability', anchored in the African philosophy of Ubuntu ('I am because we are'),…
Why in News? India broke into the top 100 of the global SDG Index for the first time, ranking 99th out of 167 countries on the Sustainable Development Report 2025, the annual benchmark published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). India scored about…
Why in News? By late 2025 the IndiaAI Mission's shared Common Compute facility had crossed 38,000 GPUs, making large-scale AI training power available to Indian startups, researchers and academia at heavily subsidised rates — around Rs 65 per hour. The Mission, run by the Ministry…
Why in News? Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collected during December 2025 rose to about Rs 1.75 lakh crore, up roughly 6.1% year-on-year. The figure reflects tax largely on November 2025 transactions and is the first full festive-season read on the rationalised two-slab…
Why in News? From 8 to 13 December 2025, India for the first time hosted and chaired the 20th session of UNESCO's Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) at the Red Fort, New Delhi. PIB confirmed the historic venue —…
Context: Deepavali (Diwali), India’s major festival of lights, has been added to UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This comes a year after Parsi New Year Navroz was added. Other Indian elements already on the list include Durga Puja, Garba, Kumbh…