✈ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. ISRO has successfully launched the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into a precise low-Earth orbit using the reliable LVM3-M6 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.The mission lifted off at 8:54 AM IST on 24 December 2025.
2. The Jammu and Students Association (JKSA) on Monday wrote to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking urgent intervention to ensure the safety and well-being of Indian medical students currently studying in Bangladesh amid ongoing protests, tensions, and incidents of violence, particularly in Dhaka and surrounding regions.
3. Bangladesh has suspended visa and consular services at key missions in India, including the Assistant High Commission in Agartala, amid escalating diplomatic tensions with New Delhi.This move follows a series of security incidents and protests linked to the brutal lynching of Hindu youth Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
4. India has proposed a comprehensive assistance package worth USD 450 million to aid Sri Lanka’s reconstruction efforts in the wake of Cyclone Ditwah.This initiative was announced by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during his visit to Colombo on 23 December 2025.
5. External Affairs Ministry stressed that disrespectful acts such as demolishing statues of deities hurt the sentiments of followers around the world, and should not take place.
In response to media queries on the demolition of a Hindu deity statue in an area affected by the ongoing Thai-Cambodia border dispute, Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said Hindu and Buddhist deities are deeply revered and worshipped by people across the region, as part of shared civilizational heritage.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for a meeting with his US counterpart to hammer out the most sensitive issues in a future peace deal with Russia, such as control of territory, following the latest round of U.S.-Ukrainian talks.
2. Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the embattled eastern town of Siversk, as Russia continues its slow and steady advance. The Ukrainian military said that it acted to preserve the lives of their soldiers and the combat capability of units, adding that Russian forces had a significant advantage in manpower.
3. France condemned a U.S. visa ban on Thierry Breton, a former European Union commissioner who helped drive landmark online regulation that Washington believes censors free speech and unfairly targets U.S. tech giants.
4. Libya’s Army Chief of Staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and four others were killed in an air crash near Turkey’s capital city, Ankara. Libya’s Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah termed it a tragic accident.
5. The United States Supreme Court has refused the deployment of the National Guard in Chicago over the objection of Illinois officials, amid doubt on the viability of such deployments in other cities. The preliminary order barred the Trump administration from directing a state-based military force to the Chicago area.
6. In US, Trump Administration has announced sweeping changes to the H-1B work visa selection process, replacing the long-standing random lottery with a weighted system that prioritises higher-skilled and higher-paid foreign workers.
7. In Bangladesh, at least five people were shot dead and more than 10 others injured in violent clashes between two rival groups over control of char land in Noakhali’s Hatiya upazila.
8. In Pakistan, a court extended the interim bail of Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in cases linked to the May 9 violence, along with several other matters.
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