Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: December 25, 2021

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for December 25, 2021

– PM chairs first meeting of High-Level Committee constituted to commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo

– INS Khukri decommissioned at Visakhapatnam after 32 years of service

– Karnataka Assembly passes Protection of Right to Freedom of Religion Bill, 2021, popularly known as Anti-conversion Bill

– Assam Legislative Assembly clears amendments in Cattle Preservation Act; eases transportation of cattle for agricultural purposes, has stringent punishment for cattle smugglers

– Punjab approves State General Category Commission for unreserved classes

– Centre seeks report from Punjab govt on Dec 23 explosion in Ludhiana District Court Complex that killed one person

– NMCG & TERI Launch Centre of Excellence on Water Reuse in New Delhi

– Malayalam film director K. S. Sethumadhavan dies at 90 in Chennai

– Assam: 67 militants of Dimasa National Liberation Army surrender

– J&K: 126-yr-old Saint Luke’s Church restored in Srinagar, reopens after 35 years

– National Consumer Day observed on Dec 24

– Centre approves construction of 1.07 lakh houses in 5 states under PMAY(U)

– Govt mandates telecom companies to keep call data, internet usage record for 2 years

– Govt imposes stock holding limits on soymeal (poultry feed) till June 2022 to tame prices

– India’s foreign exchange reserves decline by USD 160 million to USD 635.667 billion in the week to Dec 17

– US President Joe Biden bans import of goods from China’s Xinjiang province to prevent use of forced labour

– Russian court fines Alphabet’s Google $98 million for not deleting banned content

– US author and journalist Joan Didion dies at 87

– Spinner Harbhajan Singh announces retirement from all formats of cricket