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Govt withdraws mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi app connected phones
The Ministry of Communications connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) reversed its determination to mandate pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi app connected each smartphones, conscionable days aft the bid sparked wide disapproval from integer rights groups and absorption parties. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had connected Monday (December 1) issued a directive requiring telephone manufacturers to pre-install the cybersecurity app connected each devices from March 2026 onwards, citing concerns implicit handsets with duplicate oregon spoofed IMEI numbers posing threats to telecom security.
Centre agrees to bring backmost large woman, kid deported to Bangladesh
The Union Government connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) agreed to bring backmost a large pistillate and her eight-year-old son deported to Bangladesh connected solely “humanitarian grounds” pursuing an involution by the Supreme Court. A Bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi recorded successful the bid the Centre’s assurance that the woman, Sonali Khatoon, would beryllium provided escaped attraction and the indispensable facilities, taking into information her aesculapian condition. The tribunal further asked the authorities to supply day-to-day attraction of the kid too.
Rupee breaches 90-mark against dollar; falls 25 paise to adjacent astatine all-time debased of 90.21
The rupee breached the 90-a-dollar level for the archetypal clip to settle astatine a caller all-time debased of 90.21 (provisional) connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), down 25 paise from its erstwhile close, amid sustained overseas money outflows and higher crude lipid prices. Uncertainty implicit the India-U.S. commercialized deal, on with the deficiency of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) effort to halt the descent successful the section unit, enactment further unit connected the rupee, according to forex traders.
Both Houses adjourned; Lok Sabha passes Central Excise (Amendment) Bill and Rajya Sabha adopts Water Bill solution aft dependable vote
Lok Sabha connected Wednesday passed a instrumentality to levy a higher excise work connected tobacco and related products erstwhile the GST compensation cess ends. The Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025, was passed by a dependable ballot successful the little house. The Rajya Sabha connected Wednesday passed a solution done dependable ballot to widen the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 2024, to Manipur, which is presently nether the President’s rule.
Five Maoists, 1 jawan killed successful brushwood successful Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur
Five Maoists and a jawan of the police’s District Reserve Guard (DRG) were killed successful an brushwood successful Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), officials said. Another jawan suffered injuries successful the gunfight, they said, adding that the cognition was inactive underway.
SC turns spotlight connected glitches successful pay-outs, escaped captious attraction to acerb onslaught victims
The Supreme Court connected Wednesday decided to look into a plea that acerb onslaught survivors, mostly young women, person neither been paid the afloat minimum ₹3 lakh successful victim compensation nor provided escaped captious care by backstage hospitals. A Bench headed by Justice B.V. Nagarathna decided to analyse what ails the disbursement of unfortunate compensation to acerb onslaught survivors contempt repeated judicial orders from the apical tribunal spanning years.
Cyclone Ditwah impact: India sends mobile tract hospital, implicit 70 aesculapian unit to Sri Lanka
India’s aesculapian assistance successful the aftermath of the harm caused by cyclone Ditwah arrived successful Sri Lanka connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), the Sri Lankan President’s bureau said successful a statement. The supplies included precocious aesculapian instrumentality and tract hospitals. “An Indian Air Force C-17A craft carrying urgent aesculapian assistance arrived successful Sri Lanka past evening (December 2, 2025). The consignment comprised captious medicine, precocious aesculapian instrumentality and deployable tract facilities to enactment the country’s ongoing rescue and alleviation operations,” the connection said.
Spam calls: DoT to mandate show of KYC-registered names connected incoming calls
In the adjacent fewer months, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) volition mandate telecom operators to amusement the KYC-registered sanction of each incoming callers utilizing Indian telephone numbers. Currently, a proceedings for this is ongoing successful Haryana alone. The feature, known arsenic Caller Name Presentation (CNAP), volition usage the aforesaid exertion that telecom operators specified arsenic Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel usage to emblem definite calls arsenic “Suspected” oregon “Suspicious,” but alternatively of those words, the caller ID volition show the sanction a fig was registered with.
Lok Sabha to instrumentality up treatment connected electoral reforms adjacent week
The Lok Sabha volition statement the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls arsenic portion of a discussion connected electoral reforms adjacent Tuesday (December 9, 2025), and it volition beryllium preceded by a statement connected the 150th day of Vande Mataram. The logjam betwixt the Opposition and the authorities was breached aft Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla convened an all-party meeting, pursuing a washout of the proceedings of the House for the 2nd consecutive time connected Tuesday.
Russia focused connected expanding commercialized with India contempt ‘obstacles’ by 3rd countries: Dmitry Peskov
Some countries are trying to make “obstacles” successful India-Russia trade. Still, the 2 sides are focused connected overcoming the situation and expanding bilateral commercialized to $100 cardinal successful the adjacent 5 years, said Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Iran’s currency falls to a caller debased arsenic atomic sanctions compression its ailing economy
Iran’s rial currency fell connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025) to a caller debased of 1.2 cardinal to the U.S. dollar arsenic atomic sanctions compression Tehran’s ailing economy. Traders offered the caller speech complaint arsenic attempts truthful acold to restart negotiations betwixt America and Iran implicit its atomic programme look stalled.
Search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to resume connected Dec. 30, implicit a decennary aft it disappeared
The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 volition resume connected December 30, Malaysia’s transport ministry said connected Wednesday (December 3, 2025), much than a decennary aft the Beijing-bound formation disappeared successful 1 of the world’s top aviation mysteries.
