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NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||08/12/2025.

 

NEWS & VIEWS|||SARASIJ|||08/12/2025.

WEDNESDAY| VOL—IV/2025/DECEMBER

OPINIONATED, FOR FREE CIRCULATION.

न गतं कर्तुं कश्चिद् धनवान्,

परिश्रमेण तु भविष्यं लभ्यते।

No one is rich enough to buy the past;

but with effort, the future can be won.



INDIA: (GOI, SWARAJYA, VISHWAMITRA, HINDU POST, INDIA TODAY).

Lok Sabha will hold a special discussion on the 150th anniversary of the national song Vande Mataram today.

President Putin Sent Some Veiled Messages To Pakistan In His Interview With Bhartiya Media. Mr. Putin clarified that “neither me nor Prime Minister Modi, despite certain external pressure we face, have ever – and I want to emphasise this, I want you to hear it – approached our collaboration to work against someone.”

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs arrives in India day after Putin’s visit. The U.S. embassy said Under Secretary Hooker’s visit marks another step forward in advancing President Donald Trump’s priorities for a strong U.S.-India partnership and a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Afghanistan is quietly but unmistakably pulling away from Pakistan and moving closer to India in ways that would have been unthinkable even a few years ago. The bridge enabling this shift is Iran’s Chabahar Port, a project India patiently nurtured for over two decades despite sanctions, obstacles and geopolitical turbulence.

Today, that investment is paying strategic dividends. A new India-Iran-Afghanistan trade corridor is taking shape, and it is rapidly rewriting old equations across South Asia. For Pakistan, this is nothing short of a nightmare unfolding before its eyes.

 

Waqf Board’s 51-year encroachment ends; Court orders land back to Guruvirakta Math: Sindagi, Karnataka.

Bharat Taxi starts pilot runs in Delhi and Gujarat with a zero-commission model, offering transparent pricing and driver ownership under a cooperative structure.

WORLD: (REUTER, AP, AFP, BLOOMBERG, CNN, WP)

U.S. envoy says Ukraine peace deal is close but Moscow says it wants radical changes.

U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg said the two main outstanding issues were on territory — primarily the future of the Donbas — and the future of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, which is under Russian control.

Kremlin welcomes end to ‘direct threat’ label in U.S. national security strategy: The new 29-page strategy set out Trump’s foreign policy vision as one of “flexible realism” and said U.S. policy would be driven above all by “what works for America”, according to the document.

BALOOCHISTAN SPEAKS:

“ ‘A grave miscalculation’: Baloch leader warns foreign investors against ‘traps’ set by Pakistan”, IANS, December 03, 2025.

 

“Washington, Dec 2 (IANS) Tara Chand, President of Baloch American Congress, stated that the suicide bombing attacks in the Nokundi region of the Chagai district in Balochistan, targeting Pakistani soldiers, have reaffirmed the longstanding warnings from Baloch leaders.

 

He warned that any foreign investor putting money into the Reko Diq Copper-Gold Project or the Saindak copper and gold deposits in Chagai would be making a “serious mistake”.

 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY:

In a major boost to Digital India, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) have jointly launched a paperless, contactless passport verification process through DigiLocker.

CRIME & PUNISHMENT:

A special court in Ahmedabad has convicted a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Pradeep Nirankarnath Sharma on charges of money laundering and sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment. ONE OF, MAY BE  THOUSAND BLACKSHEEPS CAUGHT IN THE NET!! CASH HOARDER JUDGE ESCAPED!

MISHAPS: -

Sri Lanka issues landslide warnings as cyclone toll hits 627. The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said monsoon storms were adding more rain and making hillsides unstable, including the central mountainous region and the north-western midlands.

ENVIRONMENTAL: -

Magnitude 7 earthquake hits remote wilderness along Alaska-Canada border; over 30 aftershocks will follow. The U.S. Geological Survey said it struck about 370 kilometres northwest of Juneau, Alaska, and 250 kilometres west of Whitehorse, Yukon.

Mild earthquake jolts western Nepal. Tremors were felt in Nepal's Sudurpashchim province; no immediate reports are available of any damage caused by the tremor.

WEATHER:

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast cold wave conditions in parts of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Vidarbha.

DEFENSE:

The Border Security Force (BSF) has recovered large consignments of heroin, a pistol with ammunition along the Punjab border and have shot down three drones as well during various operations in Amritsar, Tarn Taran and Ferozepur, in the last 24 hours.

PUNJAB SHALL BE AN UT WITH ARMY CONTROLLING INTERNAL & EXTERNAL DEFENCE.

GAMES & SPORTS:

Indian Shooter Simranpreet Kaur Brar clinched the gold medal in the women’s 25-meter pistol event at the ISSF World Cup Final 2025 in Doha, Qatar.

 DAS KAPITAL:

*USD*  ₹ 89/-*Euro* : ₹ 103/-*China¥* : ₹ 12/-

 *GOLD* : ₹ 13,100/ 01gm (24 krt) – GOLD IS STEADY.

 *SILVER* : ₹ 1,90,000/KG—SILVER LOST SOME SHINE.

SHARE:

BUY:-- INDIGO, if further Drops.

WHAT IS NEXT:

India and European Union will resume talks in New Delhi today  on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA).

PUZZLE:-- Identify the SHIP posted in image, and where it sunk.

 

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