1.Former IAS officer Raj Kumar Goyal will be sworn in as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) by President Droupadi Murmu Monday.

2.Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.

3.Delhi Air Pollution: All 40 monitoring stations in Delhi show 'red', meaning AQI in the 'severe' category. Rohini in North West Delhi recorded AQI of 499, followed by Jahangirpuri and Vivek Vihar reporting AQI at 495.

4.The construction company building the 850 MW Rattle Hydropower project in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district announced on Saturday that it may have to abandon the Rs 3,700 crore project due to persistent political interference.

5.Gold and silver prices witness a sharp surge in the domestic market this week, tracking strong gains in global bullion markets.

6.Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered one of the most important finds from Anatolia’s early Christian era: a fresco of a Roman-looking Jesus as the ‘Good Shepherd.’

7.Stateowned steel maker SAIL Saturday said it recorded a 14 per cent year-on-year growth in sales at 12.7 million tonnes (MT) in April-November 2025.

8.A patrolling team from Lingaraj police station arrested a man Friday for allegedly peddling brown sugar and seized 6.14 grams of the contraband from his possession near the Kedar Gauri bus stop .

9.The Uttar Pradesh government Friday said the NAFED is set to open 50 urad procurement centres across 17 districts of the state, where farmers will be able to sell their produce at a minimum support price of Rs7,800 per quintal.

10.More than 1.28 lakh people in Mumbai were bitten by stray dogs in 2024.

11.The Centre has significantly constricted the financial lifelines of Naxals with seizure of assets worth Rs 92 crore through a multi-agency coordinated action.

12.With the Cabinet approving a Bill to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), the Congress Saturday questioned the need for renaming the scheme and asked “what is wrong with the name Mahatma Gandhi” that the government had to take this step.

13.The European Union agreed Friday to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets held in Europe, removing a big obstacle to using the cash to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia.

14.Nifty 50 and Nifty Midcap 150 emerged as best-performing indices in November, with a growth of 1.87 per cent and 1.59 per cent, respectively, a report said Saturday

15.Temasek-backed e-commerce enablement platform Shiprocket has fi led updated draft papers with markets regulator Sebi to raise a little over Rs2,342 crore through its initial public offering (IPO).