Today’s News Headlines for School Assembly, December 5, 2025: Here are the news headlines for school assembly on December 5, 2025. Today’s news spans national, international, business, sports, and education. Russian President Vladimir Putin begins a two‑day state visit to India, his first since the Ukraine war. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar highlights Punjab as the state with the maximum human trafficking cases, while the WMO warns weak La Niña conditions could bring colder winters to northern India.
National
Russian President Vladimir Putin is arriving in New Delhi on Thursday evening for a two-day state visit to India. This will be the Russian president’s first visit to the country since the start of the war in Ukraine.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that Punjab has the maximum number of human trafficking cases in the country.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said Thursday that weak La Niña conditions will prevail through the first quarter of 2026 across the world, which experts suggest may lead to a colder winter in several parts of India, especially in the North.
International
Imran Khan claims Asim Munir deliberately escalated tensions with Afghanistan to ‘please western powers’
Israel said it launched an airstrike on a Hamas militant in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers.
US President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly ordered an enhanced vetting of H-1B visa applicants for highly skilled workers, and anyone possibly involved in “censorship” of free speech would be considered for rejection
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Business
Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is investigating the widespread disruption plaguing the flight operations of India’s largest airline, IndiGo.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) revoked its order directing phone makers to mandatorily pre-install the state-owned Sanchar Saathi application.
Smartphone makers Apple and Google are planning to push back on the government directive to mandatorily pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on their devices, with concerns around privacy and system security weighing heavily on their minds, The Indian Express has learnt.
Sports
India announced its T20I squad for South Africa, with Shubman Gill appointed vice-captain and Hardik Pandya making a comeback after a two-month injury layoff.
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Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha, a 3‑year‑old from Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, has become the youngest rated chess player in history with a rapid rating of 1,572, dethroning Kolkata’s Anish Sarkar, who held the record last November at the age of three years, eight months and 19 days; remarkably, Sarwagya is still in nursery school
Harshit Rana reprimanded for breaching ICC Code of Conduct in the first ODI against South Africa
Education
Victoria University (VU) today laid the foundation for its Delhi NCR Campus, located in Gurugram, Haryana.
The Indian Railways has initiated recruitment for 1,20,579 vacancies under the annual recruitment calendars of 2024 and 2025, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed the Lok Sabha during the ongoing Winter Session.
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Chile becomes latest country to ban smartphone use during class. The new law will take effect next year, making Chile the latest country to restrict smartphone use among young students to reduce its harmful effects and curb classroom distractions.
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