Morning Digest: IPS officer among 34 police personnel injured in Assam district during mob violence; India’s first anti-terror policy to be released soon, and more

Assam district continues to burn, IPS officer among 34 police personnel injured Assam’s West Karbi Anglong continued to burn on Tuesday (December 23, 2025) with mobs vandalising and torching shops, setting vehicles ablaze, and attacking the police with bombs, stones, and arrows at Kheroni, about 190 km southeast of Guwahati. Over 24 lakh voters out of draft electoral roll in Kerala after SIR A little over 24 lakh voters in Kerala have been excluded from the draft electoral roll published by the Election Commission of India (EC) on Tuesday (December 23, 2025) under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) under way in the State. 42.7 lakh voters deleted from Madhya Pradesh draft roll after SIR Over 42.74 lakh electors have been deleted from the draft voter list in Madhya Pradesh, published after the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State, the Election Commission said on Tuesday (December 23, 2025). Centre asks States to hold special gram sabhas for awareness on VB-G RAM G The Union government has written to the Chief Secretaries of all States and Union Territories, asking them to organise special gram sabha meetings to “create widespread awareness regarding key provisions and legal rights” under the newly-enacted Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgaar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Act, 2025. Greta Thunberg arrested in London while supporting hunger-striking pro-Palestinian activists Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London on Tuesday while supporting pro-Palestinian activists who are staging a hunger strike to protest their imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to a series of earlier demonstrations. India’s first anti-terror policy to be released soon The Union government is finalising India’s first anti-terror policy which will provide a template for all States to combat and respond to terror-related incidents, a senior government official told The Hindu . Digital radicalisation, the misuse of open borders, and conversion networks funded by foreign players are among the key issues being discussed in the run-up to the policy’s release. Court awards life term for 13 in lynching of father-son duo in Murshidabad A court in West Bengal’s Murshidabad convicted 13 persons of lynching a father-son duo, Harogobind Das and Chandan Das, at Samserganj in April amid a violent protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, and sentenced all of them to lifetime imprisonment on Tuesday (December 23, 2025). Leh violence: 22 officials, including CRPF, Ladakh Police personnel, record statement before Judicial Commission At least 22 security officials, including personnel of the Ladakh police and CRPF, have recorded their statement before a Judicial Commission headed by Justice Dr. B.S. Chauhan, mandated to inquire into the circumstances leading to violence and deaths of four civilians on September 24, 2025 in Ladakh’s Leh district, officials said. 95 lakh names deleted from rolls of three States, one UT About 95 lakh names have been excluded from the draft electoral rolls in Andaman and Nicobar, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh which were published on Tuesday (December 23, 2025) as part of the ongoing...

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