Current Affairs One-liners — 10 February 2025

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated Aero India 2025, Asia's biggest aerospace and defence exhibition, at Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on 10 February 2025, and addressed a CEOs Roundtable the same day.
• NITI Aayog released a policy report titled 'Expanding Quality Higher Education through States and State Public Universities' in New Delhi on 10 February 2025.
• The Fourth India-UK Energy Dialogue, co-chaired by Power Minister Manohar Lal and UK Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband, was held in New Delhi on 10 February 2025.
• A special Kerala Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan approved the Kerala State Private Universities (Establishment and Regulation) Draft Bill, 2025 in Thiruvananthapuram on 10 February 2025.
• The Tamil Nadu Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin decided in Chennai on 10 February 2025 to give pattas to about 86,000 people living on unobjectionable poromboke land, ending a ban dating to 1962.
• The Agriculture Ministry said on 10 February 2025 that the integrated PM-AASHA scheme will continue during the 15th Finance Commission cycle up to 2025-26, and extended groundnut and soybean procurement in Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Telangana.
• Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh dedicated 'Sṛjanam', India's first indigenous automated biomedical waste treatment rig developed by CSIR-NIIST, to the nation at AIIMS New Delhi on 10 February 2025.
• The third edition of the India-Egypt Joint Special Forces Exercise CYCLONE began at the Mahajan Field Firing Ranges in Rajasthan on 10 February 2025 and runs until 23 February.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the India-EFTA Desk on 10 February 2025 as a single-window mechanism for businesses from Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein looking to invest in India.
• Health Minister J.P. Nadda launched the annual nationwide Mass Drug Administration campaign for lymphatic filariasis elimination on 10 February 2025, covering 111 endemic districts.
• DPIIT and the Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) signed an MoU on cooperation in logistics and infrastructure development at the Sejong National Research Complex in South Korea on 10 February 2025.
• The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser organised the 2nd India-France AI Policy Roundtable at the Sciences Po campus in Paris on 10 February 2025, as an official side event of the AI Action Summit.
• The National Archives of India and the National Records and Archives Authority of Oman signed an Executive Programme of Cooperation for 2025-2028 in New Delhi on 10 February 2025.