Current Affairs One-liners — 23 February 2025

Sun, 23 Feb 2025

• Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 100, his 51st ODI century, as India beat Pakistan by six wickets in their ICC Champions Trophy 2025 Group A match in Dubai on 23 February 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the Bageshwar Dham Medical and Science Research Institute, a cancer institute, at Garha village in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh, on 23 February 2025.
• In the 119th episode of Mann Ki Baat on 23 February 2025, PM Narendra Modi hailed ISRO's 100th launch, proposed 'One Day as a Scientist' for National Science Day, and said he would hand his social media accounts to inspiring women on International Women's Day.
• In Germany's early federal election on 23 February 2025, Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU won the most votes, the AfD came second with 20.8% and turnout was 82.5%, up from 76.4% in 2021.
• Ahead of World Wildlife Day, PM Narendra Modi said in Mann Ki Baat on 23 February 2025 that the tiger-worshipping Soliga tribe deserves much of the credit for the rising tiger population in Karnataka's BRT Tiger Reserve.
• Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi departed on 23 February 2025 for an official visit to France from 24 to 27 February to strengthen India-France defence cooperation.
• The Union Health Ministry said on 23 February 2025 that CDSCO and Maharashtra regulators had stopped operations at Aveo Pharmaceuticals, Mumbai, and moved to withdraw export NOCs for the unapproved Tapentadol-Carisoprodol combination exported to West Africa.
• Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya led the ninth week of Fit India Sundays on Cycle in Delhi on 23 February 2025 with FICCI and CII, as the campaign, dedicated to the fight against obesity, reached 4,200 locations nationwide.
• In Mann Ki Baat on 23 February 2025, PM Narendra Modi praised Thodasam Kailash, a government school teacher in Adilabad, Telangana, for composing a song in the Kolami tribal language with AI tools.