Current Affairs One-liners — 25 February 2025

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

• Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta tabled the CAG's performance audit on 'Regulation and Supply of Liquor in Delhi' in the Delhi Legislative Assembly on 25 February 2025; it put the revenue loss from the 2021-22 excise policy at about ₹2,002 crore.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Advantage Assam 2.0 Investment and Infrastructure Summit 2025 in Guwahati on 25 February 2025, saying Assam's economy had roughly doubled since the first edition in 2018.
• Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Industries Minister D. Sridhar Babu inaugurated BioAsia 2025, the life sciences conference, at HICC Hyderabad on 25 February 2025; the Genome Valley Excellence Award went to Professor Patrick Tan.
• The amount under operative Kisan Credit Card (KCC) accounts reached ₹10.05 lakh crore as of 31 December 2024, benefiting 7.72 crore farmers, the Finance Ministry said on 25 February 2025.
• DRDO and the Indian Navy carried out successful flight-trials of the Naval Anti-Ship Missile (NASM-SR) from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, Odisha, on 25 February 2025, launching it from a Seaking helicopter.
• The National Statistics Office released the results of the Time Use Survey (January-December 2024), the second all-India TUS, on 25 February 2025.
• The Indian Army signed a contract with Larsen & Toubro on 25 February 2025 for 223 Automatic Chemical Agent Detection and Alarm (ACADA) systems at ₹80.43 crore, under the Buy (Indian-IDDM) category.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the closing ceremony of Madhya Pradesh's two-day Global Investors Summit 2025 in Bhopal on 25 February 2025, where MoUs worth ₹30.77 lakh crore were signed.
• The Telangana government on 25 February 2025 ordered Telugu to be taught as a compulsory subject in CBSE, ICSE, IB and other board-affiliated schools in the state from 2025-26, with the simple Telugu textbook 'Vennela' for Classes 9 and 10.
• EPFO's provisional payroll data released on 25 February 2025 showed a net addition of 16.05 lakh members in December 2024, with 8.47 lakh new subscribers.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh conferred 32 gallantry, distinguished service and meritorious service medals on Indian Coast Guard personnel at the 18th ICG Investiture Ceremony at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 25 February 2025.
• President Droupadi Murmu graced the centenary celebration of Patna Medical College in Patna, Bihar, on 25 February 2025.
• The two-day Regional Dialogue on Social Justice, hosted by India with the ILO under the Global Coalition for Social Justice at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, concluded on 25 February 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Kashmiri Pandits on the occasion of Herath Poshte on 25 February 2025.