Current Affairs One-liners — 09 March 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sun, 09 Mar 2025
- India beat New Zealand by four wickets in the ICC Men's Champions Trophy final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 9 March 2025 to become the first team to win the title three times.
- Carnatic vocalist and composer Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, former Asthana Vidwan of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams known for setting more than 1,000 Annamacharya sankeertanas to music, died at his home in Tirupati on 9 March 2025, aged 76.
- Rajnath Singh became the first Defence Minister to visit the Indian Air Force's Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Bengaluru on 9 March 2025, where he launched an ICMR-funded centre for research on space psychology.
- Former central banker Mark Carney won the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership race on 9 March 2025 with 85.9% of the points on the first ballot, setting him up to succeed Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister.
- An Indian Army contingent departed on 9 March 2025 for KHANJAR-XII, the 12th India–Kyrgyzstan joint special forces exercise, held in Kyrgyzstan from 10 to 23 March 2025.
- The first rear fuselage for the Light Combat Aircraft Mk1A made by private firm Alpha Tocol Engineering Services was handed over to HAL in Bengaluru on 9 March 2025 in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
- Power Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated GRIDCON 2025, POWERGRID's international conference and exhibition on 'Innovations in Grid Resilience', at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 9 March 2025.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the 'Shashwat Mithila Mahotsav-2025' of people from Bihar's Mithila region living in Gujarat, in Gandhinagar on 9 March 2025.
- A Women's Day special 'pink cyclothon' edition of Fit India Sundays on Cycle was held across the country on 9 March 2025, with over 400 riders at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi.
- Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla released 'Parvat Shiromani Bhagat Singh Koshyari', a book by Madan Mohan Sati on former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari, at IGNCA, New Delhi, on 9 March 2025.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended several events in Gujarat on 9 March 2025, including an oath ceremony of more than 11,000 newly enrolled advocates and the foundation-laying of a High-Performance Sports Centre for para-athletes in Gandhinagar.