Current Affairs One-liners — 20 March 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
- The World Happiness Report 2025, released on 20 March 2025, ranked India 118th of 147 countries, up from 126th, while Finland was the happiest country for the eighth year in a row.
- India's coal production crossed one billion tonnes in 2024-25 on 20 March 2025, 11 days earlier than the previous year's total of 997.83 million tonnes was reached.
- The Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Rajnath Singh accorded Acceptance of Necessity to eight capital acquisition proposals worth over ₹54,000 crore on 20 March 2025.
- The 14th meeting of the ADMM-Plus Experts' Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, the first of the 2024–27 cycle co-chaired by India and Malaysia, concluded in New Delhi on 20 March 2025.
- Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on 20 March 2025 that Zoho had won the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge, with Team PING and Team Ajna as first and second runners-up.
- Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya declared the second Khelo India Para Games open at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall, New Delhi, on 20 March 2025, with over 1,300 para athletes in six disciplines.
- The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation added 17.89 lakh net members in January 2025, according to provisional payroll data released on 20 March 2025.
- NHAI said on 20 March 2025 it had debarred 14 user fee collection agencies for irregular fee collection, after a UP Special Task Force raid at the Atraila Shiv Ghulam toll plaza in Mirzapur.
- CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Jammu, signed an MoU with HAPICO Industries on 20 March 2025 to jointly develop novel biopesticides from medicinal and aromatic plants.
- President Droupadi Murmu visited the Udyam Utsav, an MSME showcase organised by the Ministry of MSME at Rashtrapati Bhavan from 20 to 30 March 2025, on its opening day.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a programme of Bavaliyali Dham, linked to Gujarat's Bharwad community, by video message on 20 March 2025, praising the community's service and commitment to cow protection.
- The National Zoological Park in New Delhi marked World Sparrow Day on 20 March 2025 with a students' zoo walk and sparrow count, and distributed 100 sparrow nests.