Current Affairs One-liners — 31 March 2025

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

• The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) notified on 31 March 2025 that the price of APM gas from old nomination fields would rise to $6.75 per mmBtu from $6.50, effective 1 April.
• An Indian Army field hospital team and NDRF personnel reached earthquake-hit Mandalay, Myanmar, by road on 31 March 2025 under Operation Brahma.
• A Paris court on 31 March 2025 convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling European Parliament funds and barred her from public office for five years with immediate effect.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled a statue of Maharaja Agrasen, inaugurated a new ICU and laid the foundation stone of a PG hostel at a hospital in Hisar, Haryana, on 31 March 2025.
• Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced on 31 March 2025 new names for several places in Haridwar, Dehradun, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
• The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) reported on 31 March 2025 provisional FY 2024-25 loan sanctions of ₹47,453 crore, up 27%.
• Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on 31 March 2025 launched a ₹10 midday meal service for family members and attendants of patients at Agartala Government Medical College and GB Pant Hospital.
• The Information and Broadcasting Ministry said on 31 March 2025 that WAVES Bazaar, a global e-marketplace for media and entertainment, will hold its first edition on 1–4 May 2025 at the Jio World Convention Centre, Mumbai.
• The Narcotics Control Bureau and the Delhi Police Special Cell busted a drug network in Delhi-NCR, seizing methamphetamine, MDMA, heroin and cocaine worth ₹27.4 crore, Home Minister Amit Shah said on 31 March 2025.
• Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Y. Satya Kumar met Union Science Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi on 31 March 2025 to seek more central collaboration in biotechnology.