Current Affairs One-liners — 01 April 2025

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

• India's defence exports rose 12.04% to a record ₹23,622 crore in the financial year 2024-25 that ended on 31 March 2025, the Defence Ministry said on 1 April 2025.
• India's cumulative coal production crossed the one billion tonne mark in FY 2024-25, reaching a provisional 1,047.57 million tonnes, the Coal Ministry said on 1 April 2025.
• India added an unprecedented 25 GW of renewable energy capacity in FY 2024-25, nearly 35% more than the 18.57 GW added a year earlier, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on 1 April 2025.
• The Border Roads Organisation reopened Zojila Pass, which links the Kashmir Valley to Ladakh, on 1 April 2025 after a closure of only 32 days.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched the NITI NCAER States Economic Forum portal, a repository of about 30 years of data on state finances, in New Delhi on 1 April 2025.
• The Maharashtra government signed an MoU with Microsoft in Mumbai on 1 April 2025 to set up three Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur and to speed up AI adoption in the state administration.
• More than one million electric vehicles were sold in India in FY 2024-25, the Ministry of Heavy Industries said on 1 April 2025, with electric two-wheeler sales up 21% to 11,49,334 units.
• Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House on 1 April 2025 during his first State visit to India, and the two sides exchanged four documents including a Letter of Intent on Antarctica cooperation.
• The Rajya Sabha passed the Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill, 2025 on 1 April 2025, completing its passage through Parliament after the Lok Sabha had passed it on 26 March 2025.
• India recorded 4,515 child adoptions in FY 2024-25, the highest since 2015-16, of which 4,155 were domestic, the Women and Child Development Ministry said on 1 April 2025.
• The fourth edition of the India-US joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief amphibious exercise, Tiger TRIUMPH 2025, opened with a ceremony onboard INS Jalashwa on 1 April 2025.
• The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation signed agreements with 15 more public and private sector banks for collecting contributions on 1 April 2025, taking the number of empanelled banks to 32.