Current Affairs One-liners — 08 April 2025

Tue, 08 Apr 2025

• The Ministry of Minority Affairs notified 8 April 2025 as the date on which the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 14 of 2025), which received Presidential assent on 5 April, came into force.
• PMMY, launched on 8 April 2015, completed 10 years on 8 April 2025, having extended over ₹33.65 lakh crore through 52.37 crore collateral-free loans, with nearly 68% of accounts sanctioned to women.
• On 8 April 2025, a Supreme Court bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan held the Governor's reservation of ten re-passed Tamil Nadu Bills for the President illegal, declared them deemed assented under Article 142, and prescribed timelines for Governors and the President.
• The Department of Financial Services on 8 April 2025 notified the amalgamation of 26 RRBs in 10 states and 1 UT on the principle of 'One State One RRB', reducing the number of RRBs from 43 to 28.
• The Ministry of Women and Child Development's 7th Poshan Pakhwada runs from 8 to 22 April 2025, focusing on the first 1000 days of life, the Poshan Tracker beneficiary module, CMAM and childhood obesity.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh on 8 April 2025 inaugurated the first-ever Himalayan High Altitude Atmospheric and Climate Research Centre at Nathatop in Jammu and Kashmir and flagged off the Indo-Swiss ICE-CRUNCH project with ETH Zurich.
• The Cotton Corporation of India procured 100 lakh bales of cotton under MSP operations in the 2024-25 season up to 31 March 2025, with Telangana (40 lakh bales) leading, the Ministry of Textiles said on 8 April 2025.
• The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and the World Economic Forum deliberated on the 'India Skills Accelerator', a national public-private collaboration platform for skilling, at a roundtable in New Delhi on 8 April 2025.
• During a review ride on the Kochi Water Metro on 8 April 2025, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said his ministry has approved technical feasibility studies in 24 cities, including Guwahati, Dibrugarh and Tezpur in Assam.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, in New Delhi on 8 April 2025.
• The Ministry of Coal on 8 April 2025 signed Coal Mine Development and Production Agreements for Marwatola-II and Namchik West, auctioned in the 11th round of commercial coal mining, taking the total to 120 mines.
• The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority and India Post Payments Bank signed a Memorandum of Agreement on 8 April 2025 to launch Phase 2 of 'Niveshak Didi', a financial literacy initiative led by women.
• Ram Sahay Panday, the Padma Shri-awarded exponent of Bundelkhand's Rai folk dance, died at a hospital in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, on 8 April 2025.