Current Affairs One-liners — 09 April 2025

Wed, 09 Apr 2025

• At its 54th meeting (7-9 April 2025), the RBI's Monetary Policy Committee unanimously cut the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.00% and changed its stance from neutral to accommodative.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and took part in Navkar Mahamantra Divas at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 9 April 2025 and proposed nine resolutions, beginning with water conservation.
• The CCEA on 9 April 2025 approved doubling of the 104-km Tirupati-Pakala-Katpadi single railway line in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu at a cost of about ₹1,332 crore.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan led India at the 3rd BIMSTEC Agriculture Ministerial Meeting (BAMM) in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 9 April 2025.
• The Union Cabinet on 9 April 2025 approved M-CADWM as a sub-scheme of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana for 2025-26 with an initial outlay of ₹1,600 crore.
• The first Panchayat Advancement Index baseline report (FY 2022-23), released on 9 April 2025, rated 2.16 lakh validated Gram Panchayats; Gujarat and Telangana had the most Front Runners.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 9 April 2025 approved a 19.2-km, 6-lane access-controlled Zirakpur Bypass in Punjab and Haryana on Hybrid Annuity Mode at a capital cost of ₹1,878.31 crore.
• On 9 April 2025, in the first visit by an Indian President to Slovakia in 29 years, President Droupadi Murmu held talks with President Peter Pellegrini in Bratislava and witnessed the exchange of two MoUs.
• The NSO's Periodic Labour Force Survey indicators for calendar year 2024, released on 9 April 2025, put the all-India unemployment rate in Current Weekly Status at 4.9% (5.0% in 2023).
• Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on 9 April 2025 launched an IWAI digital portal under the National Waterways (Construction of Jetties/Terminals) Regulations, 2025, and handed over the first NoC for a jetty at Malim on NW-68 (Mandovi) in Goa.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves held the 13th India-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue in London on 9 April 2025 and adopted a Joint Statement.
• Kumari Ananthan, former president of the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee and Lok Sabha member from Nagercoil (1977), died in Chennai on 9 April 2025 at the age of 93.
• EPFO announced on 9 April 2025 that members can generate and activate their Universal Account Number using Aadhaar Face Authentication Technology through the UMANG mobile app.
• Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu on 9 April 2025 inaugurated the Digital Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder laboratory of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau at Udaan Bhawan, New Delhi, set up at ₹9 crore.
• Airbus and Mahindra Aerostructures Pvt. Ltd. signed a contract on 9 April 2025 for manufacturing and assembly of the H130 helicopter fuselage, at a ceremony chaired by Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu.