Current Affairs One-liners — 13 April 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sun, 13 Apr 2025
- The maiden Africa India Key Maritime Engagement (AIKEYME) exercise, co-hosted by India and Tanzania with eight other African nations, was inaugurated at Dar-es-Salaam on 13 April 2025 onboard INS Chennai.
- India finished the Archery World Cup 2025 Stage 1 in Auburndale, USA, on 13 April with four medals: gold in the compound mixed team, silver in the men's recurve team, and bronzes in the men's compound team and Dhiraj Bommadevara's men's individual recurve event.
- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on 13 April 2025 inaugurated North-East India's first onco-robotic surgery facility at the State Cancer Institute on the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital premises.
- At a State Level Cooperative Conference in Bhopal on 13 April 2025, attended by Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and the Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Dairy Federation signed an MoU to expand cooperative milk collection.
- The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 52.67 kg of methamphetamine tablets worth ₹52.67 crore from a truck on the outskirts of Aizawl, Mizoram, the Finance Ministry said on 13 April 2025.
- Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on 13 April 2025 raised the financial assistance for building new Nagar Seva Sadans (municipal offices) under the Swarnim Jayanti Mukhyamantri Shaheri Vikas Yojana, to ₹6 crore for A-class municipalities.
- Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya led a 'Jai Bhim Padyatra' with MY Bharat volunteers in Patna on 13 April 2025, on the eve of Ambedkar Jayanti.
- Eight workers were killed in an explosion at a firecracker manufacturing unit at Kailasapatnam in Kotauratla mandal of Anakapalli district on 13 April 2025; the Prime Minister announced ex gratia from the PMNRF.
- Markus Söder, Minister-President of the German state of Bavaria, called on Union Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh in New Delhi, with both sides discussing cooperation in areas such as AI, quantum, biotechnology and green hydrogen.