Current Affairs One-liners — 04 May 2025

Sun, 04 May 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated the seventh edition of the Khelo India Youth Games at Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna, on 4 May 2025; the Games, Bihar's first major multi-discipline event, run till 15 May.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 4 May 2025 announced two genome-edited rice varieties developed by ICAR, DRR Rice 100 (Kamla) and Pusa DST Rice 1, which the Ministry described as the world's first.
• The Election Commission of India said on 4 May 2025 that it is developing ECINET, a one-stop digital platform that will integrate over 40 of its existing mobile and web applications.
• K.V. Rabiya, the Padma Shri-awarded literacy activist from Kerala who worked from a wheelchair after polio, died at Tirurangadi in Malappuram on 4 May 2025, aged 59.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will lead India's delegation to the 58th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank in Milan, Italy, from 4 to 7 May 2025.
• APEDA held a high-level Chintan Shivir in New Delhi, announced on 4 May 2025, to deliberate on strategies for boosting exports of agricultural and processed food products.
• The Ministry of Tourism, with Rajasthan's Tourism Department and FICCI, held the Meet in India Conclave in Jaipur on 4 May 2025, on the sidelines of the 14th Great Indian Travel Bazaar.
• MOIL reported its highest-ever April performance on 4 May 2025, producing 1.62 lakh tonnes of manganese ore in April, 1.5% more than a year earlier.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended the closing ceremony of Sanskrit Bharati's 1008 Sanskrit Sambhashan Shivirs in New Delhi on 4 May 2025 as chief guest.
• Shivanand Baba, a yoga practitioner and resident of Kashi who had been conferred the Padma Shri for serving society through yoga, passed away; Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled his death on 4 May 2025.
• Minister of State for Coal and Mines Satish Chandra Dubey reviewed the performance of Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDI) at Ranchi on 4 May 2025.
• Union Sports Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya led 750 participants, including teachers, at the 'Cycling with Teachers' edition of Fit India Sundays on Cycle at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi, on 4 May 2025.