Current Affairs One-liners — 06 May 2025

Tue, 06 May 2025

• Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Keir Starmer on 6 May 2025 announced the conclusion of the India–UK Free Trade Agreement and a Double Contribution Convention, with tariff elimination on about 99% of tariff lines for Indian exports.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Anthony Albanese on 6 May 2025 and congratulated him on his re-election as the 32nd Prime Minister of Australia; the leaders reaffirmed the India–Australia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
• The Ministry of Education has approved an off-campus centre of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade at GIFT City, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, which will offer IIFT's flagship MBA (International Business), the Commerce Ministry said on 6 May 2025.
• The Maharashtra cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, met at Chaundi in Ahilyanagar district on 6 May 2025 to mark Ahilyabai Holkar's 300th birth anniversary, approving ₹681 crore for her memorial and development plans worth about ₹5,503 crore for pilgrimage centres.
• The Inland Waterways Authority of India signed an MoU with Rhenus Logistics India on 6 May 2025 for barge services on national waterways, with 100 cargo vessels to be deployed in phases on NW-1, NW-2, NW-16 and Indo-Bangladesh Protocol routes.
• Friedrich Merz assumed office as the Federal Chancellor of Germany on 6 May 2025, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated him, saying he looked forward to further cementing the India–Germany Strategic Partnership.
• The 62nd Executive Committee of the National Mission for Clean Ganga, chaired by Director-General Rajeev Kumar Mital, approved a ₹3.51-crore project to conserve the Nathmalpur Bhagad wetland in Bhojpur district, Bihar, the fifth wetland under Namami Gange, the Jal Shakti Ministry said on 6 May 2025.
• Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said on 6 May 2025 that India's first human space mission Gaganyaan has entered its final phase, with the first human spaceflight now scheduled for the first quarter of 2027.
• Union Minister Kiren Rijiju addressed the United Nations Vesak Day 2025 celebrations at the Vietnam Buddhist Academy in Ho Chi Minh City on 6 May 2025, conveying the greetings of the President and the Prime Minister.
• The 6th Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh Memorial Hockey Tournament concluded at Chandigarh on 6 May 2025, with Indian Railways beating Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala, in the final.
• Union Health Minister J P Nadda inaugurated the 2nd National Workshop on 'Health Sector Disaster Preparedness and Response' and 'Fire Safety in Healthcare Facilities' at Dr Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi, on 6 May 2025, and an iGOT course on fire safety was launched.
• Scientists of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, have traced palaeofires from about 250 million years ago in the Permian period using shale samples from the Godavari Basin, the DST said on 6 May 2025.
• Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated Bharat Telecom 2025 in New Delhi on 6 May 2025; the event, organised by TEPC with the Department of Telecommunications, drew over 130 foreign delegates from more than 35 countries.