Current Affairs One-liners — 07 May 2025

Wed, 07 May 2025

• The Sample Registration System report 2021, released by the Registrar General of India on 7 May 2025, shows the Maternal Mortality Ratio at 93 per lakh live births (2019-21) and the Infant Mortality Rate at 27 per 1,000 live births in 2021.
• The Union Cabinet on 7 May 2025 approved the National Scheme for ITI Upgradation and setting up of five National Centres of Excellence for Skilling as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with an outlay of ₹60,000 crore, covering 1,000 government ITIs.
• The Ministry of Home Affairs directed all States and Union Territories to hold a civil defence mock drill on 7 May 2025 across 244 categorised Civil Defence districts, with air-raid sirens, blackout measures and training of civilians.
• Operation Sindoor was launched by the Indian Armed Forces on 7 May 2025, hitting terrorist infrastructure at nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir; the Ministry of Defence described the action as focused, measured and non-escalatory, with no Pakistani military facilities targeted.
• The Odisha cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on 7 May 2025 approved eight proposals of five departments, including statewide Mukhyamantri Bus Seva with a 50% fare concession for women, transgender persons, students, persons with disabilities and senior citizens.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 12th Global Space Exploration Conference (GLEX 2025) via video on 7 May 2025; the three-day conference at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, was organised by the International Astronautical Federation with ISRO as host.
• The Union Cabinet on 7 May 2025 approved Phase-B expansion of five IITs set up after 2014, at a cost of ₹11,828.79 crore over 2025-26 to 2028-29, raising their student capacity from 7,111 to 13,687.
• The Kerala cabinet on 7 May 2025 approved a revised estimate of ₹3,716.10 crore for the Integrated Urban Regeneration and Water Transport System (IURWTS) to revive six canals in Kochi, with Kochi Metro Rail Limited continuing as the SPV.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 7 May 2025 approved the Revised SHAKTI policy for coal allocation to the power sector, mapping the existing eight paras into two windows — coal at notified price and coal at a premium above notified price.
• The Ministry of Culture said on 7 May 2025 that Sotheby's Hong Kong had postponed the auction of the sacred Piprahwa Buddhist relics, which had been scheduled for that day, after legal notices and talks by the Government of India.
• Union Ayush Minister Prataprao Jadhav chaired a review meeting on 7 May 2025 in New Delhi on preparations for International Day of Yoga 2025 (21 June), in the spirit of 'Yoga for One Earth, One Health'.
• The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences released critical editions of two rare Ayurvedic lexicons, Dravyaratnakara Nighantu and Dravyanamakara Nighantu, at an event in Mumbai announced on 7 May 2025.
• The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade signed an MoU with Hafele India on 7 May 2025 in New Delhi to support product startups, MSMEs and entrepreneurs through infrastructure access, supplier development and market access.
• The Election Commission of India on 7 May 2025 began training 293 field-level election functionaries from Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the Tamil language at IIIDEM, Delhi, taking the number trained there in recent weeks to nearly 2,300.
• The Centre for Joint Warfare Studies, with Aerospace Services India and Israel Aerospace Industries, hosted the Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) India Eco-System Summit 2.0 at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, on 7 May 2025.