Current Affairs One-liners — 11 May 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sun, 11 May 2025
- On National Technology Day, 11 May 2025, the Department of Science and Technology announced five Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) testbeds in the cement sector, set up in academia–industry partnership under a PPP model.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually inaugurated the BrahMos Integration and Testing Facility Centre in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on National Technology Day, 11 May 2025; the 200-acre, approximately ₹300 crore complex was completed within 40 months.
- National Technology Day was observed on 11 May 2025, marking the 1998 Pokhran tests, with the theme 'YANTRA – Yugantar for Advancing New Technology, Research & Acceleration' set by the Technology Development Board.
- Union Ayush Minister Prataprao Jadhav launched a weekly Yoga Podcast produced by the Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga on 11 May 2025, ahead of the 10th International Day of Yoga with the theme 'Yoga for One Earth, One Health'.
- At the National Technology Day event on 11 May 2025, Dr Jitendra Singh released a compendium of 'Super 30 Startups' funded by the Technology Development Board over five years and launched two new calls for proposals under the National Quantum Mission.
- Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis unveiled a new 91-foot statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot Fort in Malvan, Sindhudurg district, on 11 May 2025, replacing the 35-foot statue that collapsed in August 2024.
- Assam's Aisangfa Gogoi won the girls' 55 kg weightlifting gold at the Khelo India Youth Games 2025 in Rajgir, Bihar, on 11 May 2025 with a total lift of 183 kg, a youth national record.
- India beat Sri Lanka by 97 runs in the women's ODI tri-series final at the R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, on 11 May 2025, with Smriti Mandhana scoring 116 and Sneh Rana taking 4 for 38.
- Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated a voluntary blood donation camp organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology with the Indian Red Cross Society on National Technology Day, 11 May 2025.