Current Affairs One-liners — 13 May 2025

Tue, 13 May 2025

• All-India CPI inflation was 3.16% (provisional) in April 2025, the lowest year-on-year rate since July 2019, and food inflation fell to 1.78%, the lowest since October 2021, MoSPI said on 13 May 2025.
• The Inland Waterways Authority of India opened a new office at Srinagar's Transport Bhawan on 13 May 2025 and, under an MoU with the J&K government, will develop navigation infrastructure on NW-26 (Chenab), NW-49 (Jhelum) and NW-84 (Ravi).
• Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated two design facilities of Renesas Electronics India in Noida and Bengaluru on 13 May 2025, described as India's first design centres to work on 3-nanometre chip design.
• DST's Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, and DRDO's Instruments Research & Development Establishment (IRDE), Dehradun, signed an MoU on 13 May 2025 to strengthen India's ground-based Space Situational Awareness.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Air Force Station Adampur in Punjab early on 13 May 2025, a day after his address to the nation, and interacted with air warriors and soldiers.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the National TB Elimination Programme on 13 May 2025, including the 100-day TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan in which 12.97 crore people were screened and 7.19 lakh TB cases detected.
• India's Major Ports handled about 855 million tonnes of cargo in FY 2024-25, up 4.3% from 819 million tonnes in FY 2023-24, the Ports Ministry said on 13 May 2025.
• The Ministry of Ayush said on 13 May 2025 that, by a Gazette Notification of 23 March 2025, Ayurveda Day will be observed on 23 September every year instead of on Dhanteras.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed implementation of the three new criminal laws in Puducherry with Lt Governor K. Kailashnathan in New Delhi on 13 May 2025, and said FIRs in the UT should be registered in Tamil.
• Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai reviewed the state's agriculture and rural development schemes at Mahanadi Bhawan, Raipur, on 13 May 2025; Chouhan said the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan would begin on 29 May.
• India's coal imports fell 9.2% to 220.3 million tonnes in April 2024–February 2025, from 242.6 million tonnes a year earlier, saving about US$ 6.93 billion in foreign exchange, the Coal Ministry said on 13 May 2025.