Current Affairs One-liners — 19 May 2025

Mon, 19 May 2025

• Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Bharatiya Bhasha Summer Camp, a festival of multilingualism for schools, in New Delhi on 19 May 2025 and released primers and special modules in 13 languages.
• The BRICS Energy Ministers' Meeting was held in Brasília on 19 May 2025 under Brazil's Presidency; Power Minister Manohar Lal led India and invited BRICS nations to the 2026 energy meeting in India.
• Scientists at JNCASR, Bengaluru, an autonomous DST institute, have developed a NASICON-based sodium-ion battery that charges up to 80% in six minutes and lasts over 3,000 charge cycles, DST said on 19 May 2025.
• MHA's Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C) introduced an e-Zero FIR system, announced on 19 May 2025, that automatically converts cyber financial crime complaints above ₹10 lakh filed on NCRP or helpline 1930 into FIRs, as a pilot in Delhi.
• The Indian Coast Guard said on 19 May 2025 that its annual 'Operation Olivia' helped protect a record of over 6.98 lakh Olive Ridley turtles that nested at the Rushikulya river mouth in Odisha in February 2025.
• Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated a two-day capacity-building programme for 402 election functionaries from Jharkhand — DEOs, EROs, BLOs and BLO Supervisors — at IIIDEM, New Delhi on 19 May 2025.
• Government e Marketplace (GeM) marked its 8th Incorporation Day on 19 May 2025, reporting over 10 lakh MSEs, 1.84 lakh women entrepreneurs and the launch of GeMAI, India's first generative AI chatbot in the public sector.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched the e-Civil List 2025 of IAS officers on 19 May 2025 — the 70th edition of the Civil List and the fifth in fully digital format, with officers' photographs included for the first time.
• The Ministry of Minority Affairs said on 19 May 2025 that Lap-I of the Haj 2025 air charter operations, which began on 29 April, has been completed; pilgrims depart from 18 embarkation points across India.
• The Department of Economic Affairs announced on 19 May 2025 that it has amended Rule 8 of the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 through Gazette Notification G.S.R. 318(E) to give brokers regulatory clarity and ease of doing business.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a revamped Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) portal in New Delhi on 19 May 2025 for over 5 million existing OCI cardholders and new users, at the existing URL ociservices.gov.in.
• Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed inland waterway projects in Assam and the Northeast on 19 May 2025 and said projects worth ₹1,000 crore are on the anvil for completion by 2026.
• UIDAI said on 19 May 2025 it has begun sharing non-personal, anonymised Aadhaar Dashboard data on the Open Government Data platform data.gov.in to promote transparency and research.
• UPSC declared the final result of the Indian Forest Service Examination, 2024 on 19 May 2025, recommending 143 candidates against 150 vacancies reported by the Government.