Current Affairs One-liners — 23 May 2025

Fri, 23 May 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Rising North East Investors Summit 2025 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 23 May 2025, describing the region as a 'front-runner of growth'.
• The Election Commission of India announced on 23 May 2025 that voters will deposit mobile phones just outside polling stations and that candidates' booths can be set up just beyond 100 metres of a polling station.
• The Department of School Education and Literacy asked all States and UTs on 23 May 2025 to run an enforcement drive from 31 May to 26 June 2025 against the sale of tobacco near educational institutions under Section 6(b) of COTPA, 2003.
• The Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports announced revised norms under the Scheme of Assistance to National Sports Federations on 23 May 2025, the first revision since February 2022.
• A joint expedition team of instructors from NIM Uttarkashi, HMI Darjeeling and JIM&WS Pahalgam scaled Mount Everest (8,848.86 m) on 23 May 2025, the Ministry of Defence said.
• Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal said in Bengaluru on 23 May 2025 that the Centre will examine the Bengaluru Metro Phase-2 revised cost and the ~37-km Phase-3A proposal after the required State approvals and expert appraisal.
• Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu inaugurated the curtain raiser for Wings India 2026 in New Delhi on 23 May 2025; the event will be held at Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad from 28 to 31 January 2026.
• Provisional ESIC payroll data released on 23 May 2025 show 16.33 lakh new employees and 31,514 new establishments registered under the ESI Scheme in March 2025.
• The CAQM Sub-Committee on GRAP revoked Stage-I of the Graded Response Action Plan across the entire NCR on 23 May 2025 after Delhi's AQI improved to 129 ('Moderate').
• Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu met Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on 23 May 2025 and proposed a national supercomputing facility at Tirupati and a CSIR laboratory in the State.
• The 47th Flight Test Course of the Indian Air Force Test Pilot School concluded on 23 May 2025 at the Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE), Bengaluru, with Air Chief Marshal AP Singh as chief guest.
• UPSC announced on 23 May 2025 the final result of the Combined Defence Services Examination (II), 2024, with 574 candidates (510 men and 64 women) qualifying for Officers Training Academy, Chennai courses commencing in October 2025.
• The Department of Fisheries held the Fisheries Secretaries Conference 2025 and a national workshop on technology in aquaculture in New Delhi on 23 May 2025 to review PMMSY, FIDF and PM-MKSSY.