Current Affairs One-liners — 25 May 2025

Sun, 25 May 2025

• The Liberian container vessel MSC ELSA 3 sank off the Kochi coast on 25 May 2025 due to flooding; all 24 crew were rescued — 21 by the Indian Coast Guard and three by the Indian Navy's INS Sujata.
• Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan visited the Indian Army's Northern Command at Udhampur and Western Command at Chandimandir on 25 May 2025 and conducted a strategic review and operational assessment.
• In Mann Ki Baat on 25 May 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for mass participation in the 11th International Day of Yoga, said he would take part in the Yoga Day programme in Visakhapatnam, and praised Andhra Pradesh's YogAndhra Abhiyan.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Mann Ki Baat on 25 May 2025 that the lion population in Gir, Gujarat had risen from 674 to 891 in five years, according to the latest lion census.
• The Election Commission of India on 25 May 2025 announced bye-elections to five Assembly constituencies — Kadi (SC) and Visavadar in Gujarat, Nilambur in Kerala, Ludhiana West in Punjab and Kaliganj in West Bengal.
• In the 122nd episode of Mann Ki Baat on 25 May 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the first bus reaching Katejhari village in Gadchiroli, CBSE's 'sugar boards', India's honey output of about 1.25 lakh metric tonnes and drone-flying women in Telangana's Sangareddy district.
• On 25 May 2025 an Indian all-party delegation led by MP Shashi Tharoor began a 25–27 May visit to Guyana by calling on Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, while another multi-party delegation in Qatar met Shura Council Deputy Speaker Dr Hamda bint Hassan Al Sulaiti.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on 25 May 2025 addressed the platinum jubilee celebration of the Singhbhum Chamber of Commerce and Industry at Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
• Union Sports Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya cycled with over 300 participants, with journalists as special guests, at a Fit India 'Sundays on Cycle' edition at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi on 25 May 2025.
• Union Social Justice Minister Dr Virendra Kumar presided over a special programme on the NAMASTE scheme in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh on 25 May 2025, distributing PPE kits to sewer and septic tank workers and handing an ERSU safety device to the municipal corporation.