Current Affairs One-liners — 19 June 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Thu, 19 Jun 2025
- On 19 June 2025, the Election Commission of India held bye-polls to five Assembly constituencies in Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal, introducing a mobile deposit facility and webcasting at every polling station.
- On 19 June 2025 at Dudhwa Tiger Reserve, Uttar Pradesh, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav chaired an interactive workshop on managing human–wildlife conflict.
- On 19 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released its Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report for January–March 2025.
- On 19 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Ministry of Defence said it had begun a comprehensive review of the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 through a committee headed by the Director General (Acquisition).
- On 19 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances released the 25th monthly NeSDA Way Forward report for States/UTs for May 2025, counting 21,062 e-services.
- On 19 June 2025, the steel-cutting ceremony of the fourth of five Fleet Support Ships for the Indian Navy was held at Hindustan Shipyard Limited, with Chief of the Naval Staff Adm Dinesh K Tripathi as chief guest.
- On 19 June 2025, the Department of Science and Technology said astronomers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, Karnataka found germanium in the extreme helium star A980, an element never before seen in this class of star.
- On 19 June 2025 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Telecom Secretary Neeraj Mittal inaugurated the three-day Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) Symposium 2025 at the IIT Madras Research Park.
- On 19 June 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, the Ministry of Women and Child Development held a first-of-its-kind National Consultation on Gender Budgeting, where Minister Annpurna Devi launched the Gender Budgeting Knowledge Hub portal.
- On 19 June 2025, the Department of Science and Technology said researchers at the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, Assam identified 70 poisonous plant species traditionally used to treat illnesses.