Current Affairs One-liners — 18 July 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Fri, 18 Jul 2025
- On 18 July 2025 in Motihari, Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stones, inaugurated and dedicated projects worth over Rs 7,000 crore and flagged off Amrit Bharat Express trains on four routes.
- On 18 July 2025 at Visakhapatnam, INS Nistar, the first indigenously designed and built Diving Support Vessel, was commissioned into the Indian Navy.
- On 18 July 2025 in Durgapur, West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched projects worth over Rs 5,400 crore in gas, power and rail.
- On 18 July 2025, the Labour Bureau released CPI-AL and CPI-RL for June 2025 on the revised base 2019=100, with both indices at 134 points.
- On 18 July 2025 in Mumbai, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated the first campus of the Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) at the NFDC Complex.
- On 18 July 2025, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh launched the National Standards for Civil Service Training Institutes 2.0 (NSCSTI 2.0), developed by the Capacity Building Commission.
- On 18 July 2025, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs and Coal India Ltd partnered to support 68 Eklavya Model Residential Schools in Chhattisgarh with Rs 10 crore under CSR.
- At the 88th session of the Codex Executive Committee (CCEXEC88), held at FAO headquarters in Rome from 14 to 18 July 2025, India's leadership on a group standard for whole millet grains was appreciated.
- On 18 July 2025, the Department of Science and Technology reported that MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, had discovered a new lichen species, Allographa effusosoredica, in the Western Ghats.
- On 18 July 2025 at NFDC headquarters, Mumbai, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw chaired the first meeting of the Steering Committee for the 56th International Film Festival of India, to be held in Goa from 20 to 28 November 2025.
- On 18 July 2025 at Parliament House, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met a parliamentary delegation from the Republic of Korea led by former Prime Minister Kim Boo Kyum.
- On 18 July 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, MoHUA, with MHA and MeitY, held the National Conference on Making Cities Cyber Secure, attended by over 300 delegates.
- On 18 July 2025, DRI Bengaluru seized 4,006 grams of cocaine worth about Rs 40 crore, hidden in two superhero comics, from a passenger arriving from Doha at Kempegowda International Airport.
- On 18 July 2025, Union MoS for Minority Affairs George Kurian inaugurated a Rs 7.92 crore Skill Development Centre and a Rs 9.97 crore Girls' Hostel under PMJVK at Nilambur, Malappuram, Kerala.