Current Affairs One-liners — 21 July 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Mon, 21 Jul 2025
- On 21 July 2025 at Parliament House, New Delhi, the Monsoon Session 2025 began, with 21 sittings planned over 32 days up to 21 August.
- On 21 July 2025 in New Delhi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned with immediate effect under Article 67(a), citing health care and medical advice; MHA notified the resignation on 22 July.
- On 21 July 2025, Deputy NSA T.V. Ravichandran inaugurated Bharat NCX 2025, a two-week national cybersecurity exercise run by NSCS with Rashtriya Raksha University.
- On 21 July 2025, EPFO's provisional payroll data showed a net addition of 20.06 lakh members in May 2025, the highest since tracking began in April 2018.
- On 21 July 2025, the Election Commission said Bihar had become the first state where every polling station has fewer than 1,200 electors, after 12,817 new polling stations were added.
- On 21 July 2025, the first day of the Monsoon Session, the Rajya Sabha passed the Bills of Lading Bill, 2025, already cleared by the Lok Sabha in March 2025.
- On 21 July 2025, former Kerala Chief Minister and veteran CPI(M) leader V.S. Achuthanandan died at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, aged 101.
- On 21 July 2025, the Commerce Ministry reported that the Index of Eight Core Industries rose 1.7% (provisional) in June 2025 over June 2024.
- On 21 July 2025, the Finance Ministry said Phase-IV amalgamation under 'One State-One RRB' had reduced Regional Rural Banks from 43 to 28 with effect from 1 May 2025.
- On 21 July 2025 at GRSE, Kolkata, Ajay (Yard 3034), the eighth and last Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft built by GRSE, was launched.
- On 21 July 2025, NITI Aayog announced that Deepak Bagla had assumed charge as Mission Director of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).
- On 21 July 2025, a replica of the Ashoka Pillar was unveiled at Waskaduwa Sri Subhuthi Viharaya in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka, with Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha as Chief Guest.
- On 21 July 2025 in New Delhi, the Indian Coast Guard and the Korea Coast Guard held their 13th High-Level Meeting under their 2006 MoU.
- On 21 July 2025, the Steel Ministry said SAIL had supplied over 31,000 tonnes of steel to the under-construction Zojila Tunnel, becoming its single largest steel supplier.
- On 21 July 2025 in New Delhi, the WSIS Prizes 2025 Champion certificate for the 'Meri Panchayat' app was presented to Panchayati Raj Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh.