Current Affairs One-liners — 02 August 2025

Sat, 02 Aug 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the 20th instalment of PM-KISAN from Varanasi on 2 August 2025, transferring more than ₹20,500 crore to over 9.7 crore farmers, and launched development works worth about ₹2,200 crore in the city.
• Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, with Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu, inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 29 National Highway projects covering 272 km and worth over ₹5,233 crore at Mangalagiri on 2 August 2025.
• National Waterway-57 on the Kopili river in Assam was operationalised on 2 August 2025 with a maiden 300-tonne cement cargo from Chandrapur to Hatsingimari, reviving intra-state waterborne freight after more than a decade.
• At the 15th Indian Organ Donation Day on 2 August 2025, Health Minister J.P. Nadda said India performed over 18,900 organ transplants in 2024, the highest in a single year, and ranks third in the world.
• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin launched medical camps under the 'Nalam Kaakkum Stalin' scheme at Santhome, Chennai, on 2 August 2025, with 1,256 camps planned across all 38 districts.
• Union Ministers Bhupender Yadav and Manohar Lal launched the 'Matri Van' initiative in Gurugram on 2 August 2025, a theme-based urban forest over 750 acres in the Aravalli hill area under the 'Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam' programme.
• The Election Commission of India on 2 August 2025 doubled the annual remuneration of Booth Level Officers to ₹12,000, raised pay for BLO Supervisors and introduced honorariums for EROs and AEROs for the first time.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Pingali Venkayya on his birth anniversary on 2 August 2025, recalling his role in giving India the Tricolour, and urged citizens to join the Har Ghar Tiranga movement.
• FSSAI, in consultation with the Ministry of Ayush, released a definitive list of Category A Ayurveda Aahara products on 2 August 2025, drawn from classical Ayurvedic texts.