Current Affairs One-liners — 13 August 2025

Wed, 13 Aug 2025

• Para table tennis player Bhavina Patel won the gold medal in Women's Singles Class 4–5 at the ITTF World Para Elite event held in Spokane, USA from 9 to 13 August 2025.
• A Singapore ministerial delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong called on President Droupadi Murmu on 13 August 2025 while in Delhi for the third India–Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR).
• On 13 August 2025, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the expanded ISA building of the Intellectual Property Office in Dwarka, New Delhi, built to support India's role as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
• The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued the Manual for Rating of Properties for Digital Connectivity on 13 August 2025, the country's first standardised framework to assess how well buildings support high-speed digital access.
• The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on 13 August 2025 that India's solar PV module manufacturing capacity enlisted under the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) has reached 100 GW, up from 2.3 GW in 2014.
• On 13 August 2025, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow, signed an MoU described as the first initiative in India to bring science and culture onto a unified platform, including support for Project Mausam.
• The Network Planning Group evaluated seven infrastructure projects — one road, one multi-modal logistics park, three rail projects and two PM MITRA textile parks — for conformity with PM GatiShakti principles at its 98th meeting, the Commerce Ministry said on 13 August 2025.
• Union Steel Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy unveiled the logo, brochure and website of Bharat Steel, the Ministry of Steel's flagship international conference-cum-exhibition, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 13 August 2025.