Current Affairs One-liners — 26 August 2025

Tue, 26 Aug 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 26 August 2025 flagged off the e VITARA, Suzuki's first Made-in-India global strategic battery electric vehicle, at Hansalpur, Gujarat, and announced the start of hybrid battery electrode manufacturing.
• Two Project 17A multi-mission stealth frigates, INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, were commissioned into the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam on 26 August 2025 in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
• MoSPI's Comprehensive Modular Survey: Education 2025, released on 26 August 2025, found government schools account for 55.9% of school enrolment and 27% of students take private coaching.
• A rain-triggered landslide struck the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi yatra track near Adhkuwari in Katra, Reasi district, Jammu and Kashmir, on the afternoon of 26 August 2025, killing several pilgrims.
• India hosted its first-ever 3GPP Radio Access Network working group meetings in Bengaluru from 25 to 29 August 2025, where discussions on 6G standardisation under 3GPP Release 20 began.
• FIDE announced on 26 August 2025 that Goa will host the FIDE World Cup 2025, ending on 27 November, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomed the tournament's return to India after more than two decades.
• The Centre on 26 August 2025 revised wheat stock limits applicable until 31 March 2026, cutting the limit for traders and wholesalers from 3,000 to 2,000 tonnes to moderate prices before the festive season.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed a two-day Vibrant Villages Programme workshop in New Delhi on 26 August 2025 and launched the programme's logo.
• The Ministry of Ayush on 26 August 2025 announced 'Ayurveda for People & Planet' as the theme for Ayurveda Day 2025, to be observed on its fixed date of 23 September.
• The Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare signed an MoU with the Quality Council of India in New Delhi on 26 August 2025 to strengthen pension, healthcare, resettlement and welfare services for over 63 lakh veterans and dependents.
• The Union Government released over ₹284 crore of Fifteenth Finance Commission untied grants to rural local bodies in Mizoram, Odisha and Tripura, the Panchayati Raj Ministry said on 26 August 2025.
• Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, have developed a gold nanocluster-based biosensor that distinguishes normal and toxic forms of the Parkinson's-linked protein α-synuclein, the DST said on 26 August 2025.
• Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka visited UIDAI headquarters in New Delhi on 26 August 2025, where India demonstrated Aadhaar and DigiLocker.
• The 5th meeting of the India–South Africa Joint Working Group on Agriculture was held virtually on 26 August 2025, exploring cooperation between ICAR and South Africa's Agricultural Research Council.
• The Ministry of Education on 26 August 2025 announced 45 school teachers and 21 teachers from higher education institutions and polytechnics selected for the National Teachers' Awards 2025, to be conferred on 5 September.