Current Affairs One-liners — 03 September 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Wed, 03 Sept 2025
- The Union Cabinet on 3 September 2025 approved a ₹1,500 crore incentive scheme under the National Critical Mineral Mission to build capacity for extracting critical minerals from e-waste, battery scrap and other secondary sources.
- The 56th GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on 3 September 2025, approved replacing the four-tier GST structure with a two-rate system of 5% and 18%, plus a 40% de-merit rate, effective 22 September 2025.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi met German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in New Delhi on 3 September 2025, noting that India and Germany are celebrating 25 years of Strategic Partnership.
- UPSC Chairman Ajay Kumar announced on 3 September 2025 a proposed Centre of Excellence as a repository of best practices of UPSC and State PSCs, as part of the Commission's centenary year from 1 October 2025 to 1 October 2026.
- Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi visited the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat, on 3 September 2025 to review progress on the 400-acre project.
- The National Statistics Office released the first Quarterly Bulletin of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (QBUSE) on 3 September 2025, showing employment in the sector crossing 13 crore for the first time in January–March 2025.
- China held a massive military parade at Tiananmen in Beijing on 3 September 2025 to mark 80 years since Japan's defeat in World War II, with Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un flanking President Xi Jinping.
- A team led by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, reported the strongest observational evidence yet of how interstellar dust grains align with magnetic fields, using observations of the star-forming cloud G34.43+0.24, PIB said on 3 September 2025.
- Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Annapurna Devi jointly launched the Guidelines for Co-location of Anganwadi Centres with Schools at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 3 September 2025.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended wishes on Karma Puja on 3 September 2025, describing the tribal festival as a symbol of the bond between brother and sister in which worship of nature holds special significance.
- President Droupadi Murmu attended the 10th convocation ceremony of the Central University of Tamil Nadu at Thiruvarur on 3 September 2025.