Current Affairs One-liners — 08 September 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Mon, 08 Sept 2025
- The Ministry of Education marked International Literacy Day on 8 September 2025 with the theme 'Promoting Literacy in the Digital Era', as Himachal Pradesh became the fifth fully literate State/UT.
- India and Israel signed a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) in New Delhi on 8 September 2025, signed by Finance Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Bezalel Smotrich.
- France's National Assembly brought down Prime Minister François Bayrou's minority government on 8 September 2025, voting 364 to 194 against it in a confidence vote over his debt-reduction plans.
- Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali, have shown that cholesterol-based nanomaterials can control electron spin, opening a route to energy-efficient spintronic devices, the DST said on 8 September 2025.
- President Droupadi Murmu graced the Platinum Jubilee celebrations of the Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) India in New Delhi on 8 September 2025, noting engineering exports rose from $70 billion to over $115 billion in 10 years.
- The birth centenary celebrations of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika began on 8 September 2025, and the Inland Waterways Authority of India flagged off the 'Bistirna Parore' musical voyage from Sadiya to Dhubri on the Brahmaputra.
- Union Minister Jitendra Singh, inaugurating the CII's International Conference on Space 2025 on 8 September, said India aims for a Bharatiya Space Station by 2035 and an Indian astronaut on the Moon by 2040.
- DialogueNEXT, a two-day global conference on agri-food innovation themed 'Take it to the Farmer', opened at the ICAR Convention Centre, New Delhi, on 8 September 2025.
- The Ministry of Labour and Employment signed MoUs with Mentor Together and Quikr for the National Career Service portal on 8 September 2025, as Minister Mansukh Mandaviya cited the WEF's Future of Jobs Report 2025 on India's 2% unemployment rate.
- The 11th Ammunition cum Torpedo cum Missile (ACTCM) barge, LSAM 25 (Yard 135), was launched for the Indian Navy on 8 September 2025 at MSME shipyard Suryadipta Projects, Thane.