Current Affairs One-liners — 09 September 2025

Tue, 09 Sept 2025

• Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned on 9 September 2025 after youth-led protests sparked by a social media ban turned deadly, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a Cabinet Committee on Security meeting on Nepal the same evening.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted aerial surveys of flood-hit Himachal Pradesh and Punjab on 9 September 2025 and announced financial assistance of ₹1,500 crore for Himachal Pradesh and ₹1,600 crore for Punjab.
• NDA nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan was declared elected Vice President of India on 9 September 2025 by Returning Officer P.C. Mody, securing 452 first-preference votes against 300 for B. Sudershan Reddy.
• Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia unveiled the UPI–UPU Integration project at the 28th Universal Postal Congress in Dubai on 9 September 2025, linking India's UPI with the Universal Postal Union's Interconnection Platform for cross-border remittances.
• The European Union has listed 102 new Indian fishery establishments for exports to EU member countries, the Commerce Ministry said on 9 September 2025, expanding market access for shrimp and cephalopods.
• The Employees' State Insurance Corporation's SPREE-2025 registration drive runs till 31 December 2025, while its AMNESTY Scheme-2025 for ESI Act disputes runs from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026, ESIC officials said on 9 September 2025.
• The Agriculture Ministry said on 9 September 2025 that only 146 biostimulant products have been included in Schedule VI of the Fertilizer Control Order, 1985, after provisional registrations covering more than 8,000 products ended.
• A 65-member Indian Armed Forces contingent departed on 9 September 2025 for the multilateral joint military exercise ZAPAD 2025 at the Mulino Training Ground in Nizhniy, Russia, held from 10 to 16 September.
• A study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences and Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, released by DST on 9 September 2025, used 34-million-year-old fossil leaves from Nagaland's Laisong Formation to link Antarctic ice formation with the early Indian monsoon.
• ECGC, the government's export credit insurance entity, reported at its 67th AGM on 9 September 2025 an all-time high of ₹8.55 lakh crore in exports supported in FY 2024-25, up 17%.