Current Affairs One-liners — 10 September 2025

Wed, 10 Sept 2025

• The Election Commission of India held its third conference this year of Chief Electoral Officers of all States and UTs at IIIDEM, New Delhi on 10 September 2025 to assess preparedness for a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 10 September 2025 approved the 82.4 km four-lane greenfield access-controlled Mokama–Munger section of the Buxar–Bhagalpur High-Speed Corridor in Bihar, at ₹4,447.38 crore on Hybrid Annuity Mode.
• The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India signed a $126.42 million loan on 10 September 2025 for sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient tourism development in the Tehri Lake area of Uttarakhand.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 10 September 2025 approved doubling of the 177 km Bhagalpur–Dumka–Rampurhat single railway line across Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal at a cost of about ₹3,169 crore.
• Marking World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2025, the National Task Force on student mental health and suicide prevention appealed to students, parents, faculty and institutions to take part in its surveys.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on 10 September 2025, expressed deep concern over the attacks in Doha and condemned the violation of Qatar's sovereignty.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh released the CCS (Implementation of the Unified Pension Scheme under the National Pension System) Rules, 2025 at the 14th Pension Adalat on 10 September 2025, enabling Central Government employees to choose between NPS and UPS.
• Researchers from MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune identified two new species of black Aspergillus, Aspergillus dhakephalkarii and Aspergillus patriciawiltshireae, from Western Ghats soil, DST said on 10 September 2025.
• India hosted the 48th Annual Conference on Oceans Law and Policy (COLP48) in New Delhi, the first time in the conference's nearly five-decade history that it was held in the Indian subcontinent, with MoES Secretary M. Ravichandran giving a keynote on 10 September 2025.
• Responding to a post by US President Donald Trump on X on 10 September 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called India and the US close friends and natural partners and said teams were working to conclude trade negotiations at the earliest.
• Power Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated the Central Power Research Institute's Regional Testing Laboratory at Nashik on 10 September 2025 to serve power equipment industries in western India.