Current Affairs One-liners — 07 October 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 07 Oct 2025
- As of September 2025, public sector banks had sanctioned over 5.79 lakh loan applications worth ₹10,907 crore under the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana for rooftop solar, the Finance Ministry said on 7 October 2025.
- On 7 October 2025 a High-Level Committee chaired by Home Minister Amit Shah approved ₹707.97 crore of additional central assistance from the NDRF to Assam and Gujarat for 2024 floods and landslides, and ₹903.67 crore for fire services in Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
- On 6 October 2025 at DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi, DRDO with the Integrated Defence Staff and the Tri-Services released the Indian Radio Software Architecture (IRSA) standard 1.0, a national software specification for Software Defined Radios.
- On 7 October 2025 the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved four railway multitracking projects costing about ₹24,634 crore, adding about 894 km across 18 districts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh by 2030-31.
- On 6–7 October 2025, on Sharad Purnima, the International Buddhist Confederation and the Ministry of Culture celebrated International Abhidhamma Day at Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, with an international conference on Abhidhamma.
- On 6 October 2025 at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, the Indian Navy decommissioned INS Abhay, a Soviet Pauk II class anti-submarine corvette, and INFAC T-82, an Israeli Super Dvora Mk II class fast attack craft, after more than three decades of service.
- On 7 October 2025 the 7th meeting of the India–Brazil Trade Monitoring Mechanism was held at Vanijya Bhawan, New Delhi, co-chaired by Commerce Secretary Rajesh Agrawal and Brazil's Secretary of Foreign Trade Tatiana Lacerda Prazeres.
- On 7 October 2025 the Health Ministry said clinicians at the Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi, successfully fitted an indigenously developed customised Temporo-Mandibular Joint (TMJ) implant in four patients; the implant was developed at ICMR's mPRAGATI facility at IIT Delhi.
- A PIB explainer of 7 October 2025 says GST cuts from 12% to 5% on Punjab's textiles, handicrafts such as GI-tagged phulkari, footwear, dairy, agro products and bicycles will make them cheaper and more competitive.
- On 7 October 2025 the Ministry of Textiles and CITI marked World Cotton Day in New Delhi on the theme 'Cotton 2040: Technology, Climate & Competitiveness', with Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh promoting the Kasturi Cotton Bharat brand.
- On 7 October 2025 in New Delhi, MeitY held a workshop on 'Management of Information on Intermediary Platforms', where Secretary S. Krishnan explained the scope of Sections 69A and 79(3)(b) of the IT Act, 2000 and called for standardised notices to intermediaries.
- A PIB release of 7 October 2025 describes the logo of the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 (19–20 February 2026, Bharat Mandapam): an Ashoka Chakra with neural-network flares, chosen from 599 MyGov entries and designed by Ajith P. Suresh.