Current Affairs One-liners — 10 October 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Fri, 10 Oct 2025
- On 10 October 2025 the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy recognised three major ports — Deendayal (Gujarat), V.O. Chidambaranar (Tamil Nadu) and Paradip (Odisha) — as Green Hydrogen Hubs under the National Green Hydrogen Mission.
- On 10 October 2025 at India Mobile Congress 2025 in New Delhi, MeitY hosted pre-summit events for the India–AI Impact Summit 2026, to be held in New Delhi on 19–20 February 2026 around three sutras and seven chakras.
- On 10 October 2025 NITI Aayog released the second NITI Tax Policy Working Paper, 'Towards India's Tax Transformation: Decriminalisation and Trust-Based Governance', which finds the Income-tax Act, 2025 still criminalises 35 acts and omissions across 13 provisions.
- PIB reported on 10 October 2025 that astronomers, including scientists from ARIES Nainital and TIFR Mumbai, have for the first time imaged two black holes orbiting each other in OJ287, using the RadioAstron space telescope.
- On 10 October 2025 Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav chaired a high-level review of air pollution in Delhi-NCR, pressing for OCEMS in polluting industries and directing that the SAMEER app be the single app for disseminating the Air Quality Index.
- On 10 October 2025 Dr Jitendra Singh virtually inaugurated the 10th Cell and Gene Therapy Symposium at CMC Vellore, Tamil Nadu, and hailed its Centre for Stem Cell Research for completing India's first-in-human gene therapy trial for Hemophilia A.
- On 10 October 2025 India and the UK announced the India–UK Connectivity and Innovation Centre, with a combined initial £24 million over four years for research in AI for telecom, non-terrestrial networks and telecom cybersecurity.
- On 10 October 2025 in Sydney, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited the naval facility HMAS Kuttabul and co-chaired the maiden India–Australia Defence Industry Business Round Table with Australia's Assistant Minister for Defence Peter Khalil.
- The Election Commission of India said on 10 October 2025 that, by a notification of 7 October 2025, electors on the roll who cannot show their EPIC may vote using any one of 12 alternative photo identity documents.
- On 10 October 2025 NITI Aayog released a 'Roadmap for Job Creation in the AI Economy', saying India's tech services sector could create up to 4 million new jobs in five years and recommending a National AI Talent Mission.
- On World Mental Health Day, 10 October 2025, Health Minister J P Nadda launched new Tele MANAS app features — 10 regional languages besides English and Hindi, a chatbot and an emergency module — and named Deepika Padukone Mental Health Ambassador.
- On 10 October 2025 MeitY's National e-Governance Division signed an MoU with Sahakar Taxi Cooperative Limited to advise on Bharat Taxi, a cooperative-driven national ride-hailing platform to be launched in December 2025.
- PIB reported on 10 October 2025 that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, leading India's delegation to the 68th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Bridgetown, Barbados, visited the Barbados National Assembly and saw the Speaker's chair India gifted in 1966.
- On 10 October 2025, at Day 1 of the G20 Trade & Investment Ministers' Meeting in Gqeberha, South Africa, MoS Jitin Prasada called for restoring a two-tier WTO dispute settlement system with a working appellate body and held bilateral meetings.
- A PIB explainer on 10 October 2025 said the recent GST cuts will benefit Manipur's handloom (2.5 lakh weavers), crafts, food processing, dairy and coffee sectors, with handloom fabrics cut from 12% to 5% and packaged coffee from 18% to 5%.