Current Affairs One-liners — 20 November 2025

Thu, 20 Nov 2025

• Nitish Kumar took oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for a record 10th time at Gandhi Maidan, Patna on 20 November 2025, with Samrat Chaudhary and Vijay Sinha as Deputy Chief Ministers.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the final estimates of crop production for 2024-25 on 20 November 2025, putting India's foodgrain output at a record 357.73 million tonnes, up from 332.30 million tonnes in 2023-24.
• The 56th International Film Festival of India (IFFI 2025) opened on 20 November 2025 with a grand parade in Panaji, Goa — a first for the festival.
• The Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) for October 2025, released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 20 November 2025, remained unchanged at 162.4 (provisional) compared with October 2024.
• Twenty-six leading e-commerce platforms have submitted self-declarations confirming compliance with the Guidelines for Prevention and Regulation of Dark Patterns, 2023, the Ministry of Consumer Affairs said on 20 November 2025.
• The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and France's Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) signed a Technical Agreement at DRDO Bhawan, New Delhi on 20 November 2025 to deepen collaboration in defence research and development.
• Government e-Marketplace (GeM) under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and UN Women signed an MoU on 20 November 2025 to integrate women entrepreneurs from the informal sector into India's public procurement system.
• Mukhi, the first Indian-born female cheetah, aged 33 months, has given birth to five cubs, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav announced on 20 November 2025.
• The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) launched Raajmarg Infra Investment Managers Pvt. Ltd. (RIIMPL) in Mumbai on 20 November 2025 as the investment manager for its proposed public InvIT, Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (RIIT).
• President Droupadi Murmu attended the Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas celebration organised by the Government of Chhattisgarh at Ambikapur, Surguja on 20 November 2025.
• The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted the two-day Coastal Security Exercise Sagar Kavach-02/25 along the Maharashtra and Goa coastline on 19–20 November 2025.
• The Ministry of Ayush and Germany's Federal Ministry of Health held the 3rd Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting on Alternative Medicine in Berlin from 18 to 20 November 2025.
• Union Coal and Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy inaugurated the Geological Survey of India's two-day international seminar 'Unearthing the Past, Shaping the Future: 175 Years of GSI' at the Rajasthan International Centre, Jaipur on 20 November 2025.