Current Affairs One-liners — 25 November 2025

Tue, 25 Nov 2025

• PM Narendra Modi addressed the 350th Shaheedi Diwas of Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, the ninth Sikh Guru, at Kurukshetra, Haryana, on 25 November 2025 and released a special coin and a commemorative postage stamp.
• PM Narendra Modi ceremonially hoisted a saffron flag (Dharma Dhwaja) on the Shikhar of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, at the Dhwajarohan Utsav on 25 November 2025.
• Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the Third Advance Estimates of horticultural crops for 2024-25 on 25 November 2025, putting production at 369.055 million tonnes from 29.488 million hectares.
• Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched Nayi Chetna 4.0, the National Campaign on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, New Delhi, on 25 November 2025.
• Mines Secretary Piyush Goyal reviewed the ₹1,500 crore Incentive Scheme for Critical Mineral Recycling on 25 November 2025; the scheme envisages about 3 lakh tonnes a year of recycling capacity for extracting critical minerals.
• The 19th edition of the India–Nepal joint military exercise 'Suryakiran XIX – 2025' began at Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand, on 25 November 2025 and runs until 8 December 2025.
• The Sacred Piprahwa Relics of Lord Buddha returned to India on 25 November 2025 after a 17-day exposition in Bhutan, accompanied by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.
• During a visit to IIT Bombay on 25 November 2025, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh hailed BharatGen as India's first sovereign multilingual and multimodal AI-driven Large Language Model initiative, backed by ₹1,293 crore of government support.
• The Department of Telecommunications said on 25 November 2025 that its Sanchar Saathi initiative enabled recovery of over 50,000 lost and stolen mobile handsets in October 2025 — the first time in a month — taking total recoveries past 7 lakh.
• WAVES Film Bazaar and IFFI, with LTIMindtree, launched India's first-ever AI Film Festival and a Cinema AI Hackathon at the 56th IFFI in Goa, with awards presented on 25 November 2025.
• The fourth meeting of the BIMSTEC Expert Group on Maritime Security Cooperation, hosted by the National Security Council Secretariat in New Delhi on 24–25 November 2025, concluded on 25 November.