Current Affairs One-liners — November 2025

Fri, 28 Nov 2025

• On 28 November 2025 India launched Operation Sagar Bandhu to send humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah; the first relief was handed over in Colombo from INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri.
• INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri represented India at the Sri Lanka Navy's International Fleet Review 2025 in Colombo (27–29 November 2025), the maiden overseas deployment of both ships.
• On 28 November 2025 Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders delivered Taragiri, the fourth Nilgiri-class (Project 17A) indigenous stealth frigate, to the Indian Navy in Mumbai.
• On 28 November 2025 the Ministry of Defence signed Letters of Offer and Acceptance with the US government, worth about ₹7,995 crore, for five years of sustainment support for the Indian Navy's MH-60R helicopter fleet.
• On 28 November 2025 India and the Asian Development Bank signed three loans worth over $800 million — for Maharashtra agricultural solarisation, Indore Metro Rail and Gujarat skills — and a $1 million technical assistance grant for Assam's SWIFT project.
• The FIH Hockey Men's Junior World Cup Tamil Nadu 2025 (28 November–10 December, Chennai and Madurai) opened on 28 November 2025, with hosts India beating Chile 7-0 at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium, Chennai.
• On 28 November 2025 Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced ₹4,500 crore to upgrade the Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali, said it will not be privatised, and handed over 28 chips designed by students of 17 institutions.
• On 28 November 2025 President Droupadi Murmu graced the closing ceremony of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Bharat Scouts and Guides and addressed its 19th National Jamboree in Lucknow.
• The ITU's World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 28 November 2025, with India serving as a conference vice-chair and securing leadership posts in both ITU-D Study Groups for 2026–29.
• On 28 November 2025 PM Narendra Modi addressed the Laksha Kantha Gita Parayana programme at Sri Krishna Matha in Udupi, Karnataka, and urged people to take nine resolves including water conservation and visiting 25 heritage sites.
• On 28 November 2025 PM Narendra Modi addressed the 550th-year celebration of the Shree Samsthan Gokarn Partagali Jeevottam Math in Goa, where a 77-feet bronze statue of Lord Shri Ram has been installed.
• The two-day Chanakya Defence Dialogue 2025, organised by the Indian Army with the Centre for Land Warfare Studies at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, concluded on 28 November 2025.

Thu, 27 Nov 2025

• India finished the 25th Summer Deaflympics 2025 in Tokyo with a best-ever tally of 20 medals — 9 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze — and PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the team on 27 November 2025.
• The Ministry of Textiles announced on 27 November 2025 that the Government has approved the Textiles Focused Research, Assessment, Monitoring, Planning and Start-up (Tex-RAMPS) Scheme with an outlay of ₹305 crore for FY 2025-26 to FY 2030-31.
• On 27 November 2025 PM Narendra Modi inaugurated Skyroot Aerospace's Infinity Campus in Hyderabad, Telangana, via video conferencing and unveiled Vikram-I, Skyroot's first orbital rocket.
• India and the UAE held the third meeting of the Joint Committee under the India–UAE CEPA in New Delhi, as the Commerce Ministry said on 27 November 2025 that bilateral trade crossed USD 100.06 billion in FY 2024-25.
• Paradip Port Authority in Odisha crossed 100 million metric tonnes (MMT) of cargo in FY 2025-26 on 27 November 2025 — its fastest ever, in 241 days, 12 days earlier than last fiscal.
• Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh and Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin co-chaired the third India–Indonesia Defence Ministers' Dialogue in New Delhi on 27 November 2025.
• The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) released ₹5.34 crore to about 85 Biodiversity Management Committees in Wada tehsil of Palghar district and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation area of Maharashtra under the Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) framework (27 November 2025).
• The 44th India International Trade Fair (IITF), organised by ITPO at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, concluded on 27 November 2025 with the IITF 2025 Awards for Excellence in Display.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid floral tributes to Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, the first Speaker of Lok Sabha, in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan on his birth anniversary on 27 November 2025.
• On 27 November 2025 Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated two dual-polarised C-band Doppler Weather Radars of IMD at Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Mangaluru (Karnataka), a 771 kWp solar power system at Mausam Bhawan and a Meteorological Museum.
• Scientists of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP) reported a 37,000-year-old thorny bamboo fossil, Chimonobambusa manipurensis, from the Chirang River deposits of Manipur's Imphal Valley — the earliest thorny bamboo fossil from Asia (DST release, 27 November 2025).
• On 27 November 2025 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and MoS Jitin Prasada flagged off, via video conferencing from Rail Bhawan, the extension of the Gorakhpur–Pilibhit Express up to Izzatnagar (Bareilly) in Uttar Pradesh.
• The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) hosted its maiden Shipbuilding, Indigenisation & IT Conference at Madikeri, Karnataka, on 27 November 2025, and signed an MoU with the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association and Defence Innovation & Atal Incubation Centre.

Wed, 26 Nov 2025

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the first advance estimates of Kharif crop production for 2025-26 on 26 November 2025, putting total Kharif foodgrain output at 173.33 million tonnes, up 3.87 million tonnes.
• On Constitution Day, 26 November 2025, President Droupadi Murmu digitally released translated versions of the Constitution of India in nine Indian languages at the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, and a bust of Dr B.R. Ambedkar was unveiled at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
• The Union Cabinet on 26 November 2025 approved the 'Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets' with an outlay of ₹7,280 crore to set up 6,000 tonnes per annum (MTPA) of integrated REPM manufacturing in India.
• India was officially awarded the 2030 Commonwealth Games, with Amdavad (Ahmedabad), Gujarat, declared the host city at the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) General Assembly in Glasgow on 26 November 2025.
• PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Safran Aircraft Engine Services India (SAESI) facility at the GMR Aerospace and Industrial Park–SEZ, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, via video conferencing on 26 November 2025.