Current Affairs One-liners — 01 December 2025

Mon, 01 Dec 2025

• The 26th Hornbill Festival opened at the Naga Heritage Village, Kisama, Nagaland on 1 December 2025, coinciding with the 63rd Statehood Day of Nagaland, and runs till 10 December.
• The Winter Session 2025 of Parliament began in New Delhi on Monday, 1 December 2025 and was scheduled to run till 19 December with 15 sittings.
• Punjab recorded 5,114 and Haryana 662 paddy stubble-burning incidents in the 2025 season, the lowest so far, the Commission for Air Quality Management said on 1 December 2025.
• Goa Governor Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju released a commemorative postage stamp marking the Silver Jubilee of the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR) at Vasco-da-Gama, Goa on Antarctica Day, 1 December 2025.
• India's Index of Industrial Production (IIP) grew 0.4% in October 2025, down from 4.0% in September, according to quick estimates released by MoSPI on 1 December 2025.
• Indian Railways announced on 1 December 2025 the out-of-turn promotion of Women's World Cup champions Pratika Rawal, Sneh Rana and Renuka Singh Thakur to the Group 'B' gazetted post of Officer on Special Duty (Sports).
• The Border Security Force (BSF), established on 1 December 1965, marked its Raising Day on 1 December 2025, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted its personnel.
• Union Health Minister J P Nadda inaugurated the national observance of World AIDS Day 2025 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 1 December 2025.
• Aparna Garg, a 1987-batch Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS) officer, took charge as Member (Finance), Railway Board on 1 December 2025.
• Rabi crops had been sown on 393.07 lakh hectares as of 28 November 2025, against 357.73 lakh hectares a year earlier, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare reported on 1 December 2025.
• Air Marshal Tejbir Singh assumed the appointment of Director General (Inspection and Safety) at Air Headquarters on 1 December 2025.
• MeitY's IndiaAI and UN Women India announced on 1 December 2025 a global call for nominations for a compendium on AI solutions advancing gender equality, to be released at the India–AI Impact Summit 2026.
• Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated the Saras Aajeevika Food Festival 2025 at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi on 1 December 2025, with women from 25 states serving over 500 dishes.
• The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released on 1 December 2025 its Independent Drive Test findings for Wayanad in the Kerala Licensed Service Area, conducted on 14–17 October 2025.