Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Wed, 13 Aug 2025

• Para table tennis player Bhavina Patel won the gold medal in Women's Singles Class 4–5 at the ITTF World Para Elite event held in Spokane, USA from 9 to 13 August 2025.
• A Singapore ministerial delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister and Trade and Industry Minister Gan Kim Yong called on President Droupadi Murmu on 13 August 2025 while in Delhi for the third India–Singapore Ministerial Roundtable (ISMR).
• On 13 August 2025, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the expanded ISA building of the Intellectual Property Office in Dwarka, New Delhi, built to support India's role as an International Searching Authority and International Preliminary Examining Authority under the Patent Cooperation Treaty.
• The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued the Manual for Rating of Properties for Digital Connectivity on 13 August 2025, the country's first standardised framework to assess how well buildings support high-speed digital access.
• The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on 13 August 2025 that India's solar PV module manufacturing capacity enlisted under the Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) has reached 100 GW, up from 2.3 GW in 2014.
• On 13 August 2025, the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) and the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), Lucknow, signed an MoU described as the first initiative in India to bring science and culture onto a unified platform, including support for Project Mausam.
• The Network Planning Group evaluated seven infrastructure projects — one road, one multi-modal logistics park, three rail projects and two PM MITRA textile parks — for conformity with PM GatiShakti principles at its 98th meeting, the Commerce Ministry said on 13 August 2025.
• Union Steel Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy unveiled the logo, brochure and website of Bharat Steel, the Ministry of Steel's flagship international conference-cum-exhibition, at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 13 August 2025.

Tue, 12 Aug 2025

• India's year-on-year CPI inflation for July 2025 came in at 1.55% (provisional), 55 basis points below June and the lowest since June 2017, data released by MoSPI on 12 August 2025 showed.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on 12 August 2025 admitted a motion signed by 146 MPs seeking the removal of Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma and constituted a three-member committee to probe the charges.
• The Union Cabinet on 12 August 2025 approved four more semiconductor projects under the India Semiconductor Mission — SiCSem, CDIL, 3D Glass Solutions and ASIP — with a combined outlay of about ₹4,600 crore.
• Parliament passed the National Sports Governance Bill, 2025 and the National Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bill, 2025 on 12 August 2025, when the Rajya Sabha approved both bills a day after the Lok Sabha.
• The Union Public Service Commission announced on 12 August 2025 that it will celebrate its centenary year from 1 October 2025 to 1 October 2026, marking 100 years since the Public Service Commission was set up on 1 October 1926.
• The Union Cabinet on 12 August 2025 approved Phase-1B of the Lucknow Metro Rail Project, an 11.165 km corridor with 12 stations, at a cost of ₹5,801 crore.
• The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change marked World Elephant Day on 12 August 2025 with a national event at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, highlighting that India is home to about 60% of the world's wild elephants.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 12 August 2025 approved an investment of ₹8,146.21 crore for the 700 MW Tato-II Hydro Electric Project in Shi Yomi district of Arunachal Pradesh, with a completion period of 72 months.
• The Union Health Ministry on 12 August 2025 launched SHRESTH, the State Health Regulatory Excellence Index, a first-of-its-kind national initiative to benchmark and strengthen state drug regulatory systems.
• IN-SPACe on 12 August 2025 selected a consortium led by Pixxel, with Piersight Space, SatSure and Dhruva Space, to build and operate India's first fully indigenous commercial Earth Observation constellation of 12 satellites under a public–private partnership.
• Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 12 August 2025 to convey Independence Day greetings, and the two leaders reviewed bilateral cooperation.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the 18th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) in Mumbai through a video message on 12 August 2025; the olympiad, organised by HBCSE-TIFR, runs from 11 to 21 August.

Mon, 11 Aug 2025

• A Supreme Court bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan on 11 August 2025 directed authorities in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram and Faridabad to pick up stray dogs and house them in shelters, in a suo motu case on dog bites.
• The Lok Sabha on 11 August 2025 passed the Income-Tax (No. 2) Bill, 2025 and the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2025 by voice vote without debate, amid Opposition protests.
• Parliament passed the Merchant Shipping Bill, 2025 on 11 August 2025 when the Rajya Sabha adopted it, after the Lok Sabha had passed it on 6 August.
• The Cooperative Election Authority, chaired by Devendra Kumar Singh, held its first consultative meeting with State Cooperative Election Authorities in New Delhi on 11 August 2025.
• The Indian Coast Guard and the Sri Lanka Coast Guard held their 8th High-Level Meeting in New Delhi on 11 August 2025, focusing on marine pollution response, maritime search and rescue and maritime law enforcement.
• The Election Commission of India said on 11 August 2025 that it has identified another 476 registered unrecognised political parties (RUPPs) for delisting, after removing 334 such parties on 9 August.
• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on 11 August 2025 digitally transferred about ₹3,900 crore in Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana claims to nearly 35 lakh farmers from Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 11 August 2025 inaugurated 184 newly built Type-VII multi-storey flats for Members of Parliament at Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by telephone on 11 August 2025 and reaffirmed India's consistent position in favour of a peaceful settlement of the conflict.
• Lieutenant General Simon Stuart, Chief of the Australian Army, began an official four-day visit to India on 11 August 2025, calling on Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi in New Delhi.