Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Tue, 11 Mar 2025

• The Election Commission of India on 11 March 2025 invited suggestions from all national and state political parties by 30 April 2025 on unresolved issues at the ERO, DEO or CEO level, and proposed an interaction with party presidents.
• National Highways Logistics Management Limited and the Inland Waterways Authority of India signed an MoU on 11 March 2025 to develop a 150-acre Multi-Modal Logistics Park in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
• India had 1,189.92 million telephone subscribers and an overall tele-density of 84.45% at the end of December 2024, according to telecom subscription data released on 11 March 2025.
• The Competition Commission of India on 11 March 2025 approved the acquisition of 100% of Ayana Renewable Power Private Limited by ONGC NTPC Green Private Limited.

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

• The Centre on 10 March 2025 notified the appointment of Justice Joymalya Bagchi of the Calcutta High Court as a Judge of the Supreme Court under Article 124(2); he is in line to become Chief Justice of India in May 2031.
• The Lok Sabha on 10 March 2025 passed the Bills of Lading Bill, 2025, moved by Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, to replace the Indian Bills of Lading Act, 1856.
• Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil reviewed Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain and Atal Bhujal Yojana with District Collectors on 10 March 2025, directing that all government buildings, schools and health facilities install rainwater harvesting.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the 2025-26 Budget of Manipur, with an expenditure of ₹35,103.90 crore, in the Lok Sabha on 10 March 2025, since the state is under President's Rule.
• Indian Navy destroyer INS Imphal made her maiden port call at Port Louis, Mauritius, on 10 March 2025, to take part in the 57th Mauritius National Day celebrations on 12 March.
• Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and SDF commander Mazloum Abdi signed an agreement in Damascus on 10 March 2025 to integrate the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces' civil and military institutions into the Syrian state.
• The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare released the Second Advance Estimates of crop production for 2024-25 on 10 March 2025, projecting record output of kharif rice, wheat, maize, groundnut and soybean.
• The Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Kolkata, under CCRAS, signed an MoU with Jadavpur University's School of Natural Product Studies on 10 March 2025 to evaluate the classical formulation Vidangadi Lauham for diabetes.
• Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan called for holistic counter-UAS systems and a common vocabulary on drones for the armed forces at a CENJOWS seminar in New Delhi on 10 March 2025.
• President Droupadi Murmu graced the convocation of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, on 10 March 2025 and launched the Brahma Kumaris' state-level campaign 'Spiritual Education for Holistic Well-being'.

Sun, 09 Mar 2025

• India beat New Zealand by four wickets in the ICC Men's Champions Trophy final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on 9 March 2025 to become the first team to win the title three times.
• Carnatic vocalist and composer Garimella Balakrishna Prasad, former Asthana Vidwan of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams known for setting more than 1,000 Annamacharya sankeertanas to music, died at his home in Tirupati on 9 March 2025, aged 76.
• Rajnath Singh became the first Defence Minister to visit the Indian Air Force's Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Bengaluru on 9 March 2025, where he launched an ICMR-funded centre for research on space psychology.
• Former central banker Mark Carney won the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership race on 9 March 2025 with 85.9% of the points on the first ballot, setting him up to succeed Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister.
• An Indian Army contingent departed on 9 March 2025 for KHANJAR-XII, the 12th India–Kyrgyzstan joint special forces exercise, held in Kyrgyzstan from 10 to 23 March 2025.
• The first rear fuselage for the Light Combat Aircraft Mk1A made by private firm Alpha Tocol Engineering Services was handed over to HAL in Bengaluru on 9 March 2025 in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
• Power Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated GRIDCON 2025, POWERGRID's international conference and exhibition on 'Innovations in Grid Resilience', at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 9 March 2025.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the 'Shashwat Mithila Mahotsav-2025' of people from Bihar's Mithila region living in Gujarat, in Gandhinagar on 9 March 2025.
• A Women's Day special 'pink cyclothon' edition of Fit India Sundays on Cycle was held across the country on 9 March 2025, with over 400 riders at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla released 'Parvat Shiromani Bhagat Singh Koshyari', a book by Madan Mohan Sati on former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari, at IGNCA, New Delhi, on 9 March 2025.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended several events in Gujarat on 9 March 2025, including an oath ceremony of more than 11,000 newly enrolled advocates and the foundation-laying of a High-Performance Sports Centre for para-athletes in Gandhinagar.

Sat, 08 Mar 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Lakhpati Didis at Vansi Borsi village in Navsari, Gujarat, on International Women's Day, 8 March 2025, and launched the Gujarat government's G-SAFAL and G-MAITRI schemes.
• The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways' two-day Chintan Shivir 2025 in Srinagar, led by Sarbananda Sonowal, set a goal of completing 150 projects by 6 September 2025, the ministry announced on 8 March 2025.
• Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, won India's first Electronic Toy Hackathon (e-Toycathon 2025), organised by C-DAC under MeitY, at an award ceremony at C-DAC Noida on 8 March 2025.
• One protester was killed and several people injured in clashes in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on 8 March 2025, the first day of free movement on the state's highways ordered by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
• President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated the national conference 'Nari Shakti Se Viksit Bharat', organised by the Ministry of Women and Child Development at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 8 March 2025.