Polity & Governance Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Tue, 22 Apr 2025

• The Union Public Service Commission declared the final result of the Civil Services Examination 2024 on 22 April 2025, recommending 1,009 candidates for appointment.

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed civil servants on the 17th Civil Services Day at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 21 April 2025 and conferred the Prime Minister's Awards for Excellence in Public Administration.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the implementation of the three new criminal laws in Chhattisgarh with Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai in New Delhi on 21 April 2025.

Sun, 20 Apr 2025

• Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on 20 April 2025 that the 2023 IAS batch has 74 women among 180 officers, nearly 41%, the largest women representation in the service's history.

Fri, 18 Apr 2025

• Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated security forces on 18 April 2025 after CoBRA commandos and Chhattisgarh Police arrested 22 Naxalites in Bijapur and 33 surrendered in Sukma, making Badesetti the first Naxal-free panchayat.
• The Department of Consumer Affairs notified rules on 18 April 2025 making verification and stamping of radar-based vehicle speed-measurement equipment mandatory under the Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011, from 1 July 2025.
• Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya reviewed the functioning of the Directorate General of Mines Safety at its headquarters in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, on 18 April 2025.

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

• The Central Consumer Protection Authority on 17 April 2025 advised coaching centres to strictly follow the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 and the 2024 guidelines on misleading coaching advertisements, and said it had issued notices to some institutes over IIT-JEE and NEET claims.
• The Financial Intelligence Unit-India (FIU-IND) and the Reserve Bank of India signed an MoU in New Delhi on 17 April 2025 for coordination and information exchange in implementing the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

• Government e Marketplace (GeM) facilitated insurance for more than 1.3 crore individuals and the hiring of 1 million manpower resources in 2024-25, the Commerce Ministry said on 16 April 2025.
• The Competition Commission of India, by an order dated 16 April 2025, imposed monetary and non-monetary sanctions on UFO Moviez (with subsidiary Scrabble Digital) and Qube Cinema Technologies for violating Section 3(4) of the Competition Act.
• The Election Commission of India began its first-ever training for Booth Level Agents (BLAs) of political parties on 16 April 2025, with about 280 BLAs from Bihar of 10 recognised parties at IIIDEM, New Delhi.
• The President, after consulting the Chief Justice of India, appointed six judicial officers as Judges of the Allahabad High Court by a notification dated 16 April 2025.

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

• The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on 15 April 2025 approved issuing an ordinance to sub-categorise the state's 59 Scheduled Castes into three groups for reservation, along with the AP Minor Mineral Policy 2025.

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

• On 14 April 2025, Ambedkar Jayanti, Telangana published the Scheduled Castes (Rationalisation of Reservation) Act, 2025 in the state gazette and issued orders dividing Scheduled Castes into three groups within the 15% SC quota, becoming the first state to implement SC sub-categorisation.
• On 14 April 2025, the 135th birth anniversary of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the President, Vice-President, Prime Minister and Lok Sabha Speaker paid floral tributes at his statue at Prerna Sthal in the Parliament House lawns, at an event organised by the Dr. Ambedkar Foundation.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the All India Forensic Science Summit 2025, organised by the National Forensic Sciences University in New Delhi on 14 April 2025 on the theme 'Role of Forensic Science in Effective Implementation of New Criminal Laws and Combating Terrorism'.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on 14 April 2025 inaugurated the building of the Lucknow bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal in Gomti Nagar; the bench was set up in 1987.
• The Department of Consumer Affairs said on 14 April 2025 that it has framed draft rules making testing, verification and stamping mandatory for all domestic, commercial and industrial gas meters before use in trade and commerce.

Sat, 12 Apr 2025

• The President, after consulting the Chief Justice of India, appointed Justice Arun Palli of the Punjab and Haryana High Court as Chief Justice of the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh, the Law Ministry notified on 12 April 2025.

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

• Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks case, was extradited from the United States and formally arrested by the National Investigation Agency on arriving in New Delhi on 10 April 2025.

Wed, 09 Apr 2025

• The first Panchayat Advancement Index baseline report (FY 2022-23), released on 9 April 2025, rated 2.16 lakh validated Gram Panchayats; Gujarat and Telangana had the most Front Runners.
• EPFO announced on 9 April 2025 that members can generate and activate their Universal Account Number using Aadhaar Face Authentication Technology through the UMANG mobile app.

Tue, 08 Apr 2025

• The Ministry of Minority Affairs notified 8 April 2025 as the date on which the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 14 of 2025), which received Presidential assent on 5 April, came into force.
• On 8 April 2025, a Supreme Court bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan held the Governor's reservation of ten re-passed Tamil Nadu Bills for the President illegal, declared them deemed assented under Article 142, and prescribed timelines for Governors and the President.

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

• On 7 April 2025, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tashkent on the sidelines of the 150th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).

Fri, 04 Apr 2025

• Parliament cleared the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2025 when the Rajya Sabha passed it in the early hours of 4 April 2025, after the Lok Sabha had passed it on 3 April.

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

• The Lok Sabha passed the Protection of Interest in Aircraft Objects Bill, 2025 on 3 April 2025, completing its passage through Parliament after the Rajya Sabha had already accepted it.

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched the NITI NCAER States Economic Forum portal, a repository of about 30 years of data on state finances, in New Delhi on 1 April 2025.
• The Rajya Sabha passed the Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill, 2025 on 1 April 2025, completing its passage through Parliament after the Lok Sabha had passed it on 26 March 2025.