Science & Technology Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sat, 30 Aug 2025
- On 30 August 2025, the second day of his visit to Japan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 16 Prefecture Governors and travelled with Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba to Sendai to visit the semiconductor firm Tokyo Electron Miyagi.
- Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated India's first tempered glass manufacturing facility for mobile devices, set up by Optiemus Electronics with Corning Incorporated, at Noida on 30 August 2025.
Fri, 29 Aug 2025
- INCOIS and NDMA held a Conclave on Marine Multi-Hazards Services for the Indian Coastline in Chennai on 29 August 2025, where NDMA member Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) announced a cell-broadcast alert trial from 1 September.
- TRAI announced on 29 August 2025 that it had registered the first eight Digital Connectivity Rating Agencies under the Rating of Properties for Digital Connectivity Regulations, 2024.
- TRAI's telecom subscription data released on 29 August 2025 showed 1,220.02 million telephone subscribers and an overall tele-density of 86.15% at the end of July 2025.
Thu, 28 Aug 2025
- Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel inaugurated CG Power's end-to-end semiconductor OSAT pilot line facility at Sanand on 28 August 2025.
- Draft amendments to the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019, published in the Gazette on 28 August 2025, propose replacing most test licences with an intimation system and cutting processing time from 90 to 45 days.
- The Army Hospital (Research and Referral) on 28 August 2025 became the first government institute in India to perform robotic custom laser cataract surgery using the ALLY system.
Wed, 27 Aug 2025
- Marking one year of the BioE3 Policy on 27 August 2025, Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched the BioE3 Challenge for Youth and India's first National Biofoundry Network, saying the bioeconomy had grown to $165.7 billion in 2024.
- The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying issued a Revised National Action Plan on Glanders, a contagious and often fatal equine disease, the Ministry announced on 27 August 2025.
- UIDAI announced on 27 August 2025 that Aadhaar Mandatory Biometric Update (MBU) status of school children will be shown on the UDISE+ platform, with about 17 crore Aadhaar numbers pending MBU.
Tue, 26 Aug 2025
- India hosted its first-ever 3GPP Radio Access Network working group meetings in Bengaluru from 25 to 29 August 2025, where discussions on 6G standardisation under 3GPP Release 20 began.
- The Ministry of Ayush on 26 August 2025 announced 'Ayurveda for People & Planet' as the theme for Ayurveda Day 2025, to be observed on its fixed date of 23 September.
- Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, have developed a gold nanocluster-based biosensor that distinguishes normal and toxic forms of the Parkinson's-linked protein α-synuclein, the DST said on 26 August 2025.
- Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka visited UIDAI headquarters in New Delhi on 26 August 2025, where India demonstrated Aadhaar and DigiLocker.
Mon, 25 Aug 2025
- The Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying released India's first national 'Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures for Blood Transfusion and Blood Banks for Animals in India' on 25 August 2025.
- Union Health Minister J P Nadda inaugurated new Government Medical Colleges in Sheopur and Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh, on 25 August 2025, along with several health initiatives.
- The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways launched MAR-a-THON 2025, India's Maritime Hackathon, at IIT Madras on 25 August 2025 under the Sagarmala Start-up Innovation Initiative.
- Researchers at the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, found that IgM, the largest human antibody, can mechanically stabilise the bacterial protein 'Protein L', the Department of Science and Technology said on 25 August 2025.
- The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the telecom R&D centre of the Department of Telecommunications founded in 1984, celebrated its 42nd Foundation Day in Delhi on 25 August 2025.
Sun, 24 Aug 2025
- ISRO accomplished the first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-01) of the Gaganyaan crew module's parachute-based deceleration system at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, on 24 August 2025.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated Group Captains Shubhanshu Shukla, P B Nair, Ajit Krishnan and Angad Pratap, the four astronauts of ISRO's Gaganyaan programme, in New Delhi on 24 August 2025.
Sat, 23 Aug 2025
Fri, 22 Aug 2025
- ISRO hosted the National Space Meet 2.0 on 'Leveraging Space Technology and Applications for Viksit Bharat 2047' at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 22 August 2025 as part of the 2nd National Space Day celebrations.
- The four-day Regional Workshop on WHO Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) for Herbal Medicines, organised by CCRAS and WHO-SEARO, concluded at RRAP-Central Ayurveda Research Institute, Mumbai, on 22 August 2025.
Thu, 21 Aug 2025
- Rajya Sabha passed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Bill, 2025 on 21 August 2025, a day after the Lok Sabha, banning online money games while promoting e-sports and online social games; it received Presidential assent on 22 August as Act No. 32 of 2025.
- The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on 21 August 2025 rolled out a framework enabling all 34 State Cooperative Banks and 352 District Central Cooperative Banks to offer Aadhaar-based authentication services.
- Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood chaired the 28th Prime Minister's Science, Technology & Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) meeting on 21 August 2025 at NASC, New Delhi, to discuss the National Plant Health Initiative.