CTET Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Thu, 04 Sept 2025

• Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on 4 September 2025 that IMD will install four additional radars in Jammu and Kashmir under Mission Mausam, adding to three already operational, for more accurate district-wise forecasts.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a joint telephone call with European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on 4 September 2025, reaffirming commitment to an early India–EU FTA.

Wed, 03 Sept 2025

• The Union Cabinet on 3 September 2025 approved a ₹1,500 crore incentive scheme under the National Critical Mineral Mission to build capacity for extracting critical minerals from e-waste, battery scrap and other secondary sources.
• The 56th GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on 3 September 2025, approved replacing the four-tier GST structure with a two-rate system of 5% and 18%, plus a 40% de-merit rate, effective 22 September 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi met German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul in New Delhi on 3 September 2025, noting that India and Germany are celebrating 25 years of Strategic Partnership.
• UPSC Chairman Ajay Kumar announced on 3 September 2025 a proposed Centre of Excellence as a repository of best practices of UPSC and State PSCs, as part of the Commission's centenary year from 1 October 2025 to 1 October 2026.
• Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi visited the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat, on 3 September 2025 to review progress on the 400-acre project.
• The National Statistics Office released the first Quarterly Bulletin of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (QBUSE) on 3 September 2025, showing employment in the sector crossing 13 crore for the first time in January–March 2025.
• China held a massive military parade at Tiananmen in Beijing on 3 September 2025 to mark 80 years since Japan's defeat in World War II, with Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un flanking President Xi Jinping.
• A team led by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, reported the strongest observational evidence yet of how interstellar dust grains align with magnetic fields, using observations of the star-forming cloud G34.43+0.24, PIB said on 3 September 2025.
• Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Annapurna Devi jointly launched the Guidelines for Co-location of Anganwadi Centres with Schools at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 3 September 2025.
• President Droupadi Murmu attended the 10th convocation ceremony of the Central University of Tamil Nadu at Thiruvarur on 3 September 2025.

Tue, 02 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated SEMICON India 2025 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 2 September 2025, where Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented him the first set of Made-in-India chips from a pilot line.
• The Account Aggregator framework, launched on 2 September 2021 as India's consent-based financial data-sharing system, completed four years on 2 September 2025 with over 2.2 billion accounts enabled.
• The 14th edition of the India–Thailand joint military exercise MAITREE opened at the Joint Training Node, Umroi, Meghalaya, on 2 September 2025, running from 1 to 14 September.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bihar Rajya Jeevika Nidhi Saakh Sahkari Sangh Limited via video conferencing on 2 September 2025, to help women associated with Jeevika access financial support more easily.
• The Coconut Development Board marked World Coconut Day on 2 September 2025 at Angamaly, Kerala, by launching revised schemes that raise the area expansion subsidy from ₹6,500 to ₹56,000 per hectare.
• APEDA launched the BHARATI initiative on 2 September 2025 to empower 100 agri-food and agri-tech startups, as part of its aim of $50 billion in agri-food exports by 2030.
• Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh launched the Kapas Kisan app of the Cotton Corporation of India on 2 September 2025 to let cotton farmers self-register, book slots and track payments under MSP procurement.
• A Bose Institute study, reported by PIB on 2 September 2025, found that airborne pathogenic bacteria are two times higher over densely populated parts of Delhi, carried on fine PM2.5 particles.
• The Competition Commission of India approved on 2 September 2025 the acquisition of certain share capital and voting rights of YES Bank by Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

Mon, 01 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Tianjin on 1 September 2025, discussing economic, financial and energy cooperation and the conflict in Ukraine.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 25th SCO Council of Heads of State in Tianjin, China (31 August–1 September 2025), where member states adopted the Tianjin Declaration strongly condemning the 22 April Pahalgam terror attack.
• Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Trikand called at Alexandria, Egypt, on 1 September 2025 to take part in Exercise Bright Star 2025, a US Central Command exercise hosted by Egypt from 1 to 10 September.
• Delhi's average AQI for January–August 2025 was 172, its best for the period in eight years excluding the 2020 lockdown year, the Environment Ministry said on 1 September 2025.
• The Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched the beta version of Adi Vaani on 1 September 2025, India's first AI-powered translation platform for tribal languages, supporting Santali, Bhili, Mundari and Gondi at launch.
• President Droupadi Murmu attended the diamond jubilee celebrations of the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) in Mysuru, Karnataka, on 1 September 2025.
• India Post Payments Bank celebrated its 8th Foundation Day (IPPB Day) on 1 September 2025, having onboarded over 12 crore customers through more than 1.64 lakh post offices.
• An Indian Army contingent departed on 1 September 2025 for Fort Wainwright, Alaska, for the 21st edition of the India–USA joint military exercise Yudh Abhyas, scheduled from 1 to 14 September.
• A magnitude-6 earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan around midnight local time on 31 August 2025 killed more than 800 people in Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, and PM Modi said on 1 September that India stands ready to provide aid.