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Thu, 03 Apr 2025

• The Odisha Legislative Assembly passed the Odisha State Highways Authority Bill, 2025 early on 3 April 2025, enabling an autonomous body for the planning, development, maintenance and management of highways and major roads in the state.
• 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.
• Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil launched the Water Resource Census application and portal in New Delhi on 3 April 2025 for four censuses, including the 7th Minor Irrigation Census and the first Census of Springs.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off an Indian Army expedition to Mount Everest, a joint Indian Army-Nepali Army expedition to Mount Kangchenjunga and an NCC Everest expedition from South Block, New Delhi, on 3 April 2025.
• The National Highways Authority of India said on 3 April 2025 that it has signed a concession agreement for the 121-km Guwahati Ring Road, to be built at ₹5,729 crore on Build Operate Toll mode with zero grant.
• Indian Railways manufactured a record 7,134 coaches in FY 2024-25, 9% more than the 6,541 of the previous year, with the Integral Coach Factory in Chennai rolling out 3,007, the Railway Ministry said on 3 April 2025.

Wed, 02 Apr 2025

• US President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14257 on 2 April 2025, imposing a 10% baseline tariff on imports from all trading partners from 5 April and higher country-specific rates from 9 April; India's Department of Commerce said on 3 April that it was carefully examining the implications.
• The National Highways Authority of India built 5,614 km of national highways in FY 2024-25 against a target of 5,150 km, and its capital expenditure reached an all-time high of over ₹2.5 lakh crore, the Road Transport Ministry said on 2 April 2025.
• Indian Railways produced a record 1,681 locomotives in FY 2024-25, 19% more than the 1,472 of the previous year, the Railway Ministry said on 2 April 2025.
• MOIL recorded its best-ever financial year in FY 2024-25 with record manganese ore production of 18.02 lakh tonnes, 2.7% higher year on year, the Steel Ministry said on 2 April 2025.
• The Indian Navy and Kirloskar Oil Engines Limited signed a Project Sanction Order under the Make-I category on 2 April 2025 to design and develop a 6 MW medium-speed marine diesel engine at a cost of ₹270 crore.
• The Arunachal Pradesh cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Pema Khandu, on 2 April 2025 raised old-age, disability and widow pensions by Rs 300 a month, lowered the widow pension age from 40 to 18, and extended the CM's Bal Seva Scheme to all registered orphans.

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

• India's defence exports rose 12.04% to a record ₹23,622 crore in the financial year 2024-25 that ended on 31 March 2025, the Defence Ministry said on 1 April 2025.
• India's cumulative coal production crossed the one billion tonne mark in FY 2024-25, reaching a provisional 1,047.57 million tonnes, the Coal Ministry said on 1 April 2025.
• India added an unprecedented 25 GW of renewable energy capacity in FY 2024-25, nearly 35% more than the 18.57 GW added a year earlier, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said on 1 April 2025.
• The Border Roads Organisation reopened Zojila Pass, which links the Kashmir Valley to Ladakh, on 1 April 2025 after a closure of only 32 days.
• 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 Maharashtra government signed an MoU with Microsoft in Mumbai on 1 April 2025 to set up three Artificial Intelligence Centres of Excellence in Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur and to speed up AI adoption in the state administration.
• More than one million electric vehicles were sold in India in FY 2024-25, the Ministry of Heavy Industries said on 1 April 2025, with electric two-wheeler sales up 21% to 11,49,334 units.
• Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font held talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House on 1 April 2025 during his first State visit to India, and the two sides exchanged four documents including a Letter of Intent on Antarctica cooperation.
• 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.
• India recorded 4,515 child adoptions in FY 2024-25, the highest since 2015-16, of which 4,155 were domestic, the Women and Child Development Ministry said on 1 April 2025.
• The fourth edition of the India-US joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief amphibious exercise, Tiger TRIUMPH 2025, opened with a ceremony onboard INS Jalashwa on 1 April 2025.

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

• The Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell (PPAC) notified on 31 March 2025 that the price of APM gas from old nomination fields would rise to $6.75 per mmBtu from $6.50, effective 1 April.
• An Indian Army field hospital team and NDRF personnel reached earthquake-hit Mandalay, Myanmar, by road on 31 March 2025 under Operation Brahma.
• A Paris court on 31 March 2025 convicted French far-right leader Marine Le Pen of embezzling European Parliament funds and barred her from public office for five years with immediate effect.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah unveiled a statue of Maharaja Agrasen, inaugurated a new ICU and laid the foundation stone of a PG hostel at a hospital in Hisar, Haryana, on 31 March 2025.
• Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami announced on 31 March 2025 new names for several places in Haridwar, Dehradun, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts.
• The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) reported on 31 March 2025 provisional FY 2024-25 loan sanctions of ₹47,453 crore, up 27%.
• Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on 31 March 2025 launched a ₹10 midday meal service for family members and attendants of patients at Agartala Government Medical College and GB Pant Hospital.