CTET Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 25 Mar 2025
- India and Singapore signed a Letter of Intent on maritime digitalisation and decarbonisation in Singapore on 25 March 2025, in the presence of Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
- Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal introduced the Boilers Bill, 2024 in the Lok Sabha on 25 March 2025 to repeal the century-old Boilers Act, 1923 and decriminalise three of its seven offences.
- Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on 25 March 2025 that ESIC had notified 15 more districts of Uttar Pradesh under the ESI Scheme, bringing 74 of the state's 75 districts under full coverage.
- The Ministry of Education launched the 'Baalpan ki Kavita' initiative on 25 March 2025 to build a compendium of nursery rhymes and poems in all Indian languages and English for young children.
- The National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa held a special yoga session at 11,562 feet in Leh, Ladakh, on 25 March 2025 as part of the 100-day countdown to International Day of Yoga 2025.
Mon, 24 Mar 2025
- Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda announced at the World TB Day 2025 summit in New Delhi on 24 March 2025 that the 100-day intensified TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, which screened 12.97 crore people, would be scaled up to all districts.
- The Supreme Court Collegium said on 24 March 2025 that it had recommended the repatriation of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma to his parent Allahabad High Court, amid the cash-discovery row.
- The Centre notified on 24 March 2025 a 24% increase in the salary, daily allowance and pension of sitting and former MPs, with retrospective effect from 1 April 2023.
- The Indian Navy announced on 24 March 2025 its maiden initiatives, the IOS SAGAR deployment of INS Sunayna with a multinational crew and the AIKEYME maritime exercise with African countries, co-hosted with Tanzania.
- The Ministry of Coal announced on 24 March 2025 that twelve coal mines were successfully auctioned in the 11th round of commercial coal mine auctions, at an average revenue share of 36.27%.
- Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh announced on 24 March 2025 at a World TB Day summit in New Delhi that India had completed genome sequencing of 10,000 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- President Droupadi Murmu attended the silver jubilee function of the Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly in Raipur on 24 March 2025 and praised its rule of automatic suspension of members who enter the well of the House.
- APEDA announced on 24 March 2025 the first export of GI-tagged Dalle Khursani chilli from Sikkim to the Solomon Islands, a 200 kg consignment of dried chillies.
Sun, 23 Mar 2025
- Canada's Governor General Mary Simon dissolved the 44th Parliament on 23 March 2025 on the advice of Prime Minister Mark Carney, who called a snap general election for 28 April 2025.
- World Meteorological Day was observed on 23 March 2025 with the theme 'Closing the Early Warning Gap Together', marking 75 years of the World Meteorological Organization.
- On 23 March 2025, in Bhubaneswar, Union Minister Manohar Lal reviewed Odisha's urban development and power sector; the Centre has approved 400 electric buses for Odisha under the PM e-Bus Sewa Scheme.
- The keels of the Indian Navy's second and third Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels (Yard 1281 and 1282), being built by Goa Shipyard Ltd, were laid at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, on 23 March 2025.
- Pasala Krishna Bharathi, a Gandhian and daughter of freedom fighters from Andhra Pradesh's West Godavari district, died at her home in Hyderabad on 23 March 2025, aged 92.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on Shaheed Diwas, 23 March 2025, and to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on his birth anniversary the same day.
Sat, 22 Mar 2025
- Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna constituted a three-member committee on 22 March 2025 to inquire into allegations against Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, and the Supreme Court made the Delhi High Court Chief Justice's report public.
- The Ministry of Jal Shakti launched the sixth edition of Jal Shakti Abhiyan: Catch the Rain at Panchkula, Haryana, on World Water Day, 22 March 2025, whose global theme was 'Glacier Preservation'.
- The Department of Revenue issued Notification No. 19/2025-Customs on 22 March 2025, making the export duty on onions nil from 1 April 2025 and ending the 20% duty in force since 13 September 2024.
- The 23rd edition of the India–France bilateral naval exercise Varuna, held from 19 to 22 March 2025 in the Arabian Sea with aircraft carriers INS Vikrant and Charles de Gaulle, concluded on 22 March 2025.
- The Delhi Legislative Assembly signed a tripartite MoU with the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs and the Delhi government on 22 March 2025, becoming the 28th legislature to join the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA).
- Union Minister of State Ravneet Singh Bittu announced at Bathinda, Punjab, on 22 March 2025 that the Ministry of Food Processing Industries will fund 100 new NABL-accredited food testing laboratories in 2025-26.
- Ashok Singh Thakur was elected Chairman of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) for three years at its AGM in New Delhi on 22 March 2025.
- The Directorate General of GST Intelligence said on 22 March 2025 it had blocked 357 websites of illegal offshore online money gaming entities and frozen about 2,400 bank accounts in a crackdown on GST evasion.
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in the opening match of IPL 2025 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on 22 March 2025.
- Goa Shipyard Ltd launched 'Tavasya', the second frigate of Project 1135.6 (Yard 1259), at Goa on 22 March 2025 in the presence of Raksha Rajya Mantri Sanjay Seth.