KVS / NVS Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Fri, 12 Sept 2025

• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on 12 September 2025 that India and the EU are working to finalise a balanced Free Trade Agreement, while EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said both sides aim to conclude it by year-end.

Thu, 11 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam in Varanasi on 11 September 2025, where India announced a special economic package of grant and grant-cum-credit projects and the two sides signed seven agreements.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually flagged off 'Samudra Pradakshina', the world's first tri-service all-women circumnavigation sailing expedition, from the Gateway of India, Mumbai on 11 September 2025 aboard IASV Triveni.
• Home Minister Amit Shah virtually inaugurated the Fast Track Immigration–Trusted Traveller Programme (FTI-TTP) at Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Trichy, Kozhikode and Amritsar airports on 11 September 2025, taking the facility to 13 airports.
• Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated IIM Ahmedabad's first-ever overseas campus in Dubai on 11 September 2025, in the presence of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated APEDA's first office in Bihar, in Patna, at the Bihar Idea Festival on 11 September 2025 and flagged off a 7-tonne consignment of GI-tagged Mithila Makhana for New Zealand, Canada and the USA.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed flood damage in Uttarakhand at Dehradun on 11 September 2025 and announced financial assistance of ₹1,200 crore for the state.
• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi inaugurated the 1st Annual Green Hydrogen R&D Conference in New Delhi on 11 September 2025 and launched a ₹100 crore call for proposals offering up to ₹5 crore per start-up pilot project.
• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said on 11 September 2025 that India targets indigenous solar cell manufacturing by 2028 and has crossed 251.5 GW of non-fossil capacity, over half its 2030 target of 500 GW.

Wed, 10 Sept 2025

• The Election Commission of India held its third conference this year of Chief Electoral Officers of all States and UTs at IIIDEM, New Delhi on 10 September 2025 to assess preparedness for a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 10 September 2025 approved the 82.4 km four-lane greenfield access-controlled Mokama–Munger section of the Buxar–Bhagalpur High-Speed Corridor in Bihar, at ₹4,447.38 crore on Hybrid Annuity Mode.
• The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India signed a $126.42 million loan on 10 September 2025 for sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient tourism development in the Tehri Lake area of Uttarakhand.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 10 September 2025 approved doubling of the 177 km Bhagalpur–Dumka–Rampurhat single railway line across Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal at a cost of about ₹3,169 crore.
• Marking World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2025, the National Task Force on student mental health and suicide prevention appealed to students, parents, faculty and institutions to take part in its surveys.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on 10 September 2025, expressed deep concern over the attacks in Doha and condemned the violation of Qatar's sovereignty.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh released the CCS (Implementation of the Unified Pension Scheme under the National Pension System) Rules, 2025 at the 14th Pension Adalat on 10 September 2025, enabling Central Government employees to choose between NPS and UPS.
• Researchers from MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune identified two new species of black Aspergillus, Aspergillus dhakephalkarii and Aspergillus patriciawiltshireae, from Western Ghats soil, DST said on 10 September 2025.

Tue, 09 Sept 2025

• Nepal's Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned on 9 September 2025 after youth-led protests sparked by a social media ban turned deadly, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a Cabinet Committee on Security meeting on Nepal the same evening.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted aerial surveys of flood-hit Himachal Pradesh and Punjab on 9 September 2025 and announced financial assistance of ₹1,500 crore for Himachal Pradesh and ₹1,600 crore for Punjab.
• NDA nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan was declared elected Vice President of India on 9 September 2025 by Returning Officer P.C. Mody, securing 452 first-preference votes against 300 for B. Sudershan Reddy.
• Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia unveiled the UPI–UPU Integration project at the 28th Universal Postal Congress in Dubai on 9 September 2025, linking India's UPI with the Universal Postal Union's Interconnection Platform for cross-border remittances.
• The European Union has listed 102 new Indian fishery establishments for exports to EU member countries, the Commerce Ministry said on 9 September 2025, expanding market access for shrimp and cephalopods.
• The Employees' State Insurance Corporation's SPREE-2025 registration drive runs till 31 December 2025, while its AMNESTY Scheme-2025 for ESI Act disputes runs from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026, ESIC officials said on 9 September 2025.
• The Agriculture Ministry said on 9 September 2025 that only 146 biostimulant products have been included in Schedule VI of the Fertilizer Control Order, 1985, after provisional registrations covering more than 8,000 products ended.
• A 65-member Indian Armed Forces contingent departed on 9 September 2025 for the multilateral joint military exercise ZAPAD 2025 at the Mulino Training Ground in Nizhniy, Russia, held from 10 to 16 September.
• A study by the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences and Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, released by DST on 9 September 2025, used 34-million-year-old fossil leaves from Nagaland's Laisong Formation to link Antarctic ice formation with the early Indian monsoon.

Mon, 08 Sept 2025

• The Ministry of Education marked International Literacy Day on 8 September 2025 with the theme 'Promoting Literacy in the Digital Era', as Himachal Pradesh became the fifth fully literate State/UT.
• India and Israel signed a Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIA) in New Delhi on 8 September 2025, signed by Finance Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Bezalel Smotrich.
• France's National Assembly brought down Prime Minister François Bayrou's minority government on 8 September 2025, voting 364 to 194 against it in a confidence vote over his debt-reduction plans.
• Scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), Mohali, have shown that cholesterol-based nanomaterials can control electron spin, opening a route to energy-efficient spintronic devices, the DST said on 8 September 2025.