KVS / NVS Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Sat, 28 Mar 2026

• On 28 March 2026 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh chaired the first meeting of the Informal Group of Ministers set up to monitor the West Asia situation and its impact on India.
• On 28 March 2026 Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan, a former Governor of Jharkhand, addressed the 15th Annual Convocation of IIM Ranchi.
• On 28 March 2026 WWF-India and the Environment Ministry marked the 20th anniversary of Earth Hour with awareness activities in Gwalior and a nationwide 8:30–9:30 pm switch-off.

Fri, 27 Mar 2026

• On 27 March 2026 Rastriya Swatantra Party leader and former Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah was sworn in as Nepal's 43rd Prime Minister by President Ramchandra Paudel; PM Modi congratulated him.
• On 27 March 2026 the Centre cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by ₹10 per litre to offset oil companies' losses as crude rose from about $70 to $122 a barrel; retail prices were kept unchanged.
• On 27 March 2026 the Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Rajnath Singh granted Acceptance of Necessity for proposals worth about ₹2.38 lakh crore for the Army, Air Force and Coast Guard.
• The PLFS Annual Report for calendar year 2025, released on 27 March 2026, put the usual-status unemployment rate at 3.1% and LFPR at 59.3%, with youth unemployment down to 9.9%.
• On 27 March 2026 MoS Jitin Prasada introduced the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, proposing to amend 784 provisions of 79 Central Acts and decriminalise 717 of them.
• On 27 March 2026 the Indian Navy hosted the IONS Maritime Exercise (IMEX) TTX 2026 at Southern Naval Command, Kochi, with 12 countries, as India took over the IONS chairmanship for 2026–28.
• On 27 March 2026 Meghalaya became the twelfth state to sign a reform-linked MoU with the Centre under Jal Jeevan Mission 2.0, approved by the Union Cabinet on 10 March 2026.

Thu, 26 Mar 2026

• On 26 March 2026 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw reviewed Kavach, India's indigenous Automatic Train Protection system, now installed on 3,103 route km with work under way on 24,427 route km.
• On 26 March 2026 the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet chaired by CM N. Chandrababu Naidu passed a resolution asking the Centre to declare Amaravati the state's sole capital by amending Section 5 of the AP Reorganisation Act, 2014.
• On 26 March 2026 a Great Indian Bustard chick hatched in Kutch, Gujarat – the first in the state in a decade – from a captive-bred egg brought 770 km by road from Rajasthan and placed under a wild female.
• On 26 March 2026 IIM Ahmedabad inaugurated the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of Artificial Intelligence, set up with a ₹100 crore endowment from alumna Chandrika Tandon and her husband Ranjan Tandon.

Wed, 25 Mar 2026

• The inaugural Khelo India Tribal Games began on 25 March 2026 across Raipur, Jagdalpur and Sarguja in Chhattisgarh, running till 3 April with about 3,800 participants in 9 sports disciplines.
• On 25 March 2026 the Union Cabinet approved the Regional Connectivity Scheme – Modified UDAN for ten years (FY 2026-27 to 2035-36) with an outlay of ₹28,840 crore, including 100 new airports and 200 helipads.
• On 25 March 2026 the Union Cabinet approved India's Nationally Determined Contribution for 2031-2035 under the UNFCCC and Paris Agreement, targeting a 47% cut in the emissions intensity of GDP from the 2005 level by 2035.
• The QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026, released on 25 March 2026, gave India a record 27 entries in the global top 50, up from 12 in both 2024 and 2025.
• The Ministry of Panchayati Raj said on 25 March 2026 that over ₹1,142 crore of Fifteenth Finance Commission untied grants for FY 2025-26 had been released to rural local bodies in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Punjab and Mizoram.
• On 25 March 2026 the Ministry of Education said a joint MHA–Education advisory with a three-year 'Nasha Mukt Vidyalaya' action plan had been sent to all States and UTs, including declaring 500 metres around schools as drug-free zones.
• In the QS Subject Rankings 2026 released on 25 March, ICAR-IVRI Bareilly entered the 51-100 band in Veterinary Science – the only Indian university in that top 100 – and ICAR-IARI New Delhi debuted at 151-200 in Agriculture & Forestry.
• On 25 March 2026 the Union Cabinet approved continuation of the Immigration, Visa, Foreigners Registration & Tracking (IVFRT) Scheme for five years from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2031 with an outlay of ₹1,800 crore.
• The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy told the Rajya Sabha on 25 March 2026 that about 8,000 tonnes per annum of green hydrogen production capacity had been commissioned in India till February 2026.
• On 25 March 2026 Odisha's Housing & Urban Development Department ordered urban local bodies to waive permission fees for laying underground city gas pipelines, to speed up PNG connections; the relief runs till 30 June 2026.
• On 25 March 2026 the Uttarakhand Cabinet chaired by CM Pushkar Singh Dhami approved the Veer Udyami Yojana 2026, a supplement to the Mukhyamantri Swarojgar Yojana, reserving 10% of its target for ex-servicemen and former Agniveers.
• The I&B Ministry said on 25 March 2026 that all Akashvani stations will broadcast the full six-stanza version of the National Song 'Vande Mataram' (3 minutes 10 seconds) from 26 March 2026, replacing the two-stanza version.
• The Ministry of External Affairs said at an inter-ministerial briefing on 25 March 2026 that 1,043 Indian nationals, including 717 students, had crossed out of Iran via Armenia and Azerbaijan with the Indian Mission's help.

Tue, 24 Mar 2026

• On 24 March 2026 India and Japan exchanged notes for a Japanese ODA loan of JPY 275.858 billion (about ₹16,420 crore) for four projects, including Bengaluru Metro Phase 3 and Mumbai Metro Line 11; JICA signed the loan agreements.
• MoSPI's Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises 2025, released on 24 March 2026, shows establishments up 7.97% to 7.92 crore and employment up 6.18%, with over 74.52 lakh jobs added over ASUSE 2023-24.
• On 24 March 2026 the Gujarat Assembly passed the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code Bill by majority voice vote after a debate of over seven hours, becoming the second state after Uttarakhand to pass a UCC Bill.