MPSC (Maharashtra) Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sun, 02 Mar 2025
- The Central Warehousing Corporation celebrated its 69th Foundation Day in New Delhi on 2 March 2025, where Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said the government aims to cut logistics costs from 13-14% to around 8%.
- UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted a leaders' meeting on Ukraine at Lancaster House, London, on 2 March 2025 and announced a four-point plan including a 'coalition of the willing' to guarantee any peace deal.
- The Election Commission of India clarified on 2 March 2025 that identical EPIC numbers held by electors in different states do not mean duplicate or fake voters, and said it will ensure a unique EPIC number for every registered elector.
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on 2 March 2025 that courts have convicted 29 drug traffickers in 12 cases investigated by the Narcotics Control Bureau across India.
- Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh addressed the Silver Jubilee celebration of the National Innovation Foundation, an autonomous institute under the Department of Science and Technology, on 2 March 2025 and released a postal stamp.
Sat, 01 Mar 2025
- Dr Mayank Sharma, a 1989-batch Indian Defence Accounts Service officer, assumed office as Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) on 1 March 2025.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the post-budget webinar on 'Agriculture and Rural Prosperity' via video-conferencing on 1 March 2025.
- India's cumulative coal production from April 2024 to February 2025 rose 5.73% to 928.95 million tonnes, the Ministry of Coal said on 1 March 2025.
- Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presided over the 49th Civil Accounts Day, marking the foundation day of the Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS), in New Delhi on 1 March 2025.
- The 88th meeting of the Network Planning Group under PM GatiShakti, held on 1 March 2025, evaluated 11 road, railway, IT and metro projects, including the northern portion of the Hyderabad Regional Ring Road.
- The Indian Bureau of Mines observed its 78th Foundation Day as Khanij Diwas at its headquarters in Nagpur on 1 March 2025.
- INS Shardul, INS Sujata and ICGS Veera of the Indian Navy's First Training Squadron arrived at Phuket Deep Sea Port, Thailand, on 1 March 2025 during their South East Asia training deployment.
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
- PM Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued a Leaders' Statement in New Delhi on 28 February 2025, agreeing to conclude the India–EU free trade agreement within the year.
- The National Statistics Office (MoSPI) on 28 February 2025 released the Second Advance Estimates putting real GDP growth for 2024-25 at 6.5%, with growth of 6.2% in the October–December quarter.
- The Ministry of Agriculture said on 28 February 2025 that the target of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations under the central sector scheme has been achieved, with the 10,000th FPO, in Khagaria district, Bihar, launched by PM Modi at Bhagalpur.
- The Central Board of Trustees of EPF, chaired by Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, recommended an 8.25% interest rate on EPF accumulations for 2024-25 at its 237th meeting in New Delhi on 28 February 2025.
- The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways said on 28 February 2025 that the National Waterways (Construction of Jetties/Terminals) Regulations, 2025, framed by IWAI, will let private and other entities build and operate terminals on national waterways.
- National Science Day was observed on 28 February 2025 with the theme 'Empowering Indian Youth for Global Leadership in Science & Innovation for Viksit Bharat', with the main event at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
- Union Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis handed over a Letter of Intent for an offshore construction sand block to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority in Mumbai on 28 February 2025, the first allocation of an offshore mineral block in India.
- The combined Index of Eight Core Industries rose 4.6% (provisional) in January 2025 over January 2024, the Commerce Ministry said on 28 February 2025.
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
- The Animal Welfare Board of India presented the Prani Mitra and Jeev Daya Awards at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 27 February 2025 and released four handbooks on animal welfare laws.
- The Ministry of Electronics and IT launched the Aadhaar Good Governance portal (swik.meity.gov.in) on 27 February 2025 so that government and private entities can apply for Aadhaar authentication for public-interest services.
- Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), called on 27 February 2025 for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read out in Istanbul by pro-Kurdish DEM Party politicians.
- Union Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy said on 27 February 2025 that the first tranche of Exploration Licence auctions would be launched in March 2025 and that Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and Kerala would soon join the mineral auction regime, taking it to 17 States.
- Union Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched the One Nation-One Port Process (ONOP), the MAITRI trade application, the Sagar Ankalan Logistics Port Performance Index for 2023-24 and the Bharat Global Ports Consortium in Mumbai on 27 February 2025.
- Maharashtra marked Marathi Bhasha Gaurav Din on 27 February 2025, the birth anniversary of Jnanpith-winning poet Kusumagraj (V. V. Shirwadkar), with a state award ceremony at the Gateway of India, Mumbai.
- The National Human Rights Commission announced on 27 February 2025 the seven winners of its tenth annual short film competition on human rights, with J&K's 'Doodh Ganga - Valley's Dying Lifeline' winning the ₹2 lakh first prize.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a high-level meeting at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg on 27 February 2025 to review the Ayush sector and its global reach.
- The Group of Ministers on the viability of electricity distribution utilities, chaired by Union Minister of State Shripad Yesso Naik, held its second meeting in Mumbai on 27 February 2025 in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.