OPSC OCS Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Sat, 29 Nov 2025

• The Election Commission of India invited citizens to suggest improvements to its unified ECINet app between 27 November and 27 December 2025; the platform's official launch is planned for January 2026.
• On 29 November 2025 Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon on their wedding.

Fri, 28 Nov 2025

• On 28 November 2025 India was re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in Category B for 2026–27, topping the category with 154 of 169 valid votes at the 34th IMO Assembly in London.
• On 28 November 2025 the National Statistics Office estimated India's real GDP growth at 8.2% in Q2 (July–September) of 2025-26, up from 5.6% a year earlier; H1 growth was 8.0%.
• On 28 November 2025 India launched Operation Sagar Bandhu to send humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah; the first relief was handed over in Colombo from INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri.
• INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri represented India at the Sri Lanka Navy's International Fleet Review 2025 in Colombo (27–29 November 2025), the maiden overseas deployment of both ships.
• On 28 November 2025 the Ministry of Defence signed Letters of Offer and Acceptance with the US government, worth about ₹7,995 crore, for five years of sustainment support for the Indian Navy's MH-60R helicopter fleet.
• On 28 November 2025 India and the Asian Development Bank signed three loans worth over $800 million — for Maharashtra agricultural solarisation, Indore Metro Rail and Gujarat skills — and a $1 million technical assistance grant for Assam's SWIFT project.
• The ITU's World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25) concluded in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 28 November 2025, with India serving as a conference vice-chair and securing leadership posts in both ITU-D Study Groups for 2026–29.
• The two-day Chanakya Defence Dialogue 2025, organised by the Indian Army with the Centre for Land Warfare Studies at the Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi, concluded on 28 November 2025.

Thu, 27 Nov 2025

• India finished the 25th Summer Deaflympics 2025 in Tokyo with a best-ever tally of 20 medals — 9 gold, 7 silver and 4 bronze — and PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated the team on 27 November 2025.
• The Ministry of Textiles announced on 27 November 2025 that the Government has approved the Textiles Focused Research, Assessment, Monitoring, Planning and Start-up (Tex-RAMPS) Scheme with an outlay of ₹305 crore for FY 2025-26 to FY 2030-31.
• India and the UAE held the third meeting of the Joint Committee under the India–UAE CEPA in New Delhi, as the Commerce Ministry said on 27 November 2025 that bilateral trade crossed USD 100.06 billion in FY 2024-25.
• Paradip Port Authority in Odisha crossed 100 million metric tonnes (MMT) of cargo in FY 2025-26 on 27 November 2025 — its fastest ever, in 241 days, 12 days earlier than last fiscal.
• Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh and Indonesian Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin co-chaired the third India–Indonesia Defence Ministers' Dialogue in New Delhi on 27 November 2025.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid floral tributes to Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, the first Speaker of Lok Sabha, in the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan on his birth anniversary on 27 November 2025.

Wed, 26 Nov 2025

• Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the first advance estimates of Kharif crop production for 2025-26 on 26 November 2025, putting total Kharif foodgrain output at 173.33 million tonnes, up 3.87 million tonnes.
• On Constitution Day, 26 November 2025, President Droupadi Murmu digitally released translated versions of the Constitution of India in nine Indian languages at the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, and a bust of Dr B.R. Ambedkar was unveiled at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
• The Union Cabinet on 26 November 2025 approved the 'Scheme to Promote Manufacturing of Sintered Rare Earth Permanent Magnets' with an outlay of ₹7,280 crore to set up 6,000 tonnes per annum (MTPA) of integrated REPM manufacturing in India.
• MoS Prof. S.P. Singh Baghel released 'Basic Animal Husbandry Statistics 2025' on National Milk Day, 26 November 2025, estimating India's milk production at 247.87 million tonnes in 2024-25.
• The National Commission for Women (NCW) rolled out a new 24×7 toll-free short-code helpline, 14490, for women in distress, announced on 26 November 2025.
• The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said on 26 November 2025 that it has deactivated more than 2 crore Aadhaar numbers of deceased individuals in a nationwide clean-up of the Aadhaar database.
• Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid floral tributes to former Lok Sabha Speaker Rabi Ray at Samvidhan Sadan on his birth anniversary, 26 November 2025.

Tue, 25 Nov 2025

• Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the Third Advance Estimates of horticultural crops for 2024-25 on 25 November 2025, putting production at 369.055 million tonnes from 29.488 million hectares.
• Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched Nayi Chetna 4.0, the National Campaign on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, New Delhi, on 25 November 2025.
• Mines Secretary Piyush Goyal reviewed the ₹1,500 crore Incentive Scheme for Critical Mineral Recycling on 25 November 2025; the scheme envisages about 3 lakh tonnes a year of recycling capacity for extracting critical minerals.
• The Sacred Piprahwa Relics of Lord Buddha returned to India on 25 November 2025 after a 17-day exposition in Bhutan, accompanied by Union Minister Kiren Rijiju.
• The Department of Telecommunications said on 25 November 2025 that its Sanchar Saathi initiative enabled recovery of over 50,000 lost and stolen mobile handsets in October 2025 — the first time in a month — taking total recoveries past 7 lakh.
• The fourth meeting of the BIMSTEC Expert Group on Maritime Security Cooperation, hosted by the National Security Council Secretariat in New Delhi on 24–25 November 2025, concluded on 25 November.

Mon, 24 Nov 2025

• India won the Women's Kabaddi World Cup 2025 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 24 November 2025, beating Chinese Taipei 35–28 in the final for their second consecutive title.