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🏛️ Governance & Administration 📍 India Important

NeSDA report for May 2025: 21,062 e-services; Maharashtra and Uttarakhand reach 100% saturation

On 19 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances released the 25th monthly NeSDA Way Forward report for States/UTs for May 2025, counting 21,062 e-services.

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🔬 Research & Discoveries 📍 Punjab

INST Mohali develops one-step method to make nano-cups for photothermal cancer therapy

On 17 June 2025, DST said scientists of the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, Mohali, Punjab, developed a one-step room-temperature method to make PEGylated nano-cup semi-shells for photothermal cancer therapy.

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🎓 Education 📍 Maharashtra Must know

Letters of Intent issued to five foreign universities for Mumbai campuses

On 14 June 2025 in Mumbai, Letters of Intent were issued to five foreign universities at the event 'Mumbai Rising: Creating an International Education City'.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Delhi Must know

Agri Stack conference: MoUs with four states, ₹6,000 crore Special Central Assistance for Farmer Registry and crop survey

On 13 June 2025 at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan, New Delhi, the Agriculture Ministry held the National Conference on Agri Stack: Turning Data into Delivery.

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🔬 Health & Medicine 📍 Maharashtra

Health Ministry holds first Conclave on Best Practices at AIIMS Nagpur

On 13 June 2025 at AIIMS Nagpur, Maharashtra, Union Health Minister J P Nadda virtually addressed the first edition of the Health Ministry's Conclave on 'Best Practices'.

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🛡️ Defence & Security 📍 India Important

Indian Coast Guard chairs 137th meeting of Offshore Security Coordination Committee

On 12 June 2025 in New Delhi, the Indian Coast Guard chaired the 137th meeting of the Offshore Security Coordination Committee (OSCC) to review the security of India's offshore installations.

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🎓 Education 📍 India Important

DGT and Shell India launch Green Skills and EV training programme at ITIs and NSTIs in five states

On 12 June 2025, the Directorate General of Training (DGT) and Shell India launched a Green Skills and Electric Vehicle training programme at select ITIs and NSTIs in Delhi-NCR, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

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💹 Banking & RBI 📍 Maharashtra Must know

Sitharaman chairs 29th FSDC meeting in Mumbai; sector-specific cybersecurity strategy considered

On 10 June 2025 in Mumbai, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman chaired the 29th meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC).

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💹 Economy 📍 Maharashtra Important

Maharashtra cabinet raises excise duty on IMFL and country liquor; creates Maharashtra Made Liquor category

On 10 June 2025 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis approved higher excise duties on liquor.

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🌐 International Organisations 📍 France Important

India, as IALA Vice President, takes part in 2nd IALA Council session in Nice

On 9 June 2025 in Nice, France, the 2nd Session of the IALA Council opened, with India participating as Vice President of the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation.

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🛡️ Defence & Security 📍 India Important

DRDO's VRDE transfers technologies of nine systems to 10 industries

DRDO's Vehicles Research & Development Establishment at Ahilyanagar, Maharashtra, handed over technologies of nine systems to 10 industries on 7 June 2025.

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🏆 National Awards 📍 Maharashtra Important

National e-Governance Awards 2025 add Gram Panchayat category; Rohini (Maharashtra) wins Gold

The Ministry of Panchayati Raj announced on 6 June 2025 a new Gram Panchayat category under the National Awards for e-Governance 2025, with Rohini Gram Panchayat in Dhule, Maharashtra winning Gold.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Maharashtra Important

Samruddhi Mahamarg fully open as Maharashtra CM inaugurates final Igatpuri–Amane stretch

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the final 76 km Igatpuri–Amane stretch of the Samruddhi Mahamarg on 5 June 2025, making the 701 km Mumbai–Nagpur expressway fully operational.

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🛡️ Defence & Security 📍 Maharashtra Important

Tri-Services all-women sailing expedition returns after 1,800-nautical-mile voyage to Seychelles

The Tri-Services All-Women Sailing Expedition returned to Mumbai on 4 June 2025 after a two-month, 1,800-nautical-mile voyage to Seychelles aboard IASV Triveni.

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🌐 Bilateral Relations 📍 Delhi Important

Paraguay's President Santiago Peña on first State visit to India

President Droupadi Murmu hosted Paraguay's President Santiago Peña Palacios at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 2 June 2025 during his first State visit to India, after delegation-level talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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🔬 IT, AI & Digital 📍 Maharashtra Important

Dr Jitendra Singh launches BharatGen, a government-funded multimodal LLM for Indian languages

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh launched BharatGen, India's first indigenously developed, government-funded multimodal large language model for Indian languages, at the BharatGen Summit on 2 June 2025.

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🛡️ Military Exercises 📍 Maharashtra Important

EUNAVFOR ships make maiden visit to India, hold table-top exercise with Indian Navy in Mumbai

Spanish and Italian warships operating under the European Union Naval Force completed the first such visit to India under the EU's aegis in Mumbai on 1 June 2025.

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💹 Markets & Finance 📍 Maharashtra

IEPFA and SEBI hold first Niveshak Shivir in Pune

The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority and SEBI launched the pilot Niveshak Shivir in Pune on 1 June 2025 to help investors claim unclaimed dividends and shares.

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🥇 Firsts & Records 📍 Maharashtra Important

First batch of 17 women cadets passes out of the National Defence Academy

The first-ever batch of 17 female cadets passed out of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, on 30 May 2025 with the 148th Course, in a parade reviewed by Mizoram Governor General (Dr) VK Singh (Retd).

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Maharashtra

Cabinet approves Ratlam–Nagda and Wardha–Balharshah rail multitracking

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 28 May 2025 approved two railway multitracking projects — Ratlam–Nagda 3rd and 4th line and Wardha–Balharshah 4th line — worth about ₹3,399 crore in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

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📍 Places in News 📍 Maharashtra

Amit Shah addresses 150th anniversary of Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir, Madhavbag, Mumbai

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 27 May 2025 addressed the 150th anniversary celebrations of Shri Laxmi Narayan Mandir at Madhavbag in Mumbai, a temple built in 1875.

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🔬 Health & Medicine 📍 Maharashtra

Amit Shah lays foundation of 'Swasti Nivas' at National Cancer Institute, Nagpur, and NFSU Nagpur campus

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 26 May 2025 performed the Bhoomi Pujan of 'Swasti Nivas' for patients and relatives at the National Cancer Institute, Nagpur, and of the permanent campus of the National Forensic Science University's Nagpur campus.

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🏛️ Governance & Administration 📍 India Important

Mann Ki Baat 122: first bus to Katejhari, CBSE sugar boards, honey output and Khelo India records

In the 122nd episode of Mann Ki Baat on 25 May 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke of the first bus reaching Katejhari village in Gadchiroli, CBSE's 'sugar boards', India's honey output of about 1.25 lakh metric tonnes and drone-flying women in Telangana's Sangareddy district.

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🕯️ Obituaries 📍 Maharashtra Important

Astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar, founding director of IUCAA, passes away in Pune

Astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar, founding director of IUCAA Pune and co-developer of the Hoyle–Narlikar theory of gravity, passed away in his sleep at his Pune residence on 20 May 2025, aged 86.

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📅 Important Days & Themes 📍 Maharashtra

KVIC marks World Bee Day 2025 as 'Sweet Revolution Utsav'

KVIC celebrated World Bee Day on 20 May 2025 at its Mumbai office under the banner 'Sweet Revolution Utsav'; the 2025 theme is 'Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all'.

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🌿 Disasters 📍 Telangana Important

Fires in Hyderabad's Gulzar Houz and a Solapur textile mill kill 25; PM announces ex-gratia

Seventeen members of a family died in a fire in a building at Gulzar Houz near Charminar, Hyderabad, and eight died in a fire at a textile mill in Solapur MIDC on 18 May 2025; the PM announced ₹2 lakh ex-gratia per deceased from PMNRF.

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🎓 Women & Child 📍 Maharashtra Important

'Sagar Mein Samman' launched on International Day for Women in Maritime

Ports, Shipping and Waterways Minister Sarbananda Sonowal unveiled 'Sagar Mein Samman', a policy initiative to raise women's participation in the maritime sector, at International Day for Women in Maritime celebrations in Mumbai on 18 May 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 Maharashtra Important

National Soil Spectral Library inaugurated; Maharashtra becomes first State with a soil map

At a Krishi Samvad in Nagpur on 18 May 2025, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated the National Soil Spectral Library, making Maharashtra the first State to have a soil map.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 Maharashtra

New ATC tower, technical block and fire station opened at Kolhapur Airport; Kolhapur–Nagpur flight flagged off

MoS Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol inaugurated a new ATC Tower cum Technical Block cum Fire Station at Kolhapur Airport on 15 May 2025 and flagged off the inaugural Star Air flight between Kolhapur and Nagpur.

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🌿 Climate Change 📍 Haryana Important

DST announces India's first cluster of five CCU testbeds in the cement sector

On National Technology Day, 11 May 2025, the Department of Science and Technology announced five Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) testbeds in the cement sector, set up in academia–industry partnership under a PPP model.

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