State Staff Selection Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Wed, 20 Aug 2025
Tue, 19 Aug 2025
- NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi co-chaired the 24th round of Special Representatives talks on the India–China boundary question in New Delhi on 19 August 2025.
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 19 August 2025 approved a 6-lane access-controlled Capital Region Ring Road (Bhubaneswar Bypass, 110.875 km) in Odisha on Hybrid Annuity Mode at a capital cost of ₹8,307.74 crore.
- The Government exempted all customs duties on raw cotton imports with effect from 19 August 2025 until 30 September 2025, removing an effective 11% import duty to stabilise domestic cotton prices.
- INS Tamal, the Indian Navy's latest stealth frigate, arrived at Souda Bay, Greece on 19 August 2025 during her return passage to India after commissioning in Russia.
- The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said on 19 August 2025 that Amarnath Yatra 2025, with over 4 lakh devotees, was run as a zero-landfill, plastic-free pilgrimage in line with Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0.
- The Election Commission of India on 19 August 2025 listed 28 initiatives taken over the past six months, including the ECINET platform, a cap of 1,200 voters per polling station and faster EPIC delivery.
- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on 19 August 2025 and handed over President Xi Jinping's invitation to the SCO Summit in Tianjin, which the Prime Minister accepted.
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 19 August 2025 approved the Airports Authority of India's proposal for a greenfield airport at Kota-Bundi, Rajasthan, at an estimated cost of ₹1,507 crore.
Mon, 18 Aug 2025
- Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal introduced the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill, 2025 in the Lok Sabha on 18 August 2025, proposing to decriminalise 288 provisions across 16 Central Acts.
- External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in New Delhi on 18 August 2025, the first visit by a Chinese Minister since the leaders met in Kazan in October 2024.
- The PLFS Quarterly Bulletin for April–June 2025, released on 18 August 2025, put the unemployment rate (CWS, age 15+) at 5.4% and was the first in the series to cover both rural and urban areas.
- The 12th edition of the India–Sri Lanka bilateral naval exercise SLINEX-25 concluded at Colombo on 18 August 2025.
- The Rajya Sabha passed the Indian Ports Bill, 2025 on 18 August 2025, completing parliamentary approval of the law that replaces the colonial-era Indian Ports Act, 1908.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 18 August 2025 and shared his assessment of his meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska.
- The Ministry of Labour and Employment said on 18 August 2025 that the portal for the ₹99,446-crore Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana, aimed at over 3.5 crore jobs, had gone live.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla in New Delhi on 18 August 2025, discussing his space experience and India's Gaganyaan and space station plans.
Sun, 17 Aug 2025
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Delhi section of the Dwarka Expressway and the Alipur–Dichaon Kalan stretch of Urban Extension Road-II, together worth nearly ₹11,000 crore, at Rohini, Delhi on 17 August 2025.
- On 17 August 2025, the Lodha Foundation launched the Lodha Mathematical Sciences Institute (LMSI) in Mumbai, headed by mathematician V. Kumar Murty, with Fields Medallist Manjul Bhargava on its scientific advisory panel.
- On 17 August 2025, the Uttarakhand Cabinet approved the Uttarakhand Minority Educational Institutions Bill, 2025, extending minority educational institution status beyond Muslims to Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Buddhists and Parsis.
- The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission and ten States disposed of more consumer cases than were filed in July 2025, the Department of Consumer Affairs said on 17 August 2025.
- In the early hours of 17 August 2025, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla returned to India after the Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station and was received at Delhi airport by Union Minister Jitendra Singh, Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and ISRO Chairman V. Narayanan.
- The National Democratic Alliance named Maharashtra Governor C.P. Radhakrishnan as its candidate for the Vice-Presidential election on 17 August 2025.
Sat, 16 Aug 2025
- Stealth frigate INS Tamal departed Naples, Italy on 16 August 2025 after a port call from 13 to 16 August, which began with a passage exercise with the Italian Navy's new landing helicopter dock ITS Trieste.
- On 16 August 2025, top seed Tanya Hemanth of India beat Japan's Kanae Sakai 15-10, 15-8 to win the women's singles title at the Saipan International in the Northern Mariana Islands, a BWF trial event for the experimental 3x15 scoring system.
- The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence busted a clandestine mephedrone manufacturing unit at Jagdishpur (Islamnagar) in Bhopal district, Madhya Pradesh on 16 August 2025, seizing 61.20 kg of liquid mephedrone worth ₹92 crore.
- US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska on 15 August 2025 (US time; early 16 August IST) but announced no agreement to end the war in Ukraine.
- The Ministry of Culture said on 16 August 2025 that the fourth edition of Har Ghar Tiranga, held from 2 to 15 August, saw 7.50 crore selfies uploaded and more than 9 lakh Tiranga Volunteers.
Fri, 15 Aug 2025
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 12th Independence Day address from the Red Fort on 15 August 2025, announced the ₹1 lakh crore PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana, next-generation GST reforms by Diwali, a Reform Task Force and a High-Power Demography Mission.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Mission Sudarshan Chakra in his Independence Day address on 15 August 2025, saying that by 2035 important strategic and civilian places would get complete security cover through new technology platforms.