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Mon, 15 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation of projects worth around ₹40,000 crore in Purnea, Bihar on 15 September 2025, including Purnea Airport's new terminal and the 3x800 MW Pirpainti thermal power project.
• Indian grandmaster Vaishali Rameshbabu won the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on 15 September 2025, becoming the first player to win the event twice in a row and qualifying for the 2026 Women's Candidates.
• On 15 September 2025, the Supreme Court declined to stay the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 as a whole but stayed the five-year 'practising Islam' condition and the Collector's powers over disputed waqf property.
• India signed a 15-year contract with the International Seabed Authority in New Delhi on 15 September 2025 to explore polymetallic sulphides in 10,000 sq km of the Carlsberg Ridge, becoming the first country with two PMS contracts.
• NITI Aayog launched the 'AI for Viksit Bharat Roadmap: Opportunity for Accelerated Economic Growth' and the NITI Frontier Tech Repository under its Frontier Tech Hub on 15 September 2025.
• Anandkumar Velkumar won gold in the senior men's 1000m sprint at the Speed Skating World Championships 2025 in Beidaihe, China on 15 September 2025, becoming India's first world champion in the sport.
• India's annual inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index was 0.52% (provisional) in August 2025, turning positive after negative readings in June and July, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on 15 September 2025.
• India's total exports of goods and services were estimated at US$ 69.16 billion in August 2025, up 9.34% from a year earlier, while total imports fell 7% to US$ 79.04 billion, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on 15 September 2025.
• CRPF's CoBRA battalion and Jharkhand Police neutralised Central Committee member Sahdev Soren alias Parvesh, who carried a ₹1 crore bounty, and two other Maoists in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand on 15 September 2025.
• India's unemployment rate for persons aged 15 and above fell to 5.1% in August 2025 from 5.2% in July, according to the PLFS monthly bulletin released by MoSPI on 15 September 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Bharat Ratna Sir M. Visvesvaraya on Engineers' Day, 15 September 2025, and greeted engineers across the country.

Sun, 14 Sept 2025

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved the Defence Procurement Manual 2025 on 14 September 2025 to simplify revenue procurement for the armed forces, replacing the manual last promulgated in 2009.
• Minakshi Hooda won the women's 48kg title on 14 September 2025 after Jaismine Lamboria took the 57kg gold, giving India two golds, a silver and a bronze at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation of projects worth around ₹6,500 crore in Darrang and inaugurated the Assam Bioethanol Plant at Numaligarh Refinery in Golaghat on 14 September 2025, and announced a nationwide Demography Mission.
• The Union Public Service Commission piloted AI-enabled facial authentication at select Gurugram centres during the NDA & NA II and CDS II examinations on 14 September 2025, cutting verification to 8–10 seconds per candidate.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended the fifth Akhil Bhartiya Rajbhasha Sammelan in Gandhinagar, Gujarat as chief guest on Hindi Diwas, 14 September 2025, where the Saarthi translation system was launched.
• The Indian women's hockey team lost 4-1 to hosts China in the Women's Asia Cup 2025 final in Hangzhou on 14 September 2025, winning silver but missing direct qualification for the 2026 World Cup.

Sat, 13 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Manipur on 13 September 2025, laying foundation stones for projects worth over ₹7,300 crore at Churachandpur and inaugurating projects worth over ₹1,200 crore at Imphal.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the ₹8,070 crore Bairabi–Sairang new rail line on 13 September 2025, connecting Mizoram's capital Aizawl to the Indian Railways network for the first time, and flagged off a Sairang–Delhi Rajdhani Express.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the celebrations of the 100th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr. Bhupen Hazarika in Guwahati, Assam on 13 September 2025, where a biography of the singer was released.
• The 11th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) India Region Conference, hosted by the Karnataka Legislature, concluded in Bengaluru on 13 September 2025, with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla calling for standards to ensure quality debates.
• Androth, the second of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft being built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, was delivered to the Indian Navy at Kolkata on 13 September 2025.
• India will host the 5th Coast Guard Global Summit in Chennai in 2027, coinciding with the Indian Coast Guard's golden jubilee, the Ministry of Defence said on 13 September 2025 after the decision at the 4th summit in Rome.

Fri, 12 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the first International Conference on Gyan Bharatam at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 12 September 2025 and launched the Gyan Bharatam Portal for digitising India's manuscripts.
• C.P. Radhakrishnan took oath as the 15th Vice President of India and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on 12 September 2025, administered by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• Former Chief Justice Sushila Karki was sworn in as Prime Minister of Nepal's interim government on 12 September 2025, becoming the country's first woman Prime Minister; India's MEA welcomed the new government.
• The Indian Navy commissioned INS Aravali, its latest naval base, at Gurugram on 12 September 2025 in the presence of Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi, to support its information and communication centres.
• The Agriculture Ministry said on 12 September 2025 that it sent AI-based monsoon onset forecasts by SMS through m-Kisan to nearly 3.8 crore farmers in 13 states this year, up to four weeks ahead of the rains.
• The Finance Ministry announced the annual licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation for crop year 2025-26 on 12 September 2025, making about 1.21 lakh farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh eligible.
• India's retail inflation based on the Consumer Price Index rose to 2.07% (provisional) in August 2025, while food inflation was -0.69%, negative for the third straight month, MoSPI said on 12 September 2025.