WBPSC WBCS Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Tue, 25 Mar 2025

• India and Singapore signed a Letter of Intent on maritime digitalisation and decarbonisation in Singapore on 25 March 2025, in the presence of Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal introduced the Boilers Bill, 2024 in the Lok Sabha on 25 March 2025 to repeal the century-old Boilers Act, 1923 and decriminalise three of its seven offences.
• The Ministry of Education launched the 'Baalpan ki Kavita' initiative on 25 March 2025 to build a compendium of nursery rhymes and poems in all Indian languages and English for young children.
• The Centre directed on 25 March 2025 that traders, wholesalers, retailers, big chain retailers and processors must declare wheat stocks on a government portal from 1 April 2025 and every Friday after that.

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

• Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda announced at the World TB Day 2025 summit in New Delhi on 24 March 2025 that the 100-day intensified TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan, which screened 12.97 crore people, would be scaled up to all districts.
• The Centre notified on 24 March 2025 a 24% increase in the salary, daily allowance and pension of sitting and former MPs, with retrospective effect from 1 April 2023.
• The Indian Navy announced on 24 March 2025 its maiden initiatives, the IOS SAGAR deployment of INS Sunayna with a multinational crew and the AIKEYME maritime exercise with African countries, co-hosted with Tanzania.
• The Ministry of Coal announced on 24 March 2025 that twelve coal mines were successfully auctioned in the 11th round of commercial coal mine auctions, at an average revenue share of 36.27%.
• Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh announced on 24 March 2025 at a World TB Day summit in New Delhi that India had completed genome sequencing of 10,000 isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
• The Indian Army's eye surgical camp at 158 Base Hospital, Bagdogra, West Bengal, which ended on 24 March 2025, performed over 350 cataract surgeries for ex-servicemen and dependents, including veterans from Nepal.
• ESIC's provisional payroll data, released on 24 March 2025, showed that 18.19 lakh new employees joined the ESI Scheme in January 2025, with 27,805 new establishments registered.

Sun, 23 Mar 2025

• Canada's Governor General Mary Simon dissolved the 44th Parliament on 23 March 2025 on the advice of Prime Minister Mark Carney, who called a snap general election for 28 April 2025.
• World Meteorological Day was observed on 23 March 2025 with the theme 'Closing the Early Warning Gap Together', marking 75 years of the World Meteorological Organization.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev on Shaheed Diwas, 23 March 2025, and to Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on his birth anniversary the same day.

Sat, 22 Mar 2025

• The Department of Revenue issued Notification No. 19/2025-Customs on 22 March 2025, making the export duty on onions nil from 1 April 2025 and ending the 20% duty in force since 13 September 2024.
• Ashok Singh Thakur was elected Chairman of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) for three years at its AGM in New Delhi on 22 March 2025.
• The Directorate General of GST Intelligence said on 22 March 2025 it had blocked 357 websites of illegal offshore online money gaming entities and frozen about 2,400 bank accounts in a crackdown on GST evasion.
• Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in the opening match of IPL 2025 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, on 22 March 2025.
• Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh said on 22 March 2025, at a DoPT review in New Delhi, that central recruitment exams are now held in 13 regional languages besides Hindi and English and the recruitment cycle has fallen from 15 to 8 months.

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

• Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh released the India Bioeconomy Report 2025 at BIRAC's Foundation Day in New Delhi on 21 March 2025; it puts India's bioeconomy at $165.7 billion in 2024, up from $10 billion in 2014.
• Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff and the Department of Science and Technology signed an MoU in New Delhi on 21 March 2025 to collaborate on defence research and development for the armed forces.
• The Executive Board of the Sahitya Akademi, chaired by its President Madhav Kaushik, approved 22 books for the Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2024 at Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi, as announced on 21 March 2025.
• The first-ever World Day for Glaciers was observed on 21 March 2025, the same day as the International Day of Forests, whose 2025 theme was 'Forests and Foods'.
• The Bureau of Indian Standards said on 21 March 2025 it would release its Annual Programme for Standardisation 2025-26 after consultations with 40 ministries and 84 industry associations.
• C-DOT signed an agreement with IIT Delhi, announced on 21 March 2025, to develop a generative AI-enhanced chatbot for disaster early warning and emergency communication.

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

• The World Happiness Report 2025, released on 20 March 2025, ranked India 118th of 147 countries, up from 126th, while Finland was the happiest country for the eighth year in a row.
• India's coal production crossed one billion tonnes in 2024-25 on 20 March 2025, 11 days earlier than the previous year's total of 997.83 million tonnes was reached.
• The Defence Acquisition Council chaired by Rajnath Singh accorded Acceptance of Necessity to eight capital acquisition proposals worth over ₹54,000 crore on 20 March 2025.
• Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on 20 March 2025 that Zoho had won the Indian Web Browser Development Challenge, with Team PING and Team Ajna as first and second runners-up.
• The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation added 17.89 lakh net members in January 2025, according to provisional payroll data released on 20 March 2025.