Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Thu, 04 Sept 2025

• The Ministry of Corporate Affairs amended the Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations Rules by notification dated 4 September 2025 to let more classes of companies use the fast-track merger route under Section 233 of the Companies Act, 2013.
• Union Housing Minister Manohar Lal launched the Unified RERA Portal (rera.mohua.gov.in) on 4 September 2025 at the 5th meeting of the Central Advisory Council under the RERA Act, 2016.
• SEMICON India 2025, the country's largest semiconductor conference, concluded at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 4 September 2025 after three days, with over 350 exhibitors and participants from 48 countries and regions.
• NITI Aayog released a report on 'Strategies and Pathways for Accelerating Growth in Pulses towards the Goal of Atmanirbharta' on 4 September 2025, projecting domestic pulse supply could reach 48.44 MT by 2030 with focused interventions.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on 4 September 2025 that IMD will install four additional radars in Jammu and Kashmir under Mission Mausam, adding to three already operational, for more accurate district-wise forecasts.
• Piyush Goyal, a 1994-batch IAS officer of the Nagaland cadre and former CEO of NATGRID, assumed charge as Secretary, Ministry of Mines on 4 September 2025.

Wed, 03 Sept 2025

• The Union Cabinet on 3 September 2025 approved a ₹1,500 crore incentive scheme under the National Critical Mineral Mission to build capacity for extracting critical minerals from e-waste, battery scrap and other secondary sources.
• The 56th GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi on 3 September 2025, approved replacing the four-tier GST structure with a two-rate system of 5% and 18%, plus a 40% de-merit rate, effective 22 September 2025.
• UPSC Chairman Ajay Kumar announced on 3 September 2025 a proposed Centre of Excellence as a repository of best practices of UPSC and State PSCs, as part of the Commission's centenary year from 1 October 2025 to 1 October 2026.
• Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi visited the National Maritime Heritage Complex at Lothal, Gujarat, on 3 September 2025 to review progress on the 400-acre project.
• The National Statistics Office released the first Quarterly Bulletin of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (QBUSE) on 3 September 2025, showing employment in the sector crossing 13 crore for the first time in January–March 2025.
• China held a massive military parade at Tiananmen in Beijing on 3 September 2025 to mark 80 years since Japan's defeat in World War II, with Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong Un flanking President Xi Jinping.
• A team led by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, reported the strongest observational evidence yet of how interstellar dust grains align with magnetic fields, using observations of the star-forming cloud G34.43+0.24, PIB said on 3 September 2025.
• Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Annapurna Devi jointly launched the Guidelines for Co-location of Anganwadi Centres with Schools at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 3 September 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended wishes on Karma Puja on 3 September 2025, describing the tribal festival as a symbol of the bond between brother and sister in which worship of nature holds special significance.
• President Droupadi Murmu attended the 10th convocation ceremony of the Central University of Tamil Nadu at Thiruvarur on 3 September 2025.

Tue, 02 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated SEMICON India 2025 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, on 2 September 2025, where Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw presented him the first set of Made-in-India chips from a pilot line.
• The Account Aggregator framework, launched on 2 September 2021 as India's consent-based financial data-sharing system, completed four years on 2 September 2025 with over 2.2 billion accounts enabled.
• The 14th edition of the India–Thailand joint military exercise MAITREE opened at the Joint Training Node, Umroi, Meghalaya, on 2 September 2025, running from 1 to 14 September.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bihar Rajya Jeevika Nidhi Saakh Sahkari Sangh Limited via video conferencing on 2 September 2025, to help women associated with Jeevika access financial support more easily.
• The Coconut Development Board marked World Coconut Day on 2 September 2025 at Angamaly, Kerala, by launching revised schemes that raise the area expansion subsidy from ₹6,500 to ₹56,000 per hectare.
• APEDA launched the BHARATI initiative on 2 September 2025 to empower 100 agri-food and agri-tech startups, as part of its aim of $50 billion in agri-food exports by 2030.
• Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh launched the Kapas Kisan app of the Cotton Corporation of India on 2 September 2025 to let cotton farmers self-register, book slots and track payments under MSP procurement.
• A Bose Institute study, reported by PIB on 2 September 2025, found that airborne pathogenic bacteria are two times higher over densely populated parts of Delhi, carried on fine PM2.5 particles.
• The Competition Commission of India approved on 2 September 2025 the acquisition of certain share capital and voting rights of YES Bank by Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
• President Droupadi Murmu attended the 120th foundation day celebrations of City Union Bank in Chennai on 2 September 2025, highlighting the banking industry's role in India's growth and financial inclusion.
• The National Zoological Park, Delhi, said on 2 September 2025 that no new deaths had been reported in its water bird aviary or migratory birds pond after an avian influenza incident, with frontline staff screened by NCDC.

Mon, 01 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Tianjin on 1 September 2025, discussing economic, financial and energy cooperation and the conflict in Ukraine.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 25th SCO Council of Heads of State in Tianjin, China (31 August–1 September 2025), where member states adopted the Tianjin Declaration strongly condemning the 22 April Pahalgam terror attack.
• Indian Navy stealth frigate INS Trikand called at Alexandria, Egypt, on 1 September 2025 to take part in Exercise Bright Star 2025, a US Central Command exercise hosted by Egypt from 1 to 10 September.