Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Mon, 21 Jul 2025
- On 21 July 2025 at Parliament House, New Delhi, the Monsoon Session 2025 began, with 21 sittings planned over 32 days up to 21 August.
- On 21 July 2025 in New Delhi, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned with immediate effect under Article 67(a), citing health care and medical advice; MHA notified the resignation on 22 July.
- On 21 July 2025, Deputy NSA T.V. Ravichandran inaugurated Bharat NCX 2025, a two-week national cybersecurity exercise run by NSCS with Rashtriya Raksha University.
- On 21 July 2025, EPFO's provisional payroll data showed a net addition of 20.06 lakh members in May 2025, the highest since tracking began in April 2018.
- On 21 July 2025, the Election Commission said Bihar had become the first state where every polling station has fewer than 1,200 electors, after 12,817 new polling stations were added.
- On 21 July 2025, the first day of the Monsoon Session, the Rajya Sabha passed the Bills of Lading Bill, 2025, already cleared by the Lok Sabha in March 2025.
- On 21 July 2025, former Kerala Chief Minister and veteran CPI(M) leader V.S. Achuthanandan died at a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, aged 101.
- On 21 July 2025, the Commerce Ministry reported that the Index of Eight Core Industries rose 1.7% (provisional) in June 2025 over June 2024.
- On 21 July 2025, the Finance Ministry said Phase-IV amalgamation under 'One State-One RRB' had reduced Regional Rural Banks from 43 to 28 with effect from 1 May 2025.
- On 21 July 2025 at GRSE, Kolkata, Ajay (Yard 3034), the eighth and last Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft built by GRSE, was launched.
- On 21 July 2025, NITI Aayog announced that Deepak Bagla had assumed charge as Mission Director of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM).
- On 21 July 2025, a replica of the Ashoka Pillar was unveiled at Waskaduwa Sri Subhuthi Viharaya in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka, with Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha as Chief Guest.
- On 21 July 2025 in New Delhi, the Indian Coast Guard and the Korea Coast Guard held their 13th High-Level Meeting under their 2006 MoU.
- On 21 July 2025, the Steel Ministry said SAIL had supplied over 31,000 tonnes of steel to the under-construction Zojila Tunnel, becoming its single largest steel supplier.
- On 21 July 2025 in New Delhi, the WSIS Prizes 2025 Champion certificate for the 'Meri Panchayat' app was presented to Panchayati Raj Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh.
Sun, 20 Jul 2025
- HBCSE announced on 20 July 2025 that India's six-member team won three gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the 66th International Mathematical Olympiad at Sunshine Coast, Australia, finishing 7th among 110 countries with a record team score of 193 out of 252.
- On 20 July 2025 at the Parliament House Complex, New Delhi, the Government held an all-party meeting before the Monsoon Session, attended by 54 leaders from 40 parties.
- On 20 July 2025 at the Rudraksh International Convention Centre, Varanasi, the Youth Spiritual Summit concluded with the adoption of the Kashi Declaration, a 5-year roadmap for a youth-led de-addiction movement.
- On 20 July 2025, the Home Ministry said Union Home Minister Amit Shah had directed the formation of a multi-sectoral central team to study the rising frequency and intensity of natural disasters in Himachal Pradesh.
- On 20 July 2025, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar appealed to political parties to show mutual respect, avoid personal attacks and unbecoming language, and hoped for serious deliberations in the coming session.
- On 20 July 2025, Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar addressed the inaugural session of Batch VIII of the Rajya Sabha Internship Programme, which has 45 interns.
- On 20 July 2025, the 32nd edition of Fit India Sundays on Cycle was held at the Banaras Hindu University campus in Varanasi with over 3,000 participants.
Sat, 19 Jul 2025
- On 19 July 2025, INS Delhi, Shakti, Satpura and Kiltan of the Eastern Fleet concluded a port call to Singapore (16-19 July) as part of the Indian Navy's Operational Deployment to South East Asia.
- On 19 July 2025 at the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington (Tamil Nadu), CDS General Anil Chauhan addressed the 81st Staff Course and spoke on Operation Sindoor.
- On 19 July 2025, the Election Commission said 95.92% of Bihar's 7.89 crore electors had been covered in the Special Intensive Revision, with six days left to submit enumeration forms.
- From 16 to 19 July 2025, INS Sandhayak, the Navy's first indigenous Survey Vessel Large, made its maiden port call at Port Klang, Malaysia, for hydrographic cooperation.
- On 19 July 2025, Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the Uttarakhand Investment Festival 2025, held to mark investments of over Rs 1 lakh crore becoming a reality, and launched works worth Rs 1,271 crore.
- On 19 July 2025, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan visited the ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research in Junagadh, Gujarat, and released a compilation of 50 Lakhpati Didi success stories.
- On 19 July 2025, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi inaugurated the 435 MW Gorbea Solar Power Project, developed by Zelestra India, in Rajasthan.
- On 19 July 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to freedom fighter Mangal Pandey on his birth anniversary.