Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the post-budget webinar on 'Agriculture and Rural Prosperity' via video-conferencing on 1 March 2025.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level review of the security situation in Manipur in New Delhi on 1 March 2025 and directed that free movement be ensured on all roads in the state from 8 March 2025.
• India's cumulative coal production from April 2024 to February 2025 rose 5.73% to 928.95 million tonnes, the Ministry of Coal said on 1 March 2025.
• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presided over the 49th Civil Accounts Day, marking the foundation day of the Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS), in New Delhi on 1 March 2025.
• The 88th meeting of the Network Planning Group under PM GatiShakti, held on 1 March 2025, evaluated 11 road, railway, IT and metro projects, including the northern portion of the Hyderabad Regional Ring Road.
• Union Minister J P Nadda inaugurated the week-long celebrations of the 7th Jan Aushadhi Diwas by flagging off awareness vehicles from Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi, on 1 March 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the NXT Conclave at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 1 March 2025 and launched the NewsX World channel.
• The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities organised 'Sugamya Yatra' at Rajiv Chowk Metro Station, New Delhi, on International Wheelchair Day, 1 March 2025.
• The Indian Bureau of Mines observed its 78th Foundation Day as Khanij Diwas at its headquarters in Nagpur on 1 March 2025.
• Civil Aviation Minister K. Rammohan Naidu inaugurated a Boeing 737 flight on the Kolkata–Hindon–Goa route under UDAN at Hindon, Ghaziabad, on 1 March 2025.
• INS Shardul, INS Sujata and ICGS Veera of the Indian Navy's First Training Squadron arrived at Phuket Deep Sea Port, Thailand, on 1 March 2025 during their South East Asia training deployment.

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

• PM Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen issued a Leaders' Statement in New Delhi on 28 February 2025, agreeing to conclude the India–EU free trade agreement within the year.
• The National Statistics Office (MoSPI) on 28 February 2025 released the Second Advance Estimates putting real GDP growth for 2024-25 at 6.5%, with growth of 6.2% in the October–December quarter.
• The Ministry of Agriculture said on 28 February 2025 that the target of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organisations under the central sector scheme has been achieved, with the 10,000th FPO, in Khagaria district, Bihar, launched by PM Modi at Bhagalpur.
• The Central Board of Trustees of EPF, chaired by Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya, recommended an 8.25% interest rate on EPF accumulations for 2024-25 at its 237th meeting in New Delhi on 28 February 2025.
• Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh visited DRDO's Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex in Hyderabad on National Science Day, 28 February 2025, and felicitated the Long-Range Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missile team.
• The Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways said on 28 February 2025 that the National Waterways (Construction of Jetties/Terminals) Regulations, 2025, framed by IWAI, will let private and other entities build and operate terminals on national waterways.
• The Indian Air Force conducted Exercise Desert Hunt 2025, an integrated tri-service special forces exercise, at Air Force Station Jodhpur from 24 to 28 February 2025.
• National Science Day was observed on 28 February 2025 with the theme 'Empowering Indian Youth for Global Leadership in Science & Innovation for Viksit Bharat', with the main event at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
• The second meeting of the India–EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) was held in New Delhi on 28 February 2025, co-chaired by S. Jaishankar, Piyush Goyal and Ashwini Vaishnaw for India.
• Union Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy and Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis handed over a Letter of Intent for an offshore construction sand block to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority in Mumbai on 28 February 2025, the first allocation of an offshore mineral block in India.
• Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated a low-cost 5G test lab developed by C-DOT at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Gauhati University, on 28 February 2025.
• The HIMASHIELD 2024 Grand Challenge on Glacial Lake Outburst Flood mitigation, organised by C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram, concluded on National Science Day, 28 February 2025.
• Union Health Minister J P Nadda inaugurated the 9th National Summit on Good & Replicable Practices and Innovation in the Public Healthcare System in Puri, Odisha, on 28 February 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi took part in Jahan-e-Khusro 2025, the Sufi music festival completing 25 years, at Sunder Nursery, New Delhi, on 28 February 2025.
• The combined Index of Eight Core Industries rose 4.6% (provisional) in January 2025 over January 2024, the Commerce Ministry said on 28 February 2025.

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

• The Animal Welfare Board of India presented the Prani Mitra and Jeev Daya Awards at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 27 February 2025 and released four handbooks on animal welfare laws.
• The Ministry of Electronics and IT launched the Aadhaar Good Governance portal (swik.meity.gov.in) on 27 February 2025 so that government and private entities can apply for Aadhaar authentication for public-interest services.
• Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), called on 27 February 2025 for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read out in Istanbul by pro-Kurdish DEM Party politicians.
• Union Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy said on 27 February 2025 that the first tranche of Exploration Licence auctions would be launched in March 2025 and that Assam, Jammu & Kashmir and Kerala would soon join the mineral auction regime, taking it to 17 States.