Asia Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Thu, 25 Dec 2025

• The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), launched on 25 December 2000, completed 25 years on 25 December 2025, with 7,87,520 km of the 8,25,114 km of sanctioned rural roads completed.
• The Central Consumer Protection Authority imposed a ₹11 lakh penalty on Vision IAS for misleading advertisements about UPSC Civil Services Examination 2022 and 2023 results, the Consumer Affairs Ministry said on 25 December 2025.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Rashtra Prerna Sthal in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on 25 December 2025, the 101st birth anniversary of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• Six Naxalites, including Central Committee member Ganesh Uike, were neutralised in a major operation in Kandhamal, Odisha, the Union Home Ministry said on 25 December 2025.
• Good Governance Week 2025 (19–25 December) ended with a National Workshop on Good Governance Practices in New Delhi on 25 December 2025, Good Governance Day, where Dr. Jitendra Singh released reports and launched digital tools.
• The Delhi government opened the first 45 of a planned 100 Atal Canteens, serving full meals at ₹5, on 25 December 2025, the birth anniversary of Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• Indian Railways announced on 25 December 2025 a fare rationalisation effective 26 December, with no change for suburban services and season tickets and an increase of 2 paise per km in Mail/Express classes.
• Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan released 'Mahamana Vangmay', the final series of the collected works of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 25 December 2025.
• Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini presented nine Good Governance Awards and launched digital portals, including one for contractual employees' security of service, at the state Good Governance Day event in Panchkula on 25 December 2025.
• Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi launched a CM Dashboard, an expansion of OSWAS to districts and blocks, and the 'Ama Sathi' unified WhatsApp chatbot on 25 December 2025.

Wed, 24 Dec 2025

• The Union Environment Ministry on 24 December 2025 directed states to grant no new mining leases anywhere in the Aravalli Range and asked ICFRE to identify more areas where mining should be prohibited.
• ISRO's LVM3-M6 lifted off from the Second Launch Pad at Sriharikota on 24 December 2025 and placed AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird Block-2, the heaviest payload launched from Indian soil, in low Earth orbit.
• National Consumer Day 2025 was observed at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 24 December 2025 with the theme 'Efficient and Speedy Disposal through Digital Justice'.
• NHAI said on 24 December 2025 that SEBI has approved its sponsored Raajmarg Infra Investment Trust (RIIT) as a public Infrastructure Investment Trust aimed mainly at retail and domestic investors.
• The two-day PESA Mahotsav (23–24 December 2025) concluded in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, on PESA Day, 24 December 2025, with the launch of a PESA Portal and PESA Indicators.
• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi released three new Bureau of Indian Standards, for bomb disposal systems, electric agricultural tractors and incense sticks, at the National Consumer Day event at Bharat Mandapam on 24 December 2025.
• The Union Cabinet on 24 December 2025 approved three new corridors totalling 16.076 km under Delhi Metro's Phase V(A) at a cost of ₹12,014.91 crore, including a Central Vista line.
• The Commission for Air Quality Management revoked GRAP Stage-IV curbs across the NCR on 24 December 2025 after Delhi's average AQI improved to 271 ('Poor').
• The Kerala Cabinet on 24 December 2025 gave in-principle approval to a permanent, photo-embedded nativity card to replace the nativity certificate now issued in the state.
• Union Coal Minister G. Kishan Reddy reviewed rehabilitation works under the Revised Jharia Master Plan and opened projects at the Belgaria and Karmatand sites in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, on 24 December 2025.

Tue, 23 Dec 2025

• President Droupadi Murmu presented the second Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar to 24 scientists at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 23 December 2025, with the Vigyan Ratna conferred posthumously on astrophysicist Jayant Vishnu Narlikar.
• Kisan Diwas (National Farmers' Day) was observed across India on 23 December 2025, the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, with ICAR institutes holding farmer programmes.
• Union Power Minister Manohar Lal on 23 December 2025 inaugurated commercial operation of Unit-2 (250 MW) of NHPC's 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project on the Assam–Arunachal Pradesh border.
• DRDO announced on 23 December 2025 that it has completed the User Evaluation Trials of the Next Generation Akash (Akash-NG) missile system, paving the way for its induction.
• Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla, the first Jnanpith Award winner from Chhattisgarh, died at AIIMS Raipur on 23 December 2025.
• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation held its second pre-release consultative workshop on the base revision of GDP, CPI and IIP at Bharat Mandapam on 23 December 2025.
• The Indian Coast Guard inducted Samudra Pratap, its first indigenously designed and built Pollution Control Vessel, constructed by Goa Shipyard Limited, on 23 December 2025.
• The Jharkhand Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Hemant Soren on 23 December 2025 approved rules to implement the PESA Act, 1996 in the state's 15 Scheduled districts.
• The Commission for Air Quality Management on 23 December 2025 issued show cause notices to six coal-based thermal power plants within 300 km of Delhi, three of them in Haryana, proposing about ₹61.85 crore in environmental compensation for low biomass co-firing.
• The Centre notified the Colliery Control (Amendment) Rules, 2025 on 23 December 2025, removing the need for prior permission from the Coal Controller's Organisation to open a coal mine or seam.