Asia Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Thu, 27 Aug 2026

• On 27 August 2026, the Central Bureau of Narcotics intercepted a truck on the Chandigarh–Baddi route under Operation Vajra 2.0 and seized 66,79,980 psychotropic tablets.
• On 27 August 2026, the Law Ministry notified the appointment of Chirag Bhanu as a Judge and Bhupesh Sharma and Yogesh Jaswal as Additional Judges of the Himachal Pradesh High Court.
• On 27 August 2026, Sri Lanka Navy Commander Vice Admiral Damian Fernando received a Guard of Honour in New Delhi and held talks with Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Krishna Swaminathan during his maiden visit to India as commander.
• On 27 August 2026, the Consumer Affairs Ministry said buffer onions were being sold at ₹35 per kg across Delhi-NCR, with the Kanda Express rail initiative moving stocks to consumption centres.
• On 27 August 2026, Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the 72nd convocation of Gujarat Vidyapith in Ahmedabad, an institution established on 18 October 1920.
• On 27 August 2026, the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission held its first scientific conclave in the Northeast at NIPER Guwahati and launched seven phytochemical and five botanical reference standards.

Wed, 26 Aug 2026

• A flash flood triggered by a glacier collapse on the Nepal–Tibet border devastated central Nepal on 26 August 2026; PM Modi offered all possible help and the Centre put Bihar and Uttar Pradesh on alert.
• India's Mayank Chakraborty and Pratitee Bordoloi won the Open and Girls titles at the Asian Junior Classical Chess Championship 2026 in Mumbai, both with 7.5 points from nine rounds.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the redeveloped Hutatma Smruti Smarak at Patradevi on 26 August 2026, honouring satyagrahis killed in the Goa liberation struggle against Portuguese rule.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal concluded his visit to Japan on 26 August 2026 after meetings in Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, including an India–Japan Startup Roundtable in Tokyo.
• Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta launched the Delhi Lakshmi Yojana on 26 August 2026, handing sanction letters to eligible women who will get ₹2,500 a month from 1 September.
• India on 26 August 2026 rejected observations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) after its 11th periodic review, calling them 'politically motivated' and 'highly malicious'.
• Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav called for community-led restoration of rangelands at a ministerial dialogue of UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on 26 August 2026.
• The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation credited the August 2026 pension to 4,40,901 pensioners of its Keralam zone on 26 August 2026, ahead of Onam.
• The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) and Netflix announced scholarships of up to 80% for 100 students across six programmes in Mumbai on 26 August 2026.

Tue, 25 Aug 2026

• NSA Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held the 25th round of Special Representatives talks on the boundary question in Beijing on 25 August 2026 and agreed an eight-point consensus.
• The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet on 25 August 2026 approved 25 lakh free tablets for youth, lifetime free UPSRTC bus travel for women aged 60 and above, and a ₹10,761 crore Ganga Expressway extension to Haridwar.
• The Unified Payments Interface, launched by NPCI on 25 August 2016, completed ten years on 25 August 2026, with annual volume up almost 13,000-fold to over 24,162 crore transactions in FY 2025-26.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the 53rd PRAGATI meeting on 25 August 2026, reviewing six rail, road and power projects across nine states, plus AgriStack and cyber fraud.
• The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 56 kg of methamphetamine tablets from a truck at Lalpani near Silchar, Assam, on 25 August 2026, taking its two recent North-East seizures to 76 kg.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 25 August 2026 approved the transfer of DRDO-developed technologies of all conventional missile systems to Indian industry for domestic production.
• The Indian Coast Guard and Vietnam Coast Guard held their 7th High-Level Meeting in Chennai on 25 August 2026 under their 2015 cooperation MoU.
• At the National Shipping Board's first 'Sagar Samvad' in New Delhi on 25 August 2026, Sarbananda Sonowal said India plans to add 100 vessels in five years to cut a $75 billion foreign freight bill.
• A Finance Ministry review on 25 August 2026 reported that India's 28 Regional Rural Banks earned a record ₹10,176 crore net profit in FY 2025-26, with total business above ₹13.5 lakh crore.
• CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories unveiled three indigenous gas turbine engines with 5, 50 and 100 kg thrust for drones and compact missiles in New Delhi on 25 August 2026.
• Goa Shipyard Limited handed over ICGS Ajit, a Fast Patrol Vessel with over 65% indigenous content, to the Indian Coast Guard on 25 August 2026.
• Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav told the UNCCD COP17 ministerial dialogue in Ulaanbaatar on 25 August 2026 that drought must be managed as a predictable, preventable risk.
• Union Mines Minister G. Kishan Reddy launched the Critical Minerals Innovation Hackathon 2026, to be hosted by JNARDDC Nagpur, on 25 August 2026.

Mon, 24 Aug 2026

• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister C. Joseph Vijay told the Assembly on 24 August 2026 that the state will pay for three LPG cylinders a year from Pongal 2027 and widen free bus travel for women from 2 October.
• At an IUCN side event at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar on 24 August 2026, Bhupender Yadav said India restored 21.76 million hectares during 2011–2020 under its Bonn Challenge pledge.