India Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Fri, 26 Sept 2025

• India's representative exercised the right of reply at the UN General Assembly on 26 September 2025, condemning the Pakistan Prime Minister's speech and demanding that Pakistan shut down terrorist camps.
• President Droupadi Murmu presented the National Geoscience Awards 2024 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre on 26 September 2025, with the Lifetime Achievement award going to Prof. Shyam Sundar Rai.
• A SODAR (Sound Detection and Ranging) system designed by CSIR–AMPRI, Bhopal, was inaugurated at the India Meteorological Department, Delhi, on CSIR's Foundation Day, 26 September 2025.
• The Central Consumer Protection Authority imposed a ₹2 lakh penalty on Digital Age Retail Pvt. Ltd. (FirstCry) on 26 September 2025 for showing 'MRP inclusive of all taxes' but adding GST on the discounted price at checkout.
• The Employees' State Insurance Corporation's provisional payroll data released on 26 September 2025 showed 20.36 lakh new employees enrolled under the ESI scheme in July 2025.
• Coal PSUs announced a Performance Linked Reward of ₹1,03,000 for non-executive workers of Coal India and SCCL on 26 September 2025.

Thu, 25 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the ₹42,000 crore Mahi Banswara Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (4×700 MW) on 25 September 2025, part of projects worth over ₹1,22,100 crore launched in Banswara, Rajasthan.
• The Ministry of Defence signed a contract worth over ₹62,370 crore with Hindustan Aeronautics Limited on 25 September 2025 for 97 Light Combat Aircraft Mk1A for the Indian Air Force.
• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released 'Children in India 2025', the fourth issue of the publication, at the 29th CoCSSO in Chandigarh on 25 September 2025, showing the infant mortality rate fell from 44 in 2011 to 25 in 2023.
• The Election Commission of India decided on 25 September 2025 that the penultimate round of EVM/VVPAT counting will be taken up only after postal ballot counting is completed, as its 30th electoral reform initiative in six months.
• The Ministry of Ayush signed an agreement with the World Health Organization on 25 September 2025 to co-host the 2nd WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine in New Delhi from 17 to 19 December 2025.
• Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal flagged off India's first fleet of electric heavy trucks with swappable batteries at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority on 25 September 2025.
• The Union Government released over ₹2,400 crore on 25 September 2025 as the first instalment of XV Finance Commission untied grants for 2025-26 to rural local bodies in Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Uttar Pradesh International Trade Show 2025 in Greater Noida on 25 September 2025, with over 2,200 exhibitors and Russia as the country partner.
• The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India launched a dedicated licensing and registration window for Ayurveda Aahara products on its FoSCoS portal on 25 September 2025.
• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released 'Environmental Accounting on Forest – 2025' at the 29th CoCSSO in Chandigarh on 25 September 2025, its first dedicated publication on forest accounting.
• The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released the draft Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025 for public consultation on 25 September 2025, to reposition the institute ahead of its centenary in 2031.

Wed, 24 Sept 2025

• DRDO and the Strategic Forces Command successfully launched the intermediate-range Agni-Prime missile from a rail-based mobile launcher on 24 September 2025, the first launch of its kind.
• The Union Cabinet approved a ₹69,725 crore four-pillar package on 24 September 2025 to strengthen India's shipbuilding and maritime ecosystem, including extending the Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Scheme to 2036.
• The Union Cabinet approved on 24 September 2025 Phase III of a centrally sponsored scheme to add 5,000 postgraduate seats and an extension to add 5,023 MBBS seats in government medical institutions, at a total cost of ₹15,034.50 crore.
• Four people were killed and dozens injured in Leh, Ladakh, on 24 September 2025 when a protest demanding statehood and Sixth Schedule status turned violent, and a curfew was imposed across Leh district.
• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on 24 September 2025 extended General Anil Chauhan's service as Chief of Defence Staff and Secretary, Department of Military Affairs, up to 30 May 2026 or until further orders.
• India and Australia signed a Mutual Recognition Arrangement for organic products at Vanijya Bhavan, New Delhi, on 24 September 2025, under the India–Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement.
• Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) in New Delhi on 24 September 2025, with a Principal Bench in New Delhi and 31 State Benches.
• The Union Cabinet approved on 24 September 2025 a Productivity Linked Bonus equal to 78 days' wages, totalling ₹1,865.68 crore, for 10,91,146 railway employees.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved on 24 September 2025 a 78.942 km four-lane Sahebganj–Areraj–Bettiah section of NH-139W in Bihar on Hybrid Annuity Mode at a cost of ₹3,822.31 crore.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the 49th PRAGATI meeting on 24 September 2025 and reviewed eight infrastructure projects across 15 States and UTs worth over ₹65,000 crore.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved on 24 September 2025 the doubling of the 104 km Bakhtiyarpur–Rajgir–Tilaiya single railway line in Bihar at a cost of about ₹2,192 crore.
• The Union Cabinet approved on 24 September 2025 the DSIR/CSIR scheme 'Capacity Building and Human Resource Development' with an outlay of ₹2,277.397 crore for 2021-22 to 2025-26.
• An Indian delegation led by the Commerce and Industry Minister concluded a visit to the United States on 24 September 2025, holding talks with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on an early bilateral trade agreement.