India Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sat, 13 Sept 2025

• The Agriculture Ministry announced on 13 September 2025 that the second phase of the Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan, a 16-day campaign for rabi crops, will run from 3 to 18 October 2025.

Fri, 12 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the first International Conference on Gyan Bharatam at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 12 September 2025 and launched the Gyan Bharatam Portal for digitising India's manuscripts.
• C.P. Radhakrishnan took oath as the 15th Vice President of India and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha on 12 September 2025, administered by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• The Indian Navy commissioned INS Aravali, its latest naval base, at Gurugram on 12 September 2025 in the presence of Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh K. Tripathi, to support its information and communication centres.
• The Agriculture Ministry said on 12 September 2025 that it sent AI-based monsoon onset forecasts by SMS through m-Kisan to nearly 3.8 crore farmers in 13 states this year, up to four weeks ahead of the rains.
• The Finance Ministry announced the annual licensing policy for opium poppy cultivation for crop year 2025-26 on 12 September 2025, making about 1.21 lakh farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh eligible.
• India's retail inflation based on the Consumer Price Index rose to 2.07% (provisional) in August 2025, while food inflation was -0.69%, negative for the third straight month, MoSPI said on 12 September 2025.
• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on 12 September 2025 that India and the EU are working to finalise a balanced Free Trade Agreement, while EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said both sides aim to conclude it by year-end.
• DSC A22, the third of five Diving Support Craft being built by Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd for the Indian Navy, was launched at Titagarh, Kolkata on 12 September 2025.

Thu, 11 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam in Varanasi on 11 September 2025, where India announced a special economic package of grant and grant-cum-credit projects and the two sides signed seven agreements.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh virtually flagged off 'Samudra Pradakshina', the world's first tri-service all-women circumnavigation sailing expedition, from the Gateway of India, Mumbai on 11 September 2025 aboard IASV Triveni.
• Home Minister Amit Shah virtually inaugurated the Fast Track Immigration–Trusted Traveller Programme (FTI-TTP) at Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Trichy, Kozhikode and Amritsar airports on 11 September 2025, taking the facility to 13 airports.
• Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated IIM Ahmedabad's first-ever overseas campus in Dubai on 11 September 2025, in the presence of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
• Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated APEDA's first office in Bihar, in Patna, at the Bihar Idea Festival on 11 September 2025 and flagged off a 7-tonne consignment of GI-tagged Mithila Makhana for New Zealand, Canada and the USA.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed flood damage in Uttarakhand at Dehradun on 11 September 2025 and announced financial assistance of ₹1,200 crore for the state.
• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi inaugurated the 1st Annual Green Hydrogen R&D Conference in New Delhi on 11 September 2025 and launched a ₹100 crore call for proposals offering up to ₹5 crore per start-up pilot project.
• Union Minister Pralhad Joshi said on 11 September 2025 that India targets indigenous solar cell manufacturing by 2028 and has crossed 251.5 GW of non-fossil capacity, over half its 2030 target of 500 GW.
• Indian Railways began loading Kashmir apples on two vehicle parcel coaches on 11 September 2025 and announced a daily time-tabled parcel train between Badgam and Adarsh Nagar, Delhi from 13 September.

Wed, 10 Sept 2025

• The Election Commission of India held its third conference this year of Chief Electoral Officers of all States and UTs at IIIDEM, New Delhi on 10 September 2025 to assess preparedness for a nationwide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 10 September 2025 approved the 82.4 km four-lane greenfield access-controlled Mokama–Munger section of the Buxar–Bhagalpur High-Speed Corridor in Bihar, at ₹4,447.38 crore on Hybrid Annuity Mode.
• The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India signed a $126.42 million loan on 10 September 2025 for sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient tourism development in the Tehri Lake area of Uttarakhand.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 10 September 2025 approved doubling of the 177 km Bhagalpur–Dumka–Rampurhat single railway line across Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal at a cost of about ₹3,169 crore.
• Marking World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2025, the National Task Force on student mental health and suicide prevention appealed to students, parents, faculty and institutions to take part in its surveys.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh released the CCS (Implementation of the Unified Pension Scheme under the National Pension System) Rules, 2025 at the 14th Pension Adalat on 10 September 2025, enabling Central Government employees to choose between NPS and UPS.
• Researchers from MACS-Agharkar Research Institute, Pune identified two new species of black Aspergillus, Aspergillus dhakephalkarii and Aspergillus patriciawiltshireae, from Western Ghats soil, DST said on 10 September 2025.
• India hosted the 48th Annual Conference on Oceans Law and Policy (COLP48) in New Delhi, the first time in the conference's nearly five-decade history that it was held in the Indian subcontinent, with MoES Secretary M. Ravichandran giving a keynote on 10 September 2025.
• Power Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated the Central Power Research Institute's Regional Testing Laboratory at Nashik on 10 September 2025 to serve power equipment industries in western India.

Tue, 09 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted aerial surveys of flood-hit Himachal Pradesh and Punjab on 9 September 2025 and announced financial assistance of ₹1,500 crore for Himachal Pradesh and ₹1,600 crore for Punjab.
• NDA nominee C.P. Radhakrishnan was declared elected Vice President of India on 9 September 2025 by Returning Officer P.C. Mody, securing 452 first-preference votes against 300 for B. Sudershan Reddy.
• Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia unveiled the UPI–UPU Integration project at the 28th Universal Postal Congress in Dubai on 9 September 2025, linking India's UPI with the Universal Postal Union's Interconnection Platform for cross-border remittances.