India Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Wed, 01 Apr 2026

• The government on 1 April 2026 notified conditional concessional customs duty on goods manufactured in SEZs and cleared to the Domestic Tariff Area, capped at 30% of a unit's highest annual FOB exports in the previous three years.
• On 1 April 2026 Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth took over as Vice Chief of the Army Staff, while Lt Gens Pushpendra Pal Singh, VMB Krishnan and Sandeep Jain took command of the Western, Eastern and Southern Commands.
• The Lok Sabha on 1 April 2026 introduced and passed the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which designates Amaravati as the sole capital of Andhra Pradesh; the Rajya Sabha passed it on 2 April.
• Odisha celebrated Utkal Divas (Odisha Day) on 1 April 2026, its 90th foundation day, marking the creation of the province of Orissa on a linguistic basis in 1936.
• The Ministry of Defence fully utilised its capital outlay of ₹1.86 lakh crore for the Defence Services in FY 2025-26 at Revised Estimates, it said on 1 April 2026.
• Chanchal Kumar, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre, assumed charge as Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, on 1 April 2026, succeeding Sanjay Jaju.
• The Centre has released ₹113.60 crore to Haryana under the Rashtriya Gokul Mission, where indigenous cattle numbers rose 16.94% between the 19th and 20th Livestock Censuses, the Animal Husbandry Department told Parliament on 1 April 2026.
• President Droupadi Murmu attended the 119th birthday celebrations and Guruvandana Mahotsava of Dr Sree Sree Sivakumara Mahaswamiji at Sree Siddaganga Math, Tumakuru, Karnataka, on 1 April 2026.
• The Ministry of Textiles on 1 April 2026 notified the extension of the RoSCTL scheme for apparel and made-ups exports up to 30 September 2026, with RoDTEP also continued for other textile products.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026

• On 31 March 2026 PM Narendra Modi inaugurated the Kaynes Technology semiconductor plant at Sanand, Gujarat, marking the start of production there.
• Malwan, the second of eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft built by Cochin Shipyard Limited, was delivered to the Indian Navy on 31 March 2026.
• The CBDT signed a record 219 Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) in FY 2025-26, taking the total since the programme began to 1,034.
• Shachi (Yard 1280), the first of 11 Next Generation Offshore Patrol Vessels for the Indian Navy, was launched at Goa Shipyard Limited on 31 March 2026.
• Following a Union Budget 2026-27 announcement, CBIC removed the ₹10 lakh per-consignment cap on courier exports with effect from 1 April 2026.
• Andhra Pradesh announced on 31 March 2026 that handloom weaver households get up to 200 units and powerloom units up to 500 units of free power a month from 1 April 2026.
• On 31 March 2026 the Ministry of Defence signed a contract of about ₹1,950 crore with BEL for two DRDO-designed Mountain Radars for the Indian Air Force.
• As of March 2026, India had issued 3,561 of the world's 6,311 Internationally Recognized Certificates of Compliance (IRCCs) under the Nagoya Protocol – over 56%.
• At the MP-UP Sahyog Sammelan in Varanasi on 31 March 2026, the Kashi Vishwanath Temple Trust and the Mahakaleshwar temple (Ujjain) signed an MoU, and the two states signed an MoU on ODOP products.
• On Mahavir Jayanti, 31 March 2026, PM Modi inaugurated the Samrat Samprati Sangrahalay, a Jain Heritage Museum at Koba Tirth in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• On 31 March 2026 President Droupadi Murmu addressed the convocation of Nalanda University at Rajgir, Bihar, where over half the graduates were international students.
• India beat Hong Kong 2-1 at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi, on 31 March 2026 in their last AFC Asian Cup 2027 qualifier; Singapore topped Group C and qualified.

Mon, 30 Mar 2026

• The Registrar General announced on 30 March 2026 that Census 2027 – India's first digital census with a self-enumeration option – would begin its first phase (House Listing) from 1 April 2026.
• The 14th Ministerial Conference of the WTO concluded in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on 30 March 2026; India, led by Piyush Goyal, did not agree to incorporating the Investment Facilitation for Development Agreement.
• The Environment Ministry designated the 'Bhavasagara' Referral Centre of CMLRE, Kochi, as India's National Repository for Deep-Sea Fauna under the Biological Diversity Act, 2002 (announced 30 March 2026).
• According to the Quick Estimate released on 30 March 2026, India's Index of Industrial Production grew 5.2% year-on-year in February 2026, led by 6.0% growth in manufacturing.
• Chandrikapersad Santokhi, President of Suriname from 2020 to 2025 and a leader of Indian origin who took his oath in Sanskrit, died suddenly on 30 March 2026 aged 67.
• Sanshodhak (Yard 3028), the fourth and last Survey Vessel (Large) built by GRSE, Kolkata, was delivered to the Indian Navy on 30 March 2026.
• The Ministry of Mines on 30 March 2026 notified the Mineral (Auction) Second Amendment Rules, 2026, allowing exclusion of non-feasible portions of blocks and introducing a unified mining portal.
• The Ministry of Mines on 30 March 2026 notified the Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydro Carbons Energy Minerals) Concession (Second Amendment) Rules, 2026, allowing one-time addition of contiguous area to deep-seated mineral leases and inclusion of associated minerals.
• On 30 March 2026 MeitY approved 29 more proposals under the Electronics Component Manufacturing Scheme with projected investment of ₹7,104 crore and 14,246 direct jobs.