Karnataka Current Affairs One-liners — Last 12 months

Mon, 24 Nov 2025

• Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh announced four Quantum Fabrication and Central Facilities worth ₹720 crore at IIT Bombay, IISc Bengaluru, IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi under the National Quantum Mission, during his visit to IIT Bombay on 24 November 2025.

Mon, 17 Nov 2025

• CSIR and ISRO jointly organised the CSIR–ISRO Space Meet 2025 in Bengaluru on 17 November 2025, hosted by CSIR–National Aerospace Laboratories, to align research and technology for India's human spaceflight programme.

Thu, 13 Nov 2025

• Union Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal joined the Golden Jubilee of the New Mangalore Port Authority (NMPA) in Mangaluru, Karnataka, on 13 November 2025, where 16 infrastructure projects and 113 CSR initiatives worth ₹1,500 crore were inaugurated, dedicated or had foundation stones laid.

Wed, 12 Nov 2025

• The Indian Navy established a new recruitment centre at INS Kadamba in Karwar, Karnataka, under the Flag Officer Commanding Karnataka Naval Area, making it the Navy's tenth recruitment establishment in India, it said on 12 November 2025.

Mon, 10 Nov 2025

• The 11th edition of the India–Sri Lanka joint military exercise Mitra Shakti began at the Foreign Training Node, Belagavi, Karnataka, on 10 November 2025 and runs until 23 November.

Sun, 09 Nov 2025

• Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan attended the centenary commemoration of Acharya Shri 108 Shantisagar Maharaj's 1925 visit to Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, on 9 November 2025 and unveiled an idol of the Acharya.

Sat, 08 Nov 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off four new Vande Bharat Express trains from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, on 8 November 2025: Banaras–Khajuraho, Firozpur–Delhi, Lucknow–Saharanpur and Ernakulam–Bengaluru.

Fri, 07 Nov 2025

• The Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, with IISc and the Consulate General of France in Bengaluru, held the Third India–France AI Policy Roundtable at IISc Bengaluru on 7 November 2025 as a pre-summit event for the AI Impact Summit 2026 to be hosted by India.

Thu, 06 Nov 2025

• NITI Aayog, with the Government of Karnataka and the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB), held a two-day National Workshop on 'Reuse of Treated Wastewater in India' in Bengaluru on 6–7 November 2025.

Tue, 04 Nov 2025

• Bengaluru-based startup QNu Labs, supported under the National Quantum Mission, announced on the sidelines of ESTIC 2025 in New Delhi on 4 November 2025 that it had demonstrated India's first extensive Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network, spanning over 500 km.

Sat, 01 Nov 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Haryana on their formation days on 1 November 2025.

Thu, 30 Oct 2025

• Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal chaired the first regional meeting of Urban Development Ministers of southern states and UTs in Bengaluru on 30 October 2025.

Wed, 29 Oct 2025

• DRDO handed over 12 Licensing Agreements for Transfer of Technology (LATOTs) for eight products to industry at SAMANVAY 2025 in Bengaluru on 29 October 2025.

Tue, 28 Oct 2025

• APEDA facilitated the first-ever air shipment of GI-tagged Indi lime from Vijayapura, Karnataka, and Puliyankudi lime from Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, to the United Kingdom on 28 October 2025.

Mon, 27 Oct 2025

• Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated a National Seeds Corporation vegetable and flower seed processing unit at Pusa, New Delhi, and five other NSC plants on 27 October 2025, and launched 'Seed Management 2.0'.

Sat, 25 Oct 2025

• The Ministry of Mines recognised IISc Bangalore and C-MET Hyderabad as Centres of Excellence under the National Critical Mineral Mission, taking the total to nine.

Fri, 24 Oct 2025

• The year-long national commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Rani Chennamma's victory at Kittur ended in New Delhi on 24 October 2025 with the release of a ₹200 commemorative coin.
• A Hyderabad–Bengaluru private sleeper bus caught fire after hitting a motorcycle near Chinnatekur in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, early on 24 October 2025, killing 19 passengers and the motorcyclist.

Tue, 21 Oct 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with Indian Navy personnel on board aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on the western seaboard off Goa and Karwar, PIB reported on 21 October 2025.

Sun, 19 Oct 2025

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah approved advance release of ₹1,950.80 crore as the second instalment of the Central share of SDRF for 2025-26 to Karnataka (₹384.40 crore) and Maharashtra (₹1,566.40 crore), MHA said on 19 October 2025.

Fri, 17 Oct 2025

• The 100th meeting of the Network Planning Group (NPG) under PM GatiShakti, held on 17 October 2025, evaluated five projects — two rail, two road and one metro — including Jaipur Metro Phase 2 and the Gondia–Jabalpur rail doubling.

Wed, 15 Oct 2025

• On 15 October 2025, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched eight maritime projects at the curtain raiser of the Golden Jubilee of the New Mangalore Port Authority, India's ninth major port, established in 1975.

Tue, 14 Oct 2025

• On 14 October 2025 at Naval Base Karwar, Karnataka, Navy Chief Adm Dinesh K Tripathi inaugurated housing for senior sailors and defence civilians under Phase IIA of Project Seabird.

Sun, 12 Oct 2025

• The ITU's 'Robotics for Good Youth Challenge India 2025', co-hosted with the Department of Telecommunications at India Mobile Congress 2025 in New Delhi, ended with Team Heyansh (Junior) and The Ambitious Avengers (Senior) selected for the Global Grand Finale in Geneva in July 2026 (PIB, 12 October 2025).

Thu, 09 Oct 2025

• On 9 October 2025 MoS Health Anupriya Patel launched the 60-day Tobacco Free Youth Campaign 3.0, aligned with the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, and a 4th National Tobacco Testing Laboratory was dedicated at NIMHANS, Bengaluru.