World Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sun, 30 Nov 2025

• In its first-ever participation, India finished 8th among 29 countries at the WorldSkills Asia Competition 2025, winning one silver, two bronze and three Medallions for Excellence.
• On 30 November 2025 Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand retained the women's doubles title at the Syed Modi India International (Super 300) in Lucknow, while Kidambi Srikanth lost the men's singles final to Hong Kong's Jason Gunawan.
• On 30 November 2025 the Department of Telecommunications set up a 24x7 control room and ensured Intra Circle Roaming and Cell Broadcast readiness as Cyclone Ditwah over the Bay of Bengal threatened coastal Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
• On 30 November 2025 Belgium beat India 1-0 in the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia, to win the title for the first time; India took silver.
• At the World Summit on Disaster Management in Dehradun on 30 November 2025, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said three more weather radars will be commissioned in Uttarakhand at Haridwar, Pantnagar and Auli.
• At an all-party meeting on 30 November 2025, the government said the Winter Session of Parliament would run from 1 to 19 December 2025 with 15 sittings over 19 days.
• On 30 November 2025 Virat Kohli scored 135 off 120 balls against South Africa at Ranchi — his 52nd ODI century — passing Sachin Tendulkar's 51 Test centuries for the most hundreds in a single format; India won by 17 runs.
• On 30 November 2025 PM Narendra Modi attended the 60th All India Conference of DGs/IGs of Police at IIM Raipur, themed 'Viksit Bharat: Security Dimensions', and gave the newly instituted Urban Policing Awards to three cities.
• On 30 November 2025 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh visited the Defence Materials and Stores Research & Development Establishment (DMSRDE), a DRDO lab in Kanpur.
• Veteran Kannada actor M.S. Umesh, known for his comic roles, died in Bengaluru on 30 November 2025 at the age of 80.
• Vice Admiral Sanjay Sadhu, AVSM, NM, assumed charge as Controller of Warship Production & Acquisition (CWP&A) of the Indian Navy on 28 November 2025.
• Honduras held its general election on 30 November 2025; after a long and disputed count, National Party candidate Nasry Asfura was declared the winner on 24 December 2025.
• On 30 November 2025 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav's son Dr Abhimanyu Yadav married Dr Ishita Patel at a mass wedding ceremony in Ujjain along with 21 other couples.
• On 30 November 2025 ALIMCO marked its 53rd Foundation Day by unveiling a new logo and launching a 3-wheeler EV scooter and a clip-on motorised wheelchair for Divyangjan and senior citizens.

Sat, 29 Nov 2025

• On 29 November 2025 Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and Culture & Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat flagged off the new Jaisalmer–Delhi (Shakur Basti) rail service from Jaisalmer, named 'Swarn Nagari Express'.
• The Election Commission of India invited citizens to suggest improvements to its unified ECINet app between 27 November and 27 December 2025; the platform's official launch is planned for January 2026.
• On 29 November 2025 the first special train for Kashi Tamil Sangamam 4.0 left Kanniyakumari; the fourth edition runs in Varanasi from 2 to 15 December 2025, with the inauguration at NaMo Ghat.
• A block-level climate vulnerability assessment by the Meghalaya Climate Change Centre, released on 29 November 2025, found 25 of the state's 39 C&RD blocks in the high or very high vulnerability categories.
• On 29 November 2025 Union Minister Jitendra Singh launched the production version of Hansa-3 (NG), India's first all-composite two-seater trainer aircraft, at CSIR–NAL, Bengaluru.
• On 29 November 2025 an Assam Group of Ministers report tabled in the Assembly recommended ST status for six communities through a three-tier classification — ST (Plains), ST (Hills) and a new ST (Valley).
• The 9th EIMA Agrimach India 2025, an international agri-machinery exhibition held at IARI, Pusa, New Delhi from 27 to 29 November 2025, concluded with a call for green fuel-based farm machinery.
• A four-day international organic event — APEDA Buyer–Seller Meet, 1st Northeast India Organic Week and 4th IFOAM World Organic Youth Summit (28 Nov–1 Dec 2025) — was formally inaugurated in Shillong on 29 November 2025.
• On 29 November 2025 Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon on their wedding.
• On 29 November 2025 Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary launched SportEdge Meerut (Sports and Entrepreneurship Development for Growth & Excellence) to make Meerut a global sports manufacturing hub.
• On 29 November 2025, 232 trainees, including 18 cadets from seven friendly foreign nations, passed out at the Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala (Kerala), in a parade reviewed by CDS General Anil Chauhan.
• Scientists from JNCASR Bengaluru and BRIC-NIBMG Kalyani reported a unique driver gene mutation in oral cancer among women in Karnataka's Kolar district who chew tobacco in a regional form called 'Kaddipudi'.

Fri, 28 Nov 2025

• On 28 November 2025 India was re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in Category B for 2026–27, topping the category with 154 of 169 valid votes at the 34th IMO Assembly in London.
• On 28 November 2025 the National Statistics Office estimated India's real GDP growth at 8.2% in Q2 (July–September) of 2025-26, up from 5.6% a year earlier; H1 growth was 8.0%.
• At the closing of the 56th International Film Festival of India in Goa on 28 November 2025, the Vietnamese film 'Skin of Youth' (dir. Ash Mayfair) won the Golden Peacock, and Rajinikanth was honoured for 50 years in cinema.
• On 28 November 2025 India launched Operation Sagar Bandhu to send humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah; the first relief was handed over in Colombo from INS Vikrant and INS Udaygiri.