World Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Tue, 23 Sept 2025

• The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation's provisional payroll data released on 23 September 2025 showed a net addition of 21.04 lakh members in July 2025, 5.55% higher than a year earlier.
• The 28th National Conference on e-Governance concluded in Visakhapatnam on 23 September 2025 with the adoption of the 'Visakhapatnam Declaration' on India's digital transformation.
• The Indian Sign Language Research and Training Centre launched the world's largest Indian Sign Language digital repository, with 3,189 e-content videos, at the Sign Language Day 2025 celebration on 23 September 2025.
• NITI Aayog released the report 'Pathways to Progress: Analysis and Insights into India's Innovation Story' on 23 September 2025, assessing India's science, technology and innovation journey.
• The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India released recommendations on 23 September 2025 on reserve prices for auctioning FM radio channels in 18 category 'E' cities of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir, and three other cities.
• The National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting signed an MoU with NewSpace India Limited on 23 September 2025 to set up two Direct Broadcast Network stations, in Delhi/NCR and Chennai, under Mission Mausam.
• Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Viksit Bharat Buildathon 2025, a nationwide innovation drive for school students, on 23 September 2025.

Mon, 22 Sept 2025

• The next-generation GST rate changes recommended by the 56th GST Council took effect on 22 September 2025, replacing the four-tier structure with a Merit Rate of 5% and a Standard Rate of 18%.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid foundation stones and inaugurated works worth over ₹5,100 crore in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, on 22 September 2025, including the Heo and Tato-I hydroelectric projects.
• India and Morocco signed an MoU on defence cooperation in Rabat on 22 September 2025, and India announced a new Defence Wing at its embassy in Rabat.
• Holy relics of Lord Buddha from the National Museum, New Delhi, travelled to Russia's Kalmykia Republic for their first exposition there, the Ministry of Culture said on 22 September 2025.
• Gram Panchayats received the National Awards for e-Governance 2025 under a new grassroots category at the 28th National Conference on e-Governance in Visakhapatnam on 22 September 2025, with Rohini in Maharashtra winning Gold.
• The Index of Eight Core Industries rose 6.3% in August 2025 over August 2024, data released on 22 September 2025 showed.
• The Government approved 25 lakh additional LPG connections under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana for FY 2025-26 on 22 September 2025, taking total connections to 10.58 crore.
• The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank signed a $125 million loan on 22 September 2025 for the Assam Urban Sector Development Project.
• Vandana Gupta, a 1990-batch IP&TAFS officer, assumed charge as Controller General of Communication Accounts in New Delhi on 22 September 2025.
• The Ministry of Tribal Affairs and the United Nations in India launched the Adi Yuva Fellowship and the Adi Karmayogi Volunteers Programme on 22 September 2025.
• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research launched Maitri 2.0, the second edition of the Brazil–India Cross-Incubation Programme in Agritech, in New Delhi on 22 September 2025.

Sun, 21 Sept 2025

• On 21 September 2025, in Dubai, India beat Pakistan by six wickets in an Asia Cup Super Four match, chasing 172 with seven balls to spare after a 105-run opening stand between Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill.
• The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia formally recognised the State of Palestine on 21 September 2025 in coordinated statements, becoming the first G7 members to do so; Portugal followed the same day.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on 21 September 2025, announcing that the next-generation GST reforms would take effect from sunrise on 22 September, the first day of Navratri, as a 'GST savings festival'.
• Project Vijayak of the Border Roads Organisation celebrated its 15th Raising Day at Kargil, Ladakh, on 21 September 2025, with infrastructure projects worth over ₹1,200 crore as it enters its 16th year.
• The Ministry of Rural Development signed five MoUs on 21 September 2025 with NIRD&PR and the State Rural Livelihoods Missions of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and Telangana to strengthen DAY-NRLM.
• The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports held 'Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat' youth summits at more than 2,000 locations on 21 September 2025 as part of Seva Pakhwada.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for the Shri Parasmal Bohra College for the Visually Impaired and a student hostel in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, on 21 September 2025.

Sat, 20 Sept 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid foundation stones for works worth over ₹34,200 crore at the 'Samudra se Samriddhi' event in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, on 20 September 2025, and announced that large ships have been accorded infrastructure status.
• India signed a 15-year contract with the International Seabed Authority for exclusive rights to explore polymetallic sulphides in 10,000 sq km of the Carlsberg Ridge in the Indian Ocean, Dr. Jitendra Singh announced on 20 September 2025.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal launched LEADS 2025, Logistics Data Bank 2.0, Industrial Park Rating System 3.0, SMILE city logistics plans, an HSN mapping guidebook and a commemorative coin in New Delhi on 20 September 2025 to mark a decade of Make in India.
• The Commerce Ministry said on 20 September 2025 that a delegation led by Piyush Goyal would visit the United States for trade talks on 22 September, aiming at early conclusion of a mutually beneficial trade agreement.
• The Indian Coast Guard observed International Coastal Cleanup Day 2025 across India on 20 September 2025, with more than 26,000 volunteers cleaning beaches.