World Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Fri, 11 Jul 2025
- On 11 July 2025 in New Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired a high-level review of Yamuna rejuvenation and directed that sewage treatment capacity for the river be raised to 1,500 MGD by 2028.
- On 11 July 2025 in Guwahati, the DoT's Assam LSA held the first outreach of the Sanchar Mitra Scheme, partnering 18 engineering colleges to enlist student volunteers as digital ambassadors.
- On 11 July 2025, the Ministry of Heavy Industries launched India's first incentive scheme for electric trucks under PM E-DRIVE, with up to ₹9.6 lakh per vehicle.
- On 11 July 2025 at the ICAR–Sugarcane Breeding Institute, Coimbatore, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan chaired a meeting to boost cotton productivity.
- On 11 July 2025 in New Delhi, MeitY, CERT-In and cybersecurity firm SISA launched the whitepaper 'Transitioning to Quantum Cyber Readiness'.
- On 11 July 2025, Union MoS (IC) Jayant Chaudhary inaugurated a Skill Centre at the Chaudhary Charan Singh National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (CCS NIAM), Jaipur.
- On 11 July 2025, the DRI said it had seized Chinese firecrackers worth about ₹35 crore, concealed in seven containers at Nhava Sheva, Mundra and Kandla SEZ, under 'Operation Fire Trail'.
- On 11 July 2025, Indian Coast Guard ship Rajveer towed the disabled US sailing vessel 'Sea Angel' and its two crew to Campbell Bay, Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
- On 11 July 2025, MeitY announced that Semicon India 2025, the fourth edition, will be held from 2 to 4 September 2025 at Yashobhoomi (IICC), New Delhi, with over 300 companies from 18 countries.
Thu, 10 Jul 2025
- On 10 July 2025 in Ranchi, Jharkhand, Union Home Minister Amit Shah chaired the 27th meeting of the Eastern Zonal Council of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal.
- On 10 July 2025 (Guru Purnima), the Ministry of Tribal Affairs launched in Bengaluru the first Regional Process Lab of the Aadi Karmayogi mission, which aims at a cadre of 20 lakh tribal change leaders.
- On 10 July 2025, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery released the report 'A Roadmap for Strengthening State S&T Councils', with Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh as Chief Guest.
- Indian Railways said on 10 July 2025 that it had signed an MoU at Rail Bhawan, New Delhi, with DFCCIL to install the AI/ML-based Machine Vision Based Inspection System (MVIS) for rolling stock.
- On 10 July 2025, the Centre approved the release of ₹1,066.80 crore as its SDRF share to Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Kerala and Uttarakhand, hit by floods and landslides.
- On 10 July 2025, DST said BSIP Lucknow scientists, studying ~4-million-year-old leaf fossils from Kashmir's Karewa sediments, linked the valley's shift from a warm, humid subtropical climate to the uplift of the Pir Panjal Range.
- On 10 July 2025, Japan's Ambassador to India Keiichi Ono led a delegation of Japanese companies on a site visit to Dholera Special Investment Region in Gujarat.
- On 10 July 2025 at Puttaparthi, Sri Sathya Sai district, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reviewed drought-affected districts of southern Andhra Pradesh with state ministers and officials.
- On 10 July 2025 at Sarnath, the International Buddhist Confederation with the Ministry of Culture and the Mahabodhi Society of India celebrated Ashadha Purnima, which marks the Buddha's first sermon.
- On 10 July 2025 in Bengaluru, Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated the VTU-VRIF-TCOE Hub and Spoke Centre of Excellence for 5G/6G, AI and other frontier technologies.
- On 10 July 2025, the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry highlighted Agra's Kuberpur legacy dumpsite, where about 1.9 million metric tonnes of waste were cleared and about 47 acres reclaimed under SBM-Urban.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025
- On 9 July 2025 in Windhoek, Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah conferred on PM Narendra Modi the 'Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia Mirabilis', Namibia's highest civilian award, on the last leg of his five-nation tour.
- On the morning of 9 July 2025 in Gujarat's Vadodara district, a slab of the Gambhira bridge over the Mahisagar river collapsed and several vehicles fell into the river; PM Modi announced ex-gratia from PMNRF.
- On 9 July 2025 in Ahmedabad, Cooperation Minister Amit Shah held a 'Sahkar Samvad' with women from the cooperative sectors of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, as part of the International Year of Cooperatives 2025.
- With effect from 9 July 2025, CBDT notified bonds issued by IREDA as a 'long-term specified asset' under Section 54EC of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
- On 9 July 2025, Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil met Punjab CM Bhagwant Singh Mann and Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini on the long-pending Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal issue.
- On 9 July 2025 at the 9th OPEC International Seminar in Vienna, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said 2.5 lakh sq km had been opened under OALP Round-10 and set an exploration-acreage target of 1.0 million sq km by 2030.
- On 9 July 2025, the Ministry of Railways said Railway Recruitment Boards had issued more than 9,000 appointments in the first quarter of 2025-26 and expect to offer over 50,000 in the year.
- On 9 July 2025, the keel of the Indian Navy's third Fleet Support Ship was laid at L&T Shipyard, Kattupalli, Tamil Nadu.
- On 9 July 2025 in New Delhi, Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy released operational guidelines of the 'Aspirational DMF Programme' to converge District Mineral Foundation work with the Aspirational District and Block Programmes.
- On 9 July 2025, TRAI released Independent Drive Test findings for the Himachal Pradesh Licensed Service Area, covering Una and Mandi cities and the highway from Una to Mandi via Bilaspur.