Current affairs compilation: August 2025
Pick a date on the calendar to read that day's current affairs. Full month list below for revision.
Sunday, 31 August 2025
3 items- National Ayush Mission summit announcedGS2 · Health
- India Post suspends all mail bookings to the USGS2/3 · IR, Trade
- DigiLocker and e-District: ~2,000 services in all statesGS2 · E-governance
Full August list
1 August
- Bharat National Cybersecurity Exercise 2025
- BHASKAR startup registry crosses 1.97 lakh entities
- PM National Dialysis Programme: 1,704 centres in 751 districts
- Ayushman Arogya Mandirs: 1.78 lakh centres
- Food processing: PMKSY, PLI and PMFME
- MEA Parliament replies (31 Jul-1 Aug 2025): evacuations, Ganga treaty, Mauritius
2 August
- Bihar SIR: draft electoral rolls published
- Matri Van: 750-acre urban forest in the Aravallis
- Kopili river (NW-57) gets its first cargo
3 August
4 August
- Mountaineers summit highest peaks of Pangong Tso region
- NITI: EVs a $200 billion opportunity
- FGD norms for thermal plants reviewed
- MEA: targeting India over Russian oil is “unjustified”
5 August
- 11th National Handloom Day: “Haat on Wheels”
- DAC clears ₹67,000 crore of proposals
- E-Commerce Export Hubs: five pilots
- PM GatiShakti: 293 projects worth ₹13.59 lakh crore evaluated
- India and the Philippines become Strategic Partners
6 August
- First green ammonia auction at ₹55.75/kg
- Household Income Survey in 2026; PLFS revamped
- New base years: GDP and IIP 2022-23, CPI 2024
- Carriage of Goods by Sea Bill, 2025 passed
- OTT oversight under IT Rules 2021
7 August
- AIM and Bhashini to push vernacular innovation
- Joint doctrines for cyberspace and amphibious operations released
- NCERT adds chapters on Manekshaw, Usman and Somnath Sharma
- GSI conference on critical minerals
- LNG: 8 terminals, 52.7 MMTPA
8 August
- Cabinet: ₹4,250 crore special packages for Assam and Tripura
- GeM at nine: ₹5.4 lakh crore GMV
- MERITE scheme for 275 technical institutions
- Parliament replies digest (4–8 Aug 2025): nuclear mission, Gaganyaan, deep ocean, R&D
- Ujjwala subsidy continued; ₹30,000 crore LPG compensation for OMCs
- MEA Parliament replies (7-8 Aug 2025): Brahmaputra dam, LAC, all-party delegations
9 August
- Defence production hits ₹1,50,590 crore
- Sanchar Saathi app crosses 50 lakh downloads
- ECI delists 334 registered unrecognised parties
10 August
11 August
- India-Sri Lanka Coast Guard high-level meeting
- MPLADS: ₹5 crore a year, now in one instalment
- World Elephant Day: India has ~60% of wild elephants
- Bank reforms: IBC, CRILC, and UPI growth
12 August
- 700 MW Tato-II hydro project in Arunachal
- Four more semiconductor units approved
- Lucknow Metro Phase-1B approved
- SHRESTH index for state drug regulators
- Parliament replies digest (11–12 Aug 2025): COP29 finance, e-waste, Sundarbans
13 August
14 August
- e-Sushrut@Clinic for small health providers
- Parliament replies digest (11–14 Aug 2025): COP29 finance, e-waste, Sundarbans
- Sports Governance and Anti-Doping (Amendment) Bills passed
- Trade April-July 2025; WPI at -0.58% in July
- Two Indian aquanauts dive to 5,002 m
15 August
- 79th Independence Day speech: Viksit Bharat 2047 roadmap
- AITIGA review and India-Singapore trade group
- Next-generation GST reforms announced
16 August
- Har Ghar Tiranga 2025: 7.50 crore selfies
- Patte Shah Dargah collapse near Humayun’s Tomb
- Conference on cruise tourism in Mumbai
- India welcomes Trump-Putin summit in Alaska
17 August
- Consumer commissions dispose of more cases than filed in July
- Foreign Secretary in Nepal; Oli invited to India
18 August
- Jan Vishwas 2.0 Bill: 288 provisions decriminalised
- Contaminated sites rules notified
- NAPCC and city resilience
19 August
- Bhubaneswar ring road and Kota-Bundi airport cleared
- Sickle cell mission: over 6 crore screened
- Exports push: UK CETA signed, EU FTA aimed by year-end
- NABL portal for medical labs
- India-China: 24th Special Representatives talks, border trade to reopen
20 August
- Agni 5 test-fired from Chandipur
- Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill: removal of jailed PM, CMs, Ministers
- India and EAEU agree terms to start FTA talks
- National Supercomputing Mission: 37 systems, 40 petaflops
21 August
- ESIC adds 19.37 lakh workers in June
- Fortified rice supply extended to December 2028
- Parliament replies digest (18–21 Aug 2025): SMRs, new spaceport, plastics, mangroves
- Shubhanshu Shukla: ISS experience to aid Gaganyaan
- MEA Parliament replies (21 Aug 2025): USAID, hyphenation, Yarlung Tsangpo
22 August
- National Space Meet 2.0: space startups grow to 350+
- NITI report on homestays
- AURIC smart industrial city allots land
- National Consumer Helpline gets ₹2.72 crore refunds
23 August
- CCPA fines VLCC for misleading CoolSculpting ads
- India-Australia CECA: 11th round
- Kuttanad pilot to revive fish farming
- NAMASTE: 85,819 sanitation workers profiled
- Sub-national SDG monitoring workshop in Agartala
24 August
- Bihar SIR: documents of 98.2% electors received
- DRDO tests Integrated Air Defence Weapon System
- Speakers’ conference marks centenary of Vitthalbhai Patel’s election
25 August
- Atal Pension Yojana: 1.17 crore new subscribers
- Ran Samwad 2025 at Army War College
- Chiefs of Defence Conference in Thailand
- GeM crosses ₹15 lakh crore cumulative GMV
- Fiji PM’s visit: hospital, Jan Aushadhi, mobility
26 August
- CMS Education: 55.9% of students in government schools
- India hosts first 3GPP meetings on 6G
- INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri commissioned together
- National One Health Mission adds three ministries
- India-US 2+2 intersessional: new 10-year defence framework
27 August
- ₹12,328 crore rail projects incl. new Kutch line
- ASI 2023-24: factory GVA up 11.89%
- Cabinet approves bid for CWG 2030 in Ahmedabad
- Exercise Bright Star 2025 in Egypt
28 August
- IIP July 2025: 3.5%, mining contracts
- India-Saudi Arabia defence committee meets
- Jan Dhan at 11: 56 crore accounts
- Cotton import duty waiver extended
29 August
30 August
- First barrier-free MLFF toll plaza in Gujarat
- Ocean accounts workshop for coastal states
- CAQM workshop on road dust in Ghaziabad