Current affairs compilation: September 2025
Pick a date on the calendar to read that day's current affairs. Full month list below for revision.
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
4 items- Union accounts to August: 37.1% of BE spentGS3 · Fiscal
- Tea sommelier and tea tasting courses launchedGS3 · Plantations
- Military Nursing Service turns 100GS3 · Security
- ASI 2023-24 detailed volumes releasedGS3 · Data
Full September list
1 September
- Adi Vaani: AI translator for tribal languages (beta)
- Delhi records best Jan-Aug average AQI in eight years
- DIGIPIN: Department of Posts ties up with Esri India
- PM at 25th SCO Summit, Tianjin: Security, Connectivity, Opportunity
2 September
- Account Aggregator turns four: 2.2 billion accounts enabled
- APEDA launches BHARATI for 100 agri-food startups
- Chemical exporters get 18 months to meet export obligation for QCO products
- Semicon India 2025 opens at Yashobhoomi
3 September
- ₹1,500 crore scheme for critical mineral recycling
- 56th GST Council: two main rates, 5% and 18%, and a 40% de-merit rate
- Environment Audit Rules, 2025 bring registered third-party auditors
- NDCT Rules amendment: test licences move to intimation
4 September
- Four more IMD radars for J&K under Mission Mausam
- ICMR licenses nine health technologies under Patent Mitra
- India-Singapore roadmap for the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
- NITI Future Front on 2D materials
5 September
6 September
- BioE3 Policy marks first anniversary
- GST cuts for cooperatives, dairy and farm inputs
- IGoM consultation on fisheries reforms
7 September
- “Bistirna Parore”: Brahmaputra voyage for Bhupen Hazarika centenary
- DRDO conclave for MSMEs in the UP Defence Industrial Corridor
- SCO Trade Ministers: India pushes WTO-centred trade and a PSH solution
8 September
- India and Israel sign a Bilateral Investment Agreement
- Kharif sowing: rice area up 19.63 lakh ha
- Space goals: Bharatiya Antariksh Station by 2035, Indian on Moon by 2040
9 September
- ECGC supports record ₹8.55 lakh crore of exports
- EU lists 102 more Indian seafood units
- iDEX and EdCIL launch ASPIRE for dual-use tech
- India concerned over Israeli strikes in Doha
10 September
- Cabinet clears Bhagalpur-Dumka-Rampurhat doubling and Mokama-Munger corridor
- NAMASTE: 88,448 sewer and septic tank workers validated
- NITI-UNDP workshop on the National MPI
11 September
- ADB $126.42 million loan for Tehri Lake tourism
- AIDIS and agricultural households survey for July 2026-June 2027
- Mauritius PM’s state visit: space, power and hydrography pacts
- Samudra Pradakshina: first tri-service all-women circumnavigation
12 September
- AI monsoon forecasts sent to 3.8 crore farmers
- India-EU FTA: “balanced deal” by year-end
- Opium licensing policy 2025-26: about 1.21 lakh farmers eligible
13 September
- Aizawl on the rail map: Bairabi-Sairang line opened
- India to host 5th Coast Guard Global Summit in Chennai, 2027
- Third Diving Support Craft launched at Titagarh
14 September
- Defence Procurement Manual 2025 approved
- PLI for white goods reopened for 30 days
- Swasth Nari, Sashakt Parivar Abhiyaan with 8th Poshan Maah
15 September
- 16th Combined Commanders’ Conference in Kolkata
- Exports Apr-Aug 2025 at US$ 349.35 bn, up 6.18%
- NITI’s “AI for Viksit Bharat” roadmap and Frontier Tech Repository
- PLFS August 2025: unemployment 5.1%, female WPR 32%
- WPI inflation turns positive at 0.52% in August 2025
16 September
- National Logistics Policy at three
- NMMSS: one lakh scholarships a year, deadline extended
- World Ozone Day: India meets 67.5% HCFC cut
17 September
- 5th National Pharmacovigilance Week
- National Policy on Geothermal Energy (2025) notified
- TDB backs a 240-volt electric motorcycle platform
- Yatri Sewa Diwas at airports
18 September
- India-AI Impact Summit 2026: logo and flagship initiatives
- India-UAE investment task force meets in Abu Dhabi
- UPS option deadline 30 September; one-way switch back to NPS
- India on the Saudi-Pakistan mutual defence pact
19 September
- CMLRE report on the ELSA 3 shipwreck off Kerala
- ICGS Adamya: first of eight fast patrol vessels
- India-New Zealand FTA: third round ends in Queenstown
- Manufacturing momentum: IIP 3.5% in July, manufacturing 5.4%
- R&I of Japan upgrades India to BBB+
20 September
- IPRS 3.0 to rate industrial parks
- LEADS 2025, Logistics Data Bank 2.0 and first logistics cost estimate
- Time Use Survey 2024 data users’ conference
- India on US H-1B restrictions
21 September
- Clean Plant Programme gaining momentum
- Coast Guard leads International Coastal Cleanup Day
- Dweep Diksha Dialogue on the Andaman and Nicobar Command
- Project Vijayak of BRO turns 15
22 September
- ADB $125 million for urban services in Assam
- CPCB at 51: Sameer 2.0 app and new labs
- India and Morocco sign defence MoU in Rabat
23 September
- 10th Ayurveda Day: “Ayurveda for People and Planet”
- DBNet satellite data stations under Mission Mausam
24 September
- 10,023 more medical seats: 5,000 PG and 5,023 MBBS
- 78-day productivity bonus for railway staff
- Bihar: Bakhtiyarpur-Rajgir-Tilaiya doubling and NH-139W
- DSIR/CSIR capacity-building scheme of ₹2277.397 crore
25 September
- 500 new Atal Tinkering Labs for J&K
- ₹62,370 crore contract for 97 LCA Mk1A
- Agni-Prime fired from a rail-based mobile launcher
- “Children in India 2025”: IMR falls to 25
- India to co-host 2nd WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine
- MoSPI’s first dedicated forest accounts
- G4 ministers push UNSC reform at UNGA 80
26 September
- CAQM reviews Punjab and Haryana stubble-burning plans
- Global Food Regulators Summit 2025
- H2 borrowing: ₹6.77 lakh crore, incl. ₹10,000 crore green bonds
- MiG-21 retires after six decades
27 September
28 September
- BSNL launches indigenous 4G with 98,000 towers
- Indian Ports Act, 2025 replaces the 1908 law
- Maritime MoUs worth over ₹66,000 crore at Bhavnagar
29 September
- IIP grows 4.0% in August 2025
- India’s dairy sector: a quarter of world milk
- NBA sanctions ₹82 lakh for Red Sanders under ABS
- Ritual theatres of India and UNESCO listing