Current affairs compilation: November 2025
Pick a date on the calendar to read that day's current affairs. Full month list below for revision.
Sunday, 30 November 2025
3 items- World AIDS Day: theme and India’s lawGS2 · Health
- India 8th at WorldSkills Asia on debutGS2 · Skilling
- 60th DGP/IGP conference in RaipurGS3 · Internal security
Full November list
1 November
- Lucknow named UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy
- MoSPI and IICA to build an SDG alignment framework with ESG and CSR data
- New Chhattisgarh Vidhan Sabha building opens on the state’s 25th foundation day
2 November
- LVM3-M5 places CMS-03, heaviest communication satellite launched from India
- National Beekeeping and Honey Mission: India now second-largest honey exporter
- NITI Aayog’s “Ease of Doing R&D” consultations and the ROPE framework
3 November
- India’s 18 biosphere reserves; Cold Desert joins UNESCO network
- NFRA issues audit practice toolkit for small audit firms
- NITI Aayog roadmap: frontier technology in agriculture
- October 2025 GST collections: ₹1.96 lakh crore after rate cuts
- 5th India-Bahrain High Joint Commission
4 November
- First fortified rice kernel export: Chhattisgarh to Costa Rica
- India and Israel sign defence cooperation MoU
- PLI 1.2 for specialty steel launched
5 November
- ₹1 lakh crore RDI Fund scheme launched at ESTIC 2025
- India AI Governance Guidelines released
- NCDC lending to cooperatives tops ₹95,000 crore
- Quantum security chip, 25-qubit processor and CAR-T therapy dedicated to the nation
6 November
- 150 years of Vande Mataram
- NTTM backs Indian heat-testing instruments for protective textiles
- Trade talks with Peru advance; Latin America push
- President’s first State Visits to Angola and Botswana
7 November
- Ayush Ministry on National Cancer Awareness Day
- Buddha relics travel to Bhutan for the Global Peace Prayer Festival
- India-EU FTA: negotiators meet in Delhi
- National Social Assistance Programme: 3.09 crore beneficiaries
8 November
- CoP30, Belem: India’s statement and the Tropical Forests Forever Facility
- Four Vande Bharat trains flagged off from Varanasi; fleet tops 160
- India-New Zealand FTA: fourth round ends
- National Legal Services Day: Lok Adalats settled 23.58 crore cases in three years
- NITI Aayog workshop on reusing treated wastewater
9 November
- India and Saudi Arabia sign cultural cooperation MoU
- Understanding mental health: PIB backgrounder
- Uttarakhand turns 25
10 November
- Coast Guard hosts National Maritime Search and Rescue Board
- Cornea transplant rules eased
- India-Vietnam defence dialogue: submarine rescue pact
- PLFS July-Sept 2025: unemployment eases to 5.2%
11 November
- First patent-linked access and benefit sharing payout
- GRAP Stage III invoked across NCR as Delhi AQI hits 425
- IIP revision: MoSPI paper on substituting closed factories
- PM’s Bhutan visit: Punatsangchhu-II inaugurated, ₹4,000 crore credit line
12 November
- Cabinet fixes royalty for graphite, caesium, rubidium and zirconium
- Cabinet resolution on the Red Fort car explosion
- Credit Guarantee Scheme for Exporters: ₹20,000 crore, 100% cover
- TB incidence down 21% since 2015: WHO Global TB Report
- India-EU migration dialogue: Legal Gateway Office
13 November
- EMRS students: from 2 to 597 clearing JEE and NEET
- MoD signs ₹2,095.70 crore deal for INVAR anti-tank missiles
- NSO to run a Survey on Migration in 2026-27
- PLI for ACs and LED lights: 13 more applicants
14 November
15 November
- AMRIT pharmacies at 10: ₹8,400 crore saved
- Electronics Development Fund: a fund of funds since 2016
- Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas: Birsa Munda’s 150th birth anniversary
16 November
- 20th International Tipitaka Chanting at Bodhgaya
- e-Jagriti: consumer cases filed and settled online
- National Press Day: 1.54 lakh registered publications
17 November
- 16th Finance Commission submits report for 2026-31
- DPDP Rules, 2025 notified: data protection law now fully in force
- ECMS second tranche: 17 electronics component projects approved
- Exports April-October 2025 up 4.84%
18 November
- India at CoP30: “trillions, not billions” and NDC by 2035
- India-Germany High Defence Committee meets
- National Action Plan on AMR 2.0 (2025-29) launched
- NIC-2025 released for classifying economic activity
19 November
- BIRSA 101: India’s first indigenous CRISPR gene therapy for sickle cell
- NITI report on water budgeting in aspirational blocks
- Pandemic mock drill in Khandwa simulates Crimean Congo fever
- PM-KISAN 21st instalment: ₹18,000 crore to 9 crore farmers
- TRAI mandates 1600-series numbers for banks and financial firms
20 November
- DRDO and France’s DGA sign technical agreement on defence R&D
- India and Japan back the Joint Crediting Mechanism at CoP30
- Mukhi, first Indian-born cheetah, gives birth to five cubs
- World Fisheries Day: fish output doubles in a decade
21 November
- Four Labour Codes come into force
- National One Health Mission Assembly
- New GDP series: base 2022-23, release 27 February 2026
- Sagar Kavach coastal security drill off Maharashtra and Goa
22 November
- CAQM tightens GRAP: measures moved to earlier stages
- Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025: aims and concerns
- PM at the G20 Johannesburg Summit, the first in Africa
- India, Australia and Canada launch ACITI partnership
23 November
- CoP30 closes: India welcomes adaptation goal progress
- First limestone block auction in J&K
- IBSA leaders meet in Johannesburg
24 November
- ₹720 crore quantum fabrication facilities at four institutes
- BEL and Safran to make HAMMER guided bombs in India
- Justice Surya Kant sworn in as Chief Justice of India
- TRAI disconnects 21 lakh spam numbers in a year
25 November
- 350th Shaheedi Diwas of Guru Tegh Bahadur
- National Milk Day: India makes nearly a quarter of world’s milk
- Safran opens LEAP engine MRO in Hyderabad
- Skyroot’s Infinity Campus and Vikram-I orbital rocket
26 November
- Constitution Day at Samvidhan Sadan; Ambedkar bust at UNESCO
- India to host the 2030 Centenary Commonwealth Games in Ahmedabad
- Pune Metro Phase-2: Lines 4 and 4A approved
27 November
- CBDT nudges taxpayers on undisclosed foreign assets
- India-Indonesia Defence Ministers’ Dialogue
- India-UAE trade crosses USD 100 billion
- New Doppler weather radars at Raipur and Mangaluru
28 November
- ₹7,995 crore support deal with US for MH-60R helicopters
- Centre’s accounts to October 2025: 51.8% of budgeted spending
29 November
- ADB loans of USD 800 million for three states
- India’s coffee story
- Meghalaya block-level climate vulnerability: 25 of 39 blocks high-risk