Mass anti-government protests under the “Block Everything” campaign swept across France, with clashes and disruptions marking Sébastien Lecornu’s first day as prime minister and intensifying pressure on President Macron. (September 10, 2025)
Former Maharashtra Governor C. P. Radhakrishnan was elected as the 15th Vice President of India with 452 votes in Parliament. (September 09, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited flood-hit Himachal Pradesh and Punjab, announcing relief packages of ₹1,500 crore and ₹1,600 crore respectively. (September 09, 2025)
The Fest5 International Film Festival 2025 (F5IFF’25) took place at the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) Auditorium in Kolkata, West Bengal, presenting 30 films on environment, climate change, and human dignity, chosen from more than 550 entries across 69 countries. (September 08, 2025)
France’s government collapsed as Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a confidence vote in the National Assembly, forcing him to resign and leaving President Macron to choose a replacement. (September 08, 2025)
The 2025 US Open, the 145th edition and final Grand Slam of the year, took place on outdoor hard courts at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York City. Click here to download the full list of winners in various categories. (September 08, 2025)
India won the Hockey Asia Cup 2025, held in Rajgir, Bihar, securing their fourth Asia Cup title with a comprehensive 4-1 win over South Korea. (September 07, 2025)
Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba resigned after party pressure mounted for him to take responsibility for a major defeat in July’s parliamentary elections. (September 07, 2025)
Debut filmmaker Anuparna Roy became the first Indian woman to win the Orizzonti Award for Best Director at the 82nd Venice Film Festival for her film “Songs of Forgotten Trees”, presented by Anurag Kashyap. (September 06, 2025)
Kokichi Akuzawa, a 102-year-old man from Japan, achieved the Guinness World Record as the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Fuji, marking his second successful climb. (September 05, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong in New Delhi to strengthen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two nations. (September 04, 2025)
The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), under the Ministry of Education, Government of India, published the 2025 official rankings of institutions, universities, and colleges. Click here to view the rankings by category on the official NIRF website. (September 04, 2025)
Nepal’s government, led by K.P. Sharma Oli, announced a ban on 26 social media platforms, including Facebook, X, Instagram, and YouTube, for failing to meet the registration deadline. (September 04, 2025)
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council of India decided to simplify the tax structure by replacing four slabs with two, 5% and 18%, and introducing a special 40% rate for select items, effective September 22. Click here to view the full list of newly revised GST rates in the official press release by the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Government of India. (September 03, 2025)
The Punjab government declared all 23 districts of the state flood-affected, with the disaster causing 30 deaths and affecting more than 3.5 lakh residents. (September 02, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at the inauguration of Semicon India 2025 in New Delhi, received India’s first indigenously made semiconductor chip, the Vikram 32-bit processor developed by ISRO’s Semiconductor Lab, along with test chips from four other projects. (September 02, 2025)
A landslide wiped out the entire village of Tersin in Sudan’s western Darfur region, leaving about 1,000 people dead. (September 02, 2025)
The Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced on Monday that it chose New Delhi to host the Badminton World Championships in August 2026. (September 01, 2025)
Ministry of Tribal Affairs introduced the beta version of its “Adi Vaani”, the Adivasi language translation app and website at the Dr. Ambedkar International Centre in New Delhi. (September 01, 2025)
A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late Sunday night, killing more than 800 people and injuring around 2,800. (September 01, 2025)
“Educate Girls”, an Indian NGO committed to improving education opportunities for underprivileged girls, won the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2025, becoming the first Indian NGO to receive this honor and one of the three winners this year along with Shaahina Ali of Maldives and Flaviano Antonio L. Villanueva of the Philippines. (August 31, 2025)
India made history at the Asian Shooting Championships 2025 in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, topping the medal tally for the first time with 99 medals, including 50 gold, 26 silver, and 23 bronze. Click here to download the list of Indian medal winners. (August 31, 2025)
India’s Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty clinched the bronze medal in the men’s doubles event at the BWF World Championships 2025 in Paris, France. (August 30, 2025)
India secured Rank 1 at the 2025 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, winning a total of 13 medals in the senior category: 3 gold, 7 silver, and 3 bronze. Click here to download the list of Indian medal winners. (August 30, 2025)
Veeyapuram Chundan of Village Boat Club, Kainakary, clinched victory in the 71st Nehru Trophy Boat Race at Punnamada Lake, in Alappuzha, Kerala, ending Pallathuruthy Boat Club’s long dominance. (August 30, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached China to take part in the SCO summit after completing his two-day visit to Japan. (August 30, 2025)
India’s junior boxers clinched 26 medals, including 7 golds, 7 silvers, and 12 bronzes, at the 3rd “Belt and Road” International Youth Boxing Gala in Xinjiang, China. Click here to download India’s medal tally. (August 29, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Japan on a two-day visit to hold summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. (August 29, 2025)
India celebrates National Sports Day on August 29 each year in honor of Major Dhyan Chand, the iconic hockey player known as the “Hockey Wizard.” (August 29, 2025)
At the 2025 National Squash Championship in New Delhi, Anahat Singh won her third straight women’s singles title while Velavan Senthilkumar regained the men’s crown. (August 28, 2025)
At least 41 people, many of them Vaishno Devi pilgrims, lost their lives in Jammu’s Reasi and Doda districts between Tuesday and Wednesday after record 24-hour rainfall caused severe flooding and destruction. (August 28, 2025)
Two Indian startups, Pixxel from Bengaluru and Dhruva Space from Hyderabad, sent their satellites into space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. (August 27, 2025)
The United States raised tariffs on several Indian products to 50%, with President Trump linking the decision to India’s Russian oil purchases, adding strain to the partnership between the two nations. (August 27, 2025)
Scientists identified a quadruple star system in the Milky Way, named UPM J1040−3551 AabBab, featuring a pair of cold brown dwarfs orbiting two young red dwarf stars: a stellar configuration never observed before. (August 26, 2025)
American space technology company SpaceX carried out its 10th Starship test flight, marking the first time the world’s biggest and most powerful rocket placed a set of eight dummy satellites into Earth’s orbit. (August 26, 2025)
India won nine medals and ranked 4th at the U20 World Wrestling Championships 2025, held in Samokov, Bulgaria. Click here to download the list of Indian medalists. (August 24, 2025)
India won eight medals and ranked 3rd at the 2025 World Archery Youth Championships, held in Winnipeg, Canada. Click here to download the list of Indian medalists. (August 24, 2025)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully conducted its first Integrated Air Drop Test (IADT-1), dropping a five-tonne dummy crew capsule to validate the parachute system for the upcoming Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission. (August 24, 2025)
Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka began his three-day visit to India to strengthen bilateral cooperation in trade, investment, and related areas. (August 24, 2025)
The Khelo India Water Sports Festival 2025, a new entry in the Khelo India calendar, took place at Dal Lake in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, from August 21 to 23. Click here to download the medal tally and winners’ list. (August 23, 2025)
India successfully conducted the maiden flight tests of the Integrated Air Defence Weapon System (IADWS) on August 23 at around 12:30 PM off the Odisha coast. (August 23, 2025)
India celebrates National Space Day on August 23 to mark the success of Chandrayaan-3’s soft landing on the Moon’s south pole in 2023, making it the first nation to reach that region and the fourth overall to achieve a lunar soft landing. (August 23, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched and inaugurated projects worth over ₹5,200 crore, including three new metro routes in Kolkata and a six-lane elevated Kona Expressway to boost connectivity between Howrah, nearby rural areas, and the city. (August 22, 2025)
The Supreme Court of India modified its earlier order on stray dogs, allowing their return to original locations in the Delhi-NCR after deworming and vaccination instead of keeping them confined in shelters. (August 22, 2025)
India secured Rank 1 at the 18th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, winning four golds and one silver among nearly 300 participants from 64 countries at the event hosted in Mumbai, India. (August 21, 2025)
The Monsoon Session of the Indian Parliament (July 21 to August 21, 2025) concluded after 21 sittings marked by frequent disruptions, with the Lok Sabha functioning for only 37 of the scheduled 120 hours (31% productivity) and the Rajya Sabha for 41 hours 15 minutes (38.8%). Click here to download the full list of the bills introduced, passed, held, returned, or withdrawn during this session. (August 21, 2025)
India successfully test-fired the Agni-5 ballistic missile, which has a strike range of about 5,000 km, from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha. (August 20, 2025)
The Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Viksit Bharat Rojgar Yojana, after the 79th Independence Day, aiming to generate over 3.5 crore jobs in two years with an outlay of nearly ₹1 lakh crore through a newly launched registration portal. (August 18, 2025)
A stone inscription unearthed at Sankaranmalai in Karur district of Tamil Nadu reveals the Chola practice of documenting endowments and records on copper plates. (August 18, 2025)
Cambridge Dictionary added more than 6,000 new words, phrases, and meanings this year, including skibidi, delulu, tradwife and broligarchy. (August 18, 2025)
China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi undertook a two-day visit to New Delhi for talks focused on reviving high-level engagement between Asia’s two largest nations. (August 18, 2025)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Delhi segment of the Dwarka Expressway along with the Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II) projects worth ₹11,000 crore in Rohini, stating his commitment to developing the national capital into a world-class city. (August 17, 2025)
Emami East Bengal FC defeated Mohun Bagan Super Giant 2-1 in the Durand Cup 2025 quarterfinals at Kolkata’s Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan. (August 17, 2025)
India marked its 79th Independence Day, celebrating the nation’s freedom and unity. (August 15, 2025)
A sudden flash flood triggered by a rainstorm left at least 56 dead and 80 missing in Chashoti, Kishtwar district of Kashmir, just days after a similar Himalayan disaster in Uttarakhand. (August 14, 2025)
The Union Cabinet has approved ₹4,594 crore for setting up four new semiconductor manufacturing units in India: two in Odisha and one each in Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. (August 12, 2025)
Indian boxers won a total of 27 medals at the Asian U19 & U22 Boxing Championships 2025 in Bangkok, Thailand. Click here to download the list of Indian medalists. (August 12, 2025)
Sanjay Malhotra, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), clarified at a financial inclusion event in Gujarat that setting the minimum average balance (MAB) for savings accounts is solely the responsibility of individual banks and is not subject to regulation by the RBI. (August 11, 2025)
Eastern Railway launched its first AC local train between Ranaghat and Sealdah, with the inauguration and passenger services beginning on August 11, offering improved comfort at affordable fares. (August 10, 2025)
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) decided to implement open-book assessments for Class 9 starting in the 2026-27 academic year, based on positive feedback from a pilot study. (August 09, 2025)
U.S. company OpenAI launched GPT-5, its most advanced large-scale artificial intelligence model to date, which is helpful in software development, writing, health-related queries, finance, and more. (August 07, 2025)
Chennai’s Velammal Vidyalaya, home to chess prodigies D. Gukesh and R. Praggnanandhaa, clinched the gold at the 2025 World Schools Team Chess Championship in Virginia, USA. (August 07, 2025)
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 25% secondary tariff, on top of the existing 25%, on Indian imports, effective August 27, to penalize India’s oil trade with Russia. (August 06, 2025)
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. arrived in New Delhi with his wife for a five-day state visit to India with the aim of further strengthening India-Philippines relations. (August 05, 2025)
A severe flash flood triggered by heavy rainfall hit Dharali village in Uttarkashi of Uttarakhand, leaving at least four dead and many missing. (August 05, 2025)
The 5-match Test cricket series between India and England ended in a 2-2 draw. (August 04, 2025)
Shibu Soren, veteran tribal leader known as “Dishom Guruji” and former three-time Chief Minister of Jharkhand, passed away at 81. (August 04, 2025)
India won nine medals and ranked 3rd at the U17 World Wrestling Championships 2025, held in Athens, Greece. Click here to download the list of Indian medalists. (August 03, 2025)
The winners of the 71st National Film Awards were announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Click here to download the full list of the winners. (August 01, 2025)
The Argentine football star Lionel Messi may play a seven-a-side cricket match at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on December 14, 2025 during a visit to India. (August 01, 2025)
The voter count of Bihar dropped by over 65 lakh in the draft roll released after the first phase of a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise by the Election Commission of India (ECI). (August 01, 2025)
At the 2025 World Squash Junior Championships in Cairo, Egypt, India’s men’s team of Arihant KS, Sandhesh PR, Aryaveer Dewan, and Yusha Nafees won bronze, while Anahat Singh also secured bronze in the under-19 women’s event last Friday. (July 31, 2025)
The 2025 National Squash Championship is scheduled to take place in New Delhi from August 23 to 28, as confirmed by the Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI). (July 31, 2025)
A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake, the sixth strongest in recorded history, struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula at 11:25 local time, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific and prompting over two million evacuations in countries including Japan, Hawaii, the U.S., China, Indonesia, and as far as Peru and Mexico. (July 30, 2025)
The Australian government banned YouTube for account holders under the age of 16, as part of the groundbreaking legislation passed in November 2024, which already included platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and X under the same rule. (July 30, 2025)
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) jointly launched a radar satellite named NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) to study changes across Earth’s surface with remarkable detail. (July 30, 2025)
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on all Indian goods, along with an unspecified penalty for purchasing Russian military equipment and crude oil. (July 30, 2025)
Thailand and Cambodia agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire after five days of border clashes that left at least 36 dead and displaced more than 300,000 people. (July 28, 2025)
19-year-old Divya Deshmukh from Nagpur, Maharashtra won the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Cup held in Batumi, Georgia and became the youngest-ever champion and India’s 88th Grandmaster. (July 28, 2025)
Three terrorists suspected to be involved in the Pahalgam terror attack, were killed in Srinagar’s Lidwas area during “Operation Mahadev”. (July 28, 2025)
India’s first AI-powered anganwadi was launched in Waddhamna village, Nagpur district, Maharashtra by CM Devendra Fadnavis, and is equipped with VR headsets, AI smart boards, tablets to bridge the digital divide and enhance early learning for rural children. (July 27, 2025)
India’s largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to lay off over 12,000 employees in the 2026 financial year: a nearly 2% workforce cut, marking an unprecedented move for India’s largest IT firm. (July 27, 2025)
Mumbai-based TEMA India opened India’s first private test facility at Achchad in Palghar district of Maharashtra for heavy water upgrade, developed with technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and contracted by Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited. (July 26, 2025)
Tanvi Sharma and Vennala Kalagotla won bronze, marking India’s first-ever double women’s singles podium finish at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2025 held in Solo, Indonesia. (July 26, 2025)
India successfully tested its first hydrogen-powered train coach at Chennai’s Integral Coach Factory (ICF), announced Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. (July 25, 2025)