WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 13TH TO 19TH OCTOBER 2025

1) Odisha Host The Earth Again Summit 2025 (Environment) 

2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Virtually Inaugurated Rs 76.5 Crores Milk Powder Plant Project i break Indore.

3) POWERGRID Launched The PRABAL For Employee Mental, Wellness, Physical Wellbeing.

4) Oscar Winning Actress Diane Keaton Passed Away.

5) Dr Patrick HERMINIE ELECTED As The President Of Seychelles.

6) Tamilnadu Chief Minister M K Stallin PRESENTED Kalaimamani Awards To 90 Persons.

7) US PRESIDENT President Donald Trump Appointed Dan Scavino As Head Of White House Presidential Personnel Office.

8) Former Prime Minister Of UK Rishi Sunak Has Been Appointed As The Senior Adviser At Microsoft.

9) Tamilnadu Forest Department Suggest Samanatham Tanl In Madurai As Ramsar Sites.

10) IUCN Announced To Launch The New IUCN Rhino Approach (Rapid - High - Integrity Nature Positive Outgrowth At The IUCN Congress.

11) ICC Chairman Jay Shah Along With BCCI Head Unveiled The Former Indian FEMALE Cricketer Mithali Raj Stand  And Raavi Kalpana Gate At VIZAG Cricket Stadium, Vishakapatanam.

12) Hariharan Amsakarunan & Teresa Jolly Have Clinched The Mixed Double Title At Turkiye International Challenge 2025.

* Hariharan And Arjun Wins Men's Double Title 

13) India Bharat Pavilion Has Wins The Bronze Medal in External Design Under Module Pavilion Category At Osaka Expo 2025.

14) Chennai Hosts The Mangroves Conclave.

15) Ankolika Chakroborty Wins The U15 Title At WTT Youth Contender Tunis II.

16) Deepthi Jeevanji Wins The Virtus World' Athletics Championship Gold.(400m Gold Para) 

17) Foreign Affairs Minister OF CANADA Anita Anand Visited To India' 

18) India's Fisher Friendly Mobile Application ( FEMA) Has Win IUCN Tech 4 Nature Awards 

( For Its Effort To Saving Olive Ridley Turtle) 

19) Forest Rangers Worldwide Honours For Ultimate Sacrifice in Protecting Wildlife At IUCN.

20) Andhra Pradesh CM M Chandra Babu Naidu Has Launched The AP EXCISE SURAKSHA Application To Curb Liquor Sales.

21) The Rajputana Royals Wins The First Edition Of Archery Premier League 

22) Aditya Baleskar And Darrshan Suresh Wins Men's Double Title At M25 Kigali.

International Day For Disaster Risk Reduction - 13th OCTOBER 

Theme 2025 - Fund Resilience Not Disaster 

1) India Finishes As 11th Number in 11th Asian Aquatic Championships 

China Finishes As Topped With 54 Medals Including 40 Gold, 10 Silver And 4 Bronze Medal 

2) World's First Pollution Trading Market In Gujarat Became Earth shot Prize Finalists.

3) Colombo, Sri Lanka Host The 78th WHO South East Asia Regional Committee Session.

4) New Delhi Host The 16th International Railway Equipment Exhibition.

5) 27 New Sites Has Been Listed As IUCN Green List 

6) IIT MADRAS Has Incubated The Muse Wearable Partners With NPCI To Launch India's First Wearable Payment Ecosystem.

7) Senior Congress Leader Sonia Gandhi Has Unveiled The Statue Of 6 Time Chief Minister Virabhadra Singh At Shimla. 

8) Supreme Court Appoints Former Judge Ajay Rastogi To Head The Committee For Karur Stampede.

9) Gurugram Has Became The First Indian City To Introduce QR - Code Based Kiosk For Digital Payment For Traffic Challan Payment.

10) A Burial Site At Thirumalapuram in Tenkasi District, In Tamilnadu Has Evacuate By Tamilnadu Department Of Archaeology. 

- it Is Supposed To Iron Age 

- 35 Stone Slabs 

- Rich in Ceramics Founds 

- 78 Antiques Have BEEN Found ( Bone, Gold, Bronze) 

- 3345 BCE TO 2513 BCE ( Mid Third millennium BCE) 

11) Minister Of State For External affairs Dr K v Singh To Represent The India At Gaza Peace Summit. ( EGYPT - HOST) 

12) PM GATI SHAKTI COMPLETE 4 YEARS.

13) Israeli Prime Minister' Benjamin Netanyahu Has Announced To Honour US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP To Israel Prize.

14) Tata Capital Gets The Listed In National Stock Exchange (NSE)

15) IUCN Congress HONOUR To Show The GUSTAVO FONSECA ( In Service Of Nature And People) 

16) MALDIVES Became The First Country To Achieve The Triple Elimination Of Mother To Child Transmission Of Hepatits B, HiV And Syphilis.

17) IUCN And MINISTRY Of Environment And Climate Change Of Mongolia Signed MoU To Strengthen Collaboration In Biodiversity Conservation.

18) Union Labour And Employment Minister Mansukh MANDAVIYA Has Launched The VISHWAS Scheme.

( To Reducing The Litigation By Introducing Rationalised Panel Damages Under EPFO Act) 

19) Union Road And Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari Has Laid The Foundation Stone of Key National Highway Projects Worth Rs 2000 Crores in Puducherry.

20) Uttar Pradesh Has Won The Best Spiritual Tourism Destination Award.

21) The Uttarakhand Government Has Approved A AMENDMENT In The Uniform Civil Code Bringing Relief To Citizen Of Nepali And Bhutanese Origin Who Living in The State Who Don't Have Adhar Card To Proof For Marriage.

22) A SENIOR IRRS OFFICER Ajay Singhal Has CONFERRED WITH ASHOKA AWARD For INDIAN Bureaucracy.

23) IUCN Announced Panama To Host The 2027 World Protected And CONSERVED Areas Congress.

24) Former Nepal Speaker Mahara ARRESTED On Gold Smuggling Case.

25) Mongolia President Khurelsukh Ukhnaa Visited To India'.

World Standard Day - 14th October 

THEME 2025 - A Shared Vision For A Better World: Standards For Sustainable Development Goals 

International E Waste Day - 14th October 

THEME 2025 - The Recovery Of Critical Raw Materials 

1) Bhubaneswar, Odisha Host The The Annual Terracotta Exhibition Mruttika 2025.

2) NITI AYOG Released The India Blue Economy Report 

3) LG Electronics Gets Listed In National Stock Exchange ( NSE).

4) Iran Opening The Holy Virgin Mary Metro Station In Tehran.

5) Google Announced The USD 15 Billion Investment In Visakhapatnam.

6) Brasilia Host The COP -30

7) The UAE Announced a USD 10 million Contribution To Strengthen Community Resilience Against Natural Disaster Across Asia And Pacific.

8) Tilak Devasher Gifted His Book To Afghanistan Foreign Affairs Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi ( Book - THE PASHTUNS: A Contested History) 

9) Madagascar President Andry RAJOELINA Announced The Protest In COUNTRY.

10) India's First Camel Specific Mastitis Test Developed By ICAR On Camel, Bikaner, Rajasthan. 

11) 2003 Batch IPS OFFICER R Sudhakar Has Been Appointed As Deputy Director General Of NCB, Southern Region.

12) India Registered 2.52 Crores Birth in 2023, (2.32 lakh Fewer Than 2022) 

- 86.6 Lakh Death Report's in 2023 (86.5 Lakh Increase Than 2022) 

- 81.2 Lakh Death in 2020 

- 102.2 Lakh Death Records in 2021 

- Jharkhand Recorded The Lowest Sex Since 2020 ( Per 1000 Male) 

* Jharkhand ( 899) 

* Bihar -900 

* Telengana -906 

* Maharashtra -909 

* Gujarat - 910 

* Haryana - 911 

* Mizoram - 911 

 

HIGHEST SEX RATIO - 

* 1085 - Arunachal Pradesh 

* 1007 - Nagaland 

* 973 - Goa 

* 972 - Tripura, Ladakh 

* 967 - KERALA 

13) Minister Of Civil Aviation Ram Mohan Naidu Has Launched The Airlines FARE SE FURSAT - 

14) 2nd Annual Reports On Gaur Reintroduction Plan ( June 2024 - June 2025) At Sanjay Tiger Reserves, Madhya Pradesh.

15) Kolkata Business man Rajarshi Banarjee Wins The Prize At Global Big Cat Photography Competition 2025 ( First Prize/ 

16) Bharath Thammineni, a 36 Years Old Mountaineer From Kurnool, Has Became First Indian To Climb 4 8000 Mountain 

17) India's Pradhyum Reddy Has Been Appointed As The Head Coach Of Philippines Under 17 Women's Football Team.

18) DRDO And Solar Energy Corporation Of India (SECI) Have Signed MoU To Develop The 300 MW Capacity Of Solar Based Renewable Energy Projects.

19) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Has Gifted ODISHA'S Khiching Stone To Mongolia President.

20) 22,446 Wild Elephant Counted in India in 2025 ( KARNATAKA, ASSAM, KERALA) 

- Declined By 18% 

- 27312 In 2017 

- CENSUS By The All India Synchronous Elephant Estimation (SAIEE) 

* THIS WAS THE FIRST DNA Based Census 

( DNA BASED - This Is The Technique Involved Collecting Elephant Dung along Systematically Laid Trails, Genotyping Samples At 11 Microsatellite loci, And Mapping Each Sample To Unique Genetic Identity ) 

21) Mongolia Signed The Framework Agreement Of The International Big Cat Alliance 

22) Iranian FILMAKER Nasser Taghavi Passed Away.

23) Indian Naval Ship INS SAHYADRI Has On Operational Deployment At South China - 

* The Inaugural Bilateral MARITIME Exercise Between INDIAN Navy And ROKS GYEONGNAM  Republic Of Korea Navy EXERCISE IN - RoKN 

24) Indian Army Conducted The Exercise VIDYUT VIDHHWANS 

25) IMF Raises India's GDP GROWTH To 6.6% 

26) NPCI Has Signed MoU with NTT Data Japan For Acceptance Of UPI Payment in Japanese Market.

27) NHAI Launched The CLEAN TOILET PICTURE CHALLENGE.

28) Former Indian Badminton Star Saina Nehwal Has Been Appointed As Brand Ambassador Of Hydrosense X.

29) UNION Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Has Inaugurated The Chiefs Conclave Of UN Troop Contributing Countries (UNTCC) In New Delhi.

_4 C FORMULA ( Consultation, Cooperation, Coordination, Capacity/ 

30) Meghalaya Signed MoU With NEUFC To Make Shillong FOOTBALL CAPITAL OF INDIA.

31) Manipur's Aribam Syam Sharma Honoured With Golden Beaver Award At India Film Festival Of Alberta 2025.

32) Tchiroma Wins The Presidential Election For Cameroon.

33) A Rare Marble Cat Spotted in Manas National Park, ASSAM.

World Students Day - 15th October 

World Hand washing Day - 15th October 

THEME 2025 - Be a Handwashing Hero 

Birth Anniversary of A P J ABDUL KALAM - 15th October 

International Day For Rural Women - 15th October 

THEME 2025 - Empowering Rural Women For Reparatory Justice: Advancing Inclusive And Sustainable AGRI Food System in Africa 

World Food Day - 16th October 

THEME 2025 - Hand In Hand For Better Foods And a Better Future 

1) India Conducted The First Ever Triservices Exercise In The Eastern Theatre At Bay Of Bengal.

2) India Has Been Elected To Human Rights Council For 7th Term.

3) Uttar Pradesh Wins The Best' Spiritual Tourism Destination Award At Seven Star Luxury Hospitality And Lifestyle Award At Portugal.

4) Joby Mathew Wins Bronze At Para Powerlifting World Championship 2025 In Cairo, Egypt.

5) Uttar Pradesh Government Has Launched The Gomati River Rejuvenate Mission.

6) Maharashtra State Government Has Launched The BAMBOO Revolution 

- investment Target 50,000 Crores 

- Employment - 5 Lakh Jobs 

7) UNDER SIEGE Book Author - US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Son Eric Trump 

8) Defence Ministry Has Approved The 100% Increase In Financial Assistance For Ex Service Men.

9) Rear Admiral Manoj Jha Has Assumed As The Chief Staff Officer Operator.

10) Veteran Actor Pankaj Dheer Passed Away.

11) US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Honour Charlie Kirk As President Medal Of Freedom 

12) Grammy Winning Singer D Angelo Passed Away.

13) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Has Inaugurated THE FRANCISCO MONTE CRUZ STAND At Fatorda Stadium.

14) Former MLA Of Banai ( Sundargarh) Odisha Hemendra Prasad MAHAPATRA Passed Away.

15) Vice President Of Brazil Geraldo Alckmin Visited To India.

16) DEEPTI Jeevanji Win a Gold in 200 meter At Virtus World' Athletics Championship, Brisbane Australia.

17) Himanshi Tokas Wins The Bronze In Lima Pan American Open 

18) India Sents Critical Prussian Capsule To Indonesia.

19) Hyderabad BASED Skyroot Aerospace Has Signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement With Germany Based Exolaunch To Provide Launch Service on Vikram.

20) Veteran Actress And DANCER Madhumita Passed Away.

21) THE SENSUAL SELF Book Author - Sobha De 

22) India Despatched 15 Haemodialysis Machines, Portable RO Unit To Sierra Leone.

23) Avni Lekhra, Para Olympian Gold MEDALLIST Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of PUMA.

24) KRI JOHN Lie ( Indonesia ) Has Arrived At Visakhapatnam To Participate In The 5th Edition Of SAMUDRA SHAKTI Exercise With Indian Navy ( INS KAVARATTI) 14-17th October 2025.

25) Veteran Actress And Singer Raavu Balasaraswathi Devi Passed Away.

26) VAJR Eagle Has Awarded With Prestigious DG EME Rolling Trophy.

27) GRSE AND DRDO Has Laid The Keel For The Acoustic Research Ship For Naval Physical And Oceanography Laboratory.

28) DRDO Military Combat Parachute System (MCPS) Has Successfully Completed The Combat Freefall Jump From 32000 Feet 

World Spine Day - 16th October 

Theme 2025 - Invest In Your Spine For a Healthier Future 

1) India And Ethiopia Have Held Their Inaugural Joint Defence Cooperation Meeting At New Delhi.

2) India Has 3rd Most Powerful Air Force In The World After US, Russia 

3) Vivek Menon Has Been Appointed As The New Chairman Of IUCN Species Survival Commission For 2025-2029.

4) Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Scientists Have Discovered The First Evidence Of 4.5 Billion Year Old Proto Earth.

5) Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav Has Inaugurated The 16th International Railway Equipment Exhibition At Bharat Mandapam New Delhi.

6) Manipur Wins The 30th Senior Women's National Football Championships Defeating West Bengal 

7) INS KILTAN  Has Completed 8th Years Of Service.

8) The Andhra University Of Engineering College Host The CII Partnership Summit 2025.

9) Srilanka President Dr Harini Amarasuriya Has Visited To India.

10) Haryana Team Runners Up At The 4th National Junior Athletics Championship 2025 ( Host - Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar)

 Tamilnadu Winner 

11) UNION Home Minister Amit Shah Inaugurated The Extradition Of Fugitives - Challenges And Strategies Conference in New Delhi.

12) Nagaland Proposed The Dzukou Valley As The State Official Nomination For Development Of 50 Tourist Destinations Of Global Standards.

13) Hindustan Shipyard Limited Gets The Mini RATNA Status.

14) Shruthi Wins The Women's Billiard World Championships 

15) Rare Dhole Has Been SPOTTED in Pune.

16) NMDC Steel Became The First India To Receive The BIS Licence For Hot Rolled Steel For Welded Steel Pipe For Pipeline Transportation 

17) Mangrove Ecosystem, Sunderban West Bengal Has Been Conferred Global Technical Recognition At AT FAO.

18) Shri P Ananth Assumed As The New Additional General Manager At South Western Railway.

19) A SIXTH OF HUMANITY: Independent India's Development Odyssey Book Author - Aravind Subramanian & Devesh Kapoor 

20) Abhishek Sharma Has Wins The ICC MEN'S Cricketer Of The Month Of September 2025 

* Smriti Mandhana Wins The ICC WOMEN'S PLAYER OF THE Month Of September 2025.

21) Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak Has ELECTED For 2nd Term As President Of IUCN 

22) UNION Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Inaugurated The Farmers Training And Common Facility Center In Raichur, Karnataka.

23) India Elected As Co - Chair Of The Regional Committee Of United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management For Asia And Pacific For 2025-2028

24) NIMHANS, Bengaluru Wins The Tournament Of The Minds At World Congress Of Neurology 2025 At Seoul.

25) Rajasthan Set To Host The 5th KHELO INDIA University Games.

26) Nagma Mohammed Mallick Has Been Appointed As Indian Ambassador To Japan.

27) NITI AYOG, And Government Of Odisha And ISEG  Foundation Has Signed MoU To Develop ODISHA'S Energy Transition Plan.

28) Uttarakhand Host The AI IMPACT Pre SUMMIT 2025

 International Day For The Eradication Of Poverty - 17th October 

THEME 2025 - Ending Social And Institutional maltreatment by Ensuring Respect And Effective Support of Families 

World Trauma Day - 17th October 

THEME 2025 - Building a Safer Future With Trauma Care 

1) Jitendra Prasad Sonal Has Been Appointed As The 4th Chief Minister Of Madhesh Province Of Nepal 

2) Former Chairperson Of Nepal Forum Of Environment Journalist (NEFEJ) Roshani Adhikari Pathak Has Been Elected As The Regional Council Member Of West And South Asia Of International Union For Conservation Of Nature For 2026-2029.

3) Kanchha Sherpa, The Last Living Legend Of 1953 British Everest Expedition Passed Away 

4) UNSEEN : The Untold Story Of Deepinder Goyal ( Founder Of Zomato) Book Author - Megha Vishwanath 

5) John Bolton, Former National Security Advisor To US President Donald Trump Has Been Accused For Sharing Country's Personal Information.

6) The Indian Government Has Introduced New Flexibility Under The Per Drop More Crop ( PDMC) Scheme To Promote Efficient Water Use And Boost Farmer Income.

7) Sangram Kumar Mishra Has Been Appointed As The CMD Of Hindustan Organic Chemicals Limited (HOCL)

8) GERMAN World Cup Winning Football Legend Joined As Brand Ambassador Of Bengal Super League.

9) Harsh Sanghavi Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Chief Minister Of Gujrat.

10) Former Japanese PRIME MINISTER TOMIICHI MURAYAMA PASSED AWAY.

11) Indian Navy And IIT Delhi Has Signed For Warships Design.

12) Archaeologist From Hungary Has Discovered The 2nd Century Roman Wells, With Preserved Wooden Framework 

13) Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Inaugurated The India International Science Festival. (11th Edition From 6-9 December In Chandigarh) 

14) IIT MADRAS ZANJIBAR HOST the First Innovation Day 

15) Indian Army ( XIV Corps) Has Signed MoU With Six TATA, Mahindra, Polaris, Kalyani, JSW, JCBL To Establish Vehicle Repair Hub And Warehouse In Ladakh.

16) IIT MADRAS Shared The Jupiter Years, By Professor Abhishek Parui, 

17) Aloke Kumar Chakraborty Has Been Appointed As The IG TRIPURA, Frontier BSF.

18) NITI AYOG Women's Entrepreneurship Platform And D P World Launch We Rise Initiative To Empower Women.

19) India Ranked 102 in Global Hunger Index 2025 out of 123 Countries. 

20) IUCN Puts Western Ghat, Manas National Park (ASSAM), And Sunderban National Park ( West Bengal) As Significant CONCERN List At IUC N World Heritage OUTLOOK 

21) FICCI Announced Appointment Of Anant Goenka As President For 2025-26. 

22) Hyundai Motor Named TARUN GARG As First Indian MD & CEO 

23) Mahatma Gandhi And The Environment Book Author - T N KHOSHOO 

1) Mahindra And Embraer Have Signed A Strategic Cooperation Agreement (SCA) For Bidding The C-390 Millennium Aircraft.

2) Namsai District, ARUNACHAL PRADESH Has Achieved 2nd Place in NITI For The Driving Adoption of Soil Health Card.

3) The Indian Airforce And Indian Coast Guard Successfully Completed Their Maiden Joint Scuba Diving in Goa.

4) SHATTERED LANDS: Book Author - Sam Dalrymple.

5) Sharad K Soni, Chairperson Of JNU, New Delhi Has CONFERRED ORDER OF THE POLAR STAR, Highest Civilian Award Of Mongolia.

6) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vinayan Has Inaugurated The Malayali Sangamam In Bahrain.

7) Union Bank of India Has Signed MoU With Food Corporation Of India (FCI) For Salary Account.

8) Indian Navy Inducted The 11th ACTCM Barge, LSAM 25 ( Yard 135) 

9) Jyothi Surekha Vennam Wins Bronze in Archery World Cup, ( First WOMAN From India')

10) 2025 India International Science Festival 2025 

( Theme 2025 - Vigyan Se Samrudhi: For Atmanirbhar Bharat) 

11) Zoravar Singh Sandhu Wins Bronze MEDAL In Shotgun World Championships.

12) Slovenia's Bled Town Named Worlds Best Tourism Village in 2025.

13) A Historic Milestone Mad By Ladakh, Honey From The Buckwheat Crop Has Been Extracted For The First Time in University of Ladakh.

14) Akkai Padmashali, Became The First Transgender Person From Karnataka To Be Part Of Supreme court Panel.

15) Aurangabad Railway Station Has Been Rename As The Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Railway Station.

16) Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Has Inaugurated Titanium And Super alloys Material Plant In Lucknow.

17) Professor Virendra M Tiwari Has Been Elected As The Vice President Of Geological Society Of India (GSI).

18) The Population Of Endangered And Endemic Lesser Florican ( Kharmor) Has Reduced From 4374 (1982) To 200 in 2025 

19) Baek - Se- Hee, South Korea Author Passed Away.

20) PASSION TO PROWESS Book - Jag Jeevan Ram 

21) Aishwarya Pissay, Became First INDIAN And first ASIAN Woman To Clinched Silver In Rallye du Maroc 

22) Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) Has Launched The Anti Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft ( ASW SWC) INS MAGDALA, Launched By Indian Navy.

23) WOL3D, A Mumbai BASED 3D Printing Industry Has Launched The BRAHMA, a Consumer 3D Printing Farm To Empower Creators, Business, And Industries.

24) Mongolian Prime Minister' Zandanshatar Gombojov Has Steps Down 

25) Army Hospital ( New Delhi ( Successfully Performed Gamma Knife Therapy To Treat Ocular Choroidal Melanoma 

26) Meghnna Reddy Mareddy Has Wins The Egypt International ( Badminton) 

27) Bhavani Devi Wins SILVER In Istanbul Satellite Tournament.

28) 2009 Batch IFS OFFICER Rajesh Gawande, Appointed As The Secretary Of Protocol, FDI.

29) Bahrain Host The 3rd ASIAN Youth Games 2025.

30) Rutuja Bhoshale And Wushuang Zheng Has Finishes Runners Up At WTA 125 Jinan Cup 

31) Australia Wins The Sultan Of JOHAR CUP TITLE 2025 ( India Runner up)