DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 18TH AUGUST 2025

1) Eminent Mathematician And Vice Chancellor OF Utkala University, Odisha Professor Dr Gokulananda Das Passed away.

2) Arjun Erigaisi Finishes As Third At QUANTUM Chennai Grand Master 2025.

3) Rahul Pradhan (Odisha) Became The Fastest INDIAN ( in 15 Hours 53 Minutes) To Scale Africa's Highest Peak.

4) Prime Minister' Narendra Inaugurated The Rs 11,000 Crores Highway Projects In Delhi 

5) Arunachal Pradesh Rupa Bayor Wins Bronze Medal At Australian Open WT 62 International Taekwondo Championship 2025.

6) TRIAL BY WATER: indus Basin And India -Pakistan Relationship Book Author - Uttam Kumar Sinha 

7) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Has Unveiled The Mascot And Logo Of 12th Men's Asia Cup Hockey Set To Start on 29th August 2025. ( MASCOT - CHAND) 

8) Team India Has Won 7 Medals And 1 Special Award At 18th International Earth Science Olympiad (IESO) 2025 Held At Jining, China.

9) The 8th Mahadasoha Peetadhipathi Of The Sharnbasaveshwar Samsthan Sharnbaswappa Appa Passed away.

10) Indian Shuttler Devika Sihag Claimed Her First International Title At Malaysia International Challengers 2025 Title ( Women's Single) 

11) Union Minister Piyush Goyal Has Inaugurated India's First All WOMEN Operated Clean Street Food Hub In Mumbai.

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12) Habiba Hani Wins The Women's NSW SQUASH Bega Open 2025 By Defeat Anahat Singh.

13) UNION MINISTER Dr Jitendra Singh Has Unveiled The Book - Weight Loss Revolution Book Author - Eminent Endocrinologist Dr Ambarish Mithal 

14) Mumbai Gets India's First Private Math Research Institute , Lodha Mathematical Science Institute.

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15) An Inscription Written In Sanskrit On A Pillar Has Been Discovered At The Shri Venugopal Swamy Temple In Mereddipalli Of Gorantala Mandal in Sri Sathya Sai District, ( Of Vijayanagar Period) Of Devaraya -1 Or Devaraya - 2 Period ( Assumed) 

16) IIT MADRAS Has Been Conferred With The Clarivate South Asia Innovation Award 

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 16TH AUGUST 2025:

1) India's Anish Giri Finishes As Runners Up At QUANTBOX CHENNAI Grand Master 2025.

2) Pranesh M Wins The QUANTBOX CHENNAI GRAND MASTERS Challenger Event.

3) State Bank of India (SBI) Has Offerings A Special Loan Scheme To Agniveers on The Occasions Of 79th Independence Day.

4) FORMER Srilankan Domestic Cricketer Saliya Saman Has Been Banned From All Formats.

5) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta Has Launched ATAL CANTEEN ( To Avail Food For Rs 5 To Workers)

6) Ramdas Soren, Education Minister Of Jharkhand Passed away.

7) Tanya Hemant Wins Women's single At The Saipan International 2025.( badminton) 

8) Former Australian Cricketer And Coach Bob Simpson Passed away.

9) Rodali Barua Wins Bronze At Women's 73 Kg Category in Australia Open Taekwondo Championship 

10) Lauren Bell Became The First Cricketer To Picked 50 WICKETS in Hundred Season 2025.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 13TH AUGUST 2025:

International Organ Donation Day - 13th August 

THEME 2025 - Answering The Call 

International Wolf Day - 13th August 

theme 2025 - Honouring The Vital Role Of Predators 

1) Union Cabinet Has Approved The 700 MW - Tato -II Hydro Electric Project Worth Rs 8,146.61 Crores.

2) Unon Cabinet Has Approved The Establishment Of 4 Semiconductor Manufacturing Unit In Odisha, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh With A Total Outlay Of Rs 4,600 Crores.

3) The Mines And Minerals (Development And Regulations) Amendment Bill 2025 Passed in Lok SABHA.

4) Indian Cricketer Subhman Gill And England Women's Cricketer Dunkley Wins The ICC Men's Player Of The Year And Women's Players of The Years 2025 For July Month.

5) Namrata Batra Became The First Indian To Get Silver Medal At Wushu In World Games.

6) July CPI Inflation At 1.55% in 2025.

7) Starliner Astronaut Sunita Williams And Butch Wilmore Retired.

8) Lok SABHA Passed The Indian Port Bill 2025.

9) Derek BARCHENGER Wins The BORLAUG FIELD AWARD 2025.

10) RBI Issues Payment Aggregator Licence To Paytm Payments Services.

11) Gulveer Singh Breaks The National Records In 7:34:49 in 3000 Meter. At Cyulai Memorial 2025. ( finishes 5th ) 

12) BSF Launched Operation Alert Along Indo - Pak Border To Prevent Infiltration.

13) Shailesh Kumar Chaurasiya Has Been Appointed As Chief Electoral Officer of Manipur.

14) Joydeep Saha Has Been Appointed As The MD & CEO Of Manipal Signa Health Insurance.

15) India Bans Import Of Jute Products And Rope From Bangladesh.

16) Andrei Faraon Named Director Of Kavli Nanoscience Institute.

17) Former Indusind Bank Deputy CEO Arun Khurana Under EOE Probe.

18) Rohith Krishna S Becomes India's 89th GRAND MASTERS.

19) BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy Wins Constitution Club Of Indian Secretary Election.

20) YASHIBHOOOMI India International Convention And Expo Center, New Delhi Has Honoured With International Architecture Award 2025 By The Chicago Athenaeum. 

21) Jharkhand Women's Hockey Team Wins The 15th Junior National Women's Hockey Championship After Beating Haryana.

22) Former First Lady Of South Korea Kim Keon Hee Arrested In Corruption Probe 

23) RBI Cancelled The Certificate Of Registration Of Wadhawan Global Capital.

24) Union Minister HD Kumarswamy Has Launched The Logo And Website Of Bharat Steel 

25) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Launched The OMBRIC Corridor For Research And Innovation. AT BHUBANESHWAR 

( OMBRIC - ODISHA MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH & INNOVATION CORRIDOR ) 

GROSS MECHANISED VALUE (GMV) FOR FY 2024/25

* Government e- Marketplace Has Achieves a GMV Of Rs 5.4 Lakh Crores In FY 2024/25. 

WHAT IS GMV ? 

* GMV STANDS FOR - GROSS MERCHANDISE VALUE 

EXPLANATION - IT Represents The Total Value Of Merchandise Sold Over A Specific Period Through A Platform, 

An E-commerce Or C2C Marketplace 

Before Accounting For Expenses Like Returns, Discounts And Fees. 

A 13 YEARS OLD STUDENT FROM ODISHA GETS MEMBER OF UN NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

* DHRITI MOKSHA PANIGRAHI, A 13 YEARS OLD STUDENT FROM PARLAKHEMUNDI, ODISHA HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY APPOINTED AS THE MEMBER OF THE UNITED NATIONS YOUTH GROUP ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 7TH AUGUST 2025

1) India Finishes 6th At Under 21 Asia - Oceania Korfball Championship.

2) Gajam Narmada, First Woman From Telengana To Received The Sant Kabir Handloom Award.

3) NSDL Is Now Listed In BSE.

4) Veteran Actor Anupam Kher Has Been Honoured With Prestigious Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement AWARD By Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Pandavis.

5) Prime Minister' Narendra Modi Inaugurates The KARTAVYA PATH - In New Delhi.

6) Parliament Passed The Carriage Of Goods By Sea Bill 2025.

7) A Researchers From University Of Malaysia Terrengganu (UMT) Has Discovered A New Fish Species ROGADIUS AZIZAHAE In South China Sea.

8) NCERT Has Been Honoured With National Geospatial Enablers Award 2025 By Free/ Libre And Open Source Software For Education ( FOSSEE) GIS, IIT BOMBAY.

9) Under The Clean Coal Research Initiative Of DST India Researchers Have Successfully Demonstrate The Effectiveness Of Laser Assisted Turning ( LAT) For Machining High Performance Material Like INCONEL -625 

10) Lok SABHA PASSED The Merchant Shipping Bill 2024.

11) India Joins Hand With BIMSTEC Partners To Strengthen Cancer Care Through National Cancer Grid Meet In Mumbai.

12) Former Srilankan PRIME MINISTER Shasheendra Rajapaksha Arrested On Charge Of Corruption.

13) Union Textile Minister Giriraj Singh Released The Book - Carbon Footprint Assessment In The Indian Handloom Sector.

14) The 3rd Edition Of The Chennai Grand Master Kicked Off.

15) Indian Students Bagged 2 Silver And 3 Bronze At Asian Science Camp 2025.

16) Actress Kelley Mack Passed away.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 6TH AUGUST 2025

Hiroshima Day - 6th August 

1) RBI Approved The Merger Of New India Cooperative Bank With Saraswat Bank.

2) THE CONSCIENCE NETWORK: Book Author Sugata Srinivasaraju 

3) THE RISE OF THE HITMAN Book Author - R Kaushik 

4) Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar To Host The First Indian Open World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze Event From 10th August 2025.

5) India - Philippines Outcomes 

6) Padmashree Awardee Geeta Upadhyay Handed Over His Award To Government.

7) Author Lakshmi Murdeshwar Puri Received The Prestigious FICCI Publishing Award For Book Of The Year - Fiction (English) For Her Book Swallowing The Sun 

8) Former Porto Captain And Ex Mumbai City Fc Coach Jorge Coasta Has Passed away.

9) The Inaugural India' - New Zealand Defence Strategic Dialogue Held At New Delhi.

10) The Lok SABHA PASSED The Bill To Provide Reservation To Scheduled Tribes In Goa Assembly 

11) Nausheen Banu, Became The First Tamilnadu girl To Conquer The Tenzing Hillary Everest Marathon.

12) Philippines Grants VISA Free Entry To Indian Tourists.

13) Arvinder Singh Bahal Has Became The First Sikh To Travel Space With Blue Origin.

14) Premchandra Pukhrambam, An Manipur ARTIST Wins The Lalit Kala Academy 64th Art National AWARD.

15) Remains Of Extinct Bronze Age Cattle FOUND In INGLEBOROUGH Cave.

16) 2013 Batch IPoS Moona Yasmin Has Been Appointed As Deputy Secretary In Ministry Of Rural Development.

17) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Announced The Repo Rate Remains Unchanged ( 5.5%)

* Projected GDP GROWTH FY 26 (6.5%)

* Projected Retail Inflation (3.1%) 

18) Paradip Port, Odisha Has Bagged The Major Port Of The Year - Non Containerised Cargo Award At The 15th All India Maritime And Logistics Awards (MALA) 2025.

19) The Hindu News Photographer Vudimudi Peddi Raju Has Been Selected For Prestigious TRIBAL Photo Of The Year Award 2025 

20) Aniruddha Potawad Wins The 3rd G H Raisoni Memorial Pune Rapid Rating Open 2025 

Silver - KUSHAGRA MOHAN 

BRONZE - Viresh Sarnarthi 

21) ASAM ARU AHOM Book Launched At Jorhat, Assam 

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22) Amit Shah Become The India's Longest Term Home Minister By Spending 2,258 Days In Office.

23) Air Bus Has Appoints Jurgen Westermeir As President And MD In India.

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 3RD AUGUST 2025

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Laid Foundation Stone And Various Development Project Worth Rs 2,200 Crores In Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

2) Prime Minister' Narendra Modi Releases The 20th Instalment of PM - KISAN 

3) Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar And Union Forest Minister Bhupendra Yadav Have Launched The MATRI VAN Initiative In Gurugram, Haryana.

* A Theme Based Urban Forest Spread Over 750 Acres In Aravali Region 

4) UPI TRANSACTION 25.08 Lakh Crores In Value Recorded in July 2025.

5) Malayalam Film Actor, Mimicry Artist Kalababhan Navas Passed away.

6) India Launched The Projects In Partner With UN Under Global Capacity Building Initiative For Asia, Africa And The Caribbean Countries.

7) 4 Astronaut From US, Japan And Russia Have Successfully Reached At ISS As Part Of NASA 's CREW -11 Mission.

8) India Did 18,900 Transplants In One Year.

9) Slovenia Became The First EU Country To Ban All Weapon Trade With Israel.

10) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari Has Honoured With The 43rd LOKMANYA TILAK NATIONAL AWARD.

11) The 2nd Edition Of Chinar Book Festival Kicked Off At Sringar.

12) Australian Scientists Have Discovered Giant New Species Of Stick Insects In Australia.

13) Awaza, Turkmenistan Host The 3rd Edition Of UN CONFERENCE On Landlocked Developing Countries.

14) CONCOR Has Received The Dynamic Trade Facilitator Of The Year At 15th All India Maritime And Logistics Awards 2025 (MALA) 

15) M k Sanoo, Critic And Orator Passed away.

16) Sreeshankar Murali Has Wins The XXXIV QOSANOV Memorial 2025 ( Long Jump Event Of 7.94 Meter) 

17) Ancient Hindu Idols Including 11 Shivlingas Have Been Unearthed At Anantnag, Kashmir.

18) Actor Madhab Bob Passed away.

19) South African Champions Has Win The World Championships Legend 2025 Title After Beating Pakistan in Finals 

20) Zharnel Hughes Wins The British Title in 100 Meter ( 9.94) 

21) Lucky Wins The Silver Medal In FS 110 kg Category At Under 17 Men's Wrestling Championships