Current affairs One Liner: 23-July-2025

  1.  The Ministry of Textiles and DARE have initiated a five‑year Mission for Cotton Productivity under Vision 2030, aiming to boost cotton yield, fibre quality and farmer incomes.
  2. On its 10th anniversary, Skill India unveiled the SOAR (Skilling for AI Readiness) programme and launched India’s first Skill Impact Bond of US $14.4 million, along with multiple strategic MoUs and digital platforms.
  3. Under DAY‑NRLM’s Lakhpati Didi scheme, 1.48 crore rural women self‑help group members have achieved annual income over ₹1 lakh since inception.
  4. The PM E‑DRIVE Scheme allocates ₹4,391 crore for 14,028 electric buses in nine megacities and ₹2,000 crore for pan‑India charging infrastructure, under localisation and emission reduction mandates.
  5. From April 2022 to March 2025, the Stand‑Up India Scheme has sanctioned ₹28,996 crore across 126,508 loans to SC, ST, and women entrepreneurs for greenfield ventures.
  6. Government and RBI implemented coordinated fiscal and monetary measures to curb inflation and ease its impact on common citizens.
  7. India’s Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme for bulk drugs led to import savings of ₹1,362 crore by March 2025, as informed in Parliament.
  8. Tata Communications and AWS have joined forces to build a high-capacity, ultra‑low‑latency network connecting Mumbai, Hyderabad, and Chennai in support of generative AI workloads.
  9. RBI’s Financial Inclusion Index (FI‑Index) grew by 4.3 %, rising from 64.2 to 67 in FY 2025, with gains across access, usage, and quality.
  10.  Public Sector Banks wrote off over ₹58,000 crore in loans in FY 2025, while gross NPAs fell to ₹2.83 lakh crore (2.58 %), amid rising bank frauds.
  11. The World Bank report projects India requires $2.4 trillion by 2050 to build climate-resilient, low-carbon infrastructure in cities, with private sector involvement essential.
  12. The Centre has approved ₹33,081.82 crore (FY 2021‑22 to FY 2025‑26) for PM‑ABHIM to construct/upgrade over 10,609 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs across states and UTs.
  13. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee rolled out an ₹8,000 crore grassroots outreach scheme addressing local issues booth‑by‑booth through ₹10 lakh allocation per booth.
  14. The Centre has released ₹9,578.40 crore to 22 states this fiscal (2025–26) as the central share under the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF), according to the Ministry of Home Affairs.
  15. The UK government has approved the landmark £38 billion Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, marking a major step in its low‑carbon energy transition.
  16. FIDE has announced that the 2025 Chess World Cup will be hosted in India, marking a significant milestone in the country’s emergence as a premier international chess destination.
  17. Pi Approximation Day is celebrated on 22 July annually (22/7), and in 2025 it emphasises using 22/7 as a practical approximation of π for educational and scientific purposes.
  18. The Indian passport improved to 77th position in the 2025 Henley Passport Index, providing visa‑free or visa‑on‑arrival access to 59 countries.

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