News One Liner: 15-July-2025

  1. Wholesale Price Index (WPI) for June 2025 fell 0.19% month-on-month, driven by a sharp 2.52% drop in Fuel & Power.
  2. India’s combined CPI for June 2025 stood at 2.10%, the lowest since January 2019, driven by a sharp drop in food inflation (-1.06%).
  3. NITI Aayog unveiled the third edition of ‘Trade Watch Quarterly’ for Q3 FY25, highlighting trade resilience and evolving US tariff impacts.
  4. India signs a five-year agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Ma’aden to import 3.1 million tonnes of DAP annually, with a mutual extension option.
  5. Tata’s chairman N. Chandrasekaran breaks ground on a £1.25 billion Electric Arc Furnace facility in Port Talbot, UK, poised to cut carbon emissions by 90%.
  6. India achieves 50% non‑fossil fuel electricity capacity—242.8 GW out of 484.8 GW—five years ahead of its 2030 Paris Agreement target.
  7. GAIL inks a decade-long LNG Supply & Purchase Agreement with Vitol Asia for 1 million MT per year, starting 2026.
  8. India’s retail inflation dropped to 2.10% in June 2025—the lowest since January 2019—primarily due to easing food prices which contracted by 1.06%.
  9. India’s Wholesale Price Index (WPI) inflation declined to 0.13% in June 2025—the lowest in 20 months—driven by core and food price stability.
  10. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that India’s GCC (Global Capability Centres) ecosystem is on track to generate $200 billion Gross Value Added by 2030.
  11. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates the ₹472 crore, 2.44 km‑long Sigandur cable‑stayed bridge over Sharavathi backwaters in Karnataka.
  12. India unveils ambitious space roadmap including manned missions, Venus probe, lunar landing by 2040, backed by ₹1.5 trillion investments by 2035.
  13. President Droupadi Murmu exhorts graduates at Ravenshaw University to become ‘employers, not job-seekers’ at its 13th convocation in Odisha.
  14. Vietnam will prohibit fossil-fuel motorcycles from central Hanoi starting July 2026 to combat severe air pollution.
  15. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar met President Xi Jinping in Beijing during SCO, urging a far‑seeing approach to evolving India–China relations.
  16. Australia launches its largest-ever Exercise Talisman Sabre, involving over 35,000 personnel from 19 nations including India, with live‑fire drills and amphibious ops.
  17. World Youth Skills Day 2025 highlights the role of youth in leveraging digital, green, and cultural skills under the theme ‘Innovate. Transform. Sustain.’
  18. President Droupadi Murmu appoints Gajendra Singh Gahlot as Governor of Haryana, P.S. Sreedharan Pillai as Governor of Goa, and Kavinder Gupta as Lt Governor of Ladakh.
  19. Centre appoints senior IAS officer Dr Abhijat Sheth as the new chairperson of the National Medical Commission (NMC).
  20. Padma Bhushan awardee and revered South Indian actress Saroja Devi passes away at age 87, after an illustrious career spanning nearly three decades.
  21. Influential YouTuber and actor Prajakta Koli joins TIME 100 Creators 2025 alongside Jay Shetty and MrBeast.
  22. Indian astronaut Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla to return to Earth after completing 18-day mission aboard NASA’s Axiom‑4 spacecraft to the ISS.

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