january Current Affairs 2025

Jul 23, 2025

On the New York Times' list of 52 places to go to in 2025, Assam came in at number four. 21

The Centre of Biodegradable Packaging at IIT-M creates a facility to create bioplastics with zero waste.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation presented the Gates-Cambridge Impact Prize 2025 to Professor Urbasi Sinha, a faculty member of the Raman Research Institute (RRI).

In 2025, March 21 will be designated as the World Day for Glaciers, and the United Nations will declare 2025 to be the International Year of Glacier Preservation.

Because she was not a typical Tamil Nadu resident, election authorities rejected a Bengaluru woman's candidacy for the Erode (East) Assembly byelection.

In Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, G. Vibusha of Tamil Nadu won the bronze medal in the Cadet National Fencing Championship.

At Kotambi Stadium in Vadodara, Gujarat, the Karnataka cricket team defeated the Vidarbha squad to win the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2024–25.

Sanjiv Ranjan, a senior IFS official, was named the Indian Ocean Rim Association's (IORA) new secretary general.

The local authorities in the districts of Madurai, Dindigul, Theni, Sivagangai, and Ramanathapuram have been instructed by the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court to develop an action plan with a deadline for the revitalization of the Vaigai river.

Among Tamil Nadu's most popular trekking sites are the Yelagiri-Swamimalai, Gudiyam caverns near Chennai, Baraliyar, Coutrallam-Shenbagadevi waterfall, and Nagalur-Sanniyasimalai peak.

In Shillong, Meghalaya, the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy hosted a colloquium with the topic "Dialogue for Holistic Development of Livestock Sector in North East India."

To address the serious health and well-being issues that tribal communities face, the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) hosted the National Tribal Health Conclave in New Delhi.

Andhra Pradesh hosted the three-day Flamingo Festival, which included Pulicat Lake and Nelapattu Bird Sanctuary.
The Central Tobacco Research Institute (CTRI), located in Raja Mahendravaram, Andhra Pradesh, was formally renamed the National Institute for Research on Commercial Agriculture (NIRCA).
The Uttarakhand government has approved the rules for the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) and plans to publish a gazette notification for the legislation by the end of January. 22
A new outdoor museum in Keezhadi and a museum in Gangaikonda Cholapuram were dedicated after the Tamil Nadu chief minister placed the foundation stone.
The sale of the Nayakkarpatti tungsten mining block in Tamil Nadu, which is close to the Arittapatti biodiversity hotspot, was canceled, according to the union government.
The Thamirabarani, Karumeniyar, and Nambiyar River connecting project, which will benefit more than 15,000 acres of rain-shadowed land in the Nanguneri, Thisaiyanvilai, and Sattankulam districts, will be inaugurated by the chief minister of Tamil Nadu.
Swarnim Bharat – Virasat aur Vikas (Golden India – Heritage and Development) is the theme for Republic Day 2025.
On Republic Day 2025, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of India-Indonesia diplomatic ties, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will be the main guest.
In honor of the renowned Tamil poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar, the Indian High Commission declared that the Jaffna Cultural Centre in Sri Lanka would now be known as the Thiruvalluvar Cultural Centre. In the Purulia district of West Bengal, the Garpanchkot Hills, the first astronomical observatory in Eastern India, was opened.
Following her husband J.D. Vance's inauguration as the 50th Vice President of the United States, Usha Vance became the first Indian-American and Hindu Second Lady.
As part of the National Cyclone Preparedness Project, Kerala introduced Kerala Warnings, a Crisis and Hazard Management System, also known as "KaWaCHaM," India's first fully integrated disaster warning system.
By 2030, the Union government wants to increase the number of Geographical Indication (GI) tags from the current 605 to 10,000.
P. Datchana Moorthy, a Thavil advocate from Puducherry, is one of the winners of the Padma Shri honors 2025; Janit Petro was named the first woman to oversee NASA and the interim administrator.
Reliance Industries plans to construct the largest data center in the world in Jamnagar, Gujarat; the Tamil Nadu chief minister unveiled the restored memorial of Tamil martyrs Natarajan and Thalamuthu at Moolakothalam in Chennai, who gave their lives to defend the Tamil language during the fight against Hindi imposition in 1939.
An executive order issued by the US president prohibits the development and issuance of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) inside the country. 23
The cabinet of Madhya Pradesh has resolved to outlaw alcohol in 17 of the state's holy cities.
Donald Trump's administration was prevented from enforcing the executive order that limited the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States by a federal court who declared it "unconstitutional."
Arshdeep Singh, a cricket player from Punjab, was selected as the 2024 International Cricket Council (ICC) men's cricketer of the year.
In the Australian Open Tennis final in Melbourne, Madison Keys of the USA defeated two-time reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus to win her first-ever Grand Slam championship.

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, will now house the sixth regional office of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). o It now operates five regional offices in Kolkata (West Bengal), Kochi (Kerala), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Patna (Bihar), and Guwahati (Assam).
The Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) was established by the Tamil Nadu labor department in response to orders from the Madras High Court.
According to the Meteorological Department, on January 27, 2025, the northeast monsoon stopped over Andhra Pradesh and the south peninsula of India.
To increase fish output, the State Fisheries Department intends to construct artificial coral reefs at 39 spots across two fishing villages in the Nagapattinam district.

The first-of-its-kind CSIR Mega "Innovation Complex" in India was opened in Mumbai.
The Indian Army has opened two brand-new bailey bridges across the Shyok River, enhancing communication between Ladakh's Shyok and Nubra regions.
After considering 14 revisions suggested by its members, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf Amendment Bill accepted the draft.
According to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and Udaipur (Rajasthan) were the first two Indian towns to be included to the international list of recognized Wetland towns.
Iniyan Panneerselvam, an Indian grandmaster from Erode, Tamilnadu, won the 9th Johor International Open Chess Tournament in Malaysia thanks to a remarkable performance.
Italian Jannik Sinner defeated Alexander Zverev of Germany to win his third Grand Slam title overall and his second straight Australian Open Tennis