Top Current Affairs of the day for 25th June

Top Current Affairs of the day for 25th June

 

1. Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas was observed on 25th June 2025. It served as a reminder of what happened when the Constitution of India was trampled over on 25th June 1975.
2. Union Home Minister Amit Shah released a book ‘The Emergency Diaries-Years that forged a leader’ in New Delhi. The book delves into the compelling role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then a young RSS Pracharak, played in the fight against Emergency.
3. The Union cabinet headed by PM Modi on Wednesday passed a resolution to commemorate and honour the “sacrifices of countless individuals who valiantly resisted the Emergency” and its attempt at subversion of the spirit of Indian Constitution.
4. The government has taken the decision for establishing the International Potato Centre South Asia Regional Centre at Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
5. CBSE to give Class 10 students option for second attempt at exams. Class 10 students will have to mandatorily appear for board examinations in February but those who wish to improve their scores will have the option of taking it a second time in May. From 2026, the first round of examinations will be held in mid-February with results in April; the second round in May will be optional with results in June.
6. The East Coast Railway (ECoR) launches a dedicated mobile app, ‘ECoR Yatra’, ahead of Rath Yatra 2025, to offer real-time railway services, accommodation details, and passenger amenities for pilgrims visiting Puri, Odisha, between June 25 and July 7, 2025.
7. Bihar is set to establish its first-ever nuclear power plant under India’s ₹20,000 crore Nuclear Energy Mission. The project, based on Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology, reflects the Centre’s push to expand clean energy and regional power security across states.
8. The Andhra Pradesh government has launched ‘Vidya Shakti’, an online remedial teaching initiative to help academically weak students in government schools catch up using technology-based methods in subjects like Math, Science, and English.
9. 21-year-old Dangeti Jahnavi from Palakollu in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district has been selected for a historic space mission to the Titan Orbital Port Space Station, expected to launch in 2029.
10. The Kerala High Court on Tuesday banned the use of water bottles of capacity below five litres, soft drink bottles of capacity lower than 2 litres, straws, plates, cups, and cutlery (all made of single-use plastic) at all government functions and private gatherings. These plastic materials are also banned at all wedding auditoriums, hotels and restaurants.
11. The President of India has assented to a Bill passed by the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, which shields public servants from arrest without government sanction. The Himachal Pradesh Police (Amendment) Bill, 2024 was passed by the Congress-ruled State Assembly on December 20, 2024. The Bill was opposed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members in the State Assembly on the grounds that it would protect corrupt government officials.
12. The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has enhanced its auto-settlement limit for advance withdrawals from ₹1 lakh to ₹5 lakh, enabling quicker access to funds within 3 days. This move is aimed at benefiting crores of subscribers needing urgent financial support.
13. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has announced its plan to launch the first-ever nationwide household income survey in 2026.
    Popular actor Srikanth, who was interrogated by the police for nearly eight hours in connection with a drug case, has been remanded to judicial custody till July 7.
    Indian Navy is poised to induct its first high-endurance Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV), named JALKAPI-XLUUV, within the next one to two years. This advanced platform marks a significant milestone in India’s underwater defense capabilities and is being developed under the Ministry of Defence’s iDEX Aatmanirbhar Bharat initiative.
14. The much-delayed Axiom-4 mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 12:01 pm IST towards the ISS. India marked a momentous return to human spaceflight on Wednesday as Shubhanshu Shukla became the first Indian astronaut to reach the International Space Station (ISS), 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s historic mission..
15. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday strongly condemned recent Israeli strikes on Iran, Syria and Lebanon, calling on the international community to take immediate action. The Istanbul Declaration, adopted after the 51st session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, described these attacks as blatant violations of international law and national sovereignty. It also urged strict adherence to regional treaties, such as the Indus Waters Treaty between India and Pakistan, to prevent further destabilisation across South Asia and the Middle East.
16. India achieved milestone by securing a position among the top 100 countries in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Index. This ranking is part of the Sustainable Development Report, which evaluates the progress of nations in achieving the 17 SDGs established in 2015. India ranks 99th out of 193 countries, scoring 67 points.
17. A total of three thousand 154 Indian nationals have been brought to India from Iran under the Operation Sindhu.
18. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), in partnership with Romania, is conducting the largest-ever international nuclear emergency exercise named ConvEx-3. This 36-hour drill simulates a severe nuclear accident at the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant, Romania’s sole nuclear energy facility. The objective is simple but vital — to assess global emergency response capabilities in the event of a radiological disaster.
19. All NATO members have agreed to raise defence and security spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035.
20. The Iranian Parliament approved a bill suspending cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
21. India’s golden boy of athletics, Neeraj Chopra, continued his dominant form in the 2025 athletics season by winning the men’s javelin throw title at the prestigious Ostrava Golden Spike meet held in the Czech Republic on June 25, 2025.