Latest current affairs of the Day for 18th May 2025
- Indian Space Research Organisation’s Earth Observation Satellite EOS-09 aboard the PSLV-C61, which was launched from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh this morning, could not complete its mission . It encountered some technical problem during the third stage.
- Conservation project was completed for Rajon ki Baoli, a 16th-century stepwell in Mehrauli Archaeological Park, New Delhi. This project was led by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in partnership with the World Monuments Fund India (WMFI) and the TCS Foundation.
- The Shillong-Silchar Highway project is set to transform connectivity in North-East India. This 166.8 km four-lane highway will connect Mawlyngkhung in Meghalaya to Panchgram in Assam. It is the first high-speed corridor in the region and is expected to be completed by 2030.
- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Sunday (May 18, 2025) appointed Akash Anand as the party’s chief national coordinator, during a special meeting held in New Delhi.
- Telangana government is gearing up to launch a new scheme for the regularisation of the houses constructed in the government lands. Eyeing to generate at least Rs 7,000 crore through the new scheme.
- The Supreme Court of India has recently mandated states and Union Territories to establish special teams to investigate whether reserved forest land has been improperly allocated to private individuals or institutions. The court’s decision marks the need to reclaim such land for forest departments within one year.
- Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday alleged that Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi visited Pakistan on an invitation from its spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence .
Allahabad high court upheld the appointment of professor Naima Khatoon as the vice-chancellor (VC) of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on Saturday. Naima Khatoon became the first woman to hold the VC’s post in the University’s over 100-year history who earlier served as Principal of AMU women’s college. - 17 members of a family died in a fire accident at Gulzar House near the historic Charminar in Hyderabad of Telangana. The casualties include 8 children all below 7 years of age and six women. Director General of Telangana Disaster Response and Fire Services Y Nagi Reddy informed that the victims died due to suffocation.
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slapped 11 new conditions on Pakistan for the release of the next tranche of its bailout programme . IMF also warned that tensions with India could heighten risks to the scheme’s fiscal, external and reform goals.
- Exercise Teesta Prahar was military field exercise conducted by the Indian Army in May 2025. It took place at the Teesta Field Firing Range in West Bengal.
- Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani Khalid alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, who was the brain behind the 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters, was killed by three unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan.