CURRENT AFFAIRS

At the Mobile Conclave held in New Delhi, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia announced that Elon Musk's Starlink has got the license to provide satellite internet service in India.

India’s digital payments system has shown phenomenal growth in recent years, reflecting the country’s rapid progress towards a digital economy. According to the recent data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the RBI Digital Payments Index (RBI-DPI) reached 493.22 in March 2025, up significantly from 465.33 in September 2024.

On July 29, 2025, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India’s leading electric vehicle manufacturer ‘Ather Energy Limited’.

For the first time in the world, the Australian government has decided that from December 2025, children under the age of 16 will be prohibited from creating YouTube accounts.

National Mountaineering Day is celebrated every year on 1 August.

Recently, the Indian Army successfully conducted a high-tech exercise – ‘Drone Prahar’ – in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh. 

Reliance Jio has launched a new cloud-based virtual desktop called JioPC, a major initiative to make digital services more affordable and accessible in India.

Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan has written a letter to the Chief Ministers of all the states requesting them to immediately stop the 'forced tagging' of nano-fertilizers or biostimulants with conventional fertilizers.

While Indian cities are poised to drive economic growth and employment, they are also increasingly vulnerable to climate risks, particularly urban flooding, according to a recent World Bank report.

Extreme weather events such as floods, landslides and droughts are becoming more frequent and unpredictable due to climate change in India. Traditional insurance models are inadequate to deal with these unpredictable and frequent disasters.