Current Affairs

February 2025 was the month that rewrote Delhi's political map after 27 years, handed Assam its biggest-ever investment pitch, and forced the Constitution's emergency provision into one of Northeast India's most troubled states. At the centre of it all sat one document — the Union Budget — that quietly reshaped the rules for 140 crore people's tax obligations.

In March 2025, India lifted cricket's Champions Trophy for a record third time — undefeated throughout the entire tournament. In the same month, a 17th-century Mughal emperor's tomb sparked the worst communal violence in Nagpur in 300 years. And two NASA astronauts who launched for an 8-day mission came home 286 days later. Three stories: one of triumph, one of tension, one of resilience.

April 2025 will be remembered as the month that shook India's security establishment, rewrote a century-old Islamic property law, brought home a 26/11 fugitive after 17 years, ended a 12-year papacy, and made a decision about caste that India had deferred since 1931. Five events — each carrying the weight of decades.

May 2025 was the month India went to war — briefly, precisely, and decisively. For four days, the two nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged missiles, drones, and airstrikes before a ceasefire held. The IPL paused mid-match. Virat Kohli retired from Tests. An American became Pope. And in Assam, voters delivered their clearest verdict in panchayat elections in a generation.

June 2025 delivered India its darkest aviation tragedy in decades, its greatest railway engineering triumph in 28 years, its first astronaut in space in 41 years, and an unexpected diplomatic reset with a country that had accused it of murder. Four stories — two of achievement, one of loss, and one of pragmatism.

July 2025 closed the loop on Pahalgam. Three months after 26 tourists were murdered in Baisaran Valley, the three men responsible were killed in a Srinagar forest — tracked by a Huawei satellite phone pinging a satellite 36,000 km above the Earth. In the same month, a 19-year-old from Nagpur became a chess grandmaster by winning the Women's World Cup, Assam launched India's first Aqua Tech Park, and the nation marked 26 years since its greatest high-altitude military victory.

August 2025 was the month India's relationship with its oldest strategic partner — the United States — entered its most turbulent phase in decades. With 50% tariffs imposed on Indian exports citing Russian oil purchases, India's Independence Day speech became a statement of strategic defiance rather than just celebration. In Assam, a new chapter for girls' education began. In England, a new era of Indian cricket — without Kohli, without Rohit — found its footing with a dramatic series draw.

September 2025 rewrote several pages of Indian institutional history simultaneously. The GST — India's most ambitious tax reform — was simplified for the first time since its 2017 launch. The post of Vice President, vacant for six weeks after an unprecedented mid-term resignation, was filled by election. The Supreme Court pulled the brakes on the Waqf law. India's first supersonic jet bowed out after 62 years. And Assam's ground shook — literally — as a 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Udalguri, a reminder that the state sits atop one of the world's most seismically active fault systems.

October 2025 opened the skies between Asia's two largest nations after five years of diplomatic deep-freeze — IndiGo flight 6E 1703 from Kolkata to Guangzhou was not just a flight, it was a signal. The Nobel Prizes recognised quantum mechanics, porous materials that can harvest water from desert air, the immune system's referees, Venezuelan democracy's most tenacious defender, a Hungarian novelist who writes about civilisational collapse, and economists who explained why technology — not just capital or labour — is what sustains growth. In Assam, ULFA (I) attacked an army camp. And for 5 crore central government employees and pensioners, a major milestone: the 8th Pay Commission's terms were formally approved.