Top 10 Current Affairs March 2025

Sunita Williams is back on Earth, ICCI the Champions Trophy, Oscars 2025, and many more! We're back with our March 2025 monthly current affairs roundup, bringing you the most important events and developments from the past month.

This comprehensive current affairs update will boost your General Knowledge and help you stay ahead in UPSC, SSC, Banking, Railways, Defence, State PSC, Teaching Exams, and other competitive exams. Stay informed. Keep reading! 💯

1/ List of New Appointments in March 2025

Also Read: List of Enactment & Enforcement Dates of Important Acts in India

2/ National

2.1/ India's 1st Solar Mission Creates History

• Aditya L 1 Captures first ever image of a Solar Flare, ‘Kernel’

2.2/ India - Largest Milk Producer in the world

• India currently produces 239 million tons (MMT) of milk

DYK? Our nation contributes more than 24% of global milk production, with the per capita milk consumption being 471 grams/day.

2.3/ PM Modi conferred one more Country Honour

• Country: Barbados

• Conferred Honorary Order of Freedom of Barbados 

• Recognized his strategic leadership & assistance during the COVID-19 - pandemic.

3/ International

3.1/ NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore & Sunita Williams return to Earth.

• 5 June 2024: Starliner launched from NASA's Space Launch Complex-41, and docked with the International Space Station.

• A minor helium leak in the propulsion system was detected before takeoff and during the journey

•  Initially set for 18 June, the return was rescheduled on 2 July 2024 

•  August 2024: NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov launched to the ISS on board the Dragon Freedom spacecraft.

•  18 March 2025: Four members (NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore & Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov) of the Crew 9 mission / down in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico near Tallahassee, Florida. 

DYK? Sunita Williams set a record by becoming the first woman astronaut to have the longest space walk (62 hours and 6 minutes).

3.2/ Letter of Intent (Lol) signed between India and Singapore

•  Lol signed on collaboration during the ongoing Singapore Maritime Week (SMW). 

•  Aim to promote Maritime digitalisation and decarbonisation with both Nations working towards reducing Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

3.3/ Declaration of the Official Language of the US

• Language: English

• The decision would help bring Unity to a nation with people from different backgrounds. 

DYK? This is the first time in United States history that the Federal government has officially declared a national language. 

4/ States

4.1/  The Language Debate

• State: Tamil Nadu 

•  The state government substituted the Indian rupee symbol ‘₹’ with the Tamil character ‘ரூ’ in its state budget for 2025 

• Reason: to promote the Tamil language and resist the enforcement of Hindi. 

DYK? The official rupees symbol, ‘₹’, was designed by Uday Kumar, a tamilan and son of a former DMK MLA. 

Want to know if India has a national language? Read this simple explainer

4.2/ First State to Establish Senior Citizen Commission 

• State: Kerala

• Aim:
  1. To safeguard the rights and welfare of elderly citizens.
  2. Also acts as an advisory body for policy making.

• Composition: 
  1. The commission will consist of a chairperson and up to 3 members.
  2. One member will be a woman, while another will represent a Scheduled Caste or Schedule of Tribes.

DYK? According to the United Nations Population Fund, by 2036, 22.8% of Kerala's population will be aged 60 and above. 

4.3/ 1st Indian state to launch its own satellite

• State: Assam

• Name of the satellite: ASSAMSAT

• Aim: two bolster data access for crucial social-economic initiatives and enhance Border Security 

• Developed INSPACe (Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre) and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation)

5/ Schemes & Initiatives

5.1/ Samarth Program

• Launched by: Centre  for Development of Telematics (C-DOT)

• Aim: To foster innovation in the telecommunications and IT sector

• Will support startups and innovators in Telecom Software Applications, Cybersecurity, 5G/ 6G, AI, IoT and Quantum Technology.

5.2/ Baalpan ki Kawita

• Launched by the Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE & L) under the Ministry of Education.

• Aim: to preserve and promote Indian rhymes and poems for young children.

• Compile a collection of nursery rhymes and poems in multiple Indian languages 

6/ Defence

6.1/ Exercise Indra 2025

• Edition: 14th 

• Countries: India & Russia

• Host: Chennai (India)

6.2/ Exercise Sea Dragon

• Naval Exercise

• Location: Guam Coast ( Western Pacific Ocean) 

• Hosted by: United Nations Navy's 7th Fleet.

6.3/ Launch of Indian Navy Frigate Tavasya

• Part of Project: 1135.6

• Launched by: Goa Shipyard Limited

• Designed for multi-role combat operations across air, surface and sub-surface domains.

• About Project 1135.6:

1.  Class of stealth-guided missile frigates.

2.  Built by Russia for the Indian Navy 

3.  First vessel under the project: INS: Tushil (launched in 2021)

7/ Sports

7.1/ ICC Champions Trophy 2025

• Edition: 9th 

• Host: Pakistan & UAE

• Winners: India 

• Runners-Up: New Zealand

• Player of the Series: Rachin Ravindra

Interesting Facts & Records

•  Afghanistan made its first appearance in the Champions Trophy tournament 

•  Afghanistan Ibrahim Zadran, by scoring 177 runs, created a record for the highest individual score in Champions Trophy history 

•  The Champions Trophy started as the ICC knockout cup in 1998. The First Two editions were played under this name until 2002

About Champions Trophy

• 1st Edition: 1998 (hosted by Bangladesh)

• Maximum Winners: India (03 times)

• Most runs: Chris Gayle

• Most Wickets: Kyle Mills

• Next Edition: (2029) host: India

7.2/ 1st Team to qualify for FIFA 2026 after the host Nation

• Japan

• FIFA 2026 host: Mexico, USA, Canada

DYK? This will be the 8th consecutive appearance of Japan in the FIFA World Cup. 

7.3/ Kabaddi World Cup 2025

• Host: United Kingdom

• Winners (Men & Women): India

• The tournament is being hosted outside Asia for the first time.

Also read: National Sports Day – celebrating Indian sports legends.

8/ Awards

8.1/ Oscars 2025

• Edition: 97th 

• Host: Conan O’Brien

• Important Oscar Awardees 2025 Oscars

  Category	Winner
  Best Picture Best Actor (Male) Best Actor (Female) Best Director	Anora Adrian Broody (The Brutalist) Mikey Madison (Anora) Sean Baker (Anora)

• Indians who have won Oscars

  Winner	Movie
  Kartiki Gonsalves, Guneet Monga	The Elephant Whisperers
  M. M. Keeravani (Music), Chandrabose (Lyrics)	RRR (2022)
  Bhanu Athaiya	Gandhi (1982)
  Gulzar, Resul Pookutty, A.R. Rahman	Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

8.2/ IIFA Awards 2025

• Winners:

1. Best Picture: Laapataa Ladies

2. Best Direction: Kiran Rao (Laapataa Ladies)

3. Best Performance in a Leading Role (Male): Kartik Aaryan (Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3)

4. Best Performance in a Leading Role (Female): Nitanshi Goel (Laapataa Ladies)

8.3/ Jnanpith Award 2025

•  India's highest literary honour 

•  Edition: 59th

•  Awarded to: Vinod Kumar Shukla

•  Recognised for his outstanding contribution to Hindi literature.

If you’re curious about more prestigious Indian awards, check out our updated list of Bharat Ratna recipients.

9/ Reports and Rankings 

9.1/ Aadhaar Good Governance Portal

•  Launched by: Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. 

•  Streamline the approval process for Aadhar authentication requests ensuring seamless access to various public and private sector services. 

9.2/ Brand Finance Insurance 100 (2025) Report

• By: Brand Finance

• Top: PZU (Poland)

• India's LIC ranked 3rd Largest and Strongest Insurance Brand globally.

• LIC has achieved a BSI score of 88/100

DYK? SBI Life is the only other Indian Insurer in the top 100, ranking 76th 

9.3/ World Happiness Rankings

•  A study conducted by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford in collaboration with Gallup and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

• Top: Finland

• India RaObituaries

10/ Obituaries

10.1/ Ron Draper

• Oldest surviving Test Cricketer (98 years)

•  Represented South Africa in international cricket

10.2/ Garimella Balakrishna

•  Classical singer

•  Former Asthana Vidwan (court musician) of Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD)

10.3/ Arvind Singh Mehvar 

•  Descendant of Maharana Pratap 

•  Chairman of the HRH group of hotels.

Here's the BONUS! Special Days in March 2025 | List of National & International Important Days

You may also read- Top 10 Current Affairs February 2025