📘 Daily Current Affairs: 02 September 2025
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Today’s Current Affairs – 02 September 2025
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Key highlights for 02 September current affairs 2025 include Semicon India 2025 inauguration by PM Modi, India’s 7.8% GDP growth in Q1 FY26, updates from the SCO Summit in Tianjin, new state schemes like UP Mahila Rojgar Yojana and Tamil Nadu EV Policy, and important developments in West Asia and Ukraine. Whether you are revising for UPSC Prelims, practicing current affairs for SSC GK, or preparing banking exam general awareness, our current affairs and GK today section helps you stay exam-ready.
🏛 National Affairs
- PM Modi inaugurated Semicon India 2025 at Yashobhoomi, Noida, unlocking ₹1.5 lakh crore investments with Micron & Tata.
- Health Insurance penetration reached 45%; IRDA proposed reforms due to rising claim rejections.
- Lokpal received 5,000 complaints in Q2 FY26, probing 20 high-profile cases.
- RESET Programme launched for retired athletes; ECHS expanded to 30 lakh beneficiaries.
🌍 International Affairs
- At the SCO Summit (Tianjin), Xi Jinping pushed for a “new global order”; PM Modi attended with Putin.
- Israeli strikes killed 31 in Gaza; UN scholars called it genocide.
- Russian drone attack on Kyiv killed 21, damaging EU offices.
- Kim Jong-un visited China; India sent aid to Afghanistan after 6.2 quake.
💹 Economy & Finance
- India’s Q1 FY26 GDP at 7.8%, led by manufacturing (8.2%) & services (9.3%).
- US 50% tariffs on Indian exports may affect $48B trade, especially textiles & pharma.
- Fiscal deficit at 29.9% of target (₹4.68 lakh crore).
- CAD narrowed to 0.7% of GDP; RBI reserves at $682B.
- RBI to issue ₹20,000 crore green bonds; markets volatile, Sensex at 80,500.
🏛 Polity & Governance
- Supreme Court at full strength (34 judges) – Justices Alok Aradhe & Vipul Pancholi sworn in.
- NITI Aayog warned of demographic dividend as a “time bomb” if youth remain unskilled.
- Hybrid exam reforms proposed to reduce paper leaks.
🔬 Science & Technology
- India-Japan signed low-carbon tech MoC for Lakshadweep under JCM.
- Satellite data linked lightning & air pollution shifts, aiding NCAP.
🌱 Environment & Ecology
- World Bank report: $1T annual losses from pollution; Delhi-NCR highlighted.
- Red squirrel study showed resilience to climate change, parallel to Western Ghats.
- SEEI 2024: Maharashtra topped in energy efficiency.
🛡 Defence & Security
- SCO condemned Pahalgam terror attack; India-Russia affirmed defence ties.
- Project NAMAN expanded for veterans’ pensions & welfare.
🏆 Sports
- Scouts & Guides received Rashtrapati Awards.
- Anahat Singh won PSA squash award.
- Gukesh D. featured in National Sports Awards 2025.
🏞 State Current Affairs
- UP: Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana launched – ₹5,000 monthly stipend for 1 crore women.
- Maharashtra: ₹50,000 crore Mumbai Coastal Road extension approved.
- Bihar: ₹225 crore flood relief for 12 districts.
- Tamil Nadu: EV Policy 2025 – 1 million jobs, 30% adoption by 2030.
- Kerala: HC stayed stray dog culling amid rabies deaths.
- West Bengal: Aparajita Bill passed – death penalty for rape convicts.
🏅 Awards & Honors
- Ramon Magsaysay 2025 awarded to Indian activists non-profit organization “Foundation to Educate Girls Globally‘, dedicated to mobilise community and government resources for girls’ education in rural and educationally disadvantaged areas of India. It is the first Indian organization to receive the prestigious prize, widely considered Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
📅 Important Days
- International Day Against Nuclear Tests (29 August echo).
📝 Current Affairs Quiz – 02 September 2025
Q1. Semicon India 2025 inaugurated by?
a) Amit Shah
b) Narendra Modi
c) Rajnath Singh
d) Nirmala Sitharaman
Q2. Q1 FY26 GDP growth?
a) 6.5%
b) 7.8%
c) 8.2%
d) 9.0%
Q3. SCO Summit venue?
a) Beijing
b) Tianjin
c) Delhi
d) Moscow
Q4. Israeli strikes in Gaza killed how many on Sept 2?
a) 21
b) 31
c) 41
d) 51
Q5. Anahat Singh’s sport?
a) Chess
b) Squash
c) Hockey
d) Athletics
Q6. CAD Q1 FY26 % of GDP?
a) 0.7%
b) 1.1%
c) 1.5%
d) 2.0%
Q7. Xi pushed for what at SCO?
a) Unipolar World
b) New Global Order
c) Trade Wars
d) Sanctions
Q8. Cloudburst in?
a) Kerala
b) Uttarakhand
c) Maharashtra
d) Bihar
Q9. First semiconductor fab investment?
a) ₹50,000 crore
b) ₹91,000 crore
c) ₹1.5 lakh crore
d) ₹2 lakh crore
Q10. UP Mahila Rojgar Yojana stipend?
a) ₹2,000
b) ₹5,000
c) ₹10,000
d) ₹15,000
Q11. Maharashtra Coastal Road extension cost?
a) ₹20,000 crore
b) ₹50,000 crore
c) ₹75,000 crore
d) ₹100,000 crore
Q12. Bihar flood relief?
a) ₹100 crore
b) ₹225 crore
c) ₹500 crore
d) ₹1,000 crore
Q13. TN EV jobs target by 2030?
a) 500,000
b) 1 Million
c) 2 Million
d) 5 Million
Q14. Kerala HC on?
a) EV Policy
b) Dog Culling
c) Floods
d) Gig Workers
Q15. WB Aparajita Bill penalty?
a) Life
b) Death
c) Fine
d) Service
✅ Answers
- b) Narendra Modi
- b) 7.8%
- b) Tianjin
- b) 31
- b) Squash
- a) 0.7%
- b) New Global Order
- b) Uttarakhand
- b) ₹91,000 crore
- b) ₹5,000
- b) ₹50,000 crore
- b) ₹225 crore
- b) 1 Million
- b) Dog Culling
- b) Death