Current Affairs Quiz – August 2025

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National Commission for Women (NCW) launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy Program named “Yashoda AI” in May 2025. The program aims to equip women across India with AI literacy for better digital inclusion. It focuses on empowering women in areas like cyber security, digital privacy, and safe online practices. Till date, around 2500 women from rural and semi-urban areas have received training under this program. Beneficiaries include Self-Help Group (SHG) members, elected representatives like Sarpanchs, MLAs, ASHA workers, students, faculty, micro-entrepreneurs, police, and government officials. This update was shared by Minister of State for Women and Child Development Smt. Savitri Thakur in Rajya Sabha.

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Kabak Yano, a mountaineer from Arunachal Pradesh, has successfully climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. She is on a Seven Summits expedition to scale the tallest peaks on all seven continents. Mount Kilimanjaro, located in northeastern Tanzania near the Kenya border, stands 5,895 meters above sea level. It is Africa’s tallest peak and the world’s highest free-standing mountain. Kilimanjaro is a stratovolcano with three cones — Kibo (dormant), Mawenzi, and Shira (both extinct).

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The 12th edition of The World Games is held from 7 to 17 August 2025 in Chengdu, China. The World Games are organised every four years since 1981 and feature sports not included in the Olympic programme. This edition includes 253 medal events across 34 sports and 60 disciplines. A 17-member Indian team is participating in five sports — Archery, Billiards, Roller Skating, Wushu, and Racquetball. India has been competing since 1981 and has won five medals so far — one gold, one silver, and three bronze. India’s only gold was won by Aditya Mehta in billiards in 2013.

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India ranked 67th in the Numbeo Safety Index mid-2025 with a score of 55.8. Mangalore emerged as India’s safest city, ranked 49th globally with a safety index score of 74.2. Gujarat’s Vadodara, Ahmedabad, and Surat followed with scores of 69.2, 68.2, and 66.6 respectively. New Delhi, Noida, and Ghaziabad were among India’s most unsafe cities with high crime index scores of 59.03, 55.1, and 58.44. Rankings were based on public perceptions of crimes like robbery, assault, harassment, and vandalism. Globally, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, led for the ninth year with a score of 88.8.

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Recently, IIT Roorkee developed a new drug candidate, Compound 3b, to fight deadly drug-resistant bacteria. It targets KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, a World Health Organization (WHO) top-priority superbug. Compound 3b is a β-lactamase inhibitor that stops bacterial enzymes from breaking down antibiotics. It works with the antibiotic Meropenem, restoring its effectiveness against resistant infections. Preclinical lab and animal tests showed major infection reduction in lungs and safety to human cells. It marks a major step against antimicrobial resistance and boosts India’s role in global biomedical research.

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Union Minister of State for Science & Technology Jitendra Singh inaugurated India’s first ‘Animal Stem Cell Biobank’ at National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad. NIAB is under Department of Biotechnology’s Biotechnology Research Innovation Council (BRIC). The Biobank will store high-quality stem cells from various animal species and supply cost-effective culture media to veterinary clinics, research bodies, and industry.

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World Elephant Day is celebrated every year on 12th August to raise global awareness for elephant conservation and protect their habitats. On 12th August 2025, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and Tamil Nadu Forest Department celebrated World Elephant Day in Coimbatore. A workshop on Human-Elephant Conflict (HEC) was held for elephant range states to share challenges and mitigation strategies under Project Elephant. World Elephant Day was co-founded on 12th August 2012 by Patricia Sims and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation of Thailand.

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Karnataka launched KATALYST, an Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) cell, to support Global Capability Centers (GCCs) under the GCC Policy 2024-29. It will act as a single-window platform to streamline investments and fast-track approvals. Announcement was made during Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS) 2025. Karnataka contributes 44% of India’s software exports and aims to add 500 GCCs by 2029, creating 3.5 lakh jobs and generating $50 billion output.

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Recently, an expert panel of the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change recommended environmental clearance for the 3,087 Megawatt (MW) Etalin Hydroelectric Project. Etalin is a large run-of-river hydro project on the Dri and Tangon Rivers in Arunachal Pradesh’s Dibang Valley. The Dri River meets Mathun, then joins Tangon near Etalin village, after which it is called the Dibang River. The project will build concrete gravity dams to divert water through two separate waterway systems.

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Jharkhand Women’s Hockey Team won the 15th Junior National Women’s Hockey Championship for the second consecutive year by defeating Hockey Haryana 2-1 in the finals. The championship was held in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, from August 1-12, 2025. Sweety Dungdung and Shanti Kimari scored for Jharkhand in the 10th and 12th minutes. Sweety Dungdung was the highest goal scorer with 5 goals in the tournament. Jharkhand has won the Junior National title in 2018, 2019, 2024, and 2025. In 2025, Jharkhand won National Championships in Senior, Junior, and Sub-junior categories.