Current Affairs : 17 August 2025

Current Affairs

17 August 2025

• Microsoft tops the list of the Top 500 Global Brands, followed by NVIDIA in second place and Apple in third.
• At the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne 2025, the film Homebound won the Best Film award. Its director, Neeraj Ghaywan, also won the Best Director award for the same film.
• IIT Guwahati has partnered with the NFR (Northeast Frontier Railway) to produce environmentally friendly Bed-Roll Bags.
• The ‘Ulchi Freedom Shield 2025’ joint military exercise will be conducted between South Korea and the United States.
• The Central Government has launched the ‘PM Viksit Bharat Scheme’ to provide a one-time payment of ₹15,000 to young people getting their first job in the private sector.
• The GRSE (Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers) has provided the ‘Ikshak’ survey vessel to the Indian Navy.
• ISRO has inaugurated a Space Laboratory in the town of Mechuka, located in Arunachal Pradesh.
• The 1st Khelo India Water Sports Festival (KIWSF) will be held at Dal Lake in Srinagar.
• The Governor of Nagaland, La Ganesan, has recently passed away at the age of 80.
• Mathematician Rajula Srivastava has won the Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize for her contributions to Harmonic Analysis and Analytic Number Theory.