Current Affairs One-liners — 17 December 2024
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid the foundation stone for 24 energy, road, railway and water projects worth over ₹46,300 crore in Jaipur on 17 December 2024.
- The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Amendment) Bill, 2024 and the Union Territories Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024 were introduced in the Lok Sabha on 17 December 2024.
- Union Minister Jitendra Singh unveiled Kisan Kavach, a first-of-its-kind anti-pesticide bodysuit for farmers, on 17 December 2024.
- CSIR and AIIMS New Delhi signed an umbrella MoU for collaborative research in healthcare at AIIMS New Delhi on 17 December 2024.
- The Technology Development Board of DST sanctioned financial assistance to Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos for its Agnibaan launch vehicle, the ministry said on 17 December 2024.
- The keel of Magdala (BY 528), the sixth ship of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft project, was laid at Cochin Shipyard, Kochi on 17 December 2024.
- CBIC Chairman Sanjay Kumar Agarwal launched four initiatives to improve taxpayer services on 17 December 2024.
- C-DOT signed an agreement with Silizium Circuits Pvt Ltd, a startup under IIT Hyderabad's fabless chip design incubator, for LEO satellite components and a GNSS RF front-end ASIC, as announced on 17 December 2024.
- IIT Ropar opened the Dr Ranbir Singh Tinkerers' Lab, a maker space open to all students round the clock, as announced on 17 December 2024.
- The Central Zoo Authority held a stakeholder consultation workshop on 17 December 2024 to develop a National Wildlife Health Policy.