Current Affairs — 04 January 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sat, 04 Jan 2025
Health Ministry's Joint Monitoring Group finds no unusual surge in respiratory illness amid China reports
ICMR will increase the number of laboratories testing for HMPV and track its trends for the whole year.
PM Modi inaugurates Grameen Bharat Mahotsav 2025 at Bharat Mandapam
The 4–9 January festival, organised with NABARD, carries the theme 'Building a Resilient Rural India for a Viksit Bharat 2047'.
Coal production hits record 1,039.59 million tonnes in calendar year 2024
Production grew 7.28% and dispatch 6.56% over 2023, both all-time highs.
INSV Tarini leaves Lyttelton, New Zealand, on longest leg of Navika Sagar Parikrama II
The 5,600 nautical mile third leg to Port Stanley crosses the Drake Passage and Cape Horn.
Nuclear scientist Rajagopala Chidambaram, former AEC Chairman and PSA, passes away
Chidambaram played a key role in the 1974 test and led the DAE team in the 1998 Pokhran-II tests.
Jayant N. Khobragade named Ambassador to Poland; Srinivas Gotru to be Ambassador to ASEAN
Khobragade moves from the ASEAN mission, which Gotru, a Joint Secretary in MEA, will now head.
Giriraj Singh inaugurates new campus of Indian Institute of Handloom Technology at Fulia, West Bengal
The ₹75.95 crore, 5.38-acre campus doubles first-year intake from 33 to 66.
Virendra Kumar inaugurates services of CRC Madurai and lays foundation of its new building
The ₹36.41 crore barrier-free campus at Y. Pudupatti will serve persons with disabilities in southern Tamil Nadu.
CSIR-National Physical Laboratory marks 79th Foundation Day; signs MoU with IIT Madras
India's National Metrology Institute also released a new Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya for X-ray diffraction calibration.
Eastern Naval Command holds Operational Demonstration at Ramakrishna Beach, Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Guest at the display of warships, aircraft, submarines and MARCOS.