Current Affairs One-liners — 04 January 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Sat, 04 Jan 2025
- ICMR will increase the number of laboratories testing for HMPV and track its trends for the whole year.
- The 4–9 January festival, organised with NABARD, carries the theme 'Building a Resilient Rural India for a Viksit Bharat 2047'.
- Production grew 7.28% and dispatch 6.56% over 2023, both all-time highs.
- The 5,600 nautical mile third leg to Port Stanley crosses the Drake Passage and Cape Horn.
- Chidambaram played a key role in the 1974 test and led the DAE team in the 1998 Pokhran-II tests.
- Khobragade moves from the ASEAN mission, which Gotru, a Joint Secretary in MEA, will now head.
- The ₹75.95 crore, 5.38-acre campus doubles first-year intake from 33 to 66.
- The ₹36.41 crore barrier-free campus at Y. Pudupatti will serve persons with disabilities in southern Tamil Nadu.
- India's National Metrology Institute also released a new Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya for X-ray diffraction calibration.
- Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Guest at the display of warships, aircraft, submarines and MARCOS.