Current Affairs One-liners — 24 January 2025

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

• The inaugural Fiscal Health Index 2025 of NITI Aayog, launched in New Delhi on 24 January 2025, ranked Odisha first among 18 major states with a score of 67.8.
• Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and Udaipur (Rajasthan) were among 31 newly accredited Wetland Cities announced by the Ramsar Convention on 24 January 2025, becoming the first Indian cities on the list.
• Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed the inaugural function of the International Year of Cooperatives 2025 in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 24 January 2025 and inaugurated the corporate office of NUCFDC, the umbrella body for urban cooperative banks.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh flagged off 'SANJAY – The Battlefield Surveillance System', developed by the Indian Army and BEL at a cost of ₹2,402 crore, from South Block, New Delhi on 24 January 2025.
• Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Manohar Lal inaugurated four Karimnagar Smart City projects in Telangana on 24 January 2025.
• The Government e Marketplace said on 24 January 2025 that its gross merchandise value had reached ₹4.09 lakh crore as on 23 January, surpassing last year's high within 10 months of FY 2024-25.
• The 86th meeting of the Network Planning Group under PM GatiShakti, held on 24 January 2025, evaluated two railway and two highway projects, including Vadodara–Ratlam quadrupling.
• Coal Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt virtually inaugurated digital classrooms in government schools in Jharkhand under Coal India's 'Digi Vidya' CSR initiative on 24 January 2025.
• The Department of Telecommunications said on 24 January 2025 that telcos had blocked more than 20 foreign carriers handing over spoofed international calls, acting on citizens' reports on the Sanchar Saathi app and portal.
• ESIC's provisional payroll data released on 24 January 2025 showed 16.07 lakh new employees enrolled under the ESI Scheme in November 2024.