Current Affairs One-liners — 04 February 2025
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
- On 4 February 2025, in New Delhi, Sahitya Akademi President Madhav Kaushik approved the Sahitya Akademi Award 2024 in Dogri for 'Ik Hor Ashwthama', a short-story collection by the late Chaman Arora.
- Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan inaugurated residential accommodation for senior sailors and the Main Distribution Sub Station at Naval Base Karwar on 4 February 2025, as part of Phase IIA of Project Seabird.
- On 4 February 2025, in New Delhi, the Commerce Ministry said the volume of India's fruit and vegetable exports grew 47.3% between 2019-20 and 2023-24, helped by APEDA's financial assistance schemes.
- On 4 February 2025, in New Delhi, Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said India has become the world's second-largest mobile manufacturing country, with over 300 units against 2 in 2014.
- The 3rd India–Japan Steel Dialogue, organised by India's Ministry of Steel and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), was held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, on 4 February 2025.
- Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims and founder of the Aga Khan Development Network, passed away in Lisbon, Portugal, on 4 February 2025, aged 88; PM Modi condoled his passing.
- On 4 February 2025, in Mohali, Punjab, the Department of Science and Technology announced that the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) had developed a self-actuating drug delivery system for rheumatoid arthritis.
- On 4 February 2025, in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh said patrolling along the India-China border had been restored to its traditional pattern after disengagement, and recalled that 38,000 sq km of Aksai Chin has been under Chinese control since 1962.
- On 4 February 2025, in New Delhi, Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy met Saudi Arabia's Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef to strengthen cooperation in critical minerals.
- MeitY Secretary S Krishnan inaugurated the NIELIT Centre of Excellence in Chip Design at its Noida campus on 4 February 2025, set up with DPIIT-recognised startup SoCTeamup Semiconductors.
- On 4 February 2025, in New Delhi, the Indian Statistical Institute held its 59th Convocation at its Delhi centre, with Prof Abhijit Banerjee delivering the convocation address.