Current Affairs One-liners — 14 February 2025

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

• The 38th National Games in Uttarakhand closed at Haldwani on 14 February 2025, with the Services Sports Control Board finishing as overall champions.
• Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced the Lakhpati Didi Sahayika Yojana in the Assembly on 14 February 2025 to fund the pay of over 62,000 women community support staff.
• Principal Scientific Adviser Ajay Kumar Sood inaugurated the first Rural Technology Action Group (RuTAGe) Smart Village Centre at Mandaura village in Sonipat, Haryana, on 14 February 2025.
• Invest Karnataka 2025, the state's Global Investors' Meet, concluded in Bengaluru on 14 February 2025 with investment commitments of ₹10.27 lakh crore.
• The Commerce Ministry said on 14 February 2025 that annual inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index was 2.31% (provisional) in January 2025.
• The Gujarat government introduced G-SAFAL (Gujarat Scheme for Antyodaya Families for Augmenting Livelihoods) on 14 February 2025 to support 50,000 Antyodaya Anna Yojana families over five years.
• BSNL reported a profit of ₹262 crore for the third quarter of 2024-25, announced on 14 February 2025, its first return to profit since 2007.
• At the close of India Energy Week 2025 on 14 February 2025, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri reiterated India's goal of raising natural gas to 15% of its energy mix.
• Home Minister Amit Shah reviewed the implementation of the three new criminal laws in Maharashtra with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in New Delhi on 14 February 2025.
• INS Sujata and ICGS Veera of the Indian Navy's First Training Squadron arrived at Sihanoukville Port, Cambodia, on 14 February 2025.
• On Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day, 14 February 2025, Coal India subsidiaries CCL and NCL signed MoUs with the Sri Sathya Sai Health & Education Trust for heart surgeries for children under 'Nanha Sa Dil'.
• The Central Consumer Protection Authority said on 14 February 2025 that it had imposed a ₹3 lakh penalty on IITian's Prashikshan Kendra for misleading claims about IIT-JEE results.
• The five-day IIAS-DARPG India Conference 2025 concluded in New Delhi on 14 February 2025 with over 750 delegates from 58 countries.
• Commerce MoS Jitin Prasada met Myanmar's Deputy Commerce Minister U Minn Minn in New Delhi on 14 February 2025 to discuss bilateral trade.
• The eighth Missile cum Ammunition (MCA) Barge for the Indian Navy, LSAM 11 (Yard 79), was launched at Mira Bhayandar, Maharashtra, on 14 February 2025.