Defence & Security Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

• The barge was built by MSME shipyard SECON Engineering Projects, Visakhapatnam.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

• The barge was built by MSME shipyard Suryadipta Projects, Thane, under an eleven-barge contract.

Sun, 05 Jan 2025

• The two vessels are the third and fourth of eight FPVs, launched together for the first time using GSL's ship-lift.
• 2,361 cadets, including 917 girl cadets, from 17 NCC Directorates are taking part.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025

• The 5,600 nautical mile third leg to Port Stanley crosses the Drake Passage and Cape Horn.
• Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Guest at the display of warships, aircraft, submarines and MARCOS.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

• The group makes port calls at Goa and Kochi and holds a PASSEX with the Indian Navy's Western Fleet.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025

• Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis also launched MSRTC bus services on the Wangeturi–Gardewada–Gatta–Aheri route.
• Focus areas include integrated theatre commands, new domains like cyber and space, simpler acquisition and defence exports.
• This was the 34th consecutive exchange of nuclear installation lists since 1992.
• Air Marshal Mishra, an experimental test pilot, succeeds Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha.

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

• The Ministry of Defence signed two submarine contracts with Mazagon Dock and France's Naval Group in New Delhi on 30 December 2024.
• The keel laying of the third Cadet Training Ship took place at L&T Shipyard, Kattupalli, Tamil Nadu, on 30 December 2024.

Sat, 28 Dec 2024

• A 334-strong Indian Army contingent departed on 28 December 2024 for the 18th India-Nepal Exercise Surya Kiran.

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

• Indian Navy ship INS Sarvekshak arrived at Port Louis, Mauritius, on 26 December 2024 to undertake a Joint Hydrographic Survey, the Defence Ministry said on 27 December 2024.

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

• The Ministry of Defence announced the tableaux theme for Republic Day Celebrations 2025 and the 15 States/UTs and 11 central ministries/departments selected for Kartavya Path.

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

• Two indigenously designed warships built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders, the destroyer Surat and the frigate Nilgiri, were delivered to the Indian Navy on 20 December 2024.
• The College of Defence Management in Secunderabad, Telangana, received the President's Colours, the highest award to a defence institution, on 20 December 2024.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended the 61st Raising Day of the Sashastra Seema Bal at Siliguri, West Bengal, on 20 December 2024 as Chief Guest.
• The Ministry of Defence signed a contract with Larsen & Toubro on 20 December 2024 for 155 mm/52 calibre K9 VAJRA-T guns for the Indian Army under the Buy (Indian) category.

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

• DRDO, IIT Delhi and industry partners signed 10 tripartite agreements at the DIA-GARIMA event at IIT Delhi on 19 December 2024.
• Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders held the plate cutting ceremony for the first Fast Patrol Vessel and the first Next-Gen Offshore Patrol Vessel for the Indian Coast Guard in Mumbai on 19 December 2024.

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

• INS Nirdeshak, the second ship of the Survey Vessel (Large) project, was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam on 18 December 2024.

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

• The keel of Magdala (BY 528), the sixth ship of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft project, was laid at Cochin Shipyard, Kochi on 17 December 2024.

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

• President Droupadi Murmu led the nation in paying homage to the soldiers of the 1971 war on Vijay Diwas, 16 December 2024.
• The steel cutting ceremony of the first Next Generation Missile Vessel (NGMV) for the Indian Navy was held at Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kochi, on 16 December 2024.
• The Ministry of Defence announced on 16 December 2024 that SLINEX-24 would be held at Visakhapatnam from 17 to 20 December 2024.
• Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, Vadodara signed an MoU with the Indian Navy in New Delhi on 16 December 2024 for logistics-related education, research and training.

Sun, 15 Dec 2024

• Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented the President's Colour to the Chhattisgarh Police in Raipur on 15 December 2024.
• Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended the closing ceremony of the Bastar Olympics 2024 in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, on 15 December 2024 as chief guest and reaffirmed the goal of eradicating Naxalism by 31 March 2026.