CLAT Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sat, 25 Jan 2025

• The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the Padma Awards 2025 on 25 January 2025: 139 awards comprising 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.

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.

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 22 January 2025 fixed the MSP of raw jute (TD-3 grade) for the 2025-26 season at ₹5,650 per quintal, ₹315 more than last season.
• The 10th anniversary of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme was celebrated at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 22 January 2025, where the Mission Vatsalya Portal and the Mission Shakti Portal and app were launched.
• A MeitY report, 'Estimation and Measurement of India's Digital Economy', released on 22 January 2025, estimated India's digital economy at 11.74% of national income in 2022-23, or ₹31.64 lakh crore.

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

• The Department of Commerce introduced the Diamond Imprest Authorization (DIA) Scheme on 21 January 2025, allowing duty-free import of natural cut and polished diamonds below ¼ carat, effective 1 April 2025.

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

• Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on 20 January 2025 in the Great Rotunda, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administering the oath.

Sun, 19 Jan 2025

• A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian armed groups took effect in Gaza at 11:15 on 19 January 2025, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States, with a first phase of 42 days.

Sat, 18 Jan 2025

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed over 65 lakh property cards under the SVAMITVA scheme on 18 January 2025 via video conference, covering more than 50,000 villages in 10 states and 2 Union Territories.

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

• Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched the Sanchar Saathi mobile app and National Broadband Mission (NBM) 2.0 on 17 January 2025, and inaugurated Intra Circle Roaming at DBN-funded 4G sites.

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

• ISRO docked the two SpaDeX satellites, SDX01 and SDX02, in the early hours of 16 January 2025, making India the fourth country after the USA, Russia and China to achieve space docking.

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

• Merchandise plus services exports grew 6.03% over April–December 2023.

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

• Mission focuses on next-generation radars and satellites, high-resolution observations and high-performance computing.

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

• India will consider development projects in Afghanistan and give more material support for health and refugee rehabilitation.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

• Growth is down from 8.2% in 2023-24; nominal GDP is estimated to grow 9.7%.
• The ACC appointed the LPSC Director for two years from 14 January 2025, succeeding S. Somanath.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

• The draft rules to operationalise the DPDP Act, 2023 are open for comments on MyGov until 18 February 2025.
• Piyush Goyal released the sixth edition of the Logistics Ease Across Different States report and felicitated LEAPS 2024 winners.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

• The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025

• The overall outlay is ₹69,515.71 crore for 2021-22 to 2025-26.
• About 1.8 crore students, faculty and researchers in over 6,300 government institutions get access to journals of 30 publishers.
• The extension from 1 January 2025 till further orders will cost up to about ₹3,850 crore.

Tue, 31 Dec 2024

• Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil released the Dynamic Ground Water Resource Assessment Report 2024 on 31 December 2024.
• Both decisions were announced by the National Payments Corporation of India on 31 December 2024.

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

• ISRO's PSLV-C60 lifted off from Sriharikota at 10 p.m. on 30 December 2024 with the two SpaDeX satellites and 24 POEM-4 payloads.
• The Reserve Bank of India released the December 2024 issue of its Financial Stability Report on 30 December 2024.
• India's BUR-4, submitted to the UNFCCC on 30 December 2024, contains the national GHG inventory for 2020.

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

• MoSPI released the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24 factsheet on 27 December 2024, putting average urban MPCE at ₹6,996 and rural MPCE at ₹4,122.

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

• Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 and Finance Minister from 1991 to 1996, died at AIIMS, New Delhi, on 26 December 2024.

Tue, 24 Dec 2024

• The President of India accepted the resignation of Odisha Governor Raghubar Das and reshuffled or appointed Governors of five States on 24 December 2024.