HPSC HCS Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

• The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.
• Chandigarh University won the MAKA Trophy; the selection committee was headed by Justice (Retd.) V. Ramasubramanian.
• The district now forms the basic stratum for sample selection so that district-level estimates can be generated.
• The 18-member group, chaired by NITI Aayog Member Ramesh Chand, will also recommend a roadmap to switch from WPI to a Producer Price Index.
• April–December 2024 production from these mines rose 34.20% to 131.05 MT.
• The aid follows the magnitude 7.4 earthquake near Vanuatu's coast on 17 December 2024.
• Bangladesh handed over 95 Indian fishermen to its Coast Guard for transfer to the Indian Coast Guard at sea on 5 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.
• 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.
• Nominations in six categories are open on www.nceg.gov.in till 15 February 2025.
• The 1995-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre continues as Additional Secretary in MeitY.

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.
• The FIDE World Blitz Championship 2024 concluded in New York on 31 December 2024.
• The Index of Eight Core Industries was released by the Commerce Ministry on 31 December 2024.
• Monthly accounts released on 31 December 2024 show ₹27,41,002 crore spent in April–November 2024.
• The CGWB report, released on 31 December 2024, covers more than 15,200 monitoring locations.

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.
• The Ministry of Defence signed two submarine contracts with Mazagon Dock and France's Naval Group in New Delhi on 30 December 2024.
• Former Supreme Court judge V. Ramasubramanian took charge as Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission on 30 December 2024.
• The Agriculture Ministry released rabi area coverage as on 30 December 2024, showing 614.94 lakh hectares sown.

Sun, 29 Dec 2024

• The Commerce Ministry reviewed two years of the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement on 29 December 2024.
• Former US President Jimmy Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on 29 December 2024, aged 100.
• Jasprit Bumrah took his 200th Test wicket, Travis Head, on day four of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne on 29 December 2024.