HPSC HCS Current Affairs — All time
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Thu, 02 Jan 2025
National Sports Awards 2024: Khel Ratna for Gukesh D, Harmanpreet Singh, Praveen Kumar and Manu Bhaker
The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.
National Sports Awards 2024: Dronacharya, Arjuna (Lifetime) and MAKA Trophy winners named
Chandigarh University won the MAKA Trophy; the selection committee was headed by Justice (Retd.) V. Ramasubramanian.
NSO begins NSS 80th Round, PLFS and ASUSE from January 2025 with district-level sample design
The district now forms the basic stratum for sample selection so that district-level estimates can be generated.
Working Group set up to revise WPI base year from 2011-12 to 2022-23
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.
Captive and commercial coal mines record highest-ever monthly output of 18.40 MT in December 2024
April–December 2024 production from these mines rose 34.20% to 131.05 MT.
India announces USD 500,000 relief assistance to earthquake-hit Vanuatu
The aid follows the magnitude 7.4 earthquake near Vanuatu's coast on 17 December 2024.
India and Bangladesh agree mutual release of fishermen: 95 Indians, 90 Bangladeshis
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
Cabinet continues PMFBY and RWBCIS till 2025-26; creates ₹824.77 crore technology fund
The overall outlay is ₹69,515.71 crore for 2021-22 to 2025-26.
One Nation One Subscription Phase I begins, giving access to over 13,000 journals
About 1.8 crore students, faculty and researchers in over 6,300 government institutions get access to journals of 30 publishers.
Cabinet extends one-time special package on DAP at ₹3,500 per tonne beyond NBS subsidy
The extension from 1 January 2025 till further orders will cost up to about ₹3,850 crore.
Ministry of Defence declares 2025 as the 'Year of Reforms'
Focus areas include integrated theatre commands, new domains like cyber and space, simpler acquisition and defence exports.
India and Pakistan exchange lists of prisoners and of nuclear installations on 1 January
This was the 34th consecutive exchange of nuclear installation lists since 1992.
Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra assumes command of IAF's Western Air Command
Air Marshal Mishra, an experimental test pilot, succeeds Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha.
DARPG issues guidelines for 28th National Awards for e-Governance 2025
Nominations in six categories are open on www.nceg.gov.in till 15 February 2025.
Bhuvnesh Kumar assumes charge as CEO of UIDAI
The 1995-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre continues as Additional Secretary in MeitY.
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
Ground water assessment 2024: stage of extraction at 60.47%, 73.4% of units safe
Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil released the Dynamic Ground Water Resource Assessment Report 2024 on 31 December 2024.
NPCI lifts WhatsApp Pay's UPI user limit and extends the 30% UPI volume-cap deadline to 31 December 2026
Both decisions were announced by the National Payments Corporation of India on 31 December 2024.
World Blitz 2024: Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi share the open title; Ju Wenjun wins women's crown, Vaishali takes bronze
The FIDE World Blitz Championship 2024 concluded in New York on 31 December 2024.
Eight core industries grow 4.3% in November 2024; cement leads with 13%
The Index of Eight Core Industries was released by the Commerce Ministry on 31 December 2024.
Union government accounts to November 2024: receipts at 59.1% of Budget Estimates
Monthly accounts released on 31 December 2024 show ₹27,41,002 crore spent in April–November 2024.
Annual Ground Water Quality Report 2024: first under a standard procedure, over 81% samples safe for irrigation
The CGWB report, released on 31 December 2024, covers more than 15,200 monitoring locations.
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
PSLV-C60 launches SpaDeX; POEM-4 flies 24 experimental payloads
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.
RBI Financial Stability Report, December 2024: banks' GNPA ratio at 12-year low of 2.6%
The Reserve Bank of India released the December 2024 issue of its Financial Stability Report on 30 December 2024.
India submits fourth Biennial Update Report to UNFCCC: 2020 emissions down 7.93% from 2019
India's BUR-4, submitted to the UNFCCC on 30 December 2024, contains the national GHG inventory for 2020.
MoD signs ₹2,867 crore contracts for DRDO-AIP plug and heavy-weight torpedo integration on Kalvari-class submarines
The Ministry of Defence signed two submarine contracts with Mazagon Dock and France's Naval Group in New Delhi on 30 December 2024.
Justice V. Ramasubramanian assumes charge as NHRC Chairperson; Justice Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi joins as Member
Former Supreme Court judge V. Ramasubramanian took charge as Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission on 30 December 2024.
Rabi sowing crosses 614 lakh hectares; wheat at 319.74 lakh ha, oilseeds trail last year
The Agriculture Ministry released rabi area coverage as on 30 December 2024, showing 614.94 lakh hectares sown.
Sun, 29 Dec 2024
India-Australia ECTA completes two years: export utilisation at 79%, CECA talks at 10 rounds
The Commerce Ministry reviewed two years of the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement on 29 December 2024.
Jimmy Carter, 39th US President and 2002 Nobel Peace laureate, dies at 100; Haryana's Carterpuri recalls 1978 visit
Former US President Jimmy Carter died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on 29 December 2024, aged 100.
Jasprit Bumrah reaches 200 Test wickets at MCG: fastest Indian by balls, first to the mark with a sub-20 average
Jasprit Bumrah took his 200th Test wicket, Travis Head, on day four of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne on 29 December 2024.