SBI PO Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Wed, 01 Jan 2025
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Sat, 28 Dec 2024
- Koneru Humpy won the 2024 FIDE Women's World Rapid Championship in New York with 8.5/11, concluding on 28 December 2024 local time.
- A 334-strong Indian Army contingent departed on 28 December 2024 for the 18th India-Nepal Exercise Surya Kiran.
- Nitish Kumar Reddy scored an unbeaten 105 on day three of the fourth Test against Australia in Melbourne on 28 December 2024.
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.
- Dr Sandip Shah, Joint Managing Director of Neuberg Diagnostics, was appointed Chairperson of the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL), the Commerce Ministry announced on 27 December 2024.
- An IIM Bangalore impact study, released by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry on 27 December 2024, found that 71 smart cities built 9,433 smart classrooms in 2,398 government schools.
- Researchers at CSIR-IGIB have shown that the FELUDA CRISPR test can detect Helicobacter pylori and its antibiotic-resistance mutations at low cost, the Ministry of Science and Technology said on 27 December 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.
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.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the 45th PRAGATI interaction on 26 December 2024 and reviewed eight projects worth more than ₹1 lakh crore, including six metro projects.
- Dr Arunish Chawla, a 1992-batch IAS officer of the Bihar cadre, took charge as Secretary, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, on 26 December 2024.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the 3rd Veer Baal Diwas at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on 26 December 2024 and launched the Suposhit Gram Panchayat Abhiyan.