SSC GD Constable 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
- 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.
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.
- The Ministry of Communications announced on 26 December 2024 that the Post Office Rules, 2024 and Post Office Regulations, 2024, framed under the Post Office Act, 2023, came into force on 16 December 2024.