State PSC Current Affairs — All time
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Mon, 06 Jan 2025
Sun, 05 Jan 2025
PM Modi opens Namo Bharat Sahibabad–New Ashok Nagar stretch, giving Delhi its first Namo Bharat link
The PM also opened the first Delhi Metro Phase-IV stretch and laid the stone of the Rithala–Kundli section.
Jitendra Singh announces CSIR's indigenous paracetamol technology at DSIR's 40th Foundation Day
Karnataka-based Satya Deeptha Pharmaceuticals will use the technology to produce affordable paracetamol in India.
Goa Shipyard launches Coast Guard Fast Patrol Vessels Amulya and Akshay
The two vessels are the third and fourth of eight FPVs, launched together for the first time using GSL's ship-lift.
Australia beat India by six wickets in Sydney to regain Border-Gavaskar Trophy 3-1
Jasprit Bumrah was named Player of the Series; Australia also entered the World Test Championship final.
Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi launches Shahid Madho Singh Haath Kharcha Scheme for ST students
Scheduled Tribe students entering Class IX or XI get a one-time ₹5,000 to curb dropouts.
CAQM revokes GRAP Stage-III curbs across Delhi-NCR as air quality improves
Stages I and II of the revised GRAP stay in force; Stage-III had been in place since 3 January 2025.
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurates NCC Republic Day Camp-2025 in Delhi Cantt
2,361 cadets, including 917 girl cadets, from 17 NCC Directorates are taking part.
Mansukh Mandaviya leads 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' in Upleta, Porbandar; drive themed against drugs
Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain and wrestler Sangram Singh pledged support in the campaign's third week.
PM Modi lays foundation stone of new Central Ayurveda Research Institute building at Rohini, Delhi
The 2.92-acre campus will house a 100-bed research hospital and is to be completed in 30 months.
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren launches Abua Budget Portal and app to invite public suggestions for 2025-26 budget
Suggestions were open till 17 January 2025, and the three best contributors are to be honoured by the State Government.
Sat, 04 Jan 2025
Health Ministry's Joint Monitoring Group finds no unusual surge in respiratory illness amid China reports
ICMR will increase the number of laboratories testing for HMPV and track its trends for the whole year.
PM Modi inaugurates Grameen Bharat Mahotsav 2025 at Bharat Mandapam
The 4–9 January festival, organised with NABARD, carries the theme 'Building a Resilient Rural India for a Viksit Bharat 2047'.
Coal production hits record 1,039.59 million tonnes in calendar year 2024
Production grew 7.28% and dispatch 6.56% over 2023, both all-time highs.
INSV Tarini leaves Lyttelton, New Zealand, on longest leg of Navika Sagar Parikrama II
The 5,600 nautical mile third leg to Port Stanley crosses the Drake Passage and Cape Horn.
Nuclear scientist Rajagopala Chidambaram, former AEC Chairman and PSA, passes away
Chidambaram played a key role in the 1974 test and led the DAE team in the 1998 Pokhran-II tests.
Jayant N. Khobragade named Ambassador to Poland; Srinivas Gotru to be Ambassador to ASEAN
Khobragade moves from the ASEAN mission, which Gotru, a Joint Secretary in MEA, will now head.
Giriraj Singh inaugurates new campus of Indian Institute of Handloom Technology at Fulia, West Bengal
The ₹75.95 crore, 5.38-acre campus doubles first-year intake from 33 to 66.
Virendra Kumar inaugurates services of CRC Madurai and lays foundation of its new building
The ₹36.41 crore barrier-free campus at Y. Pudupatti will serve persons with disabilities in southern Tamil Nadu.
CSIR-National Physical Laboratory marks 79th Foundation Day; signs MoU with IIT Madras
India's National Metrology Institute also released a new Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya for X-ray diffraction calibration.
Eastern Naval Command holds Operational Demonstration at Ramakrishna Beach, Visakhapatnam
Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Guest at the display of warships, aircraft, submarines and MARCOS.
Fri, 03 Jan 2025
MeitY releases draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 for consultation
The draft rules to operationalise the DPDP Act, 2023 are open for comments on MyGov until 18 February 2025.
LEADS 2024 report released; Sustainable Logistics added as a fourth pillar
Piyush Goyal released the sixth edition of the Logistics Ease Across Different States report and felicitated LEAPS 2024 winners.
EAM Jaishankar holds talks with Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Khaleel; HICDP Phase-III MoU signed
Abdulla Khaleel's 2–4 January visit followed President Muizzu's State Visit to India in October 2024.
NIELIT Deemed to be University inaugurated from Guwahati; MoU with Tata Electronics
The university, the only one under MeitY, starts at 12 locations including five in the North-East.
President Murmu addresses NIMHANS Golden Jubilee in Bengaluru; inaugurates new facilities
New facilities include a Psychiatry Speciality Block, Central Laboratory Complex, 3T MRI scanner and advanced DSA system.
French Carrier Strike Group led by FNS Charles de Gaulle visits India, 3–9 January
The group makes port calls at Goa and Kochi and holds a PASSEX with the Indian Navy's Western Fleet.
EPFO's Centralized Pension Payments System fully rolled out in all regional offices
About ₹1,570 crore was paid to more than 68 lakh EPS pensioners for December 2024 through all 122 pension-disbursing regional offices.
CSIR-CIMFR conducts India's first trial blast for the Dozer Push Mining Method
The trial at the PEKB coal mine in Chhattisgarh used 108 holes drilled by an unmanned automated drill and 60 tonnes of bulk emulsion explosives.
DFS launches revamped 'Baanknet' e-auction portal for PSB properties
The one-stop portal consolidates e-auction listings of all public sector banks; over 1,22,500 properties have been migrated.