State Staff Selection Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Thu, 08 Jan 2026

• Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal rolled out port infrastructure and digital projects worth ₹235 crore at Chennai Port Authority and Kamarajar Port Limited in Tamil Nadu on 8 January 2026, including a ₹105 crore rehabilitated Northern Breakwater Head at Kamarajar Port.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a roundtable at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg on 8 January 2026 with 12 Indian AI start-ups that qualified under the Foundation Model Pillar of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, urging that Indian AI models promote local content and regional languages.
• The Ministry of Textiles unveiled the District-Led Textiles Transformation (DLTT) initiative at the National Textiles Ministers' Conference in Guwahati on 8 January 2026, aiming to turn 100 high-potential districts into global export champions and lift 100 aspirational districts into self-reliant hubs.
• The Ministry of Tourism's year-end review on 8 January 2026 said 75 of 76 projects sanctioned under the Swadesh Darshan scheme (launched January 2015) are complete, and reported 20.57 million international tourist arrivals and ₹2,93,033 crore in foreign exchange earnings in 2024.
• The Finance Ministry said on 8 January 2026 that the SWAMIH Investment Fund, launched in November 2019 for last-mile financing of stalled housing projects, had delivered about 61,000 homes across 110 projects and fully committed its corpus before its investment period ended on 5 December 2025.

Wed, 07 Jan 2026

• The National Statistics Office (MoSPI) released the First Advance Estimates of GDP for 2025-26 on 7 January 2026, projecting real GDP growth of 7.4% (6.5% in 2024-25), nominal GDP growth of 8.0% and real GVA growth of 7.3%.
• CSIR transferred its 'Bio-Bitumen via Pyrolysis: From Farm Residue to Roads' technology, developed by CSIR-CRRI and CSIR-IIP, at an event in New Delhi on 7 January 2026; it can replace 20–30% of conventional bitumen using bio-oil from rice straw.
• On 7 January 2026 at Banpur in Khurda district, Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi launched the Godabarish Mishra Model Primary School scheme and laid foundation stones for 118 schools, the start of a ₹12,000 crore first phase covering 2,200 schools.
• Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal visited Liechtenstein on 7 January 2026, meeting Hereditary Prince Alois and Prime Minister Brigitte Haas, to speed up implementation of the India–EFTA Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) and seek investment.
• The Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare invited public comments on 7 January 2026 on the draft Pesticides Management Bill, 2025, which will replace the Insecticides Act, 1968 and the Insecticides Rules, 1971; suggestions are due by 4 February 2026.
• The Health Ministry said on 7 January 2026 that 50,373 public health facilities across all states and UTs were certified under the National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS) as of 31 December 2025, up from 10 when certification began in 2015.
• The Indian Navy said on 7 January 2026 that its First Training Squadron — INS Tir, Shardul, Sujata and ICGS Sarathi — will make a Long Range Training Deployment to South East Asia for the 110th Integrated Officers' Training Course, with port calls in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.
• Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya virtually inaugurated a two-day regional conference in Goa on 7 January 2026, the first of six planned to smooth implementation of the four Labour Codes, in force since 21 November 2025, and to discuss ESIC, EPFO and the PM Viksit Bharat Rozgar Yojana.
• The Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS), set up in 1902 under what is now the Labour Ministry, celebrated its 125th Foundation Day at its headquarters in Dhanbad, Jharkhand, on 7 January 2026, with MoS Labour Shobha Karandlaje as chief guest.

Tue, 06 Jan 2026

• The Archaeological Survey of India announced on 6 January 2026 that tickets for over 170 centrally protected monuments and museums can now be booked through the Open Network for Digital Commerce.
• The Rajasthan Regional AI Impact Conference on 6 January 2026, a precursor to the India AI Impact Summit of 15–20 February 2026, launched a programme to train one million young people in AI skills.
• The Department of Economic Affairs announced on 6 January 2026 a three-year Public Private Partnership pipeline of 852 projects with a total cost of over ₹17 lakh crore, fulfilling a Union Budget 2025-26 announcement.
• NITI Aayog Member Arvind Virmani released the fifth edition of Trade Watch Quarterly, covering April–June 2025, in New Delhi on 6 January 2026, with a thematic section on India's automotive exports.
• Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released 55 literary works in classical Indian languages in New Delhi on 6 January 2026, including a Tirukkural series in Indian Sign Language.

Mon, 05 Jan 2026

• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh commissioned ICGS Samudra Pratap, the first of two pollution control vessels built by Goa Shipyard Limited and the largest ship in the Coast Guard fleet, in Goa on 5 January 2026.
• Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited commissioned a 3.55 MMTPA Residue Upgradation Facility at its Visakh Refinery in Andhra Pradesh on 5 January 2026, featuring India's first resid hydrocracking unit and the world's first LC-Max unit.
• Union Power Minister Manohar Lal inspected the Pakal Dul, Kiru and Kwar hydroelectric projects of Chenab Valley Power Projects Ltd in Kishtwar on 5 January 2026 and set commissioning deadlines of December 2026 and March 2028.
• Union Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh inaugurated India's first commercial-scale tropical Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) based rainbow trout farm and research institute in Ranga Reddy district, Telangana, on 5 January 2026.
• Indian Railways said on 5 January 2026 that it had spent ₹2,03,138 crore, or 80.54% of its ₹2,52,200 crore Gross Budgetary Support for 2025-26, by the end of December 2025.

Sun, 04 Jan 2026

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 72nd National Volleyball Tournament in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, via video conferencing on 4 January 2026, with teams from 28 states taking part.
• The Ayush Export Promotion Council observed its 4th Establishment Anniversary in New Delhi on 4 January 2026, as the Commerce Ministry reported AYUSH and herbal exports of USD 688.89 million in 2024-25, up 6.11%.
• A PIB backgrounder on 4 January 2026 said MeitY's Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme under the Semicon India Programme supports 24 chip design projects, which have achieved 16 tape-outs, 6 ASIC chips and 10 patents.
• On the 42nd Foundation Day of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research on 4 January 2026, Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced that deep-tech startups no longer need three years of existence to be recognised under DSIR's Industrial R&D Promotion Programme.
• World Braille Day was observed on 4 January 2026; a PIB backgrounder noted that Braille came to India in 1887 and that Bharati Braille was adopted as the single national standard in 1951.
• An Air India A320 from New Delhi carrying Civil Aviation Minister K. Ram Mohan Naidu made the first validation landing at the Alluri Sitarama Raju (Bhogapuram) International Airport in Vizianagaram district, Andhra Pradesh, on 4 January 2026.