State Staff Selection Current Affairs — All time
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Mon, 06 Jan 2025
PM Modi inaugurates Jammu Railway Division and Charlapalli terminal, lays stone of Rayagada division building
The new Jammu Railway Division covers 742.1 km, including the Pathankot–Jammu–Udhampur–Srinagar–Baramulla line.
ICMR detects two HMPV cases in Karnataka; Health Ministry says no unusual surge in respiratory illness
Both infants at Baptist Hospital, Bengaluru, had no history of international travel.
India's first Organic Fisheries Cluster launched in Soreng district, Sikkim
Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh also opened 50 PMMSY projects worth ₹50 crore for the Northeast in Guwahati.
NSA Doval meets US NSA Jake Sullivan; US moves to delist Indian nuclear entities
Sullivan also called on PM Modi and handed over a letter from President Biden.
Dharmendra Pradhan releases draft UGC Regulations, 2025 on teacher appointments and standards
The draft has been placed in the public domain for feedback; Pradhan also opened UGC's new 'Pushpagiri' auditorium.
H.D. Kumaraswamy launches PLI Scheme 1.1 for specialty steel
The second round covers five product categories within the original ₹6,322 crore outlay.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arif Mohammed Khan sworn in as the 42nd Governor of Bihar
Patna High Court Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran administered the oath at Raj Bhavan, Patna.
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.