UPSC EPFO / APFC Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

• More than 23,500 Indian standards are in force, and 94% are harmonised with ISO and IEC standards.
• Over 200 Deputy Secretary/Director-level officers are being trained in eight batches till 18 January 2025.

Sun, 05 Jan 2025

• Karnataka-based Satya Deeptha Pharmaceuticals will use the technology to produce affordable paracetamol in India.
• Jasprit Bumrah was named Player of the Series; Australia also entered the World Test Championship final.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025

• ICMR will increase the number of laboratories testing for HMPV and track its trends for the whole year.
• Production grew 7.28% and dispatch 6.56% over 2023, both all-time highs.
• The 5,600 nautical mile third leg to Port Stanley crosses the Drake Passage and Cape Horn.
• Chidambaram played a key role in the 1974 test and led the DAE team in the 1998 Pokhran-II tests.
• Khobragade moves from the ASEAN mission, which Gotru, a Joint Secretary in MEA, will now head.

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

• The draft rules to operationalise the DPDP Act, 2023 are open for comments on MyGov until 18 February 2025.
• Piyush Goyal released the sixth edition of the Logistics Ease Across Different States report and felicitated LEAPS 2024 winners.
• Abdulla Khaleel's 2–4 January visit followed President Muizzu's State Visit to India in October 2024.
• The group makes port calls at Goa and Kochi and holds a PASSEX with the Indian Navy's Western Fleet.
• About ₹1,570 crore was paid to more than 68 lakh EPS pensioners for December 2024 through all 122 pension-disbursing regional offices.
• 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

• The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.
• Chandigarh University won the MAKA Trophy; the selection committee was headed by Justice (Retd.) V. Ramasubramanian.
• The district now forms the basic stratum for sample selection so that district-level estimates can be generated.
• The 18-member group, chaired by NITI Aayog Member Ramesh Chand, will also recommend a roadmap to switch from WPI to a Producer Price Index.
• April–December 2024 production from these mines rose 34.20% to 131.05 MT.
• The aid follows the magnitude 7.4 earthquake near Vanuatu's coast on 17 December 2024.
• Bangladesh handed over 95 Indian fishermen to its Coast Guard for transfer to the Indian Coast Guard at sea on 5 January 2025.

Wed, 01 Jan 2025

• The overall outlay is ₹69,515.71 crore for 2021-22 to 2025-26.
• About 1.8 crore students, faculty and researchers in over 6,300 government institutions get access to journals of 30 publishers.
• 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.
• Air Marshal Mishra, an experimental test pilot, succeeds Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha.
• Nominations in six categories are open on www.nceg.gov.in till 15 February 2025.
• The 1995-batch IAS officer of the Uttar Pradesh cadre continues as Additional Secretary in MeitY.