Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

• Indusfood 2025 debuts as an integrated farm-to-fork trade show with about 1,800 exhibitors.
• The 1993-batch IFS officer was serving as Officer on Special Duty in the MEA.

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

• All 70 seats, 12 reserved for SCs, go to the polls in a single phase with about 1.55 crore electors.
• Growth is down from 8.2% in 2023-24; nominal GDP is estimated to grow 9.7%.
• The ACC appointed the LPSC Director for two years from 14 January 2025, succeeding S. Somanath.
• BHARATPOL connects central agencies and State police with INTERPOL's network of 195 countries.
• Both sides agreed to institutionalise the dialogue with annual meetings.
• MeitY's Bhashini was used to expand the portal from four languages to 22.
• The next India–EU Summit is to be held in India at a mutually convenient time.
• The ₹30,000 crore shipyard will be able to build Very Large Crude Carriers of up to 3,20,000 DWT.
• The barge was built by MSME shipyard SECON Engineering Projects, Visakhapatnam.
• Both bye-elections are being held alongside the Delhi Assembly election, with polling on 5 February 2025.

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

• The new Jammu Railway Division covers 742.1 km, including the Pathankot–Jammu–Udhampur–Srinagar–Baramulla line.
• Both infants at Baptist Hospital, Bengaluru, had no history of international travel.
• Fisheries Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh also opened 50 PMMSY projects worth ₹50 crore for the Northeast in Guwahati.
• Sullivan also called on PM Modi and handed over a letter from President Biden.
• The draft has been placed in the public domain for feedback; Pradhan also opened UGC's new 'Pushpagiri' auditorium.
• The second round covers five product categories within the original ₹6,322 crore outlay.
• The two bodies will share intelligence and identify red-flag indicators for suspicious transactions in insurance.
• The barge was built by MSME shipyard Suryadipta Projects, Thane, under an eleven-barge contract.
• 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

• The PM also opened the first Delhi Metro Phase-IV stretch and laid the stone of the Rithala–Kundli section.
• Karnataka-based Satya Deeptha Pharmaceuticals will use the technology to produce affordable paracetamol in India.
• The two vessels are the third and fourth of eight FPVs, launched together for the first time using GSL's ship-lift.
• Jasprit Bumrah was named Player of the Series; Australia also entered the World Test Championship final.
• Scheduled Tribe students entering Class IX or XI get a one-time ₹5,000 to curb dropouts.
• Stages I and II of the revised GRAP stay in force; Stage-III had been in place since 3 January 2025.
• 2,361 cadets, including 917 girl cadets, from 17 NCC Directorates are taking part.
• Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain and wrestler Sangram Singh pledged support in the campaign's third week.