Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time

Sun, 05 Jan 2025

• The 2.92-acre campus will house a 100-bed research hospital and is to be completed in 30 months.
• Suggestions were open till 17 January 2025, and the three best contributors are to be honoured by the State Government.

Sat, 04 Jan 2025

• ICMR will increase the number of laboratories testing for HMPV and track its trends for the whole year.
• The 4–9 January festival, organised with NABARD, carries the theme 'Building a Resilient Rural India for a Viksit Bharat 2047'.
• 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.
• The ₹75.95 crore, 5.38-acre campus doubles first-year intake from 33 to 66.
• The ₹36.41 crore barrier-free campus at Y. Pudupatti will serve persons with disabilities in southern Tamil Nadu.
• India's National Metrology Institute also released a new Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya for X-ray diffraction calibration.
• Andhra Pradesh CM N. Chandrababu Naidu was Chief Guest at the display of warships, aircraft, submarines and MARCOS.

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 university, the only one under MeitY, starts at 12 locations including five in the North-East.
• New facilities include a Psychiatry Speciality Block, Central Laboratory Complex, 3T MRI scanner and advanced DSA system.
• 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 trial at the PEKB coal mine in Chhattisgarh used 108 holes drilled by an unmanned automated drill and 60 tonnes of bulk emulsion explosives.
• The one-stop portal consolidates e-auction listings of all public sector banks; over 1,22,500 properties have been migrated.
• The services include a Guwahati–North Lakhimpur Jan Shatabdi and a Tinsukia–Naharlagun tri-weekly express.

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

• The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.
• Patna High Court Chief Justice K. Vinod Chandran administered the oath at Raj Bhavan, Patna.
• 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.
• Kerala High Court Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar administered the oath at Raj Bhavan, Thiruvananthapuram.
• 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.
• A human serum albumin nanocarrier gave sustained release and better brain delivery of the 'darkness hormone'.
• Over 900 new base stations, 78 transportable towers, 150 small cells and 53 help desks have been set up.