Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
- On 18 November 2024 in New Delhi, Dr Jitendra Singh launched the Grievance Redressal Assessment and Index (GRAI) 2023, which ranked 89 central ministries and departments.
- On 18 November 2024 in New Delhi, the NSO released the PLFS Quarterly Bulletin for July-September 2024, showing urban unemployment at 6.4% for persons aged 15 and above.
- On 18 November 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, on the G20 sidelines, PM Modi held first meetings with UK PM Keir Starmer, Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto and Portugal's PM Luís Montenegro, and met Norway's PM Jonas Gahr Store and France's President Emmanuel Macron.
- On 18 November 2024 in New Delhi, Youth Affairs Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced the 'Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue', a reimagined National Youth Festival 2025 at Bharat Mandapam.
- On 18 November 2024, the Bharat National Cyber Security Exercise (Bharat NCX 2024), organised by the National Security Council Secretariat with Rashtriya Raksha University, was inaugurated.
- On 18 November 2024 in New Delhi, the maiden 'Sagarmanthan – The Great Oceans Dialogue', organised by the Ports Ministry with the Observer Research Foundation, began.
- On 18 November 2024 in New Delhi, the Competition Commission of India imposed a ₹213.14 crore penalty on Meta for abusing its dominant position through WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy update.
- On 18 November 2024 in Panipat, Haryana, Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh met textile manufacturers and exporters and urged them to target a $350 billion textile market with $150 billion exports by 2030.
- On 18 November 2024, the 7th Naturopathy Day was celebrated at the Central Research Institute of Yoga and Naturopathy (CRIYN), Nagamangala, under the Central Council for Research in Yoga & Naturopathy.
Sun, 17 Nov 2024
- On 17 November 2024 in Delhi, the Commission for Air Quality Management invoked Stage-IV ('Severe+') of the Graded Response Action Plan across the NCR from 8 AM on 18 November.
- On 17 November 2024 at the State House in Abuja, Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu conferred the national award 'Grand Commander of the Order of Niger' on PM Modi.
- On 17 November 2024 in Abuja, PM Modi held official talks with Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu during his State Visit to Nigeria, and three MoUs were signed.
- On 17 November 2024, PIB described the ₹27,000-crore semiconductor unit of Tata Semiconductor Assembly and Test Pvt Ltd at Morigaon, Assam, which is expected to make up to 48 million chips a day.
- On 17 November 2024 in New Delhi, the Department of Consumer Affairs said the all-India average retail price of tomato fell 22.4% between 14 October and 14 November 2024.
- On 17 November 2024 at Titagarh Rail Systems Ltd, Kolkata, the fourth 25-tonne bollard pull tug 'Yuvan' was launched and the keels of the fifth and sixth tugs were laid.
- On 17 November 2024 in Abuja, PM Modi addressed the Indian diaspora in Nigeria on his first visit to the country as Prime Minister.
- On 17 November 2024, 5,05,412 domestic passengers flew in India in a single day, the first time the number crossed 5 lakh.
- On 17 November 2024, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan met a Johns Hopkins University delegation led by its President Ronald J. Daniels, and an offshore JHU campus in India was discussed.
- On 17 November 2024 in Namsai, Arunachal Pradesh, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh began a three-day visit to review the district's progress under the Aspirational Districts Programme.
Sat, 16 Nov 2024
- Late on 16 November 2024, DRDO successfully flight-tested India's first long-range hypersonic missile from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast.
- On 16 November 2024 in New Delhi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla addressed the 4th Audit Diwas and said the C&AG has played a key role in fostering accountability, transparency and good governance.
- On 16 November 2024 at CoP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, India expressed dissatisfaction at developed countries' unwillingness to engage on climate finance and on the Mitigation Work Programme.
- On 16 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Union MoS Health Anupriya Patel addressed the 4th High-Level Ministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance.
- On 16 November 2024, the Health Ministry said more than 10 lakh senior citizens aged 70 and above had enrolled for the Ayushman Vay Vandana card under AB PM-JAY within three weeks of its launch.
- On 16 November 2024, before leaving India, PM Modi issued his departure statement for a five-day visit to Nigeria, Brazil and Guyana.
- On 16 November 2024, PIB highlighted WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024, which ranks India 6th globally with 64,480 patent applications in 2023.
- On 16 November 2024 at SKICC in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh opened the CSIR Healthcare Theme Conclave and called J&K a key player in India's 'Viksit Bharat' journey.
- On 16 November 2024, the National Human Rights Commission concluded its six-day ITEC Executive Capacity Building Programme on Human Rights for 33 participants from national human rights institutions of eight Global South countries.
- On 16 November 2024 at Kotra in Udaipur, Rajasthan, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said the tribal community is the pride of the country, at an event marking Bhagwan Birsa Munda's 150th birth anniversary.