Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Wed, 13 Nov 2024
- On 13 November 2024 in New Delhi, the 25th meeting of the South Asian Telecommunication Regulators' Council (SATRC-25), hosted by TRAI from 11 to 13 November, concluded.
- On 13 November 2024, the Defence Space Agency of HQ Integrated Defence Staff concluded the maiden Space Table Top Exercise 'Antariksha Abhyas-2024', held from 11 to 13 November.
- On 13 November 2024 at Shastri Bhawan, New Delhi, the Ministry of Mines signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Energy Agency (IEA) on cooperation in critical minerals.
- On 13 November 2024 in Silvassa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, President Droupadi Murmu inaugurated Swami Vivekananda Vidya Mandir, Zanda Chowk, and addressed a public function.
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
- On 12 November 2024, the Commerce Ministry said WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators 2024 place India among the top 10 countries for patents, trademarks and industrial designs.
- On 12 November 2024, the Statistics Ministry said year-on-year CPI inflation for October 2024 was 6.21%, with food inflation at 10.87%.
- On 12 November 2024 off the coast of Odisha, DRDO conducted the maiden flight-test of the Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur.
- On 12 November 2024 in New Delhi, Union Power Minister Manohar Lal chaired the Conference of Power Ministers of States and UTs and launched Phase-II of Powerthon.
- On 12 November 2024, the Finance Ministry said public sector banks' aggregate business grew 11% year-on-year in the first half of FY 2024-25, with net profit of ₹85,520 crore.
- On 12 November 2024 in Bengaluru, Karnataka, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated a three-day Energy Technology Meet and said biofuel blending has saved the country ₹91,000 crore on the import bill.
- On 12 November 2024 in Guwahati, Assam, Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil chaired a review of Swachh Bharat Mission-Grameen in the North-Eastern states and called for Sampoorna Swachhata by March 2025.
- On 12 November 2024 in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh addressed the inaugural Delhi Defence Dialogue organised by MP-IDSA, saying the government is creating an 'Adaptive Defence'.
- On 12 November 2024, the Statistics Ministry released Quick Estimates showing the Index of Industrial Production grew 3.1% in September 2024.
- On 12 November 2024, NICDC, the Government of Bihar and BIADA signed the State Support and Shareholder Agreements for an Integrated Manufacturing Cluster in Gaya, Bihar, a node of the Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor.
- On 12 November 2024, the Panchayati Raj Ministry said the Union Government has released Fifteenth Finance Commission grants for rural local bodies in Kerala and Meghalaya.
Mon, 11 Nov 2024
- On 11 November 2024 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi, Justice Sanjiv Khanna was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, the 51st to hold the office.
- On 11 November 2024, the Department of Science and Technology said scientists from Agharkar Research Institute, Pune have discovered Dicliptera polymorpha, a new fire-resilient, dual-blooming species in the northern Western Ghats.
- On 11 November 2024, the Defence Ministry said DRDO's Solid State Physics Laboratory has developed indigenous processes to grow 4-inch Silicon Carbide wafers and fabricate GaN HEMT-based MMICs up to X-band.
- On 11 November 2024 at Air Force Station Agra, Uttar Pradesh, Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, AOC-in-C Central Air Command, inaugurated the IAF's C-295 Full Motion Simulator facility.
- On 11 November 2024, the Home Ministry said a High-Level Committee chaired by Amit Shah approved three projects worth ₹725.62 crore under 'Expansion and Modernization of Fire Services in the States' for Chhattisgarh, Odisha and West Bengal.
- On 11 November 2024 in New Delhi, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met a delegation of the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
- On 11 November 2024 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Indian Coast Guard and Sri Lanka Coast Guard held their 7th Annual High Level Meeting.
- On 11 November 2024 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, NITI Aayog held a symposium on 'Green Transition in States' and, with the Power and MNRE ministries, launched the ASSET platform.
- On 11 November 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated through video conferencing in the 200th anniversary celebrations of Shree Swaminarayan Mandir in Vadtal, Gujarat.
Sun, 10 Nov 2024
- On 10 November 2024, Dr Justice D Y Chandrachud's term as Chief Justice of India, which began on 9 November 2022, came to an end, according to the Supreme Court of India.
- On 10 November 2024, the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare said over 37 lakh Digital Life Certificates were generated in the first week of the nationwide DLC Campaign 3.0, running from 1 to 30 November 2024.
- On 10 November 2024 at Navlakhi Ground, Vadodara, Gujarat, the Department of Posts released a commemorative stamp on Dada Bhagwan (Ambalal Muljibhai Patel) during his 117th Janma Jayanti.
- On 10 November 2024 in Kochi, Kerala, a De Havilland Canada seaplane arrived at Cochin International Airport and then landed at the Bolgatty waterdrome, ahead of the state's first seaplane trial run under RCS-UDAN.
- On 10 November 2024 at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi, Union Minister Manohar Lal launched CESL's 'EV as a Service' programme, which aims to deploy 5,000 e-cars in government departments over two years.
- On 10 November 2024 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, former Chittorgarh MP and member of the erstwhile Mewar royal family Mahendra Singh Mewar died at 83; PM Modi condoled his passing.