Asia Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Thu, 24 Oct 2024
Wed, 23 Oct 2024
- On 23 October 2024, at Heavy Water Board Facilities (HWBF), Talcher, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr A.K. Mohanty inaugurated an Electronics Grade Boron-11 enrichment facility, putting India in the elite club of nations with this technology.
- On 23 October 2024, in Kazan, Russia, PM Narendra Modi took part in the 16th BRICS Summit, where leaders welcomed 13 new BRICS partner countries and adopted the Kazan Declaration on 'Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security'.
- On 23 October 2024, in Kazan, Russia, PM Narendra Modi met Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit and welcomed the recent agreement for complete disengagement and resolution of issues that arose in 2020 in the India-China border areas.
- On 23 October 2024, in New Delhi, Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya chaired a stakeholders' consultation with athletes and coaches on the Draft National Sports Governance Bill 2024.
- On 23 October 2024, along the West Bengal and Odisha coasts, the Indian Coast Guard Region (North-East) positioned ships and aircraft and broadcast weather warnings ahead of Cyclone Dana's forecast landfall on 24-25 October.
- On 23 October 2024, in Delhi, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi launched retail sale of Bharat Chana Dal Phase-II in Delhi-NCR by flagging off mobile vans, with chana dal at ₹70 per kg and whole chana at ₹58 per kg.
- On 23 October 2024, in India, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Government will commemorate Sardar Patel's 150th birth anniversary with a two-year-long nationwide celebration from 2024 to 2026.
- On 23 October 2024, at the Kittur Rani Channamma Stage in the Kittur Fort premises, the Department of Posts released a commemorative stamp marking 200 years of Kittur Vijayotsava, Rani Channamma's victory over the British on 23 October 1824.
- On 23 October 2024, in India, the Department of Fertilizers called media reports of a DAP shortage hurting Rabi prospects misleading, saying the MRP of DAP has been kept at ₹1,350 per 50 kg bag since Covid times and subsidy has been raised.
- On 23 October 2024, the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Visual Disabilities (NIEPVD), Dehradun signed MoUs with six institutions to improve services for Divyangjan.
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
- On 22 October 2024, at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu conferred the 5th National Water Awards, 2023, with Odisha winning first prize in the best State category.
- On 22 October 2024, in Kazan, Russia, PM Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the margins of the 16th BRICS Summit and invited him to visit India next year for the 23rd Annual Summit.
- On 22 October 2024, the Ministry of Coal announced the issue of final mine closure certificates for three mines of the Pathakhera Area of Western Coalfields Limited (WCL) in Betul district, Madhya Pradesh.
- On 22 October 2024, in New Delhi, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh and Singapore's Defence Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen co-chaired the sixth India-Singapore Defence Ministerial Dialogue.
- On 22 October 2024, in Delhi, the National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) and the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) signed an MoU for capacity-building programmes, with a four-month course for the first batch to begin in the last week of December 2024.
- On 22 October 2024, in Kazan, Russia, PM Narendra Modi met Iran's President Dr Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit and congratulated him on his election as the 9th President of Iran.
- On 22 October 2024, in India, the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare announced the nationwide Digital Life Certificate (DLC) Campaign 3.0 from 1 to 30 November 2024 in 800 districts/cities.
- On 22 October 2024, in India, Communications Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia launched the 'International Incoming Spoofed Calls Prevention System' and unveiled BSNL's new logo along with seven citizen-centric services.
- On 22 October 2024, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said it has approved 50 National Highway projects of 1,026 km length in Manipur, of which 44 projects of 902 km lie in the hills.
- On 22 October 2024, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Union Home Minister Amit Shah addressed the 14th All India Home Guards and Civil Defence Conference.
- On 22 October 2024, in India, the Labour Bureau's data showed year-on-year inflation based on CPI-AL and CPI-RL at 6.36% and 6.39% for September 2024.
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
- On 21 October 2024, in India, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri announced at an MEA special briefing that an agreement had been arrived at on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control in the India-China border areas.
- On 21 October 2024, in New Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid homage to police martyrs on Police Commemoration Day at the National Police Memorial, while PM Narendra Modi paid tribute to police personnel.
- From 21 to 23 October 2024, in the Indian Ocean, INS Delhi and the German Navy's frigate Baden-Württemberg and tanker Frankfurt am Main undertook the maiden Indian Navy-German Navy Maritime Partnership Exercise.
- On 21 October 2024, in India, Cabinet Secretary Dr T.V. Somanathan chaired a meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC) to review preparedness for the impending cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, with Odisha and West Bengal briefing on their measures.
- On 21 October 2024, in the National Capital Region, the CAQM sub-committee invoked Stage-II of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) from 8 am on 22 October 2024 after Delhi recorded a 'Very Poor' daily average AQI of 310.
- On 21 October 2024, in India, the Government said Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) had achieved sales worth ₹1,000 crore in October 2024, compared with December in the previous year.
- On 21 October 2024, at Air Force Station Kalaikunda, West Bengal, the Indian Air Force and the Republic of Singapore Air Force began the 12th edition of the Joint Military Training (JMT) exercise.
- On 21 October 2024, in New Delhi, the first anniversary of Namo Bharat train operations was celebrated as Namo Bharat Diwas by the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC).