India Current Affairs One-liners — All time
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 07 Jan 2025
- 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.
- 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.