Weekly Current Affairs - 1st Week July 2024

1st - 7th July 2024

CURRENT AFFAIRS

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  1. Nirmala Sitharaman Inaugurated National Museum Of Customs And GST In

● Goa

  1. Kerala Launches

● ‘One Panchayat, One Playground’

● To Revive Sports Culture

  1. New Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA)

● TV Ravichandran and Pawan Kapoor

(National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) team)

● Rajendra Khanna, has been appointed as the Additional NSA

  1. First Active-Duty Winner Of Miss America 2024

● US Air Force Officer Madison Marsh

  1. The new Army Chief

● General Upendra Dwivedi

  1. ‘Mukhyamantri Meri Ladli Behan Yojana’ will be launched in

● Maharashtra

  1. The new Chief Secretary of Odisha government

● Manoj Ahuja

  1. Three new criminal laws in India –

1. Indian Judicial Code 2023

2. Indian Civil Defense Code 2023

3. Indian Evidence Act 2023

● Effective from 01 July 2024

  1. First woman Chief Secretary of Maharashtra

● Sujata Saunik

  1. The next chairman of State Bank of India (SBI)

● Challa Sreenivasulu Setty

  1. Bioplastic Park (UP Bioplastic Park) will be established by the

● Uttar Pradesh state government in Lakhimpur Kheri district

at a cost of ₹ 2000 crore

  1. ‘Hul Diwas’ (Hul Diwas 2024) has been celebrated in

● Jharkhand on 30th June 2024

● To commemorate the sacrifice of tribal leaders

Sidhu-Kanhu, Chand-Bhairav ​​and Phulo-Jhano

  1. The coach and mentor of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

● Veteran Indian cricketer ‘Dinesh Karthik’

  1. India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) organized the

● Global IndiaAI Summit

● On 3rd and 4th July in New Delhi

  1. The Vice Chief of the Army Staff

● Lieutenant General NS Raja Subramani

  1. Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja has announced his retirement from

● International T-20 cricket

  1. In Rajasthan, Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma has launched

● ‘Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana’ in Tonk

● To provide financial assistance directly to farmers and supporting agricultural activities

  1. ‘Artillery Museum’ has been inaugurated in

● Nashik district of Maharashtra on 1 July 2024

  1. Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan will be honoured with the

● The prestigious Pardo alla Carriera Award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival

  1. A Training course on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning has been started in

● Jamia Millia Islamia

  1. C-DAC has partnered with ‘Moschip’ and ‘SocioNext’ for

● The design and development of AUM

● A high performance computing processor based on Arm architecture

  1. Australia has increased the student visa fee for foreign students

● From $710 to $1600

  1. Indian Army contingent has reached Thailand

● To participate in the 13th edition of India-Thailand joint military 'Exercise Maitri'

● Scheduled from 1st to 15th July 2024, at Fort Vachiraprakan in Tak Province, Thailand

  1. South Asia's largest flying school will be started in

● 'Amravati' Maharashtra , by Air India

  1. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has launched

● NTR Bharosa Pension Scheme

  1. Richa Chadha, Ali Fazal's production ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ has received the Grand Jury Award at

● The Indian Film Festival in Los Angeles

● Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal, launched their production house Pushing Buttons Studios last year

  1. FIDE World Championship 2024 matches will be hosted by

● Singapore Chess Federation

  1. Japan has started using

● Holographic technology in its new bank notes

● This technology creates the illusion of historic figures’ portraits rotating in 3D on the bills

  1. Chairman of the National Medical Commission

● Dr. B. N. Gangadhar

  1. The World Bank has approved a $1.5-billion loan

● To help India accelerate its low-carbon energy development

  1. E-commerce platform, Flipkart has launched

● A Unified Payments Interface (UPI) app ‘Super.Money’

● To offer payments, credit, deposits and other digital financial services

  1. The new Chief Minister of Jharkhand

● Hemant Soren ( working president of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha)

  1. IGNOU has become the first university in the world to start

● M.A course on “Bhagavad Gita”

  1. The 16th edition of India-Mongolia joint military exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant’ has been started

● At Foreign Training Node, Umroi (Meghalaya)

● Scheduled from 03rd to 16th July 2024

  1. The new Prime Minister of the Netherlands

● Dick Schoof

  1. New brand ambassadors of Puma India

● Ryan Parag and Nitish Kumar Reddy

  1. Senior Advisor to the Executive Director of the World Bank

● IAS officer 'Nikunj Srivastava'

  1. In the medical colleges of Bihar, the student will be able to study medicine through

● Hindi medium from upcoming session

  1. Director General of Press Information Bureau

● Dhirendra Ojha (Senior Indian Information Service officer )

  1. The first Secretary-level meeting between the Indian Ministry of Defence and the Democratic Republic of Congo took place

● In New Delhi on Friday (5th July 2024)

  1. The National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) has been initiated by The Ministry of Education (MoE)

● A nationwide campaign focused on Tobacco Free Educational Institutions (ToFEI)

● To guide schools in complying with Tobacco Free Educational Institution (ToFEI) guidelines

  1. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will represent India

● At the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Astana in Kazakhstan

  1. Union Bank of India has launched “Union Premier” branches

● For high-value customers in rural and semi-urban (RUSU) markets

  1. Dr. Usha Thakur was awarded the 12th Vishwa Hindi Samman

● At a Hindi Samvad event organised by the Embassy of India in Nepal

  1. State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest public sector bank, has launched

● 11 new initiatives

● Including enhancement of its digital banking features and opening of 35 new Agricultural Centralised Processing Cells

● To mitigate risks in its agricultural loan portfolio

  1. The Central Railway (CR) has installed a floating solar power plant for railway of 10MWp capacity in the

● Igatpuri Lake in Nashik, Maharashtra

  1. Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Sujata Saunik took over as

● Maharashtra’s Chief Secretary (CS),

becoming the first woman to hold this position in the state's history

  1. India’s Jyothi Yarraji has won gold medal in the

● Women’s 100m Hurdles

at the National Inter State Senior Athletics Championships in Panchkula, Haryana

  1. According to the information of the Ministry of Education, new and attractive text books will be brought by ‘NCERT’

● for classes three and six from the academic year 2024-25

  1. The new Prime Minister of Britain

● Keir Starmer (Labour Party leader)

  1. Britain's Secretary of state for Culture, Media and Sports Affair

● Lisa Eva Nandy

  1. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has made ISI mark mandatory for

● Stainless steel and aluminum utensils

● To enhance kitchen safety, quality and efficiency

  1. Spain and France have reached the semi-finals of the

● Euro Cup Football Tournament (Euro Cup 2024)

  1. Jamia Millia Islamia has signed Memorandum of Understanding with

● Directorate General of Resettlement -DGR, Ministry of Defence

  1. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav has launched the

● Lokpath Mobile App prepared by the Public Works Department

  1. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has recently launched a

● New initiative called 'Jeevan Samarth'

● This plan provides financial support to family in case of unfortunate death of Life Assured and survival benefits in the form of Regular Income Benefit

  1. A MoU was signed by the Indian Register of Shipping (IRS) and

● Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) On July 5

● On Advancing Maritime Safety Through Development Of A Ship Trajectory Prediction Tool

  1. The Global Conference on Plastic Recycling and Sustainability has started at

● Bharat Mandapam, NEW Delhi

  1. National Doctors Day is celebrated in India on

● 01st July

  1. GST (Goods and service Tax ) Day was celebrated on

● 01st July

● 1st GST Day was celebrated on 1 July 2018

  1. World Sports Journalists Day observed on

● 2nd July

● To acknowledge and encourage sports journalists to do better work.

  1. International Plastic Bag Free Day is celebrated on

● 3rd July

● 4R : Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover

● India to Achieve Plastic Free Nation : 2022

● India's 1st single use plastic- free airport : IGI, Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi)

● Jaipur Military Station: 2nd Military Station To Have Plastic Waste Road

● Assam Govt Issues Notification Banning Plastic Water Bottles Below 1 Litre

● The India Plastics Pact's targets to be achieved by 2030

  1. USA Independence Day is celebrated on

● 4th July

  1. World Badminton Day is celebrated on

● 5th July

● To encourage the sport and bring people together to experience a friendly version of the sport through events & activities

● India’s 1st para-badminton academy launched in Lucknow

● India will Host 2026 World Badminton Championships

  1. National Workaholics Day is celebrated in India on

● 5th July

  1. World Zoonoses Day is observed on

● 6th July

● Theme 2024 : "progress in controlling zoonotic diseases and underscore the importance of ongoing collaboration to eradicate them."

● Zoonoses or Zoonosis is an infectious disease caused by a pathogen that has jumped from animals to humans or vice versa.

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