Weekly Current Affairs - 1st Week Sep 2024

1st to 7th Sep 2024

CURRENT AFFAIRS

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  1. Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Champai Soren joined BJP at a function held at

● Dhurva Maidan in Ranchi

  1. The Uttar Pradesh government will develop an industrial city to promote industrial development in an area of ​​about 36 thousand acres between

● Jhansi and Kanpur

  1. South Korea and the US will hold sub-ministerial talks in Washington on deterrence efforts against

● North Korea's nuclear and missile threats

  1. National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval signs founding documents for the

● Colombo Security Conclave

  1. Nepal Tourism Board has received the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award in

● Sustainable Tourism for Livelihood Recovery Project (STLRP)

  1. India, China hold 31st meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination (WMCC) on

● India-China Border Affairs

● held on 29th August 2024 in Beijing

  1. Aarti won the bronze medal in the women's 10000 metre race walk event at the

● World Under-20 Athletics Championships in Lima, Peru

  1. The Indian mixed compound archery team of Sheetal Devi and Rakesh Kumar created a

● New Paralympic record

● The duo secured bronze, making Sheetal the youngest Indian Paralympic medallist at 17

  1. Uttar Pradesh government will build Vedic-3D museum in

● Varanasi at the main building of the Sampurnanand Sanskrit University.

● The state of the art museum will be dedicated to Indian astrology, astronomy, and Vedic literature

  1. Arunachal Pradesh Governor inaugurated the 2-day National Seminar on 'Integrated Mithun Farming for Enhancing Farmers' Income in the North Eastern Region of India Organised as

● Gemini Day in Itanagar

● as a part of the 'Mithun Day' celebration

  1. Governor of Maharashtra honoured Sheshampatti Shri T. Sivalingam with

● Sangeet Kala Vibhushan Lifetime Achievement Award

  1. South Korea will launch an aggressive cyber defence campaign to

● Protect national infrastructure from hacking attacks

  1. UN agencies in Gaza launch a 9 days campaign to

● vaccinate 640,000 children against polio

  1. Abhay Singh beats top seed to win tenth PSA Tour title in

● Tuanku Muhriz Trophy 2024 Squash

  1. 15-year-old international master Mayank Chakraborty won his second

● Grand Master norm in Greece

  1. The 14th Hockey India Congress was held in

● Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh with representatives from 31 state member units

  1. Himanshi Tokas won silver medal in

● Asian Cadet Judo Championship in Japan

  1. India Under-19 squad and fixtures announced for the

● Multi-format home series against Australia Under-19

  1. Indian shooter 'Rubina Francis' has won the bronze medal in the

● Women's 10 metre air pistol event at the Paris Paralympics

  1. The Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force

● Air Marshal Tejinder Singh

  1. India has won a total of four medals including one gold, two silver and one bronze in the

● Deaf Shooting Championship in Hannover, Germany

  1. The Central Government has recently released the Biotechnology Policy -

● 'Bio E-3' related to economy, environment and employment

  1. A committee was formed under the chairmanship of Justice Nawab Singh to resolve the grievances of

● The farmers protesting at the Shambhu border

  1. Preeti Pal became the first Indian female para athlete to

● Win two medals in track and field

  1. Cabinet approves semiconductor unit at Sanand, Gujarat under

● India Semiconductor Mission

  1. Neeraj Chopra was honored with the 'Youth Icon Award 2024' at the first edition of the

● 'FICCI Young Leaders Awards 2024'

  1. The 14-day exhibition 'Chhaap' organised by the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) in collaboration with the Ministry of Textiles has started at

● Dilli Haat from September 2

  1. The annual Rath Mahotsav has begun at the historic 'Nallur Kandasamy Temple' in

● Jaffna, Sri Lanka

  1. Indian shooter 'Anuya Prasad' has won the gold medal in the women's air pistol event at the

● 2nd World Deaf Shooting Championship in Hannover, Germany

  1. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince 'Sheikh Khalid bin Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan' officially inaugurated the

● Indian Institute of Technology Delhi-Abu Dhabi campus on September 3

  1. The Union Cabinet's Security Committee has approved the proposal for procurement of 240 aero engines for

● Indian Air Force's 'SU-30 MKI' aircraft

  1. The Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) has launched a

● New five-digit toll-free number 14453 for claimants

  1. South Africa announces 'Trusted Tour Operator Scheme (TTOS)’ to promote tourism from

● India in January 2025 to attract more tourists from India and China.

  1. West Bengal Assembly passes anti-rape bill

● Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) 2024

  1. The highest temperature on earth was recorded in Iran at

● 82.2 °C

  1. Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit

● Brunei

  1. Kerala receives Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Gold Award 2024 for

● 'Holiday Heist' campaign in the Digital Marketing Campaign category

  1. Javelin thrower Sumit Antil has won the gold medal at the

● Paris Paralympics 2024

  1. The 'Lab Mitra' initiative launched in Varanasi has been awarded the

● 'National e-Governance Gold Award' at the National e-Governance Conference 2024

  1. Madhya Pradesh Government approved

● 'Brindavan Gram Yojana' and 'Geeta Bhawan Project'

● 'Brindavan Gram' scheme to transform selected gram panchayats into model villages with a focus on cow conservation, rural development, and increase in milk production

● Geeta Bhawan will be work as ideological study centres and will be the work of giving reading material

  1. Himachal Pradesh Assembly started the

● Zero Hour tradition for the first time

  1. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has inaugurated the three-day 'Armed Forces Festival' at the

● Surya Sports Complex in Lucknow Cantonment

  1. India and UNESCO co-organized the 2024 edition of the Chief Science Advisers' Roundtable (CSAR) on

● September 6, 2024 in Paris, France

  1. The first Joint Commanders Conference started in

● Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

  1. The 22nd 'Varuna' joint military exercise took place in the

● Mediterranean Sea between the Indian and French navies from September 2 to 4

  1. The Rajasthan government conducted a first-of-its-kind '

● “VISHANU YUDDH ABHYAS”: A Mock Drill on Pandemic Preparedness conducted under National One Health Mission

● To evaluate the readiness and response of the National Joint Outbreak Response Team composed of experts from human health, animal husbandry and wildlife sectors

  1. Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal launched 'Notary Portal' in

● New Delhi

  1. President Draupadi Murmu inaugurated 'Vishwashanti Buddha Vihar' in

● Maharashtra , Udgir Latur district

● She also installed a statue of Gautama Buddha inside the vihara and paid tribute to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar by offering flowers at his statue

  1. Sharad Kumar won silver medal in men's high jump event at

● Paris 2024 Paralympics

  1. President Draupadi Murmu conferred the 'National Teachers Award 2024' to 82 teachers at a ceremony at

● Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on September 05

  1. A two-day 'Global Artificial Intelligence Summit-2024' has been organised in

● Hyderabad from September 05

● Theme - 'Making AI accessible to all'

  1. Nepal has reopened 'Khasa', an important trade route with China,

● From September 3, which was closed for the last two weeks

  1. President Draupadi Murmu has given the power to Delhi Lieutenant Governor 'Vinai Kumar Saxena' to

● Constitute any authority, board, commission and statutory body

  1. 'Amrit Udyan' located at Rashtrapati Bhavan was open especially for teachers on

● The occasion of Teachers' Day on 5th September

  1. Deepthi Jeevanji has won the bronze medal in the women's 400m T20 event at the

● Paris Paralympics 2024

  1. People receiving pension under the 'Employees Provident Fund Scheme' (EPFO) will now be able to receive their pension in any bank in any part of the country from

● January 1, 2025

  1. The second edition of the International Conference on 'Green Hydrogen' will be held from

● 11th to 13th September in New Delhi

  1. The 610th meeting of the Central Board of Directors of the 'Reserve Bank of India' (RBI) was held on

● 04 September in Mumbai

  1. To promote Indian textiles globally, a global textile exhibition

● 'Bharat Tech-2025' will be held in February next year

  1. The 20th edition of 'Yudh Abhyas-2024' between India and USA will begin in

● Rajasthan

  1. Harvinder Singh became the first Indian archer to win a

● Gold medal at the Paralympic Games

  1. India's first indigenous combat unmanned aircraft

● 'FWD 200B' was successfully tested

● Flying Wedge Defence and Aerospace (FWDA) has successfully launched the country's first indigenously built combat unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the FWD 200B

  1. The new French Prime Minister is

● Michel Barnier

  1. On September 05, 'Kapil Parmar' won the bronze medal in the 60kg category of the men's J-1 judo event by defeating Elilton de Oliveira of Brazil

● at the Paris Paralympics 2024

  1. The Central Government has extended the ceasefire agreement with the

● National Socialist Council of Nagaland-K Niki Group For one year

  1. Malta joins other European Union countries in the European Commission's Team Europe to help

● Prevent monkey-pox in Africa

  1. The Indian Army has organised a five-day 'Inter-Village Volleyball Tournament' at

● Batalik from August 31 to September 4

● To promote sports, physical fitness and camaraderie among the youth of border villages in Ladakh

  1. Jasdeep Singh Gill has become the new Mukhi of

● Radha Swami Satsang Dera Vyas

  1. As per the announcement by the 'Union Ministry of AYUSH', the National Exit Test (NExT) for Ayurveda, Unani, Yoga, and Homeopathy Medicine will be mandatory for the

● 2021-2022 academic session onwards

  1. World Coconut Day is celebrated all over the world on

● 2nd September

  1. National Nutrition Month is celebrated every year

● From 1st to 30th September in India

  1. Skyscraper Day is celebrated every year on

● 3rd September

  1. National Wildlife Day is celebrated every year on

● 4th September in India

  1. Teachers Day is celebrated every year on

● 5th September in India

  1. National Book Reading Day is celebrated every year on

● 6th September in India

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