Weekly Current Affairs - 3rd Week October 2024

15th - 21st October 2024

CURRENT AFFAIRS

10/21/20244 min read

  1. The 'Nobel Peace Prize' for the year 2024 has been awarded to

● Nihon Hidankyo

● Japanese organisation representing the survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  1. The third edition of the Indian Navy seminar ‘Swavalamban 2024’ will be held at

● Bharat Mandapam from 28 to 29 October

  1. ‘Saras Livelihood Fair’ is being organized in

● Gurugram from 13 to 29 October

● More than 900 rural women artisans from 30 states are participating in it

  1. The new chairman of Tata Trust

● Noel Tata

● The board of Tata Trust has unanimously appointed Noel Tata as the new chairman

  1. Recently the Army has prepared a new version of

● T-90 Bhishma Tank

  1. The 'Annual India Leadership Summit', hosted by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, will be held in

● New Delhi on 14 October

  1. The fourth edition of the Hockey India Senior Women's Inter-Departmental National Championship begin from

● October 14 at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in Delhi

  1. India's 'Tanya Hemanth' has won the women's singles title in the

● Bendigo International Challenge badminton tournament

  1. India's top women pair 'Ayhika Mukherjee' and 'Sutirtha Mukherjee' have won the bronze medal in the

● Asian Table Tennis Championship 2024

  1. India's parliamentary delegation reached Geneva on 13 October to participate in the

● 149th meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

  1. The Ministry of Home Affairs has urged to hoist the United Nations flag along with the national flag on all important buildings on the occasion of

● 'United Nations Day' on 24 October

  1. The Central Government has approved the public sector enterprise 'Hindustan Aeronautics Limited' (HAL) as the

● 14th Maharatna

  1. 'International Dussehra Festival' has started in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh with traditional rituals from

● 13 October

  1. The swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Haryana was held on

● 17 October

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 8th edition of the International Telecommunication Union's

● 'World Telecommunication Standards Conference - 2024' and 'India Mobile Congress' in New Delhi on 15 October

  1. 'Audio Visual Co-production Agreement' between India and Colombia will be signed on

● 15 October in New Delhi

  1. External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar visited Pakistan on 15 October to attend the

● Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit

  1. India will host the ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation) Junior World Cup in the year

● 2025

  1. 'Telangana' has become the third state in India to launch

● Caste survey

  1. NASA has launched its largest spacecraft ever

● 'Europa Clipper'

  1. Telangana Women and Child Welfare Minister D. Anasuya Seethakka has launched

● 'Rojgar Portal' for the disabled

  1. External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar inaugurated the ' e-Migrate V2.0 web portal' and ' mobile app' on

● 14 October in Delhi

  1. The Chief of the Indian Coast Guard

● Paramesh Sivamani

  1. The new Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir

● Jammu & Kashmir National Conference leader ‘Omar Abdullah’

  1. The '75th International Astronautical Congress' has begun at the

● MiCo Convention Centre in Milan, Italy

  1. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman left for a two-nation visit to

● Mexico and the US on 16 October

  1. The National Election Officer of Bharatiya Janata Party

● Senior MP 'Dr. K. Laxman'

  1. Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary on 15 October inaugurated the new 'National Skill Training Institute' extension centre at the

● Andhra Medical Tech Zone campus in Visakhapatnam

  1. President Draupadi Murmu has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Political Science from the 'Sidi Abdellah Pole University of Science and Technology' in

● Algiers, the capital of Algeria

  1. Paying tribute to the heroes of the Kargil war in Ladakh, the Army has renamed the Kaksar Bridge as

● Captain Amit Bhardwaj Setu

  1. The fourth India-Australia 2+2 Secretary level talks were held in

● New Delhi

  1. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader 'Naib Singh Saini' took oath as the

● Chief Minister of Haryana for the second consecutive time on 17 October

  1. The birth anniversary of Maharishi Valmiki, the author of Ramayana, is being celebrated across the country on

● 17 October

  1. NITI Aayog organized a two-day 'International Methanol Seminar' and 'Expo-2024' in

● New Delhi on 17 & 18 October

  1. The seventh session of the 'International Solar Alliance-ISA Assembly' will be held from

● 3 November to 6 November at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi

  1. The annual festival 'Mera Hou Chongba 2024' was held on

● 17 October in Imphal, Manipur

  1. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar laid the foundation stone of 'Meghalaya Skill and Innovation Hub' in

● Shillong on 16 October

  1. Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat inaugurated the first 'International Indian Dance Festival 2024' on

● 16 October in the capital Delhi

  1. The 8th edition of the 'India Mobile Congress' (IMC) is being held in

● New Delhi from 16 October

● This four-day event will showcase India's innovation ecosystem

  1. India has provided a loan of over Rs 487 crore to Mauritius for the

● Water Pipeline Replacement Project

  1. India International Centre's 20th annual festival 'IIC Anubhav Kala Ka Utsav' will be held in

● New Delhi from October 18

● Theme - "Kalpavriksha-Nationalist Movement, Freedom and Identity"

  1. India's 'Vivaan Kapoor' won the silver medal in the trap event in the Shooting World Cup Final on

● 17 October

  1. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the 'International Methanol Seminar and Exhibition' organised by NITI Aayog in

● New Delhi on 17 October

  1. India's Arjun Erigaisi has won the

● Chess Masters Cup

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a two-day visit to Russia on 22 October to attend the

● 16th BRICS Summit (BRICS Summit 2024)

  1. Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will inaugurate the

● National Rabi Krishi Sammelan 2024 on 19 October in New Delhi

  1. The Central Government has extended the last date for the

● National Scholarship Portal for meritorious students for the year 2024-25 till 31st October

  1. World Arthritis Day is celebrated across the world every year on

● 12 October

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

● 15 October

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

● 14 October

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

● 16 October

  1. World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day is celebrated all over the world on

● 19 October

  1. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated across the world on

● 17 October

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

● 18 October

  1. Police Commemoration Day is observed on

● 21 October

● This is day is observed as Martyr's Day in all police forces of India

● The day commemorates the sacrifices of ten policemen who sacrificed their life while defending our borders with China in 1959

● In 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s first national police museum in Delhi on the occasion of Police Commemoration Day