Weekly Current Affairs - 4th Week Aug 2024

23rd - 31st August 2024

CURRENT AFFAIRS

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  1. The ‘Khelo India Asmita Yogasana League’ (East Zone) was organized in

● Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar from 22nd to 24th August 2024

  1. Indian Paralympic Committee Vice President Satya Prakash Sangwan has been appointed as

● Chef de Mission (CMD) of the Indian contingent for Paris Paralympics 2024

  1. The new Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president

● Farooq Ahmed (Former cricketer and chief selector)

  1. Recently, with the help of India, the work of installing solar panels on about five thousand temples and monastery colleges started in

● Sri Lanka

  1. New Secretary of Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

● Amardeep Singh Bhatia

  1. ‘Khelo India Asmita Wushu League’ (West Zone) was organized in

● Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh from 24th Aug 2024 to 27th Aug 2024

  1. The Indian men's cricket team, led by Rohit Sharma, will play a five-match Test series against

● England in June next year (between June 20 and August 4, 2025)

  1. ‘Khelo India’ conducted a webinar on 23rd August 2024 to assist

● Players in downloading the certificate from DigiLocker

  1. Famous musician ‘Uttam Singh’ and playback singer ‘K. S. ‘Chitra’ will be honoured with the

● ‘National Lata Mangeshkar Award’ (Lata Mangeshkar Award 2024) by the Madhya Pradesh government on 28th September 2024

  1. The first women's Test match will be played between India and England in year

● 2026 at Lord's Cricket Stadium

  1. Information and Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has launched

● ‘Create in India Challenge-Season One’

● To culminate at the World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES), scheduled from 20th to 24th November 2024 in Goa

  1. The 77th meeting of the Network Planning Group under the

● ‘PM Gatishakti Initiative’ has been held in New Delhi

  1. The first meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on ‘Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024’ was held in

● New Delhi on 22nd August 2024

  1. The Ministry of Education has launched the second cycle of

● ‘Capacity Building Programme’ on Specific Learning Disability

● The program is part of the Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Programme (MMTTP) and will run until December 2024

  1. ‘Data Users Conference’ on Annual Survey of Unorganized Sector Enterprises 2021-22 and 2022-23 was organised on

● 23rd August 2024 in Chennai

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented four India Health Initiative for Cooperation, Interest and Friendship – ‘Bhishma Cubes’ to

● Ukraine on 23rd August 2024

● BHISHM (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog Hita & Maitri)

  1. Indian cricket player 'Shikhar Dhawan' has announced his retirement from

● All three formats of international cricket

  1. The 'Central Government' has banned 156 medicines including

● Antibiotics, painkillers and multivitamins

  1. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has released an e-magazine,

● ‘Sapnon Ki Udaan’,

● on the occasion of India’s first ‘National Space Day’ on 23rd August 2024

  1. Indian women wrestlers have won the first team title of the

● ‘Under-17 World Championship’ in Amman, Jordan

  1. Health Minister J.P. Nadda has launched the

● 'National Medical Register Portal' in New Delhi

● On 23rd August 2024 for the registration of MBBS doctors

  1. The new Union Home Secretary

● Senior IAS officer 'Govind Mohan'

  1. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has directed food product operators to immediately remove all claims regarding

● A-1 and A-2 from all packaging of milk and milk products

  1. New Chairman of NASSCOM

● Rajesh Nambiar, (Chairman and Managing Director of Cognizant India,)

● National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom)

  1. India has become the largest importer of

● Russian Crude Oil from Russia in July 2024

  1. ‘National Eye Donation Fortnight’ is celebrated every year in India

● Between 25 August to 8 September

● The campaign aims to educate people about the importance of eye donation and to motivate them to pledge their eyes for donation after death

  1. Space Zone India in collaboration with Martin Group has launched

● India's first reusable hybrid rocket Rumi-1 from Chennai

  1. Gujarat Pollution Control Board has launched an

● innovative campaign to curb plastic pollution

● To achieve a plastic-free state

  1. The first case of polio in 25 years has been found in

● Gaza

  1. A meeting of the Inter-State Coordination Committee of Naxal-affected states of the country has been organised in

● Raipur, Chhattisgarh

● Under the chairmanship of Union Home Minister Amit Shah

  1. Indian International MSME Start-up Exhibition and Conference has been organised on

● 22nd - 24th August in the capital Delhi

● 10th India International MSME Expo & Summit 2024

  1. Goods and Services Tax Network will organise ‘GST Analytics Hackathon’

● To promote innovation in tax compliance through predictive analytics

  1. Repco Bank has presented a dividend check of Rs 19.08 crore to

● Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi

  1. The Ministry of Labour and Employment has convened the 7th meeting of the Task Force on

● ‘Improving Female Workforce Participation in India’

  1. The National School of Drama (NSD) Repertory Company is celebrating 60 years of its contribution to

● Indian theatre by organising a grand event called Rang Shashthi

  1. The government is all set to host the World Audio visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) in

● Goa (from November 20–24, 2024)

● Ministry of Information and Broadcasting is organising the event in collaboration with the State Government of Goa

  1. Chirag Paswan was re-elected President of

● Lok Janshakti Party for 5 years

  1. PM Modi distributed certificates to 11 lakh new

● 'Lakhpati Didis' in Jalgaon, Maharashtra

● These Lakhpati didis whose number is more than one crore in the country, are earning more than one lakh rupees per year.

● 11 lakh new Lakhpati Didis, recently became Lakhpati during the third term of the NDA Government

  1. Two NASA astronauts, Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, will return to

● Earth in February 2025 with SpaceX

  1. Piyush Goyal meets top corporate leaders in

● Singapore to discuss investment, bilateral trade

  1. Recently, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah virtually inaugurated the Raipur zonal unit office of the

● Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in Raipur, Chhattisgarh

  1. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought tie-up with

● India for production of drones, electronic warfare systems

  1. A meeting of the Supreme Court's national task force for

● Safety and working conditions of medical professionals was held on 27th August 2024

  1. A novel single-strain Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) was recently launched in

● Hyderabad

● by the Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) in Hyderabad

  1. India developed indigenous RT-PCR test kit for

● Mpox

● The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has approved Siemens Healthineer's IMDX Mpox Detection RT-PCR test for the viral disease

  1. India-Chile will co-chair the second Joint Commission Meeting on

● 28th August 2024 in New Delhi

  1. Recently INS Mumbai reached Colombo for

● A three-day visit

  1. The Paralympic Games 2024 begin in Paris on 28th August 2024 and the event will run until

● 8th September 2024

  1. E-cabinet system to be implemented for paperless council meetings

● In Andhra Pradesh

  1. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced the launch of the

● Unified Lending Interface (ULI) in the future

  1. The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved the continuation of three flagship schemes and subsumed them into a

● New Central Sector Scheme called ‘Vigyan Dhara’

52. The Indian contingent has won one gold and four silver medals in the

● 17th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics in Brazil

53. the Director General of the country's anti-terrorist force - National Security Guard (NSG)

● Senior Indian Police Service officer 'B. Srinivasan

  1. Apple's Beat has appointed Bollywood actress

● 'Ananya Panday' as its brand ambassador

  1. Amazon has launched AI-powered shopping assistant chatbot

● ‘Rufus’ in India

● AI assistant will answer user queries related to shopping, offer recommendations and facilitate product discovery on the online marketplace

  1. Indian medical scientists have developed a new smart sensor to adjust the dosage of medicines for

● The management of Parkinson's disease

  1. The ‘Bureau of Police Research and Development’ (BPRD) celebrated its

● 54th Foundation Day on 28th August at its headquarters in New Delhi

  1. Union Minister Jatin Prasad has inaugurated the ‘10th International Pharmaceutical Exhibition’ IPHEX at

● India Expo Mart in Noida, Uttar Pradesh

  1. The Union Cabinet has approved 12 new greenfield industrial smart cities under the

● ‘National Industrial Corridor Development Programme’ to transform the industrial landscape of the country

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the

● ‘Global Fintech Fest-2024’ in Mumbai on 30th August 2024

  1. According to Hockey India, the women's 'Asian Champions Trophy 2024' will start from

● November 11 this year in Rajgir, Bihar

  1. The World Health Organization has declared Dhulikhel Municipality of Kavrepalanchok district as

● Nepal's first 'Healthy City' and the second healthiest city in Asia

63. India has made the first payment for 'hybrid power projects' in

● The northern region of Sri Lanka

  1. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has inaugurated a state-of-the-art Sports Academy, Sports Complex and Sports University in

● Rajgir on the occasion of ‘National Sports Day’ on 29th August 2024

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off three 'Vande Bharat trains' on

● 31st August 2024 through video conferencing

● Vande Bharat will run between Meerut—Lucknow, Madurai—Bengaluru, and Chennai—Nagercoil

  1. New Cabinet Secretary of India

● 'Dr. TV. Somanathan (Senior officer of Indian Administrative Service)

  1. Indian shooter 'Avani Lekhara' has won the gold medal in

● 10 meter air rifle standing SH-1

● on 30th August,2024at the Paris 2024 Paralympics

● First Indian woman to win two gold medals in the Games' history

  1. The Supreme Court of Brazil has ordered the suspension of

● Social media platform 'X'

  1. Nepal Tourism Board has received the Gold Award of

● ‘Pacific Asia Travel Association’

● This award has been given in the sustainable tourism category for the livelihood improvement project

  1. India, Maldives, Mauritius and Sri Lanka have signed a charter and a memorandum of understanding to establish

● The 'Colombo Security Conclave' secretariat to address security and stability challenges in the Indian Ocean region

  1. Nine projects worth Rs 265 crore have been approved in the 56th Executive Committee meeting of

● ‘National Clean Ganga Mission’ held in New Delhi

  1. ‘Madras Day’ (Madras Day 2024) is celebrated every year on

● 22nd August

  1. The first ‘National Space Day’ (National Space Day 2024) was celebrated in India on

● 23rd August 2024

  1. ‘West Bengal Foundation Day’ is celebrated every year on

● 24th August

  1. ‘National Sports Day’ is celebrated every year on

● 29th August

  1. ‘National Small Industries Day’ is celebrated every year on

● 30th August in India

  1. ‘Malaysia Day’ is celebrated every year on

● 31st August

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