Weekly Current Affairs - 4th Week June 2024

23rd - 30th June 2024

CURRENT AFFAIRS

7/1/20245 min read

  1. Mukhyamantri Bahan Beti Swavalamban Protsahan Yojana will be started in the

● Jharkhand

  1. The famous Ambubachi Mela has started from June 22 at

● Kamakhya temple in Assam

  1. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will chair the

● 53rd GST Council Meeting' in New Delhi

  1. Indian documentary The Golden Thread has been honoured with the

● Golden Conch Award as the Best Documentary in the International category

● At the closing ceremony of the 18th Mumbai International Film Festival

  1. The Vice-Chief of the Army

● Lieutenant General N.S. Raja Subramani

  1. The country Tajikistan has banned

● Hijab and foreign clothing

  1. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has come on

● Two-day visit to India

● Sheikh Hasina and PM Modi held important discussions on blue economy, water sharing, digital partnership, defence and health among others

  1. National Poson Festival has been celebrated in

● Sri Lanka from 18 to 24 June

  1. India's Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Preneet Kaur and Aditi Swamy have won the gold medal in the

● Antalya Archery World Cup 2024 in Turkey

  1. Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport has become the first airport in the country to launch

● Fast Track Immigration Trusted Traveler Program (FTI-TTP) at Terminal 3

  1. New Director General of the National Testing Agency (NTA)

● Senior IAS officer Pradeep Singh Kharola

  1. Odisha government has decided to sponsor the men's and women's Indian hockey teams (senior and junior) till

● 2036

  1. The first session of the 18th Lok Sabha will begin from

● June 24, 2024

  1. Prime Minister College of Excellence will be launched in all

● 55 districts of Madhya Pradesh from July 1

  1. Bureau of Indian Standards has implemented two new standards IS-18590 and IS-18606 to enhance

● The safety of electric vehicles in the L, M, and N categories

  1. The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS) in collaboration with the World Health Organization will organize

● an important national consultation meeting on ‘Research Priority Settings in Traditional Medicine’

● On June 24, 2024, at the India Habitat Center, New Delhi

  1. Indian Air Force exercise Tarang Shakti-2024 will be conducted in

● Jodhpur in the first week of August

  1. ISRO has achieved success in the landing experiment of Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV)

● Pushpak for the third consecutive time on 23 June 2024

  1. Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE) and Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research (SAMEER) have signed an MoU for

● Cooperation in wireless technology for the Indian Army

  1. Four officers of the ‘Armed Forces Medical Services’ have won 32 medals at

● The 43rd World Medical and Health Games held in St. Tropez, France, June 16 to 23, 2024

  1. E-Medical Visa Facility has been launched between

● India and Bangladesh

  1. Senior TDP MLA Chintakayala Ayyanna Patrudu has become the

● Third Speaker of Andhra Pradesh Assembly

  1. UNESCO has declared the city of Kozhikode in Kerala as India's first

● City of Literature

  1. BJP National President and Union Health Minister J P Nadda has become

● The leader of the House in Rajya Sabha

  1. Sreeja Akula has become the first Indian woman to win

● The World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender singles title

  1. The Ministry of Coal has launched India's first pilot project for underground coal gasification in

● Jharkhand

  1. India Africa Postal Leaders Meet will be organized

● From 21 to 25 June, 2024 in India

  1. India will host the ISO Council Meeting, a global event in the sugar sector,

● From June 25 to 27, 2024 in New Delhi

  1. The Governor of Maharashtra has released the book

● Gateways to the Sea: Historic Ports and Docks of Mumbai Region

● Published by Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India

  1. Intelligence Bureau chief Tapan Kumar Deka (Counter-terrorism expert) has been given one year extension by the

● Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet

  1. Four teams India, Afghanistan, England and South Africa have reached the semi-finals of

● T20 World Cup 2024

  1. India has won a total of 11 medals( four gold, two silver, and five bronze) in the

● Under-17 Asian Wrestling Championship

  1. Australian cricket team's legendary opening batsman David Warner has

● Announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 37

  1. The World Crafts Council has officially recognized Srinagar as the

● World Crafts City

  1. China's Moon mission Chang'e-6 has reached Earth with soil from

● The darkest part of the Moon

  1. Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh has inaugurated the

● 71st India International Garment Fair (IIGF) in New Delhi

● Provide a unique marketing platform for micro, small, and medium exporters

● Showcasing India's latest trends to the rest of the world

  1. C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) and All India Council for Technical Education have signed an MoU

● To create an ecosystem for human resource development in high performance computing and allied areas

  1. Paraguay has become the 100th country to join

● The International Solar Alliance (ISA) as a full member

  1. The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has handed over the

● Medium Range-Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket (MR-MOCR) to the Indian Navy

● At a ceremony held in New Delhi

  1. Indian para badminton player Suhas Yathiraj has become the world number 1 player in

● The BWF Para Badminton World Rankings

  1. Sam Pitroda has reappointed the President of

● Indian Overseas Congress

  1. According to the report of the United Nations (UN) office, the number of drug addicts in

● The world has reached 29.2 crores

  1. Renowned writer Arundhanti Roy has been awarded the prestigious

● PEN Pinter Award 2024

● Award presented by English PEN in memory of Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter

  1. The Uttar Pradesh government has signed an agreement

● To build a film city in Greater Noida

● Filmmaker Boney Kapoor and real estate developer Ashish Bhutani, signed an agreement to develop the film city with the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA), on Thursday

  1. In Sikkim, Army Engineers of Tri Shakti Corps in collaboration with Border Roads Organisation (BRO) and local administration have constructed

● A Ballet Bridge on the Dikchu-Sanklang road (70-foot Bailey Bridge)

  1. RPF Director General Manoj Yadav has launched a comprehensive application for legal reference -

● Sangyaan App

● Sangyaan App aims to educate and empower RPF Personnel

  1. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Ninth Amendment Regulations, 2024 will come into force

● From July 1

  1. India has become the third largest domestic aviation market after the

● US and China

  1. The next Foreign Secretary

● Senior IFS officer Vikram Misri

  1. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has announced to make

● Bagaha City a revenue district by the year 2025

  1. The United States, South Korea and Japan have launched their

● First trilateral multi-domain exercise Freedom Edge

● The three-day exercise, got underway in South Korea’s southern island of Jeju

  1. The second military station in India to have a plastic waste road

● Jaipur Military Station

  1. DRDO has successfully completed six consecutive development trials of

● High Speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) ‘ABHYAS’ with improved booster (Chandipur, Odisha)

  1. Denmark plans to implement a tax on livestock farmers starting in 2030

● Making it the first nation to do so

● This initiative targets methane emissions from cows, sheep, and pigs

  1. The new president of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI)

● Cricket Legend Kapil Dev

  1. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has started MBA (MBACHM) course in

● Health Care and Hospital Management

  1. Recently Ladakh has been declared the administrative unit

● To achieve full functional literacy

  1. Om Birla has become the

● Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha

  1. The Air Quality Management Commission has set a high target of planting 4.5 crore trees in the

● National Capital Region of Delhi and surrounding areas

  1. Smriti Mandhana has become the first Indian female cricketer

● To score consecutive centuries in ODIs

● During the second ODI against South Africa in Bengaluru on June 19,2024

  1. International Olympic Day is celebrated on

● 23rd June

● Theme24 : Let's Move and Celebrate

  1. World Vitiligo Day is observed on

● 25th June

● Theme24 : United by the skin

  1. International Seafarer Day is celebrated all over the world on

● 25 June

  1. International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking is observed on

● 26th June

● Theme24: The evidence is clear: invest in prevention

  1. World MSME Day is celebrated on

● 27th June

● Theme24 : Building a Stronger Future Together

  1. National Insurance Awareness Day is celebrated in India

● On 28th June

  1. National Statistics Day is celebrated in India

● On 29th June

  1. Every year International Asteroid Day is celebrated all over the world

● On June 30

  1. Doctors Week will be celebrated in

● Delhi from June 30 to July 7