Weekly Current Affairs - 4th Week September 2024
23rd - 30th September 2024
CURRENT AFFAIRS
10/14/20244 min read
The next Chief of the Air Force
● Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh
The Indian Air Force has successfully completed the 'Inter Bridge-7 War Exercise' with the
● Omani Royal Air Force at Masirah, Oman
Athlete 'Nazira Bano' has won the gold medal in the individual under-30 category at the
● 1st Khelo India Women's Taekwondo League Stage-1 held in Vadodara, Gujarat
The Indian Air Force is going to organize an Air Force 'Air Show' in Chennai on
● October 6, 2024 on the occasion of its 92nd anniversary
Defence Research and Development Organisation has transferred High-Altitude Sustainment Technology to
● 'Power Grid Corporation of India Limited' on September 21, 2024
MoU signed between ARIES and BEL for
● Space Situational Awareness
India won historic double gold medals in
● Hungary Chess Olympiad
India's third indigenous pressurised heavy water nuclear reactor was commissioned at
● Rawatbhata
Kerala remains the top state in the State Food Index, 2024 for the
● Second consecutive year
Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav launched
● 'Clean the Beach Campaign 2024' in Mumbai
Leftist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has won the presidential election of
● Sri Lanka
● He will be the 10th President of Sri Lanka
Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth presided over the Joint State Delegates and National Cadet Corps Deputy Director Generals' Conference on
● 23 September in New Delhi
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated 'Sainik School' in
● Jaipur, Rajasthan on 23 September
Indian Navy hosted the '5th Goa Maritime Symposium' on
● 23 September at the Naval War College, Goa
The new Director of 'National Crime Records Bureau'
● Alok Ranjan, senior IPS officer of 1991 batch of Madhya Pradesh cadre
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the opening of two new Indian Consulates in
● Boston and Los Angeles in the USA
Famous film actor Chiranjeevi Konidela has been awarded the Best Actor award in the
● Indian film industry by the Guinness World Records
Disney Plus Hotstar's web series 'The Night Manager' has been nominated for the
● International Emmy Awards 2024
Indian Railways in collaboration with IRCTC and Uttarakhand Tourism Development Corporation will run 'Bharat Gaurav Train' for pilgrims travelling to
● Kedarnath, Badrinath and other pilgrimage places
India and USA signed agreement to set up the first national security semiconductor manufacturing plant
● 'Shakti'
The 10th annual conference of the 'World Free Zone Organization' was held in
● Dubai from 23 to 25 September
The American space agency NASA has handed over the command of the International Space Station to
● Indian-origin astronaut 'Sunita Williams'
The '10th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association India Region Conference' has been started in
● New Delhi on 23 September
● This two-day conference will be chaired by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
The comedy drama film 'Laapataa Ladies', released last year under the direction of filmmaker Kiran Rao, has been selected as India's official entry for the
● Oscar Awards 2025 in the Best Feature Film category
Rhea Singha has won the title of
● Miss Universe India 2024
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurated the second edition of the
● 'UP International Trade Show' in Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh
● The five-day trade show will conclude on September 29
Delhi Airport was ranked 24th among the top 50
● 'Mega hub' airports globally
Sangram Singh became the first Indian male wrestler to win the
● Gama International Fighting Championship
The pair of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth have won the title of
● 'Hangzhou Open' in China
India's new airline 'Shankh Air' has received approval from the
● Civil Aviation Ministry to start operations
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 24 September inaugurated the
● 41st Conference of Indian Coast Guard Commanders in New Delhi
President Draupadi Murmu inaugurated the 16th Assembly of the
● Asian Organization of Supreme Accounting Institutions on 24 September
India ranks third in the recently released
● Asia Power Index 2024
The new Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force
● Fighter pilot 'Air Marshal Sujit Pushpakar Dharkar'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation three indigenously developed
● 'Param Rudra Supercomputers' in Pune on 26 September
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched a
● Dedicated Foreign Portfolio Investor Outreach Cell
President Draupadi Murmu inaugurated the 'Festival of Indian Arts 2024' at Rashtrapati Nilayam in
● Bolarum, Hyderabad on 28 September
India has overtaken Japan to become the third most powerful country in Asia in the
● ‘Asia Power Index’
Recently India has signed an international agreement to conserve
● ‘marine biodiversity’ in the oceans
The Department of Space and Technology has launched the Women in Space Leadership Program in collaboration with the
● British Council
Union Textiles Minister Giriraj Singh has inaugurated the
● ‘Eri Sericulture Promotion Project’ in Gujarat on 25 September
The Climate and Health Solutions India Conclave, jointly organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), was inaugurated in
● Delhi on 25 September
The second and final cricket match of the Test series between India and Bangladesh was played on
● 27 September at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur
The Home Ministry has extended the 'AFSPA' Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act for six months from
● 1 October in some districts of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has made it mandatory to whitelist
● URLs, APKs or OTT links for SMS traffic
Indian Railways will run more than 6000 special trains between
● 1 October and 30 November for the upcoming festivals of Durga Puja, Diwali and Chhath Puja
Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Virendra Kumar inaugurated the
● 20th Divya Kala Mela in Pune on 28 September
India and Uzbekistan signed a 'Bilateral Investment Treaty' on
● 27 September in Tashkent
The Ministry of Tourism has launched 'Incredible India Content Hub' and 'Digital Portal' on the occasion of 'World Tourism Day' on
● 27 September 2024
The Indian pair of Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand lost to the Taiwanese pair of Sieh Pei Shan and Hung En-Ju in the
● Women's doubles semi-final of the Macau Open
Recently, the Central Government has lifted the ban on the export of
● 'Non-basmati white rice' with immediate effect
● Along with this, the export duty on 'boiled rice' has been changed and it has been halved
Haifa Day was celebrated on
● 23 September in New Delhi in honour of the martyrs of the Haifa War
'International Day of Sign Languages' is celebrated on
● 23 September
'World Heart Day' is celebrated all over the world on
● 29 September
'World Tourism Day' is celebrated all over the world on
● 27 September
'World Bollywood Day' is celebrated all over the world on
● 24 September
● This day symbolizes the achievement of Bollywood on the global cinematic scene
‘World Pharmacist Day’ is celebrated all over the world on
● 25 September
‘World Lung Day’ is celebrated every year on
● 25 September
‘World Environmental Health Day’ is celebrated across the world on
● 26 September