APRIL 2024

Yuzvendra Chahal, the wily leg-spinner from Rajasthan Royals, stands tall as the highest wicket-taker in IPL history.
With a staggering 200 wickets in 153 matches.| Indian squash Player, Saurav Ghosal, the nation’s premier player, has
announced his retirement|sprinter Usain Bolt has been named the official ambassador for the upcoming ICC Men’s
T20 World Cup|Yuvraj Singh as an ambassador for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024.| 21st U-20 Asian
Athletics Championship 2024, with Harshit Kumar clinching a gold medal in the highly competitive Hammer throw
event.| 19th annual meeting Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) member states was held in Astana,
Kazakhstan|Uttar Pradesh now boasts a total of 69 GI-tagged products, surpassing Tamil Nadu’s 58.| 1st April Odisha
Day or Utkala Dibasa|April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day|April 1 to April 7 Prevention of Blindness Week|4th
April International Mine Awareness Day|5 April • International Conscience Day, National Maritime Day|April 6
National Library Day|April 7th World Health Day|April 10th World Homeopathy Day|April 11th National Safe
Motherhood Day|April 11 World Parkinson’s Day|April 12 International Day of Human Space Flight|April 14th World
Chagas Disease Day|April 13th International Turban Day|April 14 World Quantum Day|April 15th World Art Day|
April 17th World Hemophilia Day|April 18 World Heritage Day|April 19th World Liver Day|April 21st National Civil
Service Day|April 23rd World Book and Copyright Day|April 25 World Malaria Day|April 27th World Veterinary Day|
April 28th World Day for Safety and Health at Work|April 29th International Dance Day|April 30th International Jazz
Day|April 30th Ayushman Bharat Diwas|The Army Medical Corps (AMC) celebrated its 260 th Raising Day on 03rd
April 2024.| Akashteer system developed by Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL)| ndian Coast Guard Director General
Rakesh Pal inaugurated the Indian Coast Guard Aquatic Centre at ICGS Mandapam near Rameshwaram, Tamil Nadu|
A two-day coastal security exercise called Sagar Kavach 01/24 was conducted off the Lakshadweep Islands|The
Indian Army has bolstered its Very Short Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) capabilities with the acquisition of Igla-S Man
Portable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS) from Russia.|Tri-Service Planning Conference, dubbed ‘Parivartan
Chintan,’ convened in New Delhi on April 8, 2024, orchestrated by the Ministry of Defence.|Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF) celebrates its Bravery Day, or Valour Day, to pay tribute to the brave soldiers who have selflessly served
the nation. This year, 2024, marks the 59th anniversary of this significant day|fifth edition of the India-Uzbekistan
Joint Military Exercise DUSTLIK is set to commence on April 15, 2024, in Termez District, Uzbekistan.|indian Navy
conducted a mega exercise, ‘Poorvi Leher,’along the East Coast|tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI have revealed
plans to construct an unprecedented artificial intelligence supercomputer known as “Stargate.”|The Himalayan
Mountains, known as the “Third Pole” for their vast glaciers|NASA recently launched a groundbreaking space mission
from New Zealand, deploying the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System spacecraft aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron
rocket.| Phi-3-mini marks a significant milestone in AI innovation,offering unparalleled performance and efficiency.
Microsoft’s latest small language model (SLM)|Shenzhou-18 china mission saw the successful launch of a three-
member crew aboard the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft.|The Idea of Democracy- Sam Pitroda|The Winner’s Mindset
Shane Watson|India’s Nuclear Titans Soumya Awasthi and Shrabana Barua|Law and Spirituality: Reconnecting the
Bond Professor Raman Mittal and Professor Seema Singh|The ‘Yoga Mahotsav’ was held in Pune, Maharashtra, to
mark the 75-day countdown to the International Day of Yoga.|The Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) is organizing the
festival ‘Shakti – A Festival of Music and Dance’ from April 9 to 17, 2024. The festival is celebrated in seven different
Shaktipeeths (sacred sites) across the country.|Comet Pons-Brooks, currently orbiting near Jupiter, is captivating
astronomers and stargazers|The Lakshmana Tirtha River, renowned for its scenic beauty in the Kodagu District of
Karnataka, has succumbed to severe drought and intense heat.| former Cricket Australia (CA) chair, Jack Clarke|K.G.
Jayan, a towering figure in Carnatic music and Malayalam cinema, passed away|quadron Leader Dalip Singh Majithia,
the oldest living pilot of the Indian Air Force, passed away at the age of 103.|Raman Subba Row, the former England
Test batsman, has passed away at the age of 92.| The world lost Sudhir Kakar, a renowned writer, cultural critic, and
the “Father of Indian Psychology,” who passed away at the age of 85.|subrahmanya Dhareshwar, a senior and well-
known Yakshagana ‘bhagavatha’ (background singer), passed away in Bengaluru. He was 66 years old.|Election
Commission of India Formed: 25 January 1950|Zoological Survey of India Headquarters: Kolkata|DRDO Date
founded: 1958|ICC Founded: 15 June 1909|

MAY 2024
Kolkata Knight Riders Win IPL 2024 against Sunrisers Hyderabad at Chidambaram stadium Rs. 20 crore(prize)Runner
Up (Rs. 12.5 crore)|Purple Cap (Rs. 10 Lakh) Harshal PatelWorld Press Freedom Index 2024 Announced, India Ranked
159th Out of 180 Countries|2024 Pulitzer Prize in the fields of journalism and arts|Buddha Purnim a 2024, also
known as Buddha Jayanti or Vesak, is celebrated on Thursday, 23 May 2024.|YES Bank has partnered with ANQ to
introduce two innovative credit cards, Pi and Phi|HDFC Life launches the “No Jhanjhat Life Insurance Fatafat”|YES
BANK, a leading private sector bank in India, is collaborating with EBANX|State Bank of India (SBI), has launched
‘Surety Bond Bima|YES Bank has introduced ‘YES Grandeur,’ a premium banking service|The Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das has unveiled three major initiatives: the Pravaah portal, the Retail Direct Mobile App,
and a FinTech Repository.|China is set to launch the Chang’e-6 lunar probe on a round trip to the Moon|The
Japanese men’s under-23 football team e tched their name in history by clinching the AFC U-23 Asian Cup for the
second time, defeating Uzbekistan|Japanese men’s hockey team etched its name in the history books by clinching its
maiden Sultan Azlan Shah Trophy title. The match against Pakistan|Hundreds of residents near Mount Ibu, an active
volcano on Halmahera island in eastern Indonesia|Spain has officially become the 99th member of the International
Solar Alliance (ISA).|Nepalese climber Purnima Shrestha has achieved the extraordinary accomplishment of climbing
Mount Everest three times|The grand commencement of IndiaSkills 2024 took place at Yashobhoomi, Dwarka, New
Delhi on 15 May 2024.| Doordarshan channel DD Kisan marks its 9 th anniversary on 26 May 2024, it is set to e mbark
on a remarkable journey by introducing Krish and Bhoomi, the first AI anchors in India’s government broadcasting
history.|anti-radiation missile Rudram-II. Fired from a Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft off the coast of Odisha|Maharashtra
Day, also known as Maharashtra Divas, is celebrated every year on May 1 st|Gujarat Day, celebrated on May 1 st|
Manipur’s government introduces the “School on Wheels”|The Uttarakhand government has launched the ‘Pirul
Lao-Paise Pao’ campaign to contain the raging forest fires in the state. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched|
Meghalaya has made history by appointing Idashisha Nongrang as the state’s first woman Director General of Police
(DGP)| Goa Statehood Day is celebrated annually on May 30|Sanjaya Kumar Mishr a has been appointed as the
President of the Goods & Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT)| Senior advocate Kapil Sibal has been elected as
the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA)|Poonawalla Fincorp Limited, in partnership with IndusInd
Bank, has introduced the co-branded ‘IndusInd Bank Poonawalla Fincorp eLITE RuPay Platinum Credit Card’.|The
Badminton World Federation (BWF) has announced that India will host the prestigious 2025 BWF World Junior
Championships at the National Centre of Excellence in Guwahati.|Lando Norris of McLaren clinched his first-ever
Grand Prix victory in a pulsating showdown at the Miami Grand Prix.|Iga Swiatek of Poland claimed her first Madrid
Open title, while Andrey Rublev of Russia secured his second triumph in this prestigious tournament, The 2024
Madrid Open, held in the Spanish capital from April 22 to May 5|The Spanish football giants, Re al Madrid, have
etched another remarkable achievement in their illustrious history by securing the La Liga 2023-24 season title.|
ninth ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024, set to take place from 3 to 20 October in UAE.| Chahal achieved a
remarkable feat by becoming the first Indian bowler to take 350 wickets in IPL|May 25 as the World Football Day|
Indian para-athlete Deepthi Jeevanji e tched her name in history by winning the gold medal in the women’s T20
400m event at the World Para Athletics Championships 2024.| Satwiksair aj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty etched
their names in glory by winning the coveted Thailand Open 2024 men’s doubles|German tennis star Alexander
Zverev etched his name in history by winning the Italian Open singles title for the second time.|3rd Elorda Cup 2024,
held in the Kazakh capital city of Astana|Max Verstappen, the defending For mula 1 World Champion, showcased his
prowess on the track by clinching a hard fought victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix 2024|Brazil was declared
the host of the 2027 Women’s World Cup at the FIFA Congress.|Australia as the hosts for the AFC Women’s Asian
Cup 2026.|The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has launched the “Let’s Move India” campaign in
collaboration with the Reliance Foundation and the Abhinav Bindr a Foundation.| The Indian gymnast, Dipa Karm
akar, has scripted history by becoming the first-ever Indian to secure a gold medal in any Asian Championships.
Hailing from Tripura|Charles Leclerc, the Ferrari driver, has achieved a remarkable feat by becoming the first
Monegasque driver to win the Monaco Grand Prix since Louis Chiron in 1931, ending a drought of 92 years.|The 26th
ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting took place in New Delhi|The 10th World Water Forum, themed “Water for
Shared Prosperity,” officially commenced on May 21 in Bali, Indonesia.|The 22nd Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)
conducted by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO)|India has ascended to the 39th spot in the World Econom ic
Forum’s Tr avel & Tourism Development Index 2024|May 01, 2024 International Labor Day, World Tuna Day|May 03,
2024 World Press Freedom Day| May 04, 2024 International Day for Mine Awareness|May 07, 2024 World Asthma
Day 2024| May 08, 2024 World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2024| May 09, 2024
Maharana Pratap Jayanti 2024| May 10, 2024 International Day of Argania| May 11, 2024 National Technology Day
2024, World Migratory Bird Day|May 12, 2024 International Day of Plant Health , Mother’s Day 2024, International
Nurses Day 2024|May 15, 2024 International Day of Families|May 16, 2024 International Day of Light|May 17, 2024
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day|May 18, 2024 World’s AIDS Vaccine Day 2024|May 20, 2024
World Bee Day|May 21, 2024 International Tea Day 2024, Anti-Terrorism Day 2024,International Day for Biological
Diversity|May 23, 2024 Vesak, the Day of the Full Moon, World Turtle Day 2024|May 28, 2024 World Hunger Day
2024, International Everest Day 2024| May 29, 2024 International Day of Action for Women’s Health 2024|May 30,
2024 International Day of Potato, Hindi Journalism Day 2024|May 31, 2024 World No-Tobacco Day|Supersonic
Missile-Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) system. This next-generation torpedo delivery system was successfully
flight-tested on May 01, 2024, at around 8:30 AM from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.|The
Indian Army and the Punit Balan Group joined hands to inaugurate the nation’s fir st Constitution Park in Pune.|
drishti-10 (Hermes-900). Scheduled for an induction ceremony in Hyderabad on May 18|Agra for the BHISHM
portable hospital, a crucial component of “Project BHISHM” aimed at providing rapid and comprehensive medical
assistance during emergencies.|Exercise Cyber Suraksha – 2024’ on May 22, 2024 attended by the CDS anil chauhan|
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has joined a 16-day multi-nation mega military exercise in Alaska, United States, designed
to provide realistic training to participating forces in a simulated combat environment. The exercise, known as ‘Red
Flag 24’, commenced on May 30 and will continue until June 14.|Dr. Purnima Devi Barm an, a wildlife biologist from
Assam, has been recognized with the prestigious Whitley Gold Award|Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has
been appointed as the National Ambassador for UNICEF India|Oxford Bookstores announced Bhavi Mehta as the
winner of the 9th edition of the Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize. Mehta’s winning entry was the book jacket for
“The Book Beautiful|Pawan Sindhi was bestowed with the prestigious Global Pride of Sindhi Award 2024|Srinivas R.
Kulkarni, an Indian-origin U.S. scientist has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy for 2024.|Arti, an
18-year-old woman from the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, has been honored with the prestigious Am al Clooney
Women’s Empowerment Award by King Charles III of the United Kingdom|The 77th Cannes Film Festival witnessed a
remarkable achievement for Indian cinema as Payal Kapadia’s film ‘All We Imagine as Light’ won the prestigious
Grand Prix award|Major Radhika Sen has been awarded the prestigious 2023 United Nations Military Gender
Advocate of the Year Award.|NASA has unveiled its ambitious plan to construct the first lunar railway system, known
as FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on a Tr ack)| NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have
decided to operate an instrument on the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM)|Google Arts & Culture, in
collaboration with India’s Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, presents an engaging digital exhibition titled
“Millets: Seeds of Change.”|“The Winner’s Mindset,” Authored by Shane Watson.| Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti
2024, also known as Rabindra Jayanti, falls on May 8 th|Nepali mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa has achieved a historic
feat by conquering Mount Everest for the 29th time. At 54 years old|Thiruvananthapuram International Airport has
made history as the first airport in India to achieve the prestigious recognition of zero waste to landfill (ZWL).| the
Bay of Bengal is se t to intensify into Cyclone Rem al, reaching Bangladesh and adjoining West Bengal|Jyoti Ratre, an
entrepreneur and fitness enthusiast from Madhya Pradesh, has etched her name in history by becoming the oldest
Indian wom an to conquer Mount Everest.|Indian mountaineer Satyadeep Gupta has etched his name in history by
becoming the first person to scale Mt. Everest and Mt. Lhotse twice in a single season.|Malti Joshi, a revered figure
in the literary world and recipient of the prestigious Padma Shri award, passed away at the age of 90|CEO and Co-
founder of Razorpay: Harshil Mathur|Union Minister of Textiles: Piyush Goya|India’s first PM MITRA Park in:
Virudhunagar,Tamil Nadu|CEO of India AI: Shri Abhishek Singh|National Startup Day: January 16|All India Football
Federation President: Kalyan Chaubey|Indian Air Force Air chief Marshall: Vivek Ram Chaudhari|(EPFO): Neelam
Shami Rao|Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE): T G Sitharam|ESAF Small Finance Bank
Headquarters : Thrissur|

JUNE 2024

For T20 world cup 2024 Player of the match – Virat Kohli (India) Player of the tournament – Jasprit Bumrah (India)|
QS World University Rankings 2025 in this ranking IIT Bombay at 118 position with 56.3 score and IIT delhi at 150
position 52.1 score |77th World Health AssemblIn its 77th session, the theme for this year’s event is “Health For All:
All for Health”|RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the Monetary Policy Committee has chosen to
maintain the policy repo rate at 6.5%|List of Winners French Open 2024:- Men’s Singles Carlos Alcaraz Alexander
Zverev, Women’s Singles Iga Swiatek Jasmine Paolini, Men’s doubles Marcelo Arevalo & Mate Pavic Simone Bolelli
and Andrea Vavassori, Women’s doubles Coco Gauff & Katerina Siniakova Sara Errani & Jasmine Paolini, Mixed
doubles Laura Siegemund and Edouard Roger-Vasselin Desirae Krawczyk and Neal Skupski|The Global Peace Index
(GPI) 2024, published by the Institute

for Economics & Peace (IEP), Most Peaceful - Iceland remains the most peaceful country, a position it has held since
2008, followed by Ireland, Austria, New Zealand, and Singapore.,Least Peaceful Countries: Yemen is now the least
peaceful country- india at 116 position with the score of the 2.319|G7 summit held in the Italy of 50 th edition|India’s
latest ranking in the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) for 2024 places it at 176th out of 180 countries in 2024-
Estonia – Score: 75.3, Luxembourg – Score: 75.0 first and second position In EPI|According to the Global Energy
Transition Index released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on 19 June 2024, India has been ranked 63rd out of
120 country last year india at a 67 th position|The 53rd GST Council met under the Chairpersonship of Union Minister
for Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in New Delhi.|SEBI, the Securities and Exchange Board of
India, has launched “Saathi 2.0,” a mobile app|The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated its third global
hackathon, HaRBInger 2024 – Innovation for Transformation|GAIL (India) plans to establish a 1500 KTA Ethane
Cracker Project in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, with an estimated capex of Rs 60,000 crore.|State Bank of India (SBI) has
launched ‘SME Digital Business Loans|State Bank of India (SBI), under Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara|Ashok Leyland,
the Indian flagship of the Hinduja Group and one of the country’s leading commercial manufacturers, launched
‘Sarathi Suraksha Policy|At its Golden Jubilee celebration, Central Electronics Limited (CEL) was honored with “Mini
RATNA” status (Category-1) by Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh.|Thailand will become the first nation in Southeast
Asia to legalize same-sex marriage after the kingdom’s Senate approved a marriage equality bill on June 18, with
supporters calling it a “monumental step forward for LGBTQ+ rights.”|India sets its sights on managing the Mongla
Port in Bangladesh. Following the successes of Chabahar in Iran and Sittwe in Myanmar|India is the world’s second
largest source of nitrous oxide (N2O) and first is china|Rajya Sabha Chairperson and Vice President Jagdeep
Dhankhar inaugurated the ‘Prerna Sthal’ (Inspiration Site) within the Parliament House Complex.|The Union Cabinet,
chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the Viability Gap Funding (VGF) scheme for the
implementation of offshore wind energy projects in India.|Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Varanasi|On a
momentous day for Indian democracy, Om Birla was re-elected as the Speaker of the 18th Lok Sabha.| Director
General of Railway Protection Force (RPF) Manoj Yadava today launched the Sangyaan App, designed by the RPF
Tech|Telangana Formation Day is a momentous occasion celebrated annually on June 2 in the Indian state of
Telangana. This day marks the official establishment of Telangana as the 28th state of India on June 2, 2014|The
Uttarakhand government organized India’s first-ever astro-tourism event called ‘Nakshatra Sabha’ in Mussoorie, the
‘Queen of Hills’, on June 1 and 2, 2024.|Visakhapatnam Port achieves the 19th position in the Container Port
Performance Index 2023, surpassing Mundra Port.| MotoGP event as it will be hosted by the city of Noida from 2025
until 2029 and announced a collaboration with Spain’s Dorna Sports and the Indian partner which is Fairstreet
sports.|3rd edition of World Food India, Union Minister of Food Processing Industries, Shri Chirag Paswan|in Ladakh,
as a tribute to the heroes of the Kargil War, the Indian Army has opened the Khalubar War Memorial to tourists. This
opening ceremony was part of the ‘Forever in Operations’ Division’s Pre-Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrations as this year,
the country will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas on 26 July.|Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister
Mohan Yadav launched an intra-State air service to promote tourism on June 13 from Raja Bhoj International Airport
in the state capital Bhopal. It is called ‘PM Shri Paryatan Vayu Seva’|Kerala’s Kozhikode is all set to host the Malabar
River Festival 2024, featuring the International White Water Kayaking Championship from July 25 to 28.|Tesam
Pongte was unanimously elected as the Speaker of the 8th Arunachal Pradesh Assembly on June 15. Pro-tem Speaker
Ninong Ering announced that Pongte was elected unopposed as the Speaker of the Assembly.|The Madhya Pradesh
government has completed preparations for its ambitious cheetah reintroduction project at Gandhi Sagar Wildlife
Sanctuary.|Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot of Karnataka inaugurated the National Yoga Olympiad 2024 in Mysuru|
The Hemis Festival, a vibrant celebration of Tibetan Buddhism, takes place annually in Ladakh, India. In 2024, this
important cultural event will be held on June 16th and 17 th|Telugu Desam Party’s Narsipatnam MLA C. Ayyanna
Patrudu was elected unanimously as the Speaker of the 16th Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on June 22,
2024.|Uttar Pradesh is set to establish the world’s first conservation and breeding centre for Asian king vultures or
red-headed vultures in Maharajganj.|Srinagar has become the fourth Indian city to be recognised as a ‘World Craft
City’ by the World Craft Council (WCC). Three years after it was designated as part of the UNESCO Creative City
Network (UCCN) for crafts and folk arts.|Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Shri Jagat Prakash Nadda
launched the National STOP Diarrhoea Campaign 2024|MoHUA) has launched the Safai Apnao, Bimaari Bhagao
(SABB) initiative under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0|integrate SBI’s payment gateway, SBIePay, with the
eMigrate portal.|Former IAS officer P K Mishra has been re-appointed as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister
Narendra Modi.|Atul Kumar Chaudhary, as the new Secretary, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)|Lt Gen
NS Raja Subramani is set to be the next Vice Chief of Army Staff|Kapil Dev, the legendary cricketer and passionate
amateur golfer, has been elected as the new president of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI).|The
Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA) has secured the 18th position in the World Bank’s Container Port Performance
Index (CPPI)|The ninth edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup|The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF)
World Cup, a prestigious shooting tournament, is currently underway in Munich, Germany, from May 31 to June 8,
2024. Amidst the intense competition, Indian shooter Sarabjot Singh has etched his name in history by claiming
India’s first medal at the event.|The Canadian Grand Prix 2024, also known as the AWS GRAND PRIX DU CANADA
2024, witnessed a remarkable display of skill and determination as Dutch-Belgian racing driver Max Verstappen of
Red Bull claimed his third consecutive victory at the prestigious event. The 9th round of the 2024 F1 championships|
Sumit Nagpal has etched his name in history by winning the prestigious Heilbronn Neckarcup 2024 ATP Challenger
Tennis tournament in Germany.|Puja Tomar became the first everIndian to win a bout in the UFC as she defeated
Brazil’s Rayanne Amanda dos Santos|Shruti Vora, astride Magnanimous, has become the first Indian rider to win a
three-star Grand Prix event|The 2024 FIDE U-20 World Chess Championship, organized by the International Chess
Federation (FIDE), witnessed a remarkable achievement as 18-year-old Divya Deshmukh from Nagpur, India, clinched
the FIDE Under-20 Girl’s World Chess Championship title.|BWF Australian Open 2024 in Sydney on Sunday (16 June),
Lee Zii Jia from Malaysia emerged victorious against Naraoka Kodai of Japan, securing his second title of the season.|
Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra added another feather to his cap by clinching the gold medal in the men’s javelin
throw event at the Paavo Nurmi Games 2024 in Turku, Finland. The Paavo Nurmi Games is a prestigious World
Athletics Continental Tour (Gold level) event|Max Verstappen secured victory at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday,
further solidifying his position atop the Formula 1 drivers championship.|The Archery World Cup 2024 Stage 3 in
Antalya, Turkey concluded on June 23, 2024, with Indian archers showcasing their exceptional skills and bringing
home multiple medals. 22-year-old Dhiraj Bommadevara|Under-17 Asian Wrestling Championship 2024 with an
impressive tally of 11 medals, including four gold, two silver, and five bronze. The event was held in Amman, Jordan|
Smriti Mandhana became the first Indian woman to record two consecutive ODI hundreds during the second ODI
against South Africa at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium|Himanta Biswa Sarma announced the launch of the Mukhya
Mantri Nijut Moina (MMNM) scheme|Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said the centre of ‘Bharatiya Gyan Parampara’
will be opened in every PM College|The 21st edition of the Asia Pacific premier defence meet, the Shangri-La
Dialogue or the Asian Security Summit, concluded in Singapore on 2 June 2024.| 20th meeting of the Conference of
Parties (CoP20) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) due
next year in Geneva, Switzerland|India will host the prestigious 81st International Air Transport Association (IATA)
Annual General Meeting (AGM) in 2025, marking its return after a 42-year hiatus.| he 112th session of the
International Labour Conference (ILC) of International Labour Organisation (ILO) being held in Geneva, Switzerland.|
The two day India-IORA Cruise Tourism Conference concluded in New Delhi on June 14.| COP29 summit to be held in
Baku, Azerbaijan|64th International Sugar Organisation (ISO) Council meeting commenced on 25th June 2024 at
Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi|June 1, 2024 World Milk Day,Global Day of Parents| June 2, 2024 Telangana
Formation Day|June 3, 2024 World Bicycle Day| June 7, 2024 World Food Safety Day,World Oceans Day|June 8,
2024 World Brain Tumour Day|June 9, 2024 World Accreditation Day, International Archives Day|June 11, 2024
International Day of Play 2024|Jun 12, 2024 World Day Against Child Labor|June 13, 2024 International Albinism
Awareness Day|June 14, 2024 World Blood Donor Day|June 15, 2024 World Father’s Day|June 16, 2024
International Day of Family Remittances|June 19, 2024 World Sickle Cell Day|June 20, 2024 World Refugee Day|June
21, 2024 World Music Day,World Hydrography Day,International Yoga Day,Summer Solstice|June 22, 2024 World
Rainforest Day|June 23, 2024 International Olympic Day, United Nations Public Service Day,International Widow’s
Day|June 24, 2024 International Day of Women in Diplomacy 2024|June 25, 2024 International Day of the Seafarer
2024|June 26, 2024 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking| June 27, 2024 Micro-, Small and
Medium-sized Enterprises Day 2024, International Pineapple Day 2024| June 28, 2024 National Insurance Awareness
Day 2024|June 29, 2024 National Statistics Day, International Day of Tropics|June 30, 2024 World Asteroid Day|
Indian Army was launched on June 5. ‘Vidyut Rakshak’, developed by the Army Design Bureau (ADB) was launched by
the Army’s Vice Chief Lt Gen Upendra Dwivedi.|The 8th edition of the Japan-India Maritime Exercise (JIMEX-24) has
commenced at Yokosuka, Japan, hosted by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF). Indian Navy’s INS
Shivalik and Japan’s JS Yugiri are participating|The launch of ‘Missile Cum Ammunition Barge, LSAM 13 (Yard 81)’, the
fifth Barge of 08 x Missile Cum Ammunition Barge project, built by MSME Shipyard. M/s SECON Engineering Projects
Pvt Ltd (SEPPL)|The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to make history this August by hosting its first-ever multinational air
exercise, Tarang Shakti-2024.|The Indian Army on June 18, announced the opening of a state-of-the-art skin bank
facility at the Army Hospital|Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully completed
six consecutive development trials of High Speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) ‘ABHYAS’ with improved booster
configuration from the Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur, Odisha.|Annual Hindi Sahitya Bharati Award has been
given to Krishna Prakash|New York Indian Film Festival 2024, Sanya Malhotra has etched her name in glory by
winning the Best Actress award|All India Tennis Association (AITA) has announced the Dilip Bose award for lifetime
achievement to coach Nar Singh.|Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has been awarded the prestigious “Risk Manager of the
Year Award 2024”|K Vaishali and Hindi author Gaurav Pandey, who will receive the prestigious Yuva Puraskar|
Eminent children’s filmmaker Vinod Ganatra has become the first Indian to be conferred with South Africa’s
prestigious ‘Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his outstanding contribution to children’s cinema.|
wildlife filmmaker Subbiah Nallamuthu has been conferred with the prestigious 18th V. Shantaram Lifetime
Achievement Award|India’s first artificial intelligence university, Universal AI University (UAIU), has appointed
international strategist and multiple award-winning professor Simon Mak as its vice-chancellor|Booker Prize-winning
author Arundhati Roy has been awarded the esteemed Pen Pinter Prize for 2024.|Dr. Usha Thakur has been
honoured with the 12th Vishwa Hindi Samman.| ISRO, through its Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), has
introduced the PraVaHa software, a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tool|Dhruva Space, a Hyderabad-based
space tech startup, has successfully completed its maiden mission with the Thybolt-1 and Thybolt-2 satellites.|Off-
spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, one of the most accomplished cricketers in the history of the game, is set to unveil his
autobiography titled ‘I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story’ on June 10, 2024.|ULLAS-Nav Bharat Saaksharta
Karyakram. Ladakh now boasts over 97 percent literacy.|Mumbai Cricket Association president Amol Kale|Sarod
maestro Pandit Rajeev Taranath, who breathed his last on June 11, 2024, at the age of 91.|Frank Duckworth, the
English statistician who co-invented the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method for determining cricket match results
under rain-affected conditions, died|

JULY 2024

Allocation of Rs. 1.52 lakh crore for agriculture and allied sectors.|Wimbledon 2024 - Men’s Singles Carlos Alcaraz
(R)Novak Djokovic,Women’s Singles Barbora Krejčíková Jasmine Paolini,Mixed Doubles Hsieh Su-Wei & Jan Zielinski
(R)Santiago Gonzalez & Giuliana Olmos,Women’s Doubles Taylor Townsend & Katerina Siniakova (R) Gabriela
Dabrowski & Erin Routliffe,Men’s Doubles Patten & Heliovaara (R) Max Purcell & Jordan Thompson|Vice-Chairperson
of NITI: Economist Suman K Bery|JP Nadda (Health) minister,HD Kumaraswamy (Heavy Industries and Steel|Jitan
Ram Manjhi (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises|Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh (Fisheries, Animal Husbandry
and Dairying|Virendra Kumar (Social Justice and Empowerment|Rammohan Naidu (Civil Aviation, from TDP)|Jual
Oram (Tribal Affairs)|Annpurna Devi (Women and Child Development)|Chirag Paswan (Food Processing Industries|
Rao Inderjit Singh (Statistics and Programme Implementation|AIFF awards 2024- Men’s Player of the Year
Lallianzuala Chhangte, Women’s Player of the Year Indumathi Kathiresan,Men’s Coach of the Year Khalid Jamil,
Women’s Coach of the Year Sukla Dutta, Referee of the Year Ramachandran Venkatesh|24th Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SCO) Summit held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan|Sixteenth Finance Commission Poonam Gupta,
Director General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research|India to Observe ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’
on June 25|State Bank of India (SBI) has introduced “MSME Sahaj,”|ICICI Bank announced the launch of its ‘Student
Sapphiro Forex Card’|The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has introduced its quarterly “Order Books, Inventories and
Capacity Utilisation Survey” (OBICUS) for the manufacturing sector|In response to rising cyber fraud incidents,
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has introduced the ‘Safety Ring’ security feature.|State Bank of India (SBI) has launched
a 444-day term deposit scheme, “Amrit Vrishti”|IndusInd Bank has announced the launch of ‘Wrestle for Glory’
program|Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced ‘SEVA,’ an AI-powered chatbot|Paytm, has
introduced ‘Paytm Health Saathi’|ICICI Lombard, a leading private general insurer in India, has launched ‘Elevate’|ata
Power Solar Systems Limited has launched the ‘Ghar Ghar Solar’ initiative in Uttar Pradesh|China has constructed a
new presidential palace in Vanuatu|(RBI) has introduced its quarterly “Order Books, Inventories and Capacity
Utilisation Survey” (OBICUS) for the manufacturing sector|ICICI Lombard, a leading private general insurer in India,
has launched ‘Elevate|Tata Power Solar Systems Limited has launched the ‘Ghar Ghar Solar’|July 3, Japan will
introduce new banknotes featuring what it claims to be the world’s pioneering use of advanced holography.|third
United Nations Conference on Afghanistan took place in Doha,Qatar|The Philippines has been chosen to host the
board of the “Loss and Damage” fund created by U.N. talks|The annual Kataragama Esala festival is being celebrated
in Sri Lanka.|Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire) has recently become the 53 rd Party to the 1992 UN Water Convention|Salt
Lake City in Utah state of the USA will host the Winter Olympics and Paralympics Games in 2034. The decision was
taken by the IOC Members during the 142nd IOC Session in Paris here on July 24.|Azerbaijan, hosting COP29 from
November 11 to 22|India is hosting the World Heritage Committee Meeting for the first time. It takes place from 21
to 31 July 2024, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.|TIME magazine has highlighted three Indian destinations in its
prestigious list of ‘World’s Greatest Places of 2024.|Air India is establishing South Asia’s largest flight training school
in Maharashtra’s Amravati|India is gearing up to host the prestigious Malabar naval exercise alongside the United
States, Japan, and Australia in the Bay of Bengal this October.|India is set to launch its first national toll-free anti-
narcotics helpline, ‘1933’, alongside an email service under the name MANAS (Madak Padarth Nisedh Asuchna
Kendra).|The Department of School Education and Literacy is observing Shiksha Saptah from July 22 to July 28, 2024,
to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.|Ministry of Defence (MoD) has
received an allocation of Rs 6,21,940.85 crore|H.D. Kumaraswamy, Union Minister of Steel and Heavy Industries,
launched SIMS 2.0, the upgraded Steel Import Monitoring System.|Modi will chair the 9 th Governing Council Meeting
of NITI Aayog on July 27, 2024, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, New Delhi.|Union Minister for
Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav, launched the Ideas4LiFE portal at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi.|16-year-old Jiya Rai from Mumbai has set a new world record as the youngest and
fastest para-swimmer to cross the English Channel.|Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu launched the
NTR Bharosa pension scheme|Lokpath Mobile App by MP govt.|15th Agriculture Leadership Awards Committee has
announced that Maharashtra has won the Best Agriculture State Award for 2024.|The Uttar Pradesh government,
led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, has unveiled a major environmental initiative called ‘Mitra Van’ (Friendship
Forest) as part of the Vriksharopan Jan Abhiyan-2024.|Nagaland has been awarded the title of best state in
horticulture at the prestigious Agriculture Leadership Awards 2024.|The Haryana Cabinet has approved the launch of
the IT Saksham Yuva Scheme, 2024|India’s first university for physically challenged students in Ranchi (Jharkhand)|
Uttarakhand Forest Department established Uttarakhand’s first bird gallery at the Nature Education Centre, Jolly
Grant, in Dehradun|Uttarakhand government has successfully integrated its eSwasthya Dham portal with the
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).|tuberculosis (TB), Telangana launched the “Project Swasthya Nagaram,” a
unique model for TB-free municipalities|Ahom dynasty’s Moidams in Assam have been officially inscribed on the
UNESCO World Heritage List as India’s 43rd entry.|The Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) and TransUnion
CIBIL have launched SEHER, a credit education program|Gujarat state government launched the Shramik Basera
Scheme 2024.|India is hosting 46th the World Heritage Committee Meeting for the first time. It takes place from 21 to
31 July 2024, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.|Puma India, a leading sports brand, announced two new brand
ambassadors: Riyan Parag and Nitish Kumar Reddy.|Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar was on July 31 sworn in as the
12th Governor of Jharkhand.|Viswanathan Anand won the Leon Masters chess championship for the 10th time|
Lewis Hamilton has won the British Grand Prix 2024.|Dhruv Sitwala claimed his third Asian Billiards Title by defeating
Pankaj Advani in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.|Four-time Olympian and 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Gagan Narang has
been appointed as India’s Chef-De-Mission for the 2024 Paris Olympics.|Shikhar Dhawan as the brand ambassador
for MotoGP™ in India.|Manolo Marquez was appointed as the new head coach of the Indian men’s football team|
The Australian Formula 1 (F1) racer Oscar Piastri secured his first-ever F1 title victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix.|
Kush Maini achieved his first-ever Formula 2 win at the Hungarian Grand Prix after Richard Verschoor|Lewis
Hamilton clinched victory at the 2024 Formula 1 Rolex Belgian Grand Prix|Asian Cricket Council (ACC) has announced
that India will host the next edition of the Men’s Asia Cup cricket tournament in 2025.| Basketball Federation of India
(BFI) has set up the National basketball academy in collaboration with Corvuss American Academy in Mumbai.|
Global IndiaAI Summit 2024’ commences today in New Delhi|Global IndiaAI Summit 2024’ commences today in New
Delhi|India has maintained its 124th position in the latest FIFA men’s rankings released.|July 1, 2024 National
Doctor’s Day, National Chartered Accountants Day, GST Day, July 02, 2024 World Sports Journalists Day, World UFO
Day, July 03, 2024 International Plastic Bag Free Day, July 06, 2024 World Zoonoses Day, International Day of
Cooperatives|July 15, 2024 World Youth Skills Day, Jul 17, 2024 World Day for International Justice, July 18, 2024
International Nelson Mandela Day, July 20, 2024 World Chess Day, International Moon Day, July 22, 2024 National
Mango Day, World Brain Day|July 23, 2024 National Broadcasting Day|July 24, 2024 National Income Tax Day|July
26, 2024 Kargil Vijay Diwas|July 28, 2024 World Hepatitis Day|July 29, 2024 International Tiger Day|July 30, 2024
International Day of Friendship, World Day against Trafficking in Persons|July 31, 2024 World Ranger Day Air Chief
Marshal V R Chaudhari, inaugurated the Weapon Systems School (WSS) in Hyderabad|Zorawar’ light tank, developed
jointly by DRDO and Larsen & Toubro|Indian Air Force Exercise Pitch Black 2024, hosted by the Royal Australian Air
Force (RAAF) at their Base Darwin, Australia.|INS Tabar arrived at Hamburg, Germany on 17 July 24 for a three day
visit|multinational military exercise KHAAN QUEST 2024.|INS Tabar, a frontline frigate of the Indian Navy, arrived in
Saint Petersburg to participate in the 328th Russian Navy Day celebrations.|The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) unveiled its
new ‘Suvidha Software Version 1.0|P. Geetha has been awarded the first K. Saraswathi Amma Award.|Sivashankari
has been selected as the recipient of the highly esteemed Dr. C. Narayana Reddy National Literary Award.|Sudarsan
Pattnaik on July 12, won the Golden Sand Master award at an international championship in Russia.|Rigoberta
Menchú Tum has been honored with the Gandhi Mandela Award 2020.|The Town Official Language Implementation
Committee (TOLIC) honored Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) in Visakhapatnam with the ‘Rajbhasha Gaurav
Samman’ for the year 2023-24.|Indian students have secured two gold and three silver medals at the 54th
International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) 2024 held between July 21 and July 29 in Isfahan, Iran.|SpaceX and NASA said
on July 26, they plan to launch the space agency’s Crew-9 mission|Power Within: The Leadership Legacy of Narendra
Modi”, authored by Dr. R Balasubramaniam.|Manvi Madhu Kashyap and two other transgender individuals have
made history by becoming the first transwoman sub-inspectors in Bihar Police.|Bhupinder Singh Rawat, who played
in the 1969 Merdeka Cup in Malaysia died after a brief illness, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) stated.|

AUGUST 2024

Chopra's season-best throw of 89.45m earned him the runner-up position, but he was unable to defend his title, as
Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem broke the Olympic record with a stunning throw of 92.97m.|The highest honor, the
Vigyan Ratna Puraskar, has been awarded to Dr. Govindarajan Padmanabhan|August 23, designated as National
Space Day|India's Reserve Bank of India (RBI) holds a respectable 12th position in world richest bank|70th National
Film Awards held in new delhi with the best film of attam and in 2023 pushpa won the best film award|The Phryges:
official mascots of the Paris 2024 Games and the theme is ‘Let’s Move and Celebrate’|33rd Summer Olympic Games
and the third time Paris will host the Olympics|US got 126 medals and china get the 91 with second position and
india had 71 position with the 6 medal with 1 silver and bronze medal|26 th CEAT Cricket Award held in Mumbai|first
time that France has hosted the Paralympic Summer Games,84 athletes for the Paris 2024 Paralympics with 12 sports
out of 22 and in Tokyo Olympic2020, 54 athelete,|Axis Bank, in partnership with Visa, has unveiled the ‘Primus’
credit card|Airtel Payments Bank has introduced a new security feature called Face Match, leveraging AI|UPI Circle’
on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform|Jana Small Finance Bank 2nd ICC Emerging Asia Banking Conclave
& Awards|ESAF Small Finance Bank with Inori RuPay Platinum Credit Card.|Boeing announced Robert “Kelly” Ortberg
as its new CEO|Tata AIA Life Insurance has recently unveiled its latest offering in the term insurance segment –
Sampoorna Raksha Promise.|Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has unveiled its fifth TCS Pace Studio in Manila,
Philippines|mukesh ambani launched AI tools and applications called ‘Jio Brain| 6th India-Australia Maritime Security
Dialogue in Canberra|Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 from Bangladesh to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)|india and
Denmark has launched a Smart Laboratory on Clean Rivers (SLCR)|BHISHM (Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog Hita
and Maitri)|24th International Mother Teresa Awards Ceremony took place on August 26, 2024, at Millennium Plaza
Dubai, marking the 114th birth anniversary|Typhoon Shanshan made landfall on Japan’s southwestern main island of
Kyushu on August 29|WHO has declared Dhulikhel Municipality of Kavrepalanchok district as Nepal’s first ‘healthy
city’|“VIRAASAT”, a fortnight long exhibition dedicated to celebrating 10th National Handloom Day began at
Handloom Haat in Janpath on 3rd August, 2024.|Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) has started its first executive
training program for the aviation sector at the Asian Institute of Transport Development (AITD) at Dwaraka, New
Delhi.|third edition of the ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ campaign|Kavach 4.0, with plans to issue tenders for installation in
20,000 locomotives this year.|The Union Minister of Power and Minister for Housing andUrban Affairs, Shri Manohar
Lal, on August 20, launched Portal for Online monitoring of Projects Thermal (PROMPT) in New Delhi|The Union
Ministry of Power launched three new online platforms—PROMPT, DRIPS, and JAL VIDYUT DPR|India’s space efforts
received a significant boost with the successful launch of RHUMI-1, the world’s first mobile hybrid rocket.|Union
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the new GST Bhawan in Udaipur, located in the Hiran Magri area.|
Teghbir Singh, a five-year-old boy from Ropar youngest Asian to successfully scale Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest
peak|Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi earlier on August 28, chaired the meeting of the 44th edition of PRAGATI|
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is set to commission India’s second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
(SSBN)INS Arighat (S-3)|The Indian Army has launched the first phase of Project NAMAN, aimed at providing
dedicated support and services to Defence pensioners, veterans, and their families.| the third largest in the country.
The Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve in chattisgarh|IIT Indore has created advanced shoes incorporating
Tribo-Electric Nanogenerator (TENG) technology|Odisha has introduced India’s first round-the-clock grain dispensing
machine, known as the Annapurti Grain ATM|Odisha has introduced India’s first round-the-clock grain dispensing
machine, known as the Annapurti Grain ATM|Cyclone Asna has formed over the Kutch coast in Gujarat|Jharkhand,
led by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, has unveiled a significant welfare initiative aimed at empowering women in the
state. The Mukhyamantri Maiyaan Samman Yojana|GAIL (India) Limited and US-based Petron Scientech Inc signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the development of a 500 Kilo Tonne per Annum (KTA) bio-
ethylene plant in India.|Lt General Vikas Lakhera assumed charge as the new Director General of the Assam Rifles|
vipin kumar is the chairman of the AAI|Sanjeev Raina, (ADG) in the India- China LAC guarding force.|B Srinivasan as
the new Director General of the National Security Guard (NSG)|Satish kumar is the chairman and the director of the
Railway Board|Daljit Singh Chaudhary is the new Director general of the BSF|Novak Djokovic of Serbia secured his
first Olympic gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.|Indian women’s national volleyball team clinching the gold
medal at the 4th CAVA (Central Asian Volleyball Association) Women’s Volleyball Nations League.|first-ever Global
Women’s Kabaddi League will commence next month (September) in Haryana.| goalkeeper PR Sreejesh will be the
new head coach for the Indian junior men’s hockey team.|Diana Pundole first Indian woman to win the national
championship in the saloon category at the MRF Indian National Car Racing Championship 2024 held in Chennai.|
Patri clinched the women’s singles title at the prestigious Asian U-15 Junior Championships 2024, held in Chengdu,
People’s Republic of China|South Asian Football Federation) U-20 Championship football tournament. This victory
marks a significant milestone in Bangladesh’s football history|Para shooter Avani Lekhara win two gold medals at
Paralympics.|Manish Narwal has earned a silver medal in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol SH1 event at the Paris
Paralympics 2024.| Preethi Pal has achieved a historic milestone by winning India’s first-ever medal in the 100m
event at the Paralympic Games.|Mona Agarwal made history at the 2024 Paralympics by securing a bronze medal in
the women’s 10m air rifle|Union Minister for Jal Shakti, C.R. Patil, has launched the 2.0 version of the ‘FloodWatch
India’ mobile app, developed by the Central Water Commission|Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana–National Rural
Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM) announced on August 6, the launch of the initiative “Million Designers, Billion
Dreams.”|1st BIMSTEC Business Summit in New Delhi on August 6|India and Japan will hold 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue
in New Delhi on August|2nd India-Singapore Ministerial Roundtable held in singapore|bilateral meeting on US-India
Civil Nuclear Commerce in New Delhi.|Women and Child Development,Annapurna Devi, launched the new SHe-Box
portal|01st August 2024 World Wide Web Day, World Lung Cancer Day,National Mountain Climbing Day|01st August
– 07th August 2024 World Breastfeeding Week|4th Aug 2024 Friendship Day in India|6th Aug 2024 Hiroshima Day|
7th Aug 2024 National Handloom Day, National Javelin Day|9th Aug 2024 International Day of World’s Indigenous
People, Nagasaki Day |10th August 2024 World Lion Day, World Biofuel Day|11th Aug 2024 World Steelpan Day|
12th Aug 2024 International Youth Day|12th August 2024 World Elephant Day|13th Aug 2024 World Organ Donation
Day|14th Aug 2024 Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in India|16th Aug 2024 Atal Bihari Vajpayee Death
Anniversary|19th Aug 2024 World Humanitarian Day|23rd Aug 2024 ISRO Day|26th Aug 2024 Mother Teresa
Anniversary|29th Aug 2024 National Sports Day, International Day Against Nuclear Tests, World Water Week 2024|
Indian Army has conducted a strategic military exercise, ‘Parvat Prahaar’, in Ladakh|Astra air-to-air missiles for its Su-
3O and LCA Tejas fighter aircraft.| bilateral air exercise “Udara Shakti 2024” between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and
the Royal Malaysian Air Force|Mitra Shakti military exercise, an annual bilateral engagement between the Indian
Army and the Sri Lankan Army|INS Tabar, a frontline frigate of the Indian Navy, visited Malaga, Spain, on Aug 2024,
for a two-day engagement|shahrukh khan win 77 th Locarno Film Festival|kerala win the Pacific Asia Travel
Association (PATA) Gold Award 2024.|ISRO) is set to celebrate its 55th foundation day on August 15, 2024, with a
significant milestone – the launch of the Earth Observation Satellite-08 (EOS-08)| long-range glide bomb (LRGB)
Gaurav from a Su-30 MK-I fighter jet developed by the DRDO|Bharat Biotech International Ltd has launched Hillchol
(BBV131), a novel single-strain oral cholera vaccine|India@100: Envisioning Tomorrow’s Economic Powerhouse”,
authored by Prof. K V Subramanian|ajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh attended the launch of
’75 Great Revolutionaries of India,’ a book by MP Bhim Singh. Singh praised the work for highlighting lesser-known
freedom fighters.|Dr. Kalpana Sankar’s autobiography, “The Scientist Entrepreneur: Empowering Millions of
Women”| classical dancers, Yamini Krishnamurthy, who passed away|Shobhana Ranade renowned Gandhian and
Padma Bhushan recipient, passed away|External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh passed away|Dr. Ram Narain
Agarwal, a renowned Indian scientist and the driving force behind India’s missile program, passed away Known
affectionately as the ‘Father of Agni Missiles‘|world’s oldest person, Spain’s Maria Branyas Morera died at the age of
117 years|Daniela Larreal Chirinos, a celebrated Venezuelan Olympic cyclist who passed away|

SEPTEMBER 2024

Hayao Miyazaki Receives Prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2024|National Teachers’ Awards 2024 goes to the Dr.
avinasha Sharma and this award gave by the President Dropti Murmu|Indian paris paraolympic victory with 29
medals of 7 golds, 9 silver, 13 bronze medals india got 17 medals in atheletics with maximum number of medals,
china got 220 medals and britin get 124 medals, and india rank is 19 th in the paris paraolympic|Major Cities
(Population over 10 lakh)Surat, Gujarat, 2 nd Jabalpur and 3rd agra|Medium-sized Cities population between 3 to 5
lakhs 1st Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, 2nd Amravati, Maharashtra, 3rd Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh|smaller cities population
below 3 lakhs – 1st is raebareli 2nd nalgonda (Telangana), 3rd is nalagarh|US Open 2024 winners -Men’s Single Jannik
Sinner (Italy ),Women’s Single Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus),Men’s Double Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson (Both
Australian),Women’s Double Lyudmyla Kichenok (Ukraine) and Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia)|National Florence
Nightingale Awards 2024- in the field of nursing, highlighting the crucial role that nursing professionals play in the
healthcare system.Awards established by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.these
award gave to the following nurses Smt. Sheela Mondal Andaman & Nicobar, Ms. Iken Lollen Arunachal Prades, Ms.
Vidjeyacoumary V Puducherry, Ms. Januka Pandey Sikkim, Smt. Anindita Pramanik and 10 more nurses| TIME’s
World’s Best Companies 2024 in which world company get the ranking worldwide in this list HCL Tech get the 112 th
rank and Infosys get 119th and wipro get the 134th rank in the world enterprises|Emmy Awards 2024- the 76 th emmy
award program held in los angles America- best drama is Shogun and comedy series is hack |chief justice of india
different states- Justice Manmohan for delhi high court,Justice Rajiv Shakdher himachal Pradesh high court,Justice
Suresh Kum ar Kait MP high court justice,Justice Tashi Rabstan jutice of jammu and Kashmir high court,Justice KR
Shriram is the justice of the madras high court|Global Innovation Index 2024, Switzerland is in 1 st position and
Sweden is in 2nd position and india position is 39 th|2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary|Best Tourism Villages
Competition-2024 – Dhudmars, chattisgarh in adventure places,harshil uttrakhand for the vibrant village|IIFA Awards
2024:- Best Film: “Animal”, best actor sharukh khan for the movies of the jawan,and for best story rocky and rani ki
prem kahani, best story adapted – 12th fail|HDFC Bank has introduced GIGA|

OCTOBER 2024

Nobel Prize 2024 Winners List -The Nobel prize announcement began with the award for medicine or physiology on
October 7 to 14th Oct 2024.|John J. Hopfield (US) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (Canada) in Physics for the field of machine
learning and neural network artificial intelligence|David Baker (US) and Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper
(London) in chemistry for the field of “computational protein design” and “for protein structure prediction”| Victor
Ambros (US) and Gary Ruvkun (US) in Medicine for the contribution of iscovery of microRNA and its role in post-
transcriptional gene regulation|Han Kang (South Korea) Literature for the contribution of her intense poetic prose
that confronts historical traumas and exposes|Nihon Hidankyo (Japan) Peace for the contribution in the field of
world free of nuclear weapons the fragility of human life”|Daron Acemoglu (Turkish-American), Simon Johnson
(British-American) and James A. Robinson (American-British) in Economics for the contribution in the field of studies
of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity|RBI) has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5% for
the tenth consecutive time.|GST collection top states Maharashtra topped the chart with ₹26,369 crore, followed by
Karnataka (₹12,642 crore), Tamil Nadu (₹11,024 crore), with Haryana growth rate of 24% in GST collection|70th
National Film Awards (2022)- at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi|Global Hunger Index 2024 India ranks 105th out of 127
countries in the Global Hunger Index 2024|5th National Water Awards 2023 best state is odisa and 2 nd best state is
U.P. and best dirtrict is Vishakhapatnam andhrapradesh and 2 nd best is dhalai Tripura, for best pranchayat is
pullampara tiruvanantpuram and 2nd best id masulpani kanker, best urban local body is surand and 2 nd best puri
odisha|UDAN scheme, launched on October 21, 2016|16 th BRICS Summit 2024 held in Kazan, Russia, from October
22- 24|15th BRICS Summit The 15th BRICS Summit, held in Johannesburg|Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Odisha is set to
host the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas from January 8th to 10th next year in its capital city, Bhubaneswar|United
Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP16) commenced today in Colombia|first Conference of the Parties to the
convention (COP 1) took place in Nassau, Bahamas in 1994.|68th Ballon d’or Paris, football’s most prestigious
individual award. given by France Football to the best male and female footballers, Rodri (Spain, Manchester City)
The 28-year-old secured the men’s Ballon d’Or award,Aitana Bonmatí (Spain, Barcelona) For the second consecutive
year, Bonmatí earned the title of the world’s best female footballer.Lamine Yamal Wins Kopa Trophy The 17-year-
old prodigy claimed the Kopa Trophy, awarded to the best player under 21.Real Madrid took home the Men’s Club of
the Year award,|national cyber helpline (1930)|155th Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.|
Narendra Modi inaugurated the Banjara Virasat Museum in Pohardevi, Washim, Maharashtra|Scam se Bacho”
campaign in New Delhi. This initiative, developed by Meta in collaborati on with key government ministries.|
Narendra Modi will inaugurate the ‘Karmayogi Saptah‘ National Learning Week, this launched in the September
2020|Claudia Sheinbaum made history by being sworn in as Mexico’s first female president|WHO) has officially
validated India’s elimination of trachoma as a public health problem is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia
trachomatis|Union Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Minister of State for Coal and Mines
Satish Chandra Dubey inaugurated the first-ever coal gallery at the National Science Centre in New Delhi. The
exhibition, titled “Black Diamond – Unveiling the Depths,” highlights coal’s journey from its formation to its essential
role in modern energy production.|Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Shri Pralhad Joshi has launched the
retail phase of Bharat Chana Dal Phase II in Delhi-NCR|150th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel|Union
Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairying, Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh|Egypt has reached a significant public
health milestone by being officially declared ‘malaria-free’ by the World Health Organization (WHO) on October 20,
2024. First is cape verde in African country|A cyber-espionage operation allegedly orchestrated by a Chinese hacking
group known as “Salt Typhoon”|Nijut Moins scheme for fight against child marriage in Assam|Kaimur Wildlife
Sanctuary (KWLS) into a tiger in reserve in bihar| The International Gita Mahotsav will be celebrated from November
28 to December 15, 2024, in Kurukshetra, Haryana|Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has unveiled a transformative state
government initiative named ‘Sankalp’, against drug trafficking|durgesh Aranya Zoological Park in himachal Pradesh|
Maharashtra government granted the status of Rajyamata-Gomata to desi cows in the state.|Mera Hou Chongba”
festival was celebrated in Manipur amidst ongoing ethnic tensions between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities.|
Madhya Pradesh has installed ‘pink alarms initiative|The Department of Tourism in Nagaland is set to celebrate the
25th Hornbill Festival, marking its silver jubilee from December 1 to 10 at the Heritage Village, Kisama.| India’s first
‘Writer’s Village’ was inaugurated in Dehradun by former President Ram Nath Kovind|Indian Army to establish a
solar hydrogen-based microgrid at Chushul, Ladakh|Delhi government’s “Pink Ticket” scheme enabling free bus
travel for women|Solex Energy has partnered with the State Bank of India (SBI) to provide financing options for solar
projects|8th India-Kazakhstan joint military exercise KAZIND-2024 started at Surya Foreign Training Node, Auli,
Uttarakhand|MALABAR exercise kick off from 8th October in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. It hosted by India,
this year’s exercise will see the participation of Australia, Japan, and the United States of America beginning with the
Harbour Phase in Visakhapatnam|IAF) marked its 92nd anniversary on October 8 at Chennai|DefConnect 4.0 on
October 7, 2024, at the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi|DRDO) successfully carried out three flight-tests of the advanced
fourth-generation Very Short Range Air Defence System (VSHORADS) at the Pokhran Field Firing Ranges in
Rajasthan|Indian Navy has received its latest large Survey Vessel for deep water hydrographic mapping specially
designed, Nirdeshak (Yard 3026) made by the GRSE|Damagundam Reserve Forest, Vikarabad, Telangana.| Indian
navy first vessel Samarthak,’ under the Multi-Purpose Vessel|Indian Coast Guard successfully conducted the coastal
exercise ‘Sagar Kavach’ on October 16-17, covering Gujarat, Daman & Diu, Goa and Maharashtra.|India-Oman
bilateral naval exercise Naseem-Al-Bahr held in the coast of goa|Indian army conduct Exercise SWAVLAMBAN
SHAKTI’ at the Babina Field Firing Ranges near Jhansi|India’s fourth nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine
(SSBN), designated S4, was officially launched into the water at the Ship Building Centre in Visakhapatnam|new
missile testing range in Nagayalanka, Andhra Pradesh.|31st edition of the Singapore India Maritime Bilateral Exercise
(SIMBEX) at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) in Visakhapatnam.| Indian Navy and German Navy Maritime
Partnership Exercise (MPX) held in the Bay of Bengal|Chanakya Defence Dialogue 2024 concluded on October 25th
at the Manekshaw Centre in Delhi|Indian Navy’s seventh Anti- Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW SWC),
named ‘Abhay’, developed by the GRSE|Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) launched two indigenous fast patrol vessels,
Adamya and Akshar|SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Alexander Dunn|Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2024 Mithun Chakraborty|
MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2024 Vera Voronova, Ysabel Agustina Calderón|Femina Miss India 2024 Nikita PorwaL|
National Kishore Kumar Award Rajkumar Hiran|Mahatma Gandhi Leadership Award Darasing Khurana|Second Army
Commanders’ Conference of 2024 began on October 10 in a hybrid format at a forward location in Gangtok, Sikkim|
44th and 45th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summits and related events began on October 9 in
Vientiane|Second International Methanol Seminar and Expo 2024 on October 17-18, 2024, at the Manekshaw Centre
in New Delhi|World Justice Project (WJP) Rule of Law Index 2024 ranks India 79th among 142 countries|Virat Kohli
completed 27000 international runs and became the fastest cricketer to reach that milestone and broke the record
of Sachin Tendulkar|Irani cup title finally returning to Mumbai after the drought of 27 years. And in 2023 rest of india
won the 2023 irani cup|New Zealand Women’s Team Lift the ICC T20 World Cup at the Dubai International Cricket
Stadium.|China Open 2024, Carlos Alcaraz from Spain beat the World|The Indian Men’s Football U-17 (Under 17)
lifted the SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) Men’s U-17 Championship after defeating Bangladesh in the final
game of the tournament. No.1 Jannick Sinner from Italy in the final game and won the title.| india FIFA rankings,
moving up one spot to 125th in 2024|Kho Kho World Cup may be held in India come 2025|Indian Olympic Association
(IOA) has chosen Uttarakhand as the host for the 38 th Summer National Games and 37th is in the Goa|India will host
the ISSF Junior World Cup in 2025.| Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) won the Senior Women Inter-
Departmental National Hockey Championship by defeating Indian Oil 3-1 in the final, held at Major Dhyanchand
National Stadium|24th National Para-Swimming Championship concluded with Karnataka|sportwomen deepika
kumari is related to archey|Chirag Chikkara made history by becoming only the third Indian wrestler to win the
Under-23 World Championship.|Swachh Bharat Mission Under the ministry of Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs|Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan (DAJGU) under the ministry of Ministry of Tribal Affairs| PM
GatiShakti National Master Plan under the ministry of Prime Minister's Office| Pradhan Mantri Vanbandhu Kalyan
Yojana under the ministry of Tribal Affairs|Jal-Jagar Initiative Chhattisgarh Government| Maiyaan Samman Yojana
Jharkhand Government|October 1 International Coffee Day,World Vegetarian Day,| October 4 World Animal
Day,World Space Week October 4-10|October 5 World Teachers’ Day|October 6 World Cerebral Palsy Day|october 7
World Cotton Day|October 8 Indian Air Force Day|October 9 World Post Day|October 12 World Migratory Bird Day|
Oct 14 World Standards Day|Oct 15 World Students’ Day|Oct 16 World Food Day| Oct 16 World Anaesthesia Day|
Oct 24 United Nations Day,World Development Information Day,World Polio Day| October 27 Infantry Day|October
29 Ayurveda Day|October 31st National Unity Day|Bibek Debroy Prominent economist and chairman of the Prime
Minister’s| Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohanty inaugurated the Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment (MACE) Observatory
in Hanle, Ladakh. MACE is the largest imaging Cherenkov telescope in Asia and the highest in the world at about
4,300 meters altitude. Developed by the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) with support from Electronics
Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) and other partners, this facility marks a significant milestone in India's
astrophysical research.| External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar inaugurated the revamped eMigrate V2.0 web
portal and mobile app in Delhi|Kaksar Bridge was renamed Capt. Amit Bhardwaj Setu to honor the sacrifice of Capt.
Amit Bhardwaj during the Kargil War.|