Sunday 3 March 2024

WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 26TH FEBRUARY TO 3RD MARCH 2024

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated Sudarshan Setu, India's Longest Cable Stayed Bridge Of Around 2.32 Km In Gujarat.

2) Magnus Carlsen Has Won The Inaugural Freestyle Chess G O A T challenge.

3) IIT Guwahati Has Launched India's Largest Drone Pilot Training Facility.

4) Colombo, Srilanka To Host Three Day International Gita Mahostav 2024.

5) India's FIRST Gati Shakti Research Chair Has Been Established At IIM Shilong.

6) Wencai Zhang Has Been Appointed As The MD & Chief Adminstrative Officer Of World Bank Group.

7) Solar Energy Corporation Of India Limited (SECIL) Unveiled India's Largest Solar Battery Project In Chhattisgarh.

8) DRDO And Mahindra Defense Have Together Developed The Advanced Version Of The Wheeled Armours Platform.

9) Cmde Kavita Makkar Assumed As The Commanding Officer INDC Danteshwari & Dental Advisor Indian Navy.(First Woman Navy Officer To Do So) 

10) 5th Edition Of Joint Military Exercise Between India And Japan Ground Force Is Conducting In Rajasthan. DHARMA GUARDIAN)).

11) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated And Laid Foundation Stone Of Multiple Development Projects Worth RS 4150 Crores In Dwarka, Gujarat.

12) INS Tiranga Participate In Exercise Cutlass Express 24 At Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

13) Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Inaugurated The Simariya Dham Project In Begusarai.

14) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Virtually Inaugurated Five AIIMS Across INDIA In Rajkot, Bathinda, Raebareli, Kalyani, Mangalgiri (Andhra Pradesh) Respectively.

15) Eminent Filmmaker Kumar Shahani Passed Away.

16) India Para Badminton Team Has Won 18 Medals Including 3 Gold, 4 Silver And 11 Bronze At BWF Para Badminton World Cup, Thailand.

17) Philippines Became The First Asian Country To Ratify The ILO Convention, To Eliminate The Workplace Violence And Commitments.

18) Shahi Imam Of Jama Masjid Declared Son Successor At Shaab-e- Baraat Ceremony.

19) Abhay Singh Has Won Good Fellow PSA Classic Challenger Tour.

20) Liverpool Fc Has Clinched The Carabao Cup 2024.

21)Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Has Unveiled The Statue Of Odia Freedom Fighter Shaheed Madhu Gartia In Sambalpur District.

22) The Indian Army Has The Winner At 4th Khelo India Winter Games.

23) Union Minister Anurag Thakur Announced The Setting Up Of A Regional Facilitation Office Of The Central Board Of Film Certification (CBFC) In Chandigarh.

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The Bharat Tex 2024 At Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

2) 2011 IPS OFFICER A K Choudhary Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of The Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission.

3) Veteran Ghazhal Singer Pankaj Udhahas Passes Away.

4) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated Two Ayush Projects, Central Research Institute Of Yoga & Naturopathy ( CRIYN) At Jhajjar, Haryana And The National Institute Of Naturopathy (NIN) Titled NIARG GRAM In Pune Maharashtra.

5) Pune, Maharashtra Host The MSME Defense Expo 2024.

6) Maryam Nawaz Became The First Female Chief Minister Of Punjab, Pakistan.

7) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Laid & Foundation Stone Of More Than 2000 Projects Related To Railways.

8) Feleti Teo Has Been Elected As The Prime Minister Of Tuvalu. 

9) The 2nd Capacity Building Programme For The Civil Servants Of The Socialist Republic of Srilanka Commences At Mussorie.

10) Indian Born Geeta Batra Become The New Director At The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) Of The World Bank's Global Environment Facility ( GEF), First Woman To Assigns).

11) A Tiger Conservationist K M Chonappa Passed Away.

12) North East India's First API/ Bulk Drug Manufacturing Plant By Chemex GLOBAL Has Been Inaugurated In Guwahati, Assam.

13) 2005 Batch IPS Rajesh Prabhakar Patil Has Been Appointed As The New Commission Of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation.

14) 2015 IAS Vikranth Raja Has Been Appointed As The Director Of Census Operation AND Director Of Citizen Registration (DCR) Lakshadweep.

15) DRDO Has Handed Over To 23 Licensing Agreements To Transfer Of Technology To Private Industries in MSME Defense Expo, Pune 2024.

16) The Central Government Has Approved a 10,000 Rupees Interest Free Loan To The Flue Cured Virginia (FCV) Tobacco Growers in Andhra Pradesh.

17) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Has Inaugurated The Adani Ammunition Complex In Kanpur, (South Asia Largest) 

18) RBI Imposes Penalties On SBI, Canada Bank And Ocean Capital Market Limited For Non-compliance.

19) C DOT Bagged Three Prizes For Its Indigenous Design And Develop Innovative Telecom Solution At 14th Annual Ageas Graham Bell AWARDS.

20) Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar Has Launched Investors Information And Analytics Platform Developed By IIT Madras.

21) Jacintha Kalyan, Became Indias First Female Pitch Curator in Women Premier League.

22) Ministry Of Ayush And Ministry Of Women's And Child Development Have Signed MoU For Nutritional Improvement In Adolescent girls Through Ayurveda Intervention.

23) India Ranked 5th In The List Of Most breached Countries With 5.3 Million Data Leaked In 2023, US Rank Top.

24) Australian Activist Lowitja O'donoghue Passed Away.

25) INDIA Bagged 14 Medals Including 9 Gold In Asian Archery Cup In Bagdhad, Iraq.

World NGO Day - 27th February 


Theme 2024 - Building A Sustainable Future: The Role Of NGOs In Achieving The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).


National Science Day - 28th February 

Theme 2024 - Indigenous Technology For Viksit Bharat 

1) New Zealand Cricketer Neil Wagner Announced Retirement From International Cricket.

2) Moscow, Russia To Host The BRICS GAMES 2024.

3) Monika Halan, Author Of The Book LET'S TALK MONEY Received SKOCH PUBLIC SERVICE Award.

4) Uttarakhand Finance Minister Presented The State Budget Worth Rs 89,230 Crores.

5) Former MP Of Samajwadi Party Shafiqur Rahaman Barq Passed Away.

6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The PLV Integration Facility (PIF) At Satish Dhawan Space Center, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

* Also Inaugurate The Semi Cyrogenics Integrated Engine AND Stage Test Facility AT ISRO Propulsion Complex At Mahendragiri.

* Inaugurated Trisonic Wind Tunnel At VSSC.

7) Four Indians Selected For Indias Gaganyaan Mission.

*) Group Captain Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair 

*) Group Captain Ajit Krishnan 

*) Group Captain Angad Pratap 

*) wing Commander Subhanshu Shukla 

8) ISRO Given New Name To India Reusable Launch Vehicle Tech Demonstrater Is PUSHPAK.

9) Namibian Mens Cricketer Jan Nicol Loftie- Eaton Became The Fastest To Get 100 In T20i Cricket Just Off 33 Balls Against Nepal.

10) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Has Launched SWAYAM PLUS Platform. (online Courses Offered) 

11) Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilker Has Been Appointed As The New Lokpal Of India-.

12) Government Declared Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir As Unlawful Association.

13) ICGS Samarth And ICGS Abhinav Are Arrives Galle To Conduct Joint Exercise With Srilanka Navy.

14) NIA Signed MoU With The Department Of Thai Traditional And Alternative Medicine Of Government Of Thailand (For Collaboration In Ayurveda) 

15) Financier And Philanthropy Jacob Rothschild Passed Away.

16) The Jharkhand State Government Has Presented Rs 1,28 Lakh Crores Budget For FY 2024/25.

17) Maharastra Finance Minister Ajit Pawar Presented Rs 6,00,522 Crores For FY 2024/25.

18) 28th Edition Of Muscat International Book Fair Has Been Organised.

19) UAE Has Been Removed From FATF List.

20) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Launched SAVERA Program For Screening And Detecting Pre Breast Cancer.

1) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated And Laid Foundation Stone Of Various Development Projects Worth RS 17,300 Crores In Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu.

2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Flagged Off India's First Indigenous Green Hydrogen Fuel Cell Inland Waterway Vessel Under The Harit Nauka Initiative, Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu.

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Unveiled The Lighthouse Tourism Coffee Table Book Of 75 Light Houses In Thoothukudi, Tamilnadu.

4) External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar Has Confer Global Jain Peace Ambassador Award To H H Acharya Lokesh Muni At Hubli, Karnataka.

5) The Department Of Biotechnology (DBT) Has Announced The Completion Of 10000 Genome Project In India.

6) IPS OFFICER Daljit Singh Chaudhary Has Assumed Charge As Director General Of NSG.

7) Saudi Arabia Has Banned Iftar Parties In Mosques.

8) Ministry Of Jal Shakti Has Signed Agreement With 12 Technical Education Institution For Basin Management Of 6 Rivers.

9) President Droupadi Murmu Has Laid Foundation Stone For Central Government Holiday Home And Sports Complex At Rairangpur, Odisha.

10) Bharati Enterprises Founder And Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal BECAME The First Indian Citizen To Be Conferred An Honorary Knighthood By Britain Kings Charles III For Service To UK And India Business Relations.

11) Ministry Of Home Affairs Has Declared Muslim Conference Jammu and Kashmir ( Bhat Faction) As Unlawful Association.

12) American Actor Charles Dierkop Passed Away.

13) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated And Dedicated Various Development Projects Worth RS 4900 Crores In Maharashtra.

14) IAS OFFICER S Chockalingam Has Been Appointed As The Chief Electoral Officer Of Maharastra.

15) The Central Silk Board, CTRTI Ranchi Has Signed An MoU With Delhi University At Bharat Tex 2024, For Silk Production.

16) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Laid Foundation Stone For ISRO's 2nd Space Port In Kulasekarpattinam, Tamilnadu.

17) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee Has Inaugurated Shyam Steel's Integrated Plant In Purulia District Worth Rs 1500 Crores Invested.

18) M/S Suryadipta Projects Launched The 4th Ammunition Cum Torpedo Cum Missile Barge ( LSAM 18) For The INDIAN Navy At Thane, Mumbai.

19) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik Inaugurated And Laid Foundation Stone For District Science Center And Planetarium Centres 11 Districts Of Odisha On The Occasion Of National Science Day.

20) Indian Origin Computer Scientist Sridhar Ramaswamy Has Been Appointed As The CEO Of Snowflake.

21) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik Unveiled The Statue Of St Mother Teresa Near Satyanagar Church.

22) The 10th Edition Of Pandicherry Heritage Festival Kicked off.

1) Government Of India Launched The Logo And Website For The Alliance For Global Good - Gender Equity And Equality 

2) Cabinet Approved The PM SURYA GHAR MUFT BIJLI Yojana, Where 1 Crores Families Get 300 Units Of Free Electricity Under This Scheme. (75,021 Crores) 

3) Cabinet Approved Nutrients Based Subsidy Rates For Kharif Season 2024 ( From March To September 2024) On Phospatic And Potassic Fertilizer Under NBS Scheme.

4) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami Became The 61st Most Powerful Person In The Country Among Indians.

5) Cabinet Approved The Establishment Of International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) With Estimate 150 Crores For Year Of Five Years Period Till 2027/28.

6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi And Prime Minister Of Maurtius Pravind Jugnauth Jointly Inaugurated The New Airstrip And St James Jetty Along With Six Community Development Projects At The Agalega Island In Mauritius.

7) India Approved Semiconductor Proposal Worth 1,26000 Crores In Three Places In India.

* India's FIRST Commercial Semiconductor Fab Facility By Tata In Dholera, Gujarat For 91000 Crores.

* Assam, First North Eastern State To Establish Semiconductor Plant.

* CG Power Plant Sanand Gujarat.

8) Mauritius Has Became The First Country To Adopt The India's Jan AUSHADI Scheme.

9) Nicaragua Became The First Spanish Speaking Nation To Recognize Indian Pharma Standards.

10) Russia Launched An iranian Satellite PARAS 1 From Russian Soyuz Rocket.

11) Cabinet Approved Rooftop Solar Subsidy Scheme At An Outlay Of Rs 75,021 Crores.

12) 13,874 Leopards In India, 1.08% Growths As Compared To Previous Census (2018)

13) President Dropuadi Murmu Has Inaugurated The National Seminar On TRIBES OF KEONJHAR: People, Culture And Heritage.

14) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagawant Singh Mann Has Inaugurated The India's Second Largest Institute Of Liver And Biliary Science In Mohali.

15) Olen Megu Damin Has Been Selected For Sangeet Natak Academy Award 2024.

16) Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Signed MoU With PMU Directorate Of Technical Education With BITS Pilani.

17) Annual Eastern Command Anti Tank Guided Missile ( ATGM) Field Firing Was Conducted In West Bengal.

18) Hollywood Actor Richard Lewis Passed Away.

19) Captain Shweta Singh Became The First Woman To Appointed As Chief Flight Ops Inspector Post In DGCA.

20) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Has Laid Foundation Stone Of 1459 New ANGANWADI Centers In 31 Districts Across State At 173 Crores.

21) Ministry Of Statistics & Programme Implementation Signed MoU With ISRO To Facilitate Urban Frame Survey (UFS) In A Digital Mode.

22) Veteran Journalist And Author Sujata Anandan Passes Away.

23) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Launched Electronics Data Interchange (EDI) At Remote Land Custom Station In Northern States.

24) Ravindra Kumar Has Been Appointed As THE Director (OPERATION) In NTPC limited.

25) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Virtually Inaugurated The 2 Fast Mile Connectivity (FMC) Project Of Coal India, Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) In Singrauli, Madhya Pradesh.

26) India's GDP GROWTH In 8.4% In 3rd Quarter In 2023/24.

27) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik Has Formed 12 Members Committee, Headed By Former Supreme Court Justice ARIJIT PASAYAT, To Oversee The Inventory Of Jewellery And Precious Ornaments In Shri Jagannath Temple, Puri.

28) DRDO Conducted The Two Flights Test Of Very Short Range Air Defense System (VSHORADS) Missile In Chandipur Coast, Balasore, Odisha.

International Wheel Chairs Day - 1st March

1) L & T Laid The Keel Of First Cadet Training Ship At Kattupali Shipyard For Indian Navy.

2) Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney Passed Away.

3) 27000 Crores Fund Approved For The Establishment Of Semiconductor Plant In Assam State.

4) The Center Has Decided To Spread Awareness On Good Nutrition To Children Through Cartoon, Unveiled By Smriti Irani Along With Bill Gates.

5) Ministry Of Minority Affairs Signed MoU To Develop The Centre For Avesta Pahlavi Studies At University Of Mumbai.

6) Saratham Namchoom, From Arunachal Pradesh Has Been Awarded The Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Purashkar For 2022/23.

7) Srilanka And India Signed a Contract For a Hybrid Renewable Energy System Project In Colombo.

8) The Ministry Of Defense Has Signed 5 Major Capital Acquisition Contracts Worth Rs 39,125.39 Crores In New Delhi Under Atmanirbhar Bharat.

9) Indian Naval Sailing Vessel INS Tarini, Embark To The First Ever Transoceanic Sailing Expedition Undertaken By INDIAN Woman From Goa To Mauritius.

10) USA Ranked Topped In World Soft Power Index 2024,  

11) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Laid Foundation Stone Of Various Development Projects Worth RS 7200 Crores In West Bengal.

12) Odisha Chief Minister Unveiled The Memorial Of Author Manoj Das And Manmath In Museum in Balasore.

13) IPS OFFICER Anurag Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Head of Parliament Security.

14) Veteran Congress Leader And Former Uttar Pradesh Governor Aziz Quershi Passed Away.

15) 1,68,337 Crores GST Collected In Month Of February By India Government.

16) India And Nicaragua Have Signed MoU On Pharmacopoeia On Cooperation in The Field Of Regulations In medicines.

17) Department For Promotion Of Industry And Internal Trade Along With World Bank Jointly Organised National Workshop On Logistics Efficiency Enhancement.

18) 150 Railway Stations Got Certified From FSSAI EAT RIGHT STATION Certification.

19) Coal India Signed MoU With IIM MUMBAI And Sambalpur For Post graduate Programme In Logistics And Operation Excellence Through Digitization.

20) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik Has Inaugurated Total Of 32 Industrial Projects Across 14 Districts Worth Of 6992.14 Crores In ODISHA.

21) Puneri Paltan Has The Champion Of 10th PRO Kabbadi League 10th Season.

22) MOU Signed Between Greek Bank With Indian UPI Owned NPCI To Avail UPI Facility In Greece.

23) Major General B Namibiar Has Assume As Commandant Of Command Hospital Pune.

24) Scientists From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Has Discovered A New Species Of Head Shield Sea Slug In The Bay Of Bengal And Odisha Boarder, Named After President Droupadi Murmu.

25) The Financial Intelligence Unit India (FIU-IND) Has Fined Rs 5.49 Crores Penalty On Paytm Payment Bank.

26) Rear Admiral Satish Vasudev Has Assumed As The Flag Officer Defense Advisory Group And Advisor Offshore Security And Defense.

27) Indian Navy Has Inaugurated A New Museum In Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. TU-142 Aircraft Was Kept.

28) Former President Of Tanzania HE Ali Hassan Mwinyi Passes Away.

29) 3rd Edition Of India Malaysia Bilateral Maritime Exercise SAMUDRA LAKSHMANA Kicked Off At Vishakapatanam.

30) Ireland Win Their First Test Match Against Afganistan.

World Wildlife Day - 3rd March 

Theme 2024 - Connecting People And Planet: Exploring Digital Innovation In Wildlife Conservation

1) Keyi Panyor Became The 26th District Of Arunachal Pradesh.

2) Gross GST Collection Rises 12.5% To Rs 1.68 Lakh Crores in February 2024.

3) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Launched 7 Infrastructure Projects Worth RS 1000 Crores From New Delhi.

4) Uttar Pradesh Became The First State In Country To Issue 5 Crores AYUSHMAN Cards.

5) Samridhi Arora, An Esteemed Advocate On Records (AOR) At Supreme Court Of India Has Clinched India UK Achievers Award 2024 For Legal Excellence.

6) Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav And Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Flagged Off Maurya Express From Sambalpur District Of Odisha.

7) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The HURL Unit Of Nano Urea Plant In Sindri, Madhya Pradesh At 200 Crores.

8) Shri Harish Dhuan Has Been Appointed As The Director (Technical) Of Coal India.

9) Andhra Pradesh Cricketer Vamishhi Krishna Hit Six Sixes In An Over In Domestic Cricket.

10) REC Limited Has Successfully Listed Two Bonds On National Stock Exchange (NSE) And BOMBAY Stock Exchange (BSE) 2500 Crores Each For 10 Years.

11) HAL Signed Worth Rs 5,249.7 Crores Contract With Russian OEM For RD-33 Engines To Sustain MIG29 Fleet.

12) Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Radha Raturi's Tenure Has Been Extend For 6 Months.

13) World Bank Approved USD 452 Million To Improve Connectivity In Assam.

14) Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) Allows Nepal Account Holder's To Can Send Upto 2 Lakh Per Transaction Per Day Limit in UPI.

15) RNI Renamed As PRESS REGISTRAR GENERAL OF INDIA ( PRGI).

16) Mumbai Ranked 8th In Global Luxury Real Estate Market.

17) Cuttack City's SILVER FILIGREE Gets GI Tag.

18) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik Has Inaugurated The BABA SAHEB AMBEDKAR Bus Terminal At Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

19) Sarfaraz Bugti Has Elected As Chief Minister Of Balochistan.

20) Nvidia Surpassed Saudi Aramco To Become Third Largest Company In The World Market Cap.

21) Tripartite Has Signed Between Tripura, Tiprotha With Central Government. 

(TIPROA MOTHA - Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance) 

* Under This Pact It Was Agreed Resolve All The Issues Indigenous People Of Tripura Relating To History, Land, Political Rights, Economic Development, Identity, Culture, Language) 

22) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Laid Foundation Stone Of Various Development Projects Worth Rs 15000 Crores At Krishna Nagar, West Bengal.

23) Union Home Minister Amit Shah Launched National Urban Cooperative Finance And Development Corporation (NUCFDC) The Umbrella Organisation For The Urban Cooperative Banks.

24) The Comptroller And Auditor General (CAG) Girish Chandra Murmu Announced The Setting Up Of The Supreme Audit Institution India's International Center For Audit Local Governance ( iCAL) Rajkot, Gujarat.

25) President Droupadi Murmu Honoured Two IAF Fighters Squadron Of Indian Airforce No 45 FLYING DAGGERS And The Number 221 Squadron VALIANTS During 1999 Kargil War With PRESIDENT STANDARDS .

26) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik Has Released The Coffee Table Book FIH ODISHA Hockey Men's World Cup 2023 Published By SPORTSWEB.

27) LG Manoj Sinha, Jammu and Kashmir Addressed At National Commission For Women's Event 

( Theme - Celebrating Inspirational Women Titled TU BOL ) 

28) The Government Has Notified The Press And Registration Of Periodical Act 2023. ( It Provides Online Registration Facility).

29) Shri Bijay Kumar Dash Has Been Appointed As New Commissioner Of Cuttack Municipal Corporation.

30) Ankita Raina And Zhibek Kulambayeva Have Won The ITF W35 Gurugram Doubles.








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