WORLD CURRENT AFFAIRS MAY 2024

HOST - 

* Maldives Host The 6th Asian Carrom Championship 2024.

* 31st World Press Freedom Day Conference Will Host Chile And UNESCO At Santiago. 

* The 10th Edition Of World Art Dubai Opened At The World Trade Centre In Dubai. 

*  19th Interpol Heads Of NCB Conference Held At Lyon From 23rd To 25th April 2024 

* The 31st Edition Of The Arabian Travel Market Started In Dubai.

* Dubai Host The Food Innovation Conference 2024.

( Theme 2024 - Reimagining Future Food Systems).

* 19th Session Of United Nations Forum On Forests (UNFF) Held At UN Headquarters.

* Bali, Indonesia To Host 10th World Water Forum.

( THEME 2024 - Water For Shared Prosperity) 

* 3rd Edition Of The Electric Vehicle Innovation Summit (EVIS) Held At Abu Dhabi,  UAE.

* The Riyadh Airport Company To Host The World Annual General Assembly Conference And Exhibition ( WAGA 2024) From 21st To 23rd May.

* The Two Day International Dialogue On Mountains, People And Climate Change Is Held At Kathmandu, Nepal. 

*  First Trilateral Summit Between South Korea, China And Japan Held In Seoul.

LAUNCHED - 

* World Health Organisation (WHO) Has Launched A New Investment Round, Aiming To Raise 7 Billion Dollars Of Funds To Support Countries To Tackle Challenge Like Climate Challenges, Displacement, Poverty And Equality.

WORLD RECORD - 

* Nepal's Purnima Shrestha Set Records By Climbing Mount Everest 3 Times In Two Weeks 

MISS PINK NEPAL 2024 

* Anmol Rai, Transwoman, Crowned As Miss Pink Nepal 2024, Kathmandu, Nepal.

INDIA - INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS - 

* The Srilanka Government Has Approved India To Renovate The Kankesanthurai Port.

* India To Train 1500 Bangladeshi Civil Servants In Next Five Years. 

* The 8th Month Long Lecture series MANDAVI TO MUSCAT, INDIAN Community And The Shared History  Of India And Oman Held At Muscat Concluded On 1st May 2024.

* The Center Has Granted Permission For The Export Of 14000 MT Of Non Basmati White Rice To Mauritius.

* India And Dominican Republic Have Completed 25 Years On Diplomatic Relations. 

* India Contributed $ 500, 000 To The United Nations Counter Terrorism Trust Fund.

* The Government Of India Has Provided A Budget Support Of USD 50 Million To The Maldives. 

* Indian Community In Jamaica Celebrated 179 Years Of Indian Arrival In Jamaica.

*  India Send USD 1 Million Flood Relief Assistance To Kenya.

* Madras Curry powder, Sambhar Mixed Masala Powder, MDH And Everest Masala Has Been Banned In Nepal.

*  Indian Spiritual Guru Shri Ravi Shankar Has Recived The First Stamp Released Commemorating The Completion Of 200 Years Of Indian Origin Tamils In Srilanka. 

*  India Government Has Announced Relief Assistance Worth Rs USD & 1 million To Papua And New Guinea (PNG), As Landslide Recently Caused More Loss To Country.

* India Assumed Charge Chair Of Colombo Process For 2024-26.

FIRST IN WORLD - 

* Victoria Shi, The World's First AI Diplomat Developed By Ukraine.

* Hong Kong Has Launched Its FIRST Hydrogen Powered Buses.

* John Swinney Has Been Sworn In As First Minister Of Scotland.

* UNGA Proclaimed May 25th As World Football Day, In 2024 Football Completed 100 Years.

* China Has Inaugurated The Next Generation ( High Energy Photon Source HEPS) SYNCHROTON Boasting World's Brightest X-Rays

* Nepal's Kami Rita Sherpa Climbed Mount Everest For a Record Of 30th Time. 

* The United Nations General Assembly Has Decided To Celebrate 11th July As The International Day Of Reflection And Commemoration Of The 1995 Genocide In Srebrenica.

SPACE - 

*  China Launched Chang'e-6 Lunar Probe Mission To Collect Sample From Moon.

* FIRST Ever Atmospheric Rainbow Has Been Detected  On An Exoplanet 637 Light Years From Earth.

* Indian Origin Sunita Williams Set To Fly Into Space For The Third Time 

* China Has Launched a Long MARCH-4C Rocket, Launched a New Satellite Shiyan-23 For Space Environment Monitoring. 

* Astronomers From NASA Have Discovered New Planet In Binary Star System Kepler-47. ( Name Given - Kepler-47d) ( Discovered By San Diego State University) 

* Starlink, The Space Startup Owner Elon Musk Has Launched In Indonesia.

* Scientists Have Discovered An Earth Sized Exoplanet SPECULOOS-3b Approximately 55 Years Light Years From Earth.

* Elon Musk's Starlink Has Launched In Fiji. 

* The University Of Tokyo Has Inaugurated The World's Highest Observatory At Chile 

* NASA Successfully Launched The First Of A Pair Of Small Climate Satellites From The Rocket Labs Launch Complex In Mahia, New Zealand.

* The World's First Wooden Satellite Has Been Built By Japanese Researchers At Kyto University. 

( Satellite Named- Ligno Sat) 

* The Euclid Space Telescope Has Discovered 7 More Rouge Planets.

DEFENSE - 

*  Pakistan Army Conducted a Successful Training Launch Of FATAH-II Rocket System, Which Is Capable Of Engaging Targets Upto 400 Kilometres. 

MIXED - 

* Ukraine Is The New Member Of NATO.

* Colombia Recently Declared They Break The Diplomatic Relation With Israel. 

*  Hidaya Cyclone Hits Tanzania. 

* Afghanistan Consul General Zakia Wardak Has Resigned After Caught Unusual Smuggling At Mumbai Airport. 

* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabinet Has Banned The Qatar Based News Channel Aljazeera.

* Dr Reddy's Announced The Launch Of Doxycycline Capsules In The US. 

* Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kumar Dahal Has Declared Newari And Tamang Adopted As The Official Language In Bagmati Province Of Nepal.

( PM Launched The Bagmati Province Official Language Act 2080) 

* World's Deepest Blue Hole Discovered In Mexico.

* Former Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama Was Sentenced To One Year Prison For Perverting The Course Of Justice. 

* April 2024 Has Registered As The Warmest April Globally Since 1940

* Nepali Sherpa Climber Kami Rita Sherpa Has Climbed Everest For The Record 29th Time. 

* Switzerland Wins The Eurovision Song Contest. ( Swiss Singer Nemo Has Won The 68th Eurovision Song Contest.) 

* Nigeria Suffered 150 Deaths Due To Lassa Fever Since January 2024.

* Switzerland Has Banned The Burqa On Its Street, And Reject Islam As Official Religion.

*  Melinda French Gates Steps Down As Co Chair Of Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation.

* Georgian Parliament Has Passed The Foreign Agent Bill.

* Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico Injured In Shooting. 

* Russian President Vlamdir Puttin And Chinese President XI Jinping Have Signed  A Statement To Deepen The Comprehensive Partnerships And Strategic Cooperation Between two Nations.

* Bangladesh Observes The 125th Birth Anniversary Of The National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam On 25th May. 

* Vanuatu Faced An Earthquake Of Magnitude At 6.5. 

*  Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelwnskyy And Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Have Signed MoU, That Spain Will Support Ukraine 1 Billion Euros.

* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva Removed His Ambassador To Israel From His Post Due To Diplomatic Spat Between Countries.

* Nigerian President Bola Tinubu Signed a Bill To Switching  a National Anthem Composed By a British Expatriate.

( WE HAIL THEE Used Instead Of ARISE O Compatriots) 

PERSON DIED - 

*  Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Died In A Helicopter Crash.

* Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Foreign Minister Of Iran Died In Plane Crash.

* Ireland, Norway And Spain Officially Recognized As Palestine State.

*  Spain Became The 99th Member Of International Solar Alliance.

*  For The First Time On 24th May International Day Of Markhor Celebrated As UNEP Declare