Monday 24 June 2024

WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 17TH TO 23RD JUNE 2024 ( PDF ATTACHED)

GLOBAL WIND ENERGY - 15TH JUNE 

THEME 2024 - Pawan- Urja : Powering The Future Of India ( Central Government) 

World Day To Combat Desertification And Drought - 17th June 

Theme 2024 - United For Land, Our Legacy Our Future 

1) Ministry Of Railways Organized an E vent On 26th February 2024, Which Was Attended By 40,19,516 People At 2140 Venues. Recently It Recived The LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS. 

2) RSS Linked MSME Group LAGHU UDYOG BHARATI TO Co Host The 13th Edition Of India Stonemart In Jaipur In February 2026. 

3) India, France Negotiation Rafale Marine Jet Deal. 

4) India Has Produced Over 40 Quantum Technology Startup In Last Two Years. 

5) 23 Writers Are Selected For The 2024 Sahitya Academy Awards. 

6) Sutapa Chakraborty Became The First Writer From Assam Who Won Sahitya Academy Yuva Purashkar For Work In Bengali Literature. 

7) IIT ROORKEE Has Discovered IITR08367 Boosting Fosfomycin Against Drug Resistant Acinetobacter Baumanii, 

( The Team Led By Prof. Ranjana Pathania) 

8) Cricketer David Wiese ( Played For Namibia)  Announced Retirement From International Cricket. 

9) Madhya Pradesh CM Dr. Mohan Yadav Has Inaugurated a New Cricket Stadium At Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. 

10) 34TH Steering Committee Meeting ( SCM) On Warship Material Technology Conducted At Naval Materials Research Laboratory. 

11) Jal Shakti Ministry Has Launched a Portal To Ecologically Monitor The Ganga. 

( The Environment Flow ( E-Flow) Monitoring System Developed By National Mission For Clean Ganga ) 

12) Ladakh Celebrates Annual Hemis Monastic Festival. 

13) Former Governor Of Odisha Shri Muralidhar Chandrakant Bhandare Has Passed Away.



14) Film Producer Apoorva Bakshi Has Inaugurated First Ever Documentary Film Bazaar At 18th Mumbai International Film Festival.

15) The Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) Has Received The Risk Manager Of The Year Award 2024 By Central Banking, London UK.

16) Lovlina Borgohain Has Wins Silver Medal In Women's 75 Kg Category In Czech Republic Grand Prix.

17) Sajan Prakash Wins Gold At Singapore International Swimming Competition.

18) IIT KANPUR And National Sugar Institute, Kanpur Has Signed MoU To Establish A Centre Of Excellence For Biofuels.

19) Karnajit Sharma Wins Bronze In Men's Wushu At BRICS Games 2024 

20) Vice President And Chairman Of Rajya Sabha Jagdeep Dhankar Has Inaugurated Newly Constructed PRERNA STHAL In Parliament House Complex.



21) Peter Pellegrini Sworn In As President Of Slovakia.

22) Aparna Wins The First Gold For India In Women's Wushu 48 kg Category At BRICS Games.

23) Indian Female Cricketer Smriti Mandhana Became The 2nd Indian To Completed 7000 International Runs.

23) Animesh Kujur Wins Bronze In Men's 200m At BRICS Games 2024.

24) The First Ever Direct Flight Between India And Cambodia Started


1) India Is The World's 2nd Largest Source Of Nitrous Oxide ( N2O) After China. 

2) Sumit Nagal Has The Runners Up At ATP CH PERUGIA. ( Rank 71 Now) 



3) India, Armenia, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa And The UAE Have Refused To  Sign The Final Declaration At The Ukraine Peace Summit In Switzerland. 

4) The Assam Secretariat Became The India's First Green State Government Headquarter With The Inauguration Of a 2.5 MW Solar Power Project In Its Campus. 

5) N Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann Are The Runners Up At The Men's Double In ATP CH PERUGIA. 

6) Yoonus Clinched Bronze Medal In Men's 1500m Event At BRICS Games 2024. 

7) Kulwinder Singh  & Karamjit Singh Has Clinched Bronze In Men's Double Scull Event At BRICS GAMES 2024. 

8) Scott Flemming Has Been Reappointed As The Head Coach Of India's Men's National Basketball Team.

9) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese And Chinese Premier Li Qiang Have Signed Agreement For Collaboration In Climate Action, Education, Culture And Free Trade Agreement.

10) Sarvesh Kushare Has Won Gold In High Jump At Malaysia Open Championship.

11) Nepalese Bowler Sandeep Lamichane  Became The Fastest To Get 100 T20i Wickets In 54 Innings.

12) Leaders Of Group 7 (G7) Have Agreed On Providing Loan Of $50 Billions To Ukraine.

13) Government Of India And Government Of US Have Signed Statements Of Intent For Establishment Of The Gandhi-King Development Foundation.

(US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR - Jake Sullivan) 

14) Nederlands Cricketer Sybrand Engelbrecht Has Announced Retirement From International Cricket.

15) Abdel Aziz Toumi Has Appointed As CFO Of Lupin Manufacturing Solution.

16) Indian National Space Promotion And Authorisation Centre ( INSPACe) Has Launched The Pre-Incubation Entrepreneurship (PIE) Development Programme To Support And Nurture Early Stage Space Startup.

17) INDIAN Navy's New  Fleet INS Surat Added.

18) Rajeev Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Non Executive Independent Director Of Paytm For 5 Years.

19) RBI Cancel License Of Purvanchal Cooperative Bank.

20) The All INDIA Football Federation (AIFF) Has Sacked Igor Stimoc As Head Coach.


1) CSIR- Indian Institute Of Chemical Technology ( IICT) In Collaboration With Premier Explosive Ltd. Has Developed An Indigenous Process To Prepare CL-20 ( CHINA LAKE 20) A High Energy Material Primarily Used As Explosives . 

2) Eminent Filmmaker Vinod Ganatra Has Been Honoured With South Africa's Prestigious Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement For Contribution Towards Films.



3) Google Has Launched GEMINI AI App In India With 9 Languages.

4) The Indian National Ultimate Frisbee Team Has Won Silver Medal At The Asia Oceanic Beach Ultimate Championship ( AOBUC) 2024.

5) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Release The 17th Instalment Of PM KISHAN SAMMAN NIDHI YOJANA In Varanasi.

6) The Army Hospital New Delhi Inaugurated A State Of The Art Skin Bank Facility, First In India.

7) Adani Ports And SEZ Becomes World's Largest Transport Operations And Services Company By Market Value In Cargo Volume.

8) India and US Tied To Initiate New Cooperation In Quantum Tech, Telecommunication.

9) Ajith Kumar KK Has Been Appointed As The MD & CEO Of Dhanlaxmi Bank For 3 Years.

10) India's Grand Master Arjun Erigasi Has Won The Stepan Avagyan Memorial 2024 In Jermuk, Armenia.



11) Chief Of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan Released The Joint Doctrine For Cyberspace Operations.

12) Mukund Galgali Has Been Appointed As The CFO Of Zee Entertainment.

13) Kolkata High Court Orders 1% Reservation For Transgender Person In Public Employment.

14) Gross Direct Tax Collection In FY 2024/25 Grows 22.19%.

* Net Direct Collection For FY 2024/25 Grows 20.99% 

15) Armenia Signed Deal With France For Purchase Of Caesar 155/52 Cal Truck Mounted Howitzers.

16) The Appointment Committee Of The Cabinet Has Extended Tenure Of Shri Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary Of Ministry Of AYUSH For One More Year.

17) Tamilnadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Virtually Inaugurated Archaeological Excavation In 8 Location Of State.

18) Karnataka Governor Inaugurated The National Yoga Olympiad 2024 In Mysore.

19) National Security Advisor Ajit Doval And His US Counterpart Jake Sullivan Took Part In India-US Initiative On Critical And Emerging Technologies (iCET) In New Delhi.

20) Neeraj Chopra Has Won Gold Medal At The Paavo Nurmi Games In Finland With The Best Throw Of 85.97m. ( Javelin) 



21) The Marine Product Exports Development Authority (MPEDA) Has Exported 17,81,602 Metric Tonnes Of Sea Food Worth Rs 60,523 Crores In 2023/24. ( Andhra Pradesh Contributed 32%).

22) Thailand Became The First South Asian Country To Passed A Bill Recognize Same Sex Marriage Bill.

World Sickle Cell Day- 19th June

Theme 2024 - Hope Through Process: Advancing Sickle cell Care Globally

1) Russian President Vladmir Puttin Has Visited North Korea First In 24 Years. 

2) New Zealand Fast Bowler Trent Boult Announced Retirement In T20i Cricket. 

3) 3rd Edition Of IDA21 Replenishment Meeting Held In Kathmandu, Nepal. 

4) The Union Government Has Designated The Kollam Port In Kerala As An Authorised Immigration Check Post For Entry And Exit From India. 



5) Baseball Legend Willie Mays Passed Away At The Age Of 93.

6) Rajesh Dwivedi Has Been Appointed As CFO Of BHEL.

7) Vikas Rana Has Been Appointed As The Head Of Construction Finance Of PNB Housing Finance.

8) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The New Campus Of Nalanda University At Rajgir, Bihar.



9) S Anantharaman Has Been Appointed As The Group Chief Risk Officer Of Jio Financial Service.

10) Union Minister Chirag Paswan Along With Union Minister Ranveer Bittu Has Launched The Official Website And Mobile App Of World Food India.

11) Surama Padhy Set To Become Speaker Of Odisha State Legislative Assembly.

12) Srilanka Cricket Legend Mutthai Muralitharan has To Invest 1400 Crores To Set Up a Beverage Unit And Confectionery Unit In Badanaguppe, Karnataka.

13) UNION Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh Has Been Assumed As Chairman Of Indian Institute Of Public Administration (IIPA) For Third Consecutive Term.

14) New Delhi, India Host The 2nd INDIA-Cambodia Joint Working Group On Trade & Investment ( JWGTI) 

15) Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (India CERT) And MasterCard Signed MoU For Collaboration In Cyber Security In Financial Sector.

16) India And Germany S&T Cooperation Has Completed 50 Years, And On This Occasion Launched A Logo.



17) India Has Now 172 Nuclear Heads Surpassed Few Countries.

18) New Space Research And Technology Private Limited Launched The New Jungle Penetration Swarm Concept (JPSC) 

19) National Dairy Development Board Has Signed MoU With Department Of Animals Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD) And Government Of India For Upgrading The Bio containment Facility At CCSNIAH) Baghpat.

20) India Wins 8 Medals At 26th Asian Youth Championship 2024 (1 Gold, 2 Silver And 5 Bronze)

21) Academian, Dancer, Musician Choreographer C V Chandrasekhar Passed Away.



22) North Korea And Russia Have Signed MoU On Military Cooperation 

23) The Personal Is Political Book Author - Aruna Roy 

24) Indian Post Payment Bank Has Inked With Ria Money Transfer For Remittance Service Across Rural INDIA.

25) Center For High Energy Physics IISC Have Discovered A New Series Representation For The Irrational Number Pi.

26) INDIAN Institute Of Science (IISC) And INDIAN Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) Has Launched Project Chandana ( Project For Sickle Cell Anaemia)

27) Cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin Launched his Book - I Have The Streets: Kutti cricket Story 



World Refugee Day - 20th June 

Theme 2024 - Solidarity With Refugees 

International Yoga Day - 21st June ( 10th Edition) 

Theme 2024 - Yoga For Self, & Society 

1) QUAD Health Security Partnership Meeting Held In Sydney, Australia On 18th June 2024. 

2) ILYA Sustskever, Co-Founder Of OpenAI Has Launched Safe Super Intelligence ( SSI). 

3) Union Cabinet Has Approved The New MSP For Kharif Crops ( For Dhaan Is 2300 Per Quintal) 

For Cotton 7121/7521) 

4) National Stock Exchange ( NSE) Has Launched Nifty India Tourism Index 

5) Manoj Jain Has Been Appointed As The Chairman And MD Of BEL. ( Bharat Electricals Limited) 

6) David Johnson, Former Indian Test Cricketer Passed Away.

7) Cabinet Has Approved The Development Of An All Weather Greenfield Deep Draft Major Port At Vadhavan in Maharastra For Rs 76,220 Crores.

8) Russia Has Won 156 Gold, 93 Silver And 63 Bronze Medals At BRICS Games.

( Belarus - 26 Gold, 49 Silver And 59 Bronze) 

( China- 17 Gold, 16 Silver And 12 Bronze) At Third Position 

( INDIA - 1 Gold, 3 Silver And 12 Bronze) 8th Position 

9) Dwaraka Tirumala Rao Has Been Appointed As The DGP Of Andhra Pradesh.

10) The 3rd Edition Of India-France-Australia Trilateral Focal Points Meeting Held On 19th June 2024.

11) Patna High Court Scraps The 65% Reservation For Backward Classes 

12) Annurag Batra, Founder Of Exchange 4 Media And Chairman Of BW Business World Has Been Selected As A Member Of International Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences.

13) The West Bengal Government Has Launched a Centralized Portal For Admission To Under graduate 

14) Devendra Kumar Has Been Appointed As The CFO of ONGC Board.

15) Tata Communication Has Secured 5 Years$250 million Sustainability Linked Loan From ANZ, DBS Bank, Export Development Canada.

16) Jharkhand State Government Decide To Hold A Caste Based Survey In The State.

17) Uttar Pradesh Is Set To Establish The World's FIRST Conservation And Breeding Center For Asian King Vultures Or Red Headed Vultures In Maharajganj.

( Center Named As Jatayu Conservation And Breeding Center) 

18) India's 9 Major Port Has Been Listed In Top 100 By World Bank 

19) Indian Army And Punjab national Bank Has Signed MoU For Personnel Services Providing.

20) Justice Suryakant, Supreme Court Of India Represent India At The BRICS Chief Justice Forum 2024 In Sochi, Russia.

21) Arvind Kumar Talan Has Been Appointed As The CFO Of Energy Efficiency Services.

22) Dinesh Chandra Agarwal Has Been Appointed As THE MD & CEO Of India Mart For Next Five Years.( from January 2025) 

23) 2nd Edition Of Global Conference On Financial Resilience Organised By RBI.

24) National Highway Authority Of India (NHAI ) And Indraprastha Institute Of Information And Technology Delhi Signed MoU For Enhance The Road Safety By Deploying AI Technology.

25) Researchers Have Discovered a New Genus Of Gomphonemoid Diatom Found In The Water Of Eastern Ghats.

( The Species Is Named As INDICONEMA) 



26) President Droupadi Murmu Appoints 8th Times MP From Odisha  Bhartruhari Mahtab, Member Of Lok Sabha As Speaker Protem Of Constitution. 

( Article - 95(1) ) 



27) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Inaugurated 84 Various  Development Projects In Sringar Worth Rs 1500 Crores.





World Hydrography Day - 21st June 

Theme 2024 - Hydro graphic Information: Enhancing Safety, Efficiency And Sustainability In Marine Activities 

World Music Day - 21st June 

1) Former Russia And Fiji Manager Waisale Serevi Has Appointed As The National Team Coach Of Indian Rugby7s Team. 

2) Shaili Singh Has Clinched Silver Medal In Women's Long Jump At The JBL Jump Fest In Slovakia. 

3) Tajikistan Has Banned The Hijab And Public Eid Celebration, Declaring Them Foreign Culture. 

4) FALCON 9 Has Launched The SES Satellite's ASTRA 1P Mission From Florida. 

5) Ramesh Kartik Nayak Is The First Tribal Person And The Youngest Recipient To Get Telugu Literature Award. 

6) IISc Has Designed a Device To Make Infrared Light Visible. 

7) Australian Fast Bowler Pat Cummins Has Taken First Hatrick Of The 2024 T20I World Cup Against Bangladesh. 

8) Srilankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe And EAM India Dr. S Jaishankar Jointly Commissioned a US $ 6 Million Indian Funded Maritime Rescue Coordination Center In Srilanka. 



9) The United States Has Approved The Sale Of More Than 1000 Small Armed Drones To Taiwan At $ 360 millions. 

10) European Union Has Approved The First Ever Sanctions On Russian Gas. 

11) First Edition Of INHS SANJIVANI Magazine Titled SANJIVANI SANSMARAN Has Been Released By Indian Navy. 

12) Indian Tennis Star Sumit Nagal Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador  For Bank Of Baroda. 

13) Toko Telyi, Became The First Arunachal Pradesh Selected For The Prestigious BHARATENDU NATYA ACADEMY. 

14) THE COLLECTOR's Mother Book Author - Bishnupada Sethi



15) Eminent Actor Of Canada Donald Sutherland Passed Away.

16) ODISHA State Government Has Extended The Sponsorship Of INDIAN Hockey Team Till 2036.

17) Kandadevi Car Festival Celebrates In Sivaganga.

18) Rear Admiral Nelson D'Souza Takes Over As Commandant Military Institute Of Technology, Pune 

19) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Performed Yoga In Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Center ( SKICC) Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

20) Cotton University, Assam Has Ranked 51st In The Prestigious Nature Index 2024.

World Rainforest Day - 22nd June 

Theme 2024 - Empowering The World In Defense Of Our Rainforests 

1) TATA STEEL 4th All India Chess Tournament For Specially Abled Chess Players Starts From 24th June 2024. 

2) 9th Round Classical Swiss Tournament Will Host By Jamshedpur, Jharkhand From 24th - 28th June 2024. 

3) Indian Ambassador To Turkiye Shri Virander Paul Passed Away. 



4) LG Jammu And Kashmir Shri Manoj Sinha Has Inaugurated The Indian Army's Dagger Heritage Complex At Baramulla. 



5) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Recived a Dividend Cheque Of Rs. 857.16 Crores For FY 2023/24 From Shri Nidhu Saxena, MD & CEO  Of Maharashtra Bank. 

6) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Recived a Dividend Cheque Of Rs. 6959.29 Crores For FY 2023/24 From SBI. 

7) INDIAN Women's Compound Archery Team Has Won Gold Medal ( 7th 

8) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited ( BHEL) Has Won Gold Award in Adoption In Indigenous Technology For Our Clean Coal Technology With Pressurized Fluidized Bed Gasifier ( PFBG) At The ET Government PSU Leadership And Excellence Award 2024.

9) Rutuja Bhosle And Fangran Tian Wins Women's Double Title At ITF W35 Tauste, Spain.

10) India's Rahil Gangjee Has Won The 2024 Selangor Masters. ( Asian Development Tour) 

11) Union Home Minister Amit Shah Has e-inaugurated 30 Smart Schools At Cost Of 36 Crores In Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

12) NTPC Has Been Recognized As One Of The Most Preferred Workplace Of 2024/25 At 4th Edition Of Most Preferred Workplace In New Delhi.

13) Bharat Electricals Limited ( BEL) Has Won Silver AWARD For Implementation ( Digitisation) Of Employee Self Service At ET PSU Leadership And Excellence Award 2024. 

14) Professor V Srinivas Chakrabarthy, Department Of Biotechnology, IIT Madras Has Developed The Bharathi Script To Unify Indian Languages.

( The Named Given After Poet Subramania Bharathi) 

15) Atul Kumar Chaudhary Has Been Appointed As The Secretary Of TRAI.

16) India Ranked 63 In The Energy Transition Index 2024.

17) KAMAL HASSAN : A Cinematic Journey Book Author - K Hariharan 

( Actor Kamal Hassan Biography)



18) Scientists From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Berhampur, Ganjam Has Discovered A New Eel Species Of Snake.

( Named Given - OphichthusSuryai) 

( This Named Was Given After Former Joint Director Of State Fishery Department - Surya Kumar Mohanty).



19) Delhi Airport Launched India's First Track Immigration Trusted Traveller Programme. ( Inaugurated By Union Home Minister Amit Shah) 

20) India And Bangaldesh Signed MoU In Various Development Programme.

( India Will Introduce An e-medical Visa For Bangladeshi Nationals).

21) POWERGRID Has Won Silver Award In The Adoption Of AI, Data Analytics And Predictive Technologies Category At The ET Government PSU Leadership And Excellence Award 2024.

22) Russia Has Agreed On Joint Military Deployment With India.

23) Chief Priest Of Ram Temple Acharya Laxmikant Dixit Passed Away.



24) Ukraine Launched World's First Unmanned System Forces (USF).

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