MONTHLY CURRENT AFFAIRS IN JULY 2024

DAYS & THEME - 

* National Doctors Day - 1st July 

* GST Day - 1st July 

* World Sports Journalists Day - 2nd July 

* World UFO Day - 2nd July 

* International Plastic Bag Free Day - 3rd July 

* World Zoonoses Day - 6th July 

* International Day Of Cooperatives - 6th July (Theme 2024 - Cooperative Builds a Better Future For All) 

* World Population Day - 11th July (Theme 2024 - Leave No One Behind, Count Everyone) 

* 43rd Foundation Of NABARD 

* World Skydiving Day - 13th July

* Government Declared 25th June As Sambhidvan Hatya Diwas.

* WORLD Youth Skill Day - 15th July(Theme 2024 - Youth Skills For Peace And Development ) 

* World Snake Day - 16th July

* International Justice Day - 17th July(Theme 2024 - Overcoming Barriers And Unleashing Opportunities For Social Justice ) 

* National Flag Adoption Day - 22nd July 

* National Broadcasting Day - 23rd July 

* Kargil Vijay Diwas - 26th July 

* International Day For The Conservation Of Mangrove Ecosystem - 26th July 

* 86th CRPF RAISING DAY - 27TH JULY

* World Nature Conservation Day - 28th July (Theme 2024 - Connecting People And Plants, Exploring Digital Innovation In Wildlife Conservation) 

* World Hepatitis Day - 28th July (Theme 2024 - Take Action. Test Treat, Vaccinate ) 

* International Tigers Day - 29th July (Theme 2024 - Call For Action ) 

* World Rangers Day - 31st July 

BILL PASSED 

* Maharastra State Assembly Passes The Maharashtra Competitive Examination  (Prevention Of Unfair Means) 2024 

* Ministry Of Home Affairs Has Amends The Rules Of Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act To Give More Power To The Lt Governor.

( Under Section 55, The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act 2019) 

* Karnataka Cabinet Approved The Bill Mandating Private Companies Provide Reservation For Local Candidates.

* The Assam Cabinet Has Approved A Bill To Abolish The Assam Muslim Marriages And Divorce Registration Act And Rules Of 1935 ( on 18th July 2024)

* Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Has Passed The Arunachal Pradesh Public Examination ( Measures To Prevent Unfair Means In Recruitment) Bill 2024.

* The Bihar Assembly Passed The Anti Paper Leak Bill.

* Karnataka Assembly Passed Cine And Cultural Bill.

*  Uttar Pradesh State Assembly Has Passed The Amendment Bill Enhancing Punishment Under Unlawful Conversion Of Religion Act

* The Jammu And Kashmir Appropriation Bill 2024 Passed In Lok Sabha.

APPOINTME NT

NATIONAL - 

* Union Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla Has Been Given Additional Charge Of The Post Of Secretary, Department Of Personnel And Training.

* Sanjeev Chopra Secretary, Department Of Food And Public Distribution Has Given Charge As Secretary Department Of Agriculture And Farmers Welfare.

* Sandeep Saxena Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of Tamilnadu Newsprint & Papers.

* Katikithala Srinivas , Secretary Ministry Of Minority Affairs Has Been Given Additional Charge As Secretary National Commission For Minority Affairs 

* Dr Vijay Kumar Gupta Has Been Elected As Member Of The North India Regional Council (NIRC) Of ICAI.

*  Sourabh Bandhopadhyaya Has Been Appointed As Principal Chief Signal & Telecom Engineer, Of SOUTH Central Railway.

* 2011 batch IAS Officer Amit Kishore Has Been Appointed As Private Secretary To Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. 

* 1990 Batch IPS Officer Of Tamilnadu Cadre T V Ravichandran Appointed As The Deputy National Security Advisor. 

( Previously Worked As Special Director Intelligence Bureau) 

* Former R & AW Chief Rajinder Khanna Has Been Appointed As Additional NSA By The Government Of India. 

* Appointment Committee Of The Cabinet (ACC) Has Approved Dr B N Gangadhar As The Chairperson Of The National Medical Commission.

* Dr Sanjay Behari Has Been Appointed As The President Of The Medical Assessment And Rating Event.

* Dr Anil D Cruz Has Been Appointed As The Whole Time Member Of Post Graduate Medical Education Board.

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* 1998 IPS OFFICER Mahesh Chandra Laddha Has Been Appointed As The New Intelligence Chief Of Andhra Pradesh.

* 1993 IPS Officer Govind Gupta Has Been Appointed As Director General Of Police Of Rajasthan.

*  IAS OFFICER Dr N Thirumala Naik Took Charge As Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Of Odisha.

* 1990 Batch IAS OFFICER Anurag Rastogi Has Been Appointed As The Haryana's New Home Secretary.

* RETIRED IAS Officer Pradeep Singh Kharola Has Get One Year Extension As Chairman And Managing Director Of The India Trade Promotion Organisation.

* Senior IIS Officer Dhirendra Ojha Has Been Appointed As The New Director Of PIB.

* Mrs Sheyphali B Sharan, 1990 Batch IIS Officer Assumed Charge As Director General Of Public Divisions.

* 2012 IAS Dr Vibha Chahal Has Been Appointed As The Private Secretary to Minister Of MSME Shobha Karandlaje

* IPS OFFICER A Arun Has Been Appointed As The Chennai Police Commissioner.

* Former CJI UU Lalit Appointed As the Head Of Committee By Supreme Court To Oversee Appointment Of VCs In West Bengal.

* 2000 Batch IAS OFFICER Pankaj Agarwal Has Been Posted As The Chief Electoral Officer Of Haryana.

* A Sridhar Has Been Appointed As The Chief Public Relations Officer Of South Central Railway.

* Professor Dr Soumya Swaminathan Has Been Appointed As The Principal Advisor Of The Union Ministry Of Health And Family Welfares For The National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme.

* India TV Chairman Rajat Sharma Has Been Elected As The President Of The News Broadcasters & Digital Association ( NBDA).

* 1993 Batch IRAS Officer Manoj Kumar Dubey Has Been Appointed As The CMD Of Indian Railway Finance Corporation Limited (IRFCL).

*  2014 IAS Ashutosh Garg Has Been Appointed As Private Secretary To The Minister Of Health And Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda For 5 Years. 

* 1994 Batch IPS Officer Anant Kumar Singh Has Been Appointed As CVO Of GAIL India. ( Currently Serve As CVO Of Indian Oil) 

*  IPS Officer Shri Makarand Deouskar Took Charge As Inspector General Of BSF Guwahati Assam. 

* 1996 Batch IPS OFFICER Alok Kumar Has Been Appointed As The New DGP of Goa.

* 2013 IAS Sachin Jaiswal Has Been Appointed As The Private Secretary To The Union Minister Of Parliamentary AFFAIRS Kirren Rijju.

*  Shri Chhatrasal Singh Has Been Assumed As The General Manager Of East Central Railway Hajipur. 

* IPS Rajeev Kumar Has Been Appointed As The DGP Of West Bengal.

*  Shri Upendra Chandra Joshi Has Been Appointed As The General Manager Of North Central Railway Prayagraj.

* 2007 Batch IRS Officer Prasanth Ranjan Has Been Appointed As The Private Secretary To The Minister Of State For Home Affairs Nityanand Rai.

* Nerella Sharada Takes Charge As Chairperson Of Telengana Woman's Commission.

* CSIR DG N Kalaiselvi Gets 2 Years Extension.

*  BJP Leader & Senior Advocate Of Odisha High Court Pitambar Acharya Has Been Appointed As The Advocate General Of Odisha.

* Union Ministers Of Ports, Shipping And Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal Sworn In As Ex- Officio Member Of Digboi And Makum Municipalities. 

*  Kshitij Jain Has Been Appointed As The Private Secretary To The Minister Of Labour And Employment And Youth Affairs And Sports Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya. 

*  IAS K Vasuki Has Been Appointed As The New Secretary Of Kerala.

* Pradeep Bhandari Has Been Appointed As The BJP Chief Spokesperson.

* 2001 Batch IAS Officer R Sanatan Gopalan Has Been Appointed As The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Of Odisha.

* Veteran Filmmaker Shekhar Kapoor Has Been Appointed As The Director Of International Film Festival In India (IFFI) Festival.

*  Ms K Padmaja Has Been Appointed As The Principal Chief Commercial Manager Of South Central Railway.

* Vikash Chaube Has Been Assumed As The Director ( Transport, Safety And Marketing) At NHSRCL.

* 1990 Batch IPS Officer Anurag Gupta Has Been Appointed As New DGP Of Jharkhand. 

 * 1989 Batch IAS OFFICER Dr Shalini Rajneesh Has Been Appointed As The Chief Secretary To Government Of Karnataka.

*  Professor Raghavendra P Tiwari Has Taken Additional Role Of Director In Charge At Indian Institute Of Advanced Study ( IIAS) Shimla. 

* Asit Saha Has Taken Charge As The New Director General Of Geological Survey Of India (GSI).

* President Droupadi Murmu Appoints Governors To The 9 States.

* Jishu Dev Verma - Telengana 

* Om Prakash Mathur - Sikkim

* Santosh Kumar Gangwar - Jharkhand

* Remen Deka - Chhattisgarh 

* C H Vijayashankar - Meghalaya 

* C P Radhakrishnan - Maharashtra

* Gulab Chandra Katariya - Chandigarh

* Lakshman Prasad Acharya - Manipur 

* Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde - Rajasthan 

* 1983 Batch IAS Officer Of Andhra Pradesh Cadre UPSC Member Preeti Sudan Has Been Appointed As The New Chairman Of UPSC.

JUDGES

* Justice B R Sarangi Has Been Appointed As The Chief Justice Of Jharkhand High Court.

* The President Of India Has Appointed Justice Sheel Nagu As The Chief Justice Of High Court Of Punjab And Haryana.

* CJI D Y Chandrachud Has Recommend Justice Tashi Rabstan As Chief Justice Of Meghalaya High Court.

* President Of India- Appointed 

N Kotiswar Singh ( Former Manipur High Court Chief Justice) And R Mahadevan ( Madras High Court) As Judges Of Supreme Court Of India.

* Justice Aalia Neelum Has Became The First Woman Chief Justice Of Lahore High Court in Pakistan.

MINISTRY - 

* Ministry Of Home Affairs Appoints Lok Sabha MP Bansuri Swaraj As a Member Of The New Delhi Municipal Council.

CHIEF MINISTER - 

* Hemanth Soren Took Oath As The Chief Minister Of Jharkhand.

BRAND AMBASSADOR - 

*  Riyan Parag And Nitish Kumar Reddy Both Cricketer Have Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of PUMA.

*  Indian Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of Moto GP India.

* South Indian Actor Ram Charan Set To Awarded The Ambassador Of The Indian Art And Culture At The INDIAN Film Festival Of Melbourne. ( First Indian To Be) 

INDIA'S INTERNATIONAL - 

* 1995 Batch IAS Asutosh Jindal Has Appointed As The Minister (Economic) In The Economic Wing, Embassy Of India Washington DC, USA.

* 1998 Batch IAS Nikunj Kumar Srivastav Has Been Appointed As Senior Advisor To The Executive Director, World Bank Washington DC, USA.

* Rakesh Ramanlal Shah, Chairman And Managing Director Of GSEC Limited Has Been Appointed By The Government Of Srilanka As The Honorary Consul For Srilanka In Ahmedabad.

* CSIR Scientist Dr S Sridhar Has Inducted As a Fellow Of The Royal Society Of Chemistry, London.

STATES - 

* 1987 IAS OFFICER Sujata Saunik Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Secretary Of Maharashtra. (First Woman Chief After 64 Years).

* 1988 Batch IAS OFFICER Manoj Kumar Singh Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Secretary Of Uttar Pradesh.

* Sri Ravinder Goyal Has Assume As Member Operations And Business Development Of Ministry Of Railways.

* 1996 Batch IPS OFFICER Shanka Brata Bagchi Has Been Appointed As The New Commissioner Of Police Of Vishakapatanam.

PRESIDENT - 

*  Paul Kugame Won The Presidential Election In Rwanda.

* Reformists Masoud Pezeshkian Wins Iran's Presidency Election. 

* Nicolas Maduro Has Won The Presidential Election Of Venezuela For Third Term.

PRIME MINISTER - 

* Dick Schoof Has Been Sworn In As New Prime Minister Of Nederlands.

*  Sir Keir Starmer ( Labour Party MP)  Has Elected As The New Prime Minister Of UK. 

* Angela Rayner Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Prime Minister Of UK.

* Rachel Reeves Has Been Appointed As UK's First Female Chancellor. 

*  David Lammy Has Been Appointed As The Foreign Secretary Of UK.

* Nepal President Ramchandra Paudel Appoints K P Sharma Oli As Prime Minister.( 3RD TERM) 

* Arzu Rana Deuba Has Been Appointed As The Foreign Minister Of Nepal.

* Hamdan bin Mohhamed Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Prime Minister And Ministry Of Defense Of The UAE.

* British-Tamil Uma Kumaran Has Been Elected To Represent Statford And BOW. 

 * British  - Indian MP Lisa Nandy Has Been Appointed As Secretary Of State For Culture, Media And Sport By UK PM Keir Starmer. 

HIGH COMMISSIONER - 

* Dr Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit Has Been Appointed As The India's Next High Commissioner To The Republic Of Montserrat.

AMBASSADOR - 

* Subhash Prasad Gupta Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To The Republic Of Suriname. 

* India Nominated Retired Diplomat Vinay Kwatra As India's Next Ambassador To US.

* 2003 IFS Mayank Joshi Has Been Appointed As The India's High Commissioner To The Commonwealth Of The Bahamas.

* IFS Mridu Pawan Das Has Been Appointed As The Indian High Commissioner To Rwanda.

* Dr. Suhel Ajaz Khan Has Been Appointed As The Next Ambassador Of India To The Republic Of Yemen. 

INTERNATIONAL - 

* Prominent Indian-American Physician Dr Sampat Shivangi Has Been Elected As An Official Delegate To The RNC in Milwaukee.

*  The World Academy Of Arts And Science ( WAAS) Has Nominated Shaurya Doval As a Fellow. 

*  Sumant Sinha Named Co Chair Of. CEO Climate Leader's Alliance.

PORTAL & APP - 

* The Ministry Of Statistics And Programme Implementation ( MoSPI) Launched eSankhyiki Portal, (For Ease Of Data Access).

* Union Minister Of Forest Bhupendra Yadav Launched a Portal Documenting Indian Fauna: 641 New Faunal Species Recorded In 2023. ( Overall 104,561 Faunal Species) 

* Union Minister Kishan Reddy Launched Noble Initiative For Rewarding Mains Aspirants Of National Civil Services Examination ( NIRMAN) Portal Developed By Coal India. 

( Under This Scheme an UPSC Aspirant Can Get 1 Lakh Rupees) 

* Madhya Pradesh CM Dr Mohan Yadav Has Launched Lokpath Mobile App, For Road Safety.

*  Central Water Commission For Dissemination Of Real Time Flood Situation And Flood Forecasts Has Launched The FLOOD WATCH Mobile Application.

* JKRERA Launched Official Portal For Real Estate Transparency In UT.

* Union Minister For Telecommunication Jyotiraditya Scindia Has Launched The NE-RACE Portal, ( For Farmers Of North Eastern)

*  Union Minister For Mines And Coals Kishen Reddy Launched BHUSANKET Web Portal & BHOOSKHALAN Mobile App At Kolkata. 

* Ministry Of Steel Launched Steel Import Monitoring System 2.0 Portal.

* Navy Education Society Has Launched The ERP App And Website For Naval School.

* President Droupadi Murmu Launched e-Upahaar Auction Portal.

*  Bengaluru Launched ROAD PATHHOLE Attention Application. ( To Fix Pathholes And Maintenance) 

* Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Launched NATS 2.0 Portal. ( Stipend Through DBT To Young Graduate And Diploma Holders For On The Job Training).

BANKING & FINANCIAL CA - 

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Ravi Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of CBDT ( Central Board Of Direct Taxes) Upto June 30th 2025.

*  Sidharth Mohanty Has Been Redesignate As the MD & CEO Of LIC.

* Vivek Chandrakar Tongaonkar Has Been Appointed As The Director (Finance) Of ONGC.

* Arnab Kumar Chaudhary Has Been Appointed As The New Executive Director Of RBI. 

* Charulata S Kar Has Been Appointed As The Executive Director Of RBI.

* Hari Mohan Gupta Has Assumed As CMD Of Ircon International.

* Sunil Siddharth Lalbhai And Urjit Patel Have Been Appointed As Additional Non Executive Independent Directors Of Britannia. 

*  Shalabh Goel Has Assumed As The Managing Director Of NCRTC.

* Kumar Venkata Subramaniam Has Been Appointed As The Director And MD Of P & G Hygiene.

*  Ratan Kumar Kesh Has Been Appointed As The Interim Managing Director And Chief Executive Director Of Bandhan Bank For 3 Months.

*  Ravi A Robert Jerard Has Been Appointed As CMD Of MTNL. 

* N R Narayanan & K S Sampath And Ramkumar Krushnaswamy Has Been Appointed As Independent Director Of Equitas Small Finance Bank.

*  Pranav Mishra Has Been Appointed As The Head Of Distribution Of Kotak Mahindra Bank.

* Ashok Shuvarna To Take Charge Of CEO Aditya Birla Money From 1st September 2024.

* Manish Dhanuka Has Been Reappointed As MD Of Orchid Pharma.

* Chandan Sinha Has Been Appointed As The Part Time Chairman Of RBL Bank.

* Krishnan Venkat Subramaniam Has Been Appointed As The MD & CEO Of Federal Bank.

* Bibhuti Bhusan Naik Has Been Elected As the President Of Institute Of Cost Account Of India for 2024/25.

*  Manoj Mittal Has Assumed As The Chairman And Managing Director Of SIDBI.

* Satish Jha Has Been Selected For The CMD Of ECL.

* Adani Ports Gets The Letter Of Intend ( LoI) For Developing And Operating Berth No 13 At Deendayal Port In Gujarat For The Period Of 30 Years.

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's Twitter Account Completed 100 Millions Followers.

ACCREDITED - 

* Government Upgrades IRCTC To Schedule A Central Public Sector Enterprise. 

UNION BUDGET 2024/25 - 

Union Finance Minister Has Announced Union Budget For 2024/25.

( Announced Smallest 1 Hour And 25 Minutes Budget)

Total of 48,20,512 Crores Allocated In Budget 2024/25 

* 2.55 Lakh Crores For Railway 

* 1.52 Lakh Crores For Agriculture

* 1000 Crores For Space Research 

* 11,11,111 Crores For Capital Expenditure

* 15000 Crores For Andhra Pradesh 

* 2.66 Lakhs Crores For Rural Development 

* 26000 Crores for Bihar Infrastructure

* 1.48 Lakh Crores For Education 

* 4,54,773 Crores for Defense Sector

* 1,16,342 IT Telecom Sector 

* 5,44,128 Crores for Transport 

* 2,03,530 For Tax Administration 

* 1,50,983 Crores for Home Affairs 

* 3,81,175 Crores For Major Subsides

* 3,22,787 Crores Transfer of States

* 89,287 Crores For Health 

* 68,769 Crores For Energy 

* 56,501 Crores For Social Welfare 

* 47,559 Crores For Commerce & Industry 

TAX RATE STRUCTURE - 

* 0- 3 Lakh ( Nil) 

* 3- 7 Lakh ( 5 %) 

* 7-10 Lakh ( 10%) 

* 10-12 Lakh ( 15%) 

* 12-15 Lakh ( 20%) 

* Above 15 Lakh ( 30%)

*  Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav Announced Budget For Railways Infrastructure - 

2582 Crores For Delhi 

2,698 Crores For Himachal Pradesh 

3,383 Crores For Haryana

3,694 Crores For Jammu and Kashmir

5,147 Crores For Punjab 

5,336 Crores For Telengana 

5,131 Crores For Uttarakhand

7,559 Crores For Karnataka

8,743 Crores For Gujarat 

9,151 Crores For Andhra Pradesh

9,959 Crores For Rajasthan 

10,033 Crores For Bihar 

10,586 Crores For Odisha

10,376 Crores For North East

13,941 Crores For West Bengal 

14,738 Crores For Madhya Pradesh 

15,940 Crores For Maharashtra 

19,848 Crores For Uttar Pradesh

*  India Government Announced Neighbours Country Funding Budget in Union Budget 2024/25 

* 700 Crores For Nepal 

* 400 Crores For Maldives 

* 370 Crores For Mauritius

* 250 Crores For Myanmar 

* 245 Crores For Srilanka 

* 200 Crores For Afganistan 

* 80 Crores For Bangladesh

* 30 Crores For Seychelles

* The Telengana State Government Has Announced Annual Budget Of State Of Rs 2,91 Lakh Crores.

( 11,468 Crores - Health And Medical Department)

( 2762 Crores For Industries)

( 21,292 Crores For Education)

( 9,564 Crores For Home Department)

 * Odisha Chief Minister Presented The State Budget Of Worth Rs 2.65 Lakh Crores For FY 2024/25.

* 33.919 Crores For Agriculture

* 14,111 Crores For Irrigation 

* 21,200 Crores For Health 

* 35,536 Crores For Education 

* 1000 Crores For Bhubaneswar- Cuttack Metro

* 918 Crores For New City Development

* 6180 Crores For Road Development 

* 952 Crores For Sports Infrastructure

* 17,942 Crores For Women & Child Development 

* 28,844 Crores For Social Development

* 295 Crores - Nutrition Awareness

* 445 Crores For Tourism

* 10,000 Crores For Subhadra Scheme

* 500 Crores For Ayushman Bharat

* 200 Crores For Odia Ashmita

* 2462 Crores For - Mukhyamantri Swasthya Seva Mission 

* 500 Crores For Srimandir Corpus fund

* 3500 Per Month Will Provide Whose Age Above 80 

* Paddy MSP 3100 

NEW SCHEMES TO BE LAUNCHED - 

* Madho Singh Haath Kharcha Yojana - Under This Scheme ST Students Who Passed Out 8th/10th Class Gets 5000 Per Year.

* CM KISAN FOR FARMER'S - 

1935 Crores Sanctioned

MERGED - 

* DoT's NTIPRIT, NICF And WMTDC Merged Into a Single Entity Named National Communications Academy. 

HOST - 

* RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das Address The Inaugural Session Of FE Modern BFSI Summit 2024.

COLLABORATION - 

* Department Of Agriculture And Farmers Welfare Incollboration With NABARD Announced Agri SURE Fund Of 750 Crores Under Nabventures At Mumbai.

LAUNCHED - 

* Bajaj Launched The World's First CNG Bike Freedom 125 At Pune.

* INDIA Has Launched The UPI Service At Paris Historic Department Store Galaries Lafayette.

STATE BUDGETS - 

* Madhya Pradesh State Government HAS Presented The State Budget Of 3.65 Lakh Crores For 2024/25.

* Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Diya Kumari Has Presented The State Budget For 2024/25.

* The Central Government Has Released Rs 1750 Crores For The Development Of 7 Backwards Districts Of Andhra Pradesh.

LOAN - 

* Government Of India And Asian Development Bank (ADB) Has Signed A $ 170 million Loan To Strengthen Pandemic Preparedness.

* Asian Development Bank ( ADB) Approved The USD 240.5 million Loan For Rooftop Solar System In New Delhi.

ECONOMY - 

* India Government Collected 1.74 Lakh Crores GST in June 2024.

* Maharashtra Became The First Indian State To Reach Half A Trillion Dollar Economy.

* BSE Has Reached To 450 Lakhs Crores Market Capitalization For The First Time.

* Gujarat Has Lead With Highest Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) In FY 2023/24 With USD 7.3 Billion.

* The 16th Finance Commission Has Constituted An Advisory Council With 5 Members.

* Dr D K Srivastav

* Mr Neelkanth Mishra

* Dr Poonam Gupta

* Ms Pranjul Bhandari

* Rahul Bajoria

* The Index Of Industrial Production (IIP) Has Rose 5.9% In May 2024. 

* Khadi Products Broken Records With Over 1.5 Lakh Crores Sales In FY 3023/24.

* IMF Raises India's GDP Growth Forecast For FY 2024 7.0%

*  Asian Development Bank Has Unchanged India's GDP Growth Projection At 7.0 For 2025.

* CASHe APP Has Gets ISO 27001 And 27701 Certification For Information Security And Data Privacy.

*  India's Forex Reserves Touches $ 666.85 Till July 12.

* LIC Touched A High Rs 1178.60 On The Bombay Stock Exchange.

* India's FIRST Integrated Agri Export Facility At Jawaharlal Nehru Port.

* According To RBI Report India Share a 48.5% In Global Real Time Payment Put In The World. 

TRADE - 

* Rupee-Kyat Trade Settlement ( Myanmar) Mechanism Has Been Operationalized. 

* Paradip Port Created A Record The Highest Ever Parcel Vessel Of 1,49,496 MT Of Imported Coal Handled At It's Berth.

* India's Exports In April June 2024 Rises By 5.84%.

* Mahanadi Coalfield Limited (MCL) Has Surpassed The 100 million Cubic Meter Overburden Removal (OBR) Milestone 

* India Has Secured A Contract To Operate Mongla Port In Bangaldesh.

*  MV HUAHINE, Carrying 1,99,900 MT Of Manganese Ore From Gabon Of Central Africa, Arrived at Vishakapatanam Port, ( Became The Largest )

* India's Top 6 States With Most Marine Exports List 

* Andhra Pradesh ( 4.27 Lakh Tonnes) 

* Gujarat ( 3.45 Lakh Tonnes) 

* Karnataka ( 2.73 Lakh Tonnes) 

* Kerala ( 1.88 Lakh Tonnes) 

* Maharashtra ( 1.70 Lakh Tonnes) 

* West Bengal ( 1.60 Lakh Tonnes) 

BANKING - 

* 13.89 Billion Transaction Done Through UPI In June 2024.

*  Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Has Touches 80000 In Stock Market.

* Paytm Launched Health Saathi Plan, Where customer Can Easily Connect Doctor Unlimited. ( Plan Starts At 35 Rupees)

* RBI Cancel The License Of Shimsha Sahakara Bank In Karnataka.

* RBI Cancel The Registration Of Prog Cap Linked Star Finserv Due To Rule Violation.

*  ICICI Prudential MF Has Launched India's First Oil And Gas ETF.

*) State Bank Of India Has Launched MSME SAHAJ For Instant Digital Invoice Financing.

* Punjab National Bank Has Introduced The SAFETY RING, For Online Banking Security.

* Indusland Bank Launched The WRESTLE FOR GLORY To Empower Female Wrestler.

*  Vijay Mallya Has Been Barred From Trading In Indian Security For 3 Years By SEBI.

* Karnataka Bank Partners With ICICI Lombard General Insurance To Enhance Customer Benefits. 

RENAME - 

* India Bulls Housing Finance Has Been Renamed As SAMMAN CAPITAL. 

RANKING - 

* India Overtakes Brazil And Indonesia To Become 3rd Largest Domestic Air Market In The World. 

PRODUCTION - 

* India's Coal Production For June 2024 Is Reached To 84.63 Millions Tonnes. 

* Mangaluru International Airport Commenced International Cargo Operations. 

PACT SIGNED - 

* Reserve Bank Of India Has Signed a Pact With Four ASEAN States Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore And Thailand To Expand UPI Service.

(  The Reserve Bank Of India Has Joined The Project NEXUS.) 

( It Is An International Initiative To Enable Instant Cross Border Retail Payments By Interlinking Domestic Fast Payment Systems (FPSs).

* NABARD And Online PSB Loan Limited Has Signed A MoU For Financial Inclusion.

* Export- Import Bank Of India (EXIM) Has Signed Agreement With Guyana Government To Extend INDIA Supported Line Of Credit Of $2.50 million For Installation Of Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant.

* GAIL Gas Has Signed a Bulk Domestic Piped Natural Gas Agreement With The Bankers Institute Of Rural Development Of The National Bank For Agriculture And Rural Development For PNG Supplement In Mangaluru.

* SAIL And IIT Kanpur Signed MoU For Promoting Collaboration In Research And Development And Consultancy Studies In The Field Of Mutual Interest. 

*  Ministry Of Defense And National Stock Exchange Of India ( NSE) Has Signed MoU To Facilitate Capital Market Access To MSMEs.

AWARDS -  

* GRSE Wins Sustainable Governance Champion Award 2024.

* NALCO Port Facilities, Vishakapatanam Has Awarded First Prize In Special Campaign 3.0 For Maintaining Clean And Sustainable Land Uses Practices 

* Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited ( HPCL) Has Honoured With Leadership Excellence Award 2024. 

*  Parijat Industries India Private Limited Has Honoured With CSR Leadership Award 2024.

* NTPC Has Won Three Awards At The Prestigious Economic Times Future Skills Award 2024.

* Best Advanced In Creating An Extended Enterprise Learning Programme - GOLD

* Best Use Of AI/AR/VR in Learning And Up Skilling - GOLD 

* Best Uses Of Games Or Simulations In L & D - Silver 

* MoHUA Awarded Best Performers Under PM SVANidhi And DAY- NULM.

* NHPC Conferred With The ET HR World Future Skill Gold Award 2024 For D & I Learning Initiative.

*  Madhya Pradesh State Has Topped In PM SVANidhi Scheme As Best Performing State. 

* BEL Has Been Awarded First Prize In Excellent Achievement Category At The Government Achievement & Scheme Expo 2024.

*  REC Limited Has Conferred With The Technology Excellence Award For The IT Project Generative AI Implementation In REC.

SKOCH AWARDS - 

* Bihar State Power Transmission Company  Limited Has Won SKOCH GOLD Award In Power Energy Category.

* BEL's Digital Agriculture Project Has Win Elets Technology Excellence Award 2024

*  CA Arpit Jagdish Kabra Has Been Honoured With International Excellence Awards 2024.

* Nagaland Horticulture Department Bagged Promotion Of Best Horticulture Farming And Products Award At The International Agriculture And Horti Expo, Delhi.

PERSON PASSED AWAY - 

* The Head Of Camlin Group, Subash Dandekar Passes Away.

* Former Chairman And Director Of GAIL C R Prasad Passes Away.

DEFENSE CA - 

TESTED - 

* Indian Navy Has Successfully Conducted Certification  Tests For Explosive, Indigenously Developed By M/S Economic Explosive Limited Nagpur.

* Hyderabad Based Redon Systems Has Successfully Tested It's Achuk Canister Launched Loitering Munition in Leh.

* In Last 7 Years The Railway Protection Force Have Been Rescued 84,119 Children Under NANHE FARISTHEY.

PROJECTION - 

*  India Aims To Become Leading Aviation Hub With $ 4 Billion MRO Industry By 2030.

* Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh Has Received A Cheque Of Rs 121.53 Crores For FY 2022/23 From Bharat Dynamic Limited ( BDL) 

* Bharat Electricals Limited (BEL) Has Developed A Technological Upgrade To THD-1955 Radar System.

FIRST IN - 

* The First Mothership San Fernando Has Reached To The Kerala's Vizhinjam International Seaport.

* Bhawana Kanth Became The First Woman Pilot Of The IAF To Fly Su-30 MKI Fighters During The Exercise Pitch Black 2024.

* Captain Supreetha C T Becomes FIRST Female Officer From INDIAN Army To Be Deployed At The World's Highest Battlefield Siachen.

* Colonel Anshu Jamwal, a dogra Rajputani From Jammu Became The First Woman Officer To Head The Defense Regiment Of The Indian Army. 

* India's Lt Cdr Shristi Thakur, An Mountaineer Is The Only Woman Officer Among 13 Countries Participating In Peace Event By International Sport Council.

DEALS - 

*  INDIAN Army Gets 35000 Make In India Kalashnikov AK-203 Rifles.

APPROVAL - 

* The Ministry Of Defense Has Sanctioned Rs 300 Crores Through Its Technology Development Fund (TDF) To Enhanced The Capability Of  Cutting Edge Technology And Promoting Atmanirbharata.

* CISF Has Announced The 10% Quota And Upper Age Limit Relaxation For Ex- Agniveers.

*  INS Brahmaputra Has Caught Fire 

PRODUCTION - 

*  India's Annual Defense Production Hits Record High Of Rs 1.27 Lakh Crores In FY 2023/24.

* Indian Army Inducted First Ever Indigenous Chip Based 4G Base Station At Sahyadri LTE. 

* Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) Has Developed Anti Radiation Decoy System. 

FIRST IN INSTALLED - 

* Indian Army Has Inducted The First Ever Indigenous Chip Based 4G mobile Based Station. ( SIGNALTRON) 

* Gurugram Based R+D Studio Has Designed And Build The World's First Carbon Neutral Modular Outpost Near Razdan Pass ( 14000 Feet) at Jammu And Kashmir For Indian Army. 

*  India's Optiemus Unmanned Systems Has Launched The Indigenised Drones For Agricultural And Mapping Application  

* Ministry Of Defense Notified Fifth Positive Indigenisation list Of 346 Items For Defense Public Sector Undertaking 

* The Indian Navy Warships INS TEG Rescued Indian And Srilankan From Capsized Comoros Flagged Oil Tanker MV PRESTIGE FALCON- Off Oman. 

INAUGURATION - 

* Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal V R Chaudhari Has Inaugurated The New Weapons System School ( WSS) At Air Force Station Begum pet, Hyderabad. 

* Eastern Naval Command Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar Has Inaugurated The Artificial Intelligence Experience Hub At The Maritime Reference Library in Vishakapatanam.

* Goa Shipyard Limited Has Launched The FIRST Indigenous P1135.6 Frigate INS TRIPUT.

SUMMIT - 

*  The INDIAN Air Force And The Indonesian Air Force (TNI AU) Successfully Conducted The 5th Edition Of Air Staff Talk 

* 2nd Joint Working GROUP Meeting On Defense Cooperation Between India And Kyrgyzstan Held In New Delhi.

* The 3rd Army To ARMY Staff Talks (AAST) Between INDIAN Army And UAE Army Held At UAE.

* 10th Indian Navy- And Japan Maritime Force Staff Talk Held At Tokyo, Japan.

* The First INDIAN Coast Guard Annual Operation Sea Training Conference Held in Vishakapatanam.

* 10th Edition Of Joint Defense Committee Meeting Between India And Egypt Held in Delhi.

*  Indian Navy Shiv INS TABAR Reach To The St Petersburg To Celebrate 328th Russian Navy.

* Operation SAHAYATA On 10th Day, To Protect' MV Maersk Frankfurt At West Mangaluru.

*  Commandant Preeti Poswal And Commandant Asha Dahiya Of INDIAN Coast Guard (ICG) Are Participating In The Maritime Boarding Exercise With Radiological And Nuclear Incident Simulation By Nations Office On Drug And Crime In Trinomial we, Srilanka 8-19 July 2024.

APPOINTMENTS - 

* General Upendra Dwivedi Has Taken Charge As the 30th Chief Of Army Staff (COAS).

* Lt General N S Raja Subramani Has Assumed As Vice Chief Of Army Staff.

* Lt General Devendra Sharma Has Assume As 25th General Officer Commanding In Chief Of The Shimla.

* General Majinder Singh Has Assumed As Command Of Sapta Shakti Command.

* Lt General Rajesh Pushkar Has Assumed As The Command Of Kharga Corps.

* Lt General Hitesh Bhalla Has Assume As Command Of  Leh Headquarters Fire And Fury Corps.

* Lt General Ajay Chandpuria Has Assumed As Commandant Of Vajra Corps.

* Surgeon Rear Admiral Ajith Gopinath Has Assumed As Command Medical Officer At Eastern Naval Command.

* Mrs Sunita Dwivedi Has Took over As 24th President Of Army Wives Welfare Association (AWWA).

* Rear Admiral Rupak Barua Has Taken Charge Of Director General Of Naval Armament Inspection.

* Major General Vikash Lakhera Has Been Appointed As The Director General Of Assam Rifle.

* Lt General Abhijit S Pendharkar Assumed As The Director General Of Territorial Army.

*  Captain Shantanu D Bhise Has Assumed As Command Of INS Pallaba.

* Surg Rear Admiral Vivek Hande Assume As The Senior Consultant ( Medicine) In DGAFMS New Delhi.

* Additional Director General AK Harbola TM Assumed As Indian Coast Guard Commander Western Seaboard Mumbai.

LAUNCHED - 

* Indian Navy Recived The 3rd 25T Bollard Pull ( BP) Tug BAJRANG (indigenous). 

MOU SIGNED - 

*  Bangladesh Navy Has Signed a Contract For Made In India 800 Tons Ocean Going Tug With India's Garden Reach Shipbuilding And Engineers. 

* Ministry Of Defense Has Signed MoU With Unmanned Aerial System, electronic Warfare And Electro Optics Domains In Tamilnadu For Testing Facility.

* Society Of Indian Defense Manufactures ( SIDM) Has Signed MoU With GeM India To Bolster Indigenous Defense Manufacturing.

* Indian Coast Guard ( ICG) Has Signed MoU With Punjab National Bank ( PNB) To Extend The Rakshak Plus Scheme For ICG Personnel. 

* Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Has Signed MoU With Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) For Development Of LCA AF MK-2 

* Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) Has Signed a Tripartite With Rosboronexport Russia And MSK Business Solution Private limited For Cooperation In The Licenced Production And Supply Of Indigenised 30 mm & 40 mm Ammunition & 30 mm grenade Ammunition For BEL.

*  iDEX And Armed Forces Medical Services Signed MoU For The Launch Of Medical Innovation And Research Advancement (MIRA).

HOST - 

*  Indian Army Eastern Command Annual Flight Safety Conference Was Held At William Fort, Kolkata.

* 7th Edition Of Indian Navys Apex Meeting On Safety Was Conducted At Kochi.

AWARDS - 

* The International Maritime Organization Has Awarded Indian Navy For Exceptional Bravery At Red Sea By INS Visakhapatnam. 

* CDS General Anil Chauhan Presents The Kargil Honours Award To Veterans And Veer Naris 

WORLD AFFAIRS - 

FIRST IN - 

*  Japan Set To Introduce New Bank Note From 3rd July 2024.

( world's first Use Of Cutting Edge Holography That Makes The Portrait Of Historic Figure in 3D).

* Ethiopia's Premier Abiy Ahmed Mets Sudan's Army Chief General Abdel Fattah- al- Burhan.

( Became The First Foreign Minister To Meet And Travel Sudan).

*  China Has Unveiled The World's First Carbon Fibre High Speed Train.

FESTIVALS - 

* Mongolia Celebrates Naadam Festival.

HURRICANE - 

* A Hurricane BERYL Has Raised In Eastern Mexico And Caribbean. 

SPACE - 

*  China Has Launched A Earth Observation Satellite Named Gaofen-11 5 Satellites 

* ) Ivory Coast Has Joined As 10th African Nation To UN Water Convention.

GEOLOGY FIND - 

* Chinese Geologist Have Discovered Two New Minerals At The World's Largest Rare Earth Mine In Northern China. 

( Named - Oboniobite And Scandio-Fluoro-Eckermannite) 

Discovered In The Bayan Deposit In The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. 

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* The Food And Agriculture Organisation Of The UN Has Forecast For Global Cereal  Production ( 2854 million tonnes)

DEFENSE - 

* Pakistan Has Launched Azm-e-Istehkam, a Multi Domain And Multi Agency Military Operation In The North-western Region. 

PRESIDENCY CHARGE - 

* Hungary Has Taken Over The Rotating Presidency Of The Council Of The European Union ( EU) For 6 Months.

INDIA- RUSSIA MEET 2024 - 

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Visited Russia For 22nd INDIA-Russia Annual Summit.

* India To Open Two New Consulate In Kazan And Yekaterinburg For Traveling Easier To Tourists.

* Russian President Vladmir Putin And Indian  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Have Jointly Signed An MoU On Cooperation And Collaboration On Broadcasting Between India's Prasar Bharati And Russia's ANO TV Novosti ( Russia  Today TV Channel) 

* India Reopens Its Embassy In Libya After 5 Years.

( Appointed Dr Mohhamed Aleem As CdA).

*  India Has Operationalized The New Resident Mission In Riga, Latvia.

* India Assume The Chair Of The ASIAN Disaster Preparedness Centre ( ADPC).

* External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar And Brunei FM Dato Haji Erywan Jointly Launched The Logo, Completed 40 Years Of Diplomatic Relations.

INDIA-AUSTRIA BUSINESS SUMMIT - 

* India- Austria Business Meeting Held At Hofburg Palace In Vienna. 

* Austria Has Extend The Support To India's Non Permanent UNSC Bid For 2028/29.

SCO SUMMIT - 

* 24th Edition 

* Host - Astana, Kazakasthan 

*  SCO Members States Has Signed An Agreement On The Admission Of Belarus To The Organization.

* Afghanistan And Mongolia Hold The Observer Status Of SCO. 

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Admiral Seguchi Yoshio Assumed As The Command Of Japan Coast Guard.

* Germany's Astrid Schomaker Assumed As Executive Secretary in Montreal ( UN BIODIVERSITY). 

*  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Has Appointed Lt. General Jennie Carignan As The First Woman To Lead The Canadian Armed Forces ( CAF). 

* UK Labour Party MP Keir Starmer Has Won The UK Election.

* Elisa de Anda Madrazo Assumed As President Of FATF.

* Ursula Von Der Leyen Has Elected As The President Of The European Commission By The European Parliament With 401 Votes. ( 2nd Term)

* Malta's Roberta Metsola To Head The EU Parliament For 2nd Time.

* Ronald L Rowe Junior Has Appointed AS The Acting Chief Of US Secret Service.

* Mandisa Maya Becomes The First Female Chief Justice Of South Africa. 

MIXED - 

* Turkiye Has Removed From FATF Money Laundering Grey List.

* Saudi Arabia Announced Discovery Of 7 New Oil And Natural Gas Deposits. 

*  Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANDP) Has Decided To Suspend Meta AI Privacy Policy.

* New Zealand Has Rejected India's Application For Certification Of Trademark Equals To GI Tag For Basmati Rice. 

* Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro Charged With Money Laundering.

*  India Leads The Global Maritime Discourse At IMO Council Session In London.

* Bangladesh Became The 5th Members Of Colombo Security Conclave (CSC).

*  The National Commission For Protection Of Child Rights ( NCPCR) Has Declared Mica Mines Of Jharkhand As Child Labour Free.

* Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Has Loses The Votes Of Confidences In The Lower House of Nepal Parliament.

* Honduras Declared Health Emergency Due To Rise In Dengue Cases.

* Argentina Became The First Country In South America To Designate Hamas As a Terrorist Organisation.

*  World Health Organisation (WHO) Launched MeDevis Platform For Medical Device Information.

*  Thomas Matthew Crooks Shots Former US President Donald Trump At The Election Rally. 

* India Announced The Release Of First Tranche Of $ 2.5 million To UN Relief And Work Agency For Palestine Refugees.

* Burkina Faso Has Declared Homosexuality As Crime In Country.

* Switzerland Banned Hijab in Its Country.

* Pakistan Government To Ban Imran Khan Political Party.

* Kenya's Population Protest, Demand Resignation Of William Ruto As President Of Country. 

* The Indian Patent Office Has Rejected American Pharmaceutical Corporation Johnson & Johnson Application For a Patent On The Paediatric formulation Of WHO Recommend TB Drug Bedaquiline .

*  Belarus Introduced A Visa Free Policy For 35 European countries.

* Vaccines Maker Indian Immunological (IIL) Donated 10000 Doses Of Anti Rabies Vaccines To The Economically Backwards Province's In Vietnam.

*  Trump Organisation Has Signed A Deal With Dar Global To Build Trump Tower In Dubai.

* The United States Opened an Embassy In The Pacific Island Nation Of Vanuatu. 

* Bangladesh students Were Protested For Quota Reform Movement.

* An Earthquake Of Magnitude 7.4 Struck At Chile-Argentina Border Region. 

* Singapore Navy Has Rescued Crew Members Of Two oil Tankers That Caught Fire At Pedra Branca.

* Srilanka Celebrates Kathagarama Festival.

*  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Announced One Million Dollar Grant To UNESCO World Heritage Center. 

* Srilanka Has Opposed India's Application To The International Seabed Authority ( ISBA). for The Permit To Explore The Cobalt Rich Ferromanganese Crust In The Afanasy Nikitin Sea Mount ( ANS) In Indian Ocean.

* The Landslide Cause Death Over 150 in Ethiopia.

*  A Plane Was Crashed At Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, Nepal.

* Typhoon Gaemi Hits China's South Eastern Coast.

* California Forest Caught Fires Covers 350,000 Acres. 

*  South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa Has Imposed A Mandatory Curbs On Emission From Large Fossil Fuel Heavy Industries , Climate Action Law.

*  India Sends Humanitarian Assistance To Haiti.

* Venezuela Suspends Diplomatic Ties With Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, The Dominican Republic, Uruguay.

* Morocco Celebrates 25th Anniversary Of Enthronement Of Mohammed VI King Of Morocco In Delhi.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - 

* Researchers From Shenyang Agricultural University (SAU) China Found a Bacteria ( Wolbachia bacteria) Manipulated The Wasp Encarsia Formosa 

PACT SIGNED - 

* Japan And Philippines Have Signed A Defense Pact, Which Allowed The Deployment Of Japanese Forces For Joint Military Exercise To The Island Nation. ( Which Is Captured Brutally By China During World War 2) 

* Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelwnskyy And Polish Prime Minister Donald tusk Signed A Bilateral Security Agreement In Warsaw.

* South Korea And NATO Have Signed An Agreement On Mutual Recognition Process For Military Airworthiness Certification.

( 2024 NATO HOST - Washington DC) 

*  Turkey And Niger Agreed To Boost In Cooperation In Energy, Mining, Intelligence And Defense.

HOST - 

*  The Upcoming COP16 For Environment Will Host By Cali Colombia. 

* External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar To Lead In 24th Edition Of SCO Summit 2024 At Astana, In Khazakasthan. 

* The First Meeting Of The Women Parliamentarian As Part Of P-20 Summit Held At Brazil.

* The International Astronomical Federation (IAF) Host The 6th International Space Forum At Manama, Baharain.

* India Participated In The 86th Session Of The Executive Committee ( CCEXEC) Of Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC)

( G Kamala Vardhana Rao, CEO Of The Food Safety And Standard Authority Of India (FSSAI) Represent India In World Food Organisation At Italy.

* India Participated In 6th BRICS Working Group Meeting On Research And Infrastructure & Mega Science Project At Moscow.

* Washington DC, USA To Host The 75th NATO Summit.

* The 9th INTERPOL Digital Forensic Experts GROUP (DEFG) Meeting Held in Scotland In June 2024.

* The 8th Deputy National Security Adviser (DNSA) Level Meeting Of The Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) Hosted By Mauritius.

* 10th BRICS Parliamentary Summit Held IN Russia. 

* Union Minister Piyush Goyal To Attend At G7 Trade Minister Meeting At Reggio Calabria, Italy.

*  Busan, South Korea Host The Global Conference On Space Research.

* The 16th Session Of The Conference Of The Parties To The UN Convention To Combat Desertification Will Be Held In Saudi Arabia On 2-13 December 2024.

*  The 57th ASEAN Foreign Minister's Meeting Held At Vientiane, Lao PDR

* Thailand To Host The 6th BIMSTEC Summit In September 2024.

* 14th BRICS Trade Minister's Summit Held At Moscow, Russia.

AWARDS - 

* Major Ahlem Douzi, Serving As Military Armament Ammunition Expert At MONUSCO Has Awarded 2024 Trailblazer Award 

IUCN - 

* Albania Became The 87th State Member Of IUCN. 

( IUCN - International Union For Conservation Of Nature) 

( HQ - Gland, Switzerland) 

* Eulophia obtusa, Which Is Found In Dudhwa, Recently IUCN Listed As Critically Endangered.

SPACE - 

* On 27th June Japan Launched Observing Satellite DAICHI-4 ( ALOS-4). 

* SpaceX Launched Turkeys First Domestically Produced Communication Satellite.

( Named TurkSat 6A) 

*  Europe's Ariane 6 Has Been Successfully Launched ( Maiden Flight) From Kourou Launchpad, French Guiana.

SPORTS CA - 

PERSON DIED - 

* Former Indian Midfielder Bhupinder Singh Rawat, Known As Scooter Passes Away.

* Chinese Badminton Player Zhang Zhi jie Passed Away.

*  South African Athlete ( Long Jump) Jacques Freitag Has Passed Away. 

* Former Srilankan Under 19 CAPTAIN Dhammika Niroshana Shot Died At Home.

* French Gymnast Eric Poujade Passed Away At The Age Of 51. 

( Silver Medallist In Sydney Olympics 2000) 

NEW LOGO - 

* Union Minister Of Youth Affairs And Sports Mansukh Mandaviya Has Unveiled The New AFI Logo.

* Indian Veteran Leander Paes And Amritraj Has Been Inducted By Tennis Hall Of Fame. 

* Nagaland Madrigal Singers Have Won Two Gold Medals At World Choir Games Held In New Zealand. 

NAMED AFTER - 

*  6 time Grand Slam Champion  Rajeev Ram Has Street Name After Him in Carmel, USA.

* The Indian Football Team Ranked 124th In The New FIFA Ranking.

* Argentina, France, Spain Are The Top Three Raining in FIFA World Ranking.

* Randhir Singh Has Been Unanimously Elected As The First Indian President Of The Olympic Council Of Asia.

FENCING - 

* Ace Fencer Shreya Gupta Win Her FIRST Medal ( Bronze) At Commonwealth Junior & Cadet Championship 2024 At Christchurch, New Zealand.

* Harshit Kohli Gets A Silver Medal, Chhavi Sharma Won Bronze And Sufian Sohil Has Won Bronze Medal At The Commonwealth Fencing Championship In New Zealand.

* Kiran Pahal Has Clinched a Gold Medal In The Women's 200m Event At The 2024 Summer Athletics Competition In Warsaw, Poland. 

TROPHY UNVEILED - 

* President Droupadi Murmu Unveiled And Flagged Off The Durand Cup, The President's Cup And Shimla Trophy At Rasthrapati Bhawan.

* 

* ) Indian Para Shuttler Have Won 48 Medals Including 14 Gold Medal At Uganda Para Badminton International 2024.

* Monolo Marquez Has Been Appointed As Head Coach Of India's Men's Football Team. 

EURO CUP 2024 - 

*  Spain Became The First Side In European Championship Victory To Win six Games In a Row. 

Argentina Won The COPA AMERICA Title 2024 After Beating Colombo In The Final. ( 14th Title For Argentina) 

* Spain Won The EURO CUP 2024 After Beating England In The Final. 

( Spain Won Their 4th EURO CUP) 

GOLF - 

* Aditi Ashok Finishes At 17th In The Amundi Evian Championship In France. 

SHOOTING - 

* Anish Bhanwala Has Won Gold Medal In 25m Rapid Fire Pistols Event At Pardini Rapid Fire Cup In Germany.

* Vijayveer Sidhu Has Won Silver Medal At 25m Rapid Fire Pistols Event In Suhl.

* Sabeera Harris Wins The Bronze Medal In Women's Trap Event At The ISSF Junior Shotgun World Cup In Porpetto, Italy.

* Bhavtegh Singh Gill Has Won Silver Medal In Men's Junior Skeet In ISSF Junior Shotgun World Cup Porppeto.

ASIAN SQUASH CHAMPIONSHIP - 

* Abhay And Velavan Have Won Men's Double Title At ASIAN Squash Double Championship In Malaysia.

* Abhay Singh And Joshna Chinnapa Have Won Mixed Doubles Title At ASIAN Squash Double Championship In Malaysia.

* Shaurya Bawa Won Bronze Medal At World Squash Junior Championship.

*  Shaurya Bawa Became The First Male Player Reach Semi Finals Of World Junior Squash Championship After 10 Years For India.

ASIAN BILLIARDS CHAMPIONSHIP - 

* Pankaj Advani Clinched Silver At The Asian Billiards In Saudi Arabia. 

* India's Dhruv Sitwala Has Won The Asian Billiard Championship Title At Saudi Arabia.

* Anupama Ramachandran Clinched The Women's Snookers Title In The Asian Championship Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 

PARIS OLYMPIC 2024 - 

* Gautam Adani Announced, Adani Group The Principal Sponsor Of Indian Athlete In Paris Olympic 2024.

*  PV Sindhu Has Been Named As Flag Bearer Of Paris Olympic From Women Contingent.

And Sharath Kamal As Flag Bearer From Men's Athlete 

* Gagan Narang To Replace Mary Kum As Chef-de-mission.

*  India Sent 117 Athletes To The Paris Olympic 2024.

* France Bans Hijab For Its Muslim Athlete In Paris Olympic.

* Two K9 Team Has Been Selected From India For the Security For Paris Olympic 2024.

* Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Launched The Pathway To Paris Brochure Highlighting India's Olympic Journey. 

* Indian Hockey Goalkeeper PR Sreejesh Announced Retirement From International Hockey. ( Retire After Paris Olympic 2024) 

* The Official Mascot For Paris Olympic & Paralympic Is Unveiled Named - PHRYGES.

* Olympic Gold Medallist Abhinav Bindra Has Been Awarded The Olympic Order For Outstanding Contribution To The Olympic Movement.

* Nita Ambani Has Reelected As IOC Member.

*  Former International Player Col Kabilan Sai Ashok Set To Became The Youngest Indian To Officiate Paris Olympic 2024.

* India's First Medal, Manu Bhaker Has Won Bronze Medal In 10m Air Pistol Event At Paris Olympic 2024.

* South Korean Shooting Has Won Gold Medal Since 1988 They Won Consecutive Gold Medal.( 10 Consecutive Olympic gold medal) 

*  Manu Bhaker & Sarabjeet Singh Have Win Mixed Doubles Bronze Medal At 10m Air Pistol Event At Paris Olympic 2024.

( Manu Bhaker Became The First Indian To Win Two Medals At Olympic in Single Edition).

SPAIN GRAND PRIX - ( Wrestling) 

*  Indian Wrestler Vinesh Phogat Has Won Gold Medal In 50 kg Category At Spain Grand Prix In Madrid. 

* HOCKEY - 

* Hockey India Introduced The Digital Player ID Card.

RETIREMENT - 

* Tennis Star Andy Murray Announced Retirement From International Tennis.

* WWE Star John Sena Announced Retirement After 2025 Event. 

* Switzerland Football Player Xherdan Shaqiri Announced Retirement From International Football.

NATIONAL INTER STATE SENIOR ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP 

* Jyothi Yarraji Wins Gold Medal In Women's 100m Hurdle At National Inter State Senior Athletic Championship Panchkula.

INAUGURATION - 

* Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandhu Has Inaugurated The FIFA Standard Artificial Turf Football Ground At Gyalwa Tsangyang Gyasto High Altitude  Stadium In Tawang.

* Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Has Inaugurated The 2nd Phase Of The Government Khelo India Rising Talents Identification ( KIRTI) Initiative In New Delhi.

TABLE TENNIS - 

* Diya Chitale And Yashswini Ghorpade Finishes As Runners Up In Women's Double At WTT Contender, Tunisia.

* Team Sea Shakti Has Won 3 Prizes Innovation, Design And Communication At 11th Monaco Energy Boat Challenge ( MEBC) 

TENNIS - 

* Vaidehi Chaudhary Has Won ITF W35 Taiwan Title.

* Mukund Sasikumar Has Won The M15 Tianjin ( China) Title. 

* Sahaja Yamalapalli Has Won The Women's Single At ITF W15 USA. 

* Tasnim Mir Wins St Denis Reunion Open Single Title 

* Tharun Mannepalli Has Win Men's Single Title At St Denis Reunion Open.

* Balaji And Escobar Finishes As Runners Up In The Braunschweig Challengers Final.

* Govind Nanda Has Finishes As Runner Up At ITF M15 Lakewood . 

* Yuki Bhambri And Albano Olivetti Won The Men's Double Title At ATP 250 GSTAAD.

CRICKET - 

* Indian Cricketer Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli And Ravindra Jadeja Have Announced Retirement From T20I Cricket.

*  Former Indian Cricketer Dinesh Kartik Has Been Appointed As The Batting Coach, Mentor Of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB).

* INDIAN Bowler Sneh Rana Became The 2ND Indian Bowler To Take 10 Wickets In A Test Match Against South Africa Women Team At Chennai.

* Team India Deaf Team Has Won The Bilateral Series Against England Deaf Team.

* Former SOUTH African Pacer Charl Langeveldt Has Been Appointed As The Bowling Coach Of Zimbabwe Cricket Team.

* INDIAN Women Cricketer Jemimah Rodriguez And Shikha Pandey Have B been Signed For Trinbago Knight Riders in CPL 2024.

* Indian Cricketer Jasprit Bumrah Has Won ICC Player Of The Month June 2024.

* INDIAN Women Cricketer Smriti Mandhana Has Won ICC WOMEN'S Player Of The Month For June 2024.

* Former Indian Cricketer And World Cup Winner ( 2007 & 2011/) Gautam Gambhir Has Been Appointed As The Head Coach Of Team Indian Cricket Team.

*  Indian Men's Cricket Team Has Won 150 T20I Matches Recently Against Zimbabwe & 

* Indian Women's Cricket Team Has Completed 100 T20I Wins Recently Against SOUTH AFRICA WOMEN Team At Chennai.

* England Veteran Fast Bowler James Anderson Announced Retirement From Test Cricket. 

( He Played 188 Test Matches, Took 704 Wickets, Became The Third Highest Wicket Takers In Test Cricket After Mutthai Muralitharan With 800 Test Wickets, Shane Warne With 708 Wickets).

* He Played 21 Years For England Cricket Team. 

* Indian Veteran Women's Cricketer Jhulan Goswami Has Appointed As Mentor Of Trinbago Knight Riders Of CPL 2024.

*  India Champions Won The World Championship Of Legends 2024 After Beating Pakistan Champions in The Final.

* For The First Time Indian Women Cricket Team Has Scored 200 Runs In A T20I match Against UAE Team In Asia Cup, Held In Srilanka.

* Jaffna Kings Has Won The 4th LANKA PREMIER LEAGUE TITLE (LPL) 2024. 

* English Cricketer Joe Root Completed 12000 Test Runs After Alastair Cook For England.

* Srilanka Women Team Has Won The Asia Cup 2024 Title (T20i) After Beating India In The Final.

( Host - Srilanka)

* Washington Freedom Has Won The Major League Cricket (MLC) Title 2024.

* India Will Host The 2025 Edition Of Asia Cup ( T20I) And Bangaldesh Will Host The 2027 Odi Asia Cup.

* Afghanistan Spinner Rashid Khan Became The Second Bowler To Picked 600 T20 Wickets AFTER West Indies Bowler Dwayne Bravo 

F1 GRANDPRIX - 

* George Russell Has Won The Austrian Grandprix.

* Lewis Hamilton Has Win The British Grand Prix Title. ( Won a Grand Prix After 945 Long Days) 

* Australian Formula 1 Racer Oscar Piastri Wins First Ever F1 Title At Hungary Grand Prix. 

CHESS - 

* Vishwanathan Anand Wins His 10th Leon Masters Title.

* Singapore To Host FIDE World Championship 2024.

* Fabiano Caruana Has Won The Superbet Romania Chess Classic 2024.

* Former AICF Chief Sanjay Kapoor Has Been Elected As FIDE India Zone President.

* 14 Years Old Indian IM Aarav Dengla Wins The Championnat Du Grand 2024 In Paris. 

* India Wins 41 Medals At 7th Western Asian Youth Chess Championship 2024.

HOST - 

* Riyadh, Saudi Arabia To Host The 2024 ASIAN Billiard Championship.

*  Shillong To Host The INDIAN Oil Sponsor Durand Cup.

* Saudi Arabia To Host FIRST eSport Games in 2025.

* International Olympic Committee (IOC) Elect Salt Lake Utah To Host The 2034 Olympic And Paralympic Winter Games.

U23 WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP - 

* India Finishes Its Campaign With 8 Medals Including 4 Gold, 2 Silver And 2 Bronze At Under 23 Asian Wrestling Championship 2024. 

* Maharastra Hosted The 48th National Arm Wrestling Championship.

( Arunachal Pradesh Has Won 43 Gold, 33 Silver And 26 Gold Total Of 102 Medals)

CANADA OPEN 2024 - ( BADMINTON)

MEN'S SINGLE - Koki Watanabe (Japan) 

WOMEN'S SINGLE - Busanan OngbamrungPhan 

MEN'S DOUBLE - Kim Astrup & Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 

WOMEN'S DOUBLE- Rin Iwanaga & Kie Nakanishi 

MIXED DOUBLES - Jespher Toft & Amalie Magelund 

SWEDISH OPEN 2024 ( TENNIS) 

MEN'S SINGLE - Nuno Borges Beat Rafael Nadal

MEN'S DOUBLE - Orlando Luz & Rafael Matos 

WOMEN'S SINGLE - Martina Trevisan

WOMEN'S DOUBLE - Peangtarn Plipuech & Tsao Chia 

WIMBLEDON 2024 - 

MEN'S SINGLE - Carlos Alcaraz Beat Novak Djokovic

WOMEN'S SINGLE - Barbora Krejcikova Beat Jasmine Paolini 

MEN'S DOUBLE -  H Heliovaara & H Patten Beat M Purcell And J Thompson 

WOMEN'S DOUBLE - T Townsend & K Siniakova 

MIXED DOUBLES - J Zielinski & S Hsieh 

AIFF AWARDS 2023/24 - 

* BEST ASSISTANT REFEREE OF THE YEAR - Ujjal Halder 

* AIFF REFEREE OF THE YEAR - Venketesh Ramchandran 

* WOMEN'S COACH OF THE YEAR - Sukla Dutta 

* MEN'S COACH OF THE YEAR - Khalid Jamil 

* PROMISING PLAYER OF THE YEAR ( WOMEN'S) - Neha 

* PROMISING PLAYER OF THE YEAR ( MEN's) - David Lalhl Ansanga 

* BEST PLAYER ( WOMEN'S) - Indumathi Kathiresan 

* BEST PLAYER ( MEN'S) - Lallianzuala Chhangte 

FIRST IN - 

* 9 Years Old Atiqa Mir Became The Fastest Indian Girl In 4 Wheels Motorsports Had Been Shortlisted For Iron Dames New Young Talent Initiative.

AWARDS = 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - 

* Professor Anand T N C Department Of Mechanical Engineer, IIT Palakkad Has  Received The Norman Chigier Award 2023 For The Outstanding Accomplishment As A Reviewer For Atomization And Sprays.

* Thupten Lhamu Has Been Crowned As Miss Universe Arunachal Pradesh 2024.

* Indian Actor Shahrukh Khan To Be Honoured With Locarno Film Festival Career Award.

* Gabriella Arrigo And Michael Gold Have Won IAF Excellence In International Cooperation Award 2024. ( International Astronomic federation) 

* Dr. Vijay Bhatkar To Recived The Prestigious PUNYABHUSHAN Purashkar. 

* Google CEO Sundar Pichai Has Honoured With Prestigious Doctor Of Science ( Honoris Cause) From IIT KHARAGPUR.

* India Won 2 Gold, 3 Silver Medals At The 54th International Physics Olympiad 2024 At Isfahan, Iran.

* India Won 1 Gold, 2 Silver And 1 Bronze Medal At 56th International Chemistry Olympiad 2024 At Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

*  Union Minister Dr JITENDRA Singh Has Honoured With Prestigious DMDSC Lifetime Achievement Award. 

( DMDSC - Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Center) Chennai, Tamilnadu. 

NATIONAL - 

*  Sopna Kallingal, An Agriculrist From Kallingal Plantation In Thrissur Has Honoured With Prestigious SPICE AWARD 2024.

* Tripura Urban Livelihood Mission (TULM) Society Has Received SPARK Award.

* Kamlathal Has Honoured With Prestigious Kamalamandir Foundation Seva Ratna Award.

* Maharashtra State Has Won The Best Agriculture State Award 2024.

* Dr. Bhagyashree Patil Has Honoured With Vasantrao Naik Award By Maharashtra State Government. 

* The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) Has Honoured With Global Water Tech Award 2024.

* Central Coalfield Limited (CCL) Has Bagged Two Prizes In Mine Safety Award 2024.

*  Hindustan Cooper Limited (HCL) Has Won Third Prize In Mine Safety Award 2024.

*  Mahesh Kale Has Been Awarded With Prestigious BALGANDHARVA GUN GAURAV Purashkar At Pune, Maharastra.

* The Indian Institute  Of Spices Research ( IISR) Has Recived The Best Technology Award. 

* RAJBHASA GAURAV SAMMAN For The Year 2023/24 Awarded To The PSUs in Vishakapatanam By Town Official Language Implementation Committee (TOLIC).

* Wahengbam Shaya Has Received Prestigious Sant Kabir Handloom Award ( Kamala Devi Chhatopadhya Award) 2023.

* Central Water Commission (CWC) Wins GEEF GLOBAL Water Tech Award Under The Category Of Water Department Of The Year At Global Water Tech Summit 2024.

6TH UK INDIA AWARDS 2024 - 

* SPECIAL RECOGNIZATION Award - Abhinav Bindra 

* SPECIAL RECOGNIZATION Award - Deepa Mallik 

* GLOBAL INDIAN ICON AWARD - PADMAN OF INDIA ( Arunachalam Muruganantham)

* RESEARCH & INNOVATION AWARD - Serum Institute Of INDIA & Oxford University

* LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION To UK-India Relation - Lord Anthony Bamford 

* LEGAL PRACTICE OF THE YEAR - 

LITERATURE - 

* P Geeta Has Been Awarded With Inaugural  K Saraswati Amma Award 2024.

Her Notable Works - AAN THACHUKAL ( Male Creation)

( Instituted BY WINGS - Women's Integration And Growth Through Sports) 

* Dr C Narayana Reddy National Literary Award Has Been Awarded To Eminent Tamil Author Shivashankari By The Sushila Narayana Reddy Trust.

* The Telengana Government Has Nominated Eminent Writer And Poet JUKANTI JAGANNATHAM For The Prestigious Sri DASARATHI KRISHNAMACHARYA Award For 2024. 

* Andhra Pradesh State Wins The GULBENKIAN Prize For Natural Farming Model.

JOURNALISM -

* The Hindu Editorial Cartoonist Keshav To Received The Bartons Lifetime Achievement Award By Indian Institute Of Cartoonist.

* Senior Journalist & Director Of The Hindu Group Publishing Private Limited N. Ram, Eminent Economist And Member Secretary Of Justice Rajinder Sachar Committee Abusaleh Shariff Have Been Honoured With The Quaide Milleth Award For Political Public Life 

FILM - 

* Actress Kate Winslet Has Received The Lifetime Achievement Award At The Munich Film Festival.

* Chris Evans Set To Receive The Spirit Of service Award.

* Barbie Filmmaker Greta Gerwig Set To Receive 2024 Pioneer Of The Year Award By The Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation ( WRMPPF).

*  Oscar Winner Alfonso Cuaron Will Receive The Lifetime Achievement Award At 77th Locarno Film Festival.

* Indian Sand Artist Sudarshan Pattnaik Has Win Golden Sand Master  Medal At International Sand Sculpture Championship At St. Petersburg, Russia.

* Nobel Prize Winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum Conferred With Gandhi Mandela Award.

WOLF AWARDS 2024 - 

AGRICULTURE - 

* Elliot Meyerowitz 

( For Crop Improvement) 

* Joanne Chory

( For The Discovery On Plant Developmental BIOLOGY Of  Relevance To Crop Improvement)

* Venkatesan Sundaresan

( For Crop Improvement) 

PHYSICS- 

* Martin Rees

( For The Fundamental Contribution To High Energy Astrophysics, Galaxies And Structure Formation And Cosmology) 

MUSIC- 

* Gyorgy Kurtag 

( Cultural Heritage ) 

MATHEMATICS - 

* Adi Shamir 

( For His Fundamental Contribution To Mathematical Cryptography) 

* Noga Alon 

( For Contribution Towards Theoretical Computer Science) 

MEDICINE- 

* Jose Alain Sahel

* Botond Roska 

( For Sight Saving And Vision Restoration To The Blind People Using Optogenetics )

INTERNATIONAL - 

* Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson Of HCL Tech Has Been Honoured With Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur ( Knight Of The Legion Honour) The Highest Civilian Award Of France.

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Honoured With Russian Highest Civilian Award - Order Of Saint Andrew The Apostle By President Of Russia Vladimir Putin.

* Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, Indian Ambassador To Japan Has Recived Prestigious The Grand Cordon Of The Order Of The Rising Sun From Japan Government. 

*  Nagaland Has Recive The Best State In Horticulture 2024 Award At The Agriculture Leadership Conclave At New Delhi. 

* Indian Victim ology Expert K Chockalingam Has Been Elected For The Hans Von Hentig Award. By World Society Of Victimology. 

* Prince Harry Has Been Awarded With US Pat Tillman Award. 

* India Won 4 Gold, 1 Silver And 1 Honorary Mention And Ranked Fourth Among 108 Countries At The International Mathematical Olympiad 2024. 

( USA Ranked One) 

68TH FILMFARE AWARDS SOUTH 2024 - 

TELUGU - 

* BEST ACTOR ( Critics) - Dulquer Salman ( For Sita Ramam)

* BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE ( Female) - Mrunal Thakur ( For Sita Ramam) 

* BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE ( MALE) - Ram Charan & Jr N TR ( RRR) 

* BEST FILM ( Critics) - Sita Ramam

* BEST ACTRESS ( Critics) - Sai Pallavi ( For Virata Parvam) 

* BEST CHOREOGRAPHY - RRR ( By Prem Rakshit) NAATU NAATU 

* BEST SUPPORTING ROLE ( FEMALE) - Nandita Das ( Virata Parvam)

* BEST PLAYBACK SINGER ( Female) - Chinmayee Sripada Oh Prema ( Sita Ramam)

* BEST SUPPORTING ROLE ( MALE ) - Rana Duggubatti ( For Bheemla Naik) 

* BEST LYRICS - Sirivennela Sitaram Shastry ( Sita Ramam)

* BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE ( MALE) - Rana Duggubati ( For Bheemla Naik) 

* BEST MUSIC ALBUM - M M Keeravani ( RRR)

* BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN - RRR ( Sabu Cyril) 

* BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - RRR ( K K Senthil Kumar) 

* BEST PLAYBACK SINGER ( MALE) - Kaala Bhairava ( For RRR) 

* BEST DIRECTOR - SS Rajamouli ( RRR) 

TAMIL - 

* BEST ACTOR ( Critics) - Dhanush ( Thiruchitrambalam)

* BEST ACTOR ( Critics) - R Madhavan ( Rocketry- The Nambi Effect)

* BEST ACTRESS (Critics) - Nithya Menen ( For Thiruchitrambalam) 

* BEST MUSIC ALBUM - A R Rahman ( For Ponniyin Selvan Part 1)

* BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Pinning in Selvan 1 ( Ravi Varman) 

* BEST SUPPORTING ROLE ( MALE) - Kaali Venkat ( For Gargi) 

* BEST ACTOR SUPPORTING ROLE ( FEMALE) - Urvashi ( Veetla Vishesham) 

* BEST DEBUT ( Male) - Pradeep Ranganathan ( For Love Today)

* BEST LEAD ACTRESS ( Female) - Sai Pallavi ( For Gargi) 

* BEST FILM ( Critics) - Kadaisi Vivasayi 

* BEST DEBUT ACTOR ( Female) - Aditi Shankar ( For Viruman)

* BEST ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE ( MALE) - Kamal Hassan ( Vikram)

* BEST FEMALE PLAY BACK SINGER - Antara Nandy ( For Alaikadal) 

* BEST PLAYBACK SINGER ( MALE) - Santosh Narayanan  ( For Thenmozhi Thiruchitrabalam)

* BEST LYRICS - Thamrai ( Marakkuma Nenjam) 

* BEST DIRECTOR - Mani Ratnam ( Ponniyin Selvan/

* BEST FILM - Ponniyin Selvan 1 

MALAYALAM - 

* BEST ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE ( MALE) - Kunchacko Boban ( For Nna Than Case Kodu)

* BEST ACTOR IN LEAD ROLE ( Female) - Darshana Rajendran ( For Jay Jay Jay Jay Hey) 

* BEST DIRECTOR - Ratheesh Balakrishnan Poduval ( For Nna Than Case Kodu) 

* BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE ( FEMALE) - Parvathy Thiruvothu ( Puzhu)

* BEST MUSIC ALBUMS - Kailas Menon ( Vaashi) 

* BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORTING ROLE ( MALE) - Indrans ( Udal) 

* BEST LYRICS - Arun Alat ( Darshana) 

* BEST FILM - Ariyippu 

* BEST ACTOR ( CRITICS) MALE - Alencier Ley Lopez ( For Appan)

* BEST PLAYBACK SINGER ( MALE) - Unni Menon ( Bheesma Parbam) 

* BEST ACTRESS ( Critics) - Revathi ( Bhootkalam) 

* BEST FILM - Nna Than Case Koidu) 

* BEST SINGER ( FEMALE) - Mridula 

KANNADA - 

* BEST ACTOR IN LEAD ROLE ( MALE) - Rishab Shetty ( Kantra)

* BEST ACTOR IN LEADING ROLE ( FEMALE) - Chaithra J Achar ( For Taledanda) 

* BEST ACTRESS ( CRITICS) - Sapthami Gouda ( Kantra) 

* BEST FILM ( CRITICS) - Dharani Mandala 

* BEST PLAYBACK SINGER ( MALE) - Sai Vignesh ( Kantara) 

* BEST ACTOR SUPPORTING ROLE ( MALE) - Achyuta Kumar ( Kantara) 

* BEST MUSIC ALBUM - B Ajaneesh Loknath ( Kantara) 

* BEST ACTOR ( CRITICS) - Naveen Shankar ( For Dharani Mandala)

* BEST ACTOR IN SUPPORT ROLE ( Female/ -Mangala N ( Taledanda) 

*  BEST LYRICS ( MALE) - V Nagendra Prasad 

* BEST FILM - Kantara 

* BEST DIRECTOR ( - Kiranraj K ( Charlie 777) 

* BEST Singer ( Female) - Sunidhi Chauhan ( 

* India Wins GOLD Medal At The 35th International Biology Olympiad Held In Asthana, Kazakasthan. 

* Vedant Sakte ( Mumbai) - GOLD

* Ishan Pednekar ( Ratnagiri), Shrijit Sivakumar ( Chennai), Yashashwi Kumar (UP) - Silver 

* Indian Actor Shahrukh Khan Has Been Honoured With a Customized Coin Bearing His Name By The Grevin Wax Museum, Paris.

*  Madhya Pradesh Set A Guinness World Record By Planting 12 Lakh Sapling In 24 Hours.

* Madhu Khanna's Tantra On Edge Has Won Oxford Bookstore Art Book Prize 2024.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - 

DEVELOPED - 

* Researchers At The Institute For Stem Cell Science And Regenerative Medicine (inStem) In Bengaluru Has Developed An Anti-Insecticide Fabric That Effectively Neutralise Organophosphate.

*  Researchers Of Government College Of Women Thiruvananthapuram Have Developed A Method To Produce Activated Carbon, Suitable For Super capacitor Fabrication, From Coconut husks.

* The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) Ludhiana Has Developed Bio control Agent For Paddy Farmers. 

( Named - Trichoderma Asperellum)

* Indian Scientists Of IIA Have Developed An Open Source Tool To Generate An Infrared Star Catalogue For The Upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) 

*  Intel Has Developed A Chatbot In Collaboration With International Olympic Committee (IOC) Titled Athlete GPT.

* Scientists Have Found a Way To Transform The Body's Special Immune Cells Called The B Cells Into Tiny Machines That Can Produce Special Antibody To Destroy Cancer Cell, Or HIV.

*  The Institute Of Advanced Study In Science And Technology ( IASST) Has Developed A New Computational Model That Can Detect Cervical cancer.

* Researchers From IIT Guwahati Has Developed A Portable Cost Effective Microfludic System Designed To Replicate Soil Like Condition.

* Scientists From CSIR Institute Of Genomics And Integrative Biology New Delhi Have Developed An Enhanced Genome - Editing System 

( That Can Modify DNA More Precisely ) 

AWARDS - 

* Kavya P And Aarya From IIT Pallakad Have Been Awarded With The Best Poster Award At The International Conference On Fundamental And Advanced Research In Chemistry (FARC) 2024.

*  Professor Sujit Ghosh (IISER Pune)  Has Been Selected For The 2024 D N Pathak Memorial Award For Excellence In The Field Of Separation Science And Technology. 

ACHIEVED - 

* Scientists From ARYABHATTA Research Institute Of Observational Sciences ( ARIES) Uttarakhand Have Traced The Effect Of Plasma Composition Of Astrophysical Jets From Celestial Objects. 

LAUNCHED - 

*  Open AI Launched The GPT-40 Mini.

* NITI Ayog Has Unveiled Gearshift Challenge To Accelerate Zero Emission Truck Adoption In India. 

* The Center Of Excellence On Classical And Quantum Communication For 6G At IITM Research Park, Chennai. 

*  Hyderabad Based Startup Hylenr Launched Tabletop Nuclear Reactor, The World's First Cold fusion Technology To Generate Clean Energy.

* Maharashtra To Install First Intelligent Traffic Management System On Mumbai Pune High Way.

FIRST IN - 

* Oil INDIA Limited Has Successfully Inducted Cyclic Steam Stimulation Technology ( That Can Extract Heavy Crude From Jodhpur Sandstone).

INAUGURATION - 

* Chief Justice Of India DY Chandrachud Has Laid Foundation Stone Of Court Complexes At Shashtri Park. 

*  Indo-French Node Liver And Metabolic Disease Network ( InFLiMeN) By Dr Jitendra Singh At The Institute Of Liver And Biliary Sciences ( ILBS) 

* ) Union Home Minister Amit Shah Attend In The Sahkar Se Sammruddhi Programme On The Occasion Of 102nd International Cooperation Day At Gandhinagar.

* Minister For Petroleum And Natural Resources Hardeep Singh Puri Has Inaugurated The URJAVAARTA 2024 At Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi.

* Union Cultural Minister Gajendra Singh Sekhawat Has Inaugurated The Photographic Exhibition On Thailand- India Interwoven Legacies. Stream Of Faith In Buddhism.

*  Brazilian Judge Antonio Herman Has Came To New Delhi At Inauguration Of Newly Built Multi Facilitation Center.

* Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan Has Inaugurated The 96th ICAR Foundation And Technology Day.

* THE ICAR ( Indian Council Of Agricultural Research) Launched The ONE SCIENTIST- ONE PRODUCT Programme In The Field Of Agriculture And Animals Husbandry.

*  Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Has Attend At The 15th Foundation Of Transitional Health Science And Technology Institute ( THSTI). ( Asia's First) 

* Union Home Minister Amit Shah Launched The First National Toll-free Helpline For Nacrotis Related MANAS Number.

*  The Principal Scientific Advisor To The Government Of India Professor Ajay Kumar Sood Has Launched The E-mobility Research And Development Road Map For India Report In New Delhi 

* CAG Of India Girish Chandra Murmu Has Inaugurated The International Center For Audit Of Local Governance ( iCAL) Rajkot, Gujarat.

* Union Education Minister Has Launched The Three Initiative - 

a) ASMITA - Producing 22000 Books in 22 Indian Languages Over 5 Years.

b) BAHUBHASHA SHABDKOSH - Multilingual Dictionary Repository

c) REAL TIME TRANSLATION ARCHITECTURE - Enhancing Real Time Translation With Cutting Edge Technology).

*  Health Secretary Apurva Chandra Inaugurated The New Facilities At Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute Of Medical Science & Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital In New Delhi.

* NDFC and Netflix Jointly Launch The Voice Box- An Up skilling Programme For Voice Over Artist In INDIA.

* Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Has Released The Future Is Now Mobile Congress 2024.

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The 46th Edition Of UNESCO World Heritage Committee Meeting At Bharat Mandapam, Delhi.

* Indian Oil Corporation Limited Has Launched STORM-X, High Octane Racing Fuel.

* Department Of Posts Released Beta Version Of DIGIPIN for Public Comments And Experts Opinion.

* Union Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Sekhawat Has Unveiled a Commemorative Stamp To Honour Veteran Singer Mukesh On His 100th Birth Anniversary.

* Union Minister Manohar Lal Inaugurated The National Feeder Monitoring System (NFMS) Control Center At REC Limited 55th Anniversary.

* On The Occasion Of Kargil Vijay Diwas Prime Minister Narendra Modi Virtually Inaugurated The Shinkula Tunnel Project (15800 Feet World's Highest Tunnel) At Ladakh.

* Department Of Atomic Energy (DAE) Inaugurated The One DAE ONE Subscription.

* First India's Sunken Museum At Humayun Tomb Complex Has Inaugurated in New Delhi.

* Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav Has Launched Ideas 4 LIFE Initiative At IIT Delhi. 

STATES - 

* Maharashtra Postal Circle Unveiled a Special Cancellation Stamp In Honour Of India's Victory In ICC T20I World Cup 2024. 

*  A 500 MW Solar Park Has Been Setting Up In Madhugiri At Tumakuru District In Karnataka. 

* Ratan Tata Opens India's Largest 24 Hours Animal Hospital In Mumbai. 

* Air India Inaugurated a New Aviation Academy At Kidzania Amusement Park, Noida.

* President Droupadi Murmu Has Inaugurated The Divine Retreat Center And Launched The National Campaign Lifestyle For Sustainability Of Brahma Kumaris In Bhubaneswar.

* Prime Minister Narendra Laid Foundation AND Inaugurated 29,400 Crores Projects In Maharastra.

* Dedicated Nation To Two New Platform At Lokmanya Tilak Terminus 

* Laying Foundation Stone For The Gati Shakti Multi Modal Cargo Terminal At Turbhe.

* Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurated The Indian News Paper Society (NPS) Tower In Mumbai.

* Union Home Minister Amit Shah Inaugurated Prime Minister College Of Excellence in 55 Districts Of Madhya Pradesh. ( By Investing 458 Crores) 

* Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu Launching The Design For World's First Med Tech University At Vizag, Andhra Pradesh.

* Union Minister For Coal And Mines G Kishan Reddy Has Inaugurated The National Landslide Forecasting Center At Kolkata.

* Delhi High Court Gets Its First Pilot Hybrid Court Room With Speech To Text Facility. 

*  Uttarakhand State Forest Department Opens Its First Ever State Of The Art Bird Gallery. 

* The Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru Has Unveiled Its Official Anthem ( Composed By Grammy Award Winner Ricky Kej). 

* Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav Has Launched India's 500th Community Radio Station- Apna Radio 90.0 FM At IIMC Aizwal.

* Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fandavis Inaugurated The Foundation Stone Of Surjagad Steel Project In Gadchiorli ( Investment 10,000 Crores)

INTERNATIONAL - 

* High Commissioner Of India Of Srilanka Santosh Jha Has Inaugurated The Premium Petrol With 100 octane, XP100 In Colombo.

* India's External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar And Mauritius Prime Minister Kumar Jugnauth Jointly Inaugurated The First Overseas JAN AUSHADI Kendra in Mauritius.

* Laos Unveiled The World's First Stamp Depicting Lord Ram 

* External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar Has Unveiled The Bust of Mahatma Gandhi At Tokyo.

INDEX - 

* NITI AYOG Released The SDG INDIA Index. ( SDG - Sustainable Development Goal) 

BOOKS - 

* UGC And Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti Launched ASMITA To Create 22000 Books In Indian Languages. 

* Operation CHAKRA-II Organized By CBI For Cyber Crime.

MOU SIGNED - 

INTERNATIONAL - 

* Srilanka's Cabinet Has Approved The Construction Of 934 Rain Water Harvesting Tanks In Jaffana District By Government Of India.

* The Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya (GSV) Has Signed MoU With Airbus 

* India AND UAE Strengthen Defense Ties At The 12th JDCC Meeting In Abu Dhabi. 

( JDCC - Joint Defense Cooperation Committee)

* Mutual Recognition Agreement ( MRA) Between India And Taiwan Held For Organic Products. 

* Russian President Vladmir Putin And Indian  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Have Jointly Signed An MoU On Cooperation And Collaboration On Broadcasting Between India's Prasar Bharati And Russia's ANO TV Novosti ( Russia  Today TV Channel) 

* India And Bhutan Has Agreed To Work Together In The Areas Of Climate Change, Air Quality, Forests And Wildlife Management And Capacity Building In The Field Of Environment And Climate Change.

* Gujarat State Government Has Signed a Partnerships Agreement With Intel For AI Readiness.

* India Signing MoU For The Annual Grant To Implement Projects In The Republic Of The Marshall Islands. 

*  Mauritius Prime Minister M Jugnauth And MEA Dr S Jaishankar Jointly Inaugurated 12 High Impact Community Development Projects 

* INDIA And Malaysia Have Decided To Increase Bilateral Cooperation In The Field Of Edible Oil, Cultivation Of Oil Palm, Production Of Trade of Palm oil.

* Airbus, Tata Signed a Contract To Establish H125 Choppers Final Assembly in India.

* India And USA Signed A Cultural Property Agreement (CPA) For The FIRST Time At 46th UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting Held At Delhi.

NATIONAL - 

*  Northern Coal Field Limited (NCL) Has Signed MoU With UPRVUNL For 250 MW Solar Power Capacity.

* Ministry Of Rural Development, Government Of Indi and Ministry Of MSME Have Join Hands On Formalising And Strengthening Self Help Groups (SHG).

*  Bharat Electricals Limited ( BEL) Has Signed a Memorandum Of Agreement  (MoA) With MECON Limited To Provide Civil, MEP Building Infrastructure And Architectural Consultancy In India And Abroad. 

*  Indian Registers Of Shipping (IRS) Has Signed MoU With IIT Bombay To Advancing The Maritime Safety Through The Development Of a Ship Trajectory Prediction Tool 

* Department For Promotion Of Industry And International Trade, Ministry Of Commerce And Industry ( DPIIT GoI) Has Signed MoU With NCAER For Development Of Framework & Assessment Of Logistics Cost Of India.

* Women Entrepreneurship platform (WEP) And TransUnion CIBIl Partner To Launch SEHER Programme.

* The CSIR AND M S A Research Foundation (MSARF) Signed MoU To Work Together.

* Garden Rich Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE) Has Signed Rs 840 Crores Deals With The NCPOR For Ocean Research Vessel.

* The Bureau Of Indian Standards ( BIS) And IISc Bengaluru Has Signed MoU For The Establishment Of The BIS Standardization Chair Professor At The Latter.

*   IIT Bombay Has Signed MoU With The Centre For Railway Information System (CRIS) TO Solve Generative AI. 

* Oil India Limited And Numaligarh Refinery Limited Signed MoU To Establish Railway Connectivity For Crude Oil Transport 

* BIS Signed MoU With Govind Ballabh Panth University Of Agriculture And Technology To Develop The First Kind Of Standardized Agriculture Demonstration Farm in India.

*  National e-Governance Division Has Partnered With IIM Bangalore For Digital Government Senior Leaders. 

STATES - 

* Department Of School Education And Literacy, Ministry Of Education Government Of India And The State Of Odisha Has Signed MoU To Set Up PMShri Schools in Odisha.

* National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Limited ( NICDCL), Logistics Data Service Limited ( NLDS) And Gujarat Infrastructure Development Board (GIDB) Signed MoU To Enhance Logistics In Gujarat.

* National Sanskrit University, Tirupati And Centre For Development Of Advanced Computing Government Of India, Bengaluru Has Signed MoU To Integrate Supercomputing Capabilities With Traditional Wisdom.

* Government Approved The Request Of a Transgender IRS Officer To Remove His Dead name ( Name Given At Birth) 

FIRST FEMALE OF INDIA - 

* 9 Years Old Atiqa Mir Became The Fastest Indian Girl In 4 Wheels Motorsports Had Been Shortlisted For Iron Dames New Young Talent Initiative.

* Madhuparna Thakur Has Became The Youngest MLA In The Electoral History Of West Bengal. 

* Bhawana Kanth Became The First Woman Pilot Of The IAF To Fly Su-30 MKI Fighters During The Exercise Pitch Black 2024.

 *Captain Supreetha C T Becomes FIRST Female Officer From INDIAN Army To Be Deployed At The World's Highest Battlefield Siachen.

* Colonel Anshu Jamwal, a dogra Rajputani From Jammu Became The First Woman Officer To Head The Defense Regiment Of The Indian Army. 

* Jiya Rai, 16 Years Old From Mumbai With Autism Spectrum Disorder Become The Youngest And Fastest Para Swimmer To Cross The English Channel.

FIRST INDIAN TO - 

* South Indian Actor Ram Charan Set To Awarded The Ambassador Of The Indian Art And Culture At The INDIAN Film Festival Of Melbourne.

FIRST TRANSGENDER - 

* Manvi Madhu Kashyap Becomes The FIRST Transgender Has Appointed As The Sub Inspector Of Police in Bihar.

FIRST IN HEALTH - 

*  Gurugram Hospital Gets The Patent For Innovative Brachytherapy Device For Advanced Stage Cervical Cancer.

FIRST IIN STATE - 

* National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) Announced The Establishment Of Asia's First Association Of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Student Chapter At School Of Management Studies Gandhinagar.

*  East India's First Disabled University Opens In Ranchi, Jharkhand. 

FIRST FEMALE IN WORLD - 

* Kenza Layli Has Officially Crowned As The World's First Miss AI.

* Justice Aalia Neelum Has Became The First Woman Chief Justice Of Lahore High Court in Pakistan.

* Mandisa Maya Becomes The First Female Chief Justice Of South Africa. 

* Rachel Reeves Has Been Appointed As UK's First Female Chancellor. 

*  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Has Appointed Lt. General Jennie Carignan As The First Woman To Lead The Canadian Armed Forces ( CAF). 

SCHEMES LAUNCHED - 

NATIONWIDE - 

 NITI Ayog Launched SAMPOORANATA Abhiyan, a 3 Months Campaign.

6 Keys Identified KPIs Across Aspirational Districts.

( Launched In 500 Aspirational Blocks And 112 Aspirational Districts Across India) 

* On The Occasion Of World Heritage Committee, India To Host The Occasion.

A Initiative PARI set To Unveiled During This Summit.

( PARI - Public Art Of India)

* More Than 150 Visual Artists Invited From All Over Country. 

* Aims At Stimulating Dialogue, Reflection, And Inspiration, Contributing To The Dynamic Cultural Fabric Of The Nation. 

* THE ICAR ( Indian Council Of Agricultural Research) Launched The ONE SCIENTIST- ONE PRODUCT Programme In The Field Of Agriculture And Animals Husbandry. ( On The Occasion Of 96th Foundation Day Of ICAR) 

* 1) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Has Announced The New Scheme - 

PRADHAN MANTRI JANJATIYA UNNAT GRAM ABHIYAN ( PMJUGA) 

- Will Launch For Improving The Socio-economic Condition Of Tribal Communities. This Will Cover 63,000 Villages Benefitting 5 Crores Tribal People. 

* 3 New Schemes Launched For Employment- Linked Incentives 

* FIRST TIMERS - 

A Direct Benefit Transfer ( DBT) Of One Month's Salary Upto Rs 15000 Will Be Provided In 3 Instalments 

* JOB CREATION IN MANUFACTRING 

Direct Incentives To Both Employee And Employer As Per EPFO Contribution In First 4 Years Of Employment 

* SUPPORT TO EMPLOYERS REIMBURSEMENT - 

Upto Rs 3000 Per Month For 2 Years Towards EPFO contributions fOR Each Additional Employee. 

* Government Launched Model Skill Loan Scheme To Provide Education And Upskilling Opportunities to 25000 Youngsters.

* 57 Destination Have Identified By Tourism Ministry Under Swadesh Darshan 2.0

*  Government Has Notified The Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN ( JAIV- INDHAN VATAVARAN ANUKOOL FASAL AWASESH NIVARAN) Yojana.

( To providing Financial Support For Setting Up 2nd Generation Bioethanol (2G) Project's In Country.

STATES - 

* Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Initiates Statewide Distribution Of NTR Bharosa Social Pension.

( Each Beneficiary Gets 7000 Under This Scheme).

* The Uttar Pradesh State Government Has Launched The 2nd Phase Of The DASTAK Campaign To Combat Infections Disease. ( which is Actually Launched in 2017) 

*  Tamilnadu CM MK Stalin Launched TN-RISE (an Initiative by The State Government To Promote Women Led Startup)

*  Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh Launched A Special Campaign For Redressal Of Family Pension Grievance's To Empower Widows, Unmarried And Divorced Daughter.

*  Rakshya Rajya Mantri Sanjay Seth Launched GRSE Accelerated Innovation Nurturing Scheme (GAINS 2024) In Kolkata. 

* Which Seeks Solution To The Problems Related The Shipyards And Promoted Technology Development Using Startup Created And Nurtured By Country.

*  Haryana Cabinet Has Approved IT Saksham Yuva Scheme In State, Provide 5000 Jobs In First Phase.

* Andhra Pradesh Government Announced Free Bus Travel For Women From 15th August.

*  Maharastra State Government Has Launched LADLA BHAI YOJANA, 

( Under This Scheme Rs 6000 Will Give To 12th Pass Students & RS 10000 For Graduates).

* Haryana State Government Has Announced 10% Horizontal Reservation For Agniveers. 

* Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel Has Launched Shramik Basera Scheme For Labours.

( Provide a Temporary Accommodation To 15000 Construction  Workers At a Normal Rate Of 5 Per Day) 

* Telengana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Has Launched 1 Lakh Assistant Scheme For Civil Service Aspirant. ( Under Rajiv Gandhi Civils Abhayahastham Scheme) 

* NEW SCHEMES TO BE LAUNCHED - IN ODISHA 

* Madho Singh Haath Kharcha Yojana - Under This Scheme ST Students Who Passed Out 8th/10th Class Gets 5000 Per Year.

* CM KISAN FOR FARMER'S - 

1935 Crores Sanctioned

* Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Has Launched The GOEM VINAMULYA VIJ YEVJAN Under The PM Shurya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana.

* SURENDRA SAI DIVYA DRUSTHI YOJANA - 

Under This Scheme Gets Free Of Cost Eye Care ( Universal) 

* Madhya Pradesh CM Dr. Mohan Yadav Announced A Raksha Bandhan Gift Of Rs 250 Each To The Beneficiaries Of LADLI BEHNA Scheme. ( Total Of 1500 Will Get) 

CHANGES - 

* Maharashtra Chief Minister Ekanth Sindhe Has Announced The Age Limit for Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana Has been Extended To 65 Years.

WILDLIFE & NATURE CA - 

PORTAL LAUNCHED - 

* Union Minister Of Forest Bhupendra Yadav Launched a Portal Documenting Indian Fauna: 641 New Faunal Species Recorded In 2023. ( Overall 104,561 Faunal Species) 

* Kerala's Forest Records Says 845 Elephants Were Died Between 2015 To 2023.

*  Forest Cover Of Philiphines Has Been Decreases From 35% to 23% in Last 50 Years. 

* According To Report 628 Tigers Were Died Due To Natural Cause In Last 5 Years in India.

* Periyar Tiger Reserves Has Installed a Wind Turbine To Generate Power For Real Time Monitoring Cameras And Wi-Fi In Forest.

APPROVAL MOU - 

* Union Cabinet Has Approved The India's Signing  Of The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction ( BBNJ) Agreement. 

* The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has Approved Animals Exchange Programme Between Odisha's Nanda Kanan Zoological Park (NZP) And Bhagwan Birsa Biological Park in Jharkhand.

HOST - 

*  The Upcoming COP16 For Environment Will Host By Cali Colombia. 

APPOINTMENTS - 

* Germany's Astrid Schomaker Assumed As Executive Secretary in Montreal ( UN BIODIVERSITY). 

AWARDS - 

Filipino Community Leader Nida Collado Has Won The 2024 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award ( for Forest Conservation)

IUCN RED LIST - 

*  Borneo Elephants Have Been Classified As Endangered On The IUCN Red List.

* Eulophia obtusa, Which Is Found In Dudhwa, Recently IUCN Listed As Critically Endangered.

* 

NEW SPEICES - 

* Scientists From The Zoological Survey Of India ( ZSI) Have Discovered A New Species Of Deep Water Dog Fish Shark Squalus Hima From Sakthikulangara Fishing Harbour, Kerala.

* Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Has Discovered A New Species Of Forest Dwelling Horned Frog In Arunachal Pradesh's Talle Wildlife Sanctuary.

( Xenophrys Apatani)

( It Has Been Named After Dominat Apatani community Of Subaru District In Arunachal Pradesh).

* Two New Species Of Litter- Dwelling Jumping Spiders Have Been Discovered In The Evergreen Forests Of Southern Western Ghats ( Researchers From Christ College, Irinjalakuda) 

Two Species Are - ( Genus - Habrocestum) 

* Habrocestum Swaminathan ( Named After Dr M S Swaminathan) 

* Habrocestum Benjamin ( Named After Suresh P Benjamin) 

* A New Species Of Shield Tail Snake UROPELTIS CAUDOMACULATA Has Been Discovered In Meghamalai- Munnar Landscape Of Western Ghats.

* A Species Of Desert Moss Called Syntrichia Caninervis Has Found In Antarctica And Mojave Desert. 

PERSON PASSED AWAY - 

* Veteran Journalist Ajay Upadhyaya Passed Away. 

* Kannada Movies Script Writer Vasanth Mokashi Punekar Has Passed Away.

* Hollywood Comedian Actor Bob Newhart Passed Away.

* Former Madhya Pradesh Minister And Senior Congress Leader Arif Aqeel Passes Away.

* Former Member Of Parliament Thiru Master Mathan Passed Away.

* Catholic Priest Father, Environmentalist And Writer Francis D  Britto Passed Away.

* Former News Editor Of Akashvani P Chandrasekharan Passed Away.

* Distinguished Economist And Former Professor Of Madras Christian College C T Kurien Passed Away.

*  Former Rajya Sabha Member And Senior BJP Leader Prabhat Jha Passed Away.

* Social Activist Padmashri Kamala Pujhari Passed Away At The Age Of 70. 

* The Head Of Camlin Group, Subash Dandekar Passes Away.

* Hollywood Actress Shannen Doherty Has Passed Away.

* Former Chairman And Director Of GAIL C R Prasad Passes Away.

* Veteran Theatre And  Film Actor Gopinath Rao Passed Away At The Age Of 71. 

* Hollywood Film Producer Jon Landau Passed Away. 

* Former Indian Midfielder Bhupinder Singh Rawat, Known As Scooter Passes Away.

* Veteran Srilankan Tamil Leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan Passed Away. 

* Albanian Novelist And Poet Ismail Kadare Passed Away. 

* Chinese Badminton Player Zhang Zhi jie Passed Away.

*  South African Athlete ( Long Jump) Jacques Freitag Has Passed Away. 

* Oscar Winning Writer Robert Towne Has Passed Away.

* Noted Carnatic Musician Kalpakam Raman Passed Away. 

( She Was The Wife Of The Former Additional Solicitor General Of India V P Raman) 

* French Gymnast Eric Poujade Passed Away At The Age Of 51. 

( Silver Medallist In Sydney Olympics 2000) 

* Actor, Anchor And Television Presenter Aparna Vastarey Passes Away.

*  Renowned Cardiac Surgeon Dr Marthanda Varma Sankaran Valiathan Passed Away.

* General Secretary Of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong Has Passed Away. 

* Bollywood Veteran Actress Smriti Biswas Narang Passed Away At The Age Of 100. 

* Former Odisha's Minister And 7th Time MLA Of Kakatpur Surendranath Passed Away. 

BOOKS & AUTHOR - 

* Eminent Mathematician Krishnaswami Alladi Launched The Autobiography Titled - My Mathematical Universe- People, Personality And Profession.

* Slumdog Millionaire Book Author - Vikas Swaroop 

* RSS Chief Mohan Bhagat Has Released Book On 1965 War Hero Abdul Hamid.

( Mera Papa Paramvir)

( Bharat Ka Musalman)

* KARGIL 99: Accounts Of Diverse Kinds Book Author- Col Ajay K Raina

* 25) THE PRISONERS OF BHOPAL: a Historical Fictional Novel Published ( Book Author- Tim Walker).

*  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Launched 3 Books On Life And Journey Of Former India's Vice President M Venkaih Naidu. ( On His 75th Birthday) 

( Venkaih Naidu- Life In Service Author - S Nagesh Kumar) 

( Celebrating Bharat - The Mission And Message Of M Venkaih Naidu As 13th Vice President Of India) 

( Mahaneta - Life And Journey Of M Venkaih Naidu) Author - Sanjay Kishore 

* RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Has Released The Book Udaan Author - Ameet Satam

* POWER WITHIN: The Leadership Legacy Of Narendra Modi ( Author- Dr R Balasubramaniam)

* Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan Has Launched The Book That Comprise Of 75 Speeches Of President Droupadi Murmu - WINGS TO OUR HOPES ( Volume 1) & Aashaon Ki Udaan 

* Odisha Governor Raghubar Das Released The Book NAYAKARA NA RUTURAJ ( Author - Tejaswini Panda) 

*  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami Has Launched The Book Woh 17 Din. ( story Of 42 Workers Who Were In Silkyara Tunnel In Uttarakhand)

* Lt Governor Manoj Sinha Has Unveiled The Book Cultural Encyclopaedia Of The Dard Tribe ( Author- Dr Suheel Rasool Mir).

HOST & SUMMIT - 

SUMMIT - 

* Ministry Of Electronics And Information Technology Has Organised The Global IndiaAI Summit In Delhi.

* INDIA Belarus Hold The First Consular Dialogue.

* Delhi Host The Inaugural Edition Of India- Greece Joint Working GROUP Meeting.

*  India And UK Hold The 6th Cyber Dialogue. 

* India To Host The BIMSTEC Foreign Minister Meet In July 2024.

*  India France UAE Trilateral Focal Meeting Held Virtually.

* 2nd Bay Of Bengal Initiative For Multi Sectoral Technical And Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Foreign Minister Meet Held In New Delhi.

* 7th INDIA- Japan Medical Product Regularity Symposium Held At New Delhi.

*  India-Indonesia-Australia Focal Points Meeting Held Virtually.

* Union Home Minister Amit Shah Has Addressed At 7th Apex Level Of Narco Coordination Centre ( NCORD) Meeting.

* Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Has Addressed At The 4th International Climate Summit On Bioenergy: Path To Viksit Bharat In New Delhi. 

* India- Saudi Arabia Hold The First Meeting Of The High Level Task Force On Investment.

HOST - 

* India Will Host The 46th Session Of World Heritage Committee (FIRST Time Host) At Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. 

* 6th meetings Of GPAI Ministerial Council held In New Delhi.

* India Is Hosting The 6th EAS Conference On Maritime Security Cooperation In Mumbai.

* Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Has Addressed The 12th Convocation Of Indian Institute Of Space Science And Technology (IIST) Thiruvananthapuram.

* 15th International B2B Toy Expo 2024 Kicked Off At New Delhi. 

*  Global Conclave On Plastics Recycling And Sustainability (  GCPRS) Held At Delhi. 

*  The 25th Meeting Of The Prime Minister's Science, Technology And Innovation Advisory Council ( PM-STIAC) Held At Vigyan Bhawan In New Delhi. 

* India's First Neon Art Exhibition Kicked Off At Patna, Bihar.

* India's First International GenAI Conclave Held At Kerala.

* 3rd Meeting Of National Traders Welfare Board ( MNTWB) Held In New Delhi.

* IIT Delhi And Prasar Bharati Will Host The Two Days Robot Competition DD ROBOCON At Delhi.

* Department Of Fisheries Organised The Fisheries Summer Meet 2024 At Madurai, Tamilnadu.

* Union Minister Rajeev Ranjan Singh HAS Inaugurated 312 Fisheries Projects Covering 19 States/UTS With An Investment Of 114 Crores.

* Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar Has Presided The 3rd Cyber Security Conference Organized By Global Counter Terrorism Council At Vigyaan Bhawan, New Delhi.

*  All INDIA Institute Of Ayurveda Host The SAUSHRUTAM 2024 

* 9th Governing Council Meeting Of NITI AYOG Held At Delhi.

FUTURE HOST - 

* Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting Will Organize The First Edition Of World Audio Visual And Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2024 from 20-24 November 2024 In Goa. 

*  India Will Host The 2nd Asia- Pacific Ministerial Conference On Civil Aviation in September 2024.

NORTH EAST CA - 

NEW SPECIES - 

* Researchers From Zoological Survey Of India (ZSI) Has Discovered A New Species Of Forest Dwelling Horned Frog In Arunachal Pradesh's Talle Wildlife Sanctuary.

( Xenophrys Apatani)

( It Has Been Named After Dominat Apatani community Of Subaru District In Arunachal Pradesh).

* Thupten Lhamu Has Been Crowned As Miss Universe Arunachal Pradesh 2024.

FIRST IN - 

* Assamese Farmer Mohan Chandra Borah Has Set Up North East India's First Seed Library At Jorhat, Assam.( Named Anapoorna)

* 300 seeds Are Collected

* The Sikkim Government Has Mandated a Garbage Bag For All Tourist Vehicle Entering State.

PORTAL - 

* Union Minister For Telecommunication Jyotiraditya Scindia Has Launched The NE-RACE Portal, ( For Farmers Of North Eastern)

INAUGURATION - 

* Arunachal Pradesh CM Pema Khandhu Has Inaugurated The FIFA Standard Artificial Turf Football Ground At Gyalwa Tsangyang Gyasto High Altitude  Stadium In Tawang.

* Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav Has Launched India's 500th Community Radio Station- Apna Radio 90.0 FM At IIMC Aizwal.

FESTIVAL - 

* Arunachal Pradesh Celebrates Dree Festival.

*  Tripura State Celebrates KHARCHI Puja 

BILL PASSED - 

* The Assam Cabinet Has Approved A Bill To Abolish The Assam Muslim Marriages And Divorce Registration Act And Rules Of 1935 ( on 18th July 2024)

* Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly Has Passed The Arunachal Pradesh Public Examination ( Measures To Prevent Unfair Means In Recruitment) Bill 2024.

APPOINTMENTS - 

*  IPS Officer Shri Makarand Deouskar Took Charge As Inspector General Of BSF Guwahati Assam. 

AWARDS - 

*  Nagaland Has Recive The Best State In Horticulture 2024 Award At The Agriculture Leadership Conclave At New Delhi. 

* Wahengbam Shaya Has Received Prestigious Sant Kabir Handloom Award ( Kamala Devi Chhatopadhya Award) 2023.

* Nagaland Madrigal Singers Have Won Two Gold Medals At World Choir Games Held In New Zealand. 

* Tripura Urban Livelihood Mission (TULM) Society Has Received SPARK Award.

RENAME & LOGO 

LOGO - 

* Union Minister Of Youth Affairs And Sports Mansukh Mandaviya Has Unveiled The New AFI Logo.

* External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar And Brunei FM Dato Haji Erywan Jointly Launched The Logo, Completed 40 Years Of Diplomatic Relations.

NAMED AFTER - 

*  6 time Grand Slam Champion  Rajeev Ram Has Street Name After Him in Carmel, USA.

RENAME - 

* From 1st July 2024 

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Sakhya Adhiniyam 2023 Will Effect In Indian Laws.

* India Bulls Housing Finance Has Been Renamed As SAMMAN CAPITAL. 

* India Bulls Real Estate Changes Its Name As Equinox India Developments. 

* Biju Pattnaik Sports Award Has Been Renamed As Odisha Rajya Krida Samman In Odisha. 

* President Droupadi Murmu Has Renamed Durbar Hall As GANATANTRA MANDAP & Ashok Hall As ASHOK MANDAP.

* The Karnataka State Government Has Renamed Ramanagar District As Bengaluru South District.

* Make In ODISHA To Change As - Utkarsha Utkala 

* Mo School To Change As - PANCHASAKHA SIKSHYA SETU ABHIYAN 

* AMA ODISHA NABIN ODISHA To Change As - BIKASIT GAON BIKASIT ODISHA 

* UAE Honours INDIAN Origin Doctor George Matthew With Street Name Of Abu Dhabi.

ARCHAEOLOGY - 

* Archaeologists Have Uncovered a 41000 Years Old Ostrich Nest In Andhra Pradesh.

*  World's Oldest Cave Painting Has Been Discovered In Indonesia.

*  Lithium Deposits Have Found In The Mandya And Yadgiri Districts Of Karnataka. 

RESTORED BY ASI - 

* ASI Restoring The Wat Phou Hindu Temple In Laos. 

NEW UNESCO HERITAGE LIST - 

* World Heritage Committee Has Added Moidams- The Mound Burial System Of The Ahom Dynasty Assam As India's 43rd UNESCO World Heritage Sites In Cultural Category.

RANKING & INDEX - 

* Western Sydney University Ranked Topped Universities For Gender Equality 2024 

( 2nd Spot - Institut Mines Telecom Business School)

( 3rd - The Women University Multan)

* IARI Pusa New Delhi Ranked Number 1 In India 8th In Asia And 63rd In World Ranking. 

*  Japan Ranked Number One In Best Digital Infrastructure 2024, Followed By South Korea And USA.

* Oberoi Rajvilas, Jaipur Rajasthan Has Clinched The Title Best Hotel In The World In Travel+ Leisure World's Best Award 2024.

* India Ranked Fifth In World For Innovation In GenAI.

( China, US, Korea, Japan) Are Top Four Countries.

* Kerala & Uttarakhand  Topped The Table In SDG Index 2024, While Bihar Finishes As Tail.

* India Ranked 72 Among 174 Countries In The Artificial Intelligence Readiness.

* Indian Cricketer VIRAT KOHLI Topped The Celebrity Brand Valuation Ranking in 2023.

* India Ranked 82 In Henley Passport Index 2024.

( Singapore Ranked one)

* Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, Japan Are The Top Five Countries In Henley Passport Index 2024.

DRDO - 

* An MoU Signed Between DRDO And MP-IDSA To Conduct Joint Research Through Studies, Seminar , Conference etc. 

*  Made In India Developed By DRDO & L&T Introduced Zorawar (Light Tank) For INDIAN Army.

*  DRDO Partners With Bengaluru Based Firm For Induce NaviC Chip Development.

* DRDO Successfully Tested Fire Its Interceptor Missile From Abdul Kalam Island & Interceptor Prithvi-2 Nuclear Ballistic Missile  From Chandipur, Odisha.

EXERCISE - 

* The 13th Edition Of Joint Military Exercise Between Indian Army And Royal Thailand Army ( Exercise MAITREE) To Be Conducted From 1st To 15th July 2024 At Vachiraprakan, Thailand.

* INS Ranvir Arrived At Chattogram, Bangladesh To Take Part In a Maritime Exercise MPX/PASSEX With Bangladesh Navy. 

* 16th Edition Of Joint Military Exercise NOMADIC ELEPHANT Between Indian Army And Mongolian Army Will Conduct From 3rd To 16th July At Umroi, Meghalaya. 

*  IAF's SU 30 MKI Are Participating In The Exercise Pitch Black 2024 In Australia.

* Indian Navys P-81 Is Participating In RIMPAC Exercise 2024.

* Indian Navy's Ship INS Visakhapatnam & INS Aditya Conducted a Joint Maritime Exercise With The US Navy Carrier Strike Group-9 

( Maritime Partnership Exercise MPX) 

* INS TALBAR Has Arrived At Hamburg, Germany To Conduct Maritime Partnership Exercise With German Navy. 

* 21st Edition Of Khaan Quest 2024 Multinational Joint Military Exercise Held At Mongolia From 27th July to 9th August 2024.

INTERNATIONAL - 

* JS Kashima, JS SHIMAKAZE ( Japanese Ships) Conducted a Bilateral Exercise With French Navy F-50 

* China Navy And Russia Navy Conducted a Maritime Exercise At Southern China.

ISRO & SPACE - 

* ISRO's Aditya L1 Completes Its First Halo Orbit Around The Sun Earth L1 Point. 

* Agnikul Cosmos Co founders Are Features in Forbes India

* Dr S Somnath, Chairman ISRO Has Inaugurated The Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon (BAH) 2024.

* Skyroot Aerospace Successfully Conducted The Proof Pressure Test Of First Stage Vikram-1 Vehicle.

*  ISRO Scientists Have Created The First Undersea Map Of The Complete Ram Setu.

AWARDS - 

*  Elena Geo Systems ( Bengaluru) & Astrome Technologies (Bengaluru) HAVE Been Conferred With The Prestigious PANDIT DEENDAYAL UPADHYAYA Telecom Excellence Award By Union Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia On The Occasion Of Launch Of Mobile Congress 2024. 

* INDIAN Astrophysics Prahlad Chandra Agarwal ( retired from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) & Anil Bharadwaj  Have Been Awarded The COSPAR Harrie Massey Award 2024.

( Involved In Astrosat Space Telescope) 

( Part Of Chandrayaan 1 Lunar Mission)

* Anil Bhardwaj, director of the Ahmedabad -based Physical Research Laboratory, was awarded the Vikram Sarabhai Medal, which honours outstanding space science research in developing countries. This medal was instituted jointly by COSPAR and the Indian Space Research Organisation 

( Awarded At Busan, South Korea) 

* ISRO Chairman Dr. S Somnath Recived Doctor Of PHILOSOPHY From IT Madras. 

* Chandrayaan 3, ISRO Has Awarded World Space Award By International Astronomical Federation.

HOST - 

* 10th Symposium On Applied aerodynamic And Design Of Aerospace Vehicles (SAROD-2024) Organised In Vishakapatanam.

RECORD - 

* New Space Research And Technologies Makes A World Record For Load Carriage By a Drone In 19000 Feet At Umlingla.

SPACE AWARDS - 

* The Karman Project: Promoting International Cooperation In Space & NASA Indigenous CBE Programme Won 2024 IAF Excellence In 3G Diversity Award.

TESTED - 

* New Space Research And Technologies Have Successfully Tested a Long Range SatCom Link For Command, Control, Communication, Computing And Intelligence C4I Function Of A Drone SWARM.

FSSAI - 

* FSSAI Has Cancelled The Manufacturing License Of 111 Spice Producers Of INDIA.

* FSSAI Approves a Proposal To Display Nutritional Information Regarding Total Sugar, Salt And Saturated Fat In Bold Letters. 

* The Railway Protection Force (RPF) Has Recently Conducted Operation AMANAT, The Retrieval Lost Or Left Behind Luggage And Valuable Articles.