WORLD CURRENT AFFAIRS IN JULY 2024

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.