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03 JULY ‘24
 CONTENTS

-NATIONAL 1
-STATE 8
-INTERNATIONAL 12

-AWARDS 15
-SPORTS 18
-APPOINTMENTS 24

-DEFENCE 26
-SCIENCE
28
&TECHNOLOGY
-IMPORTANT DATES 30

-BOOKS 31
-MISCELLANEOUS 32
-ANSWER KEY 33
-SUMMARY 34

Note:- You can directly jump to any section by simply clicking the
respective title. Also now you can click the “type something” area of the
question box to land on answer page directly!and by clicking the answer
you can jump to the respective question. :)
1
NATIONAL
India's first urban ropeway project, the
Varanasi Ropeway Project, is set to
complete a section linking Varanasi
Cantonment Railway Station to
RathYatra by August 2024.
●It comes under the
National Ropeways Q1. Which is the highest
Development Railway Station in India?
Programme,
'Parvatmala
Type something... ;)
Pariyojana.

Adani International Ports Holdings Pte Ltd

(AIPH) has signed a 30-year concession
agreement with the Tanzania Ports Authority
to operate and manage Container Terminal 2
at the Dar es Salaam Port in Tanzania.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has

transferred 100
tonnes of gold RBI
from its vaults in ●Established in 1935 in Kolkata.
the UK to its ●HQ- Mumbai.
●Nationalised in- 1949.
domestic vaults in ●Current Governor- Shaktikanta Das
●1st Governor - Sir Osborne Smith.
India. ●1st Indian Governor - Sir C.D. Deshmukh

Ruchira Kamboj, India's top diplomat at the

UN, retires after 4 decades of service.
●The first woman
diplomat to occupy
the prestigious
position as the
Ambassador of
India at the UN.
2
NATIONAL
India received the highest Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) from Singapore in 2023-24.

Q2. Under which head of

the balance of payments
does FDI fall?
Type something... ;)

Environmentalists Jai Dhar Gupta and Vijay

Dhasmana have established India's first
biosphere within a tiger ●It is located in
reserve. the Rajaji
National Park in
Uttarakhand.

Reserve Bank is organising its third global

hackathon – 'HaRBInger 2024 – Innovation for
Transformation'.

India’s ranking in the Global Hunger Index

2024 is 129 out of 146 countries. The index is
released by the Economic forum.
●On top -
Iceland
●On Bottom
- Sudan

India ranks 176th out of 180 countries in the

2024 Environmental
●On top -
Performance Index. Estonia.
●Lastly -
Vietnam.
3
NATIONAL
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had invited
India as an 'Outreach
Country’at the G7 G-7
summit held in ●It was the 50th G7 summit.
Italy's Apulia region. ●G7 countries are Italy, Canada,
Germany, Japan, USA, UK, and
France.
●Founded- 1975.
PM Narendra Modi will grant certificates
to more than 30,000 self-help groups as
Krishi Sakhis at Varanasi.
●Krishi Sakhis are a
dimension of the
government's
programme to
create 3 crore
'Lakhpati Didis'.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has

cancelled the licence of “Purvanchal Co-
operative Bank LtdGhazipur, Uttar Pradesh.

PM Narendra Modi celebrated the 10th

International Day of Yoga in Srinagar.
●Theme of
the Yoga Day -
‘’Yoga for Self
and Society’.

PM Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the

new campus of Nalanda
University at Q3. On which day did PM
Rajgir, Bihar. Narendra Modi take the oath as
the Prime Minister of India for
the 3rd consecutive term?

Type something... ;)
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NATIONAL
The Calcutta High Court has directed the
West Bengal government to ensure 1%
reservation for all transgender persons
in public employment in the State, in
accordance with the Supreme Court's
NALSA guidelines.

Congress's K Suresh will be named the

pro-tem speaker of
the 18th Loksabha. Q4. Who was elected as the
protem Speaker of the 17th
Lok Sabha?
Type something... ;)

India has been ranked 63rd out of 120

countries on the
World Economic ETI
Forum's (WEF's) ●Rank of India last year - 67th.
Energy ●This index topped by -
Transition Index Sweden.
●China is ranked at - 17th.
(ETI) with a score
of 55.3.
The Union Cabinet approved the
construction of a Rs 76220 crore all-weather
greenfield deep draft
major port in Vadhavan,
Maharashtra. Q5.The total
coastline of India is ?
Type something... ;)

The Union Cabinet approved a Rs 2,869.65

crore proposal for the expansion of Lal
Bahadur Shastri International Airport in
Varanasi.
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NATIONAL
The Asian Development Bank (ADB)
approved a $170 million (over Rs 1,418
crore) policy-based
loan to improve India's Q6. Where is the
health system. headquarters of ADB
located?
Type something... ;)

India fell seven spots to 15th in the World

Investment Ranking in 2023, according to
a report published by the UNCTAD, while the
USA topped this index.

UNCTAD
●United Nations Conference on
Trade and Development.
●Founded on - 1964.
●HQ- Geneva, Switzerland.

India is looking to operate the Mongla Port

in Bangladesh and build a new terminal,
aiming to counterbalance China's strategic
presence in the region.

The Election Commission of India

announced a 65.79% voter turnout in the
just-
concluded Lakshadweep
recorded the highest
Lok Sabha voter turnout at 84%
election, followed by Assam at

compared to
81%. The lowest
turnout was recorded
67.40% in in Bihar at 56.19%.

2019.
6
NATIONAL
Pramod Kumar Mishra often abbreviated P. K.
Mishra, is the 13th and current principal
secretary to the Prime Minister of India,
Narendra Modi.

The World Bank's Global Economic

Prospects Report predicts India will remain
the fastest-growing major economy with
a 6.6% GDP growth rate for FY25.

The Public Examinations (Prevention of

Unfair Means)
●The new law,
Bill, 2024 or the which provides
'anti-paper leak' for fines of Rs 1

bill was first

crore and up to 10
years in prison.
introduced in the
Lok Sabha.

Indian Railways has entered its name into

the Prestigious Limca Book of Records for
most people at a public service event at
multiple venues.

The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Modi

approved the proposal of the Ministry of
Home Affairs for the Central Sector
Scheme “National Forensic Infrastructure
Enhancement Scheme” (NFIES).
7
NATIONAL
The India-IORA Cruise Tourism
Conference took place in New Delhi,
India.

Mumbai is India's costliest city for

expatriates in Mercer's 2024 Cost of Living
survey and is globally ranked 136th out of
226 cities while Hong Kong tops the global
ranks.

India will start an e-medical visa facility

for Bangladeshi nationals coming to
India for medical treatment.

Army Hospital (Research & Referral), New

Delhi, announced the opening of a state-of-
the-art skin bank facility, a first-of-its-kind
to be established within the Armed Forces
Medical Services.
 STATES
8

The Sikkim High Court registry has

introduced a menstrual leave policy for
female employees, according to a report
from Bar and Bench.
Q7. Sikkim became a full-
fledged state of India in
which year ?
Type something... ;)

Kerala has integrated AI learning into Class

7 ICT textbooks.

"Bank of Maharashtra's Maha Krishi Samrudhi

Yojana demonstrates
its dedication to Q8. When did Bank of
India's agricultural Maharashtra founded?

development”. Type something... ;)

On World Environment Day, the Nagi and

Nakti Bird Sanctuaries in Bihar have been
recognised as wetlands of international
importance under the Ramsar Convention.

●This brings
Q9. When do we celebrate the total
World Wetlands day? number of such
wetlands in
Type something... ;) India to 82.

The polling station at Tashigang, serving 62

voters from Tashigang and Gete, has been
made a model polling booth.
 STATES
9

Mumbai super cop Krishna Prakash was

honored with the Hindi Sahitya Bharati
Award.

Recently plastic recycling plant opened in

Changgu, East Sikkim, under the Army's
Sadbhavna initiative for waste management.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader N.

Chandrababu Naidu took oath as the Chief
Minister of Andhra Pradesh, while tribal
leader Mohan Charan Majhi was sworn in as
the CM of Odisha.

BJP leader Pema Khandu took oath as the

CM of Arunachal Pradesh for the third
consecutive term.

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

introduced the 'Nijut Moina' scheme, offering
monthly stipends to girls from class
11 to post-graduation to Q10. Which of the
following rivers is known
deter child marriages. as "Sorrow of Assam"?
Type something... ;)
 STATES
10

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) supremo N

Chandrababu Naidu announced that
Amaravati will be the capital of Andhra
Pradesh.

Punjab police in association with the BSF

and Village Defence Committees
launched ‘Mission Nishchay’ in border
villages to gather intelligence about
demand and
supply of drugs.

New IIM in Assam: Approval granted for an

IIM in Assam near Guwahati in Kamrup
district, a significant development for
higher education in the state.

The government of Jharkhand launched the

Swami Vivekananda Nishakta
Swavlamban
●Beneficiaries will
Protsahan Yojana receive Rs 1000
scheme by the per month for life.

Department of
Sickle cell cases
will also be
Women, Child covered.

Development &
Social Security.
The Uttar Pradesh government has finally
launched the portal for creation of Family ID
under ‘One Family One Identity’ scheme.
 STATES
11

Uttar Pradesh will soon have the world's

first conservation and breeding centre
for Asian king vulture in Maharajganj
which is named as Jatayu Conservation
& Breeding Centre.
Q11. The Gangetic dolphin
belongs to which
categories of fauna?
Type something... ;)

Tamil Nadu govt announced Chief Minister’s

Mannuyir Kaathu Mannuyir Kaappom
Scheme (CM MK MKS) to preserve soil
fertility.

Pilibhit: A new tiger reserve will soon

be established in Uttar Pradesh.

Gujarat has the highest installed wind

power capacity, followed by Tamil Nadu.

Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde launched

the Mukhymantri Majhi Ladki Behan
scheme for women.

The Uttar Pradesh government is set to

build a bioplastic park in the
Lakhimpur Khiri area.
12
INTERNATIONAL
Japanese researchers have built the
world's first wooden satellite named
LignoSat.

South Korea has officially launched its

space agency, the Korea AeroSpace
Administration (KASA).

Mexico has elected its first female

president, with preliminary results showing
Claudia Sheinbaum.

Philippines Kanlaon volcano erupts sending a

5km ash cloud into
the sky.
Q12. The Mangaf region, which
was in the news recently due to
the fire accident, is located in
which country?

Type something... ;)

The UN General Assembly elected Philemon

Yang, former Prime Minister of Cameroon, as
president for its 79th session which gets
underway in September.
13
INTERNATIONAL
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres has added Israel’s military to a
global list
of offenders UNSC
that have ●United Nations Security Council
committed ●New York, USA
●Established in - 1945
violations ●The council has 15 members:5 permanent members &
10 non-permanent members elected for 2 year terms.
against ●5 permanent members- USA, Russian Federation,

children.
France, China & UK.

Nvidia overtakes Apple to become

the world's second-most valuable
company while Microsoft
becomes the world’s most
valuable.
●On 21 June
2023,India became
the 27th country
to sign the
Artemis Accords.

Peru and Slovakia signed the Artemis

Accords outlining best practices for
responsible space exploration.

United Nations Declares 2025 as the

International Year of Quantum Science
and Technology.
Q13. The United Nations
has declared 2024 as the
year of ?
Type something... ;)
14
INTERNATIONAL
Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a
second term as South Africa's president.

Peter Pellegrini was sworn in as the

president of Slovakia.

Q14. What is the

capital of Slovakia?
Type something... ;)
 AWARDS
15

NIMHANS in Bengaluru, India, has been

conferred with the Nelson Mandela Award
for Health Promotion for 2024 by the WHO.

●NIMHANS- The
WHO National Institute
of Mental Health
●HQ-Geneva, Switzerland. and Neuro
●Founded -7 April 1948. Sciences.
●Members -194countries.

Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh, an Indian

peacekeeper honored posthumously with
the UN's Dag Hammarskjold medal.

Actor Sanya Malhotra recently bagged the

Best Actress award at the New York Indian
Film Festival for her role in the film “Mrs”.

Vellayan Subbiah, Chairman of

Cholamandalam Investment and Finance
Co Ltd. has been awarded the prestigious
EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2024.
 AWARDS
16

SEBI has been given the 'Best Conduct of

Business Regulator' award in Asia Pacific by
The Asian Banker.
SEBI
●Securities and Exchange Board of
India.
●Establishment - 1992.
●HQ - Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Chairperson -Madhabi Puri Buch.

Vinod Ganatra has made history as the first

Indian to receive the prestigious 'Nelson
Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award' from
South Africa.

The Golden Thread directed by Nishita Jain

won the Best Documentary in the
international category at the 18th Mumbai
International Film Festival.

Siddhesh Sakore, a farmer and the founder of

AGRO RANGERS, from Maharashtra, has been
named Land Hero by the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification
(UNCCD).
 AWARDS
17

Indian author Arundhati Roy has been

awarded the PEN Pinter Prize by the British
Library.

Sanjana Thakur, a 26-year-old writer from

Mumbai won the 2024 Commonwealth
Short Story Prize for her story “Aishwarya
Rai”.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our

doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
18
SPORTS
GM R Praggnanandhaa defeated World No. 1
Magnus Carlsen in classical chess for the
first time in his career.

Q15. Who won the FIDE

World Chess
Championship, 2023?
Type something... ;)

Tanvi Sharma, an Indian badminton

player, secured victory in the Bonn
International tournament by defeating
Wang Pei Yu of Chinese Taipei.

Dinesh Kartik confirmed on his 39th birthday

that he was officially retiring from
'representative cricket'.

The 2024 FIDE World Junior Chess

Championship has commenced at Radisson
GIFT City in
Gujarat, India. FIDE
●Established in -1924.
●HQ- Lausanne, Switzerland.
●Current World Champion- Ding
Liren(China)

18-year-old Divya Deshmukh became the

World Junior Girls Chess champion by
winning the World Junior Chess
Championship with a live rating of 2464 Elo.
19
SPORTS
Indian athlete Nayana James clinched the gold
medal in the women’s long jump event at the
Taiwan Athletics Open 2024 in Chinese Taipei.

●Also DP Manu
clinched the gold
medal in the men’s
javelin throw at the
same event.

Nar Singh and Rohini Lokhande have been

awarded with the Dilip Bose Award for
lifetime achievement by the All India
Tennis Association (AITA).

Indian shooter Sarabjot Singh won the gold

medal in the men's 10m air pistol event at
the ISSF World Cup 2024 in Munich,
Germany.
Q16. What is the
capital of Cameroon?
Type something... ;)

Poland player Iga Swiatek won the 2024

French Open title beating Jasmine Paolini in
the women's final in Paris.

Carlos Alcaraz fought back to defeat

Alexander Zverev in a five-set French
Open final and became the youngest man
to win Grand Slam titles on all three
surfaces.
20
SPORTS
Sumit Nagal clinched the Heilbronner
Neckarcup ATP Challenger title by defeating
Switzerland’s
Alexander Ritschard. This was the sixth
ATP Challenger title
for Nagal and this
win in Heilbronn was
his fourth title on
clay tennis courts.

Indian MMA fighter Puja Tomar became the

first-ever Indian to win a fight at UFC. She
defeated Brazil's Rayanne dos Santos in the
UFC Louisville 2024.

Indian freestyle wrestler Aman Sehrawat

clinched the silver medal at the Polyak
Imre and Varga Janos Memorial 2024
wrestling tournament in Budapest,
Hungary.

Indian wrestler Reetika Hooda won the silver

medal in the women's 76kg division at the
Polyak Imre and Varga Janos Memorial
2024 wrestling tournament in Budapest,
Hungary.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won a gripping

wet-dry Canadian Grand Prix.
21
SPORTS
India will host the FIH Hockey Men's
Junior World Cup in December 2025.
The tournament, set
to feature 24 teams
for the first time, will
be the 14th edition of
the Junior Hockey
World Cup.

Shruti Vora became the first Indian to win

a three-star Grand Prix equestrian event.

Q17. Recently which female

player in the Christians sports
received the “Arjuna Award”.

Type something... ;)

Gudakesh Motie of West Indies and

Chamari Athapaththu of Sri Lanka clinched
the ICC Men's and Women's Player of the
Month awards respectively for their
outstanding performances in May 2024.

ICC
●Headquarters at Dubai, UAE.
●Founded in 1909.
●Chairman-Greg Barclay( NZ)
●2024 ICC T20 WC - USA & West Indies.

Lockie Ferguson registered an extraordinary

feat in T20Is, bowling four maidens while
picking three wickets against Papua New
Guinea in Trinidad.
22
SPORTS
Trent Boult announced his retirement from
international cricket after New
Zealand's disappointing T20 Q18. Where will the
World Cup campaign. 2028 Cricket World Cup
be held?
Type something... ;)

India's Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal

in the men's javelin throw competition at
the Paavo Nurmi Games 2024 athletics
meet in Turku, Finland.

Q19. With what throw did

Neeraj Chopra won gold at
the Tokyo Olympics 2020?
Type something... ;)

Magnus Carlsen won his sixth Norway

Chess title after a year break, while
Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun
emerged victorious in the inaugural
women's event.
●The 12th edition
of this prestigious
competition took
place in Stavanger,
Norway.

Indian athlete Nayana James clinched the

gold medal in the women's long jump
event at the Taiwan Athletics Open 2024.

Dhiraj Bommadevara picked up two

bronze medals on the final day of Archery
World Cup Stage III at Antalya, Turkey.
23
SPORTS
The trio of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi
Swami, and Parneet Kaur claimed a hat-
trick of gold medals with a win over
Estonia at WC Stage III in Antalya,
Turkey.

Olympics-bound Sreeja Akula created

history in Lagos by becoming the first
Indian table tennis player to win a WTT
Contender singles title.

Australia`s Pat Cummins made history by

taking consecutive hat-tricks in the T20
World Cup 2024,
achieving this feat Q20. Which country won
against Bangladesh and the highest no. of World
Cup Cricket?
Afghanistan.
Type something... ;)

David Warner's international retirement

was sealed on Tuesday when Australia were
officially knocked out of the T20 World Cup
2024.

Shafali Verma became the first woman to

score over 200 runs in a single day's play in a
Test match against South Africa.
24
APPOINTMENTS
Vijayabharathi Sayani has been appointed as
the Acting Chairperson of the National Human
Rights Commission (NHRC).

Q21. Under which article

NHRC is the NHRC mentioned in
the Indian Constitution?
● It is a statutory body
●Established on- 1993. Type something... ;)

●HQ - New Delhi.

The Reserve Bank of India is setting up a

panel headed by former NPCI chief Abhaya
Hota to take on payment frauds.

Lt. Gen. Upendra Dwivedi has been

appointed the next Chief of the Army
Staff, succeeding incumbent General
Manoj Pande.
Q22. The first defence
minister of independent
India was ?
Type something... ;)

Ficci announced the appointment of Jyoti

Vij as its
director
general.
FICCI
●The Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry.
●Established in 1927.
●Advised by Mahatma Gandhi, GD Birla
and Purushottam Das Thakurdas.
25
APPOINTMENTS
Annurag Batra, Founder of exchange4media
and Chairman of BW Businessworld, has been
elected as a Member of the International
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Manoj Jain assumes charge as chairman

and managing director (CMD) of Bharat
Electronics Limited (BEL).

Government appointed Atul Kumar

Chaudhary as the next Secretary of the
TRAI.
TRAI
●Telecom Regulatory Authority
of India.
●Founded on - 1997.
●HQ - New Delhi.

Jetha Ahir was elected uncontested as the

chairman of the National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of
India (NAFED).
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DEFENCE
INS Mysore, the frontline destroyer of the
Eastern Fleet, celebrated its Silver Jubilee,
marking 25 years of service to the nation.

Sub-Lieutenant Anamika B. Rajeev has

become the Indian Navy's first woman
helicopter pilot after she received the
prestigious 'Golden Wings'.

Q23. Who is the current

chief of the Indian Navy?

Type something... ;)

The Indian Army has taken delivery of its

first batch of indigenously developed
"suicide drones," dubbed "Nagastra-1”.

Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani took over as

the Vice Chief of Army Staff, succeeding
Lt Gen Dwivedi.
27
DEFENCE
The Indian Army has launched 'Vidyut
Rakshak', an integrated generator monitoring,
protection, and control system developed by
the Army Design Bureau (ADB).

●It was
launched by the
Army Vice Chief
- Upendra
Dwivedi.

The eighth edition of the bilateral Japan-India

Maritime Exercise 2024 (JIMEX 24)
commenced in Yokosuka, Japan.

Indian Navy's major operational-level

exercise TROPEX 2023, was conducted
across the Indian Ocean Region.

●TROPEX-
Theatre Level
Operational
Readiness
Exercise.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage

to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
28
SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY
Indian space startup Agnikul Cosmos
successfully launched its first sub-orbital
test vehicle powered
●Agnibaan - SOrTeD
by the world’s first (sub-orbital technology

single-piece 3D-
demonstrator) was
launched from India's
printed rocket first private launchpad,
Dhanush, established
engine. by the startup.

ISRO has developed Computational Fluid

Dynamics (CFD) software named PraVaHa.

●Parallel RANS Solver for

Aerospace Vehicle Aero-
thermo-dynamic Analysis.
●This software was
developed in ISRO's
Vikram Sarabhai Space
Centre (VSSC).

Sunita Williams, an Indian-origin

astronaut, made history by flying to space
for the third time aboard Boeing's Starliner
spacecraft to the International Space
Station.
Butch
Wilmore is the
commander of
this mission.

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko has

become the first person to spend 1,000
days in space.
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SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY
ISRO and the French space agency CNES have
partnered in developing
advanced upgradation Q24. What is the name
satellites like TRISHNA to of the first Indian
satellite?
collect climate data. Type something... ;)

Scientists from the Physical Research

Laboratory (PRL) in Ahmedabad, India, have
discovered three new craters on Mars.
●The craters situated
in the Tharsis volcanic
region on Mars are
the "Lal" crater, the
"Mursan" crater, and
the "Hilsa" crater.

ISRO gears up for the TRISHNA mission.

The satellite will track the water stress and
water use and high-resolution observation
of water quality.

ISRO achieved its third and final consecutive

success in the Reusable Launch Vehicle
(RLV) Landing EXperiment (LEX).

Railway Protection Force chief Manoj

Yadava has launched the Sangyaan App, a
mobile application providing detailed
information on three new criminal laws
effective from July 1.
30
IMPORTANT DATES
DATE DAY THEME

1st June Global Day of Parents "The Promise of Playful Parenting"

2nd June Telangana Foundation Day N.A.

2nd June International Sex Worker Day "Looking Ahead"

"Our Land, Our Future. We are

5th June World Environment Day
#GenerationRestoration,"

8th June World Ocean Day “Awaken New Depths”

8th June World Brain Tumour Day “Brain Health and Prevention”

"Let's act on our commitments: End

12th June World Day Against Child Labour
Child Labour”

21st June World Music Day Faites de la musique - Make Music

21st June International Yoga Day “Yoga for Self and Society”

23rd June International Olympic Day ‘Let's Move and Celebrate’

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BOOKS
Alpana Killawala's "A Fly on the RBI Wall"
depicts Raghuram Rajan's early struggles as
RBI Governor.
Q25. For which book
Arundhati Roy won the Man
Booker Prize in 1997?

Type something... ;)

Bill Gates has announced his book, 'Source

Code - My Beginnings,' set to be published
next February.

Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin

released his autobiography, "I Have the
Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story”.
32
MISCELLANEOUS
Rajeev Taranath, the renowned sarod
maestro, passed away due to age-related
illness at the age of 92 in Mysuru.

Rajeev Taranath
●He was a disciple of Ali Akbar Khan.
●Got Padma Shri - 2019.
●Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for
Music - 2001.

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that

there is something inside you that is greater than any
obstacle."
- Christian D. Larson
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ANSWER KEY
1. Ghum railway station 2. The capital account

3. 9 June 4. OM Birla

5. 7516.6 kms 6. Manila, Philippines

7. 1975 8. Sept. 16, 1935

10. Brahmaputra
9. 2nd February
12. Kuwait
11. Vulnerable Species
14. Bratislava
13. Year of Camelids
16. Yaounde
15. GM Ding Liren

18. Australia and New

17. Divyakriti Singh Zealand

87.58m 20. Australia

19.
Section 12 (h) of the
22. Baldev Singh
21. Protection of Human Rights
Act, 1993.
The Aryabhatta
24.
23. Dinesh Kumar Tripathi spacecraft

25. The God of Small Things

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SUMMARY
NATIONAL

1. India's Varanasi Ropeway Project, part of 'Parvatmala Pariyojana', to

link Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station to RathYatra by August 2024.

2. Adani International Ports signed a 30-year concession for Container

Terminal 2 at Dar es Salaam Port, Tanzania.

3. RBI transferred 100 tonnes of gold from UK to India.

4. Ruchira Kamboj, India's top diplomat at UN, retired after 40 years.

5. India received highest FDI from Singapore in 2023-24.

6. Environmentalists established India's first biosphere within a tiger

reserve.

7. RBI organizing 'HaRBInger 2024 – Innovation for Transformation' global

hackathon.

8. India ranked 129th in Global Hunger Index 2024.

9. India ranks 176th in Environmental Performance Index 2024.

10. India invited as 'Outreach Country' at G7 summit.

11. PM Modi to certify over 30,000 self-help groups as Krishi Sakhis in

Varanasi.

12. RBI cancelled licence of Purvanchal Cooperative Bank Ltd, Ghazipur.

13. PM Modi celebrated 10th International Day of Yoga in Srinagar.

14. PM Modi inaugurated new campus of Nalanda University at Rajgir,

Bihar.

15. Calcutta HC directed West Bengal for 1% reservation for transgender

persons in public employment.

16. K Suresh named pro tem speaker of 18th Lok Sabha.

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NATIONAL

17. India ranked 63rd on WEF's Energy Transition Index 2024.

18. Union Cabinet approved Rs 76,220 crore all-weather port in

Vadhavan, Maharashtra.

19. Union Cabinet approved Rs 2,869.65 crore for Lal Bahadur Shastri
International Airport expansion in Varanasi.

20. ADB approved $170 million loan to improve India's health system.

21. India ranked 15th in World Investment Ranking 2023.

22. India aims to operate Mongla Port in Bangladesh.

23. ECI announced 65.79% voter turnout in recent Lok Sabha elections.

24. Pramod Kumar Mishra is principal secretary to PM Modi.

25. World Bank predicts India's GDP growth rate at 6.6% for FY25.

26. Lok Sabha introduced 'anti-paper leak' bill.

27. Indian Railways entered Limca Book of Records for public service
event attendance.

28. Union Cabinet approved National Forensic Infrastructure

Enhancement Scheme.

29. India-IORA Cruise Tourism Conference held in New Delhi.

30. Mumbai is India's costliest city for expatriates in Mercer's 2024 Cost
of Living survey.

31. India to start e-medical visa for Bangladeshi nationals.

32. Army Hospital, New Delhi, opened a state-of-the-art skin bank

facility.
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STATES

1. Sikkim High Court introduces menstrual leave policy for female

employees.

2. Kerala integrates AI learning into Class 7 ICT textbooks.

3. Bank of Maharashtra's Maha Krishi Samrudhi Yojana supports

agricultural development.

4. Nagi and Nakti Bird Sanctuaries in Bihar recognized as Ramsar sites on

World Environment Day.

5. Model polling booth established at Tashigang serving 62 voters.

6. Mumbai cop Krishna Prakash honored with Hindi Sahitya Bharati

Award.

7. Plastic recycling plant opens in Changgu, East Sikkim under Army's

Sadbhavna initiative.

8. N. Chandrababu Naidu sworn in as Andhra Pradesh CM; Mohan Charan

Majhi as Odisha CM.

9. Pema Khandu takes oath as Arunachal Pradesh CM for third

consecutive term.

10. Assam introduces 'Nijut Moina' scheme to discourage child marriages.

11. Amaravati announced as Andhra Pradesh's capital by N. Chandrababu

Naidu.

12. Punjab police, BSF, and Village Defence Committees launch 'Mission
Nishchay' against drug trafficking.
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STATES

13. Approval granted for new IIM near Guwahati, Assam.

14. Jharkhand launches Swami Vivekananda Nishakta Swavlamban

Protsahan Yojana.

15. Uttar Pradesh launches Family ID portal under 'One Family One
Identity' scheme.

16. Uttar Pradesh to establish world's first Asian king vulture

conservation and breeding centre in Maharajganj.

17. Tamil Nadu announces Chief Minister’s Mannuyir Kaathu Mannuyir

Kaappom Scheme.

18. Uttar Pradesh to establish new tiger reserve in Pilibhit.

19. Gujarat has highest installed wind power capacity in India, followed
by Tamil Nadu.

20. Maharashtra launches Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Behan scheme for

women.

21. Uttar Pradesh plans to build bioplastic park in Lakhimpur Kheri area.
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INTERNATIONAL
1. Japanese researchers create world's first wooden satellite,
LignoSat.

2. South Korea launches its space agency, Korea AeroSpace

Administration (KASA).

3. Mexico elects first female president, preliminary results show

Claudia Sheinbaum.

4. Philippines' Kanlaon volcano erupts, sending a 5km ash cloud into

the sky.

5. UN General Assembly elects Philemon Yang as president for its 79th

session starting in September.

6. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres adds Israel’s military to list

of violators against children.

7. Nvidia surpasses Apple to become world's second-most valuable

company; Microsoft becomes most valuable.

8. Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia gain seats on the

UN Security Council.

9. Peru and Slovakia sign Artemis Accords for responsible space

exploration.

10. UN declares 2025 as International Year of Quantum Science and

Technology.

11. Cyril Ramaphosa sworn in for second term as South Africa's

president.

12. Peter Pellegrini sworn in as president of Slovakia.

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APPOINTMENTS

1. Vijayabharathi Sayani appointed Acting Chairperson of NHRC.

2. RBI forms panel led by Abhaya Hota to combat payment frauds.

3. Lt. Gen. Upendra Dwivedi appointed next Chief of Army Staff,

succeeding Gen. Manoj Pande.

4. Japan-India maritime exercise (Jimex 24) starts at Yokosuka, Japan.

5. Jyoti Vij appointed Director General of Ficci.

6. Annurag Batra elected as Member of International Academy of

Television Arts & Sciences.

7. Manoj Jain takes charge as CMD of Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).

8. Atul Kumar Chaudhary appointed next Secretary of TRAI.

9. Jetha Ahir elected uncontested as Chairman of NAFED.

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SUMMARY
SPORTS

1. GM R Praggnanandhaa defeats Magnus Carlsen in classical chess for

the first time.

2. Tanvi Sharma wins Bonn International badminton tournament,

defeating Wang Pei Yu.

3. Dinesh Karthik announces retirement from representative cricket on

his 39th birthday.

4. FIDE World Junior Chess Championship 2024 begins in Radisson GIFT

City, Gujarat.

5. Divya Deshmukh wins World Junior Girls Chess Championship with a

live rating of 2464 Elo.

6. Nayana James wins gold in women’s long jump at Taiwan Athletics

Open 2024; DP Manu wins gold in men’s javelin throw.

7. Nar Singh and Rohini Lokhande awarded Dilip Bose award for lifetime
achievement by AITA.

8. Sarabjot Singh wins gold in men's 10m air pistol at ISSF World Cup 2024
in Munich.

9. Iga Swiatek wins 2024 French Open women's title in Paris.

10. Carlos Alcaraz becomes youngest man to win Grand Slam on all
surfaces by winning French Open.

11. Sumit Nagal wins Heilbronner Neckarcup ATP Challenger title, his
sixth ATP Challenger title.

12. Puja Tomar becomes first Indian to win a fight at UFC, defeating
Rayanne dos Santos.

13. Aman Sehrawat wins silver at Polyak Imre and Varga Janos Memorial
2024 wrestling tournament in Budapest.

14. Reetika Hooda wins silver in women's 76kg division at Polyak Imre and
Varga Janos Memorial 2024 wrestling tournament.

15. Max Verstappen wins Canadian Grand Prix in Formula 1 for Red Bull
Racing.
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SPORTS
16. India to host FIH Hockey Men's Junior World Cup in December 2025
with 24 teams participating.

17. Shruti Vora becomes first Indian to win a three-star Grand Prix
equestrian event.

18. Gudakesh Motie and Chamari Athapaththu win ICC Men's and
Women's Player of the Month awards for May 2024.

19. Lockie Ferguson bowls four maidens and takes three wickets in a T20I
against Papua New Guinea.

20. Trent Boult announces retirement from international cricket after

New Zealand's T20 World Cup campaign.

21. Neeraj Chopra wins gold in men's javelin throw at Paavo Nurmi Games
2024 in Turku, Finland.

22. Magnus Carlsen wins sixth Norway Chess title; Ju Wenjun wins
inaugural women's event.

23. Nayana James wins gold in women's long jump at Taiwan Athletics
Open 2024.

24. Dhiraj Bommadevara wins two bronze medals at Archery World Cup
Stage III in Antalya, Turkey.

25. Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Aditi Swami, and Parneet Kaur win gold
medals at Archery World Cup Stage III in Antalya, Turkey.

26. Sreeja Akula becomes first Indian table tennis player to win WTT
Contender singles title in Lagos.

27. Pat Cummins takes consecutive hat-tricks in T20 World Cup 2024
matches against Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

28. David Warner announces international retirement after Australia's

exit from T20 World Cup 2024.

29. Shafali Verma becomes first woman to score over 200 runs in a day's
play in a Test match against South Africa.
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AWARDS

1. NIMHANS in Bengaluru receives Nelson Mandela Award for Health

Promotion 2024 from WHO.

2. Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh honored posthumously with UN's Dag

Hammarskjold medal.

3. Sanya Malhotra wins Best Actress award at New York Indian Film
Festival for "Mrs."

4. Vellayan Subbiah awarded EY World Entrepreneur of the Year 2024.

5. SEBI awarded 'Best Conduct of Business Regulator' in Asia Pacific by

The Asian Banker.

6. Vinod Ganatra first Indian to receive Nelson Mandela Lifetime

Achievement Award.

7. "The Golden Thread" directed by Nishita Jain wins Best Documentary at

Mumbai International Film Festival.

8. Siddhesh Sakore named Land Hero by UNCCD for founding AGRO

RANGERS in Maharashtra.

9. Arundhati Roy awarded PEN Pinter prize by British Library.

10. Sanjana Thakur wins 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for
"Aishwarya Rai".
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DEFENCE
1. INS Mysore celebrates Silver Jubilee, marking 25 years of service in the
Eastern Fleet.

2. Sub-Lieutenant Anamika B. Rajeev becomes Indian Navy's first woman

helicopter pilot, awarded 'Golden Wings'.

3. The Indian Army launches Vidyut Rakshak, an IoT-enabled integrated

generator tracking and protection system.

4. The Indian Army receives the first batch of indigenous "suicide drones,"
named "Nagastra-1".

5. Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani appointed Vice Chief of Army Staff,

succeeding Lt Gen Dwivedi.

6. The Indian Army launches 'Vidyut Rakshak', an integrated generator

monitoring system developed by the Army Design Bureau.

7. The eighth edition of Japan-India Maritime Exercise 2024 (JIMEX 24)

starts in Yokosuka, Japan.

8. Indian Navy conducts major operational-level exercise TROPEX 2023

across the Indian Ocean Region.
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SCIENCE AND TECH

1. Indian space startup Agnikul Cosmos launches first sub-orbital test

vehicle with world’s first single-piece 3D-printed rocket engine.

2. ISRO develops Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software PraVaHa

for aerospace vehicle aerodynamic analysis.

3. Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams flies to space for third time

aboard Boeing's Starliner to International Space Station; mission
commanded by Butch Wilmore.

4. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko becomes first person to spend

1,000 days in space.

5. ISRO partners with French space agency CNES to develop TRISHNA

satellite for climate data collection.

6. Scientists from Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) discover three new

craters on Mars: Lal, Mursan, and Hilsa craters in Tharsis volcanic region.

7. ISRO prepares for TRISHNA mission to track water stress, water use,
and water quality with advanced satellites.

8. ISRO achieves third consecutive success in Reusable Launch Vehicle

(RLV) Landing Experiment (LEX).

9. Railway Protection Force chief Manoj Yadava launches Sangyaan App,

providing information on three new criminal laws effective from July 1.
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Books

1. Alpana Killawala: "A Fly on the RBI Wall" (Raghuram Rajan's early
days)

2. Bill Gates: "Source Code - My Beginnings" (memoir, out Feb)

3. Ravichandran Ashwin: "I Have the Streets" (autobiography)

MISCELLANEOUS

1. Renowned sarod maestro Rajeev Taranath passed away at the age

of 92 in Mysuru due to age-related illness.
Accept that you are not perfect but who you are is already enough, that along this journey you are going to fall down sometimes
and you will make mistakes. Not everything will work out exactly how you plan and that is why some days you will feel
heartbroken as well. But that is okay because irrespective of how things turn out, in your heart you will know you have given
your best and you are strong enough to start again. And as you make plans for the journey from here onwards, remember this
when you feel discouraged and stuck: even if you fail to achieve all the things on your list, you will still have value on this earth
and no matter what happens, neither your achievements nor your failures will ever define your worth.
-Dhiman
Thankoo ;)