Current Affairs for WBPSC Clerkship

2024

January to October ( first week )

Today's Topic :
1. Awards and Honours
2. First Indian India and World
3. Appointments
4. Sports CA
5. Military Exercise
6. Summits
7. Reports and Indices
8. Miscellaneous Current Affairs

Awards and Honours of 2024

1. 54th Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2022 : Mithun
Chakraborty
First Awardee - Devika Rani (1969)

2. Miss Universe India 2024 - Rhea Singha.

3. Swach Vayu Sarvekshan Awards 2024 - Surat .

4. Raman Magsaysay Award ( Asian Nobel) - 5

people
● Karma Phuntso ( Bhutan)
● N. T. N. Phuong ( Vietnam)
● Farwiza Farhan ( Indonesia)
● Miyazaki Hayao ( Japan )
● Rural Doctors Movement ( Thailand)

5. IIFA 2024 Awards ( Abu Dhabi)

Best film : Animal
Best Actor : Shah Rukh Khan
Best Actress : Rani Mukherjee
Best Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra

6. Singapore Literature Award - Prashanti Ram.

7. 12th Viswa Hindi Samman : Dr. Usha Thakur.

8. Pen Pinter Prize 2024 : Arundhati Roy.

9. Shaw Prize in Astronomy : Srinivas Kulkarni.

10. Rashtriya Vigyan Purashkar 2024 : First

Edition
Total Awardee: 33
Vigyan Team Award - ISRO - Chandrayan 3 Team
Vigyan Ratna Award - G. Padmanabhan
Vigyan Sri : 13 Scientist
Vigyan Yuva : 18 young scientists

11. Prestigious Olympic Order by International

Olympic Committee - Abhinav Bindra

12. Prestigious Olympic Order in Gold for Paris

Olympic success : Emanuel Macron.

13. Shahitya Academy Fellowship Prize 2024 -

Ruskin Bond

14. Nelson Mandela Lifetime Achievement Award -

Vinod Ganatra

15. Bharat Ratna 2024–

i. Karpuri Thakur .
ii. M.S.Swaminathan
iii. P.V. Narasimha Rao.
iv. Chaudhury Charan Singh.
v. L.K.Advani.

16. Padma Awards 2024– 132 people.

5 Padma Vibhusan.
17 Padma Bhushan
110 Padmashri.

17. Padma Vibhusan

i. M.Venkaiya Naidu.
ii. Ms. Padma Subhramaniyam.
iii. Vaijantimala Bali.
iv. Bindeswar Pathak ( Posthumous)
v. K. Chiranjibi.

18. Goldman Environmental Prize won(Green

Nobel) - Alok Shukla for Chhattisgarh Bachao
Andolon.

19. Whitley Gold Award won ( Green Oscar) -

Purnima Devi.

20. 58th Jnanpith award 2023 – Jagatguru

Rambhadracharya and Sanskrit Scholar Gulzar
21. Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award : Chirag
Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy .

22. Dronacharya Award :

1.Ganesha Prabhakaran ( Mallakhamb)
2. Mahabir Saini ( Para athletics)
3. Lalit Kumar ( wrestling)
4. R.B Ramesh ( chess)
5. Shivendra Singh.

23. Arjuna Award : 26 people.

● Md. Shami
● Divyakirti Singh

24. 96th Oscar 2024:

1. Best Picture: Oppenheimer
2.Best Actor: Chilian Morphy ( Oppenheimer)
3.Best Actress: Emma Stone ( Poor Things)
4.Best Director: Christopher Nolan

25 . 81 Golden Globes 2024:

1. Best Picture: Oppenheimer
2.Best Actor: Chilian Morphy
3.Best Director: Christopher Nolan

26. 77th Bafta Awards 2024:

1. Best Picture: Oppenheimer
 2.Best Actor : Chilian Morphy
3.Best Actress: Emma Stone
4.Best Director: Christopher Nolan

27. Miss World 2024 – Krystyna Pryszkova. (

Czech Republic )

28. Saraswati Samman 2023 : Prabha Verma for

Roudra Satwikam.

29. Abel Prize 2024: Michel Talagrand.

30. Pritzker Architecture Prize 2024: Riken

Yamamoto.

31. 70th National Film Awards 2024 -

Best Actor : Rishav Shetty
Best Actress : Nitya Menon , Manasi Parekh, Best
Film : Attam
Best Director : Sooraj Barjatya

32. International Booker Prize : German Author

Jenny Erpenbeck and Translator Michael
Hofmann for ‘ KAIROS'

33. Lata Mangeskar Purashkar 2024: Amitabh

Bacchan.
34. International Literature Prize : Kannad Poet
Mamta G. Sagar

35. Roman Rolland Book Prize won - Pankaj

Kumar Chaterjee

36. Aryabhatta Award: Pavuluri Subbarao.

37. World Press Photo of the year : Mahammad

Salem.

38. Sangita Kalanidhi Purashkar: T.M.Krishna

39. G.D. Birla award 2023 for scientific research:

Aditi Sen De.

40. 14th Swaminathan Award : B.R.Kamboj.

41. Cannes Film Festival 2024 :

Best Actress award - Anusuya Sengupta for her
film “Shameless”.
Grand Prix Award -
Payal Kapadia’s film “All We imagine as Light”

42. Golden Sand Master Award - Sudarshan

Pattanaik
43. Laureus Sportsman of the Year Award- Novak
Djokovic

44. Laureus Sportswoman of the Year Award-

Aitana Bonanati.

45. 2024 Young Global Leader award- Adwaita

Nayar.

46. GovTech award for AI- Powered road safety

initiative won - India.

47. Order of the Druk Gyalpo award: Narendra

Modi

48. Fiji & Timor Leste’s highest civilian award -

Draupadi Murmu

49.Film Fare award 2024

1. Best Actor: Ranbir Kapoor

2.Best Actress: Alia Bhat
3.Best Film:12th Fail
4.Best Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
50. Dada Saheb Phalke International Film Festival
Awards 2024:

1. Best Film: Jawan.

2.Best Film ( critics) : 12th Fail.
3.Best actor: Shah Rukh Khan
4.Best actress: Rani Mukherjee
5.Best director: Sandip Reddy Banga.

51. Best state tableau award of 2024 Republic

Day: Odisha. (
Theme : Woman empowerment and vikshit
Bharat.)

52. Cleanest city of India in Swachha Sarvekshan

award : Surat and Indore.

53. First Indian woman honoured with Arjuna

Award for Equestrian: Divyakirti Singh.

54. ICC Men's cricketer of the Year 2024 : Pat

Cummings.

55. ICC Men's ODI cricketer of the Year 2024 :

Virat Kohli.
56. ICC Men's test cricketer of the Year 2024:
Usman Khawaja.

57. FIFA Player of the Year 2024:

Men's: Lionel Messi.
Women's: Aitana Bonanati.

58. Indian of the Year 2023 : ISRO.

59. Tenzing Norgay adventure award: Savita

Kanswal.

60. Kuvempu national award 2023 : Shirshendu

Mukhopadhya .

61. 66th Annual Grammy awards 2024:

1. Record of the Year: Flowers, Milley Cyrus.
2.Album of the Year: Midnights , Tylor Swift.
3.Song of the Year: What was I made for

62. P.V. Narasimha Rao memorial award: Ratan

Tata.

63. Erasmus Prize 2024: Amitabh Ghosh.

64. World Craft City Award - Srinagar.

65. India's first IAF Woman Officer to receive
Gallantry Award- Dipika Mishra.

FIRST in INDIA & the WORLD

1. India's first Namo Bharat Rapid Rail has been

run between: Bhuj & Ahmedabad.

2. World's tallest bamboo tower : Chattisgarh (

Kathia village)

3. India's first CO2 to Methanol Pilot Plant :

Thermax Ltd. in Pune.

4. World's first Jatayu Conservation and Breeding

centre : Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh

5. India's first Rice ATM - Odisha. ( Annapurti

Grain ATM)
6. Northeast India’s first cultural UNESCO World
Heritage site - Charaideo Maidam of Ahom
Dynasty.(43rd )

7. India's first UNESCO ‘city of literature’ -

Kozhikode.

8. India's first Quantum Diamond microchip

imager developed by - IIT Bombay.

9. India's first Constitution Museum - Jindal

Global University.

10. Youngest Asian to conquer Mt. Kilmanjaro -

Tegbir Singh.

11. India's first Pollution Control Vessel ‘Samudra

Pratap’ launched by - Goa Shipyard.

12. India exported first time BrahMos supersonic

cruise missile to - Phillipines.

13. India's first copper clad tallest Bapu Tower

installed in - Patna.

14. World's first wooden satellite ‘LignoSat’ built

by - Japan .
15. First Person to spend 1000 days in space - Oleg
Kononenko.

16. First International Day of Play - 11th June.

17. India's first National Dolphin Research Centre

- Patna.

18. First Country in the World to lose all its

glaciers in May 2024 , according to International
Cryosphere Climate Initiative - Venezuela.

19. India's first Research Centre to study

Norwesters - Odisha.

20. First country to introduce vaccine for

Meningitis - Nigeria.

21.India's first melanistic (Black) Tiger Safari –

Shimlipal Tiger Reserve, Odisha

22. India's first Coal Gasification Pilot Project -

Jharkhand

23. World's Highest Arch Bridge - Jammu and

Kashmir ( Chenab river)
24. World's first country to impose carbon tax on
gassy cattle - Denmark

25. India's first Integrated Agri Export Facility to

be established at - Jawharlal Nehru Port .

26. India's first astro tourism campaign

“Nakshatra Sabha” - Uttarakhand

27. World's first Om shaped Temple - Rajasthan

28. World's largest renewable energy park -

Gujarat

29. India's first driverless metro train - Bengaluru

30. First Lunar railway system on the moon -

NASA

31. India's first state to Pass law to implement

Uniform Civil Code - Uttarakhand.

32. World's first Vedic Clock - Ujjain

33. India's first home- grown gene therapy for
cancer, ‘CAR-T’ cell therapy launched by - IIT
Bombay .

34. India's first multi-purpose green hydrogen

pilot project inaugurated at - Nathpa Jhakri Hydro
Power Station in Himachal Pradesh.

35. India's first under water metro - Kolkata

under Hooghly river.

36. India's first city which launched Zero Carbon

Building Action Plan - Nagpur.

37. India's first Ayurvedic cafe “ Soma- The

Ayurvedic kitchen” inaugurated in- Delhi.

38. India's first Solar Roof Cycling track

inaugurated in - Hydrabad.

39. India's first wetland city - Udaipur.

40. India's first AI Chatbot powered by ChatGTP -

Lexi.

41. India's first intra-nasal COVID 19 vaccine-

iNCOVACC, developed by Bharat Biotech.
42. India's first constitution park inaugurated in -
Pune

43. India's first Liquid Mirror Telescope

inaugurated in - Uttarakhand.

44. India's first Solar City - Sanchi of MP.

45. World's first portable hospital unveiled by -

India ( Arogya Maitri Cube).

46. World's highest motorable road (Likaru Mig

La Fukche) - Ladakh

47. Asia's largest desalination plant - Tamil Nadu.

48. India's first Green Energy State by 2025-

Himachal Pradesh.

49. India's first Graphene center “India's

Innovation center for Graphene” (IICG) has been
inaugurated at - Makar village of Kochi.

50. India's first indigenously developed Hepatitis

A vaccine ,Havi-Sure launched by Indian
Immunological Limited.
51. India's first cable stayed rail bridge- Jammu
and Kashmir. ( Anji khad)

52. India's longest Cable stayed bridge (

Sudarshan Bridge) - Gujarat’s Dwarka.

53. India's first All Girl Sainik School- Vrindavan

of Uttar Pradesh.

54. India's longest Sea Bridge- Atal Setu connects

Mumbai and Navi Mumbai.

55. First ever skill India centre- Sambalpur ,

Odisha.

56. India's first International multi modal logistic

park - Assam's Jogighopa.

57. India's first fully e-Governance state - Kerala.

58. India's first under sea tunnel- Mumbai. (

Connects Gurgaon to Priyadarsini park )

59. First Indian state to have 100% electrified

railway network- Haryana.
60. India's first 3D printed post office - Bengaluru.

61. World's first Bamboo Crash Barrier-

Maharashtra.

62. India's first liquefied natural gas ( LNG)

powered Bus - Maharashtra.

63. India's first and largest Battery Energy Storage

System ( BESS) gigafactory - Jammu and Kashmir.

64. India's first indigenously manufacturerd

Dristhi 10 “Starliner” unmanned aerial vehicle
launched by - Adani Defence and Aerospace.

65. India's first transshipment port - Vizhinjam

Port, Kerala

66. First Indian space tourist- Gopi Thotakura.

67. World's largest plant to absorb CO2 - Iceland

68. World's first CNG motorcycle - Bajaj Auto (

Freedom 125 )

69. First Woman fighter Pilot to fly “LCA Tejas” –

Mohana Singh
70. First Woman Naval Helicopter Pilot –
Anamika Rajeev

National Appointment

1. New Governor appointed by President Draupadi

Murmu :
1. Telengana– Jishnu Dev Verma .
2.Rajasthan – Haribhau Kishanrao Bagde .
3.Maharashtra – C. P. Radhakrishna .
4.Assam – Lakshman Prasad Acharya.
5.Jharkhand – Santosh Kumar Gangwar
6.Punjab – Gulab Chand Kataria
7. Chhattisgarh – Ramen Deka
8. Puducherry – K Kailashnath.
9.Sikkim - Om Prakash Mathur
10. Meghalaya – C. H. Vijayshankar.

2. Newly Elected Chief Minister of India:

1. Jammu and Kashmir – Omar Abdullah
2.Delhi – Atishi
 3.Andhra Pradesh – N. Chandrababu Naidu
4.Odisha – Mohan Charan Majhi
5.Jharkhand– Hemant Soren
6.Haryana–Nayeb Singh Saini

3. UPSC Chairperson – Priti Sudan

4. Chairman and CEO of Railway Board – Satish

Kumar

5. Head Coach of Indian National Cricket Team

(men's)– Gautam Gambhir

6. First Woman DG of CSIR – N. Kalaiselvi

7. Chairperson of National Medical Commission –

B. N. Gangadhar

8. New Lokpal of India – A.M.Khanwilkar

9. 27th Chairman of State Bank of India – C. S.

Shetty

10. Head of Central Industrial Security Force –

Rajwinder Singh Bhatti
11. Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India ( TRAI) – Anil Kumar Lahoti

12. Chief of Indian Navy– Dinesh Kumar Tripathi

13. Chief of Indian Army - Upendra Diwedi

14. Chief of Indian Airforce - Air Marshal Amar

Preet Singh.

15. Director of NCRB – Alok Ranjan

16. 16th Finance Commission – Arvind Panagariya

17. DG of NCB – Anurag Garg

18. Chief of Central Board of Secondary Education

(CBSE )- Rahul Singh

19. Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC)

– Rakesh Ranjan

20. Permanent Representative of India to the

United Nations – P. Harish (14th August)

21. First Female Jury member at Paris Olympics–

Bilquis Mir
22. President of ASSOCHAM (Associated
Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) –
Sanjay Nayar.

23. New Chairperson of NASSCOM – Sindhu

Gangadharan.

24. D.G of Press Information Bureau - Dhirendra

Ojha

25. Chairman of SIDBI – Manoj Mittal

26. DG of Assam Rifles (Formation - 1835) –

Vikash Lakhera

27. CMD of National Small Industries Corporation

Limited - Subhranshu Sekhar Acharya

28. First woman DGP of Northeast India -

Idashisha Nongrang

29. Chairman of National Council of Scheduled

Caste (NCSC) – Kishore Makhwana

30. India's New Cabinet Secretary – T. V.

Somanathan
31. Director General of Sasatra Seema Bal (SSB) –
Amrit Mohan Prasad

32. DG of BSF – Daljit Singh Chaudhury

33. D.G of National Security Guard – Bhrigu

Srinivasan

34. D.G of National Investigation Agency–

Sadanand Vasant Date

35. Chief of National Disaster Response Force –

Piyush Anand

36. CRPF Chief– Anish Dayal Singh

37. NALSA executive Chairperson( National Legal

Services Authority)– Sanjiv Khanna

38. New Chairman of Institute of Chartered

Accounts of India (ICAI) – Ranjeet Kumar
Agarwal

39. New Election Commissioner – Gyanesh Kumar

and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu.
40. Indian Army's first woman subedar– Priti
Rajak.

41. Director of Enforcement Directorate – Rahul

Navin

42. National Ambassador for UNICEF India –

Karina Kapoor

43. ITBP Chief – Rahul Rasogotra

International Appointments

44. First Indian Ambassador of International

Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Foundation –
Sharath Kamal

45. 79th President of UNGA - Philemon Yang

46. First woman High Commissioner of U.K to

India– Lindy Cameron

47. New President of International Court of

Justice – Lebanese Judge Nawaf Salam.
48. Executive Director of Asian Development
Bank– Vikash Sheel.

49 Secretary General of BIMSTEC– Indra Moni

Pandey.

50. New Secretary General of NATO - Mark Rutte

51. President of FATF - Elisa de Anda Madrazo

Newly Elected Prime Minister :

52. Prime Minister of Nepal - KP Oli

53. Prime Minister of Japan – Shigeru Ishiba

54. Prime Minister of France – Michel Barnier

55. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka – Harini

Amarasuriya

56. Prime Minister of Jordan – Jaffar Hasan

57. Prime Minister of Netharlands - Dick Schoof

58. Prime Minister of Croatia- Andrej Plenkovic.

59. Prime Minister of UK - Keir Starmer

60. Youngest Prime Minister of Thailand -

Paetongtarn Shinawatra

61. Head of Bangladesh’s Interim Government -

Md. Yunus

62. Youngest Prime Minister of Ireland– Simon

Harris

63. Prime Minister of Iceland– Bjarni Benedikson

64. Prime Minister of Russia- Mikhail Mishustin.

65. Prime Minister of Singapore- Lawrence Wong.

66. Prime Minister of Bulgaria - Dimitar Glavchev.

67. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan– Olzhas

Bektenov

68. First female Prime Minister of Democratic

Republic of Congo– Judith Tuluka
69. Prime Minister of Yemen– Ahmed Award Bin
Mubarak.

70. Prime Minister of Pakistan– Shehbaz Sharif

71. Prime Minister of Portugal–Luis Montenegro

72. Prime Minister of Tuvalu– Feleti Penitala Teo.

73. Prime Minister of Peru – Gustavo Lino

Adrianzen Olaya

74. Prime Minister of Bhutan – Tsering Tobgay

Newly Elected President:

75. President of Srilanka – Anura Kumara

Dissanayaka

76. President of Iran - Masaud Pezeshkian

77. President of Vietnam - Lo Tam

78. President of Slovakia– Peter Pelegrini.

79. President of Azerbaijan– Ilhab Aliyev

80. President of Pakistan–Asif Ali Zardari.

81. President of Egypt–Abdul Fateh Al Sisi

82. First Woman President of Mexico - Claudia

Sheinbaum

83. President of Russia– Vladimir Putin

84. President of El Salvador– Nayib Bukele.

85. President of Hungary– Tomas Sulyok.

86. President of Finland– Alexander Stubb

87. President of Indonesia– Prabwo Subianto

88. President of South Africa - Cyril Ramaposha

Sports Current Affairs

1. 45th Chess Olympiad 2024 ( Budapest) :

 ● The Indian Men's team won Gold Medal
against Slovenia
● The Indian Women's Chess Team won Gold
Medal against Azerbaijan

2. Asian Champions Trophy 2024 Winner - India's

Men's Hockey Team.

3. Vice-President of Athletes Commission of

International Olympic Committee – Abhinav
Bindra

4. ICC Chairman - Jay Shah

5. Paris Olympic 2024 :

India - 6 medals (71st Position)
● Manu Bhaker (Bronze)
● Manu Bhaker & Sarobjit Singh (Bronze)
● Swapnil Kushale (Bronze)
● Aman Shehrawat (Bronze)
● Neeraj Chopra (Silver)
● Men's Hockey Team (Bronze)

6. Paris Paralympic 2024

India's position 18th with 29 Medals ( 7G + 9S +
13B)
7.2028 Olympic Games - Los Angeles

8. 2032 Olympic Games - Brisbane

9. 2026 Commonwealth Games - Scotland

10. Shruti Vora first Indian rider to win a three

star Grand Prix Event .

11. Fastest double century in Women's Test Cricket

- Shephali Verma

12. ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024

● Winner - India
● Runners-up- South Africa
● Player of the Series- Jasprit Bumrah
● Most Runs - R. Gurbaz ( 281 runs )
● Most Wickets -Arshdeep Singh and Fazalhaq
Farooqi (17 Wickets)

13. ICC Women's T20 World Cup, host country -

UAE

14. Euro Cup 2024 - Spain

15. Copa America 2024 - Argentina

16. Asian Billiards Championship – Dhruv Sitwala

17. Asian Gymnastics Championship 2024 - Dipa

Karmakar ( first ever Indian to secure gold medal)

18. TATA IPL 2024 Winner - Kolkata Knight

Riders.
● Orange Cup- Virat Kohli (741)
● Purple Cup - Harshal Patel (24)

19. 63rd Subroto Cup 2024 - Manipur’s TG English

School

20. 133rd Durand Cup 2024 - North East United

Football Club

21. Ranji Trophy 2024 won - Mumbai

22. Santosh Trophy 2024 - Services

23. Women Premier League 2024 - RCB

24. First Indian to hit 500 T20 sixes - Rohit

Sharma

25. India's Flag bearer at Paris Olympics 2024-

Sharat Kamal
26. Torchbearer of the Paris Olympics 2014 -
Abhinav Bindra

27. Australian Open 2024-

Men - Jannik Sinner
Women - Aryana Sabalenka

28. French Open 2024

Men - Carlos Alkaros
Women - Iga Swiatek

29. Wimbledon Open 2024 -

Men - Carlos Alkaros
Women - Barbora Krejcikova

30. US Open 2024

Men - Jannik Sinner
Women - Aryana Sabalenka

31. Oldest Male player to win a Grand Slam Title -

Rohan Bopanna ( Australian Open)

32. Fastest Century in T20 History- Jan Nickol

Loftie Eaton (33 balls)

33. Thomas Cup 2024 won - China

34. Uber Cup 2024 won - China

35. SAFF U-17 Winner - India

36. SAAF U-20 Winner - Bangladesh

37. Annual Hockey India 2023

● Best Man player - Hardik Singh
● Best woman player- Salima Tete
● Best Goalkeeper - P. R. Sreejesh.

38. ICC Men's Cricket World Cup won - Australia

39. ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup Title won -

Australia

40. 37th National Games host city - Goa

Maximum medal - Maharashtra

41. ICC Men's T20 World Cup Ambassador-

Yuvraj Singh

42. Oldest no 1 in ATP rankings history- Novak

Djokovic ( Tennis )

43. United Cup won - Germany.

44. Sunil Chhetri recently retired, He is a
Footballer

45. Forbes World's Highest Paid Athletes -

Ronaldo

46. Women's Champion League 2024 - Barcelona,

Spain

47. Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix 2024 - Max

Verstappen.

48. Norway Chess Tournament 2024 - Magnus

Carlson

49. First Indian to win a fight in UFC - Pooja

Tomar

50.
● ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year - Pat
Cummings.
● ICC Men's ODI Cricketer of the Year - Virat
Kohli
● ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year - Usman
Khawaja
51. UEFA Champions League 2024 won - Real
Madrid ( Spanish League)

52. Indian Super League 2023 won - Mumbai City

FC

53. Sultan Azlan Shah Trophy won ( hockey) -

Japan

54. 85th Chess Grandmaster of India - P.

Shyamnikhil

55. Federation Cup 2024 , Neeraj Chopra won -

Gold Medal

56. Women's Asia Cup 2024 will host - Sri Lanka

57. First FIH Men's Hockey 5s World Cup 2024 -

Netherlands

Books & Authors

1. The Book of Compassion – Dalai Lama and

Kailash Satyarthi
2. Source Code – Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates

3. I have the Streets – Ravichandran Ashwin

4. Echoes of Faith – Ashok Lavasa and Novel

Lavasa

5. Smoke and Ashes , Made in India – Amitabh

Ghosh

6. An Uncommon Love – Chitra Banerjee

Divakaruni

7. Knife is written by -
Salman Rushdie

8. The Winner's Mindset - Shane Watson.

9. Unequal- Swati Narayan.

10. The Cooking of Books - Ramchandra Guha.

11. Just a Mercenary -D. Subbarao

12. Golden Years - Ruskin Bond

13. Welcome to Paradise - Twinkle Khanna

14. Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

15. Four Stars of Destiny- Manoj Mukund

Naravne.

16. KAIROS - Jenny Erpenbeck.

17.The Idea of Democracy- Sam Pitroda.

18. Anger Management – Ajay Bisaria

19. The Adventures of Ed a-mamma – Alia Bhatt

17. Ek Samandar Mere Andar - Sanjiv Kumar Joshi

18. Dabbling in Diplomacy - S.D. Muni.

19. ‘Neeraj Chopra’ The Man who Made History-

Norris Pritam.

20. Power Within - R. Balasubramaniam

21. Basic Structure and Republic- Sreedharan

Pillai.
22. Swallowing the Sun - Laxmi Mundeswari .

23. The Conspiracy to oust Mr from the

Presidency- Gotabaya Rajapaksha.

24. India - the Road to Renaissance- Bhimeswara

Challa.

25. Israel War Dairy- Vishal Pandey.

Reports and Indices

1. World Happiness Report 2024

Top - Finland
India's rank - 126
Last rank - Afghanistan

2. Global Peace Index 2024,

India's rank - 116

3. Global Hunger Index 2023

India's Rank - 105/127

4. Human Development Index 2023/24

Top - Switzerland
India's rank- 134 out of 193

5. Artificial Intelligence Preparedness Index 2024

:
India's rank - 72

6. Global Intellectual Property Index 2024

India's rank - 42

7. Environmental Performance Index 2024 :

India's rank – 176

8. World Talent Ranking

India's rank - 58

9. Global Cyber Security Index 2024

India's rank - 1st along with US, Japan , Australia

10. State Food Safety Index

Top Position - Kerala

11. World Press Freedom Index 2023

Top - Norway
India's rank - 159

12. World Cyber Crime Index 2024

Top - Russia
India's rank - 10th

13. Gender Inequality Index 2023 :

Top - Denmark
India's rank - 108/193

14. Democracy Report 2023 :

India's rank 104 out of 179

15. Global Innovation Index 2024 :

Top - Switzerland
India's rank- 39/132

16. Largest Plastic Polluter - India

17. Climate Change Performance Index

India's rank - 7

18. Energy Transition Index 2023

Top - Sweden
India's rank- 63rd

19. Global Gender Gap Index

Top - Iceland
India's rank- 129

20. Corruption Perception Index 2023 :

Top Position - Denmark
India's rank- 93

21. Logistic Performance Index 2023 :

Top - Singapore
India's rank- 38

22. Military Spender Index

Top - USA
India's rank- 4th

23. Most Livable City in the World is - Vienna

In India Most Livable City is – Bengaluru

24. Henley Passport Index 2024

India's rank- 82

Military Exercises of 2024

1. Al Najah Exercise:
India & Oman Joint Military Exercise
2. Yudh Abhyas :
India & US joint Military Exercise

3. Kazind 2024 :
India & Kazakhstan Joint Military Exercise

4. Maitree 2024 :
India and Thailand Military Exercise

5. LAMITIYE 2024 -
India and Seychelles.

6. Nomadic Elephant : India and Mongolia Joint

Military Exercise

7.Dharma Guardian 2024

India and Japan

8. Desert Cyclone 2024:

India and UAE

9. Sayhog Kaijin 2024

India and Japan

10. SADA TANSEEQ:

India and Saudi Arabia

11. Desert Knight 2024

India ,UAE and France.

12. Khanjar 2024

India and Kyrgyzstan

13. Cyclone 2024

India and Egypt.

14. IMT Exercise 2024 :

India, Mozambique and Tanzania.

15. Sea Defenders 2024 :

India and USA

16. DUSTLIK 2024 -

India and Uzbekistan.

17. Samudra Laksmana 2024

India and Malaysia

18. Surya Kiran

India and Nepal .

19. Garuda-V
India and France.

20. Shakti - India and France.

21. Mitra Shakti - India and Sri Lanka

Summits

1. 7th Indian Ocean Conference to be held in -

Perth , Australia.

2. QUAD Leaders Summit 2024 :

Delaware, USA
● India , USA, Japan , Australia launched
Moonshot Cancer initiative.

3. World Air Transport Summit 2025 – India

4. 16th BRICS 2024 host country- Russia (22-24

October)

5. 19th NAM Summit ( Non Aligned Movement)

2024 hosted by Uganda. S.Jaishankar
represented India.

6. 1st Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 - Belgium.

7. 2nd Employment Working Group meeting held
in - Brasilia.

8. Summit for Democracy 2024 - South Korea,

Seoul .

9. 4th SCO meeting ( Sanghai Cooperation

Organisation) 2024 - New Delhi.

10. World Future Energy Summit 2024- Abu

Dhabi.

11. UNESCO World Heritage Committee chaired by

India in New Delhi.

12. International Water Conclave- Shillong

13. 23rd World Sustainable Development Summit

2024 - New Delhi.

14. World Government Summit 2024 - Abu Dhabi.

15. 14th Global Immigration Summit - New Delhi.

16. 9th Raisina Dialogue 2024 - New Delhi.

Chief Guest - Greece's Prime Minister K.
Mitsotakis

17. G7 Meeting 2024 - Italy

Chief guest- Narendra Modi

18. Asian Buddhist Council for Peace- New Delhi.

19. Asia Economic Dialogue 2024 - Pune.

20. WTO Ministerial Conference- Abu Dhabi

Miscellaneous Current Affairs

1. Business Tycoon Ratan Tata passed away on 9

October, 2024 (86 years)
● Udyog Ratna Award of Maharashtra - 2023
● Assam Baibhav 2021
● Padma Vibhushan - 2008
● Padma Bhushan - 2000

2. Assassination of Hezbollah head Hassan

Nasrallah .
3. Classical dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy passed
away .
● Padma Vibhushan - 2016
● Padma Bhushan - 2001
● Padmashree 1968

4. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away on 8th

August was Former Chief Minister of West Bengal.

5. P. Venugopal passed away on 8th October was a

Cardiac Surgeon.

6. R. N. Agarwal (father of Agni missile) passed

away.

7. BHASKAR Scheme launched by Ministry of

Commerce and Industry.

8. New Base year for GDP Computation is

2022-2023 .

9. Remal cyclone - Bay of Bengal.

The name has been given by Oman

10. Cyclone Asna - Arabian Sea.

The name has been given by Pakistan
11. ASMITA Project launched by Education
Ministry and UGC.

12. The Kerala Assembly unanimously passed a

resolution to change the name of the state Kerala
to Keralam.

13. Wayanad landslide deadliest in the history of

Kerala.

14. Paradip port emerges as India's top

cargo-handling port in 2023-24.

15. X-ray polarimeter Satellite launched by ISRO.

16. Mouban honey of West Bengal got GI tag.

17. Hanuman Garhi laddu of Ayodhya got GI tag.

18. Kalari chesse of J&K got GI tag.

19. Matti banana of Tamil Nadu got GI tag.

20. Wancho wooden craft of Arunachal Pradesh

got GI tag.
21. Mexico became the first country in the world to
allow voters to elect Judges.

22. Sudhir Kakar , father of Indian Psychology

died recently.

23. Operation Sadvab will provide humanitarian

assistance to typhoon Yagi affected countries
Mayanmar, Laos , Vietnam.

24. India's first civilian space tourist is Gopichand

Thotakura.

25. Modi inaugurated the 2nd International

Conference on Green hydrogen in Delhi.

26. Hemis Festival celebrated in Ladakh.

27. Karachi puja is a folk festival of Tripura.

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