Current Affairs, September 2024

30th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Veteran Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The actor will be felicitated with the award at the 70th National Film Awards ceremony which will be held on October 8, 2024.
• Indian cricket team star batter Virat Kohli added another record to his already illustrious career as he became the fastest player to reach 27000 international runs during Day 4 of the second Test against Bangladesh in Kanpur on Monday.
• Team India broke the record for fastest team fifty and fastest team hundred by getting there in three overs and ten overs respectively during day four of the second Test in Kanpur on Monday.

27th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• India has moved up to 39th place among 133 global economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2024.
• Food and Public Distribution Minister Pralhad Joshi has said that India has become the World’s third largest Producer and Consumer of Ethanol.
• World Tourism Day is being celebrated across the globe today. The Day is celebrated on 27th of September every year highlighting tourism's role in connecting people and boosting economies.

23rd September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Sri Lanka’s left-leaning leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won the presidential election. This was the first election since the country’s economic collapse in 2022.
• India scripted history as its men's and women's teams clinched their maiden gold medals in the 45th Chess Olympiad after beating their respective opponents in the final round.
• Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies is India's official entry for Oscars 2025.

21st September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh has been appointed as the next Chief of the Air Staff on Saturday. Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh, is presently serving as Vice Chief of the Air Staff.
• Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi today took oath as the new Chief Minister of Delhi. Atishi is the youngest leader to become Delhi's Chief Minister.

20th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• The World Health Organization WHO declared Jordan as the first country in the world to eliminate leprosy, marking a significant milestone in global public health efforts.
• Punjab defeated Uttar Pradesh to clinch the 14th Hockey India Junior Men's National Championship 2024 at the Olympian Surjit Singh Hockey Stadium in Jalandhar.

18th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Union Cabinet on Wednesday cleared the proposal for One Nation One Election. The bill for holding simultaneous polls is likely to be introduced in the upcoming winter session of Parliament.
• Voting in the first phase of the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir is underway with ballots being cast in 24 of the state's 90 constituencies.
• Union Cabinet on Wednesday (September 18, 2024) approved expansion of Chandrayaan-4 Mission to include preparatory measures for eventual manned moon mission. It also approved Venus Orbiter Mission. The decision was confirmed by Union Electronics Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.

17th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Arvind Kejriwal resigned today as the Chief Minister of Delhi. Senior AAP leader Atishi, who is currently serving as the Delhi Education Minister, will take up the top post after Mr Kejriwal steps down.
• Defending champions India completed a fighting 1-0 victory over hosts China to claim their fifth Asian Champions Trophy hockey title.

15th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Onam festival is celebrated with huge fervour in Kerala.
• Engineers' Day is celebrated today to honors the contributions of engineers and commemorates the birth anniversary of Sir M. Visvesvaraya.
• Ace Indian javelin throw athlete Neeraj Chopra finished in second position in Brussels with a best throw of 87.86 m at the Diamond League Final last night.

13th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Veteran Left leader and CPM general secretary Sitaram Yechury died this afternoon. He was 72 and was undergoing treatment for pneumonia at Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
• The Centre has renamed Port Blair, the capital city of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, to 'Shri Vijaya Puram'.

11th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• The Union government has approved health coverage to everyone who is 70 and above under the national insurance scheme Ayushman Bharat. The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a statement said the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) will benefit 4.5 crore families with six crore senior citizens. The free cover is worth ₹ 5 lakh and will be on a family basis.
• In the US Open Tennis, Jannik Sinner clinched his second Grand Slam victory of the year by defeating Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5.

10th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• India concluded its historic campaign with a record 29 medals, including seven gold, nine silver, and 13 bronze. India secured the 18th position in the overall medals table, marking the nation's best-ever showing at the Paralympic Games.
• The GST council has decided to slash Goods and Service Tax (GST) on cancer drugs by reducing the rate from 12% to 5%.

8th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• India's Navdeep Singh bagged the gold medal with a throw of 47.32 metres in the men's javelin event.
• Government has designated senior IAS officer Tuhin Kanta Pandey as Finance Secretary.
• International Literacy Day being celebrated today.
• At the US Open, second seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus outclassed Jessica Pegula in straight sets to claim her maiden US Open title.

6th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• India's Praveen Kumar won the gold medal in the men's high jump T64 event at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, clearing 2.08 meters to claim his second consecutive Paralympic medal. The 21-year-old athlete from Noida, Uttar Pradesh, became only the second Indian, after Mariyappan Thangavelu, to win gold in Paralympic high jump competitions.
• French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier as Prime Minister.
• At at Paris Paralympics 2024 India’s JudoKa Kapil Parmar won bronze medal in Para Judo men’s -60kg J1 category beating Brazil’s Elielton de Oliveira .This is the first medal in this event in India’s history of Paralympics.

5th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Singapore, held delegation-level talks with his Singaporean counterpart, Lawrence Wong, today.
• Teachers’ Day is being celebrated throughout the country today. President Droupadi Murmu confered National Awards to 82 teachers at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi today.
• At the Paris Paralympics 2024, Harvinder Singh created history by winning a Gold in the men’s archery individual recurve open final. He became the first and only Indian archer to clinch a gold medal at the Paralympics or Olympics.

4th September-2024, Current Affairs:

• The Wokha SAATHI (Smart AI-based Assistant for Timely Help & Interface) WhatsApp Chatbot, an innovative initiative of the Wokha District Administration of Nagaland has been awarded the prestigious Gold Award at National Awards for e-Governance Scheme 2023-2024.
• The Indian contingent at Paris Paralympics surged past the record medal haul of 19 medals it had set at the Tokyo Paralympics three years back. In the space of half an hour early on Wednesday, the para athletics contingent won four medals to push the Indian medals tally to 20.

2nd September-2024, Current Affairs:

• The Election Commission has also revised the counting day for both Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections from October 4 to October 8.
• India's Rubina Francis won bronze to bring home the 5th medal for India in the Paris Paralympics on Saturday, 31 August.
• NorthEast United clinched Durand Cup 2024 after defeating MohunBagan Super Giants in the final on August 31 by 4-3 on penalties.

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