Current Affairs topics wise details structured for the month from January to October.
Contents
- 1 Current Affairs Topics
- 2 Sports Current Affairs
- 3 Military Exercises of 2024
- 4 Summits
- 5 Miscellaneous Current Affairs
- 6 Awards and Honours of 2024
- 7 FIRST in INDIA & the WORLD
- 8 National Appointment
- 9 International Appointments
- 10 Newly Elected Prime Minister :
- 11 Newly Elected President:
- 12 Reports and Indices
Current Affairs Topics
- Sports CA
- Military Exercise
- Summits
- Reports and Indices
- Miscellaneous Current Affairs
- Awards and Honours
- First Indian India and World
- Appointments
Sports Current Affairs
- 45th Chess Olympiad 2024 ( Budapest) :● The Indian Men’s team won the Gold Medal
against Slovenia
● The Indian Women’s Chess Team won Gold
Medal against Azerbaijan - Asian Champions Trophy 2024 Winner – India’s
Men’s Hockey Team. - Vice-President of Athletes Commission of
International Olympic Committee – Abhinav
Bindra - ICC Chairman – Jay Shah
- 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) - Paris Paralympic 2024
India’s position 18th with 29 Medals ( 7G + 9S +
13B)7.2028 Olympic Games – Los Angeles - 2032 Olympic Games – Brisbane
- 2026 Commonwealth Games – Scotland
- Shruti Vora first Indian rider to win a three-star Grand Prix Event
- Fastest double century in Women’s Test Cricket
- Shephali Verma
- 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) - ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, host country –
UAE - Euro Cup 2024 – Spain
- Copa America 2024 – Argentina16. Asian Billiards Championship – Dhruv Sitwala
- Asian Gymnastics Championship 2024 – Dipa
Karmakar ( first ever Indian to secure gold medal) - TATA IPL 2024 Winner – Kolkata Knight
Riders.
● Orange Cup- Virat Kohli (741)
● Purple Cup – Harshal Patel (24) - 63rd Subroto Cup 2024 – Manipur’s TG English
School - 133rd Durand Cup 2024 – North East United
Football Club - Ranji Trophy 2024 won – Mumbai
- Santosh Trophy 2024 – Services
- Women Premier League 2024 – RCB
- First Indian to hit 500 T20 sixes – Rohit
Sharma - India’s Flag bearer at Paris Olympics 2024-
Sharat Kamal26. Torchbearer of the Paris Olympics 2014 –
Abhinav Bindra - Australian Open 2024-
Men – Jannik Sinner
Women – Aryana Sabalenka - French Open 2024
Men – Carlos Alkaros
Women – Iga Swiatek - Wimbledon Open 2024 –
Men – Carlos Alkaros
Women – Barbora Krejcikova - US Open 2024
Men – Jannik Sinner
Women – Aryana Sabalenka - Oldest Male player to win a Grand Slam Title –
Rohan Bopanna ( Australian Open) - Fastest Century in T20 History- Jan Nickol
Loftie Eaton (33 balls) - Thomas Cup 2024 won – China34. Uber Cup 2024 won – China
- SAFF U-17 Winner – India
- SAAF U-20 Winner – Bangladesh
- Annual Hockey India 2023
● Best Man player – Hardik Singh
● Best woman player- Salima Tete
● Best Goalkeeper – P. R. Sreejesh. - ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup won – Australia
- ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup Title won –
Australia - 37th National Games host city – Goa
Maximum medal – Maharashtra - ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Ambassador-
Yuvraj Singh - Oldest no 1 in ATP rankings history- Novak
Djokovic ( Tennis ) - United Cup won – Germany
- Forbes World’s Highest Paid Athletes –
Ronaldo - Women’s Champion League 2024 – Barcelona,
Spain - Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix 2024 – Max
Verstappen. - Norway Chess Tournament 2024 – Magnus
Carlson - First Indian to win a fight in UFC – Pooja
Tomar
● 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
Khawaja51. UEFA Champions League 2024 won – Real Madrid ( Spanish League) - Indian Super League 2023 won – Mumbai City
- Sultan Azlan Shah Trophy won ( hockey) -Japan
- 85th Chess Grandmaster of India – P.Shyamnikhil
- Federation Cup 2024, Neeraj Chopra won -Gold Medal
- Women’s Asia Cup 2024 will host – Sri Lanka
- First FIH Men’s Hockey 5s World Cup 2024 -Netherlands
Military Exercises of 2024
- Al Najah Exercise:
India & Oman Joint Military Exercise2. Yudh Abhyas :
India & US Joint Military Exercise - Kazind 2024 :
India & Kazakhstan Joint Military Exercise - Maitree 2024 :
India and Thailand Military Exercise - LAMITIYE 2024 –
India and Seychelles. - Nomadic Elephant: India and Mongolia Joint
Military Exercise
7.Dharma Guardian 2024
India and Japan - Desert Cyclone 2024:
India and UAE - Sayhog Kaijin 2024
India and Japan - SADA TANSEEQ:India and Saudi Arabia
- Desert Knight 2024
India ,UAE and France. - Khanjar 2024
India and Kyrgyzstan - Cyclone 2024
India and Egypt. - IMT Exercise 2024 :
India, Mozambique, and Tanzania. - Sea Defenders 2024 :
India and USA - DUSTLIK 2024 –
India and Uzbekistan. - Samudra Laksmana 2024
India and Malaysia - Surya Kiran – India and Nepal.
- Garuda-VIndia and France.
- Shakti – India and France.
- Mitra Shakti – India and Sri Lanka
Summits
- 7th Indian Ocean Conference to be held in –
Perth , Australia. - QUAD Leaders Summit 2024 :
Delaware, USA
● India , USA, Japan , Australia launched
Moonshot Cancer initiative. - World Air Transport Summit 2025 – India
- 16th BRICS 2024 host country- Russia (22-24
October) - 19th NAM Summit (Non-Aligned Movement)
2024 hosted by Uganda. S.Jaishankar
represented India. - 1st Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 – Belgium.7. 2nd Employment Working Group meeting held
in – Brasilia. - Summit for Democracy 2024 – South Korea, Seoul
- 4th SCO meeting (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) 2024 – New Delhi
- World Future Energy Summit 2024- Abu Dhabi.
- UNESCO World Heritage Committee chaired by India in New Delhi.
- International Water Conclave- Shillong
- 23rd World Sustainable Development Summit 2024 – New Delhi.
- World Government Summit 2024 – Abu Dhabi.
- 14th Global Immigration Summit – New Delhi.
- 9th Raisina Dialogue 2024 – New Delhi.Chief Guest – Greece’s Prime Minister K.Mitsotakis
- G7 Meeting 2024 – Italy Chief guest- Narendra Modi
- Asian Buddhist Council for Peace- New Delhi.
- Asia Economic Dialogue 2024 – Pune.
- WTO Ministerial Conference- Abu Dhabi
Miscellaneous Current Affairs
- 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 - Assassination of Hezbollah head Hassan
Nasrallah .3. Classical dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy passed
away .
● Padma Vibhushan – 2016
● Padma Bhushan – 2001
● Padmashree 1968 - Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away on 8th
August was Former Chief Minister of West Bengal. - P. Venugopal passed away on 8th October was a
Cardiac Surgeon. - R. N. Agarwal (father of Agni missile) passed
away. - BHASKAR Scheme launched by Ministry of
Commerce and Industry. - New Base year for GDP Computation is
2022-2023 . - Remal cyclone – Bay of Bengal.
The name has been given by Oman - Cyclone Asna – Arabian Sea.
The name has been given by Pakistan11. ASMITA Project launched by Education
Ministry and UGC. - The Kerala Assembly unanimously passed a
resolution to change the name of the state Kerala
to Keralam. - Wayanad landslide deadliest in the history of
Kerala. - Paradip port emerges as India’s top
cargo-handling port in 2023-24. - X-ray polarimeter Satellite launched by ISRO.
- Mouban honey of West Bengal got GI tag.
- Hanuman Garhi laddu of Ayodhya got GI tag.
- Kalari chesse of J&K got GI tag.
- Matti banana of Tamil Nadu got GI tag.
- Wancho wooden craft of Arunachal Pradesh
got GI tag.21. Mexico became the first country in the world to
allow voters to elect Judges. - Sudhir Kakar , father of Indian Psychology
died recently. - Operation Sadvab will provide humanitarian
assistance to typhoon Yagi affected countries
Mayanmar, Laos , Vietnam. - India’s first civilian space tourist is Gopichand
Thotakura. - Modi inaugurated the 2nd International
Conference on Green Hydrogen in Delhi. - Hemis Festival celebrated in Ladakh.
- Karachi puja is a folk festival of Tripura.
Awards and Honours of 2024
- 54th Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2022 : Mithun
Chakraborty
First Awardee – Devika Rani (1969) - Miss Universe India 2024 – Rhea Singha.
- Swach Vayu Sarvekshan Awards 2024 – Surat .
- 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) - IIFA 2024 Awards ( Abu Dhabi)
Best film : Animal
Best Actor : Shah Rukh Khan
Best Actress : Rani Mukherjee
Best Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra - Singapore Literature Award – Prashanti Ram.
- 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:
Best Picture: Oppenheimer
Best Actor: Chilian Morphy ( Oppenheimer)
Best Actress: Emma Stone ( Poor Things)
Best Director: Christopher Nolan
25 . 81 Golden Globes 2024:
Best Picture: Oppenheimer
Best Actor: Chilian Morphy
Best Director: Christopher Nolan
26. 77th Bafta Awards 2024:
Best Picture: Oppenheimer2. Best Actor : Chilian Morphy
Best Actress: Emma Stone
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. 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
Best Actor: Ranbir Kapoor
Best Actress: Alia Bhat
Best Film: 12th Fail
Best Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
50. Dada Saheb Phalke International Film Festival
Awards 2024:
Best Film: Jawan.
Best Film ( critics) : 12th Fail.
Best actor: Shah Rukh Khan
Best actress: Rani Mukherjee
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:
Record of the Year: Flowers, Milley Cyrus.
Album of the Year: Midnights, Tylor Swift.
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
- India’s first Namo Bharat Rapid Rail has been
run between: Bhuj & Ahmedabad. - World’s tallest bamboo tower : Chattisgarh (
Kathia village) - India’s first CO2 to Methanol Pilot Plant :
Thermax Ltd. in Pune. - World’s first Jatayu Conservation and Breeding
centre : Maharajganj district of Uttar Pradesh - 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
- New Governor appointed by President Draupadi
Murmu :
Telengana– Jishnu Dev Verma .
Rajasthan – Haribhau Kishanrao Bagde .
Maharashtra – C. P. Radhakrishna
Assam – Lakshman Prasad Acharya.
Jharkhand – Santosh Kumar Gangwar
Punjab – Gulab Chand Kataria
Chhattisgarh – Ramen Deka
Puducherry – K Kailashnath.
Sikkim – Om Prakash Mathur
Meghalaya – C. H. Vijayshankar - Newly Elected Chief Minister of India:
Jammu and Kashmir – Omar Abdullah
Delhi – Atishi3. Andhra Pradesh – N. Chandrababu Naidu
Odisha – Mohan Charan Majhi
Jharkhand– Hemant Soren
Haryana– Nayeb Singh Saini - UPSC Chairperson – Priti Sudan
- Chairman and CEO of Railway Board – Satish
Kumar - Head Coach of Indian National Cricket Team
(men’s)– Gautam Gambhir - First Woman DG of CSIR – N. Kalaiselvi
- Chairperson of National Medical Commission –
B. N. Gangadhar - New Lokpal of India – A.M.Khanwilkar
- 27th Chairman of State Bank of India – C. S.
Shetty - 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
- First Indian Ambassador of International
Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Foundation –
Sharath Kamal - 79th President of UNGA – Philemon Yang
- First woman High Commissioner of U.K to
India– Lindy Cameron - 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 :
- Prime Minister of Nepal – KP Oli
- Prime Minister of Japan – Shigeru Ishiba
- Prime Minister of France – Michel Barnier
- Prime Minister of Sri Lanka – Harini
Amarasuriya - Prime Minister of Jordan – Jaffar Hasan
- 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 Ramaposh
Reports and Indices
- World Happiness Report 2024
Top – Finland
India’s rank – 126
Last rank – Afghanistan - Global Peace Index 2024,
India’s rank – 116 - Global Hunger Index 2023
India’s Rank – 105/127 - Human Development Index 2023/24
Top – SwitzerlandIndia’s rank- 134 out of 193 - Artificial Intelligence Preparedness Index 2024:
India’s rank – 72 - Global Intellectual Property Index 2024
India’s rank – 42 - Environmental Performance Index 2024 :
India’s rank – 176 - World Talent Ranking
India’s rank – 58 - Global Cyber Security Index 2024
India’s rank – 1st along with US, Japan , Australia - State Food Safety Index
Top Position – Kerala - World Press Freedom Index 2023
Top – Norway
India’s rank – 159 - World Cyber Crime Index 2024
Top – Russia
India’s rank – 10th - Gender Inequality Index 2023 :
Top – Denmark
India’s rank – 108/193 - Democracy Report 2023 :
India’s rank 104 out of 179 - Global Innovation Index 2024 :
Top – Switzerland
India’s rank- 39/132 - Largest Plastic Polluter – India
- Climate Change Performance Index
India’s rank – 7 - Energy Transition Index 2023
Top – Sweden
India’s rank- 63rd - Global Gender Gap Index
Top – Iceland
India’s rank- 129 - Corruption Perception Index 2023 :Top Position – Denmark
India’s rank- 93 - Logistic Performance Index 2023 :
Top – Singapore
India’s rank- 38 - Military Spender Index
Top – USA
India’s rank- 4th - Most Livable City in the World is – Vienna
In India Most Livable City is – Bengaluru - Henley Passport Index 2024
India’s rank- 82
