Jul 03, 2024 | One-liner Current Affairs for UPSC, State PSCs & other Govt. Exams

Jul 03, 2024

Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Jul 3, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters.

Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) and Blue Origin have chosen India as a partner nation for their human spaceflight program, inviting Indian citizens to apply for six seats on the New Shepard rocket. Blue Origin was founded in 2000 by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.

India has become the first country in the world to prepare a checklist of its entire fauna, covering 104,561 species.

Shah Rukh Khan is set to be awarded with the Locarno Film Festival's career achievement award. The Locarno Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland.

The Indian Navy successfully developed a new explosive which is two times more lethal than standard TNT (Trinitrotoluene). The new explosive named SEBEX 2 was developed by Nagpur-based Solar Industries and is now among the most powerful weapon non-nuclear explosives.

The new criminal laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam(BSA) are taking effect from July 1, 2024. These laws repeal and replace the Indian Penal Code, the Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act respectively.