Sep 03, 2024 | One-liner Current Affairs for UPSC, State PSCs & other Govt. Exams
Sep 03, 2024
The prestigious Lord's Cricket Ground in London is set to host the final of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) from June 11 to June 15, 2025.
Google DeepMind's Morni AI project aims to cover 125 Indic languages, addressing the lack of digital data for many of them. The initiative includes Project Vaani, which has gathered over 14,000 hours of speech data from 58 languages.
Bisleri International has partnered with the Goa government to enhance plastic waste management in Mormugao. The collaboration, solidified at the Green Goa Summit 2024, aims to improve waste collection, segregation, and recycling processes under Bisleri's CSR initiative, 'Bottles for Change'.
Union Cabinet, chaired by PM Modi, approved the proposal of Kaynes Semicon Pvt Ltd to establish a semiconductor manufacturing unit in Sanand, Gujarat.
The 2024 Durand Cup Final saw NorthEast United beat the defending champions Mohun Bagan to win this tournament and the club's first ever trophy in their history.
The Union Cabinet, on September 2, 2024, approved the Digital Agriculture Mission along with a host of other agriculture-related decisions. The ₹2,817 crore Mission involves the Agri Stack (farmers' registry, village land maps registry, crop registry) and the Krishi Decision Support System (geospatial data, drought/flood monitoring, weather/satellite data, groundwater/water availability data, and modeling for crop yield insurance).
The South-East Asia Regional Status Report on Road Safety, released by the WHO at the 15th World Conference on Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion, finds that the South-East Asia Region accounts for 28% of global road traffic deaths, with an estimated 330,222 deaths.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment is developing e-Shram portal as a one-stop solution by integrating all social welfare scheme on the portal as it aims to bring an estimated 370 million unorgansied workers on the portal to ensure everyone gets the benefits of these schemes and no potential beneficiary is left-out.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in partnership with University of Manipur organized a 2-day 'training programme on human rights in India' in Sop 2024.
The West Bengal Assembly unanimously passed the Aparajita Women and Child (West Bengal Criminal Law Amendment) Bill, 2024, on 3 September 2024. It provides for the establishment of fast track courts.
According to the Bill, time-bound investigation of the case within 21 days of filing the first report is made mandatory.