Aug 16, 2024 | One-liner Current Affairs for UPSC, State PSCs & other Govt. Exams

Aug 16, 2024

70th National Film Awards 2024: The Best Actress honour was shared by Nithya Menen and Manasi Parekh.

70th National Film Awards 2024: Rishab Shetty won the Best Actor award for Kantara.

India and Australia hosted two important bilateral meetings. 1) Australia hosted the 6th India-Australia Maritime Security Dialogue in its capital city of Canberra. 2) India hosted the 14th meeting of the India-Australia Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism in New Delhi.

On August 15, India celebrates its 78th Independence Day.

The DRDO on August 13, 2024 successfully carried out the maiden flight test of the long-range glide bomb (LRGB) Gaurav from a Su-30 MK-I fighter jet of the Indian Air Force. Gaurav is an air-launched 1,000 kg class glide bomb capable of hitting targets at long distances.

In Aug, 2024, archaeologists have uncovered the world's oldest solar calendar at the renowned archaeological site of Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey.