Jul 18, 2024 | One-liner Current Affairs for UPSC, State PSCs & other Govt. Exams

Jul 18, 2024

Indore on July 14, set a new Guinness World Record in the category of "the most trees planted by a team in 24 hours" by planting more than 11 lakh saplings.

NITI Aayog launched a nationwide campaign namely Sampoornata Abhiyan with a focus to attain saturation in 12 key social sector indicators in 500 aspirational blocks and 112 aspirational districts.

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee holds its 46th session from 21 to 31 July 2024 in New Delhi (India).

Feminist activist P. Geetha has been awarded the first K. Saraswathi Amma Award. Saraswathi Amma Award is instituted by WINGS (Women's Integration and Growth Through Sports) Kerala, for feminist studies.

Laos is gearing up to host the 57th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane from July 21 to 27.

ASEAN is a regional organization with 10 member countries in Southeast Asia - Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated Asia's first health research-related "Pre-clinical Network Facility" at Faridabad, Haryana.

Singh also inaugurated the "Genetically Defined Human Associated Microbial Culture Collection (Ge-HuMic) Facility" to act as a "repository" for providing microbial cultures to research institutes, universities, and industries for research and development.