Sep 25, 2024 | One-liner Current Affairs for UPSC, State PSCs & other Govt. Exams

Sep 25, 2024

Emerging swimmer Pratyasa Ray from Odisha has been selected for the 32nd Ekalabya Puraskar for 2024 for her achievements in swimming.

On 24 September 2024, Sri Lanka's new President, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, appointed Harini Amarasuriya as Prime Minister, making her the first woman to hold the position in 24 years.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Sainik School in Jaipur, Rajasthan on September 23, 2024, as part of the Government's plan to establish 100 new Sainik Schools in partnership with private and public sectors.

China will conduct joint military drills with Russia in Sep 2024, involving naval and air forces in the Sea of Japan and Sea of Okhotsk (Western Pacific).

In September 2024, with $800 million pledged and the Philippines as its headquarters, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, aimed at assisting countries ravaged by climate-driven disasters, appointed Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, a Senegalese finance specialist and dual U.S. citizen, as its first director. The fund, created in 2022 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is administered by the World Bank and represents a significant win for developing nations that have long advocated for support in combating climate disasters.

President Droupadi Murmu will inaugurate the 16th Assembly of the Asian Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI) on September 24, 2024, in New Delhi.

Rhea Singha, a 19-year-old model from Gujarat, was crowned Miss Universe India 2024 in Jaipur. She will represent India at the global Miss Universe competition in Mexico.

India, in partnership with the United States, is set to launch its first national security semiconductor plant to produce chips for military and critical telecom uses.

In September 2024, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), in collaboration with the Southern Command of the Indian Army, organized a two-day national symposium, 'Exercise AIKYA,' on disaster management.

In Sep 2024, India's first CO2-to-Methanol pilot plant, with a capacity of 1.4 tons per day (TPD), was virtually inaugurated at Thermax Limited's premises in Pune, Maharashtra.

This pioneering project supported by DST under Ministry of Science and Technology is to be implemented under Public- Private Partnership (PPP) mode in collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Thermax Limited, Pune.