Jul 28, 2024 | Current Affairs for UPSC, State PCS & other Govt. Exams

India has taken over the Chair of the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) for the fiscal year 2024-25 from China.

On July 26, 2024, in New Delhi, India and the USA signed their first Cultural Property Agreement to combat the illicit trafficking of Indian antiquities.

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has been appointed festival director for the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). Mr. Kapur will head the festival, held annually in Goa, for the 55th and 56th editions.

The Moidams, burial mounds of Assam's Ahom dynasty, have been inscribed as India's 43rd UNESCO World Heritage Site. This recognition, announced on July 26, 2024. It is the first cultural property from the Northeast to get the coveted tag.

OpenAI, the company behind the revolutionary ChatGPT, has announced the development of an AI-powered search engine called SearchGPT.

The Centre has introduced a revised Model Skill Loan Scheme, designed to provide financial support for skill development courses to the nation’s youth. The Model skill loan scheme was launched in 2015. The loan scheme now includes non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), NBFC-MFIs (micro-finance institutions), and small finance banks as eligible lending institutions, in addition to private, public, and foreign banks. The maximum loan limit has been increased to Rs 7.5 lakh from the previous Rs 1.5 lakh.