Military-Choice’s Most Important Weekly Current Affairs Notes for UPSC, CDS, NDA, CAPF AC, AFCAT & SSC exam aspirants as well as for those aspirants who are preparing for their SSB Interview. This Weekly Current Affairs article covers all the important National, International, Economy, Appointments, Sports and Defence news of this week.
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The Zanzibar campus of IIT Madras, which is the first offshore campus of any IIT, was inaugurated by President of Zanzibar, Hussein Ali Mwinyi. The Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar is a semi-autonomous province of Tanzania.
India has emerged among top countries with high income and wealth inequality according to a new UNDP report. The top 10% of the population get 57% of national income and the top 1% get 22%.
Punjab cricket team has won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title for the first time by defeating Baroda team. Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy is a domestic T-20 cricket championship in India, which is organized by the BCCI.
The share of the population living in multidimensional poverty fell from 25 to 15 % between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the UNDP.
Heeralal Samariya was sworn in as the chief of the Central Information Commission (CIC) by the President. Estd. in 2005, under the provisions of the Right to Information Act (2005), VIC is headed by the Chief Information Commissioner and can have a maximum of 10 Information Commissioners.
South American country Chile has become the 95th member of the International Solar Alliance. ISA was established as a joint effort of India and France. Currently, 116 countries are signatories to the ISA Framework Agreement.
India successfully test-fired its surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) 'Pralay'. Developed by DRDO, 'Pralay' is a short-range missile with a range of 350-500 km, with a payload of 500-1,000 kg.
The fifth India-US 2 + 2 Ministerial Dialogue will be held in New Delhi. The first 2+2 dialogue between the two countries was held during the Trump Administration in 2018.
IIT-Bombay has broken into the world's top 150 universities, attaining its highest-ever rank of 147 in the QS World University Rankings 2023 by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
In Asia region, IIT Bombay grabbed 40th position followed by IIT-Delhi at the 46th position & IIT-Madras at the 53rd position. With 148 universities in the ranking list, India also becomes the country in Asia with the highest number of universities being featured.
Russia formally withdrew from the Treaty of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). CFE placed limits on the deployment of military equipment to maintain military balance between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the then-Warsaw Pact countries.
New island has now emerged within the vicinity of Japan's Ogasawara island chain, after the eruption of an underwater volcano in late October 2023.
Indian Coast Guard's ship Sangram was decommissioned. The ship was commissioned in 1996 and was stationed at Mumbai under the operational command of Commander Coast Guard Area (West).
Tamil Nadu issued an order to implement 'Project Dolphin' under the Integrated Development of Wildlife Habitat program of the Government of India.
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