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.
WEEKLY IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR UPSC CDS NDA & AFCAT 2024
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2023 Sahitya Akademi Award: Novelist Neelum Saran Gour’s ‘Requiem in Raga Janki’ wins in the English category. The awards are given to writers in 24 Indian languages, including translations.
Sanjeev of Hindi language has been honored with the Sahitya Akademi Award. Sanjeev has been given this award for 'Mujhe Pehchano'. Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honor established in the year 1954.
Central Government has declared Surat Airport as an international airport.
WHO announced the inclusion of noma in its official list of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The disease, also called cancrum oris or gangrenous stomatitis, is mostly found in sub-Saharan Africa. It mostly affects children aged 2–6 years.
COP-29 climate change summit will be hosted by Azerbaijan. COP-28 was recently held in the United Arab Emirates. The first COP summit was held in Berlin in the year 1995.
Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) Bengaluru has earned prestigious accolades at UNESCO's 2023 Prix Versailles. The Terminal 2 (T2) secured recognition as one of the 'World's most beautiful airports’
Maldives has announced the termination of the hydrographic survey agreement with India. Agreement signed in 2019, India was allowed to conduct hydrographic surveys of the territorial waters of the Maldives. India had conducted hydrographic survey twice till now.
Indian airline IndiGo has become India's largest airline after carrying 100 million passengers in the year 2023. InterGlobe Aviation Limited, doing business as IndiGo, is headquartered in Gurgaon.
ISRO will send India's first astronaut to the Moon in the year 2040 and will establish the country's first indigenous space station by the year 2035.
Poonam Khetrapal Singh, Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia, has been awarded Bhutan's prestigious National Order of Merit Gold Medal for distinguished services.
The United Nations General Assembly declared the year 2024 as the International Year of the Camelids. Camelids are ruminant herbivores. They look similar to camels.
PM Modi also inaugurated the world's largest meditation center Swarved Mahamandir in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
Kerala government employee Sheikh Hasan Khan has conquered Antarctica's highest peak 'Mount Vinson'. Apart from Mount Vinson, Khan has conquered four other high peaks, Mount Everest in Asia, Mount Denali in North America, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mount Elbrus in Europe.
Bhutan has announced plans to building an 'International City' on the Assam border. The name of this project is Gelefu Smart City Project.
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