06 October 2024 Current Affairs
- Every year on 5 October ‘World Teachers’ Day’ is celebrated across the world .
- The Indian Air Force will celebrate its 92nd Foundation Day from October 6 to 8 in Chennai.
- New Zealand has defeated India by 58 runs in its first match of the ‘Women’s T-20 Cricket World Cup’ .
- Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation to Islamabad for the ‘ SCO Summit’ (SCO Summit 2024) to be held on 15 and 16 October.
- President of Maldives ‘Dr. Mohammed Muizzu‘ will be on a state visit to India from 6 to 10 October.
- ‘Indian International Science Festival 2024’ will be held this year from 30 November to 3 December in Guwahati, Assam.
- In shooting, the trio of Mukesh Nelavalli, Rajvardhan Patil and Harsimar Singh Rathya have won the men’s 25m rapid-fire pistol team event at the ‘ISSF Junior World Championships 2024’ in Peru.
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved the first diagnostic test for the infectious disease ‘ monkeypox’ .
- Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has conferred the 25th Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award of Excellence, 2024 to Rajshree Birla, Chairperson of the Aditya Birla Centre for Community Initiatives and Rural Development .
- Traditional rice beer and eight traditional products of the Bodo culture of the state of ‘Assam’ have received the GI tag status.
- Recently, India’s Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) has become an associate member of the ‘International Medical Devices Regulatory Forum’ (IMDRF).
- India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by US$12.588 billion to a new all-time high of $704.885 billion.