17 October 2024 Current Affairs
- National Conference leader Omar Abdullah will take oath as the Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on October 16.
- India has signed a deal with the US to purchase ‘31 MQ-9B Predator drones‘ .
- Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar will attend the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Islamabad on October 16.
- The ’75th International Astronautical Congress’ has begun at the Mico Convention Centre in Milan, Italy.
- Finance Minister ‘ Nirmala Sitharaman‘ will leave for a two-nation visit to Mexico and the US on October 16.
- Senior MP ‘Dr. K. Laxman’ has been appointed as the National Election Officer of Bharatiya Janata Party.
- Union Minister Jayant Chaudhary on October 15 inaugurated the new ‘ National Skill Training Institute’ extension centre at the Andhra Medical Tech Zone campus in Visakhapatnam .
- President Draupadi Murmu has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Political Science from the ‘ Sidi Abdellah Pole University of Science and Technology’ in Algiers, the capital of Algeria .
- Paying tribute to the heroes of the Kargil war in Ladakh, the Army has renamed the Kaksar Bridge as ‘ Captain Amit Bhardwaj Setu’ .
- Recently ‘ Parmesh Sivamani‘ has taken charge as the 26th Director General of the Indian Coast Guard.
- The fourth India-Australia 2+2 Secretary level talks were held in New Delhi .