Current Affairs 30 September 2024
1. Every year on September 29, ‘World Heart Day’ is celebrated all over the world.
2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and dedicate to the nation various projects worth over Rs 11,200 crore in Maharashtra through video conferencing on September 29.
3. India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by $2.83 billion to a new high of $692.29 billion in the week ended September 20.
4. The Indian pair of Trisha Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand lost to the Taiwanese pair of Sieh Pei Shan and Hung En-Ju in the women’s doubles semi-final of the Macau Open.
5. School teams have been shortlisted for ‘THINQ24’, a national level quiz competition organised by the Indian Navy . These schools will now participate in the zonal round on October 14 and 15, which will be held in online mode.
6. Recently, the Central Government has lifted the ban on the export of ‘ non-basmati white rice’ with immediate effect. Along with this, the export duty on ‘boiled rice’has been changed and it has been halved.
7. ‘Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’ (IRCTC) will run a special tourist train during the tourist season of the Indian Buddhist Circuit. Let us tell you that this train will start from Delhi and will circumambulate many major places including Kushinagar and Lumbini, the place of Mahaparinirvana of Buddha.