Current Affairs One-liners — 08 October 2024
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
- On 8 October 2024, in New Delhi, WHO certified that India has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making it the third country in the WHO South-East Asia Region to do so.
- On 8 October 2024, in Haryana, results for all 90 Assembly seats were declared; per ECI, the BJP won 48, the Congress 37, INLD 2 and Independents 3.
- On 8 October 2024, in New Delhi, President Droupadi Murmu presented the 70th National Film Awards and conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022 on Mithun Chakraborty.
- On 8 October 2024, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for foundational work enabling machine learning with artificial neural networks.
- On 8 October 2024, in Jammu and Kashmir, results for all 90 Assembly seats were declared; per ECI, the JKNC won 42, the BJP 29 and the Congress 6.
- On 8 October 2024, in India, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy notified Scheme Guidelines for the ₹500 crore 'Innovative Projects' component of PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana.
- On 8 October 2024, in New Delhi, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched the 'Humsafar Policy' for onboarding service providers of wayside amenities along National Highways.
- On 8 October 2024, in India, the Finance Ministry said gross enrolments under the Atal Pension Yojana have crossed 7 crore, with over 56 lakh in FY 2024-25.
- On 8 October 2024, at Bhairunda, Madhya Pradesh, Union Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the Awas Sakhi mobile app under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and inaugurated 100 Community Managed Training Centres in 18 states.
- On 8 October 2024, at Air Force Station Tambaram in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, the Indian Air Force celebrated its 92nd anniversary with a ceremonial parade reviewed by Air Chief Marshal AP Singh.
- On 8 October 2024, Nirdeshak (Yard 3026), the second of four Survey Vessel (Large) ships built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata, was delivered to the Indian Navy.
- On 8 October 2024, at Thoise in Ladakh, MoS Harsh Malhotra formally flagged off the 'Vayu Veer Vijeta' car rally to Tawang, marking the IAF's 92nd anniversary and 25 years of the Kargil victory.
- On 8 October 2024, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh held a telephonic conversation with German Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius on strengthening defence industrial collaboration and supply chain resilience.
- On 8 October 2024, in India, the President, after consulting the Chief Justice of India, appointed three advocates as Judges of the Gujarat High Court under Article 217(1).