Current Affairs One-liners — 11 October 2024
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
- On 11 October 2024, in Vientiane, PM Narendra Modi held talks with Lao PM Sonexay Siphandone; pacts on defence, broadcasting and customs and three Quick Impact Projects were exchanged.
- On 11 October 2024, in Vientiane, Lao PDR, PM Narendra Modi attended the 19th East Asia Summit and invited EAS countries to a Heads of Higher Education Conclave at Nalanda University.
- On 11 October 2024, in Oslo, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
- On 11 October 2024, Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh virtually inaugurated Prerna Sthal at Burdang, Sikkim, in memory of 22 soldiers who died in the South Lhonak Lake glacial lake outburst flood in October 2023.
- On 11 October 2024, in India, the Quick Estimate of the Index of Industrial Production for August 2024 showed growth of (-)0.1%, against 4.7% in July 2024.
- On 11 October 2024, in India, the Health Ministry said CDSCO and the National Regulatory Authority of India meet WHO indicators for a functional vaccine regulatory system.
- On 11 October 2024, in New Delhi, NIELIT and the Government of Maharashtra, through the Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education, signed an MoU to set up Centres of Excellence in emerging technologies.
- On 11 October 2024, the Indian Navy announced that Swavlamban 2024, the third edition of its Naval Innovation and Indigenisation seminar, will be held at Bharat Mandapam on 28-29 October 2024.
- On 11 October 2024, in Vientiane, PM Narendra Modi met Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit, their first meeting.
- On 11 October 2024, in India, the Ministry of Women and Child Development concluded a 10-day nationwide celebration of the International Day of the Girl Child (2-11 October) under Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.
- On 11 October 2024, the Indian Coast Guard said the mortal remains of Commandant Rakesh Kumar Rana, missing pilot of its ALH Mk-III helicopter, had been retrieved about 55 km south-west off the Porbandar coast, Gujarat.