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Today’s Current Affairs
1. The World Pickleball Championship will be organized in India for the first time
This tournament will be played in Mumbai from 12 – 17 September and it has been announced by the All India Pickleball Association
Earlier, Indian players had won many medals in this championship held in Bali and Vietnam. About 650 players from many countries including Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Poland will participate in the tournament to be held in India.
2. Devyaniba Jhala won gold in Under-23 National Athletics.
Devyaniba Jhala is from Gujarat state, she won the first place by completing the race in 53.50 seconds.
Today’s Current Affairs : 9 October 2024
1. Pankaj Advani has won the Singapore Open Billiards title by defeating Jaden Ong.
2. The 77th WHO Regional Committee meeting for South-East Asia was held in New Delhi.
3. Sanjeev Kumar Singhla has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to France.
4. 92nd Indian Air Force Day was organized on 8 October 2024.
5. Gymnast Dipa Karmakar has retired, she had secured fourth place in the Rio Olympics.
6. Payment started with Indian RuPay card in Maldives.
7. American scientists Victor Ambrose and Gary Ruvkun have been announced to be awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the theory controlling gene activity.
8. Banjara Heritage Museum has been established at Pohardevi in Washim district of Maharashtra.
9. DRDO successfully tested the VSHORAD air defense system at Pokhran Field Firing Range in Rajasthan.
10. Vera Voronova of Kazakhstan and Isabel Agustina Calderon Carlos of Peru have been announced to be awarded the 2024 MIDORI Award.
7 October Current affairs 2024 English
1. The US has given its Harpoon anti-ship missile to Taiwan. This missile cannot be tracked on radar.
2. The Government of India has launched the PM E Drive scheme to promote electric vehicles in the country.
3. The Italian government has called a G7 meeting in view of the war crisis in the Middle East. Italy is currently the president of the G7.
4. MV Shreyams Kumar has been made the new president of the Indian Newspaper Society.
5. India will host the Kho-Kho World Cup to be held in the year 2025.
6. India and Uzbekistan have signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) to ensure the safety of investors.
7. International Strategic Partnership Program was organized in New Delhi.
8. SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2024 was given to Alexander Dunn of Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
9. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year which was recently celebrated on October 2 this year.
10. The World Green Economy Forum has been launched in Dubai to tackle serious environmental challenges.