Oct. 10, 2024
1. Indian women team won 4 Gold medals at the U-17 Asian Wrestling Championship 2024.
• Dipanshi – Gold in 46kg
• Muskan – Gold in 53kg
• Rajnita – Gold in 61kg
• Mansi Lather – Gold in 69kg
2. Srinagar has been recognised as a ‘World Craft City’ by the World Craft Council (WCC).
3. China becomes first Country to retrieve rocks from the Moon’s far side.
4. India’s first artificial intelligence university, Universal AI University (UAIU), has appointed Professor Simon Mak as its vice-chancellor.
5. The Madhya Pradesh cabinet ministers will now pay income tax on their salaries and allowances.
6. Nepal’s Dipendra Singh Airee holds the record for the fastest fifty in T20 cricket.
7. World MSME Day: 27th June; Theme: “Leveraging Power and Resilience of Micro-, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) to Accelerate Sustainable Development and Eradicate Poverty in Times of Multiple Crises“.
8. Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) Ltd. has been honoured with the "Sustainable Governance Champion Award" at the Outlook Planet Sustainability Summit & Awards 2024.
9. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India inaugurated the 'Chadwick House: Navigating Audit Heritage' Museum at Shimla.
10. The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched the ‘Safai Apnao, Bimaari Bhagao’ (SABB) initiative under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0.
11. The Bharat Centre of Olympic Research and Education (BCORE) was inaugurated at the Rashtriya RakshaUniversity in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district.
12. Om Birla has been re-elected as Lok Sabha Speaker.
13. 64th International Sugar Organisation (ISO) Council Meeting was held in New Delhi.
14. Pat Cummins became first player to pick up 2 hat-tricks in T20 World Cups.
15. Haryana government has increased reservation for OBC Category from 15% to 27%.
16. Paraguay has become the 100th Member of the International Solar Alliance.
17. Doon School received the "Award for Transformative Education Excellence" at the Indo-Norway International Education Summit.
18. First International Dairy Federation Asia-Pacific Summit was held in Kochi.
19. Lt Gen NS Raja Subramani has been appointed as the next Vice Chief of Army Staff.
20. Sreeja Akula attained world No. 24 ranking after winning the WTT Contender Lagos tournament.
21. Ladakh achieved Full Functional Literacy under ULLAS -Nav Bharat Saaksharta Karyakram, or New India Literacy Programme (NILP).
22. Principal Scientific Adviser, Prof. Ajay Kumar Soodinaugurated the Quantum Security Research Lab in Chennai.
23. Rohit Sharma became first batsman to hit 200 Sixes in T20Is.