Oct. 10, 2024
1. Actor Ayushmann Khurrana and Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra received the FICCI Young Leader’s Youth Icon award.
2. L’Oreal Paris has announced Alia Bhatt as new Global Brand Ambassador.
3. Sumit Antil clinched gold medal in the men’s javelin throw F64 class, Paris 2024 Paralympics.
4. Sprinter Deepthi Jeevanji secured bronze medal in the women’s 400m T20 event, 2024 Paris Paralympics.
5. Thulasimathi Murugesan and Manisha Ramadass clinched silver and bronze medals, respectively, in the women’s singles SU5 class at the Paris 2024 Paralympics.
6. Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu secured silver and bronze medals respectively in the men’s high jump T63 event.
7. Lord’s Cricket Ground in London is set to host the final of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).
8. World Bank ups India’s economic growth forecast to 7% for FY25.
9. Russia is the largest flax-producing country in the world.
10. Under the National One Health Mission (NOHM), “Vishanu Yuddh Abhyas” (Virus War Exercise) was held in Ajmer district, Rajasthan.
11. Union Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, launched the AgriSURE Scheme, formally known as the Agri Fund for Start-ups & Rural Enterprises.
12. Madhya Pradesh government has unvieled ‘BrindavanGram’ scheme to transform selected gram panchayats into model villages.
13. The West Bengal Assembly passed the ‘Aparajita Woman and Child Bill (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) 2024’.
14. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has made history as the first Indian company to exceed ₹10 lakh crore in annual revenue.
15. Google DeepMind’s Morni (Multimodal Representation for India) AI project aims to cover 125 Indic languages.
16. Author Kuldeep Gupta launched a book titled: "A Journey from Black Gold to White Gold".
17. Malabar Group won CSR Times Award for its 'Hunger Free World' project.
18. The Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF): Top Government College: IIT Bombay; Top Private College: BITS Pilani.