ALL EXAM QUIZ 21.09.2024

Explanation:

• India hosted the second meeting of the COP-9 Bureau and the third formal meeting of the Fund Approval Committee under the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sports in New Delhi on September 17-18, 2024.
• As Vice President of the COP-9 Bureau, India took the lead in organising high-level events that brought together key decision makers and dignitaries from across the world on one platform.
• The meetings organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports were attended by eminent delegates representing countries.
• It includes such as Azerbaijan, Barbados, Estonia, France, Italy, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Singapore, Netherlands, Turkey, UAE and Zambia.
• Senior officials of the UNESCO International Convention against Doping in Sport were also present and held discussions in a hybrid format.
• These meetings serve as an important forum for countries and international organisations to discuss doping prevention, fair sporting practices and global cooperation in maintaining integrity in sports.

Explanation:

• The ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), in a meeting in New Delhi on 17 September 2024, has elected senior party leader Atishi Marlena as its new chief minister after the announcement of resignation by the incumbent chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal.
• Atishi will be 3rd woman after Sushama Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit and 8th person to become the chief minister of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi.
• The term of the current Delhi legislative assembly ends on 11 February 2025.

Resignation of three-time CM  Arvind Kejriwal

• The founder leader of the Aam Aadmi Party and three-time NCT Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, tendered his resignation to the NCT Delhi Lieutenant Governor, V.K. Saxena, on 17 September 2024.
• Arvind Kejriwal, facing serious corruption charges in the Delhi Liquor Excise case, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court. After being granted bail, Arvind Kejriwal announced that he would resign from the post.
• The Aam Aadmi Party's legislative party elected Aatishi Marlena as its new leader and the new chief minister of NCT Delhi in a meeting on 17 September 2024.
• Aatishi Marlena is a MLA from Kalkaji seat.
• The present term of the Delhi Legislative Assembly ends on 11 February 2025.
• In the last assembly election held on 8 February 2020, AAP secured an absolute majority by winning 62 seats, and the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged 8 seats in the 70-member assembly.

Explanation:

• Aishwarya Rai wins Best Actress at SIIMA 2024.
• Aishwarya Rai Bachchan won the Best Actress in a Leading Role (Critics) for her performance in Ponniyin Selvan: Part 2.
• She received the award from director Kabir Khan.
• Aishwarya Rai played two roles in Ponniyin Selvan 2 - as Nandini and Mandakini Devi.
• South Indian International Movie Awards (SIIMA) 2024 ceremony was held in Dubai.
• It is given for the artistic and technical achievements of the South Indian film industry.
• It was launched in 2012 by Vishnu Vardhan Induri and Brinda Prasad Adusimilli.
• The Award nominees are selected by a jury of senior artistes and professionals and voted for by public polling.

Explanation:

• Anmol Kharb won her first individual international badminton title.
• India's emerging player Anmol Kharb secured her maiden international title at the senior level by winning the Belgian International 2024 badminton women’s singles title.
• She defeated Denmark's Amalie Schulz by 24-22, 12-21, 21-10 in a hard-fought final.
• In the semi-finals, Anmol defeated Kaloyana Nalbantova of Bulgaria by 21-13, 24-26, 21-19.
• In the men’s singles, Darshan Pujari reached the quarter-finals.
• Earlier, Anmol became the women’s singles national badminton champion at the age of 16.

Explanation:

• The 2nd edition Global Food Regulators Summit (GFRS 2.0) will be organised by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India from the 19th to the 21st September in New Delhi.
• Delegates from over 70 countries are likely to take part in GFRS 2.0.
• They will discuss and prepare strategy on key regulatory issues.
• The aim of the summit is to promote knowledge-sharing and international collaborations on food safety and regulatory issues.

Explanation:

• India will soon launch its carbon market.
• India will launch its carbon market after the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme comes into force.
• It will set emissions targets for emitters and allow overachievers to sell their excess emission cuts.
• In the carbon market, underachievers will have to purchase Carbon Credit to meet their goals.
• The Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) is a market-based mechanism to reduce or limit emissions.
• India, one of the NDC’s targets, is to reduce the “emissions intensity of its GDP by 45 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.”.
• India had also declared the target of becoming a net-zero emitter by 2070.
• Developing countries, like China and Indonesia, have developed carbon markets.

Explanation:

• Samir Kumar appointed as Amazon India's new country manager.
• Amazon’s leader, Samir Kumar, took over as country manager for India by replacing Manish Tiwary.
• Manish Tiwary has stepped down from his role in August.
• Samir Kumar will take India's responsibility in addition to his current charter of leading Amazon’s consumer businesses in the Middle East, South Africa and Turkey.
• Samir Kumar joined Amazon in 1999.
• He was among the key executives who came to India in 2013 to set up Amazon's business.
• He will assume operational responsibilities for India starting October 1.

Explanation:

• India’s exports declined 9.3% in August, and the trade deficit reached a 10-month high.
• India’s trade deficit widened to a 10-month high of $29.7 billion in August.
• India’s imports reached a record high of $64.4 billion on the doubling of gold inflows.
• The exports have contracted for the second month to $34.7 billion.
• Merchandise exports contracted 9.3 percent to $34.7 billion in August.
• Imports grew 3 percent yearly, and gold imports touched $10 billion in August.
• Petroleum products contracted 37.5 percent in August at $5.95 billion.
• Petroleum, gems, and jewellery saw a massive contraction of 23 percent at 1.9 billion in August.
• Non-petroleum and non-gems and jewellery exports grew 2.4 percent at $26.76 billion.

Explanation:

• A centre has been opened in New Delhi by the University of Melbourne.
• The Melbourne Global Centre – Delhi will serve as the University’s central hub in India.
• It will make cooperation and information sharing easier between the community, industry, research, and education.
• The Melbourne Global Centre is not intended to be an off-campus learning environment or for teaching.
• The Melbourne Global Centre in Delhi represents firm commitment to help India achieve its long-term goals in research and academia.
• The University of Melbourne is a government-run institute in Australia. It is ranked number one in Australia.

Explanation:

• Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal launched the 'Bharat Startup Knowledge Access Registry' initiative under the 'Startup India' programme.
• The 'Bhaskar' platform will help startups, investors (including institutional investors), mentors and students to register with the portal to facilitate inter- and intra-stakeholder interactions.