Daily Current Affairs Quiz 1st August 2024

” Notes:india hosts the 32nd international conference of agricultural economists at the pusa institute, new delhi, from 2 to 7 august 2024, after 66 years since it last hosted in 1958. the conference, held every three years, is organized by the international association of agricultural economists in collaboration with various indian and international agricultural and economic organizations.”

” Notes:india has been elected vice-chair of the supply chain council under the indo-pacific economic framework for prosperity (ipef) agreement, focused on supply chain resilience. the ipef, with 14 member countries, also elected chairs and vice-chairs for the crisis response network and labor rights advisory board. the supply chain council’s chair is the usa. ipef, led by the usa, was launched by president joe biden on 23 may 2022 in tokyo.”

In an israeli airstrike in tehran on 31 july 2024 hamas political head ismail haniyeh was killed after attending the swearing-in of irans new president dr masoud pezeshki

Notesthe ministry of education introduced a new portal to streamline registration application and contract management ensuring timely payments of stipends

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” On 28th july 2024, mercedes‘ lewis hamilton, a british racing driver, won the formula 1 (f1) belgian grand prix (gp) 2024 (officially known as the f1 rolex belgian grand prix 2024) held at the circuit de spa-francorchamps, stavelot, belgium. this marks hamilton’s 2nd gp title of 2024 after the great britain gp held in july 2024. mclaren’s oscar piastri, (australia) secured the 2nd place on the podium and ferrari’s charles leclerc (monaco)  moved up to the 3rd position. for hamilton, the 7-time world champion, this win marks the 105th gp victory of his career.”

Nicolás maduro moros has been re-elected as the president of venezuela for the third six-year term (2024-2030). he has been serving as the president of venezuela since april 2013. he won the presidential election by securing 51% of the vote with 80% of the ballot votes counted while the opposition candidate edmundo gonzalez urrutia finished 2nd with 44% of the vote. he has been a member of the united socialist party of venezuela (psuv) since 2007.

” I.on july 27, 2024, the world trade organization (wto), in collaboration with the international trade centre (itc) and the united nations conference on trade and development (unctad), released a report ‘world tariff profiles (wtp) 2024’ in geneva, switzerland.ii.as per it, india ranked as the second-largest user of non-tariff measures (ntms) among wto members in 2023, primarily through the initiation and imposition of anti-dumping duties.iii.the united states of america (usa) took the 1st position.iv.ntms are policies, other than regular customs tariffs, that affect international trade in goods by altering traded quantities, prices, or both.v.india’s average tariffs decreased to 17% in 2023 from 18.1% in 2022. click here to read more”

” Hsbc mutual fund has introduced the “apne #sipkodopromotion” ,a unique digital campaign to raise awareness and educate investors about the systematic investment plans (sips) top-up feature and its benefits for long-term wealth building.i.the campaign features three 30-second digital films designed to promote the concept of increasing sip contributions through the top-up facility.ii.sips allow regular investments in mutual funds, but the sip top-up option lets investors boost their contributions by a fixed amount or percentage at set intervals.”

” On 26th july 2024, the indian national space promotion and authorisation centre (in-space), under the department of space (dos), granted authorisation to azista bst aerospace private limited, to establish a ground station in the ultra high-frequency (uhf) frequency bands in hyderabad, telangana. now, azista bst will support its own satellites and provide ground station as a service (gsaas) for telemetry, tracking, and command (tt&c) operations and data reception from remote sensing satellites to both indian and international customers. this includes monitoring satellites, monitoring their health and downloading from satellites. the proposed ground station will operate in the uhf band of 300 megahertz (mhz) to 3 gigahertz (ghz).”

” On 26th july 2024, aditya birla group entered into branded jewellery business with an investment of rs 5,000 crore with launch of its brand name “indriya” which will operate under the novel jewels limited. with this, aditya birla group aims to secure its position among india’s top 3 jewellery retailers over the next 5 years.  dilip gaur will serve as director and sandeep kohli as chief executive officer (ceo) of novel jewels. .as per india brand equity foundation (ibef), gems and jewellery industry accounts 7% to the gross domestic product (gdp) of india.”

” On july 27, 2024, the 21st edition of exercise ‘khaan quest(kq24)’, a multinational peacekeeping exercise, began at the five hills training area in ulaanbaatar, mongolia.  the exercise kq24 will conclude on august 9, 2024. aim : to enhance global peacekeeping capabilities and foster international military collaboration. the exercise kq24 features approximately 430 participants from 23 countries, including india, australia, canada, china, japan, türkiye, the united states of america (usa), and the united kingdom(uk). the exercise khaan quest(kq) started as a bilateral event between the united states of america (usa and mongolian armed forces in 2003, khaan quest evolved into a multinational peacekeeping exercise in 2006.”

” I. on july 26, 2024, the reserve bank of india (rbi) has selected 5 entities out of 22 applications for the test phase under the 5th cohort of regulatory sandbox (rs) on the theme ‘ neutral’ii.the selected entities will commence testing of their products on solutions from august 2024. the 5th cohort under rs was announced in september 2022.iii.it refers to the live testing of new products or services in a controlled/test regulatory environment. through this field tests are conducted on the advantages and drawbacks of the new financial innovation.iv.the selected sandbox entites are,1. connectingdot consultancy private limited(ccpl), kolkata, west bengal (wb)2. epifi technologies private limited(etpl), bengaluru, karnataka3. finagg technologies private limited(ftpl), noida, uttar pradesh (up)4. indian banks’ digital infrastructure company (ibdic) private limited, mumbai, maharashtra5. signzy technologies private limited(stpl), bengaluru, karnataka click here to read more”

” The ministry of health and family welfare(mohfw) launched the ‘u-win’, an online vaccine management portal to captures every vaccination record of all pregnant women and children up to 6 years under the universal immunization programme (uip). aim: to maintain an electronic registry of routine immunisations. this portal designed to digitises the uip which is a part of the reproductive and child health (rch) program under the national health mission (nhm), ministry of health & family welfare (moh&fw). u-win will also be linked to the government’s existing evin platform for inventory management. the portal covers 12 vaccine-preventable diseases (vpds) under the uip. they are: nationally against 11 diseases: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, measles, rubella, severe form of childhood tuberculosis, rotavirus diarrhoea, hepatitis b, meningitis and pneumonia caused by hemophilus influenza type b and pneumococcal pneumonia. sub-nationally against a disease, japanese encephalitis (je) (je vaccine is provided only in endemic districts).click here to read more”

The international tiger day also called the global tiger day is annually observed across the globe on 29 july to highlight the importance of tiger conservation around the world 29 july 2024 marks the observance of the 14th international tiger day