Page-14 of Current Affairs - July, 2024

Gagan Narang Named Chef-de-Mission for Paris 2024 Olympics

July 11, 2024

In a recent change in the Indian sports government, Gagan Narang, a famous shooter who won an Olympic bronze medal, took over from MC Mary Kom as the Chef-de-Mission for the Indian team at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The ..

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India Ranks Fifth in Global Generative AI Innovations

July 11, 2024

New research shows that India is fifth in the world when it comes to innovations in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). India is behind China, the US, Republic of Korea, and Japan in terms of the number of GenAI patents it ..

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Why Indo-Pacific Countries are Joining the NATO Summit?

July 11, 2024

The recent NATO summit held in Washington included the Indo-Pacific Four (IP-4): Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, and Australia. This shows how NATO’s strategy has changed because of new global risks, like the tension over Taiwan and closer cooperation between Russia ..

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Lt Gen Shankar Narayan Assumes Command at Army Hospital

July 11, 2024

Lt Gen Shankar Narayan became the new head of the Army Hospital (Research & Referral), Delhi on July 10, 2024. In his long and successful career as a military doctor, this job is a big step forward. Educational and Professional ..

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What is Project 2025?

July 11, 2024

The Heritage Foundation has come up with a big, controversial plan called Project 2025. It is meant to change the way the US government works in case Donald Trump runs for a second term. Much of the evidence points to ..

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James Webb Telescope Captures Quasar’s ‘Einstein Ring’

July 11, 2024

A fascinating picture of a “bejeweled” cloud of light around a quasar was recently taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This picture has sparked a lot of interest in the astronomy community. This picture shows an “Einstein ring,” ..

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What is Draft Digital Competition Bill?

July 10, 2024

India’s Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) set up the Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL) in February 2023 to look into whether digital markets need their own set of competition rules. After thinking about it for a year, the CDCL ..

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NATO Military Alliance: Recent Updates

July 10, 2024

President Joe Biden and other leaders from NATO met in Washington, D.C., to celebrate NATO’s 75th anniversary, even though Russia is still fighting in Ukraine. NATO’s backing for Ukraine during the biggest land war in Europe in decades was the ..

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What is a Super-Earth?

July 10, 2024

New information has been found about LHS 1140 b, an exoplanet 48 light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The team of foreign researchers was led by the Université de Montréal. Their study, which was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, ..

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PM Modi Awarded Russia’s Highest Civilian Honor

July 10, 2024

The Order of St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called, a high citizen award from Russia, was recently given to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. President Vladimir Putin gave this award to the group. The award is given to Modi in recognition ..

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