GS Paper - III
The Union Cabinet on 2 September 2024 approved the Rs 2,817-crore Digital Agriculture Mission for the creation of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) in the farm sector.
GS Paper - II
Justices Hima Kohli and Sandeep Mehta, while hearing the ongoing Supreme Court case against Patanjali Ayurved, pulled up the AYUSH ministry for its 1 July notification asking state licensing authorities “not to initiate/take any action under” Rule 170 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
GS Paper - III
In a series of decisions, the Supreme Court has highlighted the rights of people accused of money laundering, even in the face of stringent provisions on arrest and bail under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA).
GS Paper - II
The rising number of Indian walk-ins and asylum-seekers in the US and the UK has brought the spotlight on the immigration systems in these countries that are already overburdened by the number of cases and pendency in clearing the backlog.
GS Paper - I
On this day 85 years ago — 1 September 1939 — German troops marched into Poland, triggering the beginning of World War II, the deadliest military conflict in the history of mankind, involving an estimated 100 million people from 30 countries.
GS Paper - II
Namibia plans to cull hundreds of its most majestic wild animals, including dozens of elephants and hippopotamuses, to provide meat for its 1.4 million people — nearly half the southern African nation’s population — who are reeling under the worst drought in a century.
GS Paper - III
Suicide drones, also known as loitering munitions, have emerged as a critical component in modern warfare, offering countries a strategic advantage in both offensive and defensive operations.
GS Paper - II
Oil prices have perked up recently from a spell of torpor because a political dispute in Libya has curtailed much of the North African country’s output.
GS Paper - III
The ‘Holistic Development of Great Nicobar’, a Rs 72,000 crore “mega infrastructure project” for the Island, will continue as planned, with significant work already underway on the site.
GS Paper - III
Over a 20-year timescale, methane traps around 84 times as much heat as carbon dioxide (CO2), which is released by burning fossil fuels and is probably the most famous greenhouse gas of all.
GS Paper - III
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grounded SpaceX’s Falcon 9 — one of the world’s most active rockets — after it failed to land back on Earth during a routine Starlink mission.
GS Paper - II
India will be hosting the next edition of the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). The 18th edition will be held in August 2025. This announcement was made by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR.
GS Paper - III
India’s second nuclear submarine, the INS Arighaat, was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam.
GS Paper - II
The centre launched a centralized platform for registering and monitoring complaints of sexual harassment of women at the workplace.
GS Paper - II
The Netflix series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack was released, based on the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight IC-814 — considered one of the worst terrorist acts in India’s history.
GS Paper - III
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO’s) uncrewed Gaganyaan mission in 2025 will carry the female half humanoid Vyomitra (literally “space friend”).
GS Paper - II
The Himachal Pradesh Assembly passed a Bill to raise the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years. The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Himachal Pradesh Amendment) Bill, 2024, was passed by voice vote.
GS Paper - II
The National Sports Day is celebrated on 29 August 2024 in the memory of Dhyan Chand, the first superstar of Indian hockey, and arguably India’s first sporting superstar.
GS Paper - III
Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) completed 10 years on 28 August 2024. The PMJDY was launched on 28 August 2014, as a national mission for financial inclusion.
GS Paper - II
Bangladesh’s interim government lifted the ban on the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, paving the way for its return to active politics. The Sheikh Hasina government had cracked down on the Jamaat for being a “militant and terrorist” organisation, and hanged or imprisoned many of its top leaders for “war crimes” committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
The government has banned 156 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs, including popular medicines such as Cheston Cold and Foracet, used for cold and fever and pain respectively.
The annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) began on 26 August 2024 in Nuku’alofa, the capital of Tonga.
After a delay of nearly four years, the National Quantum Mission is set to take off with multiple initiatives including setting up a grant for start-ups
India’s Met department seemed to exist mainly to provide rainfall forecasts during the monsoon season, or to tell the maximum and minimum temperatures in the four metropolises.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) directed Food Business Operators (FBOs) to not market their milk and milk products “in the name of A1 and A2”. On 26 August 2024 it withdrew this advisory.
GS Paper - III
Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL) launched its Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV), Hillchol, on 26 August 2024. It was developed under licence from Hilleman Laboratories to combat cholera.
GS Paper - III
The idea of putting up hundreds, if not thousands, of small-sized nuclear reactors designed for modular expansion so that they could be bulk-produced in factories and brought to the sites in containers, has been engaging the attention of energy experts for some years.
GS Paper - III
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the two astronauts — Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore — who have been stuck at the International Space Station (ISS) would return to the Earth in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.
GS Paper - II
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on 24 August 2024, confirmed the existence of a new homegrown long-range weapon — a missile-drone hybrid — which can strike deep into Russia.
GS Paper - III
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on 26 August 2024 said that a nationwide launch of the Unified Lending Interface (ULI) will happen in due course.
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