International Booker Prize 2024 –
• Won: Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
• For His Novel → Kairos
• Translated Into English by → Michael Hofmann
• 2023 → Georgi Gospodinov (For Time Shelter)

RudraM-II: Solid-propelled antiradiation Missiles System
• Developed indigenously for → Air-toSurface operations
• Successfully flight-tested by → DRDO
• Launched From → Sukhoi-30 MKI Fighter Jet

World Press Freedom Index 2024 –
• Released by: Reporters Without Borders
• IND’s Rank: 159 {Out Of 180 Countries}

Top Countries –
1. NORWAY
2. Denmark
Last: Eritrea

Held In → Kochi, Kerala
ANTARCTIC TREATY –
• Signed In → Washington on 1 Dec 1959
• Purpose: To designate Antarctica as a zone for → Peace, scientific research, and environmental preservation

IND’s Research Stations at Antarctica –
1. Maitri (1989)
2. Bharati (2012)

Host Country: JAPAN

IND’s Rank: 6 → (17 Medals: 6G + 5S + 6B)
• Deepthi Jeevanji → Gold

Agnibaan: World’s 1st 3D printed rocket engine
• Successfully Launched By: Agnikul Cosmos (Chennai-based startup)

Goldman Environmental Prize → Known As » Green Nobel Awards
• Prize: $ 2 Lakhs
• Alok Shukla: Environmental activist
• His Campaign Saved → 4.45 lakh acres of biodiversity-rich forest In Chhattisgarh

Cyclone Remal: Tropical Cyclone
• Recently Hits → West Bengal & Bangladesh

Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS) → Blood Clotting

Covishield vaccine –
• Developed by: AstraZeneca & Oxford University

Atacama Observatory (TAO): World’s Highest Observatory
• Inaugurated By: University of Tokyo
• Height: 5,640 meters

2024 Uber Cup (Women’s) → Badminton Championships
• Host Country: CHINA
Winners: CHINA (Defeated: INDONESIA)

2024 Thomas Cup » Badminton Championships (For Men’s)
• Host Country: China

Winners –
• Champions: CHINA (Men’s) (Defeated: Indonesia)

Deepest Blue Hole Named → ‘Taam Ja’
• Identified at → Mexico’s Chetumal Bay
• Depth → 1,380 Feet
• BLUE HOLE: A Large Marine Sinkhole
• Developed In → Bank or Island
• Composed of → Carbonate Bedrock (Limestone or Coral Reef)

Why In News: India signed 10-year deal to operate Iran’s Chabahar Port
• Location → Gulf of Oman
• Sittwe port (Myanmar) → It Is IND’s 2nd overseas port after Chabahar Port (IRAN)

IND’s Largest Trading Partner in FY24 –

1. CHINA:
• Total Trading → $118.4 billion
• Import: $101.7 billion
• Export: $16.67 billion

2. USA: $77.5 Billion (Import + Export)

Mars Orbiter Mission 2 (MOM 2) or Mangalyaan-2 –
• Will Be Launched By: ISRO at 2024
• Rocket Used → Launch Vehicle Mark-3 or LVM3

Venezuela: Once Home Of 6 Venezuela Glaciers → 5 Disappeared
• Last One → Humboldt Glacier (at Andes Mountains)

International Solar Alliance (ISA) –
• Founded: 2015
• Launched By: Indian PM – Narendra Modi → On The Sidelines Of » COP-21 at Paris
• Headquarter: Gurugram
• Director General of ISA – Ajay Mathur

IPL 2024 –
Champion: Kolkata Knight Riders {3rd Title}
• KKR Captain → Shreyas Iyer
• Runner Up: Sunrisers Hyderabad (Captain → Pat Cummins
• Edition: 17th
• Final Match: M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai

Purple Cap {Most Wickets}: Harshal Patel (Punjab Kings)
• Total Wickets → 24 Wickets

Orange Cap {Most Runs}: Virat Kohli (RCB)
• Total Runs → 741 Runs

EarthCARE: Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Exploreris
• Climate satellite mission
• Operated by: ESA & Japanese Aerospace Agency (JAXA)

More than 4000 Gangetic dolphins in the Gangetic River basin
• Over 2000 → Found in UP (Chambal River)

Gangetic Dolphins: National Aquatic Animal
• Schedule I → Wildlife (Prot.) Act, 1972
• Vikramshila Dolphin Sanctuary: Bhagalpur, Bihar (Only 1 In IND)

SHAW PRIZE –
• Given at Fields → Astronomy, Medicine and Life Sciences
• Prize → $1.2 Million
• 2024: Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (USA –IND Origin)