Current Affairs 2024 – Daily, Weekly, Monthly And Yearly PDF
By EXAM JOB EXPERT Published: September 05, 2024
Day of the Year
International Day of Charity
- To honor the important work that these many charities do, in 2012 the United Nations decided to nominate an annual International Day of Charity as an official day of recognition and celebration. The reason the date was chosen is because it is the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
- This choice commemorates the tireless work that Mother Teresa did by devoting her whole life to charity work.
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Latest ILO study links AI to dip in labour income
- Inequality is on the rise as the share of labour income has stagnated worldwide and a large share of youth remain out of employment, education, or training, according to the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘World Employment and Social Outlook: September 2024 Update’, released in Geneva on Wednesday.
- A major reason for this fall in labour income is artificial intelligence or AI, the study stated.
News Capsule
‘Faulty’ COVID-19 vaccine behind recruitment drive deaths in Jharkhand: CM
- Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday alleged that “faulty” COVID-19 vaccine doses administered amid the pandemic by the BJP-led Central government were responsible for 12 candidates losing their lives during physical tests for an excise constable recruitment drive in the State.
- The remarks came after the State government on Monday halted the drive, which began on August 22 in various centres, for three days following the deaths. The Chief Minister alleged that the BJP-led Centre had administered “faulty vaccines”, which have had a global impact, and that people are dying even from cold and cough.
Aparajita Bill passed by Bengal a knee-jerk reaction, say experts
- Emphasising that stricter punishment does not act as a deterrent and reduce the rate of crime, legal experts have dubbed the Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 as a “knee jerk reaction” to the rape and murder of a doctor at the R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
- The Bill, which was unanimously passed in the State Assembly on Tuesday, proposes amendments to five offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Samhita (BNS), and has provision of death penalty for five offences — rape, rape by a policeofficeror public servant, rape causing death or sending victim to persistent vegetative state, gang rape, and being a repeat offender.
SC slams Uttarakhand CM, says this is not a ‘feudal era’
- he Supreme Court on Wednesday orally slammed Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami for ignoring objections from the State bureaucracy and his own Minister against the transfer of an officer who is facing departmental and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) proceedings as the Director of the ecologically sensitive Rajaji Tiger Reserve, saying this was not a “feudal era” when what the king said had to be done.
- A three-judge Bench headed by Justice B.R. Gavai was informed by the amicus curiae, senior advocate K. Parameshwar, of multiple reports, including that of the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), red-flagging the appointment of Indian Forest Service officer Rahul as the Director of the Rajaji Tiger Reserve.
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Russia strikes Ukraine’s Lviv as its troops advance in East
- A Russian strike on west Ukraine’s Lviv, hundreds of kilometres from the front, killed seven persons on Wednesday, authorities said as Moscow claimed advances in the war-torn nation’s east.
- Russia has stepped up its aerial attacks on Ukraine since Kyiv launched an unprecedented cross-border offensive into Russia’s Kursk region last month.
- The assault on Lviv, which is sheltering thousands displaced by over two years of war, came a day after a Russian strike on the central city of Poltava killed 53 people in one of the deadliest single strikes of the invasion.
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