National News

FSSAI denied selling of human milk

• The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on May 24 denied permission for the processing or selling of human milk under the FSS Act, 2006.

FSSAI

International News

3rd Capacity Building Program for Civil Servants of Sri Lanka

• The 3rd Capacity Building Program for senior civil servants of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka concluded successfully at the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) on 24th May 2024 in New Delhi.

Sri Lanka

Economy

Diplomatic Conference of WIPO

• The Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge was adopted at the Diplomatic Conference held under the aegis of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, between May 13 and May 24, 2024.
• This is the 27th treaty under WIPO and the first in the last 10 years.

WIPO

WTO’s Agriculture Committee Meeting

• During the meeting of the World Trade Organisation(WTO) ’s agriculture committee in Geneva, a group of WTO member countries, including Brazil, Canada and the European Union, have urged India to submit timely notifications on sugar subsidies in the World Trade Organisation.

WTO

Science and Tech

CMERI’s Electric Tiller

• Dr. N. Kalaiselvi, Director General,Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)& Secretary, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) unveiled the Central Mechanical Engineering Research institute’s Electric Tiller in Durgapur.
• The CSIR-CMERI’s innovative technology is tailored to meet the requirements of small to marginal farmers, who constitute over 80% of the nation’s farming community.

CSIR

World Health Statistics Report 2024

• According to the annual World Health Statistics Report 2024 released by WHO, the proportion of deaths from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) rose to 73.9 percent by 2019 and the share of communicable diseases dropped to 18.2 per cent. 

About WHO

Sports

World Para Athletics Championships 2024

• India’s Simran Sharma has won a Gold medal in the women’s 200m T12 event in the World Para Athletics Championships 2024 in Kobe, Japan.
• India concluded their World Para Athletics Championships journey with remarkable achievements, securing a total of 17 medals, including six golds, propelling them to the sixth position in the standings.

World youth championships 2024

• Bedabrat Bharali became the first Indian male lifter to win a gold medal in the World youth championships 2024 in Lima, Peru.

FA Cup 2024

• Manchester United defeated Manchester City in the FA Cup final at Wembley, to win the title of FA Cup 2024.

Awards and Honours

Cannes Film Festival Awards 2024

• Anasuya Sengupta became the first Indian actor to win Best Actress in the Un Certain Regard Prize section, for her performance in The Shameless.
• Filmmaker Payal Kapadia became the first Indian filmmaker to win a Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film for her film "All We Imagine as Light".

Amal Clooney Women's Empowerment Award 2024

• Aarti, 18, an e-rickshaw driver from a village in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, was conferred with Amal Clooney Women's Empowerment Award, for inspiring other young girls through her work with the government's Pink E-rickshaw initiative.

Important Days

UN’s World Football Day

• The first-ever United Nations (UN)'s World Football Day was observed across the globe on 25th May 2024, to mark the 100th anniversary of the first international football tournament in 1924 Summer Olympic Games held in Paris.

Person in News

Vice Admiral Gurcharan Singh

• Vice Admiral Gurcharan Singh assumed the appointment of Commandant, National Defence Academy from Vice Admiral Ajay Kocchar in Pune.

Purnima Shrestha

• Purnima Shrestha, a photojournalist and mountaineer from Nepal, made history by being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest three times in one climbing season.