Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 25th May to 31st May 2024

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 25th May to 31st May 2024

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Banking and Financial

  • RBI imposes Rs 3.10-lakh penalty on Hero Fincorp for rule violations
  • TCS gets core banking transformation deal from Kuwait’s Burgan Bank
  • Goldman Sachs raises India’s GDP growth forecast to 6.7 percent for FY24
  • RBI imposes ₹1-crore penalty on ICICI Bank₹91 lakh on YES Bank
  • Govt to get Rs 3,662 crore from LIC as dividend
  • RBI unveils Pravaah portalRetail Direct Mobile App and FinTech Repository
  • Poonawalla Fincorp launches Co-Branded Credit Card with IndusInd Bank
  • HDFC Bank to stop SMS alerts for small UPI payments
  • RBI imposes Rs 36.38 lakh penalty on HSBC for violating Fema regulations
  • ADB approves $2.6 billion in Sovereign lending to India in 2023
  • Capital Small Finance BankICICI Lombard enter into bancassurance tie-up
  • RBI projects 7% Real GDP growth in current financial year

National News

  • DD Kisan launched AI Anchors, Krish and Bhoomi
  • Sikkim celebrates Saga Dawa festival
  • World’s first 100% biodegradable pen launches in India
  • WB govt plans new AI and ML-focused data centre
  • Cyclone Remal bring heavy rains in part of WB and Bangladesh
  • Jyoti Ratre becomes India’s oldest woman to Conquer Mount Everest
  • Cyber Security Conclave organized in New Delhi
  • First Hydrogen plant of GAIL inaugurated in VijaipurMP
  • Ghana ties up with Reliance Jio arm, others for building 4G, 5G telecom infra
  • Telangana government enforces Statewide ban on gutka and pan masala
  • Fischer Medical Ventures makes India’s first indigenous MRI system
  • Sterlite Technologies partners with Connexin for gigabit broadband
  • Wipro to develop AI driven tech to reduce risks of cardiovascular disease
  • Reliance Industries to begin construction on India’s first multimodal logistics park near Chennai
  • Indian mountaineer Satyadeep Gupta becomes first person to scale Everest and Mt. Lhotse twice in one season
  • India offers $1 million aid to disaster-hit Papua New Guinea
  • Sanjay Kumar inaugurates Summer Fiesta 2024
  • FICCI organized India Cold Chain and Logistics Summit in New Delhi
  • India assumes Chair of Colombo Process for 2024-26
  • NHAI launches initiative to attract the UAE’s investments for India’s highway expansion
  • Mines Ministry organizes Workshop on Granites and Marble Mining
  • Sourav Ganguly became Chief Guest for Supply Chain Conference 2024
  • Armed Forces Medical Services & IIT Hyderabad ink MoU for Collaborative Research and Training
  • Government raises Retirement & Death Gratuity Limits to 25 Lakh

International News

  • Delhi ranks 350 in Oxford Global Cities Index Report 2024; topped by New York
  • WHO launches first-ever investment round for sustainable funding
  • WHO Organizes ‘Walk The Talk’ Yoga Session Event
  • Purnima Shrestha conquers Mount Everest thrice in a single season
  • Nepal celebrated Its 17th Republic Day

Appointment and Resignation

  • ICC names Shahid Afridi as Men’s T20 WC 2024 Brand Ambassador
  • MS Dhoni appointed as Citroen’s brand ambassador in India
  • RBI approves appointment of Pradeep Kumar Sinha as Parttime Chairman of ICICI Bank
  • Jetha Ahir appointed as chairman of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED)
  • Justice Najmi Waziri appointed as Chairperson of Equestrian Federation Of India’s Ad-Hoc Administrative Committee
  • Allamaye Halina named new PM of Chad
  • Vice Admiral Gurcharan Singh takes Command of NDA
  • Gitanas Nauseda elected as the president of Lithuania
  • DRDO chairman Samir V. Kamat gets one year extension
  • Apurva Chandra appointed as chairperson of Committee A Of 77TH WHA Event
  • Gaurav Banerjee appoints as new CEO of Sony India
  • Rakesh Ranjan appointed as Chairman of SSC
  • Vijay Khanduja appointed as India’s next High Commissioner to Cameroon
  • National Asset Reconstruction Company (NARCL) board recommends P Santhosh as MD & CEO
  • Shah Rukh Khan appoints brand ambassador of Muthoot Pappachan Group
  • IRDAI approves Sandeep Batra as ICICI Prudential Board chairman

Awards

  • E -Rickshaw driver Arti conferred UK’s Women’s Empowerment Award
  • Chidanand Naik’s film ‘Sunflowers Were the First to Know’ won the La Cinef Award for Best Short Film, and Anasuya Sengupta won the Best Actress award for her film Shameless
  • Payal Kapadia won the country’s first ever Grand Prix Award at the 77th Cannes Film Festival
  • NHPC honoured with ‘The Economic Times HR World Future Ready Organization Award 2024-25’
  • Major Radhika Sen receives UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award
  • Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) receives CSR Champion Award 2024

Defence

  • France successfully test fired ASMPA Missile
  • DRDO Successfully Tests RudraM-II Missile

Science

  • NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth’s Poles
  • Agnikul launches Agnibaan with India’s first 3D-printed rocket engine
  • South Korea launches its First Space Agency

Sports

  • Dinesh Karthik announced retirement from IPL
  • India’s Simran Sharma wins Gold Medal at World Para Athletics Championship
  • KKR wins their third IPL title beating SRH
  • Dipa Karmakar clinches India’s first-ever Gold Medal in Asian Championships
  • Charles Leclerc wins Monaco Grand Prix 2024
  • Classic Football Academy bag AIFF U17 title
  • Ravi Shastri joins Cricket Australia’s Multicultural Initative
  • India bags seven medals at the Asian Armwrestling Championship 2024
  • Muhammad Waseem and Hayley Matthews won the ICC Men’s and Women’s Player of the Month

Important day

  • 25 May – World Football Day
  • 25-31 May – International Week of Solidarity with the Peoples of Non-Self-Governing Territories
  • 25 May – Africa Day (Theme 2024 – Education Fit for the 21st Century)
  • 27 May 2024 (last Monday of the month of May) – National Memorial Day
  • 28 May – World Hunger Day (Theme 2024 – Thriving Mothers, Thriving World)
  • 29 May – International Day of the UN Peacekeepers (Theme 2024 – Fit for the future, building better together)
  • 30 May – Hindi Journalism Day
  • 30 May – International Day of Potato
  • 31 May – World No-Tobacco Day (Theme 2024 – Protecting Children from Tobacco Industry Interference)
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