25 exam-relevant headlines, written simply. Read the bold fact in each — that's what exams ask.
Madhya Pradesh conducted India's first paperless election, a pilot for a Sarpanch post in Ratua Ratanpur village in Berasia tehsil, Bhopal, recording 84% turnout.
Jordan became the first country in the world to receive WHO verification for eliminating leprosy, with no locally transmitted cases for over two decades.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune won a second term with about 94.7% of the votes.
The RBI clarified that resident OCI cardholders are eligible for education loans to study abroad, with remittances capped at USD 250,000 per financial year under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme.
India won 29 medals - 7 gold, 9 silver and 13 bronze - at the Paris Paralympics (August 28 to September 8, 2024), its best-ever tally, finishing 18th. Navdeep Singh won javelin gold, Harvinder Singh took India's first Paralympic archery gold, and Sheetal Devi became the youngest Indian Paralympic medallist.
Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi launched the CM-KISAN Yojana on Nuakhai festival, replacing the KALIA scheme. Small farmers will get Rs 4,000 a year.
International Literacy Day was observed on September 8, 2024 with the theme 'Promoting Multilingual Education: Literacy for Mutual Understanding and Peace'.
Italy's Jannik Sinner beat Taylor Fritz to win the men's singles, while Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka beat Jessica Pegula for the women's title at the US Open in New York.
IAS officer Tuhin Kanta Pandey was appointed Finance Secretary, replacing T V Somanathan, who took over as Cabinet Secretary.
India successfully test-fired the nuclear-capable Agni-4 intermediate-range ballistic missile from the ITR at Chandipur, Odisha. Its range is about 4,000 km.
PM Modi inaugurated SEMICON India 2024 at Greater Noida with the theme 'Shaping the Semiconductor Future', showcasing India's semiconductor ambitions.
China launched the third batch of 10 Geespace low Earth orbit satellites from Taiyuan, part of a planned 6,000-satellite constellation seen as China's answer to Starlink.
Sitaram Yechury, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) since 2015, died in New Delhi at the age of 72. He was the party's fifth General Secretary and a former Rajya Sabha MP from West Bengal.
The Polaris Dawn mission, commanded by billionaire Jared Isaacman, carried out the first commercial spacewalk on September 12, 2024. The Dragon spacecraft reached an apogee of about 1,400 km, the farthest humans have travelled since Apollo 17.
DRDO and the Indian Navy conducted the second consecutive flight test of the Vertical Launch Short Range Surface-to-Air Missile off the Odisha coast. The missile weighs about 170 kg and flies at Mach 4.5.
Phase II of Exercise Tarang Shakti-24, the Indian Air Force's first multinational air exercise, concluded at Jodhpur on September 14, 2024. It ran from August 29, 2024.
The International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer was observed on September 16, 2024, with the theme 'Montreal Protocol: Advancing Climate Actions'.
The Defence Ministry cleared the Indian Navy's Rs 2,500 crore plan to procure Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater Vessels (XLUUVs) weighing over 100 tonnes.
The Corporate Affairs Ministry notified the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID) as a Public Financial Institution under the Companies Act, 2013, after consulting the RBI.
Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah released SOPs for 'White Revolution 2.0' in New Delhi under the theme 'Sahkar-se-Samriddhi' to strengthen the dairy sector through cooperatives.
The sixth Quad Leaders' Summit was hosted by US President Joe Biden at Wilmington, Delaware on September 21, 2024, with PM Modi, Anthony Albanese and Fumio Kishida attending. The Quad Cancer Moonshot, aimed at fighting cervical cancer, was launched.
India won gold in both the Open and Women's sections of the 45th Chess Olympiad held in Budapest, Hungary from September 10-22, 2024, becoming the third nation after the Soviet Union and China to win both titles at one Olympiad. The Open team scored a record 21/22 match points.
AAP leader Atishi took oath as the 8th Chief Minister of Delhi on September 23, 2024, succeeding Arvind Kejriwal. She is Delhi's third woman Chief Minister.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the JVP-led alliance was sworn in as the 9th Executive President of Sri Lanka on September 23, 2024, winning about 42.31% of votes.
Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh was appointed the next Chief of the Air Staff, taking charge on September 30, 2024, succeeding Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari.
From exactly the headlines above. If you read the month, you should score 8+.
Suggested time 3 min · wrong answers go to your mistake notebook automatically.