National

Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya

• Department of School Education signed an MoU with the National Book Trust in New Delhi to create an institutional framework for the Digital Library Platform, Rashtriya e-Pustakalaya.

WTSA 2024

• India took over the baton of hosting World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly (WTSA) 2024 in New Delhi from 15-24 October 2024 during the AI for Good Global Summit at ITU Geneva.

International

Bonn Climate Change Conference

• United Nations Climate head Simon Stiell has warned that the world is headed for 2.7 degrees Celsius warming, and the road to keeping it to 1.5 degrees Celsius is extremely steep.
• He was speaking at the Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany.
• The Bonn meeting from June 3 to 13 is known as halfway to the annual climate summit, also known as the 29th Conference of Parties, or COP29.

Sports

ITF Men’s Tennis Tournament

• Aryan Shah won his maiden professional singles title with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Dan Martin of Canada in the final of the $15,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament in Kingston.

 Person in News

Claudia Sheinbaum

• Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected the first woman President of Mexico.

Kedar Jadhav

• Kedar Jadhav has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.

Ruchira Kamboj

• India's first woman Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj retired after 35 years of service.
• Ruchira Kamboj became Permanent Representative/Ambassador of India to New York, on August 2, 2022.

Helen Mary Roberts 

• Helen Mary Roberts has become first woman brigadier in Pakistan Army from minority community.

Miscellaneous

India to host global airlines in 2025

• IndiGo CEO Pieter Elbers takes charge of the Chair of the IATA Board of Governors.
• India will host next year’s annual gathering of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents over 330 airlines worldwide.