Important Person in News of 2024
Important Appointments in 2024
| Viram Misri | Foreign Secretary |
| Tuhin Kanta | Finance Secratry |
| T. V. Somanathan | Cabinet Secretary |
| Govind Mohan | Finance Secretary |
| P K Mishra | Principal Secretary to PM Modi |
| Satish Kumar | Railway Board Chairperson and CEO |
| Preeti Sudan | UPSC Chairperson |
| Rakesh Ranjan | Finance Secretary |
| Ravi Agrawal | CBDT Chief |
| A M Khanwilkar | Home Secretary |
| B. Srinivasan | NSG DG |
| Sindhu Gangadharan | Nasscom Chairperson |
| Deepti Gaur Mukherjee | Secretary of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs |
| Amardeep Singh | DPIIT Secretary |
| M Suresh | Interim Chairman of AAI |
| Rahul Navin | Director ED |
| Manolo Marquez | Head Coach Of Indian Men’s Football Team |
| Shekhar Kapur | IFFI Festival Director |
| Nicolas Maduro | Third time as Venezuela’s President |
| Manoj Mittal | Sidbi’s CMD |
| Lieutenant General Sadhna Saxena Nair | First Woman Director General Of Medical Service (ARMY) |
| Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera | Assam Rifles DG |
| Challa Sreenivasulu Setty | SBI Chairman |
| Vijay Mohan Kwatra | Indian Ambassador To US |
| Paetongtarn Shinawatra | Thailand’s Youngest Prime Minister |
| Elisa de Anda Madrazo | FATF President for 2024-26 |
| B.N. Gangadhar | Chairperson of the National Medical Commission |
| J. P. Nadda | Leader of House in Rajya Sabha |
| Arvind Panagariya | Chairman of the Sixteenth Finance Commission |
| Senthil Pandian C | India’s WTO Ambassador |
| Luis Montenegro | Portugal’s Prime Minister |
| Tarun Bajaj | Head of US-India Tax Forum |
| Dinesh Kumar Tripathi | Chief of the Naval Staff |
| Upendra Dwivedi | Army Chief |
| Yuvraj Singh | ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Ambassador |
| Narsingh Yadav | Chairman of WFI Athletes Commission |
| Priyanka Jarkiholi | Youngest Tribal Woman to Win in Lok Sabha |
| Prem Singh Tamang | Sikkim Chief Minister |
Heads of Important Offices in India
List of New Governors Appointments
- Rajasthan: Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde
- Telangana: Jishnu Dev Verma
- Sikkim: Om Prakash Mathur
- Jharkhand: Santosh Kumar Gangwar
- Chhattisgarh: Ramen Deka
- Meghalaya: C H Vijayashankar
- Maharashtra: C.P. Radhakrishnan
- Punjab: Gulab Chand Kataria
- Assam and Manipur: Lakshman Prasad Acharya
Important Sports Current Affairs of 2024
Grand Slam 2024
| Event | Winner (Nationalities) | Runners-UP (Nationalities) |
| Men’s Single (US Open) | Jannik Sinner (Italy ) | Taylor Fritz (USA) |
| Women’s Single (US Open) | Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) | Jessica Pegula (USA) |
Other important sports news of 2024
- Yogasana has been officially included as a demonstration sport in the upcoming 2026 Asian Games, set to take place in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan.
- Gold medal-winning archer Harvinder Singh and sprinter Preeti Pal have been chosen to carry the Indian flag during the closing ceremony of the Paris Paralympics.
- Syria defeated India in the 4th Intercontinental Cup Football Championship.
- Deepali Thapa has become the first-ever schoolgirl champion at the Asian Youth Boxing Championships held in Al Ain, UAE.
- “Khel Utsav 2024” from August 27 to 30, 2024, at Major Dhyan Chand and Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
