Important International Appointments (2024)

• President of 79th United Nation General Assembly - Philemon Yang
• US Representative On WHO Board - Vivek Murthy
• Secretary General of NATO - Mark Rutte
• Executive Director of Asian Development Bank - Vikas Sheel
• 11th President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Masato Kanda
• President of the International Court of Justice - Lebanese Judge Nawaf Salam
• President of Financial Action Task Force – Elisa de Anda Madrazo
• President of the European Council – António Luís Santos da Costa
• Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations (UN) - Parvathaneni Harish

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

(A) I was almost drowned a dozen times; was nearly boiled alive and just missed being cremated.

(B) Now, my well-being is simply the result of a careful and measured mode of living and perhaps the most astonishing thing is that three times in my youth I was rendered by illness a hopeless physical wreck and given up by physicians.

(C) More than this, through ignorance, and light-heartedness, I got into all sorts of difficulties, dangers and scrapes from which I extricated myself as by enchantment.

(D) But as I recall these incidents to my mind I feel convinced that my preservation was not altogether accidental.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

(A) No country has yet achieved the combination of very high human development with a light ecological footprint and the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss are growing.

(B) Compounded by a climate emergency, political polarization and challenged multilateralism, continued conflicts, and forced displacement, the number of people living in poverty rose in 2020 for the first time since 1998 by an estimated 119-124 million and inequalities are growing, and the traditional social contract is no longer working for many.

(C) The challenge of reaching Agenda 2030 was already significant, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

(D) Today's development challenges are dynamic, interconnected puzzles of multidimensional risk that require systemic solutions and multilateral cooperation is vital in addressing these shared challenges that cross boundaries of geography and time.

Important Literature Awards (2023-24)

• Booker Prize 2023 - Irish author Paul Lynch for "Prophet Song"

• Booker Prize 2024 - Samantha Harvey for "Orbital" 

• International Booker Prize 2023 - Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov for "Time Shelter"

• International Booker Prize 2024 - German author Jenny Erpenback and translator Michael Hofmann for the book "Kairos". 

• 32nd Saraswati Samman 2022 - Sivasankari For her book "Survya Vamsam"

• 33rd Saraswati Samman 2023 - Prabha Varma for his verse novel "Roudra Sathwikam" 

• 32nd Vyas Samman 2022 - Hindi writer Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi For his 2018 satirical novel "Pagalkhana"

• 33rd Vyas Samman 2023 - Pushpa Bharati for 2016 Memoir "Yaadein, Yaadein aur Yaadein"

• 34th Vyas Samman 2024 - Hindi writer Suryabala for her Novel "Kaun Desh Ko Vaasi: Venu Ki Diary"

• 57th Jnanpith Award 2022 - Damodar Mauzo (Goan writer) for Konkani

• 58th Jnanpith Award 2023 - Jagadguru Swami Rambhadracharya for Sanskrit & Shri Gulzar for Urdu