UPSC-Indian Forest Service Exam-IFoS-Current Affairs-2024-October-1

UEFA European Championship or Euro-2024

⦿ The 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, fondly known as Euro 2024, took place in Germany.

⦿ The UEFA European Football Championship organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) is a men’s international football tournament exclusive to European teams. Founded in 1958, the competition began in 1960.

⦿ Spain is the winner after defeating England.

Additional Facts : 

FIFA

🖊  Fédération Internationale de Football Association is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
 🖊 Established in 1904.

🖊 Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, total members 211 national.

🖊 These members must also be members of one of the six regional confederations :

CAF (Africa)
AFC (Asia and Australia)
UEFA (Europe)
CONCACAF (North & Central America and the Caribbean)
OFC (Oceania)
CONMEBOL (South America).

 


Exercise MAITREE

⦿ The 13th edition of Exercise MAITREE is scheduled to be conducted in July 2024 at Fort Vachiraprakan in Tak Province, Thailand.

⦿ The last edition of this exercise was conducted at Umroi, Meghalaya, in September 2019.

⦿ Battalion of the LADAKH SCOUTS along with personnel from other arms and services of Indian Army participated in this exercise. 

⦿ Main focus of this exercise involve the employment of drones and counter-drone systems.