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CURRENT EVENTS OF STATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE
राज्य, राष्ट्रीय आणि आं तरराष्ट्रीय महत्त्वाच्या वततमान घटना

• 2023 /2024 budget MH/India

• Economic Survey highlights
• May 2023 to May 2024 for prelim 2024
• Focus on oct nov dec jan feb march
• GK today website/GKtoday monthly magazine
• Parikrama, Abhinav, Simplified
• All pyq CA 2013-2023 analysis
• MH 1-2,India 8-10,World 4-5 questions

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• Budget MH/IND • Padma Awards, Arjun , Dnyanpeeth,Oscar,NOBEL prize, National film
awards,sahitya academy • Important Summit/Conferences,BRICS/ASEAN • UNESCO news
• Imp Appointment chairman/governor/upsc/railway/ • Imp Operations/missions
• UN COP,UN election, • NATO, NSG nuclear suppliers group meet • Time person of the year
• Deaths person in news/actor death, politician • Grand Prix/Sports
title/Competition/olympics/Asiad games/commonwealth • Brand Ambassador appointed
• RBI schemes/Bank policy/bank merger/slogans • Booker Prize • Human Development
Report latest • ISRO,DRDO,other nation space mission/missile features • National youth
policy,skill development policy, • Cricket records, IPL • women entry / fastest super
computers /trains etc • Air quality Index • International alliance • State Boundary dispute,
River dispute • Imp amendment • Swachh sarvekshan awards • World heritage sites
• Imp days world ozone,earth day,health day/yoga day • MH state awards • WHO report
• MH state schemes • Author Books • International court of justice/ UN elected indian
members • New train in news • Military exercises • India healthy policy TB,AIDS,Polio
• State festival names • State flower/fruit/bird/animal declared • World ranking in news
• Other nation election PM/President • Election of state in news ,CM appointment
• PM Modi foreign visit speech/Foreign awards to Modi • India UN ranking • MH state new
bill/Other state new bill/rules • Tsunami names, Cyclone naming • Ramon Magsaysay
awards • National sport news • Emblem/Symbol/Logo UN body/National Body
• First ethanol bus,First ship,first flight in news • Viral disease in news • National
weeks/paryatan parva/cleanliness drive/govt of india week celebration • Dance forms of
state/Festivals of state • GI tag • Scam in news • First country to do legalize
• First state to do • Indian person got award in foreign country • 100 years/50 years
completed in news • IMF WB UNO WHO IMO WTO etc headquarters • Global conference in
INDIA • Themes of various days • Courts appointment/Courts decisions • Military awards,
gallantry awards
 May 2023 - June 2023
• USA is the largest military spender in 2022 (US,China,Russia,India) global military spending published
by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the United States, China and Russia are
the three largest spenders

• 'Big Catch-up' Initiative is launched by WHO

• World Bank has released the “World Development Report 2023: Migrants, Refugees, and Societies”.

• Theme of ‘World Intellectual Property Day 2024’- IP and the SDGs: Building our common future with
innovation and creativity. World Intellectual Property Day, observed annually on April 26

• USA Scientists developed ‘Mobile Vaccine Printer’ an innovative technology developed by researchers
at MIT. This small device is capable of producing hundreds of vaccine doses within a single day.

• Egypt conferred the ‘Order of the Nile’ honour to Narendra Modi

• Dr Jayant V. Narlikar, who was seen in the news recently, is associated with Astronomer
profession: (Eminent mathematician Dr Mangala Narlikar dies at 80). Prof. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar gets
the first Astronomical Society of India Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award in Pune

• India TB Free 2025

• DRDO pinaka multi rocket launch system
• Q. Which state/UT launched the ‘5T School Transformation Programme’?
Answer: Odisha, scheme called the 5T High School Programme (technology, teamwork, transparency,
time and transformation)

• Parkash Singh Badal, who passed away recently, was the former Chief Minister of Punjab and senior
leader of Shiromani Akali Dal. The five-time Chief Minister visited Pakistan with Vajpayee in 1999

• Washington Declaration is a bilateral agreement signed between the US and South Korea. According to
this agreement, while South Korea will not develop its own nuclear weapons, the US will aid in the use
of the nuclear weapons in case of potential conflict with North Korea.

• Rail Vikas Nigam Limited company has been recently upgraded to the status of Navratna

• Q. ‘Rapid Support Forces’, which was seen in the news, is the paramilitary group of which country?
Answer: Sudan military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group are engaged in armed
conflict in the capital, Khartoum

• European Union’s 'Fit for 55 Package' is a set of proposals to revise and update the European Union
Legislation and launch new initiatives to achieve the reduction of carbon emissions by 55 percent by
2030

• T-14 Armata battle tank, developed by Russia, has been recently deployed to fire on Ukrainian
positions.

• IRAN test-fired the long-range ballistic missile Kheibar

• Q. Which state launched the ‘State Wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology -SWAGAT’
initiative?
Answer: Gujarat, State Wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology -SWAGAT initiative was
launched by the Gujarat Government in 2003

• Q. Scientists have discovered a cave in which state to confirm that three droughts resulted in destruction
of Harappa?
Answer: Uttarakhand

• Q. Anji Bridge, which was seen in the news, is being built in which state/UT?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir, Anji Bridge is India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge.The bridge is a part of a
326-km rail line connecting Udhampur to Baramulla via Srinagar, which is an important connector between
Kashmir and rest of India via railways.

• Q. ‘Dimasa National Liberation Army’ is associated with which state?

Answer: Assam

• Q. ‘Sultan Al-Neyadi’, who became the first Arab t undertake a spacewalk, is from which country?
Answer: UAE astronaut

• Q. Which state secretariat that was inaugurated recently holds the name of Dr B R Ambedkar?
Answer: Telangana

• Q. Who is the first Indian to complete the Golden Globe Race?

Answer: Abhilash Tomy

• Q. Which state/UT launched the ‘Adarsha Colony initiative’?

Answer: Odisha
Notes: As part of the Adarsha Colony initiative, the Odisha government has sanctioned ₹22.5 crore for
setting up India’s first resettlement colony for people affected by coastal erosion and climate change
• Q. Jana Shakti Exhibition was organised the 100th episode of which program?
Answer: Mann ki Baat, Jana Shakti Exhibition was organized to commemorate the 100th episode of the popular
radio program “Mann ki Baat”. ‘Jana Shakti: A Collective Power’

• Q. Which institution released the ‘Chief Economists Outlook Report 2023’?

Answer: WEF

• Q. What is the name of world’s first robotic check-in assistant, that was launched by Emirates?
Answer: Sara is the world’s first robotic check-in assistant. It was unveiled recently by the Dubai-based airline
Emirates.

• Q. What is India’s rank in the ‘World Press Freedom Index 2023’?

Answer: 161, The ranking of India in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index has slipped 11 places to 161. Now
2024 rank 159/180

• Q. Kyasanur Forest Disease, recently seen in the news, has emerged in which state?
Answer: Karnataka, Kyasanur Forest Disease, also known as Monkey Fever, poses a significant health threat in
Karnataka

• Q. Indira Gandhi Mahila Samman Nidhi was launched in which state/UT?

Answer: The Himachal Pradesh Government has decided to provide Rs.1,500 each month to all women aged 18
to 60 years

• Q. Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) was enacted in which year?

Answer: 2002

• Q. Which country introduced the ‘China Competition 2.0 Bill’?

Answer: USA, aims to limit the flow of technology to Beijing to safeguard the United States' business interests
and security.

• Q. Which state commenced the construction of the World’s Largest Ramayan Temple?
Answer: Bihar
• Q. Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon are the four moons of which planet?
Answer: Uranus

• Q. ‘Khumjung Khunde Waste Water Management Project’ is being constructed in which country, with the
aid from India?
Answer: Nepal

• Q. Which racing driver won the Miami Grand Prix title in 2023?
Answer: Max Verstappen, Belgian and Dutch citizen

• Q. Sathyabhama Das Biju, who was seen in the news, is associated with which profession?
Answer: Biologist ,Sathyabhama Das Biju, who is popularly known as ‘the Frogman of India’, has been
chosen for Harvard University’s prestigious Radcliffe fellowship.

• Q. Which country researchers created the first baby using ‘Mitochondrial Donation Treatment’?
Answer: UK, Using the process called mitochondrial donation treatment (MDT), the first baby was created
using DNA of three people in the UK.

• Q. Which is the first Indian city to adopt the localization of the UN-mandated SDGs?
Answer: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minster launched the ‘Agenda for Action: Sustainable Urban
Transformation’ in Bhopal. This makes Bhopal the first city in India to adopt the localization of the UN-
mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Q. Which airport has been recognised as the world’s most punctual airport, as per the recent report
released by Cirium?
Answer: Hyderabad airport recognised as world’s most punctual . the airport recorded 90.43 percent on-
time performance. It is the only airport in the world to cross the 90 per cent On-Time Performance mark

• Q. Who is the first Indian scientist to become the Fellow of the Royal Society this year?
Answer: Rajeev Varshney is an Indian agricultural scientist known for his contribution towards decoding
legumes’ genomes and developing new varieties of chickpeas.
• Q. ‘Samudra Shakti-23’ is a bilateral exercise conducted between India and which country?
Answer: Indonesia

• Q. Where is the ‘Great Grandfather Tree’ located?

Answer: Chile, 5484 years old

• Q. Which institution launched the ‘UTSAH Portal’?

Answer: The University Grants Commission (UGC) launched two user-friendly portals, UTSAH (Undertaking
Transformative Strategies and Actions in Higher Education) and PoP (Professors of Practice).

• Q. Which portal will have details of all registered doctors in India?

Answer: National Medical Register, Indian government has mandated all registered doctors to get a Unique
Identification Number (UID)

• Q. Kapileshwar temple, which is set to be included in the ASI’s protected monuments list, is located in
which state?
Answer: Odisha, Kapileshwar temple is situated in Odisha’s Bhubaneswar. It is set to be included in the
ASI’s protected monuments list

• Q. Which state/UT launched the ‘Mukhyamantri Sikho Kamao Yojana’?

Answer: Madhya Pradesh

• Q. India launched ‘Operation Karuna’ to assist which country?

Answer: India launched ‘Operation Karuna’ to assist Myanmar which has been recently hit by Cyclone
Mocha. Yemen gave name mocha to cyclone

• Q. Which Indian has been honoured by the ‘Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur’ award?
Answer: N Chandrasekaran, Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur is France’s highest civilian honor. It was
received recently by Tata Group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran.

• Dr Manoj Soni takes the Oath of Office and Secrecy as Chairman, Union Public Service Commission
• Q. Scientists from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have proposed a new metric named ‘rms’.
What is the expansion of rms?
Answer: Root mean square.

• Q. ‘Rayyanah Barnawi’ is set to become the first woman astronaut from which country?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

• Q. ‘Forum shopping’ is a term used in which field?

Answer: Judiciary, Forum shopping is the practice of litigants or lawyers deliberately moving their cases
to a particular judge or a court where they deem the judgement would be more favourable. This practice
of Forum shopping was condemned recently by the CJI DY Chandrachud.

• Q. Which super-computer was ranked at 75th position at Top 500 Global Supercomputing List?
Answer: AIRAWAT
Notes: AIRAWAT is an AI supercomputer in the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Pune, currently the world’s 75th fastest supercomputer.

• Q. Georgi Gospodinov, who has won the International Booker Prize, is from which country?
Answer: Bulgaria, Georgi Gospodinov is the first Bulgarian author to win International Booker Prize. He
authored the book titled “Time Shelter”.

• Q. U.T. Khader was unanimously elected Speaker of which state’s Legislative Assembly?
Answer: Karnataka, 54-year-old U.T. Khader was unanimously elected Speaker of the Karnataka
Legislative Assembly, becomes the first Muslim to hold the post in Karnataka

• Q. What is Mihir, located in the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF)?
Answer: Super computer, Mihir is a 2.8 petaflop supercomputer in the National Centre for Medium
Range Weather Forecasting (NCMRWF). Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, is home to
'Pratyush', a 4.0 petaflop supercomputer.

• Q. Which country recently launched its home-grown space rocket ‘Nuri’?

Answer: South Korea recently launched its home-grown space rocket, Nuri
• Q. XPoSat, India’s first polarimetry mission, is being built by which institution?
Answer: ISRO, XPoSat (X-Ray Polarimeter Satellite) is India’s first polarimetry mission.

• Q. Which Union Ministry has granted Rs 45.34 crore to Unani medicine research and development bodies?
Answer: Ministry of Minority Affairs, Unani or Arabian medicine is a comprehensive approach to promoting
natural healing and overall wellness, originating from ancient Greek principles developed millennia ago.

• Q. Which company will operate and maintain Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro's line 3, Mumbai's first fully
underground corridor?
Answer: Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ Metro's line 3 is Mumbai's first fully underground
corridor

• Q. Daam, which was seen in the news, is a?

Answer: Malware

• Q. RBI has recently sanctioned the merger of which Co-op banks?

Answer: Cosmos Co-op and Maratha Co-op

• Q. Which country has introduced a robot called ‘Kachaka’ with capacity to deliver items through voice
commands?
Answer: Japan

• Q. Which state is set to host the ‘Mahakumbh 2025’ event?

Answer: Uttar Pradesh, Prayagraj

• Q. Which state/UT launched the ‘Solar City Project’?

Answer: Kerala aimed at making Thiruvananthapuram the largest solar city in India. every rooftop in the
capital city will be turned into a solar energy-producing station.

• Q. ‘Blue Pansy (Junonia Orithya)’ has been named as the official butterfly of which state/UT?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir
• Q. Which Asian country joined the ‘Centralised Laboratory Network (CLN)’?
Answer: India recently joined the Centralised Laboratory Network (CLN) to test vaccines during pandemic
and epidemics.

• Q. Which country signed MoU with India for development of Phukot Karnali Hydro Electric Project?
Answer: Nepal

• Q. Which is the first AIIMS to receive NABH accreditation?

Answer: AIIMS Nagpur
Notes: AIIMS Nagpur received the NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare
Providers) .The NABH accreditation is recognized globally as a standard for healthcare excellence

• Q. Which Union Ministry implements the ‘PM SVANidhi’ scheme?

Answer: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched a mobile
app for street vendors to ease their loan application process under the PM SVANidhi scheme

• Q. Which country recently passed the Patriotic Bill that prohibits criticism of the government prior to
elections?
Answer: Zimbabwe

• Q. Which state/UT inaugurated the ‘Shiva Srishti’ theme park?

Answer: Maharashtra
Notes: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the first phase of ‘Shiv Srishti’, a theme
park based on the life of Shivaji Maharaj in Pune

• Q. Which country won the Men's Junior Asia Cup 2023 title?
Answer: The Indian hockey team recorded a 2-1 win over Pakistan in the final of the Men's Junior Asia Cup
2023 in Salalah, Oman

• Q. Strawberry Moon is the full moon of which month?

Answer: June
• Q. Which is identified to be the main cause for the tragic train accident in Odisha's Balasore?
Answer: Electronic interlocking, At least 275 people were killed and more than 1,000 were left injured in a
horrific three-train collision, involving a Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai
Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train in Odisha’s Balasore district on June 2

• Q. As per the India Rankings 2023, which institution retained its first position in the Overall category?
Answer: IIT Madras, National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) developed by the Ministry of
Education.

• Q. India’s First International Cruise Vessel was flagged off recently to which country?
Answer: Sri Lanka, India’s First International Cruise Chennai to Sri Lanka. The MV Empress cruise has a
capacity to accommodate 3,000 passengers. It will connect three ports--- Triconmalle, Hambantota and
Jaffna---in Sri Lanka.

• Q. Which institution launched the ‘Antardrishti’ dashboard?

Answer: RBI

• Q. Which country hosts the ‘Special Olympics World Summer Games’?

Answer: Germany, India ended their Special Olympics World Games campaign with 202 medals, including
76 gold medals.

• Q. Suriname conferred the ‘Grand Order of the Chain of Yellow Star’ on which Indian personality?
Answer: President of India, The Grand Order of the Chain of Yellow Star is the highest civilian honour
conferred by Suriname. President Droupadi Murmu recently became the first Indian to receive this award.

• Q. Who is the first female officer in Army Service Corps to take charge of Communication Zone
Mechanical Transport Battalion?
Answer: Colonel Shuchita Shekha

• Q. Which state/UT launched Disha Mobile App aimed at safety and security of women?
Answer: Andhra Pradesh
• Q. Janan Bushehri, is the only woman legislator elected in which country’s general election?
Answer: Kuwait

• Q. ‘Ex Ekuverin’ is the joint military exercise between India and which country?
Answer: Maldives

• Q. Which city is the most expensive city in India for expatriates, as per the Mercer's Cost of Living Report?
Answer: Mumbai

• Q. Which country has officially re-entered the UNESCO?

Answer: USA

• Q. Which country has won the title of ‘World Squash Championship’ in 2023?
Answer: Egypt has retained World Squash Championship, after beating Malaysia 2-1 in the final in Chennai.
The third place was shared jointly by hosts India and Japan

• Q. Which state announced a Monthly Pension of ₹10,000 for the Padma Awardees from the State?
Answer: Haryana

• Q. What is the name of the ‘Electronic signage systems’ that have been installed in High Courts of India?
Answer: Justice Clocks

• Q. What is the new name of the ‘Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Society’?
Answer: Prime Ministers’ Museum and Library Society

• Q. Which city is the host of the world’s first Women’s Kabaddi League?
Answer: Dubai

• Q. Who is the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge in the US history?
Answer: Nusrat Choudhury
• Q. As per a recent report, which is the fastest warming Continent in the World?
Answer: Europe

• Q. India gifted indigenously-built in-service Missile Corvette INS Kirpan to which country?
Answer: Vietnam

• Q. Who has been appointed as the new Chief of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW)?
Answer: Ravi Sinha

• Q. Which famous personality has been conferred the prestigious German peace prize?
Answer: Salman Rushdie

• Q. Which country’s football team clinched the Intercontinental Cup in 2023?

Answer: Indian Men’s Senior Football Team recently defeated Lebanon 2-0 to clinch Intercontinental Cup
in Bhubaneshwar.

• Q. Which is the first country other than India, to promote itself using Yoga?
Answer: Oman

• Q. ‘Operation Kawach’ has been launched to crack down the menace of drugs in which state/UT?
Answer: New Delhi

• Q. Which institution released the ‘Gender Gap Report 2023’?

Answer: World Economic Forum, The Gender Gap Report, 2023 was released recently by the World
Economic Forum. India stood at 127th position out of 146 countries in terms of gender parity

• Q. Which state/UT implements the ABADHA scheme?

Answer: Odisha, ABADHA stands for ‘Augmentation Basic Amenities and Development of Heritage and
Architecture’. The scheme aims to transform Puri into a world-class heritage city, focusing on preserving
and rejuvenating its cultural and architectural heritage.
 July 2023 - August 2023
• Q. What is the rank of India in ‘WCC’s Global Competitiveness Index’?
Answer: 40, Denmark, Ireland and Switzerland have been named the top three among 64 economies in the
2023 Global Competitiveness Index.

• Q. ‘Hasarius mumbai’, which was discovered recently, belongs to which species?

Answer: Spider

• Q. Which country is the host of the SAFF Championship in 2023?

Answer: India, Indian men’s football team emerged victorious in a thrilling penalty shootout
against Kuwait 5-4 at Bengaluru’s

• Q. Which Union Ministry implements the ‘PM-PRANAM scheme’?

Answer: Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers. PM-PRANAM stands for PM - Programme for Restoration,
Awareness, Generation, Nourishment and Amelioration of Mother Earth scheme.

• Q. Who was conferred with the ‘Points of Light honour’ by the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak?
Answer: Rajindar Singh Dhatt, During a UK-India Week reception, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
bestowed a Points of Light honor upon Rajindar Singh Dhatt, one of the few remaining Sikh soldiers who
participated in World War II.

• Q. Which city hosted the ‘Startup20 Shikhar Summit’?

Answer: Gurgaon

• Q. The Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) is set to establish pig schools in collaboration with which country?
Answer: Denmark

• Q. Which state/UT launched ‘e vanlekh’ portal to enhance public awareness about forest and sanctuaries?
Answer: Delhi
• Q. Which Union Ministry launched the ‘eSARAS mobile App’?
Answer: Ministry of Rural Development, The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojna- National Rural Livelihoods Mission
(DAY-NRLM) has introduced the eSARAS mobile App, aimed at enhancing marketing assistance for products
created by women belonging to Self-help Groups. SARAS stands for Sale of Articles of Rural Artisans Society

• Q. Egypt and which country appointed Ambassadors to each others for the first time in a decade?
Answer: Turkey

• Q. Which institution released the ‘World Investment Report 2023’?

Answer:United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

• Q. Jens Stoltenberg (norway) has been elected as the head of which grouping for third time in a row?
Answer: NATO, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance
formed in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective
security against the Soviet Union. Since its inception, NATO has grown to include 30 member states, with its
headquarters in Brussels, Belgium.

• Q. Zanzibar, where the first IIT Global Campus is to be set up, is located in which country?
Answer: Tanzania
Notes: A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed for the establishment of an Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Madras campus in Zanzibar, Tanzania

• Q. Where was the 7th edition of Japan-India Maritime Exercise 2023 (JIMEX 23) held?
Answer: Visakhapatnam

• Q. The United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine have jointly launched a case against which country, at
the International Court of Justice?
Answer: Iran, Justice over the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet in the year 2020, resulting in death of all
176 passengers

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• Q. Where was the 7th edition of SALVEX between the Indian Navy and the US Navy held recently?
Answer: Kochi

• Q. Which state/UT launched Parivar Pehchan Patra (PPP) scheme?

Answer: Haryana, The Haryana government has introduced a monthly pension program - Parivar
Pehchan Patra (PPP) scheme of ₹2,750 for low-income unmarried individuals aged 45 to 60.
Additionally, widowed individuals between the ages of 40 and 60, with an annual income below ₹3 lakh

• Q. Which country’s court ruled that a thumbs-up emoji sent via text message can be considered as
consent to a contract?
Answer: Canada

• Q. Who has been conferred the Lokmanya Tilak National Award in 2023?
Answer: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred the Lokmanya Tilak National Award. He is the
41st recipient of the award

• Q. Which month of the year 2023 recorded the hottest week ever on recorded on Earth?
Answer: July (3-10 July)

• Q. Installation of air-conditioning systems has been mandated in the cabins of trucks manufactured
from which date?
Answer: 1st January 2025

• Q. What is the name of India’s first regional AI news presenter?

Answer: Lisa, Odisha TV, an Odia-based news station, has unveiled "Lisa", India's first regional AI news
anchor.

• Q. Which country is the host of the Asian Athletics Championships 2023?

Answer: Thailand, Hindu god Hanuman as the official mascot for this year’s event, India impressive tally
of 27 medals, including six gold, 12 silver, and nine bronze, India secured the third position overall,
following China and Japan
• Q. Which country launched methane and liquid oxygen-powered rocket, Zhuque-2?
Answer: China

• Q. As per the UN data, India lifted how many people out of poverty in the last 15 years?
Answer: 41.5 crore

• Q. The GST Council imposed what percent tax on online gaming, horse racing and casinos?
Answer: 28 per cent, with effect from October 1, 2023

• Q. Which state/UT Rural Livelihoods Mission bagged the SKOCH Award under the theme “State of
Governance India 2047”?
Answer: Jammu and Kashmir

• Q. Which is the world’s most liveable city as per the EIU’s Global Livability Index 2023?
Answer: Vienna Austria's capital, New Delhi and Mumbai are at 141st position and Chennai at 144th.

• Q. Which leader was honored with the ‘Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour’?
Answer: Narendra Modi, highest honor bestowed by France, whether in military or civilian realms.

• Q. Which country’s senate passed resolution recognising Arunachal Pradesh as integral part of India?
Answer: USA

• Q. Nomadic Elephant is a military exercise between India and which country?

Answer: Mongolia
• Q. Hwasong-18 ICBM was tested by which country recently?
Answer: North Korea
• Q. From where was 'Chandrayaan-3' lunar mission launched?
Answer: SDSC – Sriharikota

• Shri Indra Mani Pandey will be the next Secretary General of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-
Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). HQ Dhaka, 7 members
• Q. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi is to set up offshore campus in which city?
Answer: Abu Dhabi UAE

• Q. ISRO is jointly developing a nuclear-powered engine along with which institution?

Answer: BARC

• Q. Which Tennis player won the Wimbledon men’s single title in 2023?
Answer: Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz defeated seven-time champion Novak Djokovic to claim his first Wimbledon
title.

• Q. Who has been designated as the 25th Director General of Indian Coast Guard?
Answer: DG Rakesh Pal

• Q. Which country/ies is/are hosting the FIFA Women's Football World Cup 2023?
Answer: Australia and New Zealand, Spain women’s football team won the FIFA World Cup title in 2023

• Q. Which state issued a ‘Vision Document to Achieve 2070 Net Zero Target’?
Answer: Jharkhand

• Q. Which state/UT recently passed the ‘Honour of Dead Body Bill, 2023’?
Answer: Rajasthan

• Q. Which is the first state to pass ‘Platform Based GIG Workers (registration and welfare) Bill’?
Answer: Rajasthan

• Q. Tele MANAS helpline, the toll-free digital arm of which scheme?

Answer: District Mental Health Programme, Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across
States (Tele-MANAS)

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• Q. Where is the International Seabed Authority headquartered?
Answer: Jamaica

• Q. Which Indian badminton duo won the Korea Open 2023 title?
Answer: Satwiksairaj and Chirag in South korea

• Q. Byculla railway station, India’s oldest railway station, is in which state/UT?

Answer: Maharashtra

• Q. Which state has unveiled its dedicated Semiconductor Policy (2022-2027)?

Answer: Gujarat and Tamil Nadu

• Q. With reference to space science, what is ‘Bennu’?

Answer: Asteroid

• Q. Which country is experiencing a phenomenon known as "full-time children”?

Answer: China, surge in youth unemployment in China is leading to a phenomenon known as "full-time
children".Individuals who receive a salary from parents to fulfill role of being their children. They spend time
with parents, accompany them for shopping, assist with household tasks, and so on.

• Q. Phangnon Konyak, who was seen in the news, is a Member of Parliament from which state/UT?
Answer: Nagaland, first female representative from Nagaland to assume the position of Rajya Sabha
Chairperson

• Q. What are the denominations of the Commemorative coins to mark India's G20 presidency?
Answer: Rs 75 and Rs 100

• Q. Jizai Arms is developed in which country?

Answer: Japan
• Q. Which country is the host of ‘Exercise Bright Star’?
Answer: Egypt
• Q. What is the new logo of Twitter after replacing the iconic bird logo?
Answer: Alphabet ‘X’

• Q. Which state has announced the establishment of ‘Mangrove Cell’?

Answer: West Bengal

• Q. Which company is preparing to launch the world's largest privately-owned satellite called JUPITER-3?
Answer: Space X

• Q. Which country has launched the ‘Young Professional Scheme’ for visas to Indians aged between 18 and
30?
Answer: UK

• Indian-origin Ajay Banga Chosen as World Bank President

• Q. The Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Bill proposes which personality as the ‘Visitor’ to
all the IIMs?
Answer: President, granting powers to audit their functioning and appoint or remove directors.

• Q. Micron is set to establish India's first semiconductor plant in which state?

Answer: Gujarat

• Q. Which country has successfully launched its first communications satellite named ‘Lingxi-03’?
Answer: China

• Q. Which state is set to launch ‘Shubhayatra’ scheme to provide financial support to overseas emigrants
from the State?
Answer: Kerala

• India’s tiger population increased to 3,682 in 2022, up from 2,967 in 2018, ,maximum number of
tigers, 785 in Madhya Pradesh, followed by Karnataka (563), Uttarakhand (560), Maharashtra (444)
• Q. Which Union Ministry launched the ‘ULLAS initiative’?
Answer: Union Ministry of Education inaugurated the logo, slogan - "Jan Jan Sakshar," and the mobile
application for ULLAS: Nav Bharat Saksharta Karyakram. provides basic education, digital and financial
literacy, and critical life skills to individuals aged 15 and above who missed the chance to attend school.
'ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society)

• Q. BARI Chinabadam-12, which was launched recently, is a new variety of which crop?
Answer: Ground-nut

• PM Modi inaugurated SemiconIndia 2023 at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat today. The theme of
the Conference is ‘Catalysing India’s Semiconductor Ecosystem’.

• Q. Who is the chairperson of the ‘Commission for Other Backward Classes’?

Answer: Justice Rohini

• Q. Great Barrier Reef, recently seen in news, is located in which country?

Answer: Australia

• Q. Which Asian country recorded a 27% rise in tiger population since 2015?
Answer: Bhutan

• Q. Mankurad mango, which received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag, is from which state/UT?
Answer: Goa
UP Jalesar Dhatu Shilp (metal craft), Goa Mankurad mango, Goa cakeBebinca, Udaipur Koftgari metal craft,
Bikaner Kashidakari craft, Jodhpur Bandhej craft and Bikaner Usta Kala craft were given the Geographical
Indication (GI) tag

• Amrit Brikshya Andolan is a new Android app aimed at promoting the plantation of commercial trees in
Assam, with the goal of making the state greener
• Ministry of Finance, has launched the scheme, “Vivad se Vishwas I – Relief to MSMEs” for providing relief to
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for COVID-19 period
• The Vivad se Vishwas 2 scheme is a voluntary settlement mechanism introduced to address contractual
disputes between the Government of India and organizations operating under its control.

• Q. Which Union Ministry launched the e-CARe portal?

Answer: Union Health Ministry announced the launch of e-CARe (e-clearance for after life remains) portal to
bring bodies from abroad.

• Q. Rajiv Gauba, who has been in the news, holds which position in India?
Answer: Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba recently got an extension in service for another year, making him the
longest-serving Cabinet Secretary.

• Q. Which state launched the ‘Gruha Jyothi scheme’?

Answer: Karnataka government launched the Gruha Jyothi free power scheme, which aims to provide free
electricity up to 200 units for every household in the state.

• Q. Which Indian has been chosen as the vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?
Answer: Raman Sukumar, elected at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi,
Raman Sukumar, an expert on the Asian elephant, was chosen as a vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC).

• Q. India’s Defence Ministry has decided to replace Microsoft Operating System with which Operating system?
Answer: Maya

• Q. Which bank launched India’s first 24x7 Video Banking customer service?
Answer: AU Small Finance Bank

• Q. Rajouri Chikri woodcraft, which was seen in the news, is associated with which state/UT?
Answer: Two products from Jammu and Kashmir's Rajouri and Anantnag districts—the Rajouri Chikri
woodcraft and the Mushqbudji rice variety—have earned Geographical Indication (GI) tags.
• Q. What is the new name of the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE)?
Answer: IIM Mumbai, The National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) will be renamed as the Indian
Institute of Management, Mumbai (IIM Mumbai) .NITIE the 21st IIM in India and the second in Maharashtra,
following IIM Nagpur.

• Q. What is the proposed name change for the state of Kerala, for which a resolution has been passed
unanimously in the state assembly?
Answer: Keralam

• Q. Reliance Jio recently completed the work related to connecting which country with a High-Speed Optic Fibre
cable?
Answer: Maldives

• Q. Which country is the host of ‘Zayed Talwar 2023’ exercise?

Answer: UAE Dubai, The bilateral naval exercise 'Zayed Talwar' aims to enhance the interoperability and
synergy between the Indian Navy and UAE Navy.

• Q. What is the proposed new name for the legal code for India, replacing Indian Penal Code (IPC)?
Answer: The proposed Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023, intended to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC)

• Q. According to Elephant Census-2023, which state leads the country in the total number of elephants?
Answer: Karnataka

• Q. India has settled its first-ever crude oil payment to which country in local currency?
Answer: UAE

• Q. Bindeshwar Pathak(80), who passed away recently, associated with which field?
Answer: Social Work,Padma Bhushan recipient and founder of Sulabh International, an India-based social
service organisation which works to promote human rights, environmental sanitation, waste management and
reforms in education. bringing in the revolutionary Sulabh Complex public toilet system to India.

• Q. Which is the first state to provide free In-vitro Fertilisation (IVF) treatment?
Answer: Goa
• Q. What is the name of India’s first long-range revolver?
Answer: Prabal

• Q. India’s first-ever night street racing circuit has been launched in which state?
Answer: Tamil Nadu, Chennai

• Q. Which institution has launched the ‘Floodwatch’ mobile app?

Answer: Central Water Commission (CWC) launched the mobile application, "FloodWatch” with the aim of
using mobile phones to spread information related to the flood situation and forecasts up to 7 days on a
real-time basis to the public

• Q. India’s first 3D-printed post office is set to come up in which city?

Answer: Bengaluru, India’s first 3D-printed post office is set to come up in Bengaluru within a month’s time

• Q. Who has been conferred with the first ever ‘Udyog Ratna’ award instituted by Maharashtra?
Answer: Ratan Tata

• 15th Brics Summit In South Africa

• Russian Lunar Lander Luna 25 Crashes on Moon’s Surface

• Himachal Pradesh government on 18th August 2023 declared the whole state a 'natural calamity affected
area' after incessant rains caused large-scale damage

• Q. What is the share provided by the Centre in implementation of projects under “North East Special
Infrastructure Development Scheme” (NESIDS)?
Answer: 100%

• Q. Lander Hazard Detection and Avoidance Camera is associated with?

Answer: Chandrayaan 3
• Q. Who was John Warnock, who was seen in the news recently?
Answer: Co-founder of Adobe

• Q. What is the new name of ‘Khelo India Women’s League’?

Answer: Asmita Women’s League, ASMITA refers to ‘Achieving Sports Milestone by Inspiring Women
Through Action’.

• Q. Who has been recognised as the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) national icon for voter awareness
and education?
Answer: Sachin Tendulkar

• Q. Which institution developed the ‘Astra’ indigenous air-to-air missile?

Answer: DRDO

• Q. Which is the first country to successfully land on the South Pole of the Moon?
Answer: India
Notes: India became the fourth country to successfully land on the moon as the Chandrayaan-3’s lander
module. ISRO’s ambitious third Moon mission Chandrayaan-3's Lander Module (LM) touched down on the
lunar surface. This makes it only the fourth country to accomplish the feat, and first to reach south pole of
Earth's only natural satellite.

• USA Spotless girafee born first in world ,named Kipekee meaning unique

• Q. Which company is set to launch the world's first BS-VI (Stage-II), electrified flex-fuel vehicle in India?
Answer: Toyota, 100 per cent ethanol-fueled variant of Toyota's Innova car. The union minister had last
year launched a hydrogen-powered car, Toyota Mirai EV.

• After more than 25 years of research, a team has performed the first womb transplant in the UK

• India gets its 54th tiger reserve in Rajasthan's Dholpur-Karauli

• Truenat test to detect Nipah Virus kerela
• Q. Which movie won the best Feature Film award at the 69th National Film Awards in 2023?
Answer: ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ Best Feature Film. Best Actor award went to Allu Arjun while Alia
Bhatt, Kriti Sanon share Best Actress award. 'RRR' won six awards including Best Popular Film Providing
Wholesome Entertainment, "The Kashmir Files" received the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Best Feature Film
on National Integration, Best Marathi Film: Ekda Kaay Zala, Best Short Fiction Film Dal Bhat, Best
Animation Film Kandittundu.

• In Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan 2023 Indore ranks first followed by Agra and Thane

• Justice Prakash Shrivastava has been appointed as Chairperson of National Green Tribunal

• The Grand Cross of the Order of Honour is conferred by the President of Greece to Prime Minister Modi

• Magnus Carlsen Norway wins 2023 Chess World Cup after beating R Praggnanandhaa in tie-breaks

• IIT Bombay has partnered with HSBC to pursue technological advancements towards making green
hydrogen production more efficient, cost-effective, and scalable.

• Q. Who is the first Indian to secure a gold medal at World Athletics Championships?
Answer: Neeraj Chopra clinched the gold medal in the men's javelin throw event at the World Athletics
Championships held in Budapest, Hungary

• Q. The Embassy of India in which country has launched a mobile application, ‘EoIBh-Connect’ to ease
Consular Access?
Answer: Bahrain

• Q. Which institution has developed India’s first Wheeled Armoured Amphibious Platform (WhAP)
vehicles?
Answer: DRDO and Tata Advanced Systems, vehicles have been deployed in south Kashmir to aid anti-
militancy operations by CRPF. The 8-by-8 vehicle is a state-of-the-art platform. It is India's first vehicle that
can be driven on road, marshy terrain, water and mountainous terrain.
•
September 2023- October 2023
Mumbai, Over 5,000 minors rescued by Mumbai Police so far this year under ‘Operation Muskaan’, a
Ministry of Home Affairs project. It aims to find missing children, and rescue and rehabilitate them

• August 23, Union Cabinet has declared August 23 as 'National Space Day' to commemorate Chandrayaan-3's
successful landing on the Moon. The Cabinet also applauded the designation of two moon locations as
'Tiranga Point' (the imprint of Chandrayaan-2) and ShivShakti Point (the landing site of Chandrayaan-3) in
the release.

• Former President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated Kerala’s first AI(Artificial intelligence) school at Santhigiri
Vidyabhavan in Thiruvananthapuram , India’s first AI school becomes reality, to have classes from 8 to 12

• Indian men’s 4x400m relay team consisting of Muhammed Anas Yahiya, Amoj Jacob, Muhammed Ajmal
Variyathodi and Rajesh Ramesh broke the Asian record.

• A postage stamp was released in memory of Dadi Prakashmani, who is associated with which institution?
Answer: Brahma Kumaris

• Toyota Innova Hycross: Nitin Gadkari launches world's first 100% ethanol-powered car

• Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan rover has confirmed the presence of sulphur on the moon's surface, near its south
pole, and is still searching for hydrogen

• In 1973, the US Open became the first Grand Slam tournament to award equal prize money to men and
women

• England now join the likes of countries like South Africa, India and New Zealand who had already
announced equal match fees for both men's and women's teams

• Ajit Pawar has been chosen as the chair of groups of ministers (GoMs) on GST System Reforms?
• The Ramon Magsaysay Award, often called the 'Nobel Prize of Asia'. This year, in the ceremony's 65th
edition, four Asians were given the Ramon Magsaysay Award,Dr Ravi Kannan R. from India

• Meet Jaya Varma Sinha, the Railway Board’s first woman Chairperson and CEO

• Rajmash (red kidney beans) from Bhaderwah and Ramban Sulai honey of Jammu and Kashmir have now
received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag

• United Nations Biodiversity has urged people globally to use the word ‘funga’ whenever they say ‘flora and
fauna’, in order to highlight the importance of fungi.

• Amazon has signed an MoU with India Post for an integrated cross border logistics solution that will expand
the ecommerce exports opportunity to lakhs of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across the
country

• Vijayawada Railway Station was awarded the ‘Green Railway Station’ certification with the highest rating of
Platinum by the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC).

• Amul is the Official Sponsor of the Indian Contingent for the XIX Asian Games 2022 to be held in Hangzhou,
China from 23rd Sept to 8th Oct 2023

• 'Koraput Kalajeera Rice' receiving the Geographical Indications (GI) tag of the Koraput district in Odisha,
India.

• Mohun Bagan SG defeats East Bengal 1-0 at Durand Cup finals football at kolkata

• China Scientists grow humanized kidneys in pig embryos

• Odisha: Vehicle Location Tracking Device, Panic Buttons Mandatory From Oct 1

• The African Union (AU) has been made a permanent member of the G20
• ‘National e-Vidhan Application’ (NeVA) launch at Gujarat Legislative Assembly at Gandhinagar, would bring
more speed and transparency in the functioning of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly and the entire process
of the House being paperless would also protect the environment. Punjab Also Adopted NeVA

• Varuna Exercise India France navy

• Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's official aircraft, known as the 'Flying Taj Mahal,‘

• UP nandini krishak samriddhi yojna improve cow breeds milk production

• India hands over G20 presidency to Brazil for 2024

• Aditya-L1 is the first Indian space-based observatory to study the Sun from a halo orbit around the first
Sun-Earth Lagrangian point (L1), which is located roughly 1.5 million km from the Earth.

• India won U16 SAFF title defeating Bangladesh 2-0

• India recorded a 10-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup 2023 final in Colombo. 8th title

• The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), also known as the Navigation with Indian
Constellation (NavIC), is an independent, stand-alone indigenous navigation satellite system developed by
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).

• raise the award amount for this year’s Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11 million kronor
($986,270) as the Swedish currency has fall recently.

• Goa state taxi app

• Indian Oil Moto GP Bharat Sponsor
• India 126/146 Rank World Happiness Index
• Santiniketan West Bengal is India's 41st UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been
inscribed ongoing 45th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.
• The UNESCO also included the Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysalas in Karnataka in the list in September
2023. This takes the total number of UNESCO World Heritage sites in India to 42
• Of the 42 Indian sites, 34 are cultural, 7 are natural, and 1 is mixed (both cultural and natural).

• 128 CAA bill , it will be known as the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act for 33% seats women loksabha
and state assmblies

• BARD AI chatbot of google

• Newyork hosted SDG 2023 Summit, sdg till 2030

• Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) launched the 'Swachhata Train' initiative as part of Swachhata
Pakhwada to promote waste management awareness and cleanliness in the city

• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan unveiled the 108-foot-tall 'Statue of Oneness' of Adi
Shankaracharya in Omkareshwar

• Bengaluru plans London-type congestion tax, Govt plans to impose a congestion tax on nine specified
roads in Bengaluru during peak hours to alleviate traffic congestion.

• Swati Nayak from Odisha, To Receive the 2023 Norman Borlaug Field Award, third Indian agriculture
scientist to win the prestigious Norman E. Borlaug Award

• Indore,Surat,Agra Best Smart Cities. MP,TN,Rajasthan Best smart state

• First Green hydrogen bus launch in delhi by hardeep puri
• Women and Men Cricket Gold Asian China Games 2023
• Global Biofuels Alliance India introduced in G20
• Veteran actor Waheeda Rehman has been chosen as the recipient of the 53rd Dadasaheb Phalke Award,
India's highest film honor

• Amritraj and Leander Paes have been inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame. They are the first Asian male
players to be given the honour

• North Korea Amends Constitution to Enshrine Permanent Growth of Nuclear Arsenal

• Kochi Water Metro bags City with the Best Green Transport Initiative
• India Rank 40/132 Global Innovation Index
• Noida Jewar Airport DXN code Alloted
• UP 100% ODF village

• M.S. Swaminathan, legendary agricultural scientist passed away. He was a recipient of Padma Shri in 1967,
the Ramon Magsaysay Award for community leadership in 1971, the Padma Bhushan in 1972 and the
Padma Vibushan in 1989. He played a crucial role in ‘Green Revolution,’ a programme that paved the way
for jump in production of wheat and rice through adaptation of chemical-biological technology.

• Kiran Baliyan ends India’s 72-year wait for a women’s shot put medal

• As part of the Gaganyaan Mission, ISRO plans to send three astronauts to an orbit of 400 km for a 3-day
mission and return them safely to Earth, India will become the fourth country to send a human into space,
following the Soviet Union, the US, and China. PM Modi unveiled the names of the four pilots selected for
India's historic maiden manned space mission. These astronauts are — Group Captain Prasanth
Balakrishnan Nair, Group Captain Ajit Krishnan, Group Captain Angad Pratap, and Wing Commander
Subhanshu Shukla

• Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary released by the UP forest department on Friday revealed that 50 dolphins
now thrive in river Ganga, up from 41 in the last census in 2020

• Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday announced the formation of three new districts –
Malpura, Sujangarh and Kuchaman
• Ambedkar, unveiled in Maryland, USA. statue is known to be the tallest statue of Ambedkar outside India
"Statue of Equality,“
• The SAMPRITI series of joint bilateral exercises is a significant military and political initiative between India
and Bangladesh

• Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods
that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
• Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 for
the discovery and development of quantum dots
• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for development of
effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19”
• The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse, “for his innovative plays
and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”
• Nobel Peace Prize 2023 to Narges Mohammadi for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and
her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.
• Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s
labour market outcomes”

• Rajasthan’s exclusive Valley Queen Heritage Train

• Punjab government banned PUSA-44 paddy
• Dinesh Khara Chairman Of SBI
• Satwik-Chirag become first India’s first ever Asiad gold medallists in badminton
• Spain Rocket Miura-1
• newly discovered jumping spider species has been named ‘Sparambabus sindhudurg’
• Goa Cashew Gi tag

• ‘Operation Ajay’ set to evacuate Indian nationals from Israel

• In the 2023 Global Hunger Index, India ranks 111th out of the 125 countries

• SRO building a second rocket launchport in Tamil Nadu’s Kulasekarapattinam

• Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI 5.0) of the Union Ministry of Health and Family children up to 5 years of age (Previous
campaigns included children up to 2 years of age).Special focus is on improvement of Measles and Rubella vaccination coverage
with the aim of Measles & Rubella elimination by 2023.

• 2028 olympics usa los angees, 5 new sport included cricket ,squash, baseball, softball, lacrosse

• Dr Mansukh Mandaviya today inaugurated the Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (NIMSR) in Kohima,
Nagaland first medical college

• World Food Day 2023 theme is 'Water is life, water is food. Leave no one behind.‘ 16 october 1945 FAO

• India slipped to 45th position out of 47 countries on the Global Pension Index 2023 as compared to 41st position out of 44
countries in 2022

• Michael Douglas was honored with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th International Film Festival

• Qatar Airways Qatar Airways has signed an agreement with SpaceX to make Starlink WiFi available to every passenger in the
sky at no cost

• Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision 2047 This specific sub-vision within the larger plan focuses on developing the Indian maritime
sector, with emphasis on: Expansion of Port Infrastructure

• Railway's Ashutosh Sharma breaks Yuvraj Singh's record for fastest fifty in T20s

• CBI's operation 'Chakra-II' online investment fraud & cyber-enabled impersonation racket.

• Project Udbhav is an initiative set in motion by the Indian Army to rediscover the profound Indic heritage of statecraft and
strategic thoughts derived from ancient Indian texts of statecraft, warcraft, diplomacy and grand strategy.

• Exercise Harimau Shakti-2023 strengthens military synergy between India, Malaysia

• Himchal state 75 snow leopard highest in india

• Maxwell Fastest World Cup ODI Hundred 40 ball against netherland dutch
•
November 2023 - December 2023
IFFI Goa 2023:Persian Iran film ‘Endless Borders’ Wins Golden Peacock

• Vigilance Awareness Week is being observed from 30 October to 5 November with the theme of “Say no to corruption;
commit to the Nation”.

• Union Finance Minister launches phase IV of ‘Operation Sesha’ to curb the illegal trade of Timber, including Red Sanders.

• The Indian junior men’s hockey team added another feather to their cap by securing the bronze medal in a heart-stopping
match at the Sultan of Johor Cup 2023, in Johar, Malaysia. Gold Medal germany

• Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating it
could be possible for humans to reproduce in space, a group of Japanese scientists said

• Actor Rajkumar Rao , Sachin Tendulkar Declared As National Icon Of Election Commission Of India

• State Bank of India onboards MS Dhoni as ambassador

• Kaladan Multimodal Transit Transport Project (KMTTP) connects the eastern Indian seaport of Kolkata with the
Sittwe seaport in Rakhine State, Myanmar by sea.

• In respect of number of accidents, Tamil Nadu topped amongst the States, whereas Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest
number of accident deaths

• Kozhikode became part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) as the city was awarded the title of 'City of
Literature‘, India’s first UNESCO City of Literature

• Lionel Messi and Aitana Bonmati have been named the 2023 Ballon d’Or winners men and women respectively,
ceremony held in Paris. Lionel Messi wins eighth trophy Ballon plays for Argentina

• Bhutan had achieved its goals and sterilized and vaccinated every stray dog in the country

• Jupiter's moon Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system

• Italy, Philippines withdraws from China's Belt and Road project

• Indian Navy's latest, indigenous under-construction, guided missile destroyer, 'Surat‘

• Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy 2023, Punjab won the title by defeating Baroda in the final.

• Nagaland Assembly unanimously passed a bill to reserve 33 percent seats for women in urban local bodies

• 2023 National Games Maharashtra emerged as the champions securing 228 medals. They claimed the
prestigious Raja Bhalindra Singh Rolling Trophy for the overall championship, which they hadn't achieved
since 1994. Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) and Haryana finished second and third.

• Ayodhya sets new Guinness world record, lights over 22.30 lakh earthen lamps saryu river

• ICC Hall of Fame Virender Sehwag, India women cricketer Diana Edulji and Sri Lanka Aravinda de Silva the
latest inductees.
• Virat Kohli 50th ODI ton to break Sachin Tendulkar's world records in first semi-final of the World Cup 2023
against New Zealand.

• China is the world's biggest polluter, making up nearly 30% of global emissions and accounting for over half
of global demand for coal

• ISRO's Dr. Mathavaraj selected for Goa Govt.'s first 'Manohar Parrikar Yuva Scientist Award'

• Oxford Dictionary named ‘rizz’ as its word of the year meaning ability to attract another person through
style, charm, or attractiveness.

• Senior IPS officer Alok Sharma appointed new SPG director

• Nicaragua’s country in central america Sheynnis Palacios has been crowned Miss Universe for the year 2023,
marking her country's first win . 1994, 2000, 2021 India winner
• ODI WC 2023, Australia won the final by six wickets, winning their sixth Cricket World Cup title. Travis
Head was declared the Player of the final Match. Virat Kohli was named the player of the tournament and
also scored the most runs, while Mohammed Shami was the leading wicket-taker.

• World Heritage Week is observed every year from November 19 to November 25.

• Chandrayaan-4 is a planned lunar soil rocks sample-return mission target 2028

• The National Waterway 1 (NW-1) or Ganga-Bhagirathi-Hooghly river system is located in India and runs from
Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh to Haldia in West Bengal

• Gujarat ghol fish as the state fish

• Siddipet, Telangana, is now home to the world's first 3D-printed temple

• First woman judge of Supreme Court Fathima Beevi 96 passes away kollam kerala, i was also the first woman
Governor of Tamil Nadu and the first chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission. received Padma
Bhushan award posthumously 2024

• Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, head of the Dawoodi Bohra sect of Islam, will be conferred ‘Nishan-e-Pakistan’,
making him the fourth Indian to be honoured with Pakistan’s highest civilian award. Morarji Desai was the first
Indian to be honoured with Nishan-e-Pakistan in 1990. Dilip Kumar was given this award in 1998 and Kashmiri
separatist leader Ali Geelani was also awarded Nishan-e-Pakistan in 2020

• FAO celebrates World Toilet Day 2023 under the theme “Accelerating change”

• 'Ujjwala'- a sparrow, was unveiled as the official mascot of Khelo India in delhi– first ever Para Games 2023

• Afghanistan announces permanent closure of embassy in India

• North Korea claims the "Malligyong-1" satellite military spy intelligence
• The right to speedy justice is a fundamental right, the Madhya Pradesh HC has said
• rat-hole mining, being done to rescue trapped Uttarkashi Silkyara-Barkot tunnel workers. 41 workers
rescued. Rat-hole mining was banned in 2014 by the Meghalaya government.

• 2023 booker £50,000 prize was won by Paul Lynch of Ireland for his novel Prophet Song

• AstroSat is the first dedicated Indian astronomy mission aimed at studying celestial sources in X-ray, optical
and UV spectral band

• Pradhan Mantri-Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-JANMAN) Scheme. Aimed at

uplifting Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs)

• Rishab Shetty directorial movie Kantara won the Special Jury Award also known as the Silver Peacock
Award, at the International Film Festival of India 2023

• World AIDS Day 1 dec 2023 under the theme, “Let communities lead”

• Panchamrit: India has presented the following five elements (Panchamrit) of India’s climate action:
– Reach 500 GW Non-fossil energy capacity by 2030.
– 50% of its energy requirements from renewable energy by 2030.
– Reduction of total projected carbon emissions by 1 billion tonnes from now to 2030.
– Reduction of the carbon intensity of the economy by 45% by 2030, over 2005 levels.
– Achieving the target of net zero emissions by 2070.

• extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) for an additional five years till 2028

• Kavach is a cab signaling train control system with anti-collision features developed by the Research Design
and Standards Organisation (RDSO)

• COP28: In UAE Dubai, PM Modi offers to host COP33 in India, 197 countries presenting

• Suresh Raina Appointed Youth Voter Awareness Ambassador Of J&K

• LIC has become the fourth largest insurer in the world, ahead of US-based MetLife and Prudential
Financial Inc. The LIC is only behind Germany's Allianz SE, China's China Life Insurance (CLI), and Japan's
Nippon Life. LIC is worlds strongest insurance brand

• The University of Toronto has been named the most sustainable university in the world

• Gujarat has recorded the highest number of custodial deaths in 2022

• Dr Samir Shah Becomes First Indian-Origin Chairman Of BBC

• Lionel Messi has been named as Time Magazine's Athlete of the Year for 202

• Lalduhoma, the founder of Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM),

• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the transaction limit for Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
payments to hospitals and educational institutions to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh per transaction

• Nirmala Sitharaman 32nd spot in Forbes' World's 100 Most Powerful Women, HCL Corporation CEO
Roshni Nadar Malhotra (rank 60), Steel Authority of India Chairperson Soma Mondal (rank 70) and Biocon
founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (rank 76). Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission,
leds the list, second Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank. US Vice President Kamala
Harris third, Giorgia Meloni, Italy's Prime Minister, in fourth.

• US Singer Taylor Swift is named Time magazine’s person of the year

• Mizoram that includes the state's first woman minister of cabinet rank in 61-year Lalawmpuii Chawngthu.
• Vishnu Deo Sai chosen as the new Chhattisgarh Chief Minister

• Every hour there are 53 road accidents and 19 deaths on Indian roads. Govt aiming for 50% reduction in
road accidents by 2030

• Captain Geetika Koul and Fatima Wasim has become the first woman medical officers in the Indian Army
to be deployed at Siachen,
• NHAI to develop multi-modal logistics park at Nagpur under pm gati shakti plan

• Namo Bharat train services available on 34 km of the Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System RRTS
corridor

• Geological Survey of India (GSI) established lithium-resources of 5.9 million tonnes in the Salal-Haimana
area of the Reasi district in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). This discovery makes India the seventh-largest source
of lithium globally. lithium reserves have been found for the first time in the country in J&K, another
lithium reserve found in rajasthan nagaur

• Argentina devalued the peso over 50% to 800 peso per dollar as part of shock measures.

• Country's first Gymnosperm garden established in Uttarkashi Uttarakhand

• Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2023 has been jointly awarded to Daniel
Barenboim and Ali Abu Awwad for their efforts in bringing together the youth and peoples of Israel and the
Arab World for a non-violent resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict
• Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development 2022 was, on November 19, jointly awarded
to the Indian Medical Association and the Trained Nurses Association of India as representatives of the
COVID-19 warriors in the country.

• Professor Savita Ladage from Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai has been named winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nyholm Prize for
Education in recognition of contributions to chemistry education.

• Sunil Shukre appointed as new Maharashtra State Backward Class Commission chief

• GAGAN stands for GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation

• Bank of India has introduced Nari Shakti Savings Account, designed for women with independent income
• GOA "Mukhyamantri Pashuseva Yojana", a 24x7 animal ambulance scheme to provide timely and
accessible veterinary care for livestock

• PM Modi Inaugurates World's Largest Meditation Centre In Varanasi

• Mitchell Starc being sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for a staggering 24.75 Crore.

• Russia stands as the largest diamond-producing nation globally, then Botswana and Canada

• Haryana win maiden Vijay Hazare title defeating rajasthan

• Book Four Stars of Destiny, General Manoj Mukund Naravane former army chief

• U19 asia cup winner bangladesh defeating UAE

• Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2023 will be given to Chirag Chandrashekhar Shetty and Rankireddy
Satwik Sai Raj both Badminton. Arjuna Awards Shri Mohammed Shami, golf Ms Diksha Dagar.
Dronacharya Award for outstanding coach Shri Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar Mallakhamb.

• The UN has designated 2024 as the International Year of Camel

• Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) mission aims to measure atmospheric

pollution NASA

• Neelum Saran Gour has won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award-2023 for her novel ‘Requiem in Raga
Janki’. Marathi Ringan (Novel) Kusumkhatri Rana

• World Basketball Day is an annual celebration held on December 21, commemorating the invention of
basketball by Dr. James Naismith
• Recently late Vice-Admiral Benoy Roy Chowdhury has been awarded the Vir Chakra

• Poet Sukrita Paul Kumar Wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for ‘Salt & Pepper’

• French President Emmanuel Macron will be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day 2024

• India lost 204 tigers in 2023, most of them in Maharashtra 53

• 10th Good Governance Day on 25th December 2023 birth anniversary of India’s former Prime Minister, Atal
Bihari Vajpayee

• Yogi Adityanath inaugurates Uttar Pradesh’s first intra-district helicopter route between Agra and Mathura
65km

• Russia will hold the BRICS Summit 2024 in Kazan from October 22 to 24, 2024

• 6th Khelo India Youth Games will be held from 19 to 31 January 2024 in Tamilnadu. It will be organised in
Chennai, Trichy, Madurai and Coimbatore. For the first time, Squash will be included in these games.

• PM Modi first world leader reach Youtube 2 Crore subscribers

• Saveera Parkash, a Hindu doctor set to contest elections in Pakistan from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Buner
district

• IIT Mumbai and Reliance Jio launch Bharat GPT

• Ayodhya Airport named Maharshi Valmiki

• The Surface to Air Missile for Assured Retaliation, or SAMAR

 January 2024 - February 2024
• 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 9 Jan 2024 theme "Diaspora: Reliable Partners for India's Progress in Amrit Kaal”

• China has introduced a revolutionary new ocean drilling vessel called the 'Mengxiang', designed to penetrate
the Earth's crust and reach the mantle for the first time in human history

• Navy Day December 4, announced that Admirals shoulder board will reflect legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj, draws inspiration from the Rajmudra. Admirals' epaulettes now have the golden Navy button along
with an octagon, and an Indian sword and a telescope crossed, followed by stars reflecting the ranks.

• National Youth festival 2024 was held in Nashik, 12 january National youth Day
• Nina Singh, first woman appointed as CISF chief

• THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Technology for Women (LBSITW) small nano
satellite developed by Women Engineered SATellite (WESAT) would measure the ultraviolet (UV) index of the
sun and study UV radiation effects on Earth, particularly over Kerala.

• West Bengal government declaring Poila Boisakh, the first day of the Bengali New Year, as the State Day and
song Banglar Mati Banglar Jal written by Rabindranath Tagore as the State Song

• Kalahandi University of odisha named after Maa Manikeswari

• Matarbari Port is a deep sea port of bangladesh with help of japan

• The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), India's longest sea bridge. spans 22 kilometers, connecting Sewri in
south Mumbai to Chirle in the distant outskirts of Navi Mumbai, crossing over Thane Creek

• The International Court of Justice (ICJ) landmark ruling on Israel’s actions in Gaza, following a case filed by
South Africa alleging genocide against Palestinians. The court ordered Israel to take measures to prevent
genocide. The ruling was welcomed by South Africa and Hamas but criticized by Israeli leaders
• Vice Admiral Kiran Deshmukh assumed charge as Chief of Materiel,alumnus of VJTI, commissioned as an
Engineer Officer into the Indian Navy on 31 March 86. He holds a Master's degree in Engineering and is a
post graduate from Defence Services Staff College, Wellington.

• Sixteenth Finance Commission Shri Arvind Panagariya, former Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog as its Chairman.
Tenure April 2026-31 Five years

• first-ever all-girls Sainik School was inaugurated in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh. The Samvid Gurukulam Girls
Sainik School

• GANDHINAGAR: A Guinness World Record set in Gujarat 50,000 people performed Surya Namaskar
simultaneously at 108 venues

• PREVALL chemotherapy drug - First and only oral suspension of Mercaptopurine used in treatment of Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia

• Kyrgyzstan declares snow leopard national symbol

• J&K becomes first UT to implement PM Vishwakarma Yojana

• Jwala Asha Gamini Cheetah gave birth cubs in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh's Sheopur district
• Rashmi Shukla becomes Maharashtra's first woman Director General of Police.

• 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in January 2024 in Kampala, Uganda

• India has submitted nominations of three cities - Indore, Bhopal and Udaipur - for Wetland City Accreditation
(WCA) under the Ramsar Convention

• Prof B R Kamboj Honoured With M S Swaminathan Award

• UP cadre officer Senthil Pandian C as India's ambassador to the World Trade Organization
• Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday secured a record fourth straight term as her Awami
League party won two-thirds of the seats in the general elections

• Nepal and India have signed an agreement to export 10,000 megawatts of electricity to India in the next
decade.

• Odisha's red ant chutney and Lanjia Saura paintings, which recently got GI tag

• India International Science Festival (IISF) 2023 to be held at Faridabad, Haryana

• UNESCO 46th session of World Heritage Committee (WHC) is scheduled to be held in New Delhi between
July 21-31 July, 2024

• Changi Singapore World Best Airport

• Divyakriti Singh: India's first woman winning Arjuna Award in Equestrian Horse Riding

• Henley Passport Index France Singapore top, India 85, indians visa free to 62 states

• Pench Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra has been announced as India's first Dark Sky Park

• Indore has once again secured the prestigious title of the cleanest city in India for the seventh consecutive
year. Surat has also clinched the joint top rank for the first time, sharing the honor with Indore, 3rd
navimumbai, 10th pune

• International Camel Festival Bikaner, Rajasthan.

• Himalayan wolf listed as ‘vulnerable’ in IUCN,
• Cabo Verde Declared A Malaria-Free Country

• TMT Thirty Meter telescope that will enable observations into deep space. It is proposed as a joint
collaboration involving institutions in the U.S., Japan, China, Canada, and India.
• Prabha Atre classical singer Kirana gharana passed away in Pune, aged 92 unmarried. wrote several books
on music s Swararangee, Along the Path of Music and Swarmayi . She was awarded all three Padma awards.
Padma Vibhushan second-highest 2022, Padma Shri 1990 ,Padma Bhushan 2002

• Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga is fastest bowler to take seven wickets in an ODI. set the record by taking 35
deliveries to take seven wickets against Zimbabwe

• AYUSH Conference & Exhibition going to be held in Dubai

• India’s first Nano DAP (Liquid) Plant has been inaugurated in Gujarat
• Indian Navy Ships Cheetah, Guldar and Kumbhir were decommissioned after rendering four decades of
glorious service to the nation.
• FASTag uses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to collect toll tax

• FIRST India-Thailand naval exercise named 'Ex-Ayutthaya', which symbolises the significance of two of the
oldest cities -- Ayodhya in India and Ayutthaya in Thailand.

• MILAN 2024 is the 12th edition Multilateral Naval Exercise held at Visakhapatnam
• Sarayu River In Ayodhya To Get India’s First Solar-Powered Boat

• Daljit Singh Chaudhary appointed as Director General of the National Security Guard (NSG), he is DG of
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), he took added responsibility of leading NSG, known as the "black cats. But in
april 2024 Nalin Prabhat appointed chief of NSG

• Kuwaiti dinar (KWD) is the world’s strongest currency 275 rs per dinar
• NATO launches largest exercise , 90,000 troops are due to join the Steadfast Defender 2024
• Bengaluru, Delhi airports get best airport award at Wings India

• Iran launches 'Sorayya' satellite into 750 km orbit, its highest yet
• Chandrakant Sompura, Man Who Designed The Ayodhya Ram Temple, idol of Ram Lalla was made by
Musuru-based sculptor Arun Yogiraj

• 60 Parachute Field Hospital, Uttar Pradesh selected Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-
2024

• Noor 3 Satellite of IRAN

• 10000 PM e BUS
• Preeti Rajak, Indian Army’s first woman Subedar

• INDIA- SAUDI ARABIA JOINT MILITARY EXERCISE ‘SADA TANSEEQ’ COMMENCES IN RAJASTHAN at MAHAJAN

• Hockey Olympian Sukhbir Singh Gill passes away

• The International Literature Festival of Kerala (ILFK) commenced in Thrissur

• Tanmay Agarwal smashes fastest first class triple-century in 147 balls for Hyderabad in Ranji match

• IUCN Vulnerable Daroji Sloth BearSanctuary is located in Ballari district in Karnataka

• theme for National Voters Day 25 January 2024 , ‘Nothing Like Voting, I Vote for Sure’

• 132 Padma awards, 5 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri Awards.
• Padma Vibhushan Shri M Venkaiah Naidu, Shri Bindeshwar Pathak, Megastar Chiranjeevi
• Padma Bhushan Ms. M Fathima Beevi (Posthumous), Shri Mithun Chakraborty, Shri Ram Naik, Ms. Usha
Uthup
• Bharat Ratna, five personalities are Karpoori Thakur, Mankombu Sambasivan (MS)
Swaminathan, Pamulaparthi Venkata (P. V.) Narasimha Rao, Lal Krishna Advani and Chaudhary Charan
Singh.
• Karpoori Thakur, known as "Jan Nayak," served as Bihar's 11th Chief Minister twice, from 1970-71 and
1977-79.
• MS Swaminathan, the ‘Father of India’s Green Revolution Developed high-yielding wheat and rice
varieties with Norman Borlaug
• P. V. Narasimha Rao served as the 9th Prime Minister of India from 1991 to 1996 LPG reforms of
1991 , 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments Acts
• Advani has served 7th Deputy Prime Minister of India (1999-2004) and as the President of the Bharatiya
Janata Party for the longest period since its inception in 1980.
• Chaudhary Charan Singh 5th prime minister of India and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
• The rule of maximum three awards in a year is a guideline for the Bharat Ratna. The rule was broken for
the first time in 1999, when four recipients were conferred the award: Jayaprakash Narayan, Amartya Sen,
Gopinath Bordoloi, and Ravi Shankar. The rule was broken again in 2024, when five recipients were
conferred the award.

• culture ministry's tableau, themed 'Bharat: Mother of Democracy', secured the first prize among tableaux
displayed by various ministries. tableau presented by Odisha themed “Woman Empowerment has
secured the first position in judge's choice category ,Gujarat's tableau has won the top spot in people's
choice category.

• In terms of allocations, Ministry of Defence received highest amount at ₹6.2 lakh crore 13% of
budget,followed by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways at ₹2.78 lakh crore, Agriculture Ministry got t
lowest amount at ₹1.27 lakh crore. Total Budget 47.6 lakh crore
• In 2006, Brazil, Russia, India and China created the "Bric" group. South Africa joined in 2010, making it
"Brics". Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) joined January 2024.
• Interim budget strategy will be formulated to achieve ‘atmanirbharta’ for oil seeds such as mustard,
groundnut, sesame, soybean, and sunflower.
• 2 feb World Wetlands Day theme “Wetlands and human wellbeing”

• missing and trafficked children ,child labourers were rescued from across the Telangana State through
Operation Smile-X

• Uttarakhand has now become the first State in independent India to have a Uniform Civil Code
(UCC) . UCC in Goa since independence, version of UCC in place in Goa, which is the Portuguese Civil
Code of 1867, Goa was under Portugese control till 1961.

• Ritu Bahri is the current and first woman Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
• Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko set a world record for total time spent in space more than 878
• Mukhyamantri Vayoshri Yojana” in Maharashtra. 3000rs to senior citizens aged 65
• Free bus travel for Transgender community in Delhi

• 2026 FIFA World Cup hosts Canada, Mexico and the United States

• Australia won ICC Under 19 World Cup defeated India by 79 runs

• Assam state fruit lemon 'Kaji Nemu'
• Dubai to welcome world's first flying taxi service
• South Indian Bank gets Best Technology Bank of the year award
• France is one of the first countries in the Europian region to access UPI payments
• YUva VIgyani KAryakram (YUVIKA) 2024 inaugurated by Chairman ISRO / Secretary DoS Shri S Somanath at
Bengaluru
• USA China Germany Japan India 5 Top economy

• Urdu poet Gulzar and Sanskrit scholar Jagadguru Rambhadracharya have been named the recipients of
the 58th Jnanpith Award 2023, India's oldest and highest literary award, established in 1961 and first
awarded in 1965. both English and other 22 Indian languages

• Japanese researchers have built the world's first wooden satellite, LignoSat

• First children-friendly police station inaugurated in maharashtra at Dhule Azadnagar Police Station

• Judge Nawaf Salam (Lebanon) was today elected President of the International Court of Justice , Judge Julia
Sebutinde (Uganda) as Vice-President

• Shashi Tharoor was conferred France’s highest civilian honour, the Chevalier de la Legion d’ Honneur France

• Madhya Pradesh announces 'bag less school' initiative for Class 1 to 12 from next season

• PM Modi to inaugurate AIIMS campus at vijaypur in Jammu

• Exercise Dosti is a trilateral coast guard exercise between India, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives.

• Praveen Kumar Srivastava sworn in as Central Vigilance Commissioner and Shri AS Rajeev appointed as
Vigilance Commissioner

• Manohar Joshi dies at 86. First Shivsena CM from 1995 to 1999, was also elected as a Member of
Parliament , Union minister of heavy industries and was the Lok Sabha Speaker from 2002 to 2004.He also
served as the Mayor of Mumbai for a year from 1976 to 1977. Joshi obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Civil
Engineering VJTI)
• United Arab Emirates has been removed from Financial Action Task Force's grey list

• Sudarshan Setu connecting Okha mainland and Beyt Dwarka island. longest Cable-stayed bridge in
country of 2.32 Km.
• Ex-railway board chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti is new Trai chairman
• PM laid the foundation stone for Sikkim's first railway station at Rangpo
• Hansha Mishra Appointed As Director In UPSC
• Maryam Nawaz becomes first-ever woman Chief Minister of Punjab Pakistan
• New chairman of MPSC Rajnish Seth
• Vikramaditya Vedic Clock: PM Modi inaugurates world’s 1st Indian ‘panchang’-based clock in
Ujjain

• Former Supreme Court judge Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar appointed Lokpal chairperson. Former
High Court judges Lingappa Narayana Swamy, Sanjay Yadav and Ritu Raj Awasthi have been
appointed as judicial members of the Lokpal.

• Vaccination to prevent cervical cancer will be encouraged for girls between nine and 14 years of
age. U-WIN platform for managing immunization and intensified efforts of Mission Indradhanush

• India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor

• GST collection stood at ₹1.65 lakh crore in December 2023
• Real GDP is projected to grow at 7.3 per cent. The International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its World
Economic Outlook (WEO growth projection for India to 6.3 per
• Dharma Exersice India Japan
• State government’s resolve to achieve $1 trillion economy of Maharashtra.
• Pink auto-rickshaws to 5,000 women in ten cities.
• Virar-Alibag Multimodal Corridor, Pune Ring Road and Jalna-Nanded Expressway. Navi Mumbai Airport first
phase will be operational by March 2025.
• Annabhau Sathe Research and Training Institute for Matang community
• Shivneri Museum of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Mauje Vadaj, Taluka Junnar
• New railway lines Kalyan-Murbad, Pune-Nashik and Solapur-Tuljapur-Dharashiv
• 50 percent financial participation approved for new railway lines Phaltan-Pandharpur, Kampa-Chimur-Varora,
Jalna-Jalgaon , Nanded-Bidar, Jalna-Khamgaon, Adilabad-Mahur-Washim, Nanded-Hingoli, Murtijapur-Yavatmal
Shakuntala railway and Pune-Lonavala route 3 and 4.
• Every year roadside tree plantation off 25 thousand kilometers. Subsidy to farmers for solar powered fence
under Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Jan Van Vikas Yojana
• New Government Medical College capacity of 100 students (Washim, Jalna, Hingoli, Amravati, Bhandara,
Gadchiroli, Wardha, Buldhana, Palghar, Nashik and Ambernath )with attached 430 bedded hospital.
• All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Aundh, Pune on the lines of Nagpur AIIMS
• Setting up of “Leather Park” at Deonar, training centre at Kolhapur, Center at Govandi
• World Class Skywalk Project at Lonavala
• Maharashtra Bhavan at Srinagar and Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Ayodhya . New Marathi Bhasha Bhawans at Delhi,
Belgaum and Goa
• Memorial of Lahuji Vastad Salve at Sangamwadi Pune, Memorial of Sane Guruji at Ammalner Jalgaon, Memorial
of “Veer Jiwa Mahal” at the base of Pratapgad
• Mangesh Padgaonkar Poetry Village” Initiative at Vengurla, District Sindhudurg
• Six Vande Bharat Express trains have commenced services in Maharashtra
• Government is planning to set up 15-bed day-care modern chemotherapy centres in all the districts, and dialysis
centres will be made functional in 234 rural hospitals
• Redevelopment of Mantralaya, the headquarters of the state government, under the 'Mahavista' project
• Free distribution of one saree per family on Antyodaya ration card
• Interim Budget February 1, 2024 सर्वां गीण, सर्वस्पर्शी और सर्वसमवर्ेर्शी ‘Viksit Bharat’ by 2047.
• Tax rates unchanged: Direct and indirect tax rates have remained unchanged. No tax liability
for taxpayers with income up to ₹7 lakh under the new tax regime
• 2 crore houses will be built next five years under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Grameen.
• Rooftop solarisation of one crore households to achieve net-zero by 2070
• Blue economy 2.0 scheme launched to restore coastal aquaculture and mariculture
• PM Matsya Sampada Yojana expanded to: (i) enhance aquaculture productivity from three to
five tonnes per hectare, (ii) double seafood exports to one lakh crore rupees (iii) generate 55
lakh employment opportunities.
• MGNREGS has highest allocation Rs 86,000 crore, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana second
highest allocation Rs 80,671 crore, Jal Jeevan Mission third highest allocation Rs 70,163 crore
• Forty thousand normal rail bogies will be upgraded to Vande Bharat standards
• PM-SVANidhi credit assistance to street vendors
• PM-Vishwakarma Yojana support to artisans and craftspeople engaged in 18 trades.
• Negotiating bilateral investment treaties with foreign partners, in spirit of ‘first develop India’
• Four major castes are, ‘Garib’ (Poor), ‘Mahilayen’ (Women), ‘Yuva’ (Youth)
and ‘Annadata’(Farmer).
• Female enrollments in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic).
• Coal gasification and liquefaction capacity of 100 million tonnes by 2030
• Government assisted 25 Cr people to get freedom from multi-dimensional poverty.
• IMF, India is likely to become the third-largest economy in 2027
 March - April - May 2024
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Financial Literacy Week (FLW) from February 26 to March 1, theme "Make a
Right Start – Become Financially Smart“

• Sweden became NATO's newest member 32nd, earlier Finland was added

• Samudra Laksamana (Bilateral Maritime Exercise) between India and Malaysia at Visakhapatnam

• Madhya Pradesh has highest number of leopards (3,907), followed by Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Tamil
Nadu

• World Wildlife Day, celebrated each year on 3 March, theme for 2024 is "Connecting People and Planet:
Exploring Digital Innovation in Wildlife Conservation

• Dr Pradeep Mahajan receives Maharashtra Bhushan Award 2024 for work in Regenerative Medicine.

• Suman Kumari, BSF's first woman sniper

• India's first underwater metro will begin operation in Kolkata

• Jharkhand Widow Remarriage Promotion Scheme, set to be launched by Chief Minister Champai Soren

• International Women's Day, 8 march theme Invest in women: Accelerate progress.

• Minimum age to cast postal ballots hiked to 85 years, Citizens above 85 years & PwDs starts voting from
home.. Saksham app vote from home

• Jammu and Kashmir police launched Operation Kamdhenu to curb cattle smuggling
• RBI and Bank Indonesia signed an MoU to promote the use of local currencies, Indian rupee and Indonesian
rupiah

• Panama become 97th member of International Solar Alliance.

• Bengaluru's first driverless metro

• Indian Army introducing Army Sports Girls Company, aimed at nurturing girls talent in four sports: Archery,
Athletics, Boxing, and Weightlifting. Marksmanship Unit in Mhow and Army Sports Institute in Pune.

• Indian Navy led the naval exercise “Cutlass Express” – 24 with participants from 16 friendly foreign
countries held at Port Victoria, Seychelles

• India become the second-biggest mobile phone-producing country, trailing only China

• Czech Republic's Krystyna Pyszkova won Miss World 2024 title at a grand event in Mumbai Jio World
Convention Centre. Sini Shetty represented India

• Asif Ali Zardari elected Pakistan's 14th president

• BJP's Nayab Singh Saini is Haryana's new Chief Minister

• our years after it was passed in Parliament, the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA) has been
implemented 11 march 2024, Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis coming from Bangladesh,
Pakistan and Afghanistan can seek a fast-track to Indian citizenship if they came on or before 31 December
2014.

• Shri Kishor Makwana Chairman of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC)

• President Murmu conferred with honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law by University of Mauritius
• INDIA PROGRESS IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX, RANKS 134 OUT OF 193 COUNTRIES. 2023/24
Human Development Report (HDR) was titled as “Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining Cooperation in a
Polarized World.

• Mumbai Wins Ranji Trophy 2024 After Beating Vidarbha

• tantalum, the rare metal found in Sutlej River
• Navneet Kumar Sehgal, a retired bureaucrat, has been appointed as the new Chairman of Prasar Bharati

• India ranked 126 out of 143 countries. Finland is now the happiest country for the seventh year

• GoodEnough Energy to launch India's first battery energy storage gigafactory in Jammu and Kashmir

• theme for World Water Day 22 march is "Water for Peace“

• i love sparrow - world sparrow day theme march 20

• Most polluted country Bangladesh,Pakistan,India

• Maharashtra IPS Officer Sadanand Vasant Date Director General of National Investigation Agency

• PM Modi received Bhutan's highest civilian award, the 'Order of the Druk Gyalpo

• First Railway In Bhutan. Kokrajhar-Gelephu rail link and the Banarhat-Samtse rail link fully funded Indian
government’s estimated INR 10 billion. 57.5-kilometer railway line will connect Kokrajhar in Assam to
Gelephu in Sarpang, Bhutan
• New atomic clocks in Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, and Hyderabad, already working in Ahmedabad and Faridabad

• International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid after Prof. Jayant Murthy

• Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2024 Abel Prize(Nobel in mathematics) to Michel
Talagrand of the French National Center for Scientific Research

• Palestinian President Abbas appoints Mohammed Mustafa as prime minister

• Para archer and Arjuna Awardee Sheetal Devi was declared the National Disability Icon of the Election
Commission of India

• Uttar Pradesh Police to use 'Trinetra' app to track criminals

• ETHANOL 100 fuel launched by Petroleum Minister Hardeep S Puri across five states – Maharashtra,
Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi, and Tamil Nadu.

• SAKHI: The Lifeline for Gaganyaan Crew

• Operation Indravati evacuation mission to rescue Indian nationals from Haiti, a Caribbean Nation

• India-Mozambique-Tanzania Trilateral Exercise (IMT TRILAT 24) Concludes in Nacala, Mozambique

• ISRO's Pushpak India's first Reusable Launch Vehicle

• ASI to delist 18 centrally protected monuments, as they went 'missing‘, they do not have national
importance. 9 from UP

• cVIGIL app of Election Commission of India to flag election code violations, evidentiary proof of model code
of conduct / Expenditure Violation
• China launches Yunhai satellite for environmental monitoring, primarily focus on atmospheric and
marine environment surveys

• Mumbai to become country's first tri-service common defence station

• IAF's 10-day mega exercise 'Gagan Shakti' at Pokhran Field Firing Range in Jaisalmer

• Microsoft and OpenAI Unveil ‘Stargate’ AI Supercomputer

• India's Rohan Bopanna and Australia's Matthew Ebden clinched the 2024 Miami Open men's doubles
title
• India secures Rights to operate Sittwe Port in Myanmar
• Hindustan Aeronautics a deal with Guyana Defence Force for supply of two Hindustan-228 Commuter
Aircraft.

• Sanjay Nayar takes over as President of ASSOCHAM, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry
of India

• Bundelkhand UP Kathiya Gehu, Geographical Indication (GI) tag

• India is embarking on establishing its first privately managed strategic petroleum reserve (SPR) by 2029-
30
• 7 April World Health Day 2024 is 'My health, my right’
• Sitars and tanpuras from Miraj, Maharashtra, were awarded the GI tag
• India’s Jagjit Pavadia re-elected for a third term to the International Narcotics Control Board
• India's Chandrayaan-4 mission is to collect moon rocks and soil and bring them back to Earth for scientific
analysis.

• HDFC becomes first private bank to open branch in Lakshadweep

• Asian Wrestling Championships 2024 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, India with nine medals - four silvers and five
bronze

• India and Mauritius signs double-tax treaty, The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement or DTAA is a tax
treaty signed between India and another country ( or any two/multiple countries) so that taxpayers can
avoid paying double taxes on their income earned from the source country as well as the residence
country.

• Shri Praveen Sood Takes over as Director, CBI, Anurag Kumar joint director of cbi

• World’s busiest airports - 1st Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport , 10th New Delhi’s Indira
Gandhi International Airport
• Hakki Pikkis tribe of bird catchers and hunters of Karnataka.

• 18 april World Heritage Day 'Discover and Experience Diversity'. (Intnl Day for Monuments and Sites)

• Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi assumed command as the 26th Chief of Naval Staff
• World Earth Day falls on April 22 ‘Planet vs Plastics’ theme
• India delivers first batch of BrahMos to Philippines

• GMR Hyderabad International Airport earns prestigious 'Best Airport Staff in India & South Asia 2024'
award from Skytrax.

• Former England Test batsman Raman Subba Row dies

• The first-ever Hindi radio broadcast has started in Kuwait, FM 93.3 and AM 96.3

• Mohammed Salem is a Palestinian photographer works for news agency Reuters. he won World Press Photo
of the Year award.

• Naima Khatoon, first woman V-C of Aligarh Muslim University

• UNESCO released 2024 gender report of the Global Education Monitoring Report, titled “Technology on her
Terms”.

• (ICC) has announced India legend Yuvraj Singh as an ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2024 Ambassador

• Bru community, indigenous to Northeast India, voted first time in Tripura's Lok Sabha elections . Bru
refugees will not participate in elections in Mizoram as they were given permanent settlement in Tripura

• Japan Wins Maiden Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Trophy

• PM Modi attended 20th ASEAN-India Summit and the 18th East Asia Summit (EAS) in Jakarta Indonesia.
Asean 11 members , India not a member.

• 96th Oscars 2024 ceremony at Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, with Jimmy Kimmel hosting for the fourth
time. The film “Oppenheimer” emerged as the big winner. Cillian Murphy’s of “Oppenheimer” earned him
the Best Actor award. The Animated Feature Film-The Boy and The Heron
• The Malayalam film “Everyone is a Hero” (2023), which was chosen as India’s official entry

• UN – Election of Dennis Francis of trinidad and tobago as president of the 78th Session of the General
Assembly june 2023

• Algeria , Guyana , Republic of Korea , Sierra Leone and Slovenia elected as non-permanent members of the
UN Security Council for a two-year term beginning on 1 January 2024.
• Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency IREDA gets ‘Navratna’ status

• theme for International Labour Day (1 May) is to ensure workplace safety and health amidst climate
change

• Government of India signed agreement with Bangladesh to renew the Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to train 1500 Bangladeshi officers from 2025 to 2030

• ZiG, short for Zimbabwe Gold is local currency replaced the Zimbabwean dollar

• Indian Army and Punit Balan Group develop Constitution Park in Pune

• NPCI announced its partnership with Bank of Namibia to support them in developing a UPI-like real-time
payment system.

• World Press Freedom Index India's position slight improvement moving from 161 in 2023 to 159 among
180 nation

• China defeated Indonesia 4-1 to win the Thomas Cup badminton for the 11th time held in china

• Pakistan's 'ICube Qamar' lunar mission launched with Chinese support

• World Bank report Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agrifood System

• New coronavirus variant called KP.2 nickname FLiRT

• Vladimir Putin reappoints Mikhail Mishustin as Russian PM

• Meghalaya has made history by appointing Idashisha Nongrang as the state's first woman Director
General of Police
• 2023 Vilnius NATO summit thirty-one members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), their
partner countries, and the European Union, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11–12 July 2023.
• July 13 and 14, 2023, the 32nd Plenary Meeting of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) was held in Buenos
Aires, Argentina NSG consists of 48 members. India not member.

• Hangzhou 2022 19th Asian Games in Oct 2023, 1st china 2nd Japan 3rd South Korea 4th India. 655-member
Indian contingent participated at Asian Games. India finished their Asian Games 2023 campaign with a
record haul of 107 medals - 28 gold, 38 silver and 41 bronze. Cricket Kabbadi Hockey GOLD medal.

• HDFC Ltd-HDFC Bank merger

• IPL winner Kolkata KKR, Purple Cap Harshal Patel of Punjab kings , Orange Cap Virat Kohli

• Secretary General celebrates NATO’s 75th anniversary, HQ Brussels, Belgium.

• 105 Amendment of Indian Constitution, 2021, revived the power of the State governments to identify
SEBCs or socially and educationally backward classes, restoring state governments' ability to identify
OBCs who are socially and educationally backward. Amended Articles 338B, 342A and 366

• Constitution (128th) Amendment Bill i.e Constitution (106th Amendment) Act, 2023, reserves one-third
of all seats for women in Lok Sabha, State legislative assemblies, and the Legislative Assembly of the
National Capital Territory of Delhi, including those reserved for SCs and STs. assent of the President on
the 28th September, 2023. Once the Women's Reservation Bill comes into force, Maharashtra will have 95
women legislators in the 288-member state legislative Assembly,

• Swachh Survekshan awards 2023. Indore Surat both rank 1. cities with a population of less than 1 lakh,
Sasvad, Patan and Lonavala secured the top three spots. Mhow Cantonment Board in Madhya Pradesh
was adjudged the Cleanest Cantonment Board. Varanasi and Prayagraj won the top two awards amongst
the Cleanest Ganga Towns. Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh won the top three awards for
Best Performing State. Chandigarh walked away with the award for the Best Safaimitra Surakshit Sheher

• Nandini Gupta Femina Miss India 2023. Gupta will represent India at Miss World 2025
• 16 sept World Ozone Day theme “Montreal Protocol: fixing the ozone layer and reducing climate
change.

• 21 june Yoga Day 2023: Theme of Yoga Day is 'Yoga For Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’

• 2023 Theme: Solutions to Plastic Pollution, BeatPlasticPollution, This year marks the 50th
anniversary of World Environment Day, 5 June

• V. Shantaram Award "Lifetime Achievement to Marathi Cinema"Usha Naik, V. Shantaram Special

Contribution Award to marathi cinema Nagraj Manjule
• Raj Kapoor Award Lifetime Achievement to hindi cinema – Helan, Raj Kapoor Special Contribution
Award to hindi cinema - Vidhu Vinod Chopra

• Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime Achievement Suresh Wadkar, Amitabh Bachchan was
honoured with the Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award

• ‘Y’ film Best Film at 57th Maharashtra State Film Awards

• अमळने र येथे होिाऱ्या 97 व्या अखिल भारतीय मराठी साणहत्य सं मेलनाच्या अध्यक्षपदी रवी ंद्र शोभिे
यांची णनवड

• मराठी नाट्यपररषदे च्या अध्यक्षपदी अणभने ता प्रशांत दामले

• Shri Gyanesh Kumar and Dr. Sukhbir Singh Sandhu today assumed charge as Election
Commissioners in the Election Commission of India. 25th CEC is Rajiv Kumar

• Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya has been appointed as the Chief Justice Of the Bombay High
Court
• 3 May World press Freedom day ‘ shaping future of rights ’
• Mumbai Central Station will be given the new name of Nana Jagannath Shankarsheth Station, pending
approval from the Railways Ministry

• General elections were held in India from 19 April to 1 June 2024 in seven phases, to elect all 543 members of
the Lok Sabha. result was on 4 June to form the 18th Lok Sabha.

• EC appoints S Chockalingam as new chief electoral officer of Maharashtra

• Niranjan Kumar Sudhansu has been appointed director general of YASHADA

• Kapil Sibal elected Supreme Court Bar Association president
• President appointed Raghubar Das as Governor of Odisha, and Indra Sena Reddy Nallu as Governor of Tripura

• IMF Executive Board Selects Kristalina Georgieva to Serve a Second Term as Managing Director

• R Madhavan has been nominated as the new chairman of FTII Pune

• Sourav Ganguly becomes brand ambassador of West Bengal

• Shah Rukh Khan appointed as the brand ambassador of ICC World Cup 2023, Sachin Tendulkar as Global
Ambassador
• Book Titled “The Winner’s Mindset,” Authored by Shane Watson
• Sam Pitroda’s New Book ‘The Idea of Democracy’
• Raghuram Rajan’s new book ‘Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future
• Amol Muzumdar as the new head coach of the Indian women's cricket team
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EXTRA
New York, USA = United Nations Organisation UNO, United Nations Children’s Emergency
Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Washington DC, United States = International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank Group
(WBG)
• Geneva, Switzerland = World Health Organisation (WHO), International Labour
Organisation, World Trade Organisation , World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) , World Economic Forum WEF
• Paris, France = United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) ,
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Vienna, Austria = International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) , Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC)
• London, United Kingdom = International Maritime Organisation (IMO), Amnesty
International
• Rome, Italy = Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO)
• Brussels, Belgium = North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
• Jakarta, Indonesia = Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Kathmandu, Nepal = South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
• Jeddah, Saudi Arabia = Organization of Islamic Cooperation
• Hague, Netherlands = International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• Nairobi, Kenya = UN-Habitat, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• Madrid, Spain = United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)
• Mumbai = SEBI, RBI, NABARD, BCCI, SBI, LIC. NTPC – delhi. hyderabad - IRDAI
• Kareena Kapoor Appointed UNICEF India National Ambassador
• 'Satguru Shri Wamanrao Pai- Lifetime Achievement Award' which was presented to
business tycoon and philanthropist Honorable Mr Ratan Tata
• Shakti, music group comprising tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and singer Shankar Mahadevan, won
th
the 66 Grammy Award (2024) for Best Global Music Album for “This Moment”.

• Italy 59 and China 57 sites, Germany 52, Spain 52, France 50 having the most UNESCO world heritage sites
• Natural Great Himalayan National Park Conservation Area (2014), Kaziranga National Park (1985), Keoladeo
National Park (1985), Manas Wildlife Sanctuary (1985), Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks
(1988,2005),Sundarbans National Park (1987), Western Ghats (2012)
• Mixed, Khangchendzonga National Park (2016)
• Ajanta Caves (1983), Ellora Caves (1983), Elephanta Caves (1987), Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (formerly
Victoria Terminus) (2004), Victorian Gothic and Art Deco Ensembles of Mumbai (2018)

• India Rankings 2023: Overall 1st Indian Institute of Technology Madras 4th Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay
• India Rankings 2023: University 1st Indian Institute of Science 17 Homi Bhabha National Institute mumbai 19
SPPU pune

• Forbes richest people india Mukesh Ambani 9, Gautam Adani 17, Savitri Jindal & Family 31
• Forbes richest people World 1st Bernard Arnault & family france lmvh fashion, Elon Musk tesla, Jeff Bezos
Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg Facebook

• Supreme Court will have its full sanctioned strength of 34 judges, now working 33
• World Ocean Day 8 June ‘planet Ocean Tides are Changing’
• International Literacy Day on 8 September ‘Promoting literacy for a world in transition’
• World Population Day 2023 is “Unleashing the power of gender equality’ 11 July
• India adds five wetlands to its list of Ramsar sites, 3 karnataka and 2 TN now Total 80 india
• 11 official Global Public Health campaigns of World Health Organisation.
• World AIDS Day – 1 December
• World Blood Donor Day - 14 June
• World Health Day - 7 April
• World Immunization Week - last week of April
• World No Tobacco Day - 31 May ‘“Grow food, not tobacco’ theme
• World Tuberculosis Day - 24 March ‘“Yes! We can end TB’
• World Malaria day - 25 April
• World antimicrobial awareness week - 18-24 November
• World Hepatitis Day - 28 July
• World Patient Safety Day - 17 September
• World Chagas Disease Day - 14 April

• Every year, the Earth Hour is celebrated worldwide on the last Saturday of March month to show
support for the fight against climate change and commitment towards a better planet . theme for the
18th Earth Hour — Uniting for Our One Shared Home
• India has experienced a significant reduction in multidimensional poverty from 29.17% in 2013-14 to
11.28% in 2022-23, marking a decrease of 17.89% points. Approximately 24.82 crore people have
escaped multidimensional poverty in the last nine years (2013-14 to 2022-23). Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan have recorded the sharpest decline

• Sikkim High Court introduces menstrual leave policy for its female staff
• India ranks 112th among 166 countries, only above Pakistan and Afghanistan in South Asia, based on its
performance in 2023 towards achieving the UN-mandated Sustainable Development Goals
• Global Peace Index 2023 = 126
• India Ranks 108th on Electoral Democracy Index 2023
• Democracy Index by Economist Intelligence Unit = 46
• United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index = 134
• Global Hunger Index 2023 = 111
• World Happiness Report by UN 2023 = 126
• Human Freedom Index 2023 = 109
• World Bank Stops ‘Ease of Doing Business’ Report = 63 Indi a Rank
• World Press Freedom Index 2023 = 161 and 2024 = 159 by Reporters Without Borders
• 14th in the Global Terrorism Index 2024 by Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
• Global competitiveness index, India ranks 40th

• Exercise Name
• Sampriti India & Bangladesh, Mitra Shakti India & Sri Lanka, Maitree Exercise India & Thailand, Vajra Prahar
India & US, Yudh Abhyas India & US, Nomadic Elephant India & Mongolia, Garuda Shakti India & Indonesia,
Shakti Exercise India & France, Dharma Guardian India & Japan, Surya Kiran India & Nepal, Hand in Hand
Exercise India & China, SIMBEX India & Singapore, Shakti Exercise India & France, CORPAT India & Thailand

• Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy passes away

• Prithvi Raj Singh Oberoi, chairman emeritus of The Oberoi Group and widely known as the doyen of Indian
hospitality, passed away on November 14
• Veteran Author Malti Joshi Passes Away at 90
• Former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi passed away at 72
• Pioneering Pig Kidney Transplant Recipient Richard Slayman Passes Away
• Titanic, Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill Passes Away at 79
• Shafiqur Rahman Barq, India’s Oldest MP And Samajwadi Party Leader, Dies At 94
• Senior Supreme Court Advocate Fali S Nariman Passes Away at 95
• Young ‘Dangal’ Star Suhani Bhatnagar Passes Away at 19
• Dattajirao Gaekwad, Nation’s Oldest Test Cricketer, Passes Away At 95
• Renowned Urdu Poet Munawwar Rana Passes Away At 71
• Squadron Leader Rashmi Thakur led Indian Air Force's contingent at 75th Republic Day parade on
January 26 at the Kartavya Path in New Delhi
• महाराष्ट्रातील १२ वषीय आणदत्य ब्राह्मिेला मरिोत्तर प्रधानमंत्री राष्ट्रीय बाल पुरस्कार Nandurbar
• first Skill India Centre (SIC) in Sambalpur, Odisha.
• Sela Tunnel, the world's longest bi-lane tunnel 8.6km inaugurated by Prime Minister in Arunachal
Pradesh
• शखिपीठ’ राज्यातील सवातणधक लांबीचा महामार्त, ८०५ णकमी; Nagpur Goa 86k crore, १२ दे वस्थाने
जोडली जािार,
• HAL Developed Asia’s Largest Helicopter Factory In Tumukaru Karnataka..
• Parbati Baruah assam India's 1st female mahout (elephanat caretaker) honoured with Padma
Shri
• India is often referred to as the 'Diabetes Capital of the World as it accounts for 17%percent of the
total number of diabetes
• Raja Badhe Composed song ‘Jai Jai Maharashtra Majha’ As State Song
• ‘State sports day on Jan 15 to honour Khashaba’ bronze 1952
• D.B Ground in Panaji, Goa, the International Purple Festival kicked off on 08 January 2024,
heralding six days of celebration and empowerment for Persons with Disabilities.
• Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 successfully conclude at Ahmedabad
• State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank, and ICICI Bank continue to be identified as domestic
systemically important banks (D-SIBs), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said
• Maharashtra government has declared a new wildlife habitat for the ‘canid’ wild dogs family in
Sangli, as ‘Atpadi Conservation Reserve’, which is among the smallest at 9.48 sq. kms
• 'MPhil not recognised degree': UGC
• Saima Wajid(daughter of PM Sheikh Hasina) Appointed WHO Regional Director for Southeast Asia
• Nagpur archer Ojas Pravin Deotale, has been awarded the Arjuna award, the second-highest athletic
honour in India
• WSF (World Squash Federation) 2023 Squash World Cup in Chennai, Egypt Winner, India 3rd
• Dehradun host 6th World Congress on Disaster Management from November 28 to December 1
• Mera Gaon Meri Dharohar (MGMD) cultural mapping of 6.5 lakh villages is being carried out and
more than 2 Lakh villages have already been mapped and uploaded.
• Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Monday passed the Lokayukta Bill which brings the chief
minister and council of ministers in the ambit of anti corruption ombudsman
• National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) announced appointment of Actor Pankaj Tripathi as
'UPI Safety Ambassador‘
• PATRIOT is a surface-to-air guided air and missile defence system currently in use world-wide
including in several NATO countries
• Prime Minister launched "Urea Gold", new variety of Urea coated with Sulphur in Rajasthan's Sikar.
• Ministry of Textiles launches “Paat-Mitro” application provides MSP information to 40 lakh jute
farmer families
• Anant Ambani unveils ‘Vantara’, Reliance's animal welfare initiative at jamnagar
• One of the creators of the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79.
Prof Sir Ian Wilmut with his creation, Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996
• Kuwait holds first parliamentary election
• Rumy Alqahtani, Saudi Arabia's first-ever Miss Universe participant
• PM Modi to inaugurate Bharat Mart in Dubai a warehousing facility for Indian MSMEs to trade in
Dubai and work as a unified platform for Indian exporters to showcase their products in the Gulf
nation.
• West Bengal"YogyaShree" social welfare initiative, a scheme designed to offer complimentary training
to SC and ST students gearing up for competitive exams.
• Rashmi Kumari wins national women’s carrom title for the 12th time
• Angelo Mathews became the first player ever to be timed out in international cricket after a helmet
malfunction in Sri Lanka's World Cup group match against Bangladesh in Delhi
• Captain Surbhi Jakhmola becomes 1st woman officer to be posted at BRO
• Modi lays foundation for 'Unity Mall' in Ulwe Navi Mumbai
• Tamil actor Vijay(Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar) announces political party names it ’Tamilaga Vettri
Kazhagam’ TVK
• Microsoft has reached a $3 trillion market cap, the first time in its 48-year history. It's the second
company, after Apple
• Peru declares dengue health emergency
• Sharad Pawar honored with Dr. Punjabrao Deshmukh Award, presented by Nitin Gadkari
• China launches new satellite 'Einstein Probe' shaped like a lotus to observe violent cosmic phenomena
• PM’s interaction at the Indian Community Event – ”AHLAN MODI” in UAE
• North India's first human DNA bank is being set up at Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
• Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled a 125-foot bronze statue of 'Ahom general' Lachit Borphukan in
Assam's Jorhat.
• Shri Vilas Shinde, CEO and MD of Sahyadri Farms, for being awarded the first ever 'Marathi Udyojak'
award.
• Sharfuddoula becomes the first Bangladesh umpire to be included in the ICC Elite Panel
• Gopi Thotakura to be the first Indian space tourist
• helicopter in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian,
crashed due to a "technical failure“
• Pune tops with 8,382 polling stns, Sindhudurg has least 918 in State
• India’s First AI-Based Film ‘IRAH’
• World's First Melanistic Tiger Safari in Odisha
• India plans a national drive to vaccinate girls between 9 to 14 years against the human
papilloma virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer
• Assam's Purnima Devi Barman Receives 'Green Oscar' Whitley Gold Award 2024
• Manipur introduces 'School on Wheels' program to educate students in relief camps
• Ranjeet Kumar Agarwal 72nd President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
• Dr Nitya Anand, developer of India’s first oral contraceptive pill ‘Saheli’, passes away at 99
• Pro Kabaddi League Season 10 Final: Puneri Paltan champion after 28-25 win over Haryana
Steelers
• First Bharat Steam Boiler Expo 2024 in Guwahati
• Tata Trusts to launch India’s first small animal hospital in Mumbai
• बारा बलुतेदारासाठी संत र्ाडर्ेबाबा आणथतक मार्ास णवकास महामंडळाची स्थापना
• University Grants Commission's (UGC) launched the She Research Network in India (SheRNI).
The initiative aims to ensure that women scientists are represented equally across various
research domains
• INS Jatayu, India’s new naval base in Lakshadweep minicoy
• Suresh Prabhu to head panel to draft National Cooperation Policy
• PM Modi unveils first AIIMS in Northeast Guwahati
• Maharashtra to get first dedicated centre for vultures in pinguri village pune district
• Krushnat Khot's Marathi novel, titled 'Ringaan', has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, which
is India's highest literary recognition.
• 97th Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All-India Marathi Literary Conference) of the Akhil Bharatiya
Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal will start in Amalner, Jalgaon, President of the 97th edition, Ravindra
Shobhane
• writer Pushpa Bharati’s 2016 book Yaadein, Yaadein aur Yaadein, has been selected for the 33rd Vyas
Samman, 2023
• Optical-8: Japan’s satellite eye on China, N Korea missiles
• Women 20 Summit, Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, theme is 'Women-Led Development- Transform,
Thrive and Transcend'.
• SRK bags Dadasaheb Phalke best actor award for ‘Jawan’
• Narendra Modi in a ceremony at Kumbhari in Maharashtra’s Solapur handed over keys of 15,000
homes
• 4 feb World Cancer Day theme is "Close the Care Gap“
• Kerala launches state-owned OTT platform CSpace
• Sindhu Ganapathy (37) has emerged as the first transwoman Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE) of
Southern Railway
• Sister Nivedita's statue to come up at Wimbledon England
• Mudiyettu, ritual theatre and dance drama of Kerala in UNESCO list
• Statue of Social Justice Dr. B. R. Ambedkar a 125-ft tall statue located in Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh
• Government launches Chaksu portal to report fraud calls, messages
• new Parliament will have a seating capacity of 888 for the Lok Sabha, as against 543 in the
old Parliament House and 384 rajyasabha seat
• Central government has added the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) among a list of
organisations that are exempted from the ambit of the Right to Information Act (RTI), 2005.
• Russia used an advanced ZIRCON hypersonic missile for first time in recent strike, Ukraine claims
• Vice Admiral Lochan Singh Pathania assumed charge as the Chief
Hydrographer to the Govt. of India
• Keyi Panyor becomes 26th district of Arunachal Pradesh
• International Women's Day, 8 March 2024, theme Invest in women: Accelerate
progress.
• RBI report on Finance of Panchayati Raj Institutions
• Haryana Savera programme, early detection and prevention of Breast Cancer
• Supreme Court of India (SC) held its Diamond Jubilee
Celebration (75th anniversary)

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