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1. Important Books and Authors ( state disaster management authority

January 2023 ) and lunglei fire station (Mizoram)
 Ambedkar : A life - Shashi Tharoor
 Assam highest civilian award - Dr
 Chief Ministers Dairy no. 1 - Himanta Tapan Saikia
Biswa Sarma ( Chief minister of Assam)
 Best police unit award 2021 - Jalna
 Human anatomy - Dr. Ashwini Kumar district police and Nagpur police
Dwivedi
 Pravasi Bhartiya Samman award 2023
 Irfan Khan : a life in movies - shubra Thiru Kumar nadesan
Gupta
 Best original song awards at Golden
 Coaching Beyond : my age with the globes - NAATU NATU ( RRR )
Indian cricket team - R.Kaushik and R.
Sridhar  You Habitat's World Habitat awards
2023 - Odisha
 India's knowledge supremacy : The
new Dawn - Ashwin Fernandez  Golden Kailash award - Naanera (
Rajasthani Film)
 Braving a Viral Storm : India's COVID -
19 Vaccine story in New Delhi - Ashish  Miss Universe 2022 - R'Bonney Gabriel
Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir ( USA )

 Spare - Prince Harry  Federal Bank Literary Award 2023 - K.

Venu
 Njaan Sakshi ( Me as a witness ) -
Biography of K.K Abdul Gaffar  Pandit Hariprasad chaurasiya lifetime
achievement award - Doctor Prabha
2. Important Awards ( January 2023 ) Atre
 Inclusive finance India awards 2022 -
ESAF small finance Bank  The most distinguished scientist of the
year 2022 - R. Vishnu Prasad
 Subhash Chandra BOS disaster
management award 2023 - Odisha  Top civilian award of Bahrain - Sanduk
Ruit
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3. Important Sports Affairs  Won the Men's Hockey World Cup
(January 2023) Title 2023 - Germany

 ICC Awards 2022 :-  Under-19 women's T20 World Cup:-

1. Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy - Babar Azam 1. Winner - India
2. Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy - Nat 2. Host - South Africa
Sciver 3. Player of the tournament - Titas
3. Men's Test cricketer of the year - Ben Sadhu ( India )
Stokes
4. Men's ODI cricketer Of the year - Babar  India's 79th Chess Grandmaster - M.
Azam Pranesh ( Tamilnadu)
5. Men's T20 Cricketer of the year - Surya
Kumar Yadav  India's first ever silver Medal in the
6. Women's ODI cricketer Of the year - FIDE world Blitz Chess championship -
Nat Sciver Koneru Hampy
7. Women's T20 Cricketer of the year -
Tahola McGrath  Hashim Amla recently retired from
8. Men's Emerging player of the year - which sport - Cricket ( south Africa)
Marco Jansen
9. Women's Emerging player of the year -  Sania Mirza recently retired from
Renuka singh which sport - Tennis

 Best Player in the Men's Hockey world 4. Important Obituaries ( January

cup 2023 - Niklas Wellen ( Germany) 2023 )
 Keshari nath tripathi ( former governor
 Best Goal Keeper in the Men's Hockey of Bengal )
world cup 2023 - Vincent Vanash (
Belzium )  Sharad Yadav ( politician )

 Australian Open ( Men's) 2023 - Novak  Manjula Subramanian ( first woman

Djokovic chief secretary of Gujarat)

 Australian Open ( Women's) 2023 -  Balkrishna Doshi ( Architect)

Arina Sabalenka ( Kazakhstan)
 Prabhaben sobhagchand Shah ( social
Worker )
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 Ronald E. Asher ( Linguist )  Indian Army Day - 15 January

 Sumitra Sen ( singer )  National Start Up Day - 16th January

 Tehemton Udwadia ( Indian Surgeon  National Disaster management Day -

and Gastroenterologist) 19 January

 Rehman Rahi ( poet )  UN international day of Education - 24

January
 Theme - To Invest in People ,
5. Important Days And Thems priorities Education
(January 2023)
 65th Foundation Day of DRDO - 1  National Girl child Day - 24 January
January
 Parakram Divas - 23 January
 World braile Day - 2 January
 National Tourism Day - 25 January
 World birds day - 5 January
 National Voters Day - 25 January
 World NRI Day ( pravasi Bhartiya Divas  Theme - Noting Like voting , I vote
) - 9 January for Sure
 Theme - " Diaspora: Reliable
partners for India's progress in  International Holocaust Remembrance
Amrit Kaal" Day - 27 January
 Theme - Home and Belonging
 World Hindi Day - 10 January
 Data privacy Day - 28 January
 Road safety week - 11-17 January  Theme - Think Privacy First

 National Youth Day - 12 January  Martyrs Day - 30 January

 Theme - Viksit Yuva - Viksit Bharat"
 World Leprosy Day - 29 January ( last
 7th Armed forces Veterans Day - 14th Sunday of January)
January  Theme - Act now , End Leprosy

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6. Important Appointment
(January 2023)  MD and CEO of BSE - Sundaraman
 MD and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank - Ramamurthy
Ajay Kumar Srivastava
7. Important Schemes and Projects
 New vice chief of Indian air force - Air (January 2023 )
Marshal Amanpreet Singh  Prime Tourism Vehicles Agriculture
Response Vehicle scheme - Meghalaya
 CEO of TATA Trust - Siddharth Sharma
 Ladli Bahna Yojna - Madhya Pradesh
 Deputy National Security Advisor -
Pankaj Kumar Singh  UP global city campaign - Uttar
Pradesh
 First woman chief secretary of
Telangana - Santhi Kumari  " 100 Days to beat plastic " campaign -
Delhi
 Chairman of Atomic Energy regulatory
Board - Dinesh Shukla  Mukhyamantri Bhu Adhikar Yoajana -
Madhya Pradesh
 Additional Charge as Director General
of The BSF - Sujoy lal Theosen  Shared school Bus System - Meghalaya

 Interim CEO of Bharatpe - Nalin Negi 8. India Rank in various Reports and
Index ( January 2023 )
 State icon of Bihar by the Election  Rank of India in Henley Passport Index
commission - Mathili Thakur 2023 - 85
 Topped - Japan
 MD/CEO of Paytm Bank - Surinder
Chawla  Global risk reports is published by -
World Economic Forum
 Chief justice of Guwahati High court -
Justice Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh  Rank of India in Global Firepower
Index 2023 - 4th
 Head of the New Economic Advisory  Topped - United States
council of Maharashtra - N.
Chandrashekhar
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 Rank of India in Climat change  Bio Energy summit 2023 by CII held at -
performance Index 2023 - 8th New Delhi
( Released by Germanwatch)
 Voice of the global south summit
 Topped among Indian Universities in organised by - India
Times Higher Education Rankings - IISc  Theme - " Energy Security and
( Bengaluru) development: Roadmap to Prosperity"

 QS Best student Cities Ranking 2023

topped - London ( UK )
 In India :- 103rd - Mumbai
 114th - Bengaluru

 Brand Finance report 2023 topped -

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 India's Richest man 2023 by Forbes
Real time Billionaire List - Mukesh
Ambani
 (2nd - Gautam Adani)

9. Important Summits ( January 2023 )

 1st Global Tourism Investors Summit
2023 organised - by Union ministry of
Tourism ( in New Delhi )

 COP28 climate summit 2023 held at -

Dubai , UAE

 Youth 20 summit 2023 venue - New

Delhi

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1. Important Books and Authors  Mathrubhumi Book of The Year award
(February 2023) 2023 :- Peggy mohan for (Wanderers
 Reform Nation :- Gautam Chikermane Kings and Merchants)

 The Poverty Of Political Economy: How  ➨ 2023 Dadasaheb Phalke

Economics Abandoned the Poor :- International Film Festival
Meghnad Desai  Film of the Year – RRR
 Best Film – The Kashmir Files
 Between Hope and Despair :- Rajeev  Best Actor – Ranbir Kapoor
Bhargav  Best Actress – Alia Bhatt
 Best Director – R Balki (Chup)
 A life in the Shadows : A memoir :- A.S
Dulat  Maharashtra Bhushan 2023 award :-
Dattatreya Narayan Dharmadhikar
 The Indian Metropolis :- Feroze Varun
Gandhi  Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Lifetime
Achievement Award :- T K Rangarajan
 Miracles of Face Yoga :- Mansi Gulati
 Best film title at the 76th BAFTA
 Victory City :- Salman Rushidie Awards :- All Quiet on the Western
Front

2. Important Award and Honour  UNESCO’s International Mother

(February 2023) Language Award 2023 :- Dr Mahendra
 EY Entrepreneur of the year 2022 :- Kumar Mishra
Sajjan Jindal
3. Important Schemes and Projects
 2023 Marconi Prize :- Hari (February 2023)
Balakrishnan  Pudhumai Penn Scheme :- Tamil Nadu

 Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award  Har Gaon Hariyali initiative :- Jammu
(for excellence in Journalism-2020) :- and Kashmir
Dr Anne Bhavani Koteswara Prasad
 Sujalam-Sufalam Jal Abhiyan :- Gujarat

 Jeevan Vidya Shivir :- Delhi

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 Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan :- Uttar  HARBINGER 2023 :- Reserve Bank of
Pradesh India

 Mero Rukh Mero Santati :- Sikkim 4. Important Obituaries

(February 2023)
 Nirman Se Shakti :- ESIC  P Kohli (Former Gujarat Governor)
 Balipa Narayan Bhagwat (Musician)
 Uttar Pradesh launched the portal for  Vani Jayaram (Singer)
creation of 12 digit Family ID :- One  Lalitha Lajmi (Painter)
Family One Identity  Dr. Kanak Rele (Dancer -
Mohiniyattam)
 WhatsApp chatbot called "Bal Mitra" :-  Tulsidas Balaram (Footballer)
Delhi  Shanti Bhushan (Former Law Minister)

 Mukhya Mantri Sukh-Ashray Yojana :- 5. Important Appointment

Himachal Pradesh (February 2023)

 Project ELLORA :- Microsoft  Vice Chief of Army Staff :- Lt Gen MV

Suchindra Kumar
 Jaduai Pitara :- NCERT
 Ranking member of US Immigration :-
Pramila Jaipal
 Google AI ChatBot :- Bard

 Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir

 WhatsApp Food Delivery Facility by
and Ladakh High Court :-
Indian Railways :- Zoop
Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh

 Bandicoot technology to clean all its

 Respective member of 'Brazilian
commissioned manholes :- Kerala
Sahitya Akademi' :- Abhay Kumar

 KAVACH 2023 (developed by All India

 Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court :-
Council for Technical Education
Sonia G. Gokani
(AICTE), Bureau of Police Research and
Development (BPRD) and Indian Cyber
Crime Coordination Centre) :- For  President of the World Bank – Ajay
Cyber Security banga
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 UNICEF India has appointed as its  Ambassador of National Mineral
National Ambassador :- Ayushmann Development Corporation Limited :-
Khurana Nikhat Zareen

 CEO of NITI Aayog :- BVR 6. Important Summits (February 2023)

Subrahmanyam
 Visit India Year-2023 initiative
 MD and CEO of the Canara bank :- K launched by Kishan Reddy :- New Delhi
Satyanarayana Raju
 19th Annual Region 3rd Conference of
 Chief Justice of Guwahati High Court :- the
Sandeep Mehta  Commonwealth Parliamentary
Association (CPA) :- Sikkim
 Chief Executive Officer of YouTube :-
Neal Mohan  Science 20 foundation meeting :-
Puducherry
 President of Harvard Law Review :-
Apsara Iyer  SemiconIndia Conference 2023 :- Delhi

 President of the Institute of Chartered  India's first model G-20 summit :-

Accountants of India (ICAI) :- Aniket Mumbai
Sunil Talati
 2nd SCO Young Scientist Conclave :-
 RESIGNED as the head coach of the Bengaluru
Indian men's hockey team :- Graham
Reed  FIRST Sustainable Finance Working
Group
 Drug Controller General of India (DCGI)  meeting of G20 chaired by India :-
:- Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi Guwahati

 President of Bangladesh :- Mohammad  India Energy Week :- Bengaluru

Shahabuddin Chuppu
 International Meeting on Urban River
 Vice Chief of Indian Air Force :- Air Conservation :- Pune
Marshal Amar Preet Singh
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 3rd ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting :- 8. Important Days And Themes
New Delhi (February 2023)
 Indian Coast Guard Day - 1 February
 World Government Summit 2023 :-
Dubai  World Cancer day - 4 February
 Theme - Close the Care Gap
 Two-day Urban-20 City Sherpas
meeting :- Ahmedabad  International Day of zero tolerance for
female genital mutilation – 6 February
 First meeting of the G20 Culture  Theme - Partnership with Men and
Working Group :- Khajuraho Boys to Transform Social and
Gender Norms to End Female
7. India's Rank in various Reports and Genital Mutilation.
Index (February 2023)
 Safer Internet Day - 8 February
 India’s rank in International IP Index
2023 :- 42nd  International Day of Women and girls
 Topped -- The United States in Science - 11 February
 Theme - "Innovate. Demonstrate.
 India’s rank in Services Trade Elevate. Advance. I.D.E.A.: Bringing
Restrictiveness Index 2022 :- 47th Communities Forward for
Sustainable and Equitable
 2nd most polluted city in the world in Development"
terms of the global Air Quality Index
(AQI) :- Mumbai  Anti smuggling Day - 11 February

 India's most accessible app for persons  International epilepsy day - 14

with disabilities in the report titled February
"Making the Digital Ecosystem  Theme - Stigma
Disabled Friendly" :- Whatsapp
 World Pangolin Day - 19 February
 India’s rank in Global Quality Index
Infrastructure 2021 :- 5th  International Mother Language Day -
 Topped -- Germany 21 February
 Theme - "Multilingual education – a
necessity to transform education"
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 World Thinking Day - 22 February  World Chess Championship 2023 Host
 Theme - Our Planet, Our Peaceful :- Kazakhstan
Future
 Real Madrid won the FIFA Club World
 Central Excise Day - 24 February Cup 2022

9. Important Sports Affairs  1ST Indian to win the "Road To UFC"

(February 2023) final :- Anshul Jubli

 ITBP won National ICE Hockey  Khelo India Winter Games 2023 in
Championship 2023 Jammu and Kashmir

 Aaron Finch (Australia) announced his  Madhya Pradesh won all four gold
retirement from international cricket. medals in water sports canoeing and
kayaking at the Khelo India Youth
 Shubman Gill became the youngest Games 2022.
cricketer to score a century in all three
formats of international cricket.  India’s 80th Grandmaster :- Vignesh
NR
 Most expensive player to be auctioned
in WPL 2023 :- Smriti Mandhana  Indian athlete who won gold medal in
shot put event at Asian Indoor
 Eoin Morgan (England) announced his Athletics Championships:- Tajinderpal
retirement from all forms of cricket Singh Toor

 Gary Ballance became the second  Rohit Sharma became the first Indian
cricketer in the history of International captain to score a century in all
Test Cricket to score a century for two formats.
countries.
 Saurashtra won the title of Ranji
 ICC T-20 Women’s World Cup 2023 :- Trophy 2022-23.
 Host -- South Africa  Runner Up --- Bengal
 Champions -- Australia (6th title)
 Runners-up -- South Africa

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 5th Khelo India Youth Games 2022
held in Madhya Pradesh :-
 First - Maharashtra (56 gold, 55
silver and 50 bronze medals)
 Second - Haryana
 Third - Madhya Pradesh
 Fourth - Rajasthan Thanks
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1. Important Books and Authors
(March 2023)
 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj - Shrimant  Assistant secretary of the US air force -
Kokate Ravi Choudhary

 Why can’t Elephants be Red - Vani  MD and CEO of UCO Bank - Ashwani
Tripathi Tikoo Kumar

 Pt. Deendayal Upadhaya : Dispersions  She Changes Climate campaign:

of Thought - R N Ravi Ambassador for India - Shreya
Ghodawat
 A Matter of the Heart: Education in
India - Anurag Behar  President of the Associated Chambers
of Commerce and Industry of India -
 As Good As My Word - KM Ajay Singh
Chandrashekhar
 1st woman to command frontline IAF
 The Book of Bihari Literature - Abhay K combat unit Group Captain - Shaliza
Dhami
 Mundaka Upanishad-The Bridge of
immortality - Jagdeep Dhankar  Vietnam president - Vo Van Thuong

 Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway to  CEO of Hero Motocorp - Niranjan

Eternity - Dr. Karan Singh Gupta

 India’s Struggle for Independence –  1st Indian-American judge at New York

Gandhian Era - Justice P. Jyothimani Court - Arun Subramanian

 MODI : Shaping a Global order in flux -  New 28th Controller General of

J.P. Nadda Accounts (CGA) - S.S. Dubey

2. Important Appointment (March  Principal Director General of the Press

2023) Information Bureau (PIB) - Rajesh
 Managing Director and CEO of Infosys - Malhotra
Mohit Joshi
 CEO of Axis Mutual Fund - B Gopkumar
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 Interim Chairman of LIC - Siddhartha
Mohanty  Lifetime Achievement Award by
University of Texas - Naveen Jindal
 New chairman of Pension Fund
Regulatory and Development  Prestigious Children's Champion
Authority - Deepak Mohanty Award 2023 - Tapoban NGO

 SS Rajamouli’s directorial, ‘RRR’ has

 First justice of a district court in US -
Tejal Mehta bagged the "Best International Film,
Best action film, and the honorary HCA
 Brand Ambassador of Viacom18 for Spotlight" award at the 6th Hollywood
promoting digital sports viewing - MS Critics Association (HCA) Film Awards.
Dhoni
 Saraswati Samman 2022 - Sivasankari

 Chairman and Managing Director  Governor of the Year for 2023 by -

(CMD) of Indian Telephone Industries Shaktikanta Das (RBI Governor)
(ITI) - Rajesh Rai
 32nd Vyas Samman - Gyan Chaturvedi
3. Important Award and Honour (
March 2023 )  Pritzker Architecture Prize 2023 - Sir
 Wildlife Conservation Award 2023 - David Chipperfield
Aliya Mir
 Central Board Of Irrigation And Power
 International Golden City Gate Tourism Award 2022 for ‘Best Contribution in
Awards 2023 - Ministry of Tourism Solar Energy’ - Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited (BHEL)
 Kerala Jyothi, the Kerala’s highest
civilian honour - M T Vasudevan Nair  BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year
for 2022 - Mirabai Chanu
 Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of
Cricket Award - Asif Sheikh (Nepal  Business Standard Banker of the Year
cricketer) 2022 - Sashidhar Jagdishan

 Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2023 -  Abel Prize 2023 - Luis Caffarelli

Bombay Jayashri
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4. Important Obituaries (March 2023)
 World obesity day - 4 march
 Kasinadhuni Vishwanath (Telugu  Theme - Changing Perspectives:
Actor) Let’s Talk About Obesity

 Sameer khakkar (Actor)  International Women's Day -March 8

 Theme - DigitALL: Innovation and
 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi (Former Chief technology for gender equality
Justice of India)
 No Smoking Day - 9th March
 Sasthipada Chattopadhyay (Bengali  Theme - Quit and Win
Novelist)
 World Kidney Day 2023 - 9th March (
 Pradeep Sarkar (Filmmaker and Second Thursday of March)
Director)
 National Vaccination Day - 16 March
 Chandrashekhar Dasgupta (Padma  Theme - Vaccines Work For
Bhushan recipient) Everyone

 Parimal Dey (Former Indian football  Global Recycling day - 18 March

player)  Theme - Creative Innovation

 Ordanance Factories day - 18 March

5. Important Days And Themes
(March 2023)  World Oral Health Day - 20 March
 Theme - Be Proud of Your Mouth
 Zero discrimination Day - 1 March
 Theme - Save lives: Decriminalise  World sparrow Day - 20 March
 Theme - I Love Sparrow
 World civil defence Day - 1 March
 Theme - Uniting the world’s leading  International Day of Happiness - 20
specialists for the safety and March
security of future generations.  Theme - Be Mindful, Be Grateful, Be
Kind.
 National Safety Day - 4 March
 Theme - Our Aim – Zero Harm  World poetry Day - 21 March
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 National Youth Conclave 2023 - Vigyan
 World Down syndrome Day - 21 March Bhawan, New Delhi
 Theme - With Us, Not For Us
 7th International Dharma Dhamma
 World water day - 22 March Conference 2023 organised by
 Theme - Accelerating the change to President Droupadi Murmu - Bhopal
solve the water and sanitation crisis
 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference
 Bihar Diwas - 22 March 2023 organised by Goa Governor P.S.
Sreedharan Pillai- GOA
 World TB day- 24 march
 Theme - Yes! We can end TB  G7 summit 2023 - Hiroshima,
 Japan
 International Day of The right to the
truth - 24 March  One World TB Summit - Varanasi, Uttar
Pradesh
 Earth Hour day- 25 March
 Theme - Invest in Our Planet  Global Conference on Digital Health
2023 organised by Health Ministry -
 World Theatre Day 2023 - 27 March New Delhi
 Theme - Theatre and a Culture of
Peace. 7. India Rank in various Reports and
Index ( March 2023 )
 Rajasthan day - 30 March  India's Rank in Global Terrorism index
2023 - 13th
 Topped -- Afganistan
6. Important Summits ( March 2023 )
 India's Rank in Henley Passport index
 International Bio-resource Conclave 2023 - 84th
2023 - Manipur
 India’s rank in World Happiness Report
 5th ASEAN-India Business Summit 2023 - 126th
2023 - Kuala Lumpur,  Topped -- Finland
 Malayasia
 India’s rank in International IP Index
2023 :- 42nd
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8. Important Sports Affairs of the ISSF Shooting World Cup in
(March 2023) Cairo, Egypt.
 Shakib Al Hasan, the star Bangladesh
all-rounder, and Rwandan star  India defeated reigning champions Iran
Henriette Ishimwe clinched the ICC (41-33) to clinch the 2nd edition of the
Men’s and Women’s Player of the men’s Junior World Kabaddi
Month awards for the month of Championship.
March.
 Indian Trap shooter Prithviraj
 Rohan Bopanna became the oldest Tondaiman won a bronze medal at the
ATP Masters 1000 champion after ISSF Shotgun World Cup 2023 in Doha,
winning the Indian Wells men’s Qatar.
doubles title at the age of 43 years.
 Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh has
 Star sprinter Hima Das won the 200m been honoured with Player-of-the-
race in 23.79 seconds in the Indian Year award by the Asian Chess
Grand Prix-1 athletics event. Federation (ACF).

 Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar won the  Pankaj Advani won the Asian Billiards
gold medal in the men’s individual Championship held in Doha, Qatar.
50m rifle 3 positions competition at
the ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Egypt. 9. Important Schemes and Projects
(March 2023)
 Karnataka defeated Meghalaya 3-2 in
the final of the 76th National football  UP Quality Mission (Gunvatta Sankalp)
championship also known as "the Hero - Uttar Pradesh
Santosh Trophy".
 Vedic Heritage portal In New Delhi -
 Mumbai Indians defeated the Delhi Home Minister Amit Shah
Capitals by 7 wickets to win the first-
ever Women’s Premier League  ‘DigiClaim’ platform - Agriculture
champions. Minister Narendra Singh Tomar

 SAGAR MANTHAN - Union Minister for

 Rudrankksh Patil won the gold medal Ports, Shipping and Waterways
in the men’s 10m air rifle competition Sarbananda Sonowal
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 The Centre government launched the
revamped MSME Competitive (LEAN)
scheme to make it more beneficial for
enterprises and stakeholders.

 Ladli Bahna Scheme - Madhya Pradesh

 Deen Dayal Updadhyay Antyodaya

Parivar Suraksha Yojana (DAYALU) Thanks
scheme - Haryana
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 "Resham Keet Bima" Scheme -
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 Health Program "Arogya Mahila" for

Women - Telangana

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1. Important Appointment
(April 2023) ❖ Acting Chief Justice of calcutta high
❖ Military advisor in the National court - T. S. Sivaganam
Security Council Secretariat - Sandeep
Singh ❖ 40th president of FICCI Ladies
Organisation (FLO) - Sudha Shivkumar
❖ Executive Director of RBI - Neeraj
Nigam ❖ Vice-Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS) - Vice-
Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh
❖ First head of NASA's 'Moon to Mars
Programme' - Amit Kshatriya ❖ Acting Chief Justice of the Himachal
Pradesh High Court - Justice Tarlok
❖ President of UEFA - Aleksander Ceferin Singh Chauhan

❖ Ambassador of India to Greece - 2. Important Books and Authors

Rudraendra Tandon (April 2023)
❖ Gandhi: Siyasat aur Sampradaiykta -
❖ President of NRAI (National Rifle Piyush Babele
association of India) - Kalikesh Singh
❖ Smoke and Ashes - Amitav Ghosh
❖ Managing Director (MD) and the first
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LIC - ❖ Courting India: England, Mughal India
Siddhartha Mohanty and the Origins of Empire - Nandini
Das
❖ Chairperson of Nasscom for the period
2023-24 - Anant Maheshwari ❖ Reflections - Narayanan Vaghul

❖ Deputy Managing Director of HDFC ❖ Azaad - Ghulam Nabi Azad

Bank - Kaizad Bharucha
❖ Crosscourt - Jaidip Mukerjea
❖ New chief justice of Tripura HC -
Aparesh Kumar Singh ❖ Sachin@50 - Celebrating A Maestro
Boria Majumdar
❖ Warrant Officer of the UK's Royal Air
Force - Murugesvaran 'Subby' ❖ Saurashtra Tamil Sangam Prashasti -
Subramaniam Somnath Sanskrit University
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❖ 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award after
❖ The Banker to Every Indian - State 64 year - Dalai Lama
Bank of India
❖ Prestigious Santokbaa Humanitarian
❖ The Great Bank Robbery: NPAs, Scams Award - Sonam Wangchuk
and the Future of Regulation. -
Pattabhi Ram and Sabyasachee Dash ❖ The Grand Cross award Germany’s
highest honor - Angela Merkel
3. Important Award and Honour
(April 2023) ❖ The Indian-American statistician
❖ Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Puraskar Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao has
- Asha Bhosle been awarded the 2023 International
Prize in Statistics, which is statistics’
❖ Neeli Bendapudi, the Indian American equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
president of Penn State University, has
been awarded with this year’s ❖ Pravasi Bharatiya Samman - Raj
prestigious Immigrant Achievement Subramaniam
Award for her contributions to higher
education in the US. ❖ Femina Miss India 2023 - Nandini
Gupta (Rajasthan)
❖ Billboard’s Inaugural Latin Woman of
the Year Award - Shakira ❖ Global Gold Award for their Corporate
Social Responsibility (CSR) work -
❖ Best implementation of Pradhan Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.
Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), a (PGCIL)
crop subsidy insurance scheme, for the
year 2022-23 - Karnataka ❖ Business Leader of the Decade Award -
Kumar Mangalam Birla
❖ Order of Australia, Australia’s highest
civilian honour - Ratan Tata ❖ Goldman Environment Prize 2023 -
Alessandra Korap
❖ Young Urologist of the Year Award
conferred by the American Urological ❖ Excellence in Public Administration-
Association (AUA) - Dr.Nitya Abraham 2022 in Innovation Category - PM Gati
Shakti national master plan

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❖ Lifetime Achievement Award" during ❖ Salim Durani (Former Indian Cricketer)
the glittering Ugadi 2023 celebrations -
Dr. Raghu Ram Pillarisetti ❖ Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair
Radhakrishnan ( Former Chief Justice
❖ Malcolm Adiseshiah Award 2023 - Utsa of the High Courts of Calcutta, Andhra
Patnaik Pradesh and Telangana)

4. Important Obituaries (April 2023) 5. Important Sports Affairs

(April 2023)
❖ Kaur Singh (Asian Games gold ❖ The legendary wrestler and coach,
medallist boxer) Mahavir Singh Phogat has been
appointed as the Chairman of the
❖ Trilochan Kanungo (Odisha Politician) MMA-1 Federation.

❖ Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury (Veteran ❖ The Sharjah Stadium has named a

Liberation War fighter) stand after Sachin Tendulkar on his
50th birthday.
❖ Parkash Singh Badal (Former Punjab
Chief Minister) ❖ Thailand skipper Naruemol Chaiwai
has been named ICC Women’s Player
❖ Chandan Ram Dass (Uttarakhand of the Month.
Former Cabinet Minister )
❖ New Zealand's Kim Cotton became the
❖ Uttara Baokar (Noted actor and first female on-field umpire in full-
theatre artist) member men's T20I.

❖ Keshub Mahindra (Former Mahindra ❖ Pakistan batter Fakhar Zaman has

Group Chairman) been named ICC Men’s Player of the
Month.
❖ Jalabala Vaidya ( Legendary theatre
actor and co-founder of the capital’s ❖ Pakistani fast bowler Shaheen Afridi
iconic Akshara Theatre) became the fastest pacer to take 200
wickets in T20 cricket.
❖ Jagarnath Mahto (Jharkhand Education
Minister)

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❖ INithya Shreya Sumathi Sivan won two ❖ The iconic Sydney Cricket Ground
gold medals at the Brazil Para unveiled a gate named after Sachin
Badminton International. Tendulkar.

❖ India opener K.L. Rahul became the 6. Important Days And Themes
fastest Indian to score 7,000 runs in (April 2023)
T20 cricket. ❖ Utkal Divas - 1 April

❖ Indian women wrestlers won a total of ❖ World autism awareness day - 2 April
07 medals in the Women's Asian ➢ Theme - Transforming the
Wrestling Championship held in narrative: Contributions at home,
Astana, Kazakhstan. at work, in the arts and in
policymaking.
❖ Russian tennis star Daniil Medvedev
won his fourth title this year by ❖ International Children's Book Day - 2
defeating Janic Sinner at the Miami April
Open 2023.
❖ National Maritime Day - 5 April
❖ Spain's Carlos Alcarz won the
Barcelona Open by defeating Stefanos ❖ International Day of sports for
Tsitsipas of Greece. development and peace - 6 April
➢ Theme - Scoring for People and the
❖ Indian women's cricket team captain Planet
Harmanpreet Kaur has been named
the Wisden Cricketers of the Year for ❖ World Health Day - 7 April
the year 2023. ➢ Theme - Health For All

❖ Indian young Grandmaster D Gukesh ❖ World homeopathy day - 10 April

won the title of World Chess ➢ Theme - One Health, One Family.
Armageddon Asia and Oceania events.
❖ National Safe motherhood day - 11
❖ India's Jyoshna Sabar and Dhanush April
Loganathan won bronze medals at the
World Youth Weightlifting ❖ World parkinson disease day-11 April
Championships. ➢ Theme - Take6forPD

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❖ International Day of Human space ➢ Theme - Time to deliver zero
flight - 12 April malaria: invest, innovate,
implement.
❖ World chagas disease day - 14 April
➢ Theme - Time to integrate Chagas ❖ World penguin day- 25th April
disease into primary health care.
❖ World intellectual Property day - 26
❖ Himachal Day - 15 April April

❖ World Art day - 15 April 7. Important Summits ( April 2023 )

❖ 2nd G20 Sherpa Meeting -
❖ Save the Elephant Day - 16 April Kumarakom, Kerala
➢ Theme - Protecting Elephant
Habitats for a Sustainable ❖ India-Central Asia Joint Working Group
Tomorrow. on Chabahar - Mumbai

❖ World Hameophilla Day - 17 April ❖ The Digital Health Summit 2023

➢ Theme - Access for All: Prevention organized by the Confederate of Indian
of bleeds as the global standard of Industry (CII) - Goa
care ➢ Theme - "Building One Health
Together – Improving Health
❖ World Heritage Day - 18 April Equity".
➢ Theme - Heritage Changes
❖ 100th meeting of the G20 Working
❖ National civil Service Day - 21 April Group chaired by India - Varanasi,
❖ World creativity and innovation day - Uttar Pradesh
21st April

❖ World Earth Day - 22 April ❖ B20 conference under the G20

➢ Theme - Invest in our planet Dialogue Forum - Kohima, Nagaland
❖ World book and copyright day - 23rd
April ❖ 3rd in-person Quad Summit - Australia
❖ International Conference on Defence
❖ World malaria Day - 25th April Finance and Economics 2023 - New
Delhi

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❖ Global Conference on Compressed ❖ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh
Biogas (CBG) - New Delhi Baghel launched the "Chief Minister
➢ Theme - "Towards a Strong CBG Adivasi Parab Samman Nidhi Yojana".
Foundation and Progressive Policy
Framework for Development".
❖ Union Minister Parshottam Rupala
8. Important Schemes and Projects launched the Animal Pandemic
(April 2023) Preparedness Initiative (APPI) and
❖ Tamilnadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin World Bank-funded Animal Health
launched a new talent support scheme System Support for One Health
"Thiranari Thervu Thittam" (skill (AHSSOH).
development).
❖ Union Home Minister Amit Shah
❖ Union Minister of Tribal Affairs launched the "vibrant villages
launched the scheme "Marketing and programme" at Kibithu – a border
Logistics Development for Promotion village in Arunachal Pradesh.
of Tribal Products from North-Eastern
Region (PTP-NER). ❖ The Unified Portal of the Central
Bureau of Narcotics has been launched
❖ Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar by the Revenue Secretary Shri Sanjay
launched the Sathi (Seed Traceability, Malhotra.
Authentication and Holistic Inventory)
portal. ❖ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath launched "School Chalo
❖ The Kerala government launched a Abhiyan".
project for reviving the sports culture
in the State by opening quality ❖ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh
playgrounds in every panchayat of the Baghel launched the state's first digital
southern state. radio station "Radio Sangwari".

❖ Science and Technology Minister Dr ❖ Haryana Government launched the

Jitendra Singh launched the 'Yuva Drone Imaging and Information Service
Portal'. of Haryana Limited (DRIISHYA).

❖ The Centre Government has launched

a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme
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namely, New India Literacy ➢ Mumbai featured in the nineteenth
Programme. rank on the list.

❖ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta ❖ India ranked fifth in the global list of
Banerjee launched the flagship road national contribution to global
'Pathashree-Rastashree' project. warming.
➢ The United States topped the list.

9. India Rank in various Reports and ❖ According to the latest update from
Index ( April 2023 ) the Passport Index 2023, India ranked
144 with a mobility score of 70 in
❖ World of Statistics has shared the 2023.
ranking of the world's "most criminal
countries".
➢ Venezuela has been ranked top.
India's rank is 77.

❖ India ranked fifth in terms of

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38 out of 139 countries in the 7th
edition of World Bank's Logistics
Performance Index 2023.

❖ The Haryana Police have secured the

first position in the latest Crime and
Criminal Tracking and Network System
(CCTNS).

❖ Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai has

featured in the list of top twenty cities
with best public transport in the world.

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1. Important Books and Authors  President of Cycling Federation of
(May 2023) India - Pankaj Singh
 My Life Goal Uttarakhandiyat - Harish
Rawat  Chairman of UPSC - Manoj Soni

 Collective Spirit, Concrete Action -  Chairman of Atomic Energy

Shashi Shekhar Vempati Commission - A K Mohanty

 My Life as a Comrade - K. K. Shailaja  Director of CBI - Praveen Sood

 Supreme Court On Commercial  Chairman and Managing Director

Arbitration - Manoj kumar (CMD) of Power Finance Corporation
(PFC) -
 Droupadi Murmu: From Tribal
Hinterlands to Raisina Hills - Kasturi  Administrator of the Basketball
Ray Federation of India - P Krishna Bhat

 Guts Amidst Bloodbath : The  President of Basketball Federation of

Aunshuman Gaekwad Narrative - India - Dr K. Govindaraj
Aditya Bhushan
 14th President of World Bank - Ajay
 'Saurashtra-Tamil Sangamprashasti' - Banga
Shri Somnath Sanskrit University
 Acting Chief Justice (CJ) of the Kerala
 MADE IN INDIA :75 Years of Business High Court - Sarasa Venkatnarayan
and Enterprise - Amitabh Kant
 Chairperson of the Competition
 The Golden years : The Many Joys of Commission of India - Ravneet Kaur
Living a Good Long Life - Ruskin Bond
 Chairman of LIC - Siddharth Mohanty
 Reflections - Narayanan Waghul
 Interim MD and CEO of National
2. Important Appointment (May 2023) Investment and Infrastructure Fund
 Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force - (NIIF) - Rajiv Dhar
Ashutosh Dixit

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 Chairman of Petroleum and Natural  World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO
Gas Regulatory Board - Anil Kumar Jain - Niloufar Hamedi, Elaheh
Mohammadi, and Narges Mohammadi
3. Important Award and Honour
(May 2023)  International Booker Prize for Novel
 Best Film award at the 68th Filmfare "Time Shelter" - Georgi Gospodinov
Awards 2023 - Gangubai Kathiawadi
 Bharat Ratna Dr. Ambedkar Award -
 Best Critics Film Award at the 68th CM Yogi Adityanath
Filmfare Awards 2023 - Badhaai Do.
 Best Actor Award at the 68th Filmfare
 Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Awards 2023 - Rajkumar Rao
Award 2022 - Jayant Narlikar
 Best Actress Award at the 68th
 Green World Award 2023 - Chennai Filmfare Awards 2023 - Alia Bhatt
Metro Rail Limited
 Laureus Sportsman of the Year 2023 -
 Sagar Shreshtha Sammaan Award 2023 Lionel Messi
- Cochin Port
 Skoch Silver Award 2023 - Department
 Shatabdi Purush (Man of the Century) - of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries,
Pandit Ramkishan Chandigarh

 BAFTA Fellowship during the BAFTA 4. Important Obituaries ( May 2023 )

Television Awards ceremony in London  Samreash Majumdar (Sahitya Akademi
- Meera Sayal Award winning Bengali writer)

 Papua New Guinea and Fiji’s highest  Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (

honour - Narendra Modi Chairman of the Hinduja group )

 France's highest civilian award  Ranajit Guha (Historian)

Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur - N
Chandrasekaran  Arun Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi’s
grandson)

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 A.R. Khaleel (Former All India Football  World red cross day - 8 May
Federation Vice-President)  Theme - Everything we do comes
from the heart.
 Sarath Babu ( Actor )
 World thalassemia day - 8 May
 Karumuttu T Kannan ( Chairman of the  Theme - Be Aware. Share. Care:
Meenakshi Temple trustees board) Strengthening Education to Bridge
the Thalassaemia Care Gap.
 Dr.N. Gopalakrishnan ( Scientist )
 National Technology day - 11 May
 Parkash Singh Badal (Former Punjab
Chief Minister)  International Nurses Day - 12 May
 Theme - Our Nurses. Our Future.

5. Important Days And Themes  World Migratory Bird Day - 14 May

(May 2023)  Theme - Water: Sustaining Bird Life.
 International Labour day - 1 May
 International Day of Families - 15 May
 World laughter day - 1 May  Theme - Demographic Trends and
Families
 Maharashtra and Gujarat Statehood
day - 1 May  International Day of Light - 16 May

 World press freedom day - 3 May  International Museum day - 18 May

 Theme - Shaping a Future of Rights:  Theme - Museums, Sustainability
Freedom of expression as a driver and Well-being.
for all other human rights
 World Aids Day - 18 May
 World asthma Day - 3 May
 Theme - Asthma care for all  World Bees day - 20 May
 Theme - Engaging in Pollinator-
 Coal miners day - 4 may Friendly Agricultural Production.

 World athletics day - 7 May  International Tea day -21 May

 Theme - Bee engaged in pollinator-
friendly agricultural production.
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 Anti-terrorism day - 21 May the ITF Coaches Award for his long and
outstanding contribution to the sport.
 Commonwealth Day - 24 May
 Kazakhstan tennis player Elena
 Anti-Tobacco Day - 31 May Rybakina clinched her second title of
the year after defeating an injured
6. Important Sports Affairs(May 2023) Anhelina Kalinina in the final of the
 The ICC Women’s Player of the Month ongoing Italian Open.
for May 2023 has been awarded to
Thipatcha Putthawong (Thailand), a  Women tennis players, Storm Hunter
talented 19-year-old player. and Elise Mertens won their first
doubles title at the Italian Open by
 Badminton Asia has appointed Omar defeating top seeds Coco Gauff and
Rashid as the Chairman of the Jessica Pegula.
Technical Officials Committee.
 Olympian Annu Rani bagged the gold
 Cricket icon and former BCCI president medal in the javelin throw in
Sourav Ganguly has been appointed Federation Cup 2023.
the brand ambassador of Tripura
tourism.  Athlete Jyothi Yarraji won a gold medal
in the women’s 100 m hurdles at the
 The Indian duo of Suryakumar Yadav Federation Cup 2023.
and Harmanpreet Kaur has been
named as Wisden T20I player of 2022.  V. Prraneeth, a 15-year-old chess
player from Telangana, achieved the
 Harry Tector has been selected as the title of Grandmaster, becoming the
ICC Men's Player of the Month for sixth from the state and the 82nd in
May, marking Ireland's first-ever India.
recipient of the award.
 India bagged 16 gold medals at the
 Indian won the bronze medal in the South Asian Youth Table Tennis
women's 3000m steeplechase in the Championship 2023 that concluded in
USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix 2023. Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.

 Indian tennis great and Asian Games  Indian triple jumper Praveen
gold medallist, Zeeshan Ali received Chithravel won the men’s triple jump

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event at an athletics meet in Havana, Accelerated Innovation Nurturing
Cuba with a national record-breaking Scheme (GAINS 2023) in Kolkata.
mark of 17.37m.
 The University Grants Commission
 India's Olympic gold medalist Neeraj (UGC) of India launched a redesigned
Chopra won the gold medal in the website and two portals named UTSAH
Doha Diamond League with a world and PoP portal.
leading and career fourth best throw
of 89.94 metres.  Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath
Shinde launched the "Shasan Aplya
7. Important Schemes and Projects Dari" (government at your doorstep).
(May 2023)
 Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa  Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh
Sarma launched the Ayushman Assam launched the Facial Recognition
Scheme under the Mukhya Mantri Jan System (FRS) for Inner Line Permit (ILP)
Arogya (MMJA). system.

 HDFC Bank launched a retail banking  Union Minister for Rural Development
initiative called 'Vishesh' aimed at and Panchayati Raj, Giriraj Singh,
customers in semi-urban and rural launched the "SAMARTH Campaign on
areas. Promoting Digital Transactions in
50000 Gram Panchayats" under the
 Andhra Pradesh Government launched Amrit Mahotsav in Lucknow.
the "E-chits" application to regulate
chit-fund companies and prevent  Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh
fraud. Baghel launched the 'Hamar Sughar
Laik Abhiyan' in the 'Bharose Ka
 Ministry of Civil Aviation has launched Sammelan' program at Sankra in Durg
UDAN 5.1 further to enhance the district.
connectivity to remote areas of the
country and achieve last mile  Prime Minister Narendra Modi
connectivity through helicopters. launched railway projects worth Rs
8,200 crore in Odisha and flagged off
 Garden Reach Shipbuilders and the state's first Vande Bharat Express
Engineers (GRSE) launched the GRSE that will connect Puri to West Bengal's
Howrah.

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 Kerala government launched a welfare 8. Important Summits (May 2023)
fund for Mahatma Gandhi Rural  42nd Summit of Association of
Employment Guarantee Scheme Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -
(MGNREGS) workers in the State. Indonesia

 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister  2nd North Sea Summit - Belgium

Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu launched "Him
Data Portal".  49th G-7 Summit - Hiroshima, Japan

 Uttrakhand Chief Minister Pushkar  Third meeting of G20 Education

Singh Dhami launched a mobile app Working Group concluded in
named "Patch Reporting App". Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

 Financial Stability and Development

 Union Ministry of Women and Child Council meeting chaired by Nirmala
Development has launched a Sitharaman - New Delhi
campaign named "Poshan Bhi Padhai
Bhi".  Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
presided over the 8th Governing
 Tamilnadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin Council Meeting of Niti Aayog, held at
launched a new talent support scheme the New Convention Centre in New
"Thiranari Thervu Thittam" (skill Delhi.
development).
 6th edition of One Earth-One Health -
 The University Grants Commission Advantage Healthcare India 2023
(UGC) launched a ‘unified portal’ for inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi -
recruitment of faculty to central New Delhi
universities.
 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
 The Telangana government (Govt) (SCO) Foreign Ministers' Meeting - Goa
launched "Telangana State Robotics
Framework".  6th Indian Ocean Conference - Dhaka

 Bihar health department launched  1st India-EU Council of Trade and

"Mission Parivartan" Technology Ministerial Meeting -
Brussels, Belgium
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9. India's Rank in various Reports and  Madhya Pradesh secured the first
Index (May 2023) position in the 'Best State' category in
 Tamil Nadu has been ranked as an the 4th National Water Awards-2022.
"innovative" state in the National
Manufacturing Innovation Survey.  NITI Aayog released a report on
"Promoting Millets in Food: Best
 Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh has Initiatives of States/UTs of India".
become the first city in India to accept
localization of Sustainable  Cochin Port has been awarded with
Development Goals (SDGs). the 'Sagar Shrestha' award from the
Ministry of Ports, Shipping and
 The ranking of India in the 2023 World Waterways for best performance in
Press Freedom Index has slipped 11 the non-container category.
places to 161, according to the latest
report released by global media
watchdog Reporters Without Borders
(RSF).

 India topped the list of 10 countries

that account for 60 per cent of global
maternal deaths.

 GMR Hyderabad International Airport

has become the most punctual airport, Thanks
surpassing Japan.
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 Maharashtra's capital city Mumbai has Telegram Channel
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 Mumbai featured in the nineteenth
rank on the list.

 India's AI supercomputer AIRAWAT has

been ranked 75th in the Top 500
Global Supercomputing List.

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1. Important Books and Authors
(June 2023 )  First Indian American to hold the post
 Kathakali Dance Theatre: A Visual of President of the World Bank - Ajay
Narrative of Sacred Indian Mime - KK Banga
Gopalakrishnan
 President of the World Meteorological
 "The Yoga Sutra for Children", Organization (WMO) - Dr. Abdullah Al
published by Hachette India. -- Rupa Mandous
Pai
 CEO of Unique Identification Authority
 "Ajay to Yogi Adityanath" --- Shantanu of India (UIDAI) - Amit Agrawal
Gupta
 Chairman and Managing Director of
 "The Art of Plumber: A Capturing Tale Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) -
of Grid, Vengeance, and Historical Amrendu Prakash
Relics" - Alekhya Talapatra
 Director of the United Nations Office
 Rebels Against the Raj: Western for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) -
Fighters for India's Freedom - Aarti Hola-Maini
Ramachandra Guha
 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tata
 The Peace Prize of the German Book Consultancy Services (TCS) - K
Trade for 2023 has been awarded to Kritivasan
British-American author Salman
Rushdie for his literary work.  Director General of Geological Survey
of India (GSI) - Janardan Prasad
 Master Residential Real Estate -
Ashwinder R Singh  'Smile Ambassador' for Maharashtra's
Swachh Mukh Abhiyan - Sachin
2. Important Appointment Tendulkar
(June 2023)
 Chief of India's external intelligence  Central Vigilance Commissioner -
agency RAW - Ruby Sinha Praveen Kumar Srivastava
 First woman Secretary General of the
World Meteorological Organization -  Chairman of Alibaba - Joseph Tsai
Celeste Saulo

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 Director General of Border Security  German Book Trade's Peace Prize -
Force (BSF) - Nitin Agrawal Salman Rushdie

 Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh  Madhya Pradesh has been honored
High Court - Justice M.S. Ramachandra with the first prize in the Best State
Rao category at the National Water Awards
2022.
 Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High
Court - Justice Augustine George  'Best Foreign Player' award in League 1
Masih for the 2022-23 season - Lionel Messi

 President of the BRICS Chamber of  Indian Singer Shankar Mahadevan has

Commerce and Industry Women's been awarded an honorary doctorate
Vertical (BRICS CCI WE) - Ruby Sinha by Birmingham City University in
England.
 Chairman of the Board of Governors of
the International Air Transport  Michel Batisse Award 2023 for
Association - Peter Elbers Biosphere Reserve Management -
Jagdish Bakan
 President of the 78th session of the
United Nations General Assembly -  Kothapalli Jaishankar Award instituted
Dennis Francis by Bharat Jagriti - Acharya N. Gopi

3. Important Award and Honour  Spinoza Prize (The highest honor in

(June 2023) Dutch science) - Joyita Gupta
 The Food Safety and Standards
Authority of India (FSSAI) has awarded  President of India Smt. Droupadi
the Eat Right Station certification to Murmu conferred the National
Guwahati Railway Station. Florence Nightingale Awards for the
year 2022 and 2023 to the 30 nursing
 Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021 - professionals at the Rashtrapati
Gita Press, Gorakhpur Bhavan.

 GreenTech Safety Award 2023" under  US Department of Labor's 2023 Iqbal

Safety Excellence Category - Rashtriya Masih Award for the Elimination of
Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) Child Labour. - Lalitha Natarajan
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 Imtiaz Ahmed ( Author and former
 Indian film 'When Climate Change professor of Jawaharlal Nehru
Turns Talent' won the WHO award. University )

 45th European Essay Prize for Lifetime  Suresh alias Balu Dhanorkar (Congress'
Achievement - Arundhati Roy lone Lok Sabha member from
Maharashtra)
 Britain's prestigious 'Governor of the
Year 2023' award - Shaktikanta Das  Gitanjali Aiyar ( News Anchor)

 Five building structures in Telangana 5. Important Days And Themes

have been adjudged winners of the (June 2023)
'International Green Apple Awards.  World Milk Day - 1 June

 President Droupadi Murmu has been  World Bicycle Day - 3 June

conferred the "Grand Order of the
Chain of the Yellow Star", Suriname's  World Environment Day -5 June
highest civilian award.  Theme - #BeatPlasticPollution

4. Important Obituaries (June 2023)  UN Russian Language Day - 6 June

 Kollam Sudhi ( Indian actor and
mimicry artist)  World Food Safety Day - 7 June
 Theme - Food Standards Save Lives
 Rakesh Master (Choreographer)
 World Brain tumour day - 8 June
 Havildar Alby D’Cruz (First Keralite to  Theme - Protect yourself- keep
receive the Ashoka Chakra award) away from stress.

 Sulochana Latkar ( Sulochana Didi,  Day World Oceans Day - 8 June

Marathi Actor)  Theme - Planet Ocean: tides are
changing.
 Cormack McCarthy (Pulitzer Prize-
winning author)  World Accreditation Day - 9 June
 Theme - Accreditation: Supporting
the Future of Global Trade

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 World Day Against Child Labour -12
June  World refugees Day - 20 June
 Theme - Social Justice for All. End
Child Labour!  World music day - 21 June
 Theme - Music on the intersections
 International Albinism Awareness Day
- 13 june  International Day of the Seafarer - 25
 Theme - Inclusion is Strength June
 Theme - MARPOL at 50 – Our
 World Blood Donor Day - 14 June commitment goes on.
 Theme- Give blood, give plasma,
share life, share often.  International Day against Drug abuse
and illicit Trafficking - 26 June
 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day - 15  Theme - People First: stop stigma
June and Discrimination, strengthen
 Theme - Closing the Circle: Prevention.
Addressing Gender-Based Violence
(GBV) in Older Age Policy, Law and 6. Important Sports Affairs
Evidence-based Responses". (June 2023)
 Sunil Kumar won the gold medal in the
 Global wind day - 15 June men's decathlon event at the Asian
 Theme - Pawan - Urja: Powering U20 Athletics Championships in
the Future of India. Yecheon, South Korea.

 International Day of Family Remittance  Indian cyclist Esow Alben won the
- 16 June bronze medal in the elite men's keirin
 Theme - Digital remittances event at the Finale Bahnen-Tournee
towards financial inclusion and cost 2023 cycling Competition.
reduction.
 Sri Lanka spinner Wanindu Hasaranga
 World sea turtle Day - 16 June and Australian women's team all-
 World Crocodile day - 17 June rounder Ashleigh Gardner have been
named ICC's 'Player of the Month' for
 World day to combat Desertification their impressive performances in June.
And Draught - 17 June
 Theme - Her Land. Her Rights.

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 Dhanush Srikanth has won the men's  Bhavani Devi has created history by
10m air rifle event at the ISSF Junior becoming the first Indian swordsman
World Cup in Suhl, Germany. to win a medal at the Asian
Championships.
 Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo
became the first male footballer to  Indian women's cricketers Jhulan
play 200 international matches. Goswami and two English players
Heather Knight and Eoin Morgan have
 Indian team won the men's hockey been inducted into the MCC Cricket
junior Asia Cup 2023 final title. Committee in June 2023.

 Indian sprinter Amlan Borgohain has  Hockey Madhya Pradesh won the 13th
won two gold medals at the Flanders Hockey India Junior Men's National
Cup 2023 Athletics Meet in Marcksem, Championship 2023.
Belgium.
 Dutch Formula One driver Max
 Indian paddler Mudit Dani became the Verstappen won the Canadian Grand
first Indian to win the National Prix to secure his Red Bull team's
Collegiate Table Tennis Association 100th win.
(NCTTA) Male Athlete of the Year
award.  Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic
created history by becoming the first
 Indian athlete Jyothi Yarraji won the person to win 23 Grand Slam titles.
gold medal in the women's 100m
hurdles event at the T-Meeting 2023  Siddharth Chowdhary won the gold
Athletics Meet in Tilburg, Netherlands. medal in the men's shot put event at
the Under-20 Asian Athletics
 Chandigarh's Punjab University won Championships held in Yecheon, South
the Khelo India University Games 2023 Korea.
title with 69 medals including 26 gold.
7. Important Schemes and Projects
 Indian shooters Abhinav Shaw and (June 2023)
Gautami Bhanot has won the gold  The Government of Karnataka
medal at the ISSF World Cup Junior launched a free power scheme named
Championships. "Gruha Jyothi scheme" for providing

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free electricity up to 200 units a celebrations of Adani Group, on the
month. occasion of Gautam Adani's 61st
birthday.
 Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister
Pema Khandu launched the 'Arunpol  Leading fintech company Acemoney
App' of Arunachal Pradesh Police. has launched an all-in-one payment
device.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched two schemes, namely Amrit  The India Legal Research Foundation
Dharohar and MISHTI (Mangrove (ILRF) launched its multi-lingual app
Initiative for Shoreline Habitats and called the India Legal App.
Tangible Incomes).
 Goa's Chief Minister Pramod Sawant
 Union minister of heavy industries launched mascot named 'Moga' which
Mahendra Nath Pandey launched the represents an Indian bison, for the
groundbreaking "Dugdh Sanakalan upcoming 37th National Games.
Sathi Mobile App" in Mussorie,
Uttarakhand.  NTPC Kanti has launched the Girl
Empowerment Mission (GEM)-2023.
 Kotak Mahindra Bank has announced
the launch of its ActivMoney feature,  Google launched Aadhaar-based
which provides users with FD-like authentication for UPI transactions
interest rates of up to 7% per annum. that will allow users to set up their UPI
pin without a debit card.
 Jammu and Kashmir Bank launched
two mobile branches in Ladakh to  Uttar Pradesh government launched
offer banking services in remote areas Nand Baba Milk Mission Scheme.
of the Union Territory.
 Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal
 Google has launched an Indian Khattar launched the biennial
Languages Program for small and Integrated Water Resources Action
medium-sized local news publishers in Plan (2023-25).
India.
 HSBC India launched a new advertising
 The "Jeetenge Hum" campaign was campaign featuring its new brand
launched during the foundation day influencer cricketer, Virat Kohli.
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 Labour-20 (L-20) Summit - Patna, Bihar
 Kerala government officially launched
the Kerala Fibre Optical Network  SAI20 summit 2023 - Goa
(KFON), which is one of its flagship
projects envisaged during the first  3rd India-Vietnam Maritime Security
term. Dialogue - New Delhi

 Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and  Intersolar Europe 2023 exhibition -

Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal, Munich, Germany
launched the "Sagar Samriddhi" online
dredging monitoring system as part of  G20 Development Ministers' meeting -
the 'Waste to Wealth' initiative. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

 The Karnataka government launched  8th meeting of the Standing

"Shakti" scheme, which offers free Committee of the International Solar
travel to women in government buses Alliance (ISA) - New Delhi
in the state.
 First Round Table Joint Meeting
 RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das between India and New Zealand - New
launched a financial inclusion Delhi
dashboard named "Antardrishti".
 First National Training Conference (
 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Inaugurated by PM Modi ) - Pragati
launched "Odisha for Artificial Maidan, New Delhi.
Intelligence" and "Artificial Intelligence
for Youth" initiatives.  National Legislators Conference India -
Mumbai, Maharashtra
8. Important Summits ( June 2023 )
 Science-20 conference - Bhopal 9. India's Rank in various Reports and
 Theme - "Connecting Science to Index ( June 2023 )
Society and Culture"  Rajasthan, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu
have emerged as leading states in
 India-EU Connectivity Summit wind energy adoption.
(Organised by Ministry of External
Affairs) - Meghalaya  The Indian Institute of Technology
(IIT), Madras retained the top spot in
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the National Institute Ranking  India's rank is 40th position in the
Framework (NIRF), 2023 for the fifth latest world competitiveness ranking
consecutive year. published by the International Institute
for Management Development (IMD).
 Centre for Science and Environment
(CSE) has released its annual
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performance.

 Gujarat state got the first position in

terms of installed wind power
capacity.
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 Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
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 Kerala topped the category of large
states in the fifth food security index.

 Goa topped the category of small

states in the fifth food security index.

 Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi and

Chandigarh secured the first, second
and third positions respectively
among Union Territories in the fifth
food security index.

 India has topped the world ranking in

digital payments in 2022.

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1. Important Books and Authors  The government has appointed Sat Pal
(July 2023) Bhanoo as one of the managing
 NTR: A Political Biography - K directors of Life Insurance Corporation
Ramachandra Murthy (LIC).

 Through the Broken Glass: An  Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister -

Autobiography - T.N. Seshan Ajit Pawar

 India Rising Memoir of a Scientist - R.  Chief Justice of Bombay High Court -

Chidambaram and Suresh Gangotra Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya

 Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam: Memories Never  Chairman-cum-Managing Director of

Die (Released by Amit Shah) - Dr. APJM Coal India Limited - PM Prasad
Nazema Maraikayar and Dr. Y.S. Rajan
 Chief Secretary of the Kerala
 Maya, Modi, Azad: Dalit Politics in the Government - Dr V Venu
Time of Hindutva - Sudha Pai & Sajjan
Kumar  State Election Commissioner for
Jammu and Kashmir - Braj Raj Sharma
 As the Wheel Turns (Released by
Venkaiah Naidu) - Ranjit Pratap  Member in the Board of International
Financial Services Centre Authority
 Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu (IFSCA) - Pramod Rao
Right 1924-1977 - Abhishek Choudhary
 Managing Director of Life Insurance
2. Important Appointment (July 2023) Corporation (LIC) of India - Sat Pal
 Ambassador of India to the Democratic Bhanoo
Republic of Sao Tome and Principe -
Deepak Miglani  President of Turkey - Recep Tayyip
Erdogan
 Rakesh Pal has been appointed as the
25th Director General (DG) of the  President of Latvia Edgars - Rinkevics
Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
 Chair of the 13th Ministerial
 Chief Secretary of Punjab Government Conference of the World Trade
- Anurag Verma Organization - Dr. Thani Al Zeyoudi
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 Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High  UK PM’s Points of Light award -
Court - Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur Moksha Roy

 Chairman-elect of the Board of  Senior Congress party leader Shashi

Directors of the International Tharoor has been awarded with an
Myeloma Foundation (IMF) - S. Vincent honorary doctorate from the Geneva
Rajkumar School of Diplomacy.

 Director General of the Railway  Maharashtra govt’s first ‘Udyog Ratna’

Protection Force (RPF) - Senior IPS award - Ratan Tata
officer Manoj Yadava
 Carnatic vocalist Aruna Sairam and
3. Important Award and Honour flautist Shashank Subramanyam were
(July 2023) conferred with the prestigious
 The Union Minister for Information Chevalier award by the French
and Broadcasting, Shri Anurag Thakur government.
conferred the 8th and 9th National
Community Radio Awards.  International Eni Award - Prof
Thalappil Pradeep
 UNESCO’s Asia Pacific Cultural
Heritage award - Byculla railway  Golden Peacock’ Environment
station Management Award 2023 - Adani
Transmission Limited
 Australian-Tamil lawyer Shankari
Chandran has won the $60,000  Authoor betel leaves from
prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu
Award for her novel, “Chai Time at have been awarded the GI certificate
Cinnamon Gardens”. by Tamil Nadu State Agricultural
Marketing Board and NABARD
 Miles Franklin Literary Award 2023 - Madurai Agribusiness Incubation
Shankari Chandran Forum.

 The Rising Global Superstar Of Indian  France’s highest award Grand Cross of
Cinema Award - Kartik Aaryan the Legion of Honour - PM Modi

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 Points of Light Award - Rajindar Singh  Oommen Chandy (10th CM of Kerala
Dhatt and a senior Congress leader)

 Adani Transmission Limited (ATL) has  Namboothiri (Painter)

won the 'Golden Peacock Environment
Management Award 2023' in the  Imtiaz Ahmed (Renowned sociologist,
Power Transmission Sector from author and former professor of
'Institute of Directors.' Jawaharlal Nehru University)

 SKOCH Gold Award for Marketing  Mangala Narlikar (Mathematician)

Avenues to SHGs - Jammu and Kashmir
Rural Livelihood Mission 5. Important Days And Themes
(July 2023)
 Ace filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has been  Charted Accountant day - 1 July
awarded for 'What's Love Got To Do
With It' at the British National Awards.  National doctor day - 1 July

 1st Prize in Swachhta Pakhwada  International Day of cooperative - 2

Awards 2023 - SJVN Limited July
 Theme - Cooperatives for
 The Department of Health and Family sustainable development
Welfare has been awarded with the
Kreta Vikreta Gaurav Samman  World sports journalist day - 2 July
Samaroh, 2023 in Highest Single-Bid
Procurements in the 2022-23 fiscal  The world UFO day - 2 July
category.
 The international Plastic Bag Free Day -
4. Important Obituaries (July 2023) 3 July
 Parimal Kumar Gosh (Commander of
Border Security Force)
 World Zoonosis Day - 6 July
 World Kishwahili Language day - 7 July
 Nirmala Buch (Chief Secretary of  Theme - Unleashing Kiswahili's
Madhya Pradesh) potential in the digital era.
 Bir Devinder Singh (Former deputy
speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha and
 World Chocolate Day - 7 July
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 National Fish Farmers Day - 10 July
 National Broadcasting Day - 23 July
 World Population Day - 11 July  Income Tax Day - 24 July
 Theme - Unleashing the power of  World Drowning Prevention Day - 25
gender equality: Uplifting the July
voices of women and girls to unlock  International Day for the Conservation
our world's infinite possibilities. of the Mangrove Ecosystem - 26 July
 Kargil Vijay Diwas - 26 July
 World Paper Bag day - 12 July
 World Nature Conservation Day - 28
 World Malaria Day - 12 July July
 Theme - Time to deliver zero  Theme - Forests and Livelihoods:
malaria: invest, innovate, Sustaining People and Planet.
implement.
 World Hepatitis Day - 28 July
 World Youth Skills Day - 15 July  Theme - One life, one liver.
 Theme - Skilling teachers, trainers
and youth for a transformative  International Tiger Day - 29 July
future.
 World Day Against Trafficking in
 World day for international Justice - 17 Persons - 30 July
July  Theme - Reach every victim of
trafficking, leave no one behind.
 Nelson Mandela International Day - 18
July  International Friendship Day - 30 July
 Theme - The Legacy Lives on
Through You: Climate, Food and  World Ranger Day - 31 July
Solidarity.
6. Important Sports Affairs (July 2023)
 World Chess Day - 20 July  England all-rounder Chris Woakes has
been named the ICC Men's Player of
 International Moon Day - 20 July the Month for July 2023 while
Australia's Ash Gardner has been
 World Brain Day - 22 July named the ICC Women's Player of the
 Theme - Brain Health and Disability: Month for July 2023.
Leave No One Behind.
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 Indian tennis player Yuki Bhambri won player in badminton, recording a
his first ATP Tour title at the Mallorca mindboggling 565 km/h with his
Open 2023 men's doubles final. smash.

 Parth Salunkhe became the first Indian  India finished 2nd on the medals tally
male archer to win a gold in the at the recently concluded ISSF Junior
recurve category of the Youth World Shooting World Championships 2023
Championships. in Changwon, South Korea.

 In shooting, India shooter Prithviraj  Max Verstappen won six races in a row
Tondaiman bagged the bronze medal for the first time in his Formula One
in the men’s trap event at the ISSF career, with Oracle Red Bull Racing's
Shotgun World Cup Lonato 2023 in world champion taking his first British
Italy. Grand Prix victory.

 Sporting legend and India's first-ever  Ajit Agarkar has been appointed as the
Olympic medallist in women's boxing, chairman of the BCCI's senior men's
Mary Kom, has been honoured with selection committee.
the Global Indian Icon of the Year
award at the annual UK-India Awards  Indian Surf Team won the bronze
in Windsor, south-eastern England. medal in the overall Men's Team
standings at the Asian Surfing
 The Indian men’s football team won Championship, held at Thulisdhoo
the SAFF Championship 2023 title. Island in Maldives.

 Ravindra Banshtu has been selected as  Indian Badminton player Lakshya Sen
the coach of the Indian National defeated China's Li Shi Feng in straight
Women's Volleyball team. sets 21-18 and 22-20 to clinch the
men's singles title at the Canada Open
 Manisha Kalyan was named as the AIFF 2023.
Women Player of the Year 2023 by the
All India Football Federation (AIFF).  Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra
clinched the prestigious Diamond
 Star India shuttler Satwiksairaj League title for the second consecutive
Rankireddy has set the Guinness world time by throwing his spear to 87.66m.
record for the fastest hit by a male

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 India and Mumbai City FC winger  Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister
Lallianzuala Chhangte was on Tuesday Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu launched
named the AIFF Men's Footballer of 'Sashakt Mahila Loan Yojana', a
the Year 2023. collateral-free loan scheme for
women.
7. Important Schemes and Projects
(July 2023)  An Al automation solutions provider,
 Assam Government launched "Gajah Simplifai has launched Simplifai
Kotha" campaign to address the Insurance GPT, a world-first custom-
growing problem of Human-Elephant built GPT tool.
Conflict (HEC).
 Punjab National Bank (PNB)
 ULLAS (Understanding Lifelong announced the launch of its
Learning for All in Society) mobile environmental initiative 'PNB Palaash',
application was launched at the Bharat an eight-month period campaign to
Mandapam in Pragati Maidan, New embrace sustainability.
Delhi, to facilitate widespread access
to basic literacy.  Fincare Small Finance Bank Limited
(FSFBL) launched its new multilingual
 The Indian Navy has launched the Television Commercial (TVC) campaign
second edition of The Indian Navy Quiz "The Great Indian Fixed Deposit (FD)
"G20 THINQ". Fest".
 The Governor of Jammu and Kashmir
 PhonePe announced the launch of the launched India’s first Tele-MANAS
‘Income Tax Payment’ feature on its chatbot.
app.
 Department of Telecommunications
 PM Modi launched a new type of Urea (DoT) secretary K Rajaraman has
called "Urea Gold" which is coated launched the Standards Coordination
with sulphur. Portal.

 Cognizant Technology Solutions,  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

launched an innovation and launched an NCC Integrated Software
development centre in collaboration in New Delhi.
with Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd (Max
Life) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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 Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel launched  Uttar Pradesh Government launched
the 'Antyodaya Shramik Suraksha new a new initiative called "Operation
Yojna' an accident insurance scheme. Conviction" .

 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik 8. Important Summits (July 2023)

launched 'Ama Pokhari' Yojana.  ASEAN Conference on Traditional
Medicines - New Delhi
 Deendayal Antyodaya Yojna- National
Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NRLM)  The 5th Helicopter & Small Aircraft
has launched yjr eSARAS mobile app. Summit has been organised at
Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh.
 Union Minister Smriti Irani launched a
scheme to provide shelter, food and  Global Food Regulatory Summit, 2023 -
legal aid for pregnant minor victims of New Delhi, India
sexual assault who have no family
support.  The Startup 20 Gurugram Summit,
organized by the Startup 20
 Union Minister for Shipping Engagement Group under the India
Sarbananda Sonowal launched a G20 chairmanship, concluded in
campaign to transform iconic 75 Gurugram.
Lighthouses into Tourism Spots from
Dwarka in Gujarat.  Minister of Civil Aviation and Steel
Jyotiraditya M Scindia inaugurated Heli
 Union Sports Minister Anurag Singh Summit 2023 in Khajuraho, Madhya
Thakur flagged off "Bharat in Paris" Pradesh.
campaign with a short marathon.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi the 23rd Summit of
launched the National Sickle Cell  the Shanghai Cooperation
Anaemia Elimination Mission 2047. Organisation (SCO).

 The Greater Chennai City Police (GCP)  India-Africa International Millet

launched 'Police Drone Unit' for aerial Conference - Kenya
surveillance over vast areas and quick
detection of criminal activities.  8th India-Australia Defence Policy Talk
- Canberra, Australia.
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9. India's Rank in various Reports and  India's rank is 67th on the Energy
Index (July 2023) Transition Index (ETI) 2023.
 India has been ranked 40th on the
latest world competitiveness ranking  In the latest Henley Passport Index
released by the International, Institute 2023, Indian passport has climbed
for Management Development (IMD). seven places to secure the 80th rank,
up from 87th in 2022, giving its holders
 India's rank is 126 out of 163 countries visa free access to 57 countries.
in the Global Peace Index.
 Mumbai has ranked 118, the highest
 Chandigarh University has been ranked among Indian cities in the latest
the No. 1 private university in India in Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Rankings
the QS World University Rankings for Best Student Cities 2024.
2024.
 The Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
 India's rank among the world's most has claimed the highest position
powerful armies as per global among Indian universities, securing the
firepower report is Fourth. The USA is 48th spot in the Asia University
at the top of this list. Rankings 2023.

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1. Important Books and Authors 2. Important Appointment
(August 2023) (August 2023)

 Veteran journalist Neerja Chowdhary  Justice Prakash Shrivastava has been

recently released a new book titled appointed as Chairperson of National
"How Prime Ministers Decide". Green Tribunal (NGT).

 Drunk on Love: The Life, Vision and  Nepal President Ram Chandra Paudel
Songs of Kabir -- Vipul Rikhi appointed Bishowambhar Prasad
Shrestha as the Chief Justice of Nepal.
 Ente Priya Kavithakal (My Dear Poems’
a collection of poems) -- PS Sreedharan  Managing Director of LIC -- R
Pillai Doraiswamy

 Heritage Trees of Goa -- PS Sreedharan  Chairman of the Central Board of

Pillai Indirect Taxes and Customs --- Sanjay
Kumar Agarwal
 Kargil: Ek Yatri Ki Jubani -- Rishi Raj
 The Election Commission of India (ECI)
 Western Lane-- Chetna Maroo has appointed legendary cricketer
Sachin Tendulkar as a 'National Icon'.
 When Parallel Lines Meet -- PS
Sreedharan Pillai  33rd Chief Justice of the Odisha High
Court --- Justice Subhasis Talapatra
 Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka
Vishwas -- Shivraj Singh & Anurag  Director of National Assessment and
Thakur Accreditation Council (NAAC) -- Prof.
Ganesan Kannabiran
 Poet-diplomat Abhay K launched his
new book 'Monsoon' at Kathika  The Reserve Bank of India has
Cultural Centre in Old Delhi. approved the appointment of P. R.
Seshadri as the Managing Director and
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3. Important Award and Honour  Jio Haptik has been honored with the
(August 2023) Tech Startup of the Year (Artificial
 Indian-American economist, and Intelligence) award.
Michael Springer, Raj Chetty has been
awarded with the Harvard University's  Renowned philanthropist Shallu Jindal
George Ledlie Prize. has been conferred with the coveted
CSR TIMES Lifetime Achievement
 Shubman Gill and Deepti Sharma won Award 2023.
top honours at the 2023 CEAT Cricket
Rating (CCR) awards in Mumbai.  Lifetime Achievement Award RICS ---
 They were named Men’s and Subhash Runwal
Women’s International
Cricketer of the Year,  Miss Earth India 2023 - Priyan Sain
respectively. (Rajasthan)

 Surya Kumar Yadav was named T20  Five Indian youths have been
Batsman of The Year, and recognised as teen environmental
Bhuvneshwar Kumar the T20 Bowler. activists and awarded the 2023
International Young Eco-Hero Award
 Jalaj Saxena was adjudged Domestic for their efforts in tackling pressing
Cricketer of the Year. environmental challenges.

 National Award for E-Governance 2023  ‘Udyog Ratna’ award of Maharashtra

--- SVAMITVA Scheme Of Ministry Of Government--- Ratan Tata
Panchayati Raj
 Deepak Shenoy was awarded as
 The Pegasus Universal Aerospace “Global Visionary Entrepreneur of the
Team, led by well-known aesthetics year 2023″.
doctor Reza Mia received the
prestigious National Science and 4. Important Obituaries (August 2023)
Technology (NSTF) award in the  N Vittal (Padma Bhushan awardee and
category for Innovation and research. IAS officer of the Gujarat cadre, 1960
batch)
 Greece’s Grand Cross of the Order of
Honour --- PM Narendra Modi  Gummadi Vittal Rao (Renowned
Telangana Folk Singer)
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 VS Arunachalam ( Former DRDO  Hiroshima Day - 6 August
director general )
 National Handloom Day - 7 August
 Vakkom Purushothaman (Former
Kerala Speaker)  Javelin Throw Day - 7 August

 Siddique Ismail (Renowned Malayalam  Quit India Day - 8 August

director and screenwriter)
 Nagasaki Day - 9 August
 V S Arunachalam (Scientist)
 International Day Of World’s
 C Radhakrishna Rao (Mathematicians) Indigenous People - 9 August
 Theme - Indigenous Youth as
 Dr. John Warnock (Adobe co-founder) Agents of Change for Self-
determination.
 Prof Deven Dutta (Consumer Rights
Activist)  World BioFuel Day - 10 August
 Theme - Sustainable future of
5. Important Days And Themes Automotive industry with Biofuels.
(August 2023)
 World Breastfeeding Week --- 1st - 7th  World Lion Day - 10 August
August
 Theme - Let´s make breastfeeding  International Youth Day - 12 August
and work, work!  Theme - Green Skills for Youth:
Towards a Sustainable World
 World Lung Cancer Day - 1st August
 World Elephant Day - 12 August
 Muslim Women’s Right Day - 1 August
 World Sanskrit Day - 12 August
 147th Birth Anniversary of Pingali
Venkayya - 2 August  World Organ Donation Day - 13 August

 International Traffic Light Day - 5th  International Lefthanders Day - 13

August August

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 Partition Horrors Remembrance Day -  Theme : Seeds of Change:
14 August Innovative Solutions for a Water-
Wise World.
 Independence Day - 15 August
 World Gujarati Language Day - 24
 World Humanitarian Day - 19 August August
 Theme - No matter what.
 International Dog Day - 26 August
 World Photography Day - 19 August
 Theme - LANDSCAPES  Women’s Equality Day - 26 August

 World Mosquito Day - 20 August  National Sports Day - 29 August

 Theme - Fighting the World's
Deadliest Killer - the Mosquito.  International Day Against Nuclear Test
- 29 August
 Indian Akshay Urja Day - 20 August
 International Day of The Disappeared -
 International Day of Remembrance & 30 August
Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism - 21
August  National Small Industry Day - 30
August
 The World Senior Citizens Day - 21
August 6. Important Sports Affairs ( August
2023)
 International Day for the  World No. 1 men's doubles pair
Remembrance of the slave Trade & Its Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam
Abolition - 23 August clinched the gold medal in SL3-SL4
 Theme : Fighting slavery's legacy of category at the Four Nations Para-
racism through transformative Badminton International in England.
education.
 Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has been
 Internaut Day - 23 August named the ICC Men's Player of the
Month for August 2023 while Ireland’s
 World Water Week - 23 August to 1 Arlene Kelly has been named the ICC
September Women's Player of the Month for
August 2023.
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 Indian superstar Neeraj Chopra Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA)
created history by winning the gold held in Chorzo, Poland.
medal in the javelin throw event at the
World Athletics Championships held in  Indian weightlifting contingent finished
Budapest. the Asian Youth and Junior
Weightlifting Championships 2023
 India finished the Archery World Cup with a total of 42 medals.
2023 stage 4 in Paris, France, with five
medals - two gold and three bronze.  Pallathuruthy Boat Club won the 69th
edition of the Nehru Trophy Boat Race
 The Indian 50m pistol women's team (NTBR) held on Punnamada Lake in
comprising Tiyana, Sakshi Suryavanshi Kerala.
and Kirandeep Kaur won the gold
medal at the ISSF World  In a historic first, Indian powerlifters,
Championships 2023 in Baku, Honey Dabas and Rahul Jograjiya,
Azerbaijan. clinched gold and silver medals i.
World Para Powerlifting
 Sports Authority of India (SAI) under Championships, Dubai.
the Umbrella Campaign 'Cheer4India'
launched a short movie series ‘Halla  World No. 1 men's doubles pair
Bol’ on the journey of Asian Games Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam
bound athletes to motivate them for clinched the gold medal in SL3-SL4
Hangzhou Asian. category at the Four Nations Para-
Badminton International in England.
 The Ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports organised Youth 20 Summit-  In Amman, Mohit Kumar became the
2023 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. U-20 world champion in the 61kg
freestyle category.
 Union Minister of Youth Affairs and
Sports Shri Anurag Singh Thakur  India’s Anahat Singh clinched the gold
inaugurated the Asian Youth and medal in the U-17 category of the
Junior Weightlifting Championships Asian Junior Squash Individual
2023. Championships.

 India has secured the second rank in  India bagged a total of 17 medals
the 16th International Olympiad of including nine gold, three silver and

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five bronze medals at the FISU World  Assam state launched the Department
University Games 2023 in Chengdu, of Forest & Environment's Amrit
China. Brikshya Andolan web portal/mobile
application and the Wood-based
 Shooter Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar Industry (WBI) registration web portal.
clinched Gold medal for India on the
2nd day of FISU World University  The Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra
Games in Chengdu, China. Singh launched the CSIR Prima ET11,
which is claimed to be the first
 India's Aditi Gopichand Swami clinched indigenous e-tractor developed by the
the gold medal in the women's Central Mechanical Engineering
individual compound event at the Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur.
World Archery Championships 2023.
 IndusInd Bank has launched a first-of-
7. Important Schemes and Projects its-kind multi-branded credit card -
(August 2023) ‘IndusInd Bank Avios Visa Infinite
 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Credit Card’ for all customers.
launched a scheme "Mo Jungle Jami
Yojana" (My forest land scheme).  The mobile application called
‘Floodwatch’ was launched by
 The Ministry of Tourism has launched Kushvinder Vohra, Chairman, Central
a wedding tourism campaign, aimed at Water Commission (CWC).
harnessing the vast potential of India's
thriving wedding sector.  Union Home Minister Amit Shah
launched the digital portal of the
 Canara Bank launched UPI Central Registrar of Cooperative
Interoperable Digital Rupee mobile Societies (CRCS) office in Pune,
application as a part of the Reserve Maharashtra.
Bank of India's Central Bank Digital
Currency (CBDC) pilot project.  Reserve Bank of India Governor,
Shaktikanta Das, launched a
 Union Minister of Road Transport and centralised web portal called UDGAM
Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari launched (Unclaimed Deposits – Gateway to
the Bharat New Car Assessment Access inforMation).
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 Chief Justice of India (CJI) D.Y. Affairs Minister S Jaishankar jointly
Chandrachud launched 'SuSwagatam' launched the Study In India (SII) portal.
Portal.
 Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
 Ministry of Electronics and Information launched his government’s ambitious
Technology (MeitY) Secretary Shri Indira Gandhi Smartphone Scheme in
Alkesh Kumar Sharma launched the Jaipur.
‘Graphene-Aurora program’.
8. Important Summits (August 2023)
 National Space Innovation Challenge  Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant
(NSIC) 2023 has been successfully Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the
launched by the Atal Innovation 9th India International MSME Expo
Mission (AIM) of NITI Aayog. and Summit 2023 in New Delhi.

 The Maharashtra government  As part of India's G20 Presidency, the

launched the Bhagwan Birsa Munda G20 Empower Summit was held in
Jodaraste Scheme to connect tribal Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
villages in 17 districts of the state with
main roads.  COP28 Global Summit -- UAE.

 Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra  20th ASEAN-India Economic Ministers'

Patel launched a novel mobile Meeting --- Semarang, Indonesia.
application named ‘Sinh Suchna’.
 B20 Summit India 2023 --- New Delhi
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched the Amrit Bharat Station  Ukraine Peace Summit --- Jeddah,
Scheme (ABSS). Saudi Arabia on

 Union Home Minister Amit Shah  The 15th summit of the BRICS
launched the digital portal of the grouping of the world's major
Central Registrar of Cooperative emerging economies - Brazil, Russia,
Societies (CRCS) office in Pune, India, China and South Africa - was
Maharashtra. hosted by South Africa.

 Union Education Minister,  The Think 20 Summit --- Mysore

Dharmendra Pradhan, and External

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 Union Minister for Women and Child  India's rank in internet resilience index
Development Smriti Zubin Irani has is 6th.
inaugurated the G20 EMPOWER
Summit in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.  Maharashtra state has topped in terms
of financial health scorecard based on
 The 20th Conference of the first budget estimates of FY 2023-
Commonwealth Parliamentary Union 24.
India Region was inaugurated in
Shillong.  New Delhi topped the foreign
brokerage's fiscal health report.
 5th World Coffee Conference ---
Bengluru, Karnataka  India's rank in the 16th International
Olympiad of Astronomy and
 9th India Region Conference of the Astrophysics is 2nd.
Commonwealth Parliamentary
Association --- Udaipur, Rajasthan  'Prayagraj' and 'Naimisharanya' in
Uttar Pradesh have been identified as
 The Ministry of Youth Affairs and development destinations under
Sports organised Youth 20 Summit- 'Swadesh Darshan 2.0 (SD2.0)' by the
2023 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Ministry of Tourism.

9. India's Rank in various Reports and  Indore in Madhya Pradesh has topped
Index (August 2023) Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan ranking
 Srinagar district has secured the top under National Clean Air Programme
position in the 'Front Runner' category (NCAP).
of 'Jal Jeevan Survey 2023’.

 Reliance Industries has made it to the Thanks

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Anand to become India's top chess
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1. Important Books and Authors  Director of Enforcement Directorate ---
(September 2023) Rahul Navin
 Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan,
launched a novel comic book titled  Shri Gopal Baglay, presently High
‘Let’s Move Forward’. Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, has
 This comic book has been jointly been appointed as the next High
developed by the National Council Commissioner of India to Australia.
of Educational Research and
Training (NCERT) and UNESCO New  Nasscom Chairperson --- Rajesh
Delhi. Nambiar

 People's G20 --- Shri Apurva Chandra  SBICAP Securities Ltd. has announces
the appointment of Suresh Shukla as
 Tales from the Home of Waggles and Chief Business Officer (CBO).
Wiggles --- Vijaya Raghavan
 Charge of Press Information Bureau
 Western Lane --- Chetna Maroo (PIB) --- Manish Desai

 Fire on the Ganges: Life among the  1st Woman Chairperson to Head the
Dead in Banaras --- Radhika Iyengar Railway Board --- Jaya Verma Sinha

 The Election Commission of India  Senior diplomat Gopal Baglay has been
launched a comic book titled "Chacha appointed as India's High
Chaudhary and Electoral Dangal" to Commissioner to Australia.
educate and inspire young voters.
 India’s First Woman Charge d’Affaires
2. Important Appointment In Islamabad, Pakistan --- Geetika
(September 2023) Srivastava
 Chairman of Mastercard India - Rajnish
Kumar  Director of Bhabha Atomic Research
Centre (BARC) --- Vivek Bhasin
 Indian insurer Liberty General
Insurance has appointed Parag Ved as  Nasscom Vice-Chairperson --- Sindhu
its CEO designate and a director on the Gangadharan
board.

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 Madan Lal Raigar, presently Director in  Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des
the Ministry has been appointed as the Lettres" by French --- Rahul Mishra
next Ambassador of India to the (Fashion Designer)
Republic of Congo.
 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in
 Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank --- Mathematics 2023 --- Ruixiang Zhang
M Rajeshwar Rao
 Lifetime Achievement Award
 Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Academia --- Najma Akhtar
Modi --- Amit Khare
 Geographical Indication (GI) ---
3. Important Award and Honour 'Atreyapuram Putharekula', a sweet
(September 2023) made from rice and jaggery originating
 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa from Andhra Pradesh.
Sarma has been awarded the
prestigious Lee Kuan Yew Exchange  Green Railway Station certification ---
Fellowship “for his distinguished Vijayawada Railway Station
contribution to public service.
 Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has
 Norman Borlaug Field Award --- Swati won the PMI South Asia award for
Nayak Micro Project of the Year.

 Dr Ashwani Kumar has been awarded  Parmeet Singh Sood, Managing

the prestigious Shanti Swarup Director of Climax Overseas Pvt. Ltd.
Bhatnagar award for the year 2022 in has been awarded the “Excellence in
the field of Biological Sciences. Manufacturing Of Automobile Parts”.

 10 year recognition by World  Miss International India 2023 ---

Federation for Medical Education --- Praveena Anjana
National Medical Commission of India
 Safety Innovation Award 2023 --- Rail
 Navneet Agrawal Chief Clinical Officer India Technical and Economic Service
of BeatO, has been awarded the Limited
'Diabetologist of the Year (National
Winner)-2023.  Dr V G Patel Memorial Award 2023 ---
Satyajit Majumdar
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 World Innovation Award at BRICS  Jayanta Mahapatra (Indian English
Innovation Forum --- Shanta Thoutam Poet)

 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in  N Valarmathi (Scientist)

Mathematics 2023 --- Ruixiang Zhang
 Ajit Ninan (Veteran Cartoonist)
 Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime
Achievement Award --- Waheeda  Arun Kumar Sinha (Director of the
Rehman Special Protection Group)

 Surgical oncologist Padma Shri Dr R. 5. Important Days And Themes

Ravi Kannan has been awarded with (September 2023)
the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay  World coconut Day --- 2nd September
Award for 2023.  Theme - Sustaining Coconut Sector
for the Present and Future
 The Office of the Comptroller and Generation.
Auditor General of India has been
conferred with the highest award  National Teachers Day - 5th September
"Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar".  Theme - Teachers at the Heart of
Education Recovery.
4. Important Obituaries
(September 2023)  International Day of charity ---
 Ustad Ali Zaki Haider ( Rudra Veena 5thSeptember
player and musician)
 International Day of clean air for blue
 Saroja Vaidyanathan (Bharatanatyam sky - 7th September
guru, Padma Bhushan)  Theme - Together for Clean Air.

 MS Swaminathan (Father of India’s  National cinema day - 23rd September

‘Green Revolution)
 International literacy Day - 8th
 K G George (Filmmaker) September
 Theme - Promoting literacy for a
 Malini Rajurkar (Hindustani classical world in transition: Building the
vocalist)
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foundation for sustainable and
peaceful societies.  Hyderabad state liberation day --- 17
September
 International Day to protect education
from attack - 9 September  World bamboo day --- 18 September

 World physiotherapy day - 8  International Red panda day --- 17

September September
 Theme - Prevention and
Management of Osteoarthritis.  International Day of peace --- 21
September
 Himalaya day - 9 September  Theme - Actions for Peace: Our
Ambition for the Global Goals.
 World suicide prevention day - 10th
September  World Alzheimer day --- 21 September
 Theme - Never too early, never too
 National forest Martyrs Day - 11 late.
September
 World Rhino Day --- 22nd September
 Hindi Divas - 14 September
 Ayurveda day - 23rd October
 India engineers day - 15 September
 International Day of sign languages ---
 World day of democracy - 15 23rd September
September  Theme - A World Where Deaf
 Theme - Empowering the next People Can Sign Anywhere.
generation.
 International Day for the total
 International Day for the prevention of elimination of nuclear weapons - 25th
the ozone layer world ozone day --- 16 September
September
 Theme - Montreal Protocol: fixing  Antodya Divas --- 25th September
the ozone layer and reducing
climate change  World Rose Day for the welfare of
cancer patients --- 22nd September
 Social Justice day --- 17 September
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 World tourism day -27 September her second gold at the International
 Theme - Tourism and Green Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).
Investments.
 Canada's Danielle McGehee will
 World Rabies day - 28th September become the first transgender cricketer
 Theme - All for 1, One Health for all. to play in an international match.

6. Important Sports Affairs  India's team, comprising Rudrankksh

(September 2023) Patil, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar,
 Indian Batsman Shubman Gill has been and Divyansh Singh Panwar, secured
named the ICC Men's Player of the the gold medal in the highly
Month for September 2023 while competitive men's 10m air rifle team
Influential Sri Lanka skipper Chamari event at the Asian Games 2023.
Athapaththu has been named the ICC
Women's Player of the Month for  Serbian star Djokovic defeated Russia's
September 2023. Daniel Medvedev to win the US Open
2023 final at the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
 India’s Neeraj Chopra finished second
in the men’s javelin throw event at the  Goa Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai
Diamond League 2023 Final. officially launched the torch to mark
the start of the 37th National Games.
 The Indian contingent won 11 medals
in the 44th World Armwrestling and  Odisha's Kishore Jena won the Indian
25th Para Armwrestling Championship Grand Prix 5 with a throw of 82.53
2023 held in Almaty, Kazakhstan. meters.

 India has won the Men's Hockey 5S  India’s Hriday Chheda, Anush
Asia Cup 2023 title by defeating Agarwalla, Divyakriti Singh and Sudipti
Pakistan. Hajela combined to win the equestrian
team dressage gold medal at the Asian
 India's U-16 team won the SAFF U-16 Games 2023 in Hangzhou, the People’s
Championship by beating Bangladesh Republic of China.
2-0 in the title clash.
 Kishore Jena and Amoj Jacob won gold
 Olympian Elavenil Valarivan won the medals at the Indian Grand Prix 5 2023
women's 10m air rifle event to clinch athletics in Chandigarh.

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 Virat Kohli has become the fastest  Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan
batsman to score 13,000 ODI runs. and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
launched the 'Skills on Wheels'
 Mohun Bagan SG defeated East Bengal initiative in Delhi.
FC 1-0 to win the Durand Cup final
after 23 years.  Union Minister Shri Dharmendra
Pradhan launched 'CRIIIO 4 GOOD,' a
 India's Kiran George won Indonesia set of online life skills learning
Badminton Masters Super 1000 title. modules, aimed at promoting gender
equality among girls and boys.
 India’s Hriday Chheda, Anush
Agarwalla, Divyakriti Singh and Sudipti  Axis Bank has launched a transaction
Hajela won gold medal at the Asian banking platform for the Indian Micro,
Games 2023 in Hangzhou, the People’s Small and Medium Enterprises
Republic of China. (MSMEs) called NEO for Business.

 Max Verstappen won the Italian Grand  President of India Draupadi Murmu
Prix 2023 title. launched the nationwide health
initiative 'Ayushman Bhava' through
 Kuldeep Yadav reached 150 ODI online mode. The President also
wickets mark, becoming the fastest inaugurated the 'Ayushman Portal' on
Indian spinner to do so in just 88 One the occasion.
Day Internationals.
 Star Health and Allied Insurance
7. Important Schemes and Projects launched UPI QR code-based payment
(September 2023) option for policy purchases and
 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister renewals.
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu launched the
Mukhya Mantri Sporting Abilities,  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Rebuilding Aspirations and Livelihood launched the Global Biofuel Alliance
Scheme (SABAL). during the G20 Summit and invited
world leaders to join.
 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin
launched the expansion of the state  SBI Life Insurance, launched its very
government’s breakfast scheme. first ‘LifeVerse Studio’, on Metaverse

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to connect with the next generation of  The Quality Council of India (QCI) has
internet users. launched a mobile application called
'Sarpanch Samvaad'.
 Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)
launched the “Adopt a Heritage 2.0”  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
program. launched a series of initiatives aimed
at revolutionizing the agricultural
 Karnataka Government launched sector in India.
Gruha Lakshmi, the much-awaited
guarantee scheme providing financial  Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant
aid of ₹2,000 to women head of launched the Griha Aadhaar scheme
families in Karnataka. and Chavath-e-Bazaar to empower
housewives in Goa by providing them
 Savart, one of India's largest with financial assistance.
investment advisors, launched its
maiden and flagship Portfolio  Member of NITI Aayog, Professor
Management Service (PMS), The Ad Ramesh Chand officially launched the
Astra Fund, in Hyderabad, Telangana. Unified Portal for Agricultural Statistics
(UPAg Portal-www.upag.gov.in).
 State-owned Punjab National Bank
(PNB) has launched a mobile  State-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB)
application based on the GST Sahay announced the launch of the “BOB Ke
scheme. Sang Tyohaar Ki Umang" festive
campaign.
 Union Ministry of Agriculture &
Farmers Welfare, Government of India  Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
launched AI Chatbot for the Pradhan launched 'PM Vishwakarma Scheme'
Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM- for traditional artisans and
KISAN) Scheme at New Delhi. craftspeople.

 The Election Commission of India

launched a comic book based on
Chacha Chaudhary to educate and
inspire young voters.

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8. Important Summits website of Investor Global Summit in
(September 2023) Dehradun.
 Union Minister Jyotiraditya M Scindia
inaugurated the 'International  Asian Coast Guard Chiefs Meeting ---
Aerospace Conference: Moving Istanbul, Turkey
Towards Inclusive Global Value Chains'
in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.  The President of India, Smt Droupadi
Murmu inaugurated the First Global
 14th edition of the Global Skills Symposium on Farmers' Rights in New
Summit --- New Delhi Delhi.

 G20 Sustainable Finance Working 9. India's Rank in various Reports and

Group Meeting --- Varanasi, Uttar Index (September 2023)
Pradesh  India has been ranked first in
grassroots crypto adoption, even amid
 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a tough regulatory environment,
launched the Global Biofuel Alliance according to Chainalysis’ 2023 Global
during the G20 Summit and invited Crypto Adoption Index.
world leaders to join.
 In a remarkable achievement, Amul
 8th Eastern Economic Forum --- has been ranked as the world’s
Vladivostok, Russia strongest dairy brand by the Brand
Finance Food and Drink Report 2023.
 The World's Tallest Nataraja statue has
been installed at Bharat Mandapam,  In a significant development, India has
the venue of the G20 summit in Delhi. joined the ranks of countries
authorized to issue International
 13th Indo-Pacific Armed Chiefs' Organisation of Legal Metrology
Conference (IPACC) --- New Delhi (OIML) certificates.

 43rd ASEAN Summit --- Jakarta,  Reserve Bank of India Governor

Indonesia Shaktikanta Das has been ranked as
the top central banker globally by US-
 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar based Global Finance magazine.
Singh Dhami launched the logo and

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 Union Minister Bhupender Yadav
announced the awards of Swachh
Vayu Sarvekshan 2023 in Bhopal,
Madhya Pradesh.
 Under the first category (million
plus population) Indore ranked first
followed by Agra and Thane.
 In second category (3-10 lakhs
population), Amravati secured first
rank followed by Moradabad and
Guntur.

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countries ranking. Switzerland topped
the list.

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1. Important Books and Authors  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
(October 2023) appointed Muneesh Kapur as
 "The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Executive Director (ED).
Cooperation" launched by Union
Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas  Puma has signed Indian fast bowler
of India, Hardeep Singh Puri -- Ashok Mohammed Shami as its brand
Tandon. ambassador, adding to its roster of
sports icons.
 Irrfan: A life in Movies -- Shubhra
Gupta  Chairman of Press Trust of India Board
- N. Shanth Kumar
 BlueKraft Digital Foundation has
launched a book on Prime Minister  The State Bank of India (SBI) has
Narendra Modi's monthly radio announced its collaboration with
programme Mann ki Baat. cricketing legend Mahendra Singh
 The book has been titled 'Igniting Dhoni as its official brand ambassador.
Collective Goodness: Mann Ki Baat
@ 100'.  28th Director General of the Border
Roads Organisation - Raghu Srinivasan
 Breaking the Mould -- Raghuram Rajan
 Chairman & MD of General Insurance
 The Fire on the Ganges: Life Among Corporation of India - Ramaswamy N.
the Dead in Banaras -- Radhika Iyengar
 CEO of PayU India - Anirban Mukherjee
 Vivek Agnihotri, director of 'The
Kashmir Files', launched his latest  Personal computers maker HP has
book, “The Book of Life: My dance appointed former Apple executive
with Buddha for Success.” Ipsita Dasgupta as managing director
and senior vice president for India,
2. Important Appointment Bangladesh, and Sri Lankan markets.
(October 2023)
 Telangana BJP leader Indra Sena Reddy  India’s next Ambassador to the United
Nallu has been appointed as the Nations - Arindam Bagchi
Governors of Tripura.
 Former Sri Lanka skipper Kumar
Sangakkara has been appointed as the
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new chairman of the Marylebone  Katrina Kaif, a Bollywood luminary and
Cricket Club (MCC) World Cricket a style maven, has been appointed as
Committee. the Global Brand Ambassador for
Rado, the renowned Swiss
 PM of New Zealand - Christopher watchmaker.
Luxon
 Justice Siddharth Mridul took oath as
 Forme Jharkhand Chief Minister the 7th Chief Justice of the Manipur
Raghubar Das has been appointed as High Court.
the Governors of Odisha.
3. Important Award and Honour
 President of Maldives - Mohamed (October 2023)
Muizzu  Jailed Iranian women rights' activist
Narges Mohammadi has been
 Air Marshal Sadhna S Nair assumed conferred with the 2023 Nobel Peace
the appointment of Director General Prize.
Hospital Services (Armed Forces) in the
office of DGAFMS, becoming the first  The SASTRA Ramanujan Prize for 2023
woman to hold the position on will be awarded to Ruixiang Zhang,
promotion to the rank of Air Marshal. Assistant Professor, University of
California, Berkeley, USA.
 Brand Ambassador of Lay’s -
Mahendra Singh Dhoni  The Institute of Chartered Accountants
of India (ICAI) received the prestigious
 Deputy Chief of Naval Staff - Vice United Nations (UN) award.
Admiral Tarun Sobti
 Veteran Hollywood actor and producer
 Sanjay Kulshreshtha has been Michael Douglas was honoured with
appointed the new Chairman and the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement
Managing Director of Housing And Award at the 54th International Film
Urban Development Corporation Ltd Festival of India.
(HUDCO).
 Global Teacher Prize 2023 --- Deep
 Chairman and MD of IRCTC - Sanjay Narayan Nayak
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 Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University management with the esteemed
professor, has been awarded the Golden Peacock Award.
Nobel economics prize.
 USISPF Global Leadership Award 2023
 The Nobel Prize 2023 in Physiology or --- Nita Ambani
Medicine has been awarded to Katalin
Karikó and Drew Weissman.  National Medal of Technology and
Innovation Award by US President ---
 The 69th National Film Awards were Indo-American Scientists Ashok Gadgil
presented by President Draupadi & Subra Suresh
Murmu.
 The film 'Ekda Kay Jaala' was  Global Leadership Award by the
awarded the Best Marathi Film Harvard Law School --- CJI DY
Award. 'The Kashmir Files' also won Chandrachud
the Nargis Dutt Award for Best
Feature Film on National  The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry has
Integration, while the Marathi film been awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi,
'Three to One' won the National Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov.
Award for Best Film on Social
Issues.  Nawanpind Sardaran has been
recognized as Best Tourism Village
 The European Union parliament 2023 in Bronze category.
awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for  Nawanpind Sardaran, a charming
Freedom of Thought to Iranian woman village offers a unique blend of
Mahsa Amini. rustic beauty and cultural richness.

 UNWTO’s Best Tourism Village 2023 ---  Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and
Gujarat’s Dhordo Anne L'Huillier have won the 2023
Nobel Prize physics.
 Tamil writer Sivasankari was honoured
with the Saraswati Samman 2022 for  Mother Teresa Memorial Award ---
her memoir "Surya Vamsam." Narges Mohammadi

 REC Limited has been recognized for  The 3rd Battalion of the Naga
its exceptional performance in risk Regiment, also known as 3 Naga, the
unit was awarded the prestigious
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President's Colour Award from Army 5. Important Days And Themes
Chief Gen. Manoj Pande. (October 2023)
 International Day of older Person -- 1
 The Udhampur Military Station in October
Union Territory of Jammu and
Kashmir, has been awarded the 'Best  International Non Violence day -- 2
Green Military Station' award. October

 Tamil writer Ambai has been selected  World Habitat Day - 3 October
for the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime  Theme - Resilient Urban
Achievement Award. Economies: Cities as Drivers of
Growth and Recovery.
 The Nobel Prize for Literature 2023 has
been awarded to Norwegian author  International Dolphin Day -- 5 October
Jon Olav Fosse.
 International Teacher Day -- 5 October
4. Important Obituaries  Theme - The Teachers We Need for
(October 2023) the Education We Want: The Global
 Renowned agricultural scientist M.S. Imperative to Reverse the Teacher
Swaminathan, known as the father of Shortage.
India's Green Revolution, passed away
in Chennai, at the age of 98.  Indian Airforce Day -- 8 October

 Baijnath Agarwal, a social worker and  Wildlife week in India -- (2-8) October
trustee of the world-famous Gita Press
Gorakhpur, passed away at the age of  World mental Health Day -- 10 October
90.  Theme - Mental health is a
universal human right.

 International Girls Day -- 11 October

 Theme - Invest in Girls' Rights: Our
Leadership, Our Well-being.

 World Arthritis Day -- 12 October

 Theme - Living with an RMD at all
stages of life.
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 World sloth bear day -- 12 October  The BCCI announced the appointment
of domestic stalwart Amol Muzumdar
 World standerd Day -- 14 October as the head coach of the Indian
women's team.
 World Student Day -- 15 October
 The International Cricket Council
 World Food day -- 16 October announced that their two World Cup
2023 mascots will be known as ‘Blaze’
 World osteoporosis day -- 20 October and ‘Tonk’.
 Theme - Step Up for Bone Health-
Build Better Bones.  Juhi, a 67-year-old female elephant,
has become the mascot of the
 International Ayurveda Day - 23 Women’s Asian Champions Trophy
October 2023 in Ranchi.
 Theme - Ayurveda for One Health.
 Shailesh Kumar, an athlete from Jamui
 United Nations Day -- 24 October district of Bihar, won the gold medal in
the high jump competition T63 at the
Para Asian Games.
 World polio day -- 24 October

 Indian badminton player Ayush Shetty

 National Unity Day -- 31 October
won a bronze medal at the BWF World
Junior Championships 2023.

6. Important Sports Affairs

 India's young badminton player Unnati
(October 2023)
Hooda has won the Abu Dhabi Masters
 Ankur Dhama became the first Indian
2023 women's singles badminton title.
para athlete to clinch two gold medals
in the same Asian Para Games (blind
 Assam bagged the first gold medal of
category).
the 37th National Games when their
women's badminton team blanked
 Indian athletes concluded their
Maharashtra 3-0 in the finals at the Dr
successful campaign at the Asian
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee stadium.
Games in Hangzhou with a total of 107
medals, including 28 gold, 38 silver,
and 41 bronze.
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 Max Verstappen clinched his 50th winning the gold and Kishore Kumar
grand prix victory at the United States Jena bagging the silver.
Grand Prix after starting in sixth place
due to a qualifying violation.  Golfer Aditi Ashok created history after
she became the first Indian woman to
 Nishad Kumar bagged a gold medal for win a golf medal at the Asian Games.
India with a new Asian Games record
in the Men’s High Jump T47 at the 4th  Naorem Roshibina Devi of India won a
Asian Para Games 2022. silver medal in the women's 60kg
wushu sanda final at the Asian Games.
 Shailesh Kumar, an athlete from Jamui
district of Bihar, won the gold medal in  New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra and
the high jump competition T63 at the West Indies’ Hayley Matthews
Para Asian Games. announced the ICC Men’s and
Women’s Player of the Month award
 Indian women's javelin ace Annu Rani, for October 2023.
with her season-best throw, created
history as she claimed India's 15th gold
medal in the final in the Hangzhou 7. Important Schemes and Projects
Asian Games. (October 2023)
 Bihar CM Nitish Kumar launched the
 India’s Dipika Pallikal and Harinder Pal Rabi Campaign-2023 and flagged off
Sandhu won the gold medal in the the campaign chariots to all the
mixed doubles squash tournament at districts of the state by showing a
the Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou, green flag.
the People’s Republic of China.
 NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. (NBBL)
 The 37th edition of the National launched a new set of services under
Games kicked off in style as Paytm, the business-to-business (B2B)
India's renowned fintech giant, payments category.
emerged as the official sponsor.
 The Centre Government launched
 India logged a 1-2 finish in the Asian "Dark Patterns Buster Hackathon
Games 2023 men’s javelin throw 2023".
competition with Neeraj Chopra

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 Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri India Conference & Exhibition 2023 in
launched the 16th Urban Mobility New Delhi.
India Conference & Exhibition 2023 in
New Delhi.  The Delhi Environment Minister Gopal
Rai launched the 'Green war room'
 Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister which is set up in Delhi.
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu launched a
deposit-linked loan scheme of the  Punjab’s Chief Minister Bhagwant
Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Mann launched ‘Hope Initiative‘
Bank. against substance abuse! A month-
long campaign with a prayer ceremony
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Harminder Sahib.
inaugurated a unique week-long
programme for 500 Aspirational Blocks  Union Education Minister Dharmendra
in the country, called Sankalp Saptaah. Pradhan launched a web portal and
special modules on ISRO's ambitious
 The Odisha Government has decided Chandrayaan-3 mission for school
to launch a programme to enhance the students.
acreage under maize cultivation,
introducing superior varieties of the  Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh, BD
grain. Mishra, inaugurated the second
edition of The Himalayan Film Festival
 President Draupadi Murmu launched (THFF) 2023.
the fourth ‘Bihar Agriculture Roadmap
2023-2028’ in Patna.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi
inaugurated the country's first high-
 Department of Animal Husbandry and tech sports training centre for
Dairying, Government of India Divyangjan, named after former Prime
launched the 'A-HELP' (Accredited Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in
Agent for Expansion of Health and Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
Livestock Production) programme in
Jharkhand.  The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra
Modi launched 511 Pramod Mahajan
 Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri Grameen Kaushalya Vikas Kendras in
launched the 16th Urban Mobility Maharashtra.

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 The Tamil Nadu government launched  Chhattisgarh government launched
the Nilgiri Tahr conservation project to Mukhyamantri Nirman Shramik
protect the state animal. Pension Yojana.

 The Federal Bank inaugurated the 8. Important Summits (October 2023)

‘Mookkannoor Mission’, an initiative  The 6th Indian Coast Guard (ICG)
under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, on Subordinate Officers' Conclave was
the 106th birth anniversary of its organised in New Delhi.
Founder KP Hormis.  The theme of the conclave was
'Towards an Inclusive Approach'.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged
off 'Namo Bharat', India's first semi-  The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra
high speed regional rail service in Uttar Modi inaugurated the third edition of
Pradesh. Global Maritime India Summit 2023 in
Mumbai.
 Union Minister Anurag Thakur
launched the trailer of "Krish, Trish,  The UAE chaired the 2023
and Baltiboy – Bharat Hain Hum", an International Conference on Climate
animated series consisting of two Change and Nuclear Energy, organised
seasons. by the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA).
 The Uttar Pradesh Government
launched a month-long 'Har Ghar  Union Minister Nitin Gadkari
Solar' campaign in Lucknow and addressed the 5th edition of India
Varanasi. STEM Summit 2023 in Delhi.

 Telangana launched ‘Mukhyamantri  The inaugural India-UK 2+2 Foreign

Breakfast Scheme’ for school children, and Defence Dialogue was held in New
which aims to feed around 23 lakh Delhi.
government school students.
 India participated in the 23rd Council
 Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha of Ministers' (COM) meeting and the
launched an e-cabinet system at 25th Committee of Senior Officials of
Agartala. the Indian Ocean Rim Association
(IORA) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh 9. India's Rank in various Reports and
inaugurated The Indian Military Index ( October 2023 )
Heritage Festival.
 India ranked 111th out of 125
 The 8th BRICS International countries in the Global Hunger Index
Competition Summit held in New 2023.
Delhi.
 India has retained its 40th position out
 Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal of 132 economies in the Global
Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Innovation Index 2023.
Rupala inaugurated the 16th
Agricultural Science Congress in Kochi,  Bengaluru became the second highest-
Kerala. ranked Indian city on Global
Residential Cities Index Q2 2023,
 The inaugural edition of the Women climbing to 22nd position from 77th in
Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) – Q2 2022.
NITI Aayog State Workshop Series was
organized at CSIR-National Institute of  Indore city has been awarded the best
Oceanography (NIO) Auditorium, Goa. "National Smart City Award" of 2022.
 Surat and Agra have emerged as
 Union Minister of Education and Skill the second and third winners
Development and Entrepreneurship among the cities in the fourth
Dharmendra Pradhan launched edition of India Smart Cities Award
IndiaSkills 2023-24 in New Delhi. Contest (ISAC).

 Two-day 49th All India Police Science  India has made massive growth in the
Congress was organized at the Forest global mobile download speed and
Research Institute, Dehradun, entered in the top 50 of the Oookla
Uttarakhand. Speedtest Global Index list. India
moved to 47th position in the Oookla
 Union Minister Piyush Goyal attended Speedtest Global Index.
the 7th Edition of Future Investment
Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  India has been ranked 52nd out of 121
countries in Digital Quality of Life
Index survey.

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1. Important Books and Authors 2. Important Appointment
(November 2023) (November 2023)
 PM Narendra Modi released three  Pradeep Kumar Pal (IRSSE) has been
books named Panini Ashtadhyayi selected for the appointment as
Bhashya, Ramanandacharya Charitam Director in the Union Public Service
and Rashtraleela of Lord Shri Krishna, Commission (UPSC).
written by Rambhadracharya Maharaj.
 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata
 'Prophet Song' Novel -- Paul Lynch Banerjee announced former Indian
cricket captain Sourav Ganguly as the
 Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s novel brand ambassador for the state.
‘Fire Bird’, translated into English by
Janani Kannan, won the 2023 JCB Prize  Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice
for Literature. Rajendra Menon has been re-
appointed as Chairman of the Armed
 Do Palakon Ki Chhaon Mein -- Prasoon Forces Tribunal (AFT) for four years.
Joshi
 Chief Information Commissioner ---
 India-born author Nandini Das has Heeralal Samariya
been declared as the winner of the
2023 British Academy Book Prize for  National Payments Corporation of
Global Cultural Understanding. India (NPCI) appointed Bollywood
 She has been given honors for her actor Pankaj Tripathi as the 'UPI Safety
book 'Courting India: England, Ambassador'.
Mughal India and the Origins of
Empire'.  Chief Secretary of Karnataka ---
Rajneesh Goel
 The Hon’ble Vice President Jagdeep
Dhankhar released a book entitled  Deepak Gupta has been appointed as
"Building Partnerships – India and Nominee Director on the board of
International Cooperation for South-East Asia Gas Pipeline Company
Maritime Security" authored by Capt Limited (SEAGP).
Himadri Das.
 Andhra Pradesh cadre IAS officer N.
Srikant has been appointed as the
additional secretary of the Union

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Ministry of Power and New and
Renewable Energy.  Manoranjan Mishra has been
appointed as an Executive Director by
 President of Madagascar --- Andry the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Rajoelina
 Chairman of Armed Forces Tribunal ---
 Koppu Sadashiv Murthy, 56, has Justice Rajendra Menon
assumed charge as the Chairman &
Managing Director (CMD) of the state-  Alok Sharma, a senior Indian Police
run Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Service (IPS) officer from the Uttar
(BHEL). Pradesh cadre, was appointed as the
director of the Special Protection
 Prime Minister of New Zealand --- Group (SPG).
Christopher Luxon
 The Central Government notified the
 Senior bureaucrat Hitesh Kumar S appointment of Justice Manoj Kumar
Makwana has been appointed as Gupta as the Acting Chief Justice of the
Surveyor General of India as part of a Allahabad High Court.
senior-level bureaucratic.
3. Important Award and Honour
 Chief Secretary of Jammu & Kashmir --- (November 2023)
Atal Dulloo  Eminent writer T. Padmanabhan has
been chosen for the Kerala Jyothi
 The central government appointed award instituted by the Kerala
Vinay M Tonse as the Managing government.
Director of the State Bank of India.
 Mrs Nita M Ambani, Founder &
 President of Argentina - Javier Milei Chairperson, Reliance Foundation has
been awarded with the US India
 Senior IPS officer Pravin Madhukar Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF)
Pawar has been appointed the joint 2023 Global Leadership Award.
director in the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBI).  The Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
Disarmament and Development 2022
 DGP of Jammu and Kashmir --- R.R. was jointly awarded to the Indian
Swain
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Medical Association and the Trained
Nurses Association of India.  Author Nandini Das is named the
winner of the 2023 British Academy
 The Cambridge Dictionary named Book Prize for her book "Courting
‘hallucinate’ as its Word of the Year for India: England, Mughal India and the
2023. Origins of Empire."

 Lionel Messi was named the Ballon  The Collins Dictionary has chosen AI,
d'Or 2023 winner at a ceremony in or artificial intelligence, as its Word of
Paris, the eighth time he has won the the Year 2023.
prestigious award.
 The esteemed Parmanu Defence
 Employees' Provident Fund Academy Dehradun, has been
Organization (EPFO) Regional Office in awarded the prestigious Indo Global
Jammu has been honored with the Business Award for "Best Defence
Bhavishya Nidhi Award-2023 in the Academy in North India".
"Best Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0 Campaign"
category.  Tamil writer Perumal Murugan's novel
'Fire Bird', translated into English by
Janani Kannan, won the 2023 JCB Prize
 "Authentic" was selected as the 2023 for Literature.
word of the year by the Merriam-
Webster dictionary.  Irish author Paul Lynch won the 2023
Booker prize for his fifth novel Prophet
 Nicaragua's Sheynnis Palacios has been Song.
crowned Miss Universe for the year
2023.  Government of Maharashtra has
awarded veteran playback singer and
 Persian film Endless Borders by Padma Shri awardee Suresh Ishwar
director Abbas Amini was feted with Wadkar with 2023 'Gansamragini Lata
the prestigious Golden Peacock Award Mangeshkar Award'.
for Best Film at the 54th International
Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.  Uttar Pradesh was honored with the
 Iranian actor Pouria Rahimi Sam Best State-Inland Fisheries Award at
was named as Best Actor for his the Global Fisheries Conference 2023.
role in Endless Borders.

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4. Important Obituaries 5. Important Days And Themes
(November 2023) (November 2024)
 The founder and chairman of the  World Vegan Day - 1st November
Sahara India Pariwar, Subrata Roy  Theme - Celebrating for a Good
passed away at the age of 75 in Cause
Mumbai.
 International Day to and impurity for
 The doyen of Indian hospitality, PRS crimes against journalist - 2nd
Oberoi, passed away at the age of 94. November

 Award-winning writer P. Valsala  All Soul's Day - 2nd November

passed away at the age of 85.
 World Tsunami Awareness Day - 5th
 Eminent climate change expert November
Professor Saleemul Huq, passed away  Theme - Fighting Inequality for a
at his residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Resilient Future.

 Dhruba Narayan (DN) Ghosh, an  International Day for Biosphere

authority in banking and financial Reserves - 3rd November
history, a bureaucrat, banker,
professor and corporate leader,  National Cancer awareness day - 7th
passed away in Kolkata. November

 International day for preventing the

explanation of the environment in war
and armed conflict - 6 November

 Janjatiy Gaurav Divas -15th November

 National Legal Service Phase Day -9th

November

 Uttarakhand Foundation Day -9th

November

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 World Radio Graphy Day - 8th  Audit Divas - 16th November
November
 Theme-Celebrating Patient Safety  Jharkhand foundation Day - 15th
November
 World science Day for peace and
development - 10th November  World Toilet Day - 19th November
 Theme - Building trust in science  Theme - Accelerating Change for
Safe Sanitation
 World Urbanism day - 8th November
 International Students Day - 17th
th
 World Pneumonia Day - 12 November
November
 National Milk Day - 26th November
 National Education Day - 11th
November  Constitution Day - 26th November
 Theme - Embracing Innovation.
 International Day for the elimination
 World Diabetes Day - 14th November of violence against women - 25th
 Theme - Access to diabetes care. November

 International Day For Tolerance - 16th  Red planet day - 28 November

November

 Day of 8 billion - 15th November

 National Press Day - 16th November

 World Philosophy Day - 17th

November
 Theme- Philosophical Reflection in
a Multicultural World.

 National Epilepsy Day - 17th

November
 Theme - Stigma

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6. Important Sports Affairs
(November 2023)  Legendary opener Virender Sehwag,
 Australian batter Travis Head has been former Indian Women Test skipper
named as the ICC Men's Player of the Diana Edulji and Sri Lanka's iconic star
Month for November 2023. Aravinda de Silva are the latest
 Bangladesh spinner Nahida Akhtar inductees to be added to the ICC
has been awarded the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Women's Player of the Month
Award.  Lionel Messi won the men’s Ballon
d’Or for a record-extending eighth
 Punjab won gold in 13th Senior Men time after fulfilling his life’s ambition
National Championship 2023, beating by leading Argentina to the World Cup
defending champions Haryana. title in Qatar.

 India won five medals in compound  Ankur Dhama became the first Indian
archery, including three gold medals para athlete to clinch two gold medals
on the final day of the 2023 Asian in the same Asian Para Games (blind
Archery Championships in Bangkok. category).
India finished with seven medals at the
tournament overall.  India's young badminton player Unnati
Hooda has won the Abu Dhabi Masters
 India finished Asian Para Archery 2023 women's singles badminton title.
Championships on top, ending the She defeated Samia Imad Farooqui in
competition with an overall tally of the final.
nine medals (four gold, four silver, one
bronze).  Grandmaster Vidit Gujrathi and
International Master R Vaishali won
 India's Pankaj Advani has lifted his the open and women’s titles
26th world title as he won the World respectively at the FIDE Grand Swiss
IBSF Billiards Championship 2023 in 2023.
Doha, Qatar .

 Shailesh Kumar, an athlete from Jamui  Hangzhou Asian Games silver medallist
district of Bihar, won the gold medal in Jyothi Yarraji and Tejas Shirse smashed
the high jump competition T63 at the the National Games records on way to
Para Asian Games. winning gold medals in 100m and

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110m hurdles in the 37th National 7. Important Schemes and Projects
Games. (November 2023)
 The Karnataka Health Department
 Punjab became the Champions of the launched Dr Puneeth Rajkumar
2023/24 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Hrudaya Jyoti Yojana to treat people
season defeating Baroda in a high- suffering from sudden heart attacks
scoring thriller. and cardiac issues.

 VK Elakkiyadasan of Tamil Nadu and SS  Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Sneha of Karnataka were crowned the launched a new initiative "Women for
fastest athletes of the 37th National Water, Water for Women Campaign".
Games after they clinched the men's
and women's 100m gold medals at the  Uttar Pradesh Government launched
GMC Bambolim Athletic Stadium. the 'Every Right for Every Child' with
the theme of 'equality and inclusion.'.

 Meghalaya launched the 'Food

Security' Campaign, which focuses on
sensitising the public about the
National Food Security Act (NFSA)
2013.

 The Centre for Research on Startups

and Risk Financing (CREST) launched
India's first information platform on
incubators and accelerators.

 President of India, Droupadi Murmu,

launched the 'New Education for New
India' campaign.

 The Atal Innovation Mission under NITI

Aayog launched a new accelerator
program called Rapid Innovation and
Startup Expansion (RISE) in New Delhi.

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 The Indian Green Building Council 8. Important Summits
(IGBC) launched a rating and (November 2023)
certification initiative called 'Nest'.  The 9th edition of the India
International Science Festival (IISF)
 The Centre launched a web portal, 2023 was inaugurated in Faridabad,
which is envisaged to be a permanent Haryana.
platform for any kind of data related to  Theme - Science and Technology
all Indian cities. Public Outreach in Amrit Kaal.

 Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K  Union Minister of Road Transport and

Sangma launched the “Water Smart Highways of India, Nitin Gadkari
Kids Meghalaya” school campaign. inaugurated the 8th Edition of the
India Water Impact Summit (IWIS) at
 Union Minister Amit Shah, Ministry of the Dr Ambedkar International Centre
Cooperation launched the 'Bharat in New Delhi.
Organics' brand of National
Cooperative Organics Limited (NCOL).  India Mobile Congress (IMC 2023) ---
New Delhi
 Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar  Theme - "Global Digital
attended the inaugural FIND Festival Innovation".
’23 and the launch of Ekya Nava.
 The World Hindu Congress 2023 was
held in Bangkok, Thailand with the
theme Jayasya Aayatnam Dharmah,
meaning “Dharma, the Abode of
Victory”.

 AI Safety Summit 2023 ---

Buckinghamshire in United Kingdom
 Theme - Al for Good.

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 The World Spice Organization (WSO)  India ranked third with 72 unicorn
hosted the 2nd National Spice companies, with a total valuation of
Conference in Hyderabad. $195.75 billion.
 Theme - Food Safe Spices: The Way
Forward to a Stable & Sustainable  The Prime Global Cities Index Q3 has
Income. been released on by real estate
consultant Knight Frank India.
 Union Fisheries Minister Parshottam  Mumbai has been ranked fourth
Rupala inaugurated the two-day among 46 cities globally in terms of
Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 price rise of luxury homes.
in Ahmedabad.

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 India Ranked 117th among 129 nations
in Inclusiveness Index by Othering and
Belonging Institute (OBI). New Zealand
Topped the list.

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performers in 2023 with 13.5 points
out of 17 while Andhra Pradesh
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 Quacquarelli Symonds unveiled the QS
Asia University Rankings 2024.
 Notably, two prestigious Indian
institutions, IIT Bombay and IIT
Delhi, secured positions within the
top 50.
 IIT Bombay secured the 40th
position in the Asian rankings.

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1. Important Books and Authors  The Securities and Exchange Board of
(December 2023) India (SEBI) has approved the
 India’s Moment: Changing Power appointment of former Coal India chief
Equations around the World --- Mohan Pramod Agrawal as the chairman of
Kumar the BSE.

 Pranab, My Father: A Daughter  Former India skipper Sourav Ganguly

Remembers --- Sharmishtha officially signed the agreement to be
Mukherjee. the brand ambassador of Tripura
tourism.
 'Salt & Pepper: Selected Poems' --
Sukrita Paul Kumar  Prime Minister of Poland --- Donald
Tusk
 Malayala Novelinte Desa Kalangal ---
E.V. Ramakrishnan  Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL)
announced the appointment of Tarun
 RESILIENT INDIA: How Modi Bajaj as an Independent Director on its
Transformed India's Disaster Board for a period of five years.
Management Paradigm --- Bluekraft
Digital Foundation  Chief Minister of Telangana --- Revanth
Reddy

2. Important Appointment  Lalbiaktluanga Khiangte, a 1988-batch

(December 2023) Jharkhand IAS officer, has been
 Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief appointed as the new chief secretary
Anish Dayal Singh was appointed as of the Jharkhand.
the Director General of Central
Reserve Police Force (CRPF).  Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh ---
Mohan Yadav
 The Union Government has
announced the appointment of Justice  Chief Minister of Mizoram ---
Shree Chandrashekhar as the Acting Lalduhoma
Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High
Court.  Chief Minister of Rajasthan - Bhajan Lal
Sharma

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 Lieutenant General RC Tiwari has been  The Centre appointed Nina Singh as
appointed as the new Eastern Army the first woman Director General of
Commander. the Central Industrial Security Force
(CISF).
 Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh ---
Vishnu Deo Sai
3. Important Award and Honour
 The Israeli government approved the (December 2023)
appointment of Reuven Azar as the  Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace,
new Ambassador to India. Disarmament and Development for
2023 has been jointly awarded to
 Veera Rana has been appointed as Daniel Barenboim and Ali Abu Awwad.
Chief Secretary of the Madhya Pradesh
State.  The Indian Navy's premier technical
training establishment, INS Shivaji, has
 Jithesh John has been appointed as received the original 'Vir Chakra'
Executive Director of the Insolvency awarded to late Vice-Admiral Benoy
and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). Roy Chowdhury for his gallant actions
during the 1971 India-Pakistan war.
 Vice Chief of Naval Staff - Dinesh
Tripathi  Noted Tamil writer N Rajasekaran
(Devi Bharathi) won the Sahitya
 United Arab Emirates' Mohammed Al Akademi Award for 2023 for his novel
Ramsi has been appointed Chairman of ‘Neervazhi Paduum’.
World Radiocommunication
Conference 2023 (WRC 23).  Noted Kannada writer Lakshmisha
Tolpadi has been chosen for the
 Chairman of Max Life Insurance --- prestigious Kendra Sahitya Akademi
Rajiv Anand Award-2023.

 Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), J&K  Noted writer E.V. Ramakrishnan won
Pandurang K Pole appointed former the prestigious Kendra Sahitya
Indian cricketer Suresh Raina as youth Akademi Award for 2023.
voter awareness Ambassador for the
Union Territory.  The sixth edition of the Rabindranath
Tagore Literary Prize was awarded to

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poet-critic Sukrita Paul Kumar for her
book, 'Salt & Pepper: Selected Poems  The SASTRA-Ramanujan Awards for
2022 and 2023 were presented,
 A former child refugee from Somalia respectively, to Yunqing Tang and
has been named as this year's winner Ruixiang Zhang.
of the prestigious UNHCR Nansen
Refugee Award.  Telugu writer Patanjali Sastry has won
the award for his short story collection
 Terminal 2 of Bengaluru's 'Rameswaram Kakulu’.
Kempegowda International Airport has
been globally recognized as one of the  Indian men's hockey team midfielder
most beautiful airport terminals by Hardik Singh and women's side captain
Prix Versailles. Savita won the FIH Player of the Year
 It was also awarded the prestigious and Goalkeeper of the Year (women)
'World Special Award for Interiors awards respectively.
2023'.
 Indian Actress Aastha Rawal has won
 Lalithambika VR was conferred the the 5th edition of the Miss Continental
‘Légion d’Honneur’ for her International Award (2023) pageant
engagement in space cooperation held in India for the very first time.
between France and India.
 The men’s doubles badminton pair of
 A former child refugee from Somalia Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag
has been named as this year's winner Shetty have been conferred with the
of the prestigious UNHCR Nansen 2023 Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna
Refugee Award. Award – India’s highest sporting
honour.
 Veteran lyricist-screenwriter Javed
Akhtar will be felicitated with the  Dr. Dharavath Naik Dharavath has
Padmapani Lifetime Achievement recently been honored with the
Award at the Ajanta-Ellora Film prestigious Visionary Leader Icon 2023
Festival. Award for Social Responsibility And
Awareness (AASRAA).
 Kabir Bedi was awarded the “Order of
Merit of the Italian Republic” (Merito
della Repubblica Italiana).

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 Meghalaya's Lakadong turmeric has in Gurugram, Haryana, earned the
been awarded the Geographical Award of Merit.
Indication (GI) tag.
 The Vijayawada railway station has
 Indian Space Research Organisation been awarded a platinum certificate
(ISRO) and the Chandrayaan-3 team by the Indian Green Building Council
have been awarded "Outstanding (IGBC) for enhancing environmental
Contribution to Brand India" at the standards and providing eco-friendly
19th India Business Leader Awards services to passengers.
(IBLA).

 Bikaner House in New Delhi has been 4. Important Days And Themes
received the UNESCO Asia Pacific (December 2024)
Award Merit 2023.  World Aids Day - 1st December
 Theme - Let communities lead
 Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI,
has been named the CEO of The Year  International Day of persons with
2023 by Time Magazine. disabilities - 3rd December
 Theme - United in action to rescue
 The Ministry of Power, Government of and achieve the SDGs for, with and
India has been awarded the Special by persons with disabilities.
Appreciation Medal for Excellence in
Display, at India International Trade  Indian Navy Day - 4th December
Fair 2023.
 World Soil Day - 5th December
 Three heritage projects from Punjab  Theme - Soil and Water: A Source
and Haryana, namely the Rambagh of Life
Gate & Ramparts in Amritsar, Pipal
Haveli in Gurdaspur, and Church of  International volunteer economic and
Epiphany in Gurugram, have secured social development - 5th December
prestigious spots among the UNESCO  Theme - The collective action: If
Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural everyone did.
Heritage Conservation.
 While the Rambagh Gate in
Amritsar received the Award of
Excellence, the Church of Epiphany

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 International Civil Aviation Day - 7th  International Human Solidarity Day -
December 20 December
 Theme - Advancing innovation for
global aviation development.  Kisan Divas - 23 December

 Armed forces Flag Day - 7th December  International Bio Diversity Day - 29
December
 International anti corruption day - 9th
December
 Theme - UNCAC at 20: Uniting the 5. Important Sports Affairs
World Against Corruption. (December 2023)
 Australia's captain Pat Cummins has
 Human Rights Day - 10 th December been named as the ICC Men's Player of
 Theme - Freedom, Equality and the Month for December 2023.
Justice for All.  India's Deepti Sharma has been
awarded the ICC Women's Player of
 International Mountain Day - 11th the Month Award.
December
 Theme - Restoring Mountain  Haryana won the Vijay Hazare Trophy
Ecosystems. 2023 title by defeating Rajasthan.

 International universal health coverage  Indian tennis legends Vijay Amritraj

day - 12th December and Leander Paes made history as they
became the first Asian men to be
 International Migrants Day - 18th inducted into the International Tennis
December Hall of Fame.

 Minority Rights day - 18th December  FIFA Club World Cup 2023 Winner -
 Theme - Celebrating Diversity and Manchester City Defeats Fluminense
Inclusion.
 The Khelo India Para Games 2023
 Arabic language day - 18th December wrapped up in New Delhi with Haryana
winning the inaugural title by securing
 Goa Liberation day - 19 December 105 medals: 40 gold, 39 silver and 26
bronze.

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 Indian hockey team midfielder Hardik  Union Minister Anurag Singh Thakur
Singh was named the men's FIH Player launched the logo, jersey, mascot,
of the Year at the FIH Hockey Star torch and theme song for the Khelo
Awards 2023. India Youth Games Tamil Nadu. The
mascot of the games is Veera Mangai
 Indian women's hockey team captain Velu Nachiyar.
Savita Punia won third consecutive FIH
Goalkeeper of the Year at the FIH  Sony Sports Network has appointed
Hockey Star Awards 2023. Bollywood’s Gen Z superstar and youth
icon Kartik Aaryan as their brand
 Novak Djokovic and Aryna Sabalenka ambassador for football.
were honoured as the International
Tennis Federation's 2023 ITF World  Sports entrepreneur Vita Dani has
Champions. become the first Indian to be inducted
as a governing board member of the
 Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala won International Table Tennis Federation's
the bronze medal in the Men’s 25m (ITTF) Foundation.
rapid fire pistol event at the
International Shooting Sport  Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen
Federation (ISSF) World Cup Final Patnaik inaugurated India's largest
Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun 2023. state-of-the-art sports science centre
at the Kalinga Stadium.
 The Indian under-15 girls' doubles pair
of Jennifer Varghese and Divyanshi  Vaishali Rameshbabu has become
Bhowmick won the country's first-ever India’s 84th grandmaster after
silver medal at the World Youth TT surpassing 2500 rating during the 2023
Championships. IV Elllobregat Open.

 Hockey Punjab claimed the Gold medal

after their penalty shootout triumph
over defending Champions Hockey
Haryana in the Final of the 13th
Hockey India Senior Men National
Championship 2023.

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6. Important Schemes and Projects  AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal
(December 2023) and Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant
 Himachal Pradesh government has Mann launched the "Bhagwant Mann
introduced “Rajiv Gandhi Swarozgaar Sarkar Tuhade Dwar" scheme.
Yojana-2023” (RGSY-2023) scheme.
 IndusInd Bank announced the launch
 The Indian Institute of Management of its 'Indus Solitaire Program,' a
(IIM), Kashipur launched an executive community banking initiative
post graduate certificate programme meticulously crafted for the diamond
in Rail Management. industry.

 The Ministry of Textiles launched a  Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi

mobile application "Pat-Mitro" to has launched ‘Viksit Bharat @2047:
provide jute farmers with important Voice of Youth’.
information about MSP and agronomy.
 Amazon Pay recently launched a video
 Union Minister for MSME Shri Narayan sign language Know Your Customer
Rane launched three sub-schemes (KYC) service for hearing and speech-
under the aegis of the RAMP impaired customers.
programme.
 These are MSME Green Investment  Life Insurance Corporation of India
and Financing for Transformation (LIC) recently launched Jeevan Utsav.
Scheme (MSE GIFT Scheme), MSE
Scheme for Promotion and  The Ministry of Panchayati Raj
Investment in Circular Economy launched a Geographic Information
(MSE SPICE Scheme) MSE Scheme System based application "Gram
on Online Dispute Resolution for Manchitra".
Delayed Payments.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi
 Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched launched an initiative to increase the
‘DigiELV’, the End of Life Vehicle number of Jan Aushadhi Kendras from
Certificate of Deposit (CD) Trading 10,000 to 25,000.
Platform and Meta Materials Circular
Markets (MMCM) in New Delhi.  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik
introduced ‘AMA Bank’ service in the

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state’s gram panchayats where banks
do not have branches.  Women and Child Development
Minister Smriti Irani inaugurated
 The Union Minister for Women and National Programme on Anganwadi-
Child Development, Smriti Irani, cum-Crèches.
launched the National Outreach
Programme on Anganwadi Protocol for  The Indian Navy deployed a guided
Divyang Children. missile destroyer to the Gulf of Aden
after a piracy incident involving the
 Indian Railways has introduced a state- MV Ruen.
of-the-art technology called 'Gajraj
Suraksha' to prevent accidents  Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
involving elephants on railway tracks. inaugurated the International Gita
Seminar and Geeta Mahotsav at
 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Brahma Sarovar, Kurukshetra,
Adityanath launched Hot Cooked Meal Haryana.
Scheme to provide hot, solid food to
children aged 3 to 6 years.  Prime Minister Narendra Modi
launched the second edition of Kashi
7. Miscellaneous Current Affairs Tamil Sangamam in Varanasi, Uttar
(December 2023) Pradesh.
 The Central Government has officially
designated Raja Bhoj International  Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Airport in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, as inaugurated the Surat Diamond Bourse
an authorized Immigration Check Post in Gujarat.
for entry into or exit from India.
 Karnataka has signed a letter of intent
 The Collins Dictionary has announced with Meta to raise awareness among
its word of the year. students and educators on online
 The word ‘Permacrisis’ has been safety and digital citizenship.
Named Collins Dictionary's Word of
the Year 2022.  The Indian Air Force (IAF) carried out
successful firing trials of its in-house
 Dictionary publisher Oxford University designed and developed SAMAR air
Press has chosen Rizz, as its Word of defence missile system during
the Year 2023. Astrashakti 2023 exercise at

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Suryalanka Air Force Station in Andhra 8. Important Summits
Pradesh. (December 2023)
 The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra
 Two time Gussies Award Winner Modi inaugurated the Global
Navalt of India has launched the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence
fastest solar electric boat in the (GPAI) Summit at Bharat Mandapam,
country – the Barracuda, with a top New Delhi.
speed of 12 knots (22 km/h, 14 mph).
 40th Coast Guard Commander
 The Union Cabinet chaired by the Conference - New Delhi
Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi
has approved the proposal to declare  INTERPOL General Assembly 91st
Surat Airport as an International Meeting - Vienna, Austria
Airport.
 3rd India Internet Governance Forum
 The Government of India has decided (IIGF) under the theme of "Moving
to map and document all villages Forward–Calibrating Bharat’s Digital
under Mera Gaon, Meri Dharohar Agenda' Calibrating Bharat’s Digital
(MGMD) Programme. Agenda". - New Delhi

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi  The 18th Annual Meeting of the IGF
unveiled the statue of Chhatrapati was held under the theme, ''The
Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot Fort in Internet We Want - Empowering All
Maharashtra's Sindhudurg district. People'', in Kyoto, Japan.

 India was re-elected to the  27th World Investment Conference

International Maritime Organisation hosted by Invest India with the theme
(IMO) Council with the highest tally, of "Empowering Investors: IPAs
and the term of council will be for the Pioneering Future Growth" - New Delhi
biennium 2024-25.

 The Competition Commission of India

(CCI) has approved acquisition of
shareholding in Delanord Investments
by Abu Dhabi Ports Company.

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9. India's Rank in various Reports and revealing India's position at 49th
Index (December 2023) among 64 economies.
 Hyderabad has ranked first in the
country for food adulteration cases,
according to the data released by the
National Crime Records Bureau
(NCRB).

 India has been ranked 7th in Climate

Change Performance Index (CCPI)
2023.

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positions, respectively, in Mercer's
global quality of living ranking for
2023.

 The National Crime Records Bureau Thanks

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 The University of Delhi (DU) has been
featured as the most sustainable
Indian institute in the QS World
University Rankings: Sustainability
2024. Globally, the university has
ranked at 220.

 The International Institute for

Management Development (IMD)
unveiled its 2023 World Digital
Competitiveness Ranking (WDCR),

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