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JULY 2024 to JAN 2025

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1. National News
2. International News
3. Sports
4. National Appointments
5. International Appointments
6. State News
7. Awards & Honour
8. Science and Technology
9. Military Exercise & Defence
10. Important Books
11. Important Schemes
12. Index & Ranking
13. Important Days & Themes
14. Obituary
15. Miscellaneous
 2025 Republic Day

Indonesian President Prabowo

Subianto - chief guest

This year's Republic Day theme is

"Swarnim Bharat: Virasat aur Vikas (Golden
India: Heritage and Progress)

16 tableaux from states and union territories

10 tableaux from ministries and departments
 11 Classical Languages of India

Classical language Name Year

Tamil 2004
Sanskrit 2005
Telugu 2008
Kannada 2008
Malayalam 2013
Odia 2014
Marathi 2024
Bengali 2024
Pali 2024
Prakrit 2024
Assamese 2024
 Bengaluru to host 15th Aero India 2025

The latest edition of Asia's biggest biennial air show and

aviation exhibition
- Aero India 2025 will be held at the Air Force Station,
Yelahanka in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

The 15th edition of the Aero India show will be held from
10-14 February 2025.
India's First Organic Fisheries According to the India Meteorological Department
Cluster announced on January 6, 2025, (IMD), the year 2024 has been the hottest year in India
in the Soreng district of Sikkim. since 1901.
 Sonamarg Tunnel / Z-Morh Tunnel

Inauguration January 13, 2025, by Prime Minister Narendra

Date Modi

Why Z ? It is named after the Z-shaped stretch of road

that the tunnel has replaced i.e Why Z Morh
Tunnel.

Location Between Gagangir and

Sonamarg in Ganderbal district.
IndiaAl, an Independent Business Division under Flamingo Festival will be
Digital India Corporation, signed a organized after a gap of five years in Tirupati
Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft to district of Andhra
boost Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption Pradesh from January 18 to 20.
Country’s first Green Hydrogen Hub Indusfood 2025, held from January 8 to 10 at
Project at Pudimadaka near the India Expo Centre in Greater Noida, is
Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Asia’s premier Food and Beverage Trade
Show.
The 21st edition of the Third Eye Asian Film India’s first indigenously built driverless
Festival will be held from January 10 to metro train’ - Bengaluru Metro Rail
January 16, 2025, in Mumbai and Thane.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has Narendra Modi inaugurated the
inaugurated Asia's second largest ISKCON 2nd Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025 at
temple in Navi Mumbai Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on 17
January 2025.
GI Tag for Virgin Coconut Oil of Andaman Indichip semiconductors and japan's yitoa micro
technology have set up India's first private
semiconductor manufacturing facility in Andhra
Pradesh
Kaamya Karthikeyan became the world’s youngest ‘Kagyed Dance FesWval’ is celebrated in Sikkim.
female to scale the highest peaks on each of the
seven conWnents.
 India’s first glass bridge over the sea was inaugurated in
Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, on 30 December 2024 by Chief
Minister MK Stalin.

Connects the 133 ft tall Saint Tiruvalluvar statue (renamed as

the “Statue of Wisdom”) with the Vivekananda Rock
Memorial.
 World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit (WAVES)

India will host the World Audio Visual Entertainment Summit

(WAVES)
2025 from February 5th to 9th at Bharat Mandapam, New
Delhi, marking its first- ever hosting of this global event.
India’s first coastal and wader bird census will be Ganges river dolphin has been tagged for the first
conducted in the Marine National Park and Marine time in Assam as part of wildlife conservation.
Sanctuary in Jamnagar , Gujarat from 3 -5 January 2025.
 18th India State of Forest Report 2023

Total Forest and Tree Cover:

The total forest and tree cover in India is
827,357 square kilometers, represenWng
25.17% of the country’s geographical area.
Max Mangrove – West Bengal
 Top Three States:

Area wise top three states having largest forest cover are
Madhya Pradesh (77,073 sq km) followed by Arunachal
Pradesh (65,882 sq km)
and Chhattisgarh (55,812 sq km).

In terms of percentage of forest cover with respect to

total geographical area, Lakshadweep (91.33%) has the
highest forest cover followed
by Mizoram (85.34%) and Andaman & Nicobar Island
(81.62%).
PM lays foundation stone of Ken- Betwa River India's first national highway built with bio-bitumen.
Linking National Project in Khajuraho, Madhya
Pradesh In the Nagpur-Mansar Bypass project on National Highway 44
in Nagpur District
India’s first statewide skill census – Andhra Pradesh Ufarakhand become the first state in India to implement
a dedicated yoga policy.
 Yuga Yugeen Bharat NaWonal Museum (YYBNM)

India and France have signed a Memorandum of

Understanding to develop the world's largest national
museum, Era of Modern India, in New Delhi.
 ‘One Nation, One Election’ Bill

Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty- Ninth Amendment)

Bill, 2024, and the Union Territories Law (Amendment) Bill,
2024

Aim to enable simultaneous elections for the Lok Sabha and

State Assemblies.

Note - Committee on Simultaneous Elections constituted

under the Chairmanship of Shri Ram Nath Kovind
NHAI to introduce advanced Route Patrolling Vehicles (RPVs) India to Chair 68th Session of UN Commission on
“Rajmarg Saathi” to improve highway safety Narcotic Drugs for the first time
Chandigarh is the first state/union territory in India to fully
implement the three new criminal laws.

1) Indian JusWce Code 2023

2) Indian Civil Defense Code 2023

3) IndianEvidenceAct2023
Google has announced to set up West Bengal’s tourism sector has
India's first Google Safety Engineering Centre in Hyderabad received international recognition with
UNESCO declaring it a top destination
for heritage tourism.
 India's 56th Tiger Reserve

▪ Guru Ghasidas-Tamor Pingla Tiger Reserve in

Chhattisgarh as the 56th Tiger Reserve of India.

India’s 57th Tiger Reserve

Ratapani Tiger Reserve – MP

 Country's first Constitution Museum

India's first ConsWtuWon Museum, inaugurated at OP Jindal

Global University in Sonipat, Haryana.
India’s First Diabetes Biobank Established in Chennai
 ‘Indian Army Day’ - 2025
First ‘Ashtalakshmi Mahotsav’

The Indian Army will hold its formal annual 2025 Army
Ashtalakshmi Mahotsav in New Delhi from 6-8 Day Parade in Pune, Maharashtra on 15 January 2025.
December 2024.

The festival will focus on the eight north-

eastern states of India.
First Asian Buddhist
India’s first rice ATM
Summit (ABS)

Odisha government launched India’s first rice

ATM. The AnnapurW Grain ATM.
 TATA Aircraft Complex

•PM Modi and his Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez jointly

inaugurated the TATA Aircraft Complex for the manufacturing
of C-295 Military aircraft in Vadodara.

•This is India’s first private sector Final Assembly Line for

military ai
 Mahakumbh 2025

•14 to February 26, 2025, at Prayagraj.

•Kumbh Mela – 2017 (Intangible) ,

Total - 15

•Mahakumbh – Amer 144 Years

•Prime Minister Modi has launched Kumbh Sah'AI'yak

chatbot to assist visitors during Maha Kumbh.
 MACE Observatory

MACE Observatory has been inaugurated at

Hanle, Ladakh

The telescope is indigenously built by BARC

 16th session of the UNCCD ‘Conference of Parties’ (COP16)

The 16th session of the United Nations Convention to Combat

Desertification (UNCCD) will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
on December 2, 2024.

It will be held from December 2-13, 2024.

COP16 Theme - "Our Land. Our Future"

 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP29)

The 29th UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29,

began in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11, 2024.

30th COP 30 - Brazil

 ‘Global Cooperative Conference’ 2024

Global Cooperative Summit 2024 has been inaugurated by

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and on the
same occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also
inaugurated the United Nations International Year of
Cooperative 2025.

Theme of the conference – ‘Cooperation creates

prosperity for all’
 Cyclone Remal

Impact - Bangladesh and West Bengal

 Cyclone Asna

Impact - Kutch coast in Gujarat and adjoining areas of

Pakistan.
 Cyclone Dana

Impact – Odisha & West Bengal

 Cyclone Fengal

Impact – Tamil Nadu

 Country's first Hindi literary museum - Kashi (Varanasi).

The museum will be the country’s first museum dedicated to a

language.
 ‘ITU - WTSA 2024’

On October 15, International Telecommunication Union ITU –

World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA)
2024 inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Bharat
Mandapam in New Delhi.

15 to 24 October 2024.

The 8th edition of India Mobile Congress 2024 also

inaugurated by the Prime Minister during the event.
 19th International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities
(ICDRA)

India is hosting the 19th International Conference of Drug

Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) in New Delhi from 14 to 18
October 2024.

India is hosWng this event for the first Wme.

 ‘Cruise Bharat Mission’

•Union Minister of Ports, Shipping &

Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal.

•Goal is to double the number of passengers on

cruise ships by 2029 in order to boost the
nation's cruise tourism sector.
 Country’s First Namo Bharat Rapid Rail

Inaugurated by - Prime Minister Narendra Modi

The country's first Namo Bharat Rapid Rail has been run
between Bhuj and Ahmedabad
Nikita Porwal from Madhya Pradesh.
 World’s first mulW-material chip fabricaWon unit

India and the United States will jointly

set up the world’s first mulW-material chip
fabricaWon unit in India.

The new fabrication unit, which will be

called Shakti, will be set up in Jewar,
Uttar Pradesh
PM Modi lays foundation stone of
Vadhvan Port in Maharashtra’s
Palghar district

India's first airport to get the Net Zero

Carbon Emission Status - Delhi's Indira
Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)
 78th Independence Day 2024

Har Ghar Tiranga Campaign 9th to 15th Aug

Vande-Mataram Anand Math Novel

Theme 2024 Viksit Bharat

Independence Day 2024 78th

Jan Gan Mana 22 December 1911

National Flag Pingali venkayya

 India’s first civilian space tourist

Gopichand Thotakura, India’s first

civilian space tourist.

Thotakura made history by joining Blue

Origin’s New Shepard-25 (NS-25) mission,
founded by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos.
 New Ramsar sites

Three new sites - Nanjarayan Bird Sanctuary

and Kazhuveli Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu
and Tawa Reservoir in Madhya Pradesh—have
been designated as Wetlands of International
Importance or Ramsar Sites.

Total number of wetlands declared as

Ramsar sites in India to 85.
 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India: 43

Moidams of the Ahom Dynasty in Assam were

officially declared India’s 43rd World Heritage Site in
the cultural category during UNESCO’s 46th World
Heritage Committee session in New Delhi from 21 to
31 July 2024.

It is the first cultural site from the Northeast to

make it to the UNESCO World Heritage List under
the Cultural Category.
 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in India: 43

Cultural World Heritage Natural World Heritage Mixed World Heritage

Sites in India: 35 Sites in India: 7 Sites in India: 1
 Rashtrapati Bhavan's Durbar Hall and Ashok Hall

President Droupadi Murmu has decided to

rename Durbar Hall as ‘Ganatantra Mandap’
and ‘Ashok Hall’ as Ashok Mandap.

Rashtrapati Bhavan is the official residence of

the President of India.
 Operation Nanhe Farishtey

Railway Protection Force

Mission dedicated to rescuing

children in need of care and
protection across various Indian
Railway Zones.
 Global IndiaAI Summit 2024

The Global IndiaAI Summit 2024 will be

hosted by New Delhi on 3-4 July.
 FDI limit in the insurance sector
World's first 'high-altitude
para sports center - Leh, The government has proposed to raise the
Ladakh Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit for Indian
insurance companies from 74% to 100%.
12th edition of the 9th International Gita Mahotsav
‘International Tourism Mart’
Organized in Kurukshetra, Haryana

Kaziranga National Park - Assam

Tanzania has been selected as the partner
country and Orissa as the partner state.
International News
India extended humanitarian aid to
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau
Cuba following the devastaWng
announced his resignation as Liberal Party
impact of Hurricane Rafael
leader in the wake of rising discontent
over his leadership.
Indonesia officially become BRICS Nations List
the 10th member of BRICS in
January 2025 •Brazil
•Russia
•India
•China
•South Africa (Joined in 2010)

New Members (Effective January 1, 2024):

•Iran
•Egypt
•Ethiopia
•United Arab Emirates
•Saudi Arabia (pending confirmation) •Indonesia ( 2025)
Nato launches new mission to protect
crucial undersea cables - "Baltic
Sentry"
 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit 2025

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to

attend the ‘Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action
Summit’ to be held in Paris on February 10- 11,
2025.

The summit, which will be hosted by French

President Emmanuel Macron, aims to
promote internaWonal dialogue on arWficial
intelligence.
India is set to host the 28th External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar
Conference of Speakers and will represent India at the swearing-
Presiding Officers of Parliaments of in ceremony of the newly elected US
Commonwealth Countries (CSPOC)
President Donald Trump and the
in January 2026.
Republican Party candidate.
South Korean Acting President Han 31st 'Asia Pacific Economic
Duck-soo Impeached Cooperation' - Lima, Peru
 Narendra Modi Visit to Kuwait

First visit by an Indian Prime

Minister in 43 years.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was

awarded Kuwait’s highest civilian honor, The
Order of Mubarak Al Kabeer, by Sheikh
Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al Sabah, the
Amir of Kuwait.
 Narendra Modi Visit to Guyana

Nov 2024

PM to visit Guyana in 56 years (President -

Mohamed Irfaan Ali)

PM Modi co-Chaired the second Summit of the India-

CARICOM (Caribbean Community) grouping.

Prime Minister conferred with The Order of Excellence of

Guyana ,
Order of Freedom of Barbados , Dominica Award of Honour
 Narendra Modi Visit to Brazil

PM Narendra Modi attended the G20 summit in Rio de

Janeiro.

19th G20 summit 2024 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

20th G20 summit 2025 - Johannesburg (South

Africa)

President Brazil - Lula da Silva

 Narendra Modi Visit to Nigeria

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to

Nigeria from 16–17 November 2024 and being
conferred with Grand Commander of the Order of
the Niger (GCON), its second-highest national honour

PM Modi is the second foreign leader after Queen Elizabeth to receive the honour
 Narendra Modi Visit to Russia to attend 16th BRICS Summit

PM Shri Narendra Modi

Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian

Federation

22-23 October 2024

Kazan, Russia.

Summit Themed –
"Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security,"
 Narendra Modi Visit to Laos

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visit

Vientiane, Lao PDR, on 10-11 October 2024.

Prime Minister attend the 21st ASEAN-India

Summit & 19th East Asia Summit being hosted
by Lao PDR as the current Chair of ASEAN.

President Laos - Thongloun

 Narendra Modi Visit to United States

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited the United

States of America during 21-23 September 2024.

During the visit, Prime Minister take part in

the fourth ‘Quad Leaders’ Summit in
Wilmington, Delaware, which is being hosted
by the President of the United States of
America.

QUAD is a grouping of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States

 PM Modi addresses 79th U.N. General Assembly

PM Modi arrived at the 79th U.N.

General Assembly session to give
his address at the Summit of the
Future in New York, U.S.
 Narendra Modi Visit to Singapore

04-05 September 2024.

PM - Lawrence Wong
 Narendra Modi Visit to Brunei

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi arrived in Bandar Seri

Begawan on an Official Visit at the invitaWon of His Majesty
Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah.

This is the first-ever bilateral visit by an Indian Prime

Minister to Brunei.

Sep 2024
 Narendra Modi Visit to Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

August 2024

This was the first ever visit by an Indian Prime Minister to

Ukraine, since diplomatic relations were established between
the two countries in the year 1992.
 Narendra Modi Visit to Poland

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visit Poland on 21-22

August 2024.

This was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Poland in

the past 45 years.

August 2024

President Andrzej Duda

Prime Minister Donald Tusk
 First Indian Prime Minister to visit Austria after 41 Years

July 2024

Chancellor - Karl Nehammer

 Narendra Modi Visit to Russia

22nd India–Russia Annual Summit.

During the visit, he was awarded the Order

of St. Andrew by President PuWn.

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. It is dedicated to

the Soviet soldiers who lost their lives during World War II
 Narendra Modi Visit to Italy

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi

met Ms. Giorgia Meloni, the Prime
Minister of the Italian Republic in
Apulia, Italy.

50th G7 summit ( June 2024 )

G7 Countries - Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the

United Kingdom and the United States
'Holographic technology' in new bank
notes 425 metric tons of food grains and edibles

India ships 425 metric tonnes of

Japan issued new banknotes as a major food grains to Suriname as part of
anti-counterfeiting and fraud measure. social welfare aid.
 ASEAN Summit 2024

6–11 October 2024.

Vientiane , Laos (44TH & 45TH )

ASEAN 2025 - Malaysia

 21st ASEAN-India Summit 2024

10 October 2024 in Vientiane, Lao PDR

ASEAN Secretariat is located in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Asean Members - Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,

Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and
Vietnam.
 19th East Asia Summit (EAS)

Vientiane, Lao PDR

Oct 2024

The EAS comprises 18 members, the 10 ASEAN countries & eight dialogue
partners (Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia
and the United States).
 2024 BRICS

Kazan , Russia

22–24 October 2024

16th ediWon

1st 16 June 2009 Russia

Malaria free by the 'World Health First country in the world to
Organization' - Egypt Eliminate Leprosy :- Jordan
 2nd Asia Pacific Ministerial Conference on Civil Aviation

New Delhi will host the 2nd Asia Pacific

Ministerial Conference on Civil Aviation on 11
and 12 September 2024.

The first Asia Pacific Ministerial

Conference on Civil Aviation was
held in Beijing, China, in 2018.
Banned Social Media for children below
Sohrai Painting to Russian President
the age of 16 - Australia
 Shanghai Cooperation Organization as the 10th full member

The 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of

State of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation (SCO) was held on 4 July 2024 in
Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart

Tokayev hosted the summit meeting.

10th - Belarus
3) Sports
 Vijay Hazare Trophy

Edition - 32nd

Version - 21 December 2024 to 18 January

2025

Winner - Karnataka (5th time) (Captain -

Mayank Agarwal)

Runner-up - Vidarbha (Captain - Karun Nair)

 Kho Kho World Cup 2025

Host Country - New Delhi , India

Edition – 1st

Date - 13 to 19 January 2025

Indian Women’s and Men’s

Teams: Both teams won the
inaugural Kho Kho World Cup on
January 19, 2025.
Mascots Brand ambassador

Tara & Tejas

PV Sindhu Partners with PUMA India Pro Kabaddi League

Pro Kabaddi League (Season - 11th)

Total Teams – 12

Event - 18 October - 29 December 2024

Champion - Haryana Steelers (1st Wtle)

Runner-up - Patna Pirates

 33rd Santosh Trophy Title

Champion West Bengal

Runner-Up Kerala
 2024 World Rapid Championship

India's Koneru Humpy won World Rapid Chess

Championship title.

World Rapid and Blitz Championship was held

in New York.
 2024 World Blitz Chess Championship

Magnus Carlsen and Ian

Nepomniachtchi shared the
World Blitz title

Women - China's Ju Wenjun

Location - New York

 World Para Athletics Championships 2025

New Delhi will host the 2025

World Para Athletics
Championships at Jawaharlal
Nehru Stadium from September
26 to October 5, 2025.
 Syed Modi International Badminton
Competition’ 2024

Women's title – PV Sindhu

Mens Title - Lakshya Sen

 FIDE World Chess Championship 2024

Ding Liren ( China ) Vs

Gukesh Dommaraju (India )

Venue – Singapore

Winner - D. Gukesh becomes

youngest World chess champion
(18 Years)
108
Paris Olympics 2024

Paris Olympic 2024

Flagbearer closing – Sreejesh & Manu Bhaker
Indian Olympic Torch – Abhinav Bindra
India Ranking – 71st (6 Medal)
Host – Paris, France (3rd time)
Total Athletes – 117 (IND)
Mascot – Phrygian Cap
 India at Paris Olympics 2024

Ranked - 71st

Total Medals - 6 medals

Gold : 0

Silver: 1

Bronze: 5
India medals Olympics 2024
Paralympic Games Paris 2024

Paris Paralympic 2024

EdiCon – 17th
Mascot – Phryge
LocaCon – Paris, France
Flag bearer – Harvinder & PreeC Pal
Avani Lekhara – ShooCng
India Ranking – 18th (29 Medal)
2024 Summer Paralympics medal table
 133rd Durand Cup 2024

Winner - Guwahati-
based NorthEast United Football Club

Runner Up - Mohun Bagan Super Giant (MBSG)

 45th Chess Olympiad 2024

The Indian men's and women's chess teams both

secured gold medals (Biennial event)

Location - Budapest, Hungary.

The Indian men's team won against Slovenia and

the Indian women's team triumphed over
Azerbaijan.

Before India, only China and the former Soviet Union

had won both men's and women's gold medals in
the same Chess Olympiad edition
 2024 Blind T20 World Cup
28th ‘world title at the IBSF World
Billiards Championship’ 2024
- Pankaj Advani
23rd edition of ‘Commonwealth ‘Khelo India Youth Games’
Games 2026’ - Glasgow, Scotland's and ‘Para Games’

Bihar will host 'Khelo India Youth Games' and 'Para Games'
in April 2025. This is a major event of the 'Ministry of Youth
Affairs and Sports’.
 Most expensive player in the history of
‘Indian Premier League’ (IPL) auction

Lucknow Super Giants acquired Rishabh Pant for ₹27 crore at

the IPL 2025 auction, making him the most expensive player in
IPL history to date.
 38th National Games

Uttarakhand

NaWonal Games from 28 January -14

February 2025.

Mauli: Mauli is the mascot for the 38th National Games.

It is inspired by the Monal, Uttarakhand’s state bird.
 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2024 title

New Zealand win their first Women’s T20 World Cup title.

9th Edition - UAE

Men’s Grand Slam Title Winners 2024
Jannik Sinner Carlos Alcaraz
Women’s Grand Slam Title Winners 2024
Aryna Sabalenka Barbora Krejcikova Iga Świątek
 1st Indian Athlete to be Honored with Olympic Order by IOC

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has awarded its

prestigious Olympic Order to the ace Indian shooter Abhinav
Bindra.
4) National Appointments
Bahadur Singh Sagoo became the new president of the Ashutosh Agnihotri
Athletics Federation of India (AFI). Appointed as CMD of Food CorporaWon of India
 Faiz Ahmed Kidwai
G.P. Singh Appointed as CRPF Chief
Appointed as DGCA Director General

Directorate General of Civil AviaWon

 V. Narayanan Will Take Over as ISRO Chairman

V Narayanan has been appointed as the new chairman of

ISRO, succeeding S Somanath.

He will also assume the role of Secretary, Department of

Space, and Chairman of the Space Commission, effective from
January 14, 2025.
 BCCI

1) Devajit Saikia elected as BCCI Secretary, replacing Jay

Shah, now ICC Chairman.

2) Prabhtej Singh BhaWa elected as BCCI Treasurer.

3) Former Supreme Court judge Justice Arun Mishra has

been appointed as the Ombudsman and Ethics Officer of
the BCCI
 President Appoints New Governors in 5 States

1) Dr. Hari Babu Kambhampati: Appointed as the Governor of

Odisha (Previously Governor of Mizoram).

2) General (Dr.) Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd.):

Designated as the new Governor of Mizoram.
3) Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar:
Currently Governor of Bihar, now appointed as the Governor
of Kerala.

4) Arif Mohammed Khan: Previously Governor of Kerala, now

assigned as the Governor of Bihar.

5) Ajay Kumar Bhalla: Former Union Home Secretary,

appointed as the Governor of Manipur.
V. Ramasubramanian appointed as NHRC Chairperson ‘Airports Authority of India’

▪ 1996 Bihar cadre IAS officer Vipin Kumar

 Governor of the Reserve Bank of India

Sanjay Malhotra, a seasoned bureaucrat and

Revenue Secretary, has been appointed as the 26th
Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
Chief Minister of Chief Minister of Haryana
‘Maharashtra

Nayab Saini sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of

Devendra Fadnavis Haryana
 New chairperson of the National Commission for Women

Vijaya Kishor Rahatkar For 3 Years Replaced Rekha Sharma

 26th Director General of ‘Indian Coast Guard (ICG)’

DG Parmesh Shivamani
 51st Chief Justice of India

JusYce Sanjiv Khanna will become the 51st Chief JusWce of

India.

He will serve a tenure of six months, ending on May 13, 2025,

before his retirement.
 Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)

Mark Rutte has taken over as Secretary General of NATO.

 Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir

Omar Abdullah has taken oath as the Chief Minister of

Jammu and Kashmir, while Surinder Kumar Chaudhary has
been made the Deputy CM.
 Chief of Air Staff

Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh

 Brand Ambassador of Ministry of Ports, Shipping and
Waterways

Manu Bhaker as its Brand Ambassador.

 Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission

Preeti Sudan

Preeti Sudan is the second woman to be appointed as the

Chairperson of the UPSC after Mrs. R.M.Bathew (Kharbuli)
(1992-96).
 Chairman and Managing Director of SIDBI

Manoj Mittal

Small Industries Development

Bank of India (SIDBI)

HQ - Lucknow
 Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Railway Board

Satish Kumar (New)

Amrit Mohan Prasad Rahul Navin
 ‘Comptroller and Auditor General’ (CAG) of India

K Sanjay Murthy

K Sanjay Murthy, a 1989 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh

cadre, replace Girish Chandra Murmu.

CAG – ArWcle 148

 Director General of the International Solar Alliance (ISA)

India's Ashish Khanna has been appointed as the third

Director General of ISA at the 7th International Solar Alliance
(ISA) Assembly held in New Delhi.
President of Federation of Indian Chief Minister of Jharkhand
Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI)
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren take
oath as the new Chief Minister of Jharkhand.

Harsh Vardhan Agarwal

 New Chairperson of NASSCOM

Sindhu Gangadharan
 27th Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI)

Challa Sreenivasulu Setty, or CS Setty

India's new Cabinet Secretary Director General
Border Security Force

T.V. Somanathan.
Daljit Singh Chaudhary
Director General of Central Industrial Security Force Jay Shah elected as Independent Chair of ICC.
(CISF)

Rajwinder Singh Bhatti

5) International Appointments
President Zoran Milanovic has been reelected as the Nawaf Salam has been appointed as
President of the European country of Croatia. Lebanon's new Prime Minister.
Lebanon Parliament Elected Kristrun Frostadottir Becomes
Joseph Aoun as President Iceland’s Youngest Prime Minister
‘Mikheil Kavelashvili’ has become the new
Prime Minister of France - Francois Bayrou
President of Georgia
 Syrian Rebel Forces Claim Control of
Damascus, President Assad Flees

Mohamed al-Bashir appointed as caretaker Prime Minister of

Syria
Burkina Faso Names New Prime Minister

Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo John Mahama Returns as Ghana’s President

 Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s
President of Indonesia
Reappointment as WTO Director-General.

First woman and first African

 ‘47th President’ of USA President of Vietnam

Donald Trump ( Republic Party ) Luong Cuong

This is Donald Trump's second term.
Donald Trump replace Joe Biden.
6th President of Namibia has elected 'Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwa' as the
Botswana country's first female President.
- Duma Boko
Prime Minister of Mauritius Abdoulaye Maiga as Mali New Prime
Minister.

Dr. Navin Ramgoolam

New President of Uruguay 103rd Prime Minister
of Japan

Shigeru Ishiba
Yamandu Orsi
President of Tunisia Youngest Prime Minister of Thailand

Kais Saied. Paetongtarn Shinawatra

 Mexico’s first female president in 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum sworn in as Mexico's first female

president.
 Prime Minister of Jordan

Jaffer Hassan (New PM)

 Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister

Harini Amarasuriya officially sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new

Prime Minister.

Sri Lanka New President - Anura Kumara Dissanayake

 Bangladesh Prime Minister

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned

from her post.

he Muhammad Yunus led interim Bangladeshi government .

 Prime Minister of Nepal

Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-

Leninist) (CPI- UML) leader KP Sharma Oli was
sworn in as Prime Minister.
President of Venezuela Prime Minister of Netherlands

Nicolás Maduro Dick Schoof

 Prime Minister of UK

Won Keir Starmer - Labour Party

Lost - Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party

 Re-Elected As Indian Olympic Committee Members from India

Nita Ambani, has been re-elected unanimously as the IOC

from India
President of Rwanda President of Iran

President Paul Kagame Masoud Pezeshkian

 Presidency of the Financial AcWon Task Force (FATF)

Elisa de Anda Madrazo

Replaced - T. Raja Kumar

State News
 ‘Tsunami Ready’ State by UNESCO

24 coastal villages in Odisha have been recognized as 'Tsunami

Ready' by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission in November 2024.
Ganga Utsav’ 2024 Gujarat

Gujarat Government has launched Gujarat

Semiconductor Policy 2022- 2027.
 Ustad Allauddin Khan Festival

Ustad Allauddin Khan FesWval started in Maihar, Madhya

Pradesh on 08 October 2024.

This (year 2024) is the golden jubilee year of this music

fesWval.
 New Lion safari is being built in Barda

Aimed at reducing the burden on Sasan (Gir National Park).

Gujarat
 First state to implement ‘Dalit sub-quota’

Haryana has become the first state to implement sub-quota

for the Dalit community, subclassifying Scheduled Castes
(SCs).

Deprived Scheduled Castes” (DSC) & “Other

Scheduled Castes” (OSC).
 World’s 1st breeding center

Ufar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inaugurated the

Jatayu ConservaWon and Breeding Centre in Gorakhpur Forest
Division.
 International Conference on Green Hydrogen

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the 2nd

InternaWonal Conference on Green Hydrogen on September
11, 2024, in New Delhi.
 4th Indian city to receive World Craft City Certificate

Srinagar City received the Certificate of World Craft

City from the World Crafts Council.

Jaipur, Malappuram and Mysore are the other Indian

cities that have previously been recognised as World
Craft Cities.
Awards
 Singapore President

Singapore President 'Tharman Shanmugaratnam' has arrived

on a visit to India from 14 to 18 January 2025.

Tarun Das with the Honorary Citizen Award for his role in
strengthening India-Singapore relations.
 Kappad and Chal Beaches (Kerala) Receive
PresWgious Blue Flag CerWficaWon

Awarded by the Foundation for Environmental

Education (FEE), based in Denmark.

This certification recognizes beaches that meet

high standards in environmental protection, safety,
and sustainability.

India has 13 Blue Flag beaches, including Kappad

and Chal, demonstratin
 82nd Golden Globe Awards 2025

Event - California.
 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2025

27 persons/organisations honoured with the Pravasi

Bharatiya Samman Awards 2025 in Bhubaneswar,
Odisha on 10th January 2025.

List of the 2025 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award

winners
 Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2025

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award Recipients:

1) D Gukesh: World Chess Champion 2024

2) Manu Bhaker: Double Medalist in Paris Olympics

3) Harmanpreet Singh: Indian Hockey Team Captain

4) Praveen Kumar: Gold Medalist in Paris Paralympics ( High

Jump )
Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in
Sports and Games 2025

Total recipients: 32 sportspersons

Arjuna Awards (Lifetime) for outstanding performance in
Sports and Games 2024
 Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2025

Two Category

1. Regular Category
 Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2024

Two Category

2. Lifetime Category
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2024
 Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2024

President Droupadi Murmu presented the 17 excepWonal children ( 7 Boys & 10 Girls ) from across India,
Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar recognizing their outstanding achievements in art and culture,
bravery, innovaWon, science and technology, social service,
sports, and the environment.

Veer Bal Diwas – 26TH Dec 2024

 UNEP Champions of Earth Award 2024

The ‘Champions of the Earth award is considered the

United Nation’s highest environmental honour.

Veteran Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil has been chosen as

one of the six persons/institutions to be honoured with the
prestigious 2024 United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) ‘Champions of the Earth’ award.
 34th Vyas Samman 2024

Hindi writer Suryabala awarded the 34th Vyas Samman 2024

for novel Kaun Des Ko Vasi: Venu Ki Diary
 Booker Prize 2024

Pt. Swapan Choudhary Receives National Tansen Britain's Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize 2024 for
Award 2023 the novel 'Orbital’.
Sahitya Akademi Award 2024
 ‘Indira Gandhi Peace Prize’ 2024 & 2023

Former Chilean President Veronica

Michelle Bachelet Gerría has been selected for the Indira
Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for
2024.
55th InternaWonal Film FesWval of India 2024
 Festival director of International Film Festival of India (IFFI)

Veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur

Honored for contributions to cinema
Recognized for promoting peace, tolerance, and
non-violence.
 73rd ‘Miss Universe’

Denmark's Victoria Kjaer Thelvig has won the title of Miss

Universe for the year 2024.
 Best Marine State award at World Fisheries Day 2024

Kerala was honoured with the Best Marine State award

 Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)- The Hague Award

Indian Chemical Council (ICC)

Nobel Prize 2024
 1) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024

Trick – Victor Ko Grey Medicine Chaiye.

Awarded to

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun (USA)

Discoveries

For the discovery of MicroRNA (Control Protein

FormaWon ) and its role in post-transcripWonal gene
regulaWon
 2) Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Trick – Hope Karo Hinton ke Physics me ache marks aaye

Awarded to

John J. Hopfield (USA) & Geoffrey E. Hinton (UK)

Discoveries

For foundational discoveries and inventions that enable

machine learning with artificial neural networks
 3) Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

Awarded to

David Baker (USA) - “for

computational protein design”

Demis Hassabis (UK) & John M. Jumper (USA)- “for protein

structure prediction”
 4) Nobel Prize in Literature 2024

Awarded to
Han Kang (1st South Korean Writer)

Given -
For her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas
and exposes the fragility of human life
 5) Nobel Prize in Peace 2024

Awarded to
Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese organisation)

Given for -
for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and
for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear
weapons must never be used again.
 6) Nobel Prize in Economics 2024

Trick – 2 Son Run Karta hai.

Awarded to
Daron Acemoglu (Turkey), Simon Johnson (UK) & James A.
Robinson (British-American)

Given for
for studies of how insWtuWons are formed and affect
prosperity
 National Kishore Kumar Award 2023

Filmmaker Rajkumar Hirani

This award, instituted by

the Madhya Pradesh Government’s Department of
Culture.
2024 SASTRA Ramanujan Prize Best Agriculture State Award for
2024 - Maharashtra

Alexander Dunn
 5th NaWonal Water Awards 2023

Hon’ble President of India, Smt.

Droupadi Murmu
 IAF World Space Award 2024

International Astronautical Federation (Paris Based )

Dr. S. Somanath, Chairman of the Indian Space

Research Organisation (ISRO)

For Chandrayaan-3: A Groundbreaking Lunar Mission

 Dadasaheb Phalke Award

Mithun Chakraborty to Receive

Dadasaheb Phalke Award

54th recipient , 2022

First awarded: 1969 (Devika Rani)

First awarded: 1969 (Devika Rani)

 Ramon Magsaysay Award 2024

Nobel Prize of Asia.

The following persons have been selected for this

•Karma Phuntsho – Bhutan

•Nguyen Thi Ngok Phuong – Vietnam
•Farwiza Farhan – Indonesia
•Miyazaki Hayao – Japan
•Rural Doctors Movement – Thailand
 Singapore Literature Prize for her book ‘Nine Yard Sarees’

An Indian-origin lecturer Prasanthi Ram, has won the

Singapore Literature Prize for her book ‘Nine Yard Sarees’.

Her short story book – ‘Nine Yard Sarees’ was published in

2023.
 Grand Collar of Order of Timor Leste

President Draupadi Murmu was honored with the highest civilian

award of Timor Leste - Grand Collar of Order of Timor Leste, by
Timor Leste President Jose Ramos Horta.
 Companion of the Order of Fiji

he President of Fiji conferred the Companion of the Order of

Fiji on President Droupadi Murmu.

President of Fiji ?
 Vigyan Team Award

The Chandrayaan 3 team of the Indian Space Research

Organization (ISRO) has won the Vigyan Team Award of the
first Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar.
 ‘Vigyan Ratna Award’

Professor G. Padmanabhan, the former Director of the Indian

Institute of Science, has been selected for the Vigyan Ratna
Award in biological sciences.
 NaWonal Lata Mangeshkar Award

•The Madhya Pradesh government will present the

National Lata Mangeshkar Award.

•Uttam Singh will be awarded the Mangeshkar Award

for 2022, while Chitra will be awarded the award for
2023.
 70th NaWonal Film Awards 2024

The winners of the 70th NaWonal Film Awards are announced at the NaWonal Media Center in New Delhi on
August 16, 2024.
8) Science and Tech & Defence
 LEXI Mission

NASA will launch a mission called LEXI to study the Earth's

magneWc envelope from the Moon.

This NASA mission will take the first global picture of the
magneWc field that protects the Earth from solar radiaWon.
 Mission SCOT

SCOT (Space Camera for Object Tracking) is Digantara’s (an

Indian space startup) inaugural mission dedicated to space
surveillance.

Its like Google Map For Space

 First Private Satellite Constellation

Bengaluru-based space Pixxel start up launches first Indian

private satellite constellaWon

Aim: To provide high-resolution hyperspectral imaging

to improve insights in agriculture, mining,
environmental monitoring, defense, and resource
management.
 ISRO’s SpaDeX Mission

Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX)

To develop and demonstrate the technology needed for

docking and undocking of two small spacecraft.

Started - 30th December 2024

Completed - 16th January, 2025

Two small spacecram- SDX01 (the Chaser) and SDX02 (the
Target) will be docked in a 470-km low-Earth circular orbit.

Launch Vehicle: PSLV- C60

It will make India the fourth country amer USA, Russia and
China in the world to achieve the feat.
 Kisan Kavach

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology

(Independent Charge) Dr. Jitendra Singh has unveiled India's
first indigenous anW-insecWcide bodysuit 'Kisan Kavach'.
 Proba-3 Mission

The Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA)

launched on 4 December 2024 at 4:06 pm from Sriharikota via
'PSLV-C59’.

This mission is an 'in-orbit demonstration' aimed at studying

the corona of the Sun.
 India's first analog space mission

Indian Space Research OrganizaWon (ISRO) has launched the

country's first analog space mission in Leh (Ladakh).

The objecWve of this mission is to simulate an interplanetary

habitat using the Mars- like condiWons of Ladakh to study the
challenges of living in space, which will benefit future
exploraWon.
Venus Orbiting Satellite mission World's first wooden
satellite (Lignosat)

Japanese scientists are set to test the

The government has given ISRO
world's first wooden satellite.
permission to launch its next
Venus Orbiting Satellite mission,
called Shukrayaan, in 2028.
 ‘Pantsir Air Defense System’ Chandrayaan 4

India's Bharat Dynamics Limited will collaborate with Russia's Chandrayaan 4, a collaborative mission
Rosoboron export to co-develop the Pantsir S-1 short-range air with Japan, aiming for a precise landing at
defense system. the Moon’s south pole by 2030.
Delivery of the S-400 surface-to- air missile system New missile Testing Range

From Russia In Nagayalanka, Andhra Pradesh.

 ‘Europa Clipper’

Nasa launched the Europa Clipper to search for life on Jupiter

moon, Europa.
 India launched its first reusable hybrid rocket ‘RHUMI-1’

The rocket was developed by

Tamil Nadu-based Space Zone India in
collaboration with the Martin Group.

Hybrid propulsion system, combining the

advantages of both liquid and solid fuels.
 DRDO Successfully Tests Long Range Glide Bomb ‘GAURAV’
from Su-30 MK-I

The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

successfully conducted the maiden flight test of the Long
Range Glide Bomb (LRGB) named GAURAV.
 Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla selected as ‘Prime
Astronaut’ for Indo-US Mission to Space Station

Axiom-4 mission to the ISS.

9) Military Exercise & Defence
 Bhargavastra Micro-Missile system

It is India’s first indigenous micro-missile system designed to

take on the threat of swarm drones.

•It was developed by the Economic Explosives Ltd.

•It can quickly deploy on a mobile platform and hit targets

over 2.5 km.
 'Sahyog Hop Tak

Coast Guard personnel of India and Vietnam

conducted a joint mariWme exercise 'Sahyog
Hop Tak' off the coast of Kochi, Kerala.
 HIMKAVACH

HIMKAVACH is a multi layer clothing system that is designed

for temperature range of +20°C to -60°C.

HIMKAVACH will be useful in military operations in cold

weather conditions along the Himalayan region
 Naval Warships

Prime Minister Narendra Modi commissioned three frontline

naval warships and submarines - INS Surat , INS Nilgiri and INS
Vagsheer at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL),
Mumbai, Maharashtra.

INS Nilgiri - Stealth frigate.

INS Surat - Missile destroyer class ships

INS Vaghsheer - Submarine

 First space defense exercise ‘Antariksh Abhyas 2024’

Defence Space Agency under

the Ministry of Defence conducted India's first-ever Space
Exercise 'Antariksha Abhyas' in New Delhi.
 AnW-Submarine Warfare vessels

At Cochin Shipyard, the Indian Navy launched

two anti- submarine warfare (ASW) shallow
water vessels named Malpe and Mulki.
 India's first Pollution Control Vessel

Goa shipyard launched India's first polluWon control vessel,

Samudra Pratap.

Designed and constructed by Goa Shipyard Ltd (GSL).

India’s 2nd nuclear missile Indigenous light tank
Submarine- INS Arighat ‘Zoravar’
 Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) Ships ‘Adamya’ and ‘Akshar’

Indian Coast Guard has simultaneously launched two Fast

Patrol Vessel (FPV) ships ‘Adamya’ and ‘Akshar’ built by Goa
Shipyard Limited (GSL).
10) Important Books
G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant authored the book "How India
Scaled Mt G20"
“Parliament: Powers, Functions & Privileges; A “Middle Class India: Driving Change in
Comparative Constitutional Perspective” the 21st Century”
The World After Gaza Why Bharat Mafers
‘Chhaunk - On - Food, economics and society’ Stumped
‘Tipu Sultan: The Saga of the Mysore ‘Beyond the Higgs Boson:
Interregnum’ The W Boson’

Authored by Manik Kotwal and translated

by Jerry Pinto.
 ‘Dalai Lama's Secret to Happiness’

Para-athlete, Dr. Deepa Malik. Dr. Dinesh Shahra

‘Breaking Rocks and Barriers’ “The Prisoner of Bhopal”

Sudipta Sengupta Tim Walker

 ‘Mountain Mammals of
‘Ratan Tata : A Life’
the World’

The author of book ‘Ratan Tata : A Life’ is Thomas

Mathew
 Jamsetji Tata: Powerful Learnings For Corporate Success

Authored by R. Gopalakrishnan and Harish Bhat

 Sakshi Malik's memoir - "Witness," co-
authored by Jonathan Selvaraj

India's 1st woman wrestler to win an Olympic

medal.
By Prof. Sreeram Chaulia.
 ‘Speaking with Nature:
‘Maa-Mother’
The Origins of Indian
Environmentalism’

Dr. Davendra Kumar Dhodawat Ramachandra Guha's new book

From Oil to Lithium: NavigaWng 'Mother Mary Comes to Me'
the Future of Energy

By Kuldeep Gupta Arundhati Roy's

 "The ScienWst Entrepreneur: Empowering Millions of Women"

Author Activist Kalpana Sankar

11) Schemes
 SVAMITVA Scheme

Type: Central-sector scheme

•ObjecWve: To provide a ‘Record of Rights’ for households in

inhabited village areas using advanced drone technology.

•Nodal Ministry: Ministry of PanchayaW Raj (MoPR)

•PM Narendra Modi distributed over 65 lakh property cards

under the SVAMITVA Scheme
 Mission Mausam

It will enhance forecasting accuracy, provide near real-time

local weather forecasts and research the development of
weather management technologies.

PM Modi launched Mission Mausam on the occasion of

the 150th foundation day of IMD ( 15th Jan 2025)
 ‘Jalvahak’ Scheme

The scheme aims to reduce the load on road

and rail networks and encourage sustainable
transportaWon. It will provide direct incenWves
for transporWng goods on waterways
 PM Modi to Launch 'Bima Sakhi Yojana' in Panipat.

Under this scheme, women will become

agents of the Life Insurance Corporation
(LIC), enabling them to sell insurance and
earn an income.
 ‘Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan’

PM launches Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh

Abhiyan from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand on 2nd October
2024

It aims to foster holisWc development in tribal villages

Ministry of Tribal Affairs

 'Purvodaya' scheme

All-round development of five states in the

eastern region, including Bihar, Odisha,
Jharkhand, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh .
 ‘Subhadra Yojana’

The scheme will provide Rs 10,000 annually to over one crore

eligible women for five years.

The Women and Child Department of the Odisha government

will be the nodal agency for the implementation of the
Subhadra scheme.
12) Index and Ranking
Henley Passport Index 2025
 TomTom Traffic Index

Top 5 Most Traffic Congested CiWes

Kolkata
Bengaluru
Pune
Hyderabad
Chennai
 QS World Future Skills Index 2025

India has ranked 25th overall in the QS World

Future Skills Index 2025, with a standout
performance inthe “Future of Work” category,
where it ranked second globally, just behind the
United States
 ‘Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI)’ 2025

India has ranked 10th in the ‘Climate Change

Performance Index’ (CCPI) 2025.

The index is topped by Denmark (but technically ranked

fourth).
 Global Nature Conservation Index 2024

First-ever ediWon

India ranked 176th out of 180 countries in the Global Nature

ConservaWon Index (NCI) with a score of 45.5/100.

Top Ranking : Luxembourg

 Global Hunger Index 2024

By Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.

India ranks 105th out of 127 .

India-Specific Findings: GHI Score (2024) - 27.3 (‘serious’)

The score is calculated on a 100-point scale:

•0 represents the best possible score (no hunger)

•100 is the worst.
 ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)’ 2024

It is jointly published by the United Nations

Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford
Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI).

Top 3 poor countries

India (234 million)

Pakistan (93 million)
Ethiopia (86 million)
 Rule of Law Index 2024

India ranked 79th out of 142 countries in the Rule of Law

Index 2024

By the World JusWce Project

 Global Innovation Index 2024

India - 39th place among 133 global economies

It is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization

Rank 1 - Singapore
 2024 State Food Safety Index (SFSI)

Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Jammu & Kashmir are the top 3
performers on the State Food Safety Index 2024.

State Food Safety Index (SFSI) has been released by the Food
Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).
 ‘Network Readiness Index’ 2024

India was ranked 49th in the Network Readiness Index 2024.

India’s impressive rise from 60th rank in 2023 to
49th in 2024

Top Country

United States of America

 Global AI Readiness Index

According to the International Monetary Fund's Artificial

Intelligence Preparedness Index (AIPI), India ranks 72nd
globally.

Top-

Singapore
 Union Environment Ministry's Swachh Vayu Survekshan
2024

1) Category-1 (population over 10 Lakhs): Surat

2) Category-2 (population between 3-10 Lakhs): Firozabad

3) Category-3(population under 3 Lakhs): Raebareli

 NaWonal InsWtuWonal Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2024

9th India Rankings Report (NIRF)

Announced by the Union Ministry of Education (MoE)

1) Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras: Maintained its

top position in the ‘Overall’ and ‘Engineering’ categories
 Travel & Tourism Development Index 2024

India is ranked 39th out of 119 countries in the Travel and

Tourism Development Index 2024 by the World Economic
Forum.

1st - United States

 NITI Aayog SDG India Index 2023-24

Overall SDG score for the country is 71 for 2023-24

Top Performers: Kerala and Ufarakhand emerged as the

best- performing states, each scoring 79 points.
13) Important Days 2024
 January 2025

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas / NRI Day

9th January

Theme - “Diaspora’s Contribution

to a Viksit Bharat”.

The 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is set to be held in

Bhubaneswar from January 8 to 10, 2025
 World Hindi Day 2025

10th January

Theme - “Hindi: A Global Voice of Unity and Cultural

Pride.”
NaWonal Youth Day
 “Indian Army Day” - 15 Jan

January 15

Theme - ‘Samarth Bharat, Saksham Sena’ (Capable India,

Empowered Army)
 1st Lokpal Day

Lokpal of India celebrates 1st Foundation Day on 16th

January
National Start-up Day – 16th Jan
 Parakram Diwas or Courage Day – 23rd Jan

Birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

 NaWonal Girl Child Day – 24th Jan

Theme 2025 - Empowering girls for a bright future

 15th National Voters Day – 25th Jan

Theme 2025 : ?
 NaWonal Tourism Day - 25 Jan

Theme 2025 - ?
 December 2024

World AIDS Day 2024

1st December

2024 Theme: “Take the rights path: My health, my right!”

Indian Navy Day 2024
https://t. me/Dewashishsir

Date December 4, 2024

“Strength and Power through Innovation
Theme
and Indigenisation”
World Soil Day 2024

Date December 5, 2024

Caring for Soils: Measure,
Theme
Monitor, Manage
Human Rights Day 2024

Date December 10, 2024

“ Our Rights, Our Future,
Theme
Right Now”.
First-Ever World Meditation Day: 21st
December 2024

Theme - “Meditation for Global Peace and

Harmony.
National Mathematics Day 2024

India celebrates National Mathematics Day on

December 22, 2024, marking the birth anniversary
of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
NaAonal Farmers Day 2024
December 23, 2024

Chaudhary Charan Singh’s birth

anniversary and contributions.

Theme of 2024
“Empowering ‘Annadatas’ for a Prosperous
Nation”
 National Consumer Day 2024

24th December

Theme - “Virtual Hearings & Digital Access to

Consumer Justice”

Jago Grahak Jago App, Jagriti App, and Jagriti Dashboard

25 December Good Governance Day (India)
Birth anniversary of Atal
Bihari Vajpayee

26 December Veer Bal Diwas

 November 2024

National Education Day’ 2024

11TH Nov

Birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first

educaPon minister of independent India.

Theme 2024 - "Learning for LasPng Peace".

 World Diabetes Day’

14 November

Theme 2024 : Breaking Barriers, Bridging

Gaps
 Janjatiya Gaurav Divas’ 2024

‘JanjaJya Gaurav Divas’ is celebrated on 15 November in the

memory of tribal freedom fighters. On this occasion, Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has visited Jamui in Bihar to
celebrate JanjaPya Gaurav Divas.

With this, the celebraPons of the 150th birth anniversary of

Lord Birsa Munda have also begun.
 ‘National Press Day’ 2024

16 November

Theme 2024 - “Changing nature of the press”.

 ‘World Toilet Day’ 2024

19 November.

Theme of 2024 – Toilet- a Place for Peace

 ‘World Fisheries Day’ 2024

21 November.

Theme 2024 - India's Blue TransformaPon: Strengthening

Small - Scale and Sustainable Fisheries
 ‘NaPonal Milk Day’ 2024

National Milk Day is celebrated every year on 26 November in

honor of Dr. Verghese Kurien, the architect of India's White
Revolution.

Note - Constitution Day of India

 October 2024

World Teachers’ Day 2024

Theme: “Valuing Teacher Voices: Towards a New Social

Contract for Education”

5th October
 Indian Air Force Day 2024

92nd Indian Air Force Day

October 8, 2024Marina Beach in Chennai

Theme, “Bhartiya Vayu Sena: Saksham, Sashakt,

Atmanirbhar” (Potent, Powerful, and Self-Reliant)
 InternaPonal Day of the Girl Child

October 11th

Theme - “Girls’ Vision for the Future”

 World Students Day 2024

October 15

Birth anniversary of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Theme - Empowering Students to be Agents of Change

 World Food Day 2024

October 16th

Theme - “Right to Foods for a Better Life and a

Better Future.
 United NaPons Day 2024

October 24
 Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity Day

October 31st

Birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

 September 2024
National Teacher’s Day 2024

The theme for Teachers' Day 2024 is "Empowering Educators

for a Sustainable Future.“

September 5th

The day honors Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, a great teacher,

and India’s second President.
 International Literacy Day 2024

8th September

Theme: “Promoting Multilingual Education

 Hindi Diwas 2024

14th September

This year marks the 75th anniversary of

Hindi’s adoption as one of the official
languages of India by the Constituent
Assembly in 1949.

3rd Most spoken language globally

 NaPonal Engineer Day 2024

September 15th

Sir Visvesvaraya

Theme - “Innovating for a Sustainable Future”

 World Ozone Day 2024

September 16

Theme: "Montreal Protocol - Advancing Climate

Actions"
 World Maritime Day 2024

Theme - NavigaPng the Future : Safety First

26 September 2024
 World Tourism Day 2024

September 27.

Theme 2024 -“Tourism and Peace”

 August 2024
10th National Handloom Day

August 7th

This day marks the launch of the Swadeshi

Movement on August 7, 1905, promoting the use of
indigenous products.
 World Lion Day 2024

10th August
 World Biofuel Day 2024

August 10th

Theme - “Sustainable Biofuels

 World Elephant Day 2024

August 12th

Theme - “Personifying prehistoric beauty,

theological relevance, and environmental
importance”
 National Space Day 2024

23 August

Theme -‘Touching Lives while Touching the Moon

 NaPonal Sports Day 2024

Theme 2024 - “Sports are an

enabler to an inclusive and fit
society.

29th August
 July 2024

World Population Day 2024

Theme - “Leave no one behind, count everyone”

11th July
 Kargil Vijay Diwas 2024

Kargil Vijay Diwas, observed on July 26th, marks India's

victory in the 1999 Kargil War. It honors the bravery and
sacrifices of Indian soldiers.

25th Anniversary
InternaPonal Tiger Day 2024 (29th July )
14) Obituaries
 Dr. Manmohan Singh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute to Dr.

Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister and key
architect of the 1991 economic reforms, following his
passing on 26th December 2024.
 Padma Shri in the year 2024 Ratan Tata

French Indian Sanskrit scholar Dr. Pierre Ratan Tata received Padma
Sylvain Filliorgeat has passed away at the Vibhushan, in 2008 and Padman
age of 89. Bhushan, in 2000
Malayalam literary giant and Jnanpith Renowned taxonomist and Padma Shri awardee ‘KS
Award winner M.T. Vasudevan Nair Manilal’ passed away on 1 January 2025 in Thrissur,
passed away in Kozhikode, Kerala. Kerala. Classification Of Organism – Taxonomy.
 Legendary tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed
away at the age of 73 in the United States

Zakir Hussain received numerous prestigious

honors, includingthe Padma Shri in 1988, the
Padma Bhushan in 2002, and the Padma
Vibhushan in 2023.

Zakir Hussain won five Grammy Awards

Om Prakash Chautala was the former Madhya Pradesh's famous Baiga
Chief Minister of Haryana has passed painter and Padma Shri awardee
away Jodhaiya Bai passed away
Tulsi Gowda, famous as the 'Encyclopedia
of Forest', passed away in December
2024 at the age of 86.
 JusPce K S Pukaswamy

In October 2024, Justice K.S. Puttaswamy passed

away at the age of 98.

Justice K.S. Puttaswamy had filed a Supreme Court challenge

against the Aadhaar scheme in 2012, leading to a landmark
judgment in August 2017, declaring privacy a fundamental
right under the Constitution of India.
 Dr. P. Venugopal

Dr. P. Venugopal, who conducted India’s first

heart transplant, passed away at the age of 82.

In this career, he led more than 50,000 heart

surgeries.

He received the Padma Bhushan in 1998 for his

contributions to the field of Medicine.
Yamini Krishnamurthy
Bibek Debroy, Chairman of PM's
Economic Advisory Council, Passes
Away.
Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi
dancer Yamini Krishnamurthy died
at the age of 84.
 Padma Shri Kanaka Raju passes away

The legendary Gussadi folk dancer Kanaka Raju, also known as

Gussadi Raju, passed away on 25 October 2024 due to age-
related ailments.

He was 84 years old (Telangana)

Raj Gond tribe

Padma Shri in 2021.

 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Former chief minister of West Bengal and veteran CPIM leader

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away on August 8, at his
residence in Kolkata’s Palm Avenue.

80 Years
 Indian Coast Guard (Director General)

Rakesh Pal During his 34-year career, he

became the 25th Director General of the
ICG.
 Sitaram Yechury

Sitaram Yechury passed away in New Delhi on 12

September 2024 amer a prolonged illness.

He was General Secretary of CPI(M). He was born in

Chennai.
 Dr. Ram Narayan Agarwal

Father of Agni missile and Padma Bhushan

awardee R.N. Aggarwal died due to old age
diseases.

Father of Agni Missiles.

Miscellaneous
 Operation Sadbhav

Operation Sadbhav will provide humanitarian

assistance to typhoon Yagi- affected countries
– Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
New name if Port Blair Pune Airport – Renamed as
Jagadguru Sant Tukaram Maharaj
Pune International Airport
 Brand Ambassador of (I4C)

Actor Rashmika Mandanna

Indian Cyber Crime CoordinaYon

Centre (I4C)
 ‘14th Maharatna Company’

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)

has been upgraded to 14th Maharatna
Central Public Sector Enterprises.
 Pashmina wool ‘Mera Hou Chongba’ 2024 - Manipur

Pashmina wool belonged to the

Ladakh Union Territory which has
been given GI tags.
Traditional Saree Worn Asia's largest open air trade
‘Gharchola’ GI Tag fair ‘Bali Jatra’ Odisha
Gujarat
9th ‘Amur Falcon FesYval’- Manipur. Me·Gong Festival 2024
 Dhudmaras of Chhattisgarh

Dhudmaras, a village in Chhattisgarh’s

Bastar district, is gaining international
acclaim and has been named one of the
best tourism villages by the UNWTO.
 Partner country in the 25th ‘Hornbill Festival’

The 25th ediNon of the fesNval will showcase a

collaboraNve cultural experience with the United States of
America (USA), United Kingdom (Wales), Japan and Peru as
country partners while Sikkim and Telangana will be the
partner states.

Hornbill Festival is celebrated

in Nagaland to encourage inter-tribal interaction.
 'International Criminal Court' (ICJ) has issued an
arrest warrant against Israel Prime Minister

Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu