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IMPORTANT DAYS PERSONALITY

 “National Science Day – 28th Feb  Brazilian football legend Edson
(2023 theme Global Science for Global Arantes do Nascimento, famously
Wellbeing) called Pelé, has passed away aged 82.
He is considered by many as one of the
 International Year of millets 2023 greatest footballers of all time
 World Braille Day -January 4.  Former West Bengal Governor Keshri
Nath Tripathi passes away
 Pravasi Bhartiya Divas - 9thJanuary
 Dr Tehemton E Udwadia “Father of
 World Hindi Day - 10th January laparoscopic surgery” passes away
(Theme 2023: “Hindi – Traditional  Italian man Michele Santelia sets
Knowledge to Artificial Intelligence) Guinness World Record by creating
‘mirror typing’ books
 Army Day is - 15 January
 World’s richest actor list, Shah Rukh
 National Startup Day - January 16 Khan beats Tom Cruise, he is the
richest actor in Asia and fourth richest
 National Disaster Response Force Day actor all over the world
- 19th January
 Mukarram Jah Bahadur, Hyderabad’s
 Parakram Diwas - January 23( to mark Last Nizam passes away
the birth of prominent Indian freedom
fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose)  New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Ardern
announces resignation
 International Day of Education +  World’s oldest person, Lucile Randon
National Girl Child Day -24th Jan passes away at the age of 118
 National Voters Day celebrates on  115-years-old Branyas Morera
25th January (The theme for this year becomes the world’s oldest living
‘Nothing Like Voting, I Vote for Sure’) person
 International Customs Day - 26th AWARD
January
 Republc day-26th Jan. (74th)  Odisha has won the World Habitat
Awards 2023 for its Jag Mission..
 Data Privacy Day- 28th January  Indian Cyclist Swasti Singh gets 30th
Ekalabya Puraskar.
 World Leprosy Day-29th January
 Cuban social worker Aleida Guevara
 Martyrs’ Day or Shaheed Diwas- 30th received with first KR Gouri Amma
January national award

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 Indian peacekeepers honoured with BOOKS
UN Medal for Exemplary Service
 “Forks in the Road: My Days at RBI
 United States R’Bonney Gabriel
and Beyond” by C. Rangarajan.
crowned 71st Miss Universe 2022
 “Roller Coaster: An Affair with
 Writer K Venu received Federal Bank Banking” - Tamal Bandyopadhyay
Literary Award 2023
 Goa Manohar International Airport SPORTS
wins best sustainable greenfield airport
award  Indian cricketers Suryakumar Yadav
and Smriti Mandhana were nominated
 Song ‘Naatu Naatu’ and two for the Men’s and Women’s T20
documentaries from India nominated Cricketer of the Year Awards 2022 on
for this year’s Oscar 29 December 2022.
 Padma Vibhushan Winners List.  Arshdeep Singh has been nominated
for the ICC Men’s Emerging Cricketer
 Shri Balkrishna of the Year 2022.
Doshi from Gujarat  Cristiano Ronaldo has signed a two-
(Posthumous):Architecture and-a-half-year deal with Saudi
 Shri Zakir Hussain from Arabia’s club Al Nasr.
Maharashtra:Art  Koneru Humpy has become the first
Indian in history to win two medals at
 S M Krishna from Karnataka: the World Blitz Chess Championship.
Public Affairs
 Koustav Chatterjee has become India’s
 Shri Dilip Mahalanabis 78th Grandmaster at the MPL 59th
from West Bengal National Senior Chess Championship
(Posthumous):Medicine in New Delhi
 Shri Srinivas Varadhan from  Umran Malik has become India’s
USA:Science & Engineering fastest bowler by throwing the ball at a
speed of 155 kmph.
 Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav  Steve Smith has surpassed Sir Donald
from UP (Posthumous) :Public Bradman in terms of most Test
Affairs centuries.
 Kantha embroidery artist Ms. Pritikana  Nikhat Zareen & Lovlina Borgohain
Goswami from West Bengal won win gold medals at the Elite National
Padma Sri. Women’s Boxing Championships.
 Uttarakhand tableau which showcased  Chetan Sharma reappointed as
the state’s wildlife and religious sites Chairman of BCCI’s selection
at the 74th Republic Day parade has committee
won the top prize.  PravasiBharatiya Divas 2023 has
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 Kerala University won ‘Overall  Men’s T20 International
Championship’ at youth festival Cricketer of the Year:
Suryakumar Yadav (India)
 Indian Tennis star Sania Mirza
announced her retirement. (She  Women’s T20 International
announced that the Dubai Tennis Cricketer of the Year: Tahlia
Championships) McGrath (Australia)
 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023  Men’s Emerging Cricketer of
begins in Cuttack the Year: Marco Jansen (South
Africa)
 Barcelona beats Real Madrid in
Spanish Super Cup final 2023  Women’s Emerging Cricketer of
the Year: Renuka Singh (India)
 Viacom18 bagged Women’s IPL media
 Men’s Associate Cricketer of
rights for Rs 951 cr for next 5 years
the Year: Gerhard Erasmus
 Indian Opener Shubhman Gill hits (Namibia)
double century off 149 balls  Women’s Associate Cricketer of
 South Africa’s Hashim Amla ended his the Year: Esha Oza (India)
22-year cricket playing career  David Shepherd Trophy:
 Rohit Sharma shattered MS Dhoni’s Richard Illingworth (England)
record of most sixes in ODIs in India  Spirit of Cricket Award: Aasif
Sheikh (Nepal).
 ICC awards winners for 2022
 Australian Open 2023:
 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy:
Babar Azam (Pakistan)  Men’s Singles :N. Djokovic
(Serbia)
 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy:
Nat Sciver (England)  Women’s Singles:A. Sabalenka
(Belarus)
 Men’s Test Cricketer of the
Year: Ben Stokes (England)  ICC Women’s U19 T20 World
Cup: India beat England to win the
 Men’s ODI Cricketer of the inaugural Women’s U19 T20 World
Year: Babar Azam Cup
 Women’s ODI Cricketer of the  Hockey World Cup 2023: Germany
Year: Nat Sciver beat Belgium 5-4 in the finals

Edumantra
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 RANKING  Indian Navy’s “TROPEX 2023”
maritime exercise held in the Indian
Ocean.
 The Global Firepower Index ranks
the countries based on their potential  India & Japan concludes “Veer
military strength. India is ranked Guardian 2023” Air exercise in Japan.
fourth in the index.
 Mukesh Ambani Number 1 Among SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Indians And 2 Globally On Brand
Guardianship Index
 ISRO ‘Shukrayaan I’ mission to planet
 India is ranked fifth on the global Venus reportedly shifted to 2031
list of the best cuisines for 2022,
according to Taste Atlas.  NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Discovers New Exoplanet Named
LHS 475b.
DEFENCE  Entire Country to be Covered by
Doppler Weather Radar Network by
 Indian Air Force successfully tested 2025
the extended range version of the  SpaceX Launches 51 Starlink satellites
BrahMos Air Launched Missile against from California.
the Ship Target in the Bay of Bengal
from the SU-30 MKI fighter jet  NASA to Test Nuclear-Powered
Rocket by 2027 that will Make Space
 ICG Ship ‘Kamla Devi’, Fifth and Travel Faster
Last vessel of Fast Patrol Vessel
Commissioned at Kolkata  European Space Mission JUICE to be
Launched in April 2023
 Captain Surbhi Jakhmola becomes 1st  India’s First Mission to Study the Sun,
woman officer to be posted at BRO Aditya-L1, will be Launched by June-
July.
 21st VARUNA Naval Exercise
between India and France begins
 Fifth Kalvari Class Submarine “Vagir” APPOINTMENT
to be Commissioned into Indian Navy
 Benjamin Netanyahu has become
 Indian Navy conducts “AMPHEX Prime Minister of Israel for the sixth
2023” mega exercise near Kakinada in time.
Andhra Pradesh
 Central Vigilance
 The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to Commissioner(Acting) Praveen
conduct Exercise PRALAY in the Kumar Srivastava.
northeastern sector of India amid the  New President of Brazil :Luiz Inacio
unresolved contention with China Lula da Silva
about differing perceptions regarding
the Line of Actual Control (LAC)  Chief Executive Officer at FSSAI:
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 Santosh Kumar Yadav Appointed as  Punjab ranks second in the country
Chairman of NHAI in average monthly income per
agricultural household(Meghalaya
 Kevin McCarthy named as new
tops across the country with average
speaker of the US House of
monthly income per agricultural
Representation.
household (Rs 29,348)
 Indian-origin Manpreet Monica Singh
sworn in as 1st female Sikh judge of  India, Australia Economic Cooperation
USA and Trade Agreement comes into force
from 29 December.
 New global business head of Meta in
India-Vikas Purohit.
 RBI issued the list of six credit rating
 Prime minister of New Zealand: Chris agencies that banks can use for the
Hipkins purpose of risk weighting banks’
claims for capital adequacy purposes,
 Jeff Zients selected as next chief of
These are CARE, CRISIL, ICRA,
staff by Joe Biden
India Ratings,Acuite Ratings &
 Shamalbhai B Patel appoints as Research Limitedand INFOMERICS.
chairman of Amul
 ndia’s forex reserves declined by USD
 Tata Trusts names Siddharth Sharma
1.268 billion to USD 561.583 billion
CEO.
for the week ended January 6
 President of the Czech Republic: Petr
Pavel  India’s Richest 1% Own More Than
40% of Total Wealth: Oxfam

ECONOMY & BANKING  IMF Bailout, India to back Sri Lanka’s

Debt Restructuring Plan
 ‘Daksh’ is an advanced supervisory
management system maintained by the  India’s Fiscal Deficit for FY23
Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Estimated at Rs 17.5 lakh crore, FY24
Rs 17.95 lakh crore: SBI
 The Centre for Economics and
Business Research (CEBR), which is  Pakistan is South Asia’s Weakest
a UK-based economics consultancy, Economy, World Bank report
predicted that India will become the
third-largest economy by 2037.  Amazon back as World’s Most Valued
Brand, Apple down to No 2
 According to an RBI report, public
sector banks (PSBs) accounted for the  Reserve Bank of India Says No
majority of frauds reported in 2018– Foreign Investment Cap on Sovereign
19, with 55.4% of the cases reported Green Bonds
and 90% of the money involved.
 SEBI Launches Information Database
 Reliance Acquires Metro AG’s India on Municipal Bonds
Business for Rs 2,850 Crore.

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 INTERNATIONAL  China building dam on Mabja Zangbo
river near Indian border
 India signed a “Comprehensive Migration  Canada to Commercialize World’s
and Mobility Partnership Agreement” First Photonic-based Quantum
(MMPA) with Austria on 2 January 2023. Computer
 The European country Croatia has  Senior ISIS Leader Bilal al-Sudani
officially adopted the euro as its currency. killed in US Raid in Somalia.

 Sweden has assumed the presidency of

the European Union Council for the first NATIONAL
six months of the year on January 1, 2023.
The Czech Republic led the council in the  Union Home and Cooperation Minister
second half of 2022. Amit Shah launched border security
 China has become the first country in Asia force’s (BSF) mobile app ‘Prahari’ in
and the second country in the world to New Delhi on 29 December 2022.
introduce a hydrogen-powered train. The  The Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
world’s first hydrogen train was launched will serve as the secretariat for the
in Germany. Science20 summit during the G20,
 On January 3, Ecuador, Japan, Malta, chaired by India. It is one of the many
Mozambique and Switzerland officially groups of G20.
began their two-year term as non-
 India will set up its first waste-to-
permanent members of the UNSC.
hydrogen project in Pune.
 Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina
Inaugurates First-Ever Metro Service in  Union Road Transport and Highways
Dhaka Minister Nitin Gadkari have
inaugurated the country’s second
 India and Pakistan Exchange Lists of longest cable eight-lane Zuari Bridge
Nuclear Assets and Prison Inmates in Goa.
 China’s Population Shrinks for the First  India’s first underwater metro will start
Time Since 1961 in Kolkata.
 India announced the donation 12,500  Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award
doses of pentavalent vaccines to Cuba (PBSA) has been announced. This
 India-Bangladesh Friendship pipeline to time this award will be given to 27
begin supplying diesel overseas Indians

 UN General Assembly adopts Indian Co-  Amreli city of Gujarat received its
sponsored Resolution on ‘Education For first in vitro fertilization (IVF) mobile
Democracy’ device on January 01, 2023
 Brazil and Argentina to Begin  The Election Commission (EC) has
Preparations for Common Currency launched ‘Mission-929’ to achieve
over 90% voting percentage in Tripura.
 US President Biden Nominated Julie
Turner as North Korea Human Rights  Odisha hosts the world’s largest open-
Envoy. air theatre ‘Dhanu Yatra’ festival.

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 Captain Shiva Chauhan became the  The central government has set a target
first woman officer to be operationally to eliminate Kala Azar from India by
deployed in the Siachen Glacier. 2023.
 President Draupadi Murmu  CM Vijayan’s constituency
inaugurated the Constitution Park, Dharmadam has achieved the position
Peacock Pillar, National Flag Pillar, of complete library constituency in
statues of Mahatma Gandhi and India, the first in India.
Maharana Pratap at Raj Bhavan,  Maharashtra became the first state in
Jaipur. the country to pass the Lokayukta Bill.
 NTPC has launched India’s first  India’s first-ever coal gasification-
green hydrogen blending project in based Talcher Fertilizer Plant in
Adityanagar, Surat Odisha will be ready to be dedicated to
the nation by October 2024
 The 26th National Youth Festival
of India will be held in Hubballi-  Kerala Becomes Country’s First Fully
Dharwad, Karnataka. Digital Banking State
 Kerala Sets up Welfare Board to
 Spain will be the theme country of the
Provide Pension to MGNREGS
International Kolkata Book Fair.
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convention inaugurated by PM Covid vaccine launched.
Modi in Indore(this is the 17th
PravasiBharatiya Divas)  India’s First Green Solar Panel Factory
to Build by Luminous in Uttarakhand
 The International Kite Festival 2023
held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
SUMMITS &
 India’s First Centre of Excellence in CONFERENCES
Online Gaming to be set up in Shillong
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi
 Right to Sight, Rajasthan Becomes inaugurated the 108th Indian Science
first state to implement Blindness Congress (ISC) in Nagpur via video
Control Policy conferencing.
 India has invited Egyptian President  On January 5, 2023, the 36th meeting
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as the chief guest between India and France on important
for the Republic Day in 2023 issues began in New Delhi.
 NCERT Launched India’s First
National Assessment Regulator  IISc Bengaluru is Secretariat for G20
“PARAKH”. Working Group on Science.

 The Indian district of Kollam has  India will host ‘The Voice of Global
become the country’s first constitution South’ Summit on January 12-13
literate district. The announcement
was made by Kerala Chief Minister  ‘Think 20’ meeting of G20 began to be
Pinarayi Vijayan held Bhopal.

 J&K Becomes First Indian UT to  Hyderabad chosen as host of

Completely Shift to e-Governance WEF Center for Fourth Industrial
Mode Revolution.

 Wayanad becomes first district in

country to provide basic documents to
all tribal ENVIRONMENT
 PM Modi Pays Tribute Netaji, to  Ministry of Environment Included
Name 21 Andaman Islands After Neelakurinji on the List of Protected
Param Vir Chakra Awardees Plants.Neelakurinji is a shrub found
in the Western Ghats in the Shola
 Jammu and Kashmir Government to Host forests in the Southern part of India. It
its First SARAS Fair 2023 is peculiar that it blooms only once in
 North India’s largest floating Solar project twelve years
in Chandigarh.

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IMPORTANT DAYS  Pervez Musharraf, Former Pakistani

General & President, Dies in Dubai at
79
 World Wetlands Day - 2nd
February(Theme ‘It’s Time for  Rayyana Barnawi ,the first-ever
Wetlands Restoration) woman astronaut of Saudi Arabia
will go to space this year
 World Cancer Day 2023: 4th February
(“Close The Care Gap” has been the  Eminent Indian painter and late
theme for World Cancer Day for the filmmaker Guru Dutt’s sister Lalitha
past three years (2022, 2023, and 2024) Lajmi passed away at the age of 90

 World Pulses Day – 10th February.(  Ex-Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga

‘Pulses for a Sustainable Future’) Nominated By US President To Lead
World Bank
 International Day of Women and Girls
in Science – 11th February  Churchgate Railway Station in
Mumbai will now be known as
 World Unani Day -11th February First Indian RBI Governor CD
 World Radio Day - 13th Feb Deshmukh.

 World Pangolin Day—18th Feb  Classical dance legend Kanak Rele

passes away
 International Mother Language Day -
21st February
AWARD
 Central Excise Day - 24th February
 World NGO Day - 27th February  Former PM Manmohan Singh
conferred Lifetime Achievement
 National Science Day-28th Feb(Theme: Honour by UK
‘Global Science for Global
Wellbeing’)  BBC ISWOTY Award: Wrestlers
Vinesh Phogat and Sakshi Malik
nominated
PERSONALITY  Grammy Awards 2023
 Record of the Year:Lizzo
 Brazilian football legend Edson
Arantes do Nascimento, famously  Album of the Year:Harry Styles –
called Pelé, has passed away aged 82. Harry’s House
He is considered by many as one of the  Song of the Year:Lizzo – About
greatest footballers of all time Damn Time
 PM Modi Emerged as World’s Most  Golden Globes 2023: ‘RRR’ creates
Popular Leader, with approval rating of history as it wins Best Song Award
78%. for ‘Naatu Naatu’

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presented to Journalist A.B.K. Prasad for SPORTS
his contributions towards journalism
 Angela Merkel awarded UNESCO Peace  Babita Phogat, a former wrestler, joined
Prize in Ivory Coast the oversight committee established to
 Karnataka Bank awarded ‘Prathista look into the claims made against the
Puraskar for achieving highest percentage Wrestling Federation of India
in BHIM-UPI transactions.  Saudi Arabia to Host Football’s 2027
 Kollam district won Swaraj Trophy 2021- Asian Cup
22 for Best District Panchayat.  First Youth20 Inception Meeting 2023
 Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor won the Begins in Guwahati.
Best Actor and Best Actress awards at  ICC T-20 Women’s World Cup Begins in
the Dadasaheb Phalke International Film South Africa
Festival Awards
 Ravichandran Ashwin becomes the fastest
 BAFTA Indian to pick up 450 Test wickets
 Best Film All Quiet on the Western  Rohit Sharma led from the front as he
Front. scored his ninth Test century to become
 Leading Actress Cate Blanchett, Tar the first Indian captain to score hundreds
in all formats
 Leading Actor Austin Butler, Elvis
 FIFA Club World Cup Final: Real Madrid
 Best Director Edward Berger, All beat Al Hilal to win record fifth Club
Quiet on the Western Front World Cup
 Dr. Mahendra Kumar Mishra, an Indian  5th Khelo India Youth Games 2022:
educator and social worker for the Maharashtra topped the medal tally
advancement of indigenous languages
in Odisha, received the World Mother  Smriti Mandhana Becomes Most
Language Award from Prime Minister Expensive Player in WPL with ₹3.4
Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka, Bangladesh crore Bid by RCB

 JSW chairman Sajjan Jindal bags  Women’s Premier League: Sania Mirza
‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2022’ title joins Royal Challengers Bangalore as
team mentor
 ‘RRR’ has bagged the ‘Best International
Film’ award at the Hollywood Critics  FIFA World Cup 2026: FIFA confirms
Association Film Awards. US, Canada, Mexico automatically in
2026 World Cup
 Computer scientist Hari Balakrishnan
wins 2023 Marconi Prize  Ladakh to host India’s First Frozen-
Lake Marathon at Pangong Tso
 BCCI’s Chief Selector Chetan Sharma
BOOKS Resigned After Sting Operation
 Tata Group bags Title sponsorship
 ‘Victory City’ - Salman Rushdie. rights for the Women’s Premier League
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 Vignesh and Visakh NR become India’s  A joint counter-terrorism exercise
first brothers to become Grandmasters. Tarkash between National Security
Guard (NSG) and US Special
 Rudrankksh Patil Won gold in 10m Air Operations Forces (SOF) culminated
Rifle at ISSF World Cup 2023 in Chennai
 Spain’s Sergio Ramos announced  India and Japan has kick started
international football retirement an exercise ‘Ex Dharma Guardian’
 Carlos Alcaraz won Argentina Open at Camp Imazu in Shiga Province,
title 2023 Japan from February 17 to March
2, 2023
 Madhya Pradesh wins senior women’s  Malabar multilateral naval exercise
national hockey championship will be hosted by Australia for the
 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup: first time this year, which includes
Australia clinch 6th Women’s T20 participation from India, Australia,
World Cup title. Japan, and the United States
 For the first time, India’s
indigenously-made light combat
RANKING aircraft Tejas will be participating
in an international multilateral air
exercise — Exercise Desert Flag
 World Happiness Index 2023 -India VIll — in the UAE, reflecting India’s
136th /146. (Finland 1st ) increasing efforts at showcasing the
 Mumbai overtakes Delhi as most polluted jet at the world stage
city in India
 India ranked 7th biggest nation ready SCIENCE &
to adopt crypto in 2023. TECHNOLOGY

DEFENCE  Jupiter beats Saturn to become the

Planet with most Moons. (Jupiter-92,
Saturn-83)
 Indian Army carries out military
exercise “Trishakri Prahar” in North  ISRO-NASA ‘NISAR’ satellite to be
Bengal launched from India in September

 Indian Army Gets ‘World’s First’ Fully  Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin scored a
Operational SWARM Drone System big contract from the American space
agency, Nasa, to launch a mission to
Mars
 ISRO’s new rocket SSLV-D2 launched
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from Satish Dhawan space centre at
Sriharikota
 ‘Omorgus Khandesh’ is a Newly
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Demonstration Satellite Launched
JANUS-1 Successfully.JANUS-1 was
launched from the Satish Dhawan  RBI Monetary Policy 2023:
Space Centre of India under a  Repo Rate: 6.50%
commercial arrangement with New
Space India Limited (NSIL).  Standing Deposit Facility (SDF):
6.25%
 Lexi’: India’s first AI assistant powered
by ChatGPT.  Marginal Standing Facility (MSF):
6.75%.
 APJ Abdul Kalam Satellite Launch  PhonePe launches cross-border UPI
Vehicle Mission-2023 launched from payments service
Tamil Nadu
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
 India’s first hybrid sounding rocket launched the first pilot of Digital
by private players was successfully Rupee- Retail segment (e₹-R) on
launched from Pattipulam village in the December 01, 2022.
Chengalpattu district of Tamil Nadu
 India is the highest milk producer in
the world contributing twenty-four per
cent of global milk production in the
APPOINTMENT year 2021-22
 FORTUNE(R) Magazine: TCS named
 Equatorial Guinea appoints Manuela to World’s Most Admired Companies
Roka Botey as first female PM. List
 Puma India named Indian Captain  During 2021-22, India received foreign
Harmanpreet Kaur as its brand inward remittances of USD 89,127
ambassador million which was the highest ever
inward remittances received in a single
 Lawyer Victoria Gowri Sworn in as year
Madras High Court Judge
 Shaktikanta Das, the governor of
 Ramesh Bais Appointed as the New the RBI, announced that a pilot
Governor of Maharashtra programme to introduce coin vending
machines that use QR codes will begin
 Mohammad Shahabuddin elected as 22nd shortly
President of Bangladesh
 MobiKwik becomes India’s first app to
 Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar to be support credit cards on UPI
new Vice Chief of Army
 Digital credit to be introduced this year;
 Neal Mohan, the new Indian American NRIs in 10 countries to get UPI service
CEO of YouTube.  India’s first-ever municipal bond issue for
retail opens
 Rajeev Raghuvanshi Appointed as New
Drug Controller General of India  India’s forex reserves drop by $1.5 billion
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Hello Ujjivan- India’s first voice, visual, To Help Quake-Hit Turkey, Syria
vernacular banking app
 Earthquake of magnitude 7.8 kills 95,
 Reserve Bank of India Announces 2nd knocks down buildings in Turkey
Global Hackathon “HARBINGER 2023”
 India, France, UAE Establish Trilateral
 India’s GDP likely to grow at 6.2% in
Cooperation Initiative, in fields including
FY24, says Morgan Stanley
Energy, Defence & Economy
 GST revenue reached second highest
mop-up of Rs 1.56 lakh crore in  World Bank chief David Malpass to step
January down early
 External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar
INTERNATIONAL Unveiled Bust of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
in Fiji
 UNESCO listed Ukraine’s Odesa a World
Heritage Site in Danger  India and Spain agreed to cooperate
in digital infra, climate action, clean
 India to be Theme Country at 2025 energy
Madrid International Book Fair
 Cabinet approves MoU between India ,
 Australia Announced Decision to Chile in Agricultural Sector
Remove British Monarchy from its
Banknotes  Spanish Government Passed Law
 India welcomes Congo into Providing ‘Menstrual Leave’ First
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CONFERENCES
 Visakhapatnam will be the new capital of
Andhra Pradesh.  30th National Child Science Congress
 India’s 1st Hydrogen train will come by Organized in Ahmedabad
Dec 2023 on Heritage Routes  G20 International Financial
 Eknath Shinde Declares ‘Jai Jai Architecture Working Group in
Maharashtra Majha’ As State Song. Chandigarh.
 Yaya Tso to be Ladakh’s first biodiversity  PM Modi Inaugurates Global Investors
heritage site Summit 2023 in Lucknow
 Visva-Bharati University was founded by  World Government Summit 2023 held in
Rabindranath in 1921. It will soon receive Dubai
the UNESCO ‘heritage” tag. This will  2th World Hindi Conference Inaugurated
allow it to be the first university of living at Fiji
heritage.
 India – Egypt hold 3rd ‘Joint Working
 Prime Minister Modi Inaugurated Arabic
Group on Counter Terrorism’ meeting
Academy in Mumbai
in New Delhi
 Lithium reserves for the first time
found in Jammu & Kashmir  18th World Security Congress Begins
in Jaipur
 UIDAI Launched New AI Chatbot
Aadhaar Mitra in India ENVIRONMENT
 PM Modi Virtually Inaugurated Jal
Jan Abhiyan in Rajasthan  Cyclone Gabrielle strikes Auckland.
 First nuclear plant of North India to be  12 Cheetahs to be Flown from South
built in Haryana Africa Under Cheetah Reintroduction
 India’s First Agri Chatbot Ama Program
KrushAI Launched in Odisha.  Under the ambitious Cheetah
 Eknath Shinde-led Sena Faction Gets reintroduction program, Prime
‘Bow and Arrow’ Symbol. Minister Narendra Modi released the
first batch of eight spotted felines —
 Kerala HC publish judgment in five females and three males — from
regional language, becomes 1st in Namibia into a quarantine enclosure
country to do so at the Kuno National Park in Madhya
 Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Pradesh on his 72nd birthday on
Shinde named Shiv Sena chief September 17 last year
 Term of the 22nd Law Commission
extended till August, 2024. Former EXAM BOOSTER
chief justice of the Karnataka
High Court Ritu Raj Awasthi is the  In commemoration of India’s late Chief of
chairperson of the current commission Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, a bell
has been placed at Nepal’s revered Shree
 Kerala becomes first state to use
Muktinath Temple.
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IMPORTANT DAYS  Shaheed Diwas or Martyrs’ Day-

23rd March (This day marks the
 Zero Discrimination Day, 1st anniversary of the execution of three
March (theme 2023: Save lives: Indian freedom fighters- Bhagat Singh,
Decriminalise) Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru
in 1931.)
 World Civil Defence Day: 01st March.
 World Meteorological Day- 23rd
 UN World Wildlife Day- 3rd March March (Theme 2023: The Future of
(theme 2023: Partnerships for wildlife Weather, Climate, and Water Across
conservation) Generations)
 National Security Day or Rashtriya  World Tuberculosis Day- 24th March
Suraksha Diwas- 4th March  World Theatre Day 2023 is celebrated
 International Women’s Day-8th March on 27th March
(2023 theme: DigitALL: Innovation  International Day of Zero Waste- 30th
and technology for gender equality) March
 No Smoking Day: 8th March
 World Kidney Day: 9th March
PERSONALITY
 International Day of Women Judges:
10th March  Gianni Infantino was re-elected as
 World Consumer Day :15th March FIFA president until 2027.
(2023’s theme is “Empowering  Rohan Bopanna, a 43-year-old Indian
Consumers Through Clean Energy tennis player, and his Australian
Transitions) partner Matthew Ebden have become
the oldest duo to win an ATP Masters
 India’s Ordnance Factories Day
1000 title.
2023:18thMarch
 Creator of the famous ‘Pandav
 Global Recycling Day 2023 observed Goenda’, renowned Bengali novelist
on 18th March and short story writer Sasthipada
 The International Day of Happiness- Chattopadhyay has passed away.
20th March  Veteran actor-writer-director Satish
 International Day of Forests or World Kaushik has passed away at the age of
Forestry Day- 21st March 67
 Sampanna Ramesh sets record as
 World Water Day- 22nd March (theme fastest Indian to swim across Palk
2023: Accelerating the change to solve Strait
the water and sanitation crisis)

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 AWARD  Union Health and Family Welfare
Ministry has received the Porter Prize
 95th Academy Awards (Oscars Awards 2023.
2023)  Vinod Kumar Shukla has won the
• Best Picture-Everything PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement
Everywhere All at Once in International Literature for lifetime
achievement.
• Best Actor-Brendan Fraser (The
Whale)  Delhi airport has been ranked among
the cleanest airports in Asia-Pacific
• Best Actress-Michelle Yeoh  Ratan Tata has been named an
(Everything Everywhere All at Honorary Officer in the General
Once) Division of the Order of Australia.
• Best Director-Daniel Kwan and  Abel Prize 2023- Luis Caffarelli, for
Daniel Schienert (Everything nonlinear partial differential equations
Everywhere All at Once) including free-boundary problems and
• Best Original Song- “Naatu the Monge-Ampère equation
Naatu” (RRR)  Children’s Champion Award 2023
in the health and nutrition category-
• The Elephant Whisperers: Best
Tapoban, an NGO based in Pathsala,
Documentary Short Category
Assam.
 Mirabai Chanu won BBC Indian  India Wins GSMA Government
Sportswoman of The Year for 2022 Leadership Award 2023, India was
 Table tennis player Bhavina Patel won declared winner in the ceremony held
the ’BBC Para Sportswoman of the at Mobile World Congress Barcelona
Year’ award.  Swachh Sujal Shakti Samman 2023
 Boxer Nitu Ghanghas was chosen organized by the Ministry of Jal Shakti
as the ’BBC Emerging Player of the  Sir David Chipperfield Selected as
Year’. the 2023 Laureate of the Pritzker
Architecture Prize
 Former captain of the Indian women’s
hockey team Pritam Siwach was  INS Dronacharya Receives Prestigious
conferred with the ’BBC Lifetime President Droupadi Murmu’s Colour
Achievement Award’ Award
 32nd Vyas Samman 2022: Dr.  Bombay Jayashri chosen for Sangita
Chaturvedi’s Pagalkhana Kalanidhi Award 2023 by Music
Academy
 Saraswati Samman award for the year
2022: Tamil writer Sivasankari for her  Luis Caffarelli won the 2023 Abel
2019 memoir, Surya Vamsam. Prize

 Shaktikanta Das, Governor of the  Tapoban, an NGO based in Pathsala,

RBI has been honored with the title Assam honoured with Children’s
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which deals with caste-based (50 kg) India Gold
discrimination, has been nominated for
the 2023 International Booker Prize • Light heavyweight Saweety
longlist Boora (81 kg) India Gold
 Naveen Jindal honoured with  Bahrain Grand Prix-Max Verstappen
‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by
University of Texas  Karnataka won the Santosh Trophy
national football championship,
beating Meghalaya.
BOOK
 brand ambassadors of IBA Women’s
 A book titled “As Good as My Word” World Boxing Championship 2023:
wrote by KM Chandrasekhar MC Mary Kom and Bollywood actor
Farhan Akhtar.
 ‘Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway
to Eternity’, written by former MP Dr.  Gianni Infantino was re-elected as
Karan Singh. FIFA president until 2027
 “India’s Struggle for Independence –  Rani Rampal (Indian hockey team)
Gandhian Era” - P. Jyothimani the first woman in the sport to have
 “Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform” a stadium named after her. The MCF
written by Rachna Biswat Rawat Rae Bareli has renamed the hockey
stadium to ‘Rani’s Girls Hockey Turf’
in her honour
SPORTS  Manchester United won the Carabao
Cup title 2023
 WPL 2023: Mumbai Indians defeated
 Tamil Nadu’s Jeswin Aldrin broke the
Delhi Capitals by seven wickets
national record in the men’s long jump
 Winner’s list of IBA Women’s World in the second AFI National Jumps
Boxing Championship 2023, held in Competition
New Delhi.
 Asian Chess Federation confers D
• Middleweight- Lovlina Gukesh with Player of the Year award
Borgohain (75 kg), India Gold
 Mirabai Chanu won BBC Indian
• Minimumweight Nitu Ghanghas Sportswoman of The Year for 2022
(48 kg) India Gold

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Championships 2023: MC Mary
Kom, Farhan Akhtar named brand  The Union Cabinet approved the
ambassadors procurement of 70 HTT-40 basic trainer
 Irani Cup cricket 2022-23 final: Rest aircraft from Hindustan Aeronautics
of India crowned champions Limited (HAL).
 The Exercise Shinyuu Maitri is being
 Sergio Pérez wins Saudi Arabia Grand organized on the sidelines of the Indo-
Prix 2023 Japan Joint Army Exercise, Dharma
Guardian, which was conducted from
 Runner Lashinda Demus Awarded
13 February 2023 to 02 March 2023 at
Olympic Gold Medal Over A Decade
Komatsu, Japan.
Later
 he Indian warship INS Trikand
has arrived in Bahrain for her first
participation in the International
RANKINGS Maritime Exercise organised by the
US-led Combined Maritime Forces, a
 Elon Musk reclaims to the top, becomes 34-nation naval group.
richest person on the planet again  The Indian Navy’s exercise, called the
“Theatre Level Operational Readiness
 Global Terrorism Index – India ranked Exercise for 2023” (TROPEX-23),
13th. (Topped by Afghanistan) culminated in the Arabian Sea
 Recently, during the on-going tensions
 World Happiness Index 2023- Finland is
between India and China at the Line of
the happiest country in the world for the
Actual Control (LAC), the Indian Army
sixth year in a row followed by Denmark
and Air Force carried out a 96-hour
(India has been ranked 126th out of 146
joint exercise named ‘Vayu Prahar’ in
countries). This report published by the
the eastern region.
United Nations Sustainable Development
Solutions Network.  The Indian Navy’s exercise, called the
“Theatre Level Operational Readiness
 India has now been ranked at the 108th Exercise for 2023” (TROPEX-23),
spot globally for electoral democracy culminated in the Arabian Sea
after running for four months from
 India fell from the fifth to the eighth most November 2022 to March 2023
polluted nation in the world in 2022  India, France conducts Maritime
 India is the world’s largest importer of Partnership Exercise (MPX) in Arabian
military equipment. Sea.
 On March 13 and 14, 2023, the Indian
 India 8th most polluted country in the Ocean Area will host the third edition
world of the multilateral exercise La Perouse.
 SIPRI report 2023: India world’s largest The Royal Australian Navy, French
arms importer Navy, Indian Navy, Japanese Maritime
Self Defence Force, Royal Navy,
 Passport Index points: India ranks at and United States Navy will all have
144th spot in 2023 people, ships, and essential helicopters
participating in this event
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kurukshetra’ concludes at Jodhpur Tripura
 The annual bilateral maritime exercise  Neiphiu Rio took oath as the chief
called Konkan 2023 was conducted minister of Nagaland for the fifth term.
between the Indian Navy and the Royal
Navy from 20th to 22nd March 2023  Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K
off the Konkan coast in the Arabian Sea Sangma
 Senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer,
Rashmi Shukla has been appointed as the
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Director-General of the Sashastra Seema
Bal (SSB).
 ISRO successfully tests the CE-20
cryogenic engine, which will power  Group Captain Shaliza Dhami 1st woman
the nation’s rocket for the third moon to command frontline IAF combat
mission, Chandrayaan-3,
 Indo-American woman judge Tejal Mehta
 Researchers trying to uncover the named first justice of a district court in
secrets of Earth’s geology have US
revealed the fifth layer of the planet.
The layer is made of iron and nickel  Arun Subramanian becomes 1st Indian-
American judge at New York Court
 The Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) has received the  S.S. Dubey takes charge as new
NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite Controller General of Accounts
from the U.S. space agency.
 Amir Tamim appoints Sheikh Mohammed
 ISRO successfully launched its as Qatar’s new prime minister
heaviest rocket, LVM3, for the sixth
consecutive time from the Sriharikota  Savlon India appoints Sachin Tendulkar
spaceport. as world’s first ‘Hand Ambassador’
 ISRO launches LVM3-M3/Oneweb  Xi Jinping starts third term as China’s
India-2 Mission in Sriharikota president
 Nepal elects Ram Chandra Paudel as its
APPOINTMENT next president
 Eric Garcetti appointed as US
 Rajesh Malhotra named principal director Ambassador to India
general of PIB (Press Information
Bureau)  Climate entrepreneur Shreya Ghodawat
has been appointed as India’s ambassador
 Bola Tinubu elected as the new President for She Changes Climate
of Nigeria
 Former Brazilian President Dilma
 Vietnam parliament elects Vo Van Thuong
Rousseff named new President of BRICS
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 Moody’s expects India to report real  India’s Mayurbhanj and Ladakh grabs
GDP growth of 5.5 percent in 2023 spot in TIME list of World’s Greatest
Places of 2023.
 India’s UPI likely to extend to UAE,
Mauritius, Indonesia  A Namibian Cheetah passed away at
 Air India, owned by the Tata group, Kuno National Park in MP, India.
will discontinue the Vistara brand on  Salhoutuonuo Kruse and Hekani
completion of its merger with Tata SIA Jakhalu become 1st women MLAs
Airlines Ltd. from Nagaland
 Singapore Airlines receives 25.1%  International Yoga Festival 2023 Held
stake in Air India group after investing on Banks of Ganges in Rishikesh
$267 mn
 Adani-Hindenburg Row: Supreme
 Recently, RBI Governor Shaktikanta
Court forms experts committee to
Das had stated during the most
look into Hindenburg report on Adani
recent Monetary Policy Committee
Group; Head AM Sapre
(MPC) address that the apex banking
regulator, in collaboration with  ‘Catch the Rain 2023’ campaign to
banks, would launch a pilot project to be launched by President Murmu
evaluate the operation of a QR-code Addressing at the ceremony, the
based coin vending machine President stated that since India only
 Sashidhar Jagdishan, managing has 4% of the world’s water resources,
director (MD) and chief executive water management and conservation
officer (CEO) of HDFC Bank, has are India’s most pressing challenges
been chosen as the Business Standard  National Youth Parliament Festival
Banker of the Year 2022 Fourth Edition was held in the
 India’s per capita income in nominal Parliament of India in the national
terms doubled to Rs 1,72,000 since Capital, New Delhi
2014-15 when the Narendra Modi-  President Droupadi Murmu
led NDA came to power but uneven inaugurated the 7th International
income distribution remains a Dharma Dhamma Conference 2023 in
challenge Bhopal
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
permitted banks from 18 countries to  Tata Steel Mining Signs MoU with
open Special Vostro Rupee Accounts GAIL to get clean fuel
(SVRAs) to settle payments in rupees,  NADA and NCERT sign MoU
the government said to strengthen value-based sports
 India and Tanzania have received education amongst school children and
approval from the Reserve Bank of teachers
India (RBI) to utilize their respective  ‘World’s first’ bamboo crash barrier
national currencies in bilateral trade installed on Maharashtra highway
settlements

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Pushkar Singh Dhami has announced Go Organic’ cover for Sikkim
the launch of Mukhyamantri Ekal
 PM Modi inaugurates world’s
Mahila Swarozgar Yojana in the state
longest railway platform in Hubballi,
at the end of Women Empowerment
Karnataka(1.5km)
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 Nitin Gadkari unveiled first methanol INTERNATIONAL
run buses in Bengaluru

 India & World Bank signs loan  Inspectors from the United Nations
agreement for construction of Green nuclear watchdog found uranium
National Highway Corridors Project particles enriched up to 83.7% in
in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Iran’s underground Fordo nuclear site
Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
 Japan, U.S., South Korea, Taiwan
 Indian Railways to become Net Zero launch ‘Chip 4’ talks for supply chain
Carbon Emitter by 2030  Ales Bialiatski, Nobel laureate
 Govt aims to strengthen MSME sector sentenced prison for 10 years in
with Competitive (LEAN) Scheme Belarus
 Indonesia is all set to move its
 According to the data shared by the capital from Jakarta to Borneo over
Ministry of Education, Bihar (61.8 environmental issues such as being
%) has the lowest literacy, followed congested, sinking into seawater, and
by Arunachal Pradesh (65.3 %) and being prone to earthquakes
Rajasthan (66.1 %).
 India, US to sign memorandum of
 Kerala has the highest literacy understanding on semiconductors
rate in India at 94%, followed by
Lakshadweep at 91.85% and Mizoram  Prime Minister Sheikh
at 91.33%. Hasina inaugurated the first submarine
base of Bangladesh ‘BNS Sheikh
 The literacy rate in rural India is 67.77 Hasina’ at Pekua in Cox’s Bazar
per cent as compared to 84.11 per cent
in urban India  Egypt joins BRICS bank as new
member weeks after President Sisi’s
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi India visit
inaugurated the Global Millets (Shree
Anna) Conference in New Delhi on
18th March, 2023 SUMMITS & CONFERENCES

 ‘World Trade Center’ To Come Up In  The eighth edition of the annual

Kolkata’s Salt Lake: Merlin Group Raisina Dialogue, the flagship
conference on geopolitics and geo-
 RBI’s Data Centre and Cybersecurity strategy, begins in New Delhi.
Training Institute To Come Up In
Bhubaneswar  National Youth Parliament Festival
was held in the Parliament of India ,
 Government Increases Raw Jute MSP
New Delhi.
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Sikkim fined Rs 10 crore by the Principal
Bench of the National Green Tribunal
 Global Millets (Shree Anna)
(NGT) for their inability to prevent
Conference held in New Delhi.
the uncontrolled pollution of the
 Over 100 delegates from various designated Ramsar sites
countries attended the first meeting of  The order by NGT was made in
the G20 Trade and Investment Working lines with a petition alleging failure
Group in Mumbai. of statutory and administrative
 FRINJEX-23 Indo-France Joint authorities in taking remedial action
Military Exercise to commence at for protection of the Vembanad and
Thiruvananthapuram Ashtamudi lakes hit by illegal waste
dumping
 The 5th Asean-India Business Summit
took place on 6 March 2023 in Kuala  The government of Tamil Nadu has
Lumpur decided to declare Thanthai Periyar
Wildlife Sanctuary as the 18th wildlife
 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference sanctuary in the state
begins in Goa
 26 % of world’s population does not
 The National Security Advisers of the have safe drinking water: UNESCO
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation report
(SCO) will convene in New Delhi,
with China and Pakistan expected to
attend virtually EXAM BOOSTER

 G20 flower festival begins in New

ENVIRONMENT Delhi
 Denmark inaugurates a project to store
 According to the ‘Global Air Quality’ carbon dioxide 1,800 metres beneath
study published by the Swiss company the North Sea, the first country in the
IQAir, India fell from the fifth to the world to bury CO2 imported from
eighth most polluted nation in the abroad
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 CURRENT AFFAIRS APril, 2023
IMPORTANT DAYS AWARD
 Ukrainian president decorated with
 RBI Foundation Day: 1 April
st
Poland’s top award
 National Maritime Day: 05th April  C.R. Rao wins International Prize in
Statistics in 2023
 World Health Day: 7th April
 Raj Subramaniam honoured with
 Save the Elephant Day: 16th April Pravasi Bharatiya Samman
 World Haemophilia Day :17th April  Former Chancellor Angela Merkel
 World Heritage Day: 18th April received Germany’s highest Order of
Merit
 World Liver Day: 19th April
 Asha Bhosle to receive Lata Deenanath
 National Civil Services Da: 21 April
st
Mangeshkar Puraskar
 Earth Day: 22nd April (Theme 2023:  Sonam Wangchuk conferred with
‘Invest in our Planet,’) Prestigious Santokbaa Humanitarian
Award
 World Book and Copyright Day: 23rd
April  Wing Commander Deepika Misra is first
IAF woman officer to receive gallantry
 National Panchayati Raj Day: 24th award
April
 Dalai Lama Gets 1959 Ramon
 World Intellectual Property Day: 26th Magsaysay Award In Person After 64
April Years

PERSONALITY  68th Filmfare Awards 2023

 Best Film-Gangubai Kathiawadi
 Shah Rukh Khan and ‘RRR’ director
SS Rajamouli are included in  Best Film (Critics’)- Badhaai Do
Time Magazine’s annual 100 Most
Influential People of 2023, becoming  Best Actor (Male)- Rajkummar Rao
the only two Indians on the list for Badhaai Do
 Best Actor (Female)- Alia Bhatt for
 Andhra Pradesh’s CM Jagan Mohan Gangubai Kathiawadi
Reddy wealthiest CM in India: ADR
Report  Best Director-Sanjay Leela
Bhansali for Gangubai Kathiawadi
 Former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash  Neeli Bendapudi receives Immigrant
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 Sri Lanka fail to qualify directly to ICC  India Justice Report 2022: Karnataka
Cricket World Cup 2023 tops among 18 large States

 F1 race results: Max Verstappen wins  Kerala tops GI tag list in FY 2022-23
wild Australian GP
 FIFA Rankings: India’s Football Team
 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung, an Rises to 101
Indonesian badminton player, emerged
victorious in the Women’s singles  India ranks 5th in countries with most
category at the Madrid Spain Masters AI investment
2023 finals
 Rajasthan topped the country in terms
 Commonwealth champion weightlifter of person days generation under
Sanjita Chanu faces 4-year ban by MGNREGA
NADA
 New York City tops the list of world’s
 New Zealand’s Kim Cotton becomes wealthiest cities 2023
first female umpire to officiate men’s
T20I match  The Ministry of Jal Shakti has released
the first-ever Census of Water Bodies,
 Dhoni, Yuvraj inducted with the MCC which has revealed that West Bengal
honorary life membership has the highest number of water bodies
in India, while Sikkim has the lowest.
 David Warner becomes fastest to score
6000 runs in IPL  India jumps 6 places on World Bank’s
Logistic Performance Index, ranks 38
 Asian Wrestling Championships 2023:
Aman Sehrawat wins India’s 1st Gold
Medal DEFENCE
 Rabada becomes the fastest player to
take 100 wickets in IPL  The 10th annual SLINEX-2023 bilateral
maritime exercise between India and Sri
 FIFA: Argentina to replace Indonesia as Lanka has commenced in Colombo, Sri
under-20 World Cup host Lanka
 Four-team Intercontinental Football Cup  Indian Rafale to participate in French
will be held in Bhubaneswar from June Military exercise with NATO allies
9 to 18
 Operation Kaveri launched to evacuate
 Sharjah stadium stand named after Indians from Sudan.
Sachin Tendulkar on his 50th birthday
 “AJEYA WARRIOR – 2023” An Indo-
 Odisha FC clinch Hero Super Cup 2023 UK Joint Military Exercise
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Chairman of LIC Until June 2024
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

 On April 5th, 2023, Israel successfully ECONOMY & BANKING

launched a new spy satellite, named
Ofek-13, into orbit  India current account deficit narrows to
2.2% of GDP in Q3
 Skyroot Aerospace, a startup based
in Hyderabad, India, has successfully  India, Malaysia can now trade in Indian
test-fired an advanced, fully 3D-printed rupee
cryogenic engine, marking a significant  India Post Payments Bank launches
milestone in the country’s indigenous WhatsApp Banking Services
space technology development
 India GDP growth likely to moderate to
 Kenya Launched Its First Operational 6.3% in FY24: World Bank
Earth Observation Satellite “Taifa-1”
 In recent years, there has been a shift
 ISRO to launch Singapore’s TeLEOS-2 in the global currency landscape, with
satellite on April 22 China’s yuan steadily gaining ground
 China launched Fengyun-3 satellite against the US dollar
 India’s Economic Growth to Slow Down
to 6.4% in 2023-24: ADB Report
APPOINTMENT  RBI to launch centralised portal
PRAVAAH for licencing, approval
 RBI appoints Neeraj Nigam as executive applications
director
 Nepal and India to Sign Agreement for
 Sudha Shivkumar took over as 40th Cross-Border Digital Payments
President of FICCI Ladies Organisation
 NSE Indices Limited introduced the
 Aleksander Ceferin re-elected UEFA Nifty REITs & InvITs Index, the first
president unopposed until 2027 of its kind in India, designed to monitor
 Cuba’s Parliament ratifies President the performance of publicly listed and
Díaz-Canel for new term traded Real Estate Investment Trusts
(REITs) and Infrastructure Investment
 HSBC India has recently announced Virat Trusts (InvITs) at the National Stock
Kohli, the former captain of the Indian Exchange, whether listed or unlisted but
cricket team, as its brand ambassador authorized to trade
 Shahabuddin Chuppu takes oath as  US emerges as India’s biggest trading
Bangladesh’s 22nd president partner in FY23 at $128.55 bn; China at
 second position
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financial arrangement that enables foreign
banks to conduct transactions in Indian
rupees with domestic banks.  Chinese Company Space Pioneer
Successfully Launches Tianlong-2 Rocket
 The term “vostro” is derived from into Orbit
the Latin phrase “in nostro vostro,”
which translates to “in our account,  Ghana becomes first country to approve
in your account.” Oxford malaria vaccine for children
 In this context, the domestic bank  Syria has now become the world’s largest
is referred to as the “vostro” bank, narco-state
and the foreign bank is the “nostro”  India surpasses China to become world’s
bank most populous nation: UN
 City Union Bank launches India’s 1st
Voice Biometric Authentication Banking
App NATIONAL
 Tata Steel to set up a pilot plant for  Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra tea gets
methanol European GI tag
 RBI allows AU Small Finance Bank to  Bihar’s aromatic ‘Marcha Rice’ gets GI
deal with foreign exchange tag
 A new Rs 100 coin will be minted by the  Chhattisgarh’s Nagri Dubraj rice variety
Central Government to commemorate the gets GI tag
100th edition of the radio programme,
Mann Ki Baat, with Prime Minister  MP’s Gond Painting of Acquires GI Tag
Narendra Modi  Tamil Nadu’s Cumbum grapes get GI tag
 Russia now the biggest Oil Supplier to  Haryana becomes first state in India to
India have 100% electrified railway network
 To combat the falling value of the  Union Minister Sonowal launches
Zimbabwean currency, the Reserve Bank ‘SAGAR-SETU’ mobile app of National
of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announced Logistics Portal Marine
plans to introduce a gold-backed digital
currency  Banarasi Paan, three other Varanasi-based
goods receive GI tag
 Pakistan becomes largest recipient of
ADB funded programmes in 2022  India become world’s second-largest solar
manufacturer by 2026
 Adani Power Ltd opened a new power
BOOKS AND AUTHORS plant in Jharkhand that will supply
electricity to Bangladesh
 A new book titled “Gandhi: Siyasat aur  Kerala State Inland Navigation
Sampradaiykta” written by Piyush Babele Corporation (KSINC) has launched
 ‘Sachin@50’- Celebrating A Maestro by a solar-powered tourist boat called
Boria Majumdar Sooryamshu that can produce 27 KW of
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 PM Modi launched big cats’ alliance to  T.N. Governor Ravi grants assent to Bill
conserve seven cats. These species are the banning online gambling’
tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, puma,  India’s first 3D-printed post office to
jaguar, and cheetah come up in Bengaluru
 Bangladesh, India, and Japan are set to
hold a connectivity event in Tripura, India  India’s First Semi-High Speed Regional
on April 11-12 Rail Service Named ‘RAPIDX’
 On April 10, 2023, India released the first  Kolkata Metro becomes India’s first
edition of the Dogri version of the Indian metro train to run under river
Constitution  The Chief Minister of Telangana, K
 Election Commission grants national party Chandrasekhar Rao, unveiled a 125-
status to Aam Aadmi Party foot bronze statue of BR Ambedkar in
Hyderabad to commemorate the 132nd
 Govt launches ‘Sangathan se Samriddhi’
birth anniversary
scheme to bring marginalised rural women
into SHGs network  In a first, Kerala adopts Water Budget to
 Tribal Affairs Minister launched tackle problem of summer water shortage
Marketing, Logistics Development for  Himachal Pradesh (HP) has become
PTP-NER scheme the first Indian state to develop a DNA
 The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, database for unidentified bodies.
Eknath Shinde, has declared that May 28,  Kerala launches ‘One Panchayat, One
the birth anniversary of freedom fighter Playground’ to revive sports culture
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, will be
celebrated as ‘Swatantrya Veer Gaurav  Canara Bank has partnered with Reserve
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Metro in Kochi
 BRO puts up signboard describing Mana  World’s first Asian King Vulture
as ‘First Indian Village’ conservation and breeding center to be
inaugurated in Uttar Pradesh
 IIT Madras to set up its first international
campus in Tanzania.  Project Tiger: India’s tiger population was
3,167 in 2022
 Nepal becomes founding member of
SUMMITS & CONFERENCES International Big Cats Alliance

 Food Conclave-2023 in Hyderabad EXAM BOOSTER

 India will host the Global Buddhist
Summit in New Delhi  Baisakhi is the most significant festival
celebrated by the Sikh community
 A significant event, the G20 Meeting of
Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS), is  India is commemorating the 132nd
scheduled to take place in Varanasi from birth anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji
17 to 19 April Ambedkar on April 14, 2023, as Ambedkar
Jayanti
 India to chair Commonwealth group on
reform of financial architecture  Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 104th
Anniversary, on April 13, 1919, the
 Australia To Host Third In-Person Quad Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in
Summit Amritsar, Punjab
 SCO Summit: India will host Summit in  Thawe Festival organised in Bihar
New Delhi on July 3-4
 World Immunization Week 2023 observed
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 CURRENT AFFAIRS MAY, 2023
IMPORTANT DAYS PERSONALITY
 Noted historian Ranajit Guha has passed
 Ayushman Bharat Diwas:30th Apr
away. He was 100 years old(One of
 International Worker’s Day or May his well-known books is ‘Elementary
Day:1st May Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in
Colonial India’)
 World Tuna Day 2023 observed on 2nd
May  Deepika Padukone appears on cover of
TIME magazine
 World Press Freedom Day:3rd May (theme
of 2023 “Shaping a Future of Rights:  Nepali climber Kami Rita
Freedom of Expression as a Driver for All Sherpa reached the top of Mount
Other Human Rights) Everest for the 27th time.
 Coal Miners Day: 4th May  Mukesh Ambani Joins COP28 Advisory
Committee to Address Climate Crisis.
 World Athletics Day: 7th May
 World Red Cross Day: 8th May (Theme:
“Everything we do comes from the heart”) AWARD
 World Thalassemia Day: 08th May  Maria Stepanova, a renowned Russian
writer has been awarded the Leipzig
 International Day of Plant Health: 12th Book Prize for European Understanding
May in 2023. For Her novel, In Memory of
 World Migratory Bird Day:13th May Memory
 World AIDS Vaccine Day: 18th May  Former Lok Sabha MP Pandit
Ramkishan was recently awarded the
 World Bee Day: 20th May. title of “Shatabdi Purush” (Man of the
 World Metrology Day: 20 May (Theme Century) in New Delhi in recognition of
2023 is Measurements supporting the his contributions as a socialist leader
global food system.)  On May 3, UNESCO marked World
Press Freedom Day by awarding its
 National Anti-Terrorism Day: 21st may
annual World Press Freedom Prize
 International Day for Biological Diversity: to three imprisoned Iranian female
22nd May journalists.Niloufar Hamedi, Elaheh
Mohammadi, and Narges Mohammadi,
 Indian Commonwealth Day: 24th May were recognized for their work in
 World No Tobacco Day: 31st May. reporting on human rights abuses in
Iran and their commitment to truth and
 UN General Assembly Declares accountability
November 26 as World Sustainable
Transport Day  Michael Douglas to Receive Honorary
Palme d’Or at Cannes

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 CM Yogi Adityanath honoured Bharat BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award
 ‘Collective Spirit, Concrete Action’
 Narendra Modi conferred with Papua
written by Shashi Shekhar Vempati
New Guinea and Fiji’s highest honour
 Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov  “MADE IN INDIA :75 Years of Business
wins International Booker Prize for and Enterprise” by Amitabh Kant
‘Time Shelter  “Droupadi Murmu: From Tribal
Full list of Cannes 2023 winners Hinterlands to Raisina Hills” by Kasturi
Ray
 Palme d’Or: Anatomy Of A Fall,
 “The Indian Metropolis: Deconstructing
directed by Justine Triet
India’s Urban Spaces” book by Feroze
 Grand Prix: The Zone Of Interest Varun Gandhi
Director: Jonathan Glazer  Ruskin Bond wrote a new book titled
‘The Golden Years’
 Jury Prize: Fallen Leaves, directed by
Aki Kaurismaki
SPORTS
 Best Director: Tran Anh Hung for The
Pot-Au-Feu  Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag
Shetty made history on April 30,
 Best Screenplay: Monster, written by becoming the first Indian men’s
Yuji Sakamoto doubles pair to win a gold medal at the
Badminton Asia Championships
 Best Actress: Merve Dizdar, About Dry  Ding Liren becomes China’s first world
Grasses chess champion
 Best Actor: Kōji Yakusho, Perfect Days  Indian sailor Commander Abhilash
Tomy completes the Golden Globe Race,
finishing second
winners from IIFA 2023  Luca Brecel wins snooker World
Championship title
 Best Film- Drishyam 2
 Odisha extends Indian Hockey team
 Best Director- R Madhavan for sponsorship till 2033
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
 International soccer stars Cristiano
 Best Actress- Alia Bhatt for Ronaldo ($136 million), Lionel Messi
($130 million) and Kylian Mbappe ($120
Gangubai Kathiawadi
million) are the top three highest-paid
 Best Actor - Hrithik Roshan for athletes
Vikram Vedha  Dubai becomes the host for the inaugural
 Goan writer Damodar Mauzo gets 57th edition of the Global Chess League
Jnanpith Award  Neeraj Chopra secures victory with 88.67
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 Neeraj Chopra becomes World No.1 in  National Manufacturing Innovation
men’s javelin rankings Survey: Karnataka ranked the most
‘innovative’ State
 Max Verstappen wins the Miami Grand
Prix 2023  India led as the top source market for Sri
Lanka’s tourism sector for the month of
 Max Verstappen won the 2023 Monaco
April 2023
Grand Prix
 Argentina’s Lionel Messi wins Laureus
sportsman of the year 2023 DEFENCE
 Ayushmann Khurrana Joins Indian Team  ASEAN India Maritime Exercise
as Ambassador for Special Olympics (AIME-2023) successfully culminated in
Journey to Berlin the South China Sea on 08 May 2023.
 Birthday of Indian football legend PK  Indigenous ADC-151 underwent
Banerjee will be celebrated as ‘AIFF successful first test trial by DRDO and
Grassroots Day’ Indian Navy
 FC Barcelona lifts 27th La Liga Title  India and Thailand Conduct 35th Indo-
 Gatka Martial Art to feature in 37th Thai Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT)
National Games  India and Indonesia bilateral naval
 Adidas named new India cricket team kit exercise Samudra Shakti-23
sponsor  Indian Army’s Gajraj Corps
 IPL 2023 final: Chennai Super Kings Conducts Joint Flood Relief Exercise
Beats Gujarat Titians ‘Jal Rahat’ in Assam
 Tata Group Chairman N
 Eden Gardens and Wankhede Stadium
Chandrasekaran has been
share the award for the Best Venues of given France’s highest civilian
the award Chevalier de la Legion
 Season. Shubman Gill wins Orange d’honneur .
Cap (890) award  The Indian Navy’s sixth and final Kalvari
class submarine, Vaghsheer, has begun
 Mohammad Shami wins Purple Cap its sea trials.Under Project – 75.
(28) award.
 The ‘Tiger Shark 40’ Joint Bangladesh-
US Naval drill Exercise commenced
RANKING at BNS Nirvik in Chattogram.

 World Press Freedom Index 2023: India SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

ranks 161 out of 180 countries, Norway,
Ireland, and Denmark ranked top three  Indian Space Research Organisation
respectively while Vietnam, China, (ISRO) Launches Space Science
and North Korea were the bottom three and Technology Awareness Training
countries on the index Programme

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 Microsoft launches Jugalbandi, a  Siddaramaiah:22nd Chief Minister of
multilingual AI-chat bot for rural India Karnataka.
 ISRO’s GSLV-F12 Successfully Places  Sourav Ganguly named as brand
Navigation Satellite NVS-01. ambassador of Tripura Tourism
 XPoSat, India’s first polarimetry  CAG Girish Chandra Murmu re-
mission elected External Auditor of WHO for 4
year term.
APPOINTMENT  Justice Rao Sworn In As Himachal
pradesh High Court CJ
 President of Paraguay: Santiago Pena  Sachin Tendulkar now ‘smile ambassador’
for Maharashtra govt
 Atomic Energy Commission chairman:
A K Mohanty  Praveen Kumar Srivastava Sworn In as
Central Vigilance Commissioner
 Justice TS Sivagnanam appointed as
Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court
 Margherita Della Valle named as CEO of ECONOMY & BANKING
Vodafone
 Indian origin Ajay Banga confirmed as  Tamil Nadu tops market borrowing for
the next President of World Bank third consecutive year
 India overtakes Saudi as Europe’s top
 Ex-NBCUniversal ad chief Linda
refinery supplier
Yaccarino named as new Twitter CEO
 ndia’s gross GST revenues for April 2023
 Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood appointed reached a record high of ₹1,87,035 crore,
next CBI director which is a 12% increase from last year’s
 Geeta Rao Gupta appointed as US highest tax tally of ₹1.67 lakh crore for
Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s the same month
Issues  Starting from May 1, 2023, businesses
 Manoj Soni to take oath as UPSC with an annual turnover of Rs 100 crore
chairman or more will be required to abide by a
new GST rule
 Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit takes over as
Deputy Chief of Air Staff  India and Russia to Explore Acceptance
of RuPay and Mir Payment Cards for
 Paytm appoints Bhavesh Gupta as Cross-Border Transactions
president and COO  The Securities and Exchange Board of
 The government has appointed Ravneet India (SEBI) has introduced the Legal
Kaur as the Chairperson of Entity Identifier (LEI) system for issuers
the Competition Commission of India that have listed or are planning to list non-
(CCI). convertible securities, securitized debt
instruments, and security receipts
 Arjun Ram Meghwal was appointed
union law minister, shifting Kiren Rijiju  India Extends $1 Billion Credit Line to
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 India remains a bright spot, economy INTERNATIONAL
expected to grow 6.7% in 2024: United
Nations
 India to join international climate action
 India to contribute 16% to global GDP
in civil aviation from 2027
growth over 2023-24: Morgan Stanley
 AI (artificial intelligence) ‘godfather’
 RBI Announces Withdrawal of ₹2000
Geoffrey Hinton quits Google
Banknotes from Circulation
 Australian High Commission in India
 Japan ‘seriously looking’ at joining
Announces Government Grant for Project
India’s UPI payments system
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 India edges past China to send more  Anji Khad bridge, first cable stayed
students to US in 2022 rail bridge in India, the bridge is part
of the challenging Udampur-Srinagar-
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the
Baramulla-Rail Link (USBRL) Project in
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir
have announced the launch of the G20
TechSprint 2023, a global competition  Indian Army has inducted five women
aimed at improving cross-border officers into its Regiment of Artillery. Lt
payments through innovative technology Mehak Saini, Lt Sakshi Dubey, Lt Aditi
solutions Yadav, Lt Pious Mudgil, and Lt Akanksha
have joined the Army’s premier artillery
 India, Israel sign MoU for industrial
units.
research and development cooperation
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
 The Sittwe Port in Myanmar has been
recently inaugurated 91 FM transmitters
put into operation by India, with the
in 18 states and two union territories,
first shipment departing from the Syama
aimed at improving FM radio connectivity
Prasad Mookerjee Port in Kolkata
in border regions and aspirational districts
 The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has
 Uttar Pradesh govt plans ‘Ramaland’ in
approved a bill seeking to decriminalize
Ayodhya modelled on Disneyland
homosexuality, according to the Speaker
of Parliament, in a move welcomed by  India’s First International Multimodal
LGBTQ+ rights campaigners Logistics Park Coming at Jogighopa,
Assam
 Google’s Bard chatbot to launch globally,
including India  Lithium reserves have been discovered in
Rajasthan’s Degana following the recent
 India & Bangladesh launch ’50 Start-ups
discovery in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi
Exchange Programme’
 The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has
 India plans to challenge EU carbon tax at
recommended Santiniketan, the cultural
WTO
site in West Bengal, India, for inclusion in
 Indian Railways Hands Over 20 Broad the UNESCO World Heritage List
Gauge Locomotives to Bangladesh
 Tungnath temple built by Pandavas
 India and Australia Sign Agreements on declared national monument
Migration and Green Hydrogen Task
 UGC launches new website, UTSAH and
Force
PoP portals to promote quality education
 India Secured Approval to Set Up
 Uttar Pradesh Now Holds 2nd Position in
Second Hydropower Project in Nepal
GI Tagged Products
 Bhopal becomes 1st city to measure
NATIONAL Sustainable Development Goals progress
 Historic Scepter ‘Sengol’ Finds Home in
 The Supreme Court of India has granted
New Parliament Building
couples the right to divorce on the
grounds of “irretrievable breakdown  Kerala Becomes India’s First Fully
of marriage” under Article 142 of the E-Governed State, Achieving Total
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 On May 28, 2023, Prime • G-7 Summit in Japan
Minister Narendra Modi officially opened
• Quad Leaders’
the new Parliament building.
Summit in Australia.
 PM Modi Chairs 8th Governing Council
• the Prime Minister will
Meeting of Niti Aayog, Emphasizes Team
visit Hiroshima, Japan, for the
India Approach for a Developed Nation
G-7 Summit under the Japanese
by 2047
Presidency, accepting an
 The smallest state by area, Goa is famous invitation from the Japanese Prime
for its beaches and the relics of its Minister Fumio Kishida.
colonial past. It got its statehood on May
 The Second G20 Anti-corruption
30, 1987.
Working Group Meeting, held from May
25 to May 27 in Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
ENVIRONMENT
 Foreign Ministers of SCO member
countries meet in Goa  The Petersberg Climate Dialogue,
 UAE Government Launches ‘Machines a forum for high-level international
Can See 2023’ Summit climate talks held annually before
the United Nations Climate Change
 The 42nd Summit of the Association of Conferences (COP), took place in
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has Berlin, Germany from May 2-3, 2023
kicked off in Indonesia with a theme of
“ASEAN Affairs: Epicenter of Growth.“  Cyclone Mocha was a very severe
cyclonic storm that formed in the Bay
 G20 spurs socioeconomic development in of Bengal on May 10, 2023. Cyclone
Kashmir: An affluent South Asia beckons Mocha was named on the basis of a
 India hosts the first-ever physical suggestion made by Yemen.
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation  Tropical Cyclone Fabien Moves
(SCO) Startup Forum in New Delhi Southeast of Diego Garcia
 The regular meeting of the SCO Foreign  A 5,000-year-old tree in Chile has
Ministers Council took place on 4 and 5 been officially recognized as the
May, 2023, in Panaji,India, world’s oldest. The tree, a Patagonian
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will go cypress, is located in the Alerce Costero
on a three-nation tour which includes the National Park and is nicknamed “Great
Grandfather.”

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IMPORTANT DAYS  Muthamiz Selvi, the first woman from

Tamil Nadu to climb Mount Everest in
 World No Tobacco Day is observed June 2023.
every year on May 31. ( ‘We need  Veteran actress Sulochana Didi passed
food, not tobacco’.) away in Mumbai.
 World Milk Day - 1st June. By FAO  Italy’s longest-serving Premier Silvio
 Telangana Formation Day, observed Berlusconi passed away on 12 June
annually on June 2nd since 2014 2023.
 World Bicycle Day-3rd June.  Pulitzer Prize winner Cormack
 World Environment Day is McCarthy has passed away at the age
celebrated on June 5 (Theme 2023: of 89.
BeatPlasticPollution)  Lithium battery inventor John
 World Food Safety Day -7th June Goodenough passed away at the age of
(Theme 2023- “Food standards save 100.
lives”)
 World Oceans Day- 8th June (“Planet
Ocean: The Tides are Changing”) AWARD
 World Day Against Child Labour- 12th
June.  President Droupadi Murmu became
 World Blood Donor Day- 14th June the first Indian to be honoured with
 International Yoga Day is celebrated the Grand Order of the Chain of the
every year on June 21. The theme of Yellow Star, the highest civilian award
International Yoga Day 2023 is “Yoga in Suriname.
for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”.  Indian-origin scientist Joyita Gupta has
 International Olympic Day-June 23 been awarded the Spinoza Prize, the
 ‘Entrepreneur India-MSME Day’- 27th highest honor in Dutch science.
June.  Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor
 National Statistics Day- 29th June (birth Shaktikanta Das has been awarded
anniversary of PC Mahalanobis.) Britain’s prestigious ‘Governor of the
Year 2023’ award.
PERSONALITY  Indian film ‘When Climate Change
Turns Talent’ won the WHO award in
 Gitanjali Aiyar, one of India’s first June 2023.
English female news presenters on  Gita Press, Gorakhpur awarded the
national broadcaster Doordarshan, Gandhi Peace Prize for the year 2021.
passed away.  MP was awarded the first prize in
 Karen Kazi, a 14-year-old the category of best state in the 4th
Bangladeshi-American student, National Water Awards, 2022.
has become the youngest software  3 new categories did the Grammy
developer to get a job at SpaceX. Awards introduce for the 2024 edition.

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  Renowned British-American author  Indian athlete Jyothi Yarraji won the
Salman Rushdie of Midnight’s gold medal in the women’s 100m
Children and The Satanic Verses has hurdles event at the T-Meeting 2023
been awarded the Peace Prize of the Athletics Meet in Tilburg, Netherlands.
German Book Trade.  India won the men’s hockey junior
Asia Cup 2023 final title
 Arundhati Roy received the 45th
European Essay Award for Lifetime  Abhinav Shaw and Gautami Bhanot
Achievement. Indian shooting pair has won the gold
medal at the ISSF World Cup Junior
 Singer and composer Shankar Championships.
Mahadevan has been awarded an  Indian sprinter Amlan Borgohain
honorary doctorate by Birmingham has won two gold medals at the
City University in England. Flanders Cup 2023 Athletics Meet in
 Lionel Messi has been awarded the Marcksem, Belgium.
‘Best Foreign Player’ award in League  Men’s Singles Final title of French
1 for the 2022-23 season. Open 2023: Novak Djokovic. Serbian
tennis player created history by
becoming the first person to win 23
BOOK Grand Slam titles.
 Australia defeated India by 209 runs in
 Shantanu Gupta launched his the World Test Championship final at
new graphic novel “Ajay to Yogi The Oval in England. Australia created
Adityanath”. history by becoming the first team to
 The book Rebels against the Raj: win all major ICC trophies.
Western Fighters for India’s Freedom  Iga Swiatek has won the women’s
– of Ramachandra Guha has won the French Open 2023.
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical  Andy Murray won the Sorbitan Trophy
Biography 2023. by defeating Juriz Rodionov.
 The first Tribal Sports Festival
concluded in Bhubaneswar.
SPORTS  Squash World Cup held in Chennai
 Egypt won the World Squash
 Max Verstappen wins Spanish Championship by defeating Malaysia
Grand Prix 2023 2-1 in the final in Chennai.
 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden)  Uruguay defeated Italy 1-0 to win their
announces his retirement from first Under-20 World Cup title.
football.  Asia Cup 2023 will be held in Sri
 3rd Khelo India University Games Lanka and Pakistan.
Concludes in Varanasi  India defeated Lebanon 2-0 in the
Intercontinental Cup final at the
 Sunil Kumar wins decathlon gold at
Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar to
Asian U20 Athletics Championship
win the title.
 National Yoga Olympiad is being  India’s first Women’s Kabaddi League
organized in Madhya Pradesh. (WKL) was inaugurated in Dubai.
 The world’s fastest motorbike race  Satwik and Chirag pair won the
‘Moto GP’ 2023 will be hosted by Indonesia Badminton Open doubles
India (U.P) for the first time. title.
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 Goa will host the 37th National Games  Gujarat reached the first place in terms
in October 2023. of installed wind power capacity.
 Bhavani Devi has created history by  Reliance Industries Ltd has moved up
becoming the first Indian swordsman eight places to 45th position in Forbes’
to win a medal at the Asian latest ‘Global 2000’ list.
Championships.  Bengaluru has moved up two places
 Max Verstappen won the Canadian to 20th position in Startup Genome’s
Grand Prix The Global Startup Ecosystem QPORT
 Indian shot-put player Tajinderpal (CSEQ) 2023.
Singh Toor has broken both national  According to the Global Liveability
and Asian records in shot-put. Index 2023, Vienna has been named
 Wyndham Clark won the 2023 US the world’s “most liveable city” for
Open title 2023.
 Cristiano Ronaldo has become the  On the occasion of the state-level
first male footballer to play 200 ‘International Yoga Day’,Gujarat’s
international matches. Surat city set a Guinness World
 Sri Lankan spinner Wanindu Record for the highest number of
Hasaranga has become the first spinner people gathering for a yoga session at
in ODI cricket history to take five one place.
wickets for three consecutive times.  Time magazine has recently released
 FIFA U-17 World Cup will be held in an annual list of the world’s 100 most
Indonesia. influential companies.
 FIFA Club World Cup 2023 will be  the Gender Gap Report 2023, India
held in the Saudi Arabian city of ranks 127 out of 146 countries in terms
Jeddah. of gender equality.
 Australian spinner Nathan Lyon has  India’s rank in IMD’s World
become the first bowler in the world to Competitiveness Index 2023-40th.
play his 100th consecutive Test for the  The World Economic Forum has
national team. recently released the Energy Transition
 Indian women’s cricketers Jhulan Index. India is ranked 67th in this
Goswami and two English players ranking.Sweden is at the top of this
Heather Knight and Eoin Morgan list.
have joined the MCC World Cricket
Committee (WCC) ahead of a meeting
at Lord’s. DEFENCE
 Germany prepares to host “Air
RANKINGS Defender 2023” NATO’s biggest
ever air exercise
 India has overtaken China to become  NATO countries conducted Arctic
the second largest country with the military exercises to protect their new
largest road network. While America member Finland.
remains at number one.  Indian Navy divers and marine
 Kerala has topped the category of large commandos along with Maldives
states in the fifth food security index. National Defence Force are
 India tops the world rankings in digital participating in the sixth edition of
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 The first edition of India, France and  Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla officially
UAE maritime partnership exercise inaugurated the National Legislators
began in the Gulf of Oman. Conference India (NLC India) in
 The India - Maldives joint military Mumbai on 16 June 2023.
exercise EKUVERIN began in June  “India in Paris” campaign launched by
2023. at Chaubatia, Uttarakhand. Union Minister Anurag Thakur in New
 The ‘Ocean Ring of Yoga’ was Delhi.
organized by the Indian Navy on the
occasion of International Yoga Day
2023. SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
 India, US prepare roadmap for defence
industrial cooperation.  Scientists have discovered a new
species of flying lizard in the forests of
Mizoram.
SUMMIT & CONFERENCE
 XPoSat, India’s first polarimetry
mission, is being built by ISRO
 India-EU Connectivity Conference to
be organized in Meghalaya from June1  India’s first international cruise ship-
 BRICS foreign ministers’ meeting MV Empress from Chennai to Sri
starts in Cape Town, local currency Lanka.
trade likely on agenda
 The International Union for  The new generation ballistic missile
Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Agni Prime was successfully test-
has chosen Abu Dhabi to host the fired by DRDO from Dr APJ
prestigious World Conservation Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of
Congress (WCC) in 2025. Odisha.
 The first Vision Zero Summit is being  HPCL started pilot study on E27 fuel
held in Bhopal. to control deaths and and ethanol blended diesel fuel.
serious injuries in road accidents.
 Suriname will host Indian energy  SpaceX launched a new Indonesian
majors in June 2023. communications satellite SATRIA-1
 The UAE will host the world’s largest into orbit from Florida on June 18.
conservation conference in 2025.  PM Kisan Mobile App has been
 The eighth meeting of the Standing launched with face authentication
Committee of the International Solar feature for e-KYC.
Alliance (ISA) was held in New Delhi
in June 2023.
 Ministry of Coal organized a seminar
on “Blue Hydrogen– Energy Security”.
APPOINTMENT
 The three-day Supreme Audit  GoI appoints Ashwani Kumar as MD
Institutions 20 (SAI20) Summit is of UCO Bank
being held in Goa from June 12.
 The three-day G-20 Development  Latvian Parliament elects foreign
Ministers’ meeting began in Varanasi. minister Edgars Rinkevics as new
 A two-day Science-20 conference is president
being held in Bhopal under India’s  Amarendu Prakash takes charge as
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 Celeste Saulo of Argentina has  The UN’s World Meteorological

been appointed as the first female Organization (WMO) has appointed
Secretary-General of the World Argentine meteorologist Celeste
Meteorological Organization. Saulo as its Secretary-General
Its headquarters are in Geneva, and she is the first woman to be
Switzerland. appointed to the post.
 The 193 UN Member States, elected  Janardan Prasad has been appointed
a veteran diplomat from Trinidad as the new Director General of
and Tobago, Dennis Francis as the the Geological Survey of India
President of the 78th session of the (GSI).
UN General Assembly.
 A meteorologist of United Arab  Bola Tinubu has recently become the
Emirates (UAE) Dr Abdulla Al new President of Nigeria
Mandous has been elected as  Edgar Rinkevics becomes first openly
the new President of the World gay president in Baltic nation of
Meteorological Organization Latvia.
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 The US Senate confirmed that Nusrat ECONOMY
Jahan Chaudhary is going to become
a judge of the District Court of the
Eastern District of New York.  Razorpay Launches ‘Turbo UPI’
 PM Modi has called for full for Seamless One-Step Payments to
membership of G20 for the African Online Merchants
Union.
 Government Plans to Sell up to 3%
 Prime Minister of Finland: Petteri
Orpo, Orpo will replace Sanna Marin. Stake in Coal India
 Sachin Tendulkar was named the  The Union government has successfully
‘Smile Ambassador’ for Maharashtra’s
Swachh Mukh Abhiyan, a campaign achieved its fiscal deficit target of
promoting oral hygiene. 6.4% of the gross domestic product
 Praveen Kumar Srivastava (GDP) for the financial year 2022-23.
takes oath as Central Vigilance
Commissioner.  India Approves World’s Largest
 A. K. Kritivasan has recently taken Food Storage Scheme in Cooperative
over as THE CEO of TCS. Sector, Investing Rs 1 Lakh Crore
 Ajay Banga became the first Indian
 RBI Launches ‘100 Days 100 Pays’
American to hold the post of
President of the World Bank. (As Campaign to Settle Unclaimed
the 14th President) Deposits
 Nitin Agarwal has been appointed as
 Dubai Emerges as India’s Top Choice
the new Director General of Border
Security Force for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
 Amit Agarwal has been appointed  Germany, the fourth largest economy
as the new CEO of the Unique
Identification Authority of India in the world, is currently facing a
(UIDAI). recession due to a decline in the
 Ravi Sinha has been appointed as Euro and an unexpected contraction in
the new chief of India’s external the economy.
intelligence agency RAW.
 Sumit Seth, has been appointed as the  RBI Governor Launches Financial
next Ambassador of India to Panama. Inclusion Dashboard ‘Antardrishti’
 Ruby Sinha has been appointed as
 India emerged as the World’s 2nd largest
the President of the BRICS Chamber
of Commerce and Industry Women’s producer of crude steel from 2014-15
Vertical (BRICS CCI WE) for a three- to 2022-23 standing just behind China.
year term.  Tata Retains Title of India’s Most
 Joseph Tsai has been appointed as the Valuable Brand, Taj Strongest Brand
chairman of Alibaba from September for 2nd Year in a Row: Brand Finance
2023. Report.
 Aarti Hola-Maini has been
appointed as the new Director of  India and the US have agreed to end
Outer Space Affairs of the United six trade disputes at the WTO through
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launched an Antardrishti dashboard. It adopted a draft resolution moved by
is a financial inclusion dashboard. India to set up a memorial wall at the
 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has UN headquarters to honour the fallen
opened a sub-office in Nagaland’s peacekeepers.
capital Kohima.  Modi will lead the first-ever Yoga
session of the UNGA on the North
 Punjab National Bank has launched Lawn near its headquarters in New
IVR-based UPI solution UPI 123Pay, York.
making it the first public sector bank to  Estonia’s parliament has approved
do so. a law legalizing same-sex marriage,
making it the first Central European
country to do so.
INTERNATIONAL  On June 20, China and Pakistan signed
a $4.8 billion agreement to set up a
 Five countries (Algeria, Guyana,
1,200 MW nuclear power plant in
Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone
Punjab province.
and Slovenia) have been elected as
 India has recently joined NASA’s
non-permanent members of the UN Artemis program.
Security Council.  New York City has declared a holiday
 Chaman Lal has become the first for schools on Diwali.
British-Indian Sikh to be sworn in as  the submarine ship Titan exploded
Lord Mayor of Birmingham near the sinking site of the British
 Israel has started testing automated passenger ship Titanic in 1912. All
drones for public transport. five crew members on board the Titan
 The UN General Assembly elected submarine have been declared dead.
Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone,
Slovenia and South Korea to the UN NATIONAL
Security Council for a two-year term
beginning January 1, 2024. And will
 The Mekedatu dam project is located
serve until December 31, 2025.
 Sri Lanka will integrate energy with in Ramanagaram district about 100
India through the grid by 2030. km south of Bengaluru, close to where
 Russian President Vladimir Putin the Cauvery enters Tamil Nadu. The
has announced that Russia will begin project has been a source of contention
deploying tactical nuclear weapons in between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
Belarus after the facilities are ready on
7-8 July 2023. for years.
 The United States announced it’s  The Maharashtra government has
re-joining the United Nations recently launched Namo Shetkari
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Mahasanman yojna scheme aimed at
Organization (UNESCO). providing support to farmers in the
 China has recently completed the state.
construction of the world’s most
powerful hypersonic wind tunnel  Coromandel Express Derails and
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 ‘GOBARdhan’ Scheme: Govt to make India a tobacco and drug-free
launches unified registration portal nation among children.
for biogas projects  The Uttar Pradesh government
 PM-Kisan Scheme: Empowering cancelled all traffic challans between
Indian Farmers for a Resilient 2017 and 2021.
Agriculture Sector  Prime Minister inaugurates the first
 PM Modi Launches Amrit Dharohar National Training Conclave at New
and MISHTI (Mangrove Initiative Delhi
for Shoreline Habitats and Tangible  Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of
Incomes) Schemes for Wetland and ‘Sacrifice Pillar’ in Srinagar.
Mangrove Conservation on World  India’s largest private rail coach
Environment Day. factory was inaugurated at
 Nyaya Vikas Program: Kondakal village in Telangana.
Revolutionizing Social Justice in India  Pineapple production in India is
mainly in Tripura.
 PM-KUSUM Scheme: Centre
 The first hydrogen train in India is
Explores Agri Infra Fund for Solar
expected to run from
Projects on Farm Lands
 Jind to Sonipat in Haryana by 2024.
 The Northern Railway zone of the  A two-day Hemis Monastery
Indian Railways has named its diesel Festival is being celebrated in
locomotives after the martyrs as a Ladakh.
tribute to the martyrs.  WB has announced to implement
 IIT will open its first overseas campus National Education Policy in
in Tanzania colleges from 2023-24.
 Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath  Karnataka announces free bus
Shinde announced the renaming of travel ‘Shakti’ scheme for women.
Ahmednagar district as ‘Ahilya Nagar’  The Government of India and the
in honour of Ahilya Bai Holkar. Asian Development Bank (ADB)
 ‘Kari Ishad Mango’ from Ankola in have signed a $130 million loan
North Karnataka has got the GI tag. agreement to promote horticultural
 Sanchi, a UNESCO World Heritage agribusinesses.
Site, will soon become Madhya  The Government of India-UN
Pradesh’s first solar city. Sustainable Development Cooperation
 India’s first carbon neutral village is Framework 2023-2027 was signed in
being developed in Bhiwandi taluka of New Delhi.
Maharashtra’s Thane district.
 Government sets up 3-member panel
to probe Manipur violence headed by ENVIRONMENT
Gauhati High Court Chief Justice Ajay
Lamba.  Cyclone Biparjoy is a low-pressure
 Miss World will be hosted in India
in November 2023, 27 years after it area that is currently forming over
was held in the country in 1996. the Southeast Arabian Sea. Cyclone
 The National Commission for Biparjoy is the first cyclone to form in
Protection of Child Rights launched the Arabian Sea this season. The name
the national campaign “Addiction Free
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IMPORTANT DAYS AWARD

 International Plastic Bag Free  British children’s writer Michael Rosen
Day - 3rdJuly awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2023
 Dharma Chakra Divas -3rd July  Rajindar Singh Dhatt Receives Points of
Light Award
 World Chocolate Day-7th July,  PM Modi conferred with France’s
 World Population Day-11th July highest award Grand Cross of the
Legion of Honour
 NABARD Foundation Day- 12th July  King Charles III and Queen Camilla
 World Youth Skills Day- 15 July.
th of the United Kingdom recently
presented the prestigious Elephant
 Day of International Criminal Justice – Family environmental award to Indian
17th July. conservationists.
 Nelson Mandela day – 18th July  Prof Thalappil Pradeep wins the
 World Chess Day + International prestigious International Eni Award
Moon Day - 20th July a highly regarded global recognition for
scientific research in the fields of energy
 Pi Approximation Day – 22th July (22/7 and environment.
in the day/month date format).
 The Jammu and Kashmir Rural
 National Mango Day- 22th July Livelihood Mission (JKRLM) achieved
 Income Tax Day or ‘Aaykar Diwas’ – a significant milestone by receiving the
24 July
th
prestigious SKOCH Gold Award under
 Kargil Vijay Diwas - 26th July the theme “State of Governance India
2047”.
 International Day for the Conservation  Kartik Aaryan To Be Honoured With
of the Mangrove Ecosystem- 26th July
The Rising Global Superstar Of Indian
 World Nature Conservation + World Cinema Award
Hepatitis Day + World Hepatitis Day –  Ratan Tata to get Maharashtra govt’s
28th July first ‘Udyog Ratna’ award
PERSONALITY
BOOKS & AUTHORS
 UAE Minister for Foreign Trade Dr  “Colours of devotion” - Anita Bharat
Thani Al Zeyoudi elected as chair of Shah
WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference
 “Through the Broken Glass: An
 Phangnon Konyak becomes first Autobiography” - T.N. Seshan, It has
woman MP from Nagaland to preside been published 4 years after he passed
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Super GM chess tournament in
Hungary
 Dream11 now principal jersey sponsor  DD Sports secures Television rights for
of Indian cricket team FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023
 Olympic gold medalist Neeraj  In a historic move, S Phangnon
Chopra obtained the top spot in Lausanne Konyak, the lone Nagaland MP in
Diamond League 2023 the Upper House, has been nominated as
 Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023: one of the vice chairpersons of the Rajya
India beat Iran in final to win title Sabha.
 Max Verstappen wins Austrian GP  South Zone outclassed West Zone to win
2023 the Duleep Trophy
 Max Verstappen Claims Victory at British  England’s Stuart Broad has become the
Grand Prix 2023 second pace bowler to take 600 wickets
 Shreyanka Patil becomes first Indian in Test cricket.
cricketer to be part of Caribbean Premier  Hungarian GP: Verstappen hands Red
League Bull record 12th straight win
 Cricketer Ajit Agarkar appointed  Shubhankar Sharma achieved a
chairman of Senior Men’s Selection
remarkable feat, securing the best result
Committee
ever by an Indian golfer at the Open
 The Indian men’s football team emerged at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in
victorious in a thrilling penalty shootout Merseyside, England.
against Kuwait 5-4 in a thrilling
 India’s Nidhi Buley and Ritika among
penalty shootout, securing the SAFF
four females to enter BCCI umpiring
Championship 2023 title at Bengaluru’s
panel
Sree Kanteerava Stadium.
 Harmanpreet Kaur suspended for Code of
 India has emerged as the overall winner at
Conduct breach
the 34th International Biology Olympiad
(IBO) held in Al Ain, UAE from 2-11  India’s first online gaming academy in
July. MP
 Australia’s Victoria state has withdrawn
as host of the 2026 Commonwealth RANKING
Games because of a massive increase in
the projected cost of staging the multi-  2023 Global Peace Index: Iceland Tops
sports event. as Most Peaceful Country. India’s rank
 India achieved a historic milestone is 126 of 163 nations.
at the recently concluded 25th Asian  Tamil Nadu topped NITI Aayog’s
Athletics Championship 2023 in Export Preparedness Index 2022
Bangkok, Thailand. India secured  Singapore Passport Tops Henley
the third position overall, following Passport Index 2023 as World’s Most
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heaviest rocket, Launch vehicle Mark-III
a.k.a LVM3 on a journey to the Moon.
 The Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to  China launched world’s first methane-
host its first-ever multi-national air fuelled space rocket
exercise called ‘Tarang Shakti’. With the
participation of several nations --- USA,  ISRO has announced the launching of
U.K, France, and Australia. PSLV-C56 which will carry Singapore’s
DS-SAR satellite with 6 co-passengers,
 Indian Navy and US Navy Conduct from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre,
Seventh Edition of SALVEX Exercise in Sriharikota.
Kochi
 SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space exploration
 The United States possesses the most
company, launched the world’s largest
powerful military force worldwide.
Russia and China second and third place, commercial communications satellite
respectively, while India secures the ‘Jupiter 3’ from Kennedy Space Center,
fourth position. Florida, USA.
 China and Russia to hold joint naval
drills “Security Bond-2023” APPOINTMENT
 India-Mongolia joint military exercise  NCP Leader Ajit Pawar Sworn as
“Nomadic Elephant – 2023” Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
 Tushar Mehta, the incumbent Solicitor
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY General of India, has been reappointed
for a three-year term by the Appointments
Committee of Cabinet (ACC).
 Chandrayaan-3 launched on July 14,
from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in  Brajendra Navnit to be India’s
Sriharikota ambassador to WTO for 9 months
 ESA launches ‘Euclid Space Telescope’ to  Lt Gen M U Nair appointed as new
review solar system bodies National Cybersecurity Coordinator
 Elon Musk Reveals xAI to Challenge  Director General of United Nations Food
OpenAI and Agriculture Organization (FAO)- Qu-
 India launched its Dongyu (re-elected)
ambitious Chandrayaan-3 mission to the  president of the Basketball Federation of
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 RBI appoints P Vasudevan as new  Tamil Nadu has topped in electronic
executive director exports in India.
 Telangana Chief Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and
 India’s external debt has witnessed a
Kerala Chief Justice S. Venkatanarayana
slight increase, reaching USD 624.7
Bhatti have been appointed as judges of
billion at the end of March 2023,
the Supreme Court by the President.
according to data released by the Reserve
 Australia has appointed the first female Bank.
head of its central bank Reserve Bank of
Australia (RBA)- Michele Bullock  State Bank of India celebrated its 68th
 Rakesh Pal appointed as 25th Director Bank Day on 01st July 2023.
General of Indian Coast Guard
 The Startup20 Shikhar Summit,
 Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan has
organized by the Startup20 Engagement
been appointed as the brand ambassador
of ICC World Cup 2023. Group under the India G20 Presidency,
concluded successfully in Gurugram.
 Admiral Lisa Franchetti becomes first
woman to lead US Navy India handed over torch of Startup 20 to
Brazil
 Naveen Patnaik of Odisha has become
the second longest serving chief minister  Bihar has overtaken Tamil
of Nadu to become the state with the
 Justice Ashish Jitendra Desai Takes highest microlending borrowings in
Oath as Chief Justice Of Kerala High India
Court
 RBI Launches Centralised Information
 Justice Alok Aradhe took oath as Chief Management System (CIMS) for
Justice of Telangana High Court in
Hyderabad Enhanced Data Management
 Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya  According to the World
appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay Investment Report 2022, India has
High Court ranked 7th among the top 20 host
 ‘Jim’ Skea of the United Kingdom was economies for 2021. Singapore
elected as the new chair of (27.01%), USA (17.94%), Mauritius
the Intergovernmental Panel on (15.98%), Netherland (7.86%) and
Climate Change (IPCC), in Nairobi, Switzerland (7.31%) emerge as top 5
Kenya.
countries for FDI equity inflows. Max in
Computer software and hardware
ECONOMY & BANKING
 India and Malaysia can now trade in
 The Government of India has authorized Indian rupee
all Public Sector Banks and eligible
Private Sector Banks to implement and  Bangladesh and India Launch Trade
operationalize the Mahila Samman Transactions in Rupees to Reduce Dollar
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to implement interoperability between
its central bank digital currency (CBDC)  India’s biggest natural arch discovered in
and the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) Odisha by GSI
by the end of this month, according to  India’s first indigenously developed
Deputy Governor T. Rabi Sankar. 700 MW nuclear power reactor at
 UAE becomes first Arab country to get the Kakrapar Atomic Power Project
observer status on Asian-Pacific Money (KAPP) in Gujarat has successfully
Laundering commenced commercial operations
 The European Investment Bank  India’s first ‘Police Drone Unit’ launched
(EIB) has announced its support in Chennai
for India’s National Green Hydrogen  15-year-old boy from Alappuzha district
Mission by offering a loan facility of up in Kerala, India, has passed away after
to €1 billion. contracting a rare infection caused by
 Razorpay launches first international Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as
payment gateway in Malaysia the “brain-eating amoeba.”
 India bans export of non-basmati white  World famous Shravani Mela inaugurated
rice in Deoghar
 The Indian Space Research Organization
INTERNATIONAL (ISRO) is going to transfer its Small
Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) to the
private sector
 Iran Becomes Full Member of SCO
 India welcomes is first regional AI news
 India has joined the Champions Group anchor, ‘Lisa
of the Global Crisis Response Group
 The Odisha state cabinet gave an approval
(GCRG) at the invitation of the UN
to a proposal which recommended the
Secretary-General.
inclusion of the Kui language in the 8th
 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has schedule of the Constitution of India.
been invited as the guest of honour for
 MoU signed to establish 1st campus of
France’s Bastille Day celebrations, which
IIT Delhi in Abu Dhabi
will take place on July 14
 Delhi’s IGIA Becomes 1st Airport in
 India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral India With Four Runways; An Elevated
Highway Project Cross Taxiway
 Russia bans sex change and  Surat Diamond Bourse: India’s Gem
transgender marriages Capital Overtakes US with World’s
Largest Office.
 WHO identifies first case of MERS-
CoV in UAE this year  Only 1% women live in countries with
high gender parity, female empowerment:
 UNESCO wants a global smartphone
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and 139 days on Sunday, surpassing launched in run-up to Independence
the record of former West Bengal chief Day
minister Jyoti Basu.
 Indian Naval Ship Kirpan, a corvette SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
that served the Indian Navy for 32
years, has been decommissioned and
handed over to the Vietnam People’s  International Conference on Green
Navy (VPN) in a ceremony held at Cam Hydrogen (ICGH-2023) Inaugurated in
New Delhi: Promoting a Green Hydrogen
Ranh, Vietnam.
Ecosystem
 Nagaland officially declared as Lumpy
 Third World Hindu Conference to be
Skin Disease positive State
organized in Bangkok
 Kargil gets first women police station in  India to host ASEAN Countries
Conference on Traditional Medicines
Ladakh
 Jammu to pioneer India’s first Cannabis  3rd Sherpas G20 meeting began in
Hampi, Karnataka
Medicine Project
 Saudi Arabia becomes 51st country
 Bengaluru Becomes 1st Indian City to
to sign ASEAN’s Treaty of Amity and
Join World Cities Culture Forum Cooperation (TAC).
 600 million year old river droplets found
 India Mobile Congress 2023 to be held
in Himalayas in Pragati Maidan, New delhi
 Amazon India to open first-ever
 India will inaugurate the Global Food
floating store in Dal Lake Regulators Summit in New Delhi on
July 20th and 21st.
CENTRE & STATE GOVERNMENT
SCHEMES & COMMITTEES ENVIRONMENT
 The Swarnima Scheme is a term loan
scheme introduced by the Ministry of
 New Zealand becomes first country to
Social Justice and Empowerment to ban plastic produce bags
provide financial assistance to women
entrepreneurs from backward classes.  WMO Revives Ozone-UV Bulletin
After 7 Years, Shows Steady Recovery
 Project Gajah Kotha Launched in of Ozone Layer. World Ozone day-16th
Assam September
 The Rajasthan Assembly passed ‘The  The Forest (Conservation) Amendment
Rajasthan Minimum Guaranteed Bill, 2023 proposes amendments to
Income Bill, 2023,’ aiming to provide the Forest Conservation Act 1980 and
a guarantee of wages or pension to the aims to exempt certain forest lands from
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IMPORTANT DAYS AWARD

 The Lokmanya Tilak National Award
 World Wide Web Day – 1st August was granted to the Prime Minister
 National Javelin Day - 7th August of India, Shri Narendra Modi, in
Pune, Maharashtra,
 Nagasaki Day- 9th August
 Ratan Tata conferred with Maharashtra
 World Lion Day + World Biofuel Day - govt.’s ‘Udyog Ratna’ award
10th August
 PM Modi honoured with Greece’s Grand
 World Elephant Day + International Youth Cross of the Order of Honour
Day - 12 August
th
 SVAMITVA Scheme Of Ministry Of
 World Humanitarian Day + World Panchayati Raj Won National Award For
Photography Day – 19th August E-Governance 2023
 Sadbhavana Diwas - 20th August
 India to celebrate August 23 as ‘National
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Space Day
 A new book “How Prime Ministers
 Women’s Equality Day- 26 August
th Decide” - Neerja Chowdhury
 National Sports Day- 29th August
SPORTS
PERSONALITY  Max Verstappen wins Belgian Grand Prix
 Max Verstappen wins Dutch Grand Prix
 London-based Indian-origin
2023
author Chetna Maroo’s debut
 India wins world Archery Championships
novel ‘Western Lane’ is among 13
2023
books to make the cut for the 2023
Booker Prize longlist revealed.  Indian sprinter Dutee Chand gets four-
year ban for failing dope test
 Renowned nuclear physicist Bikash  FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023: Spain
Sinha passes away wins the title with 1-0 victory over
England
 Former India football captain
 Mohit Kumar becomes U-20 World
Mohammed Habib passes away
Champion in Men’s 61 kg Freestyle
 Legendary statistical scientist CR Rao category
passes away at the age of 103  India’s Anahat Singh Clinches Gold In
Asian Junior Squash Championships

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Wrestling Championships In Jordan missiles, Australia’s involvement in
 ICC Ties Up With Mastercard For Men’s the AUKUS (Australia, United Kingdom,
Cricket World Cup 2023 United States) pact has gained attention
due to its potential role as a testing ground
 Chess World Cup 2023 Final: India’s
for advanced hypersonic and long-range
Praggnanandhaa finishes 2nd.Magnus
precision weapons.
Carlsen finally managed to win the FIDE
World Cup for the first time in his career.  The Indian Air Force has inducted its
latest Heron Mark 2 drones, which
 Neeraj Chopra Makes History as First
have strike capability and can carry out
Indian to Secure Gold at World Athletics
surveillance along the borders with both
Championships
China and Pakistan in a single sortie
 FIFA lifts ban on Sri Lanka Football itself.
Federation
 The Indian Air Force (IAF) is gearing
up to host a colossal multilateral
RANKING (India,France, the United Kingdom,
Australia, the United States, and Japan)
 Bihar, UP, TN top 3 states with maximum military exercise, ‘Tarang Shakti‘, which
Jan Dhan beneficiaries was originally slated for October but has
 Indore Named Best City and Madhya been rescheduled to the middle of 2024.
Pradesh Best State in India Smart Cities
Awards 2022
SCIENCE & TECHOLOGY
DEFENCE  Russia’s Ambitions Luna-25 Mission
Ends in Failure
 Indian Army to now have common
uniform for Brigadier and above ranks  India has announced the definition
of Green Hydrogen. The Green Hydrogen
 Indian Air Force Gets Israeli Spike
Missiles Standard for India sets a criterion of 2 kg
CO2 equivalent per kg H2 as a 12-month
 India’s indigenous Nag Anti-Tank average emission threshold.
Guided Missile (ATGM) and the variant
 Chandrayaan-3 Soft Landing on the Moon
of HELINA (Helicopter-launched NAG) (Know more please visit our YouTube
Weapon System called ‘Dhruvastra’ are channel)
set to be inducted into the Indian army
and Indian Air Force (IAF) after clearing
all the trials.
 Malabar series of naval exercises,
involving the maritime forces of India,
Japan, the United States, and Australia, is
about to kick off along the eastern coast
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 S Somanath announced that Aditya-L1 ECONOMY & BANKING
mission, the first space-based Indian
observatory to study the Sun will be likely
launched by the first week of September.  India imposes anti-dumping duty on
optical fibre imports from China, Korea
 ISRO’s next mission to Moon is with and Indonesia
Japanese, named LUPEX, or Lunar Polar
Exploration, is slated for 2024-25.  Airtel Payments Bank Launched India’s
1st Eco-Friendly Debit Card
 The second phase of the Gaganyaan
mission will witness the launch  Govt Increases Windfall Tax on Crude Oil
of ‘Vyommitra,‘ a humanoid robot and Diesel, Reinstates Tax on Overseas
resembling a space-faring entity in female ATF Shipments
attire
 Hyundai Motor Co’s Indian subsidiary
has announced its intention to
APPOINTMENT acquire General Motors Talegaon
plant located in Maharashtra.
 Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba gets one-  India, ASEAN agree to review FTA by
year extension 2025
 Justice Subhasis Talapatra sworn in as
new Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
INTERNATIONAL
 Chairman of the Central Board of Indirect
Taxes and Customs (CBIC)- Sanjay  Beijing Faces Historic Flooding as China
Kumar Agarwal Witnesses Highest Rainfall in 140 Years
 Anwarul Haq Kakar Sworn In As  Iraq bans media from using term
Pakistan’s Caretaker Prime Minister ‘homosexuality’
 Kamlesh Varshney, Amarjeet Singh  Cambodia: A Woman Parliament
appointed SEBI whole-time members President For 1st Time in History
 The G20 Film Festival kicked off with the
 BPCL announces Rahul Dravid as Brand
screening of “Pather Panchali”
Ambassador
 The 15th BRICS Summit took place in
 Srettha Thavisin Elected As Thailand Johannesburg, bringing together leaders
Prime Minister from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and
 Sachin Tendulkar to be EC’s national icon South Africa.
 Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi
 Justice Prakash Shrivastava appointed as Arabia and UAE will become members of
NGT chairperson BRICS
 Infosys Signs Tennis Legend Rafael  Chandrayaan-3 becomes world’s most
Nadal as Ambassador For 3 Years viewed live-stream on YouTube
 Infosys Signs Women’s Tennis Champ  PM Modi first Indian prime minister to
Iga Swiatek as Brand Ambassador visit Greece in 40 years
 Emmerson Mnangagwa Wins Second  India Officially Hands Over B20
Term as President of Zimbabwe Presidency to Brazil to Host G20 Summit
in 2024
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Public Roads in Leh, Ladakh.
 Tamil Nadu celebrates Cultural Festival  Kerala’s First AI School Launched In
Aadi Perukku Thiruvananthapuram
 GST Council sticks to its plan to collect  ‘Mera Bill Mera Adhikar’ GST Reward
28% tax on online gaming Scheme To Launch Soon
 GoI introduces Ayush visa category
for foreign nationals seeking medical CENTRE & STATE GOVERNMENT
CHEMES & COMMITTEES
treatment in India
 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has  CM Solar Mission launched in power
confirmed his attendance at the BRICS deficit Meghalaya (Conrad K Sangma)
Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa,
from August 22 to 24, 2023. SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
 SC to Appoint All-Woman Panel to  International Conference on Green
Oversee Relief in Manipur, Justice Gita Hydrogen (ICGH-2023) Inaugurated in
Mittal as its head. New Delhi: India to host World Coffee
 Kerala Assembly Approves Resolution to Conference in Bengaluru from Sept 25
Rename State as ‘Keralam’  Traditional Medicine Global Summit To
 In a proactive effort to modernize and Be Held In Gandhinagar
streamline access to justice, Chief Justice  Om Birla Inaugurates 9th Commonwealth
of India (CJI) D.Y Chandrachud unveiled Parliamentary Conference in Udaipur
the ‘SuSwagatam’ portal.  The B20 (Business 20) Summit India
2023 is currently taking place in Delhi
 Travel company MakeMyTrip has
announced a collaboration with
the Ministry of Tourism to introduce over ENVIRONMENT
600 unique and unconventional travel
destinations  Project Tiger merges with Project
Elephant, merged under a new division
 In a First In India, Goa To Give Free IVF called ‘Project Tiger and Elephant
Treatment In Govt Hospital Division’ by the Union Ministry of
 Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant Environment, Forest and Climate Change
unveiled the Biodiversity Atlas of Mayem (MoEFCC).
Village, Goa  Production, sale, and distribution
of ‘ketoprofen’ and ‘aceclofenac’, along
 BRO Initiates Construction of World’s with their formulations, for animal use is
Highest Motorable Road in Eastern prohibited.
Ladakh  The Bihar government to
 Onam, Celebrations of Kerala’s constitute ‘Rhino Task Force’ for
Harvesting Festival suggesting measures for the reintroduction
 TN CM Stalin Lays Foundation Stone For of rhino conservation scheme in ‘Valmiki
South-East Asia’s Largest Desalination Tiger Reserve’ in West Champaran
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IMPORTANT DAYS  Hindustani vocalist Malini Rajurkar

passes away at 82
 World Coconut Day – 2nd September  SPG Chief Arun Kumar Sinha,
 International Day of Charity - 5th Responsible for PM Modi’s Protection,
September Passes Away
 The International Day of Police  Dennis Austin, Software Developer Who
Cooperation - 7th September Created PowerPoint, Passes Away At 76
 International Literacy Day - 8th September  Renowned political cartoonist Ajit
 Himalaya Day or Himalaya Diwas - 9th Ninan passed away at the age of 68.
September
 Noted Rudra veena exponent, Ustad Ali
 ‘World EV Day’- 9th September Zaki Hader, passed away in New Delhi.
 Hindi Diwas - 14th September  Indian-Origin Author Chetna Maroo’s
 International Day of Democracy - 15th Debut Novel ‘Western Lane’ Shortlisted
September in Booker Prize 2023
 National Engineers’ Day - 15th  Father Of India’s ‘Green Revolution,’
September MS Swaminathan Passes Away At 98
 World Ozone Day - 16th September  Actor Michael Gambon, Who Played
 World Bamboo Day - 18th September Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter
 International Day of Peace - 21st Passed Away
September
 World Rhino Day - 22nd September AWARD
 Antyodaya Diwas – 25th September  Rajasthan’s Priyan Sain Crowned Miss
(birth anniversary of Pandit Deendayal Earth India 2023
Upadhyaya)
 Praveena Anjana Crowned Miss
 International Day for the Total
International India 2023
Elimination of nuclear weapons - 26nd
September  69th National Film Awards 2023
 World Tourism Day - 27th September • Best Actor: Allu Arjun, Pushpa
 World Environmental Health Day - 27th • Best Actress: Alia Bhatt, Gangubai
September Kathiawadi and Kriti Sanon, Mimi
• Best Director: Nikhil Mahajan,
Godavari
PERSONALITY • Best Popular Film Providing
 Geetika Srivastava becomes India’s First Wholesome Entertainment: RRR
Woman Charge d’Affaires In Pakistan • Best Bengali Film: Kalkokkho

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 Ramon Magsaysay Award-2023 (Nobel Hero,” based on the Kerala floods, will
Prize of Asia): Korvi Rakshand from represent India as its official entry at
Bangladesh, Eugenio Lemos from Timor- the Academy Awards or Oscars in 2024.
Leste, Miriam Coronel-Ferrer from the  Ruixiang Zhang Awarded 2023
Philippines, and Dr Ravi Kannan R. SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in
from India. Mathematics
 Telangana’s Chief Innovation Officer
(CIO) Shanta Thoutam has been BOOKS AND AUTHORS
presented with the World Innovation
Award at the first BRICS Innovation  ‘Fire on the Ganges: Life Among the
Forum hosted at Moscow from August Dead in Banaras,’ -Radhika Iyengar
27 to 29.
 Council of Scientific and Industrial
Research (CSIR) has publicised the
SPORTS
list of awardees for the Shanti Swarup  Max Verstappen wins Italian Grand Prix
Bhatnagar (SSB) awards for 2022 2023
 Infosys, the Bengaluru-headquartered IT  Mohun Bagan SG defeats East Bengal
services provider, has secured a coveted 1-0 at Durand Cup finals
spot-on TIME magazine’s ‘The World’s
 McGahey (Canada)to become first
Best Companies of 2023’ list.
transgender to play international
 Erica Robin, a model from Karachi has cricket.
been crowned “Miss Universe Pakistan
 Amul is official sponsor of Indian
2023”, becoming the first-ever woman
contingent at Hangzhou Asian Games.
from the country to win the title.
 SAFF U16 Championship Final: India
 Santiniketan, the cultural and
Crowned Champions After Beating
educational hub founded by Nobel
Bangladesh in Final
laureate Rabindranath Tagore, has earned
a coveted spot-on UNESCO’s World  Basketball: Germany beat Serbia to
Heritage List (41st). win World Cup for first time
 UNESCO’s42nd World Heritage Site in  India’s Virat Kohli became the fastest
India - Hoysala Temples, Karnataka batter to reach 13,000 ODI runs
 Indian captain Rohit
 Swati Nayak From Odisha, To Receive
Sharma completed 10,000 ODI runs
The 2023 Norman Borlaug Field Award
 The Subroto Cup International
 Waheeda Rehman To Receive
Football Tournament, India’s oldest
Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime
national inter-school football competition,
Achievement Award
is set to make history in its 62nd
 The Film Federation of India has edition. Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of
announced that the Malayalam India, has been added to the list of host
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 Simona Halep Receives 4-Year Ban from  Indore Tops Swachh Vayu Sarvekshan
Tennis for Doping 2023 Clean Air Survey
 India’s Kiran George Clinches  Switzerland Ranked No. 1 In the
Indonesia Badminton Masters Title World Best Countries Report 2023
 MotoGP Bharat Strikes Sponsorship  India Ranks First Among 154 Nations
Agreement with Indian Oil in Grassroot Adoption of Crypto
 Indian shooter Elavenil  India Ranks 40th In Global Innovation
Valarivan secured a remarkable victory Index 2023
in the women’s 10m air rifle event at
the ISSF World Cup 2023 held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil DEFENCE
 Harmanpreet, Lovlina to Be Flag-
Bearers at Asian Games Opening  21st edition of the Varuna naval
exercise, Varuna-23. Held in
Ceremony in Hangzhou, China. the Arabian Sea.
 New York, Dallas, And Florida to Host
T20 Cricket World Cup Matches In  North Korea Launches New ‘Tactical
Nuclear Attack Submarine’named Hero
2024 Kim Kun Ok, an ex-commander of the
 Inaugural Indian Grand Prix 2023: North Korean navy.
Marco Bezzecchi Secures Victory
 NATO’s Largest Military Exercise
 Indian Team Become First Team to Hit Since the Cold War: The “Steadfast
3000 Sixes in ODI Cricket Defender” exercise is part of NATO’s
 India emerged victorious against the effort to counter Russian-led alliance.
formidable Sri Lankan team, securing This exercise will be conducted in the
the gold medal with a 19-run victory areas of Germany, Poland, and the Baltic
countries.
in a remarkable debut appearance in the
Asian Games 2023.  19th Edition of YUDH ABHYAS (India-
 The Indian trio of Manu Bhaker, Esha USA) to Be Conducted In Alaska
Singh, and Rhythm Sangwan secured
the gold medal in the women’s 25m SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
pistol team event
 Asian Games 2023, Palak Gulia Wins  ISRO Aditya L1 mission was launched
Gold in Women’s 10m Air Pistol successfully on September 2, from
the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in
 Asian Games 2023, Rohan Bopanna
Sriharikota. The mission is India’s first
and Rutuja Bhosale wins gold in Tennis dedicated solar mission and will study
the Sun’s atmosphere, including the
RANKING chromosphere and corona.
 Japan launches ‘moon sniper’ lunar lander
 The World Heritage SLIM into space
Site Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh’s
Raisen district has become India’s first  NASA’s MOXIE Successfully
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an ambitious venture to explore a distinct
metallic asteroid positioned in orbit  Bhaderwah Rajma & Ramban Sulai
between Mars and Jupiter. Honey of Jammu and Kashmir Get GI
Tag
APPOINTMENT  NPCI Introduces Innovative
Contactless Payment Wearable Ring:
 Indian Oil ropes in Chef Sanjeev Kapoor ‘OTG Ring’
as its Brand Ambassador  India Emerges as Bangladesh’s
Leading Export Partner
 Jaya Verma Sinha 1st Woman Chairperson
to Head the Railway Board  TCS Tops Kantar BrandZ Top Most
Valuable Indian Brands Report 2023
 New president of Singapore -
Indian-origin economist Tharman
Shanmugaratnam INTERNATIONAL
 Director General of Press Information  Georgia Declares October as ‘Hindu
Bureau (PIB) - Shri Manish Desai Heritage Month’
 Vanuatu parliament elects Sato Kilman as  Nobel Foundation has decided to
prime minister cancel its invitation to the Russian
Ambassador for this year’s Nobel award
 Renowned actor R Madhavan has been ceremony in Stockholm.
nominated as the new President of the
Film and Television Institute of India  African Union Becomes Permanent
(FTII), Pune. Member of G20 Under India’s
Presidency
 Dr. Vasudha Gupta Assumes Charge as
Principal DG Of Akashvani  The African Union (AU) is a continental
organization consisting of 55 member
 Cognizant India MD Rajesh Nambiar states from across Africa. It was officially
appointed as Nasscom Chairperson launched on July 26, 2001, in Durban,
South Africa, and is headquartered
 India’s Sindhu Gangadharan Appointed as in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Nasscom Vice-Chairperson
 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
 The 78th session of the United Nations announced the formation of the Global
General Assembly commenced with Biofuels Alliance (GBA) during the G20
Dennis Francis taking on the role of Summit.
General Assembly President.
 In a significant announcement during
 Director of Enforcement Directorate- the G20 summit, Prime Minister
Rahul Navin Narendra Modi unveiled plans for
the India-Middle East-Europe economic
 K.N. Shanth Kumar Elected Chairman corridor, which involves India, UAE,
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to boost trade between the participating Hospital Arogya Maitri Cube
nations, with a particular focus on
 World’s tallest Nataraja statue installed at
facilitating the exchange of energy-
G20 summit venue
related goods.
 West Bengal Assembly Resolution On
 A cluster of traditional, picturesque ‘Poila Baisakh’ As State Foundation
villages on Mount Pindos in Epirus, Day
known as the Zagorochoria (or villages
of Zagori), was recently inducted  ‘Moon Man of India’ Mylswamy
onto UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Annadurai
 World’s Second Largest Hindu Temple  Jharkhand Cabinet Approves Pension
Outside India to Be Inaugurated In US and OBC Status for The Transgender
Community
 Google’s Celebrates Its 25th Birthday
(Founded 27th sept,1998)  The Border Roads Organisation (BRO)
is set to achieve a remarkable feat
 Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance: post- as it embarks on the construction of
war intelligence-sharing agreement the world’s highest fighter airfield at
between the United States, the United Nyoma in Ladakh.
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand. Formed in 1946.  Amazon’s AWS Partners With ISRO
To Enhance AI Capabilities with Cloud
Technologies
NATIONAL  India’s southern state of Kerala has once
again found itself grappling with the
 Tata Steel and ACME Group Join Forces ominous threat of the Nipah virus, a rare
for India’s Largest Green Hydrogen and deadly brain-damaging viral disease.
Project in Odisha
 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj
 NITI Aayog and UNDP Collaborate to Singh Chouhan is set to unveil a
Accelerate SDGs in Indi majestic 108-feet-tall statue of the revered
 India’s Largest Home-Built Nuclear Plant philosopher Adi Shankaracharya in
Starts Operations,the 700 MW nuclear Omkareshwar, project is named
power plant located in Kakrapar, Gujarat, “Eaktmta Ki Pratima” (Statue of
Oneness).
 Nagaland Becomes First State in North
 Maharashtra Issues Notification
Eastern Region to Initiate Aadhaar Linked
on Name Change of Aurangabad,
Birth Registration
Osmanabad
 President to inaugurate 12-foot Mahatma
 Old Parliament Building to Be Called
Gandhi statue, ‘Gandhi Vatika’ near
As ‘Samvidhan Sadan’
Rajghat.
 Indian Prime Minister Narendra
 Kokborok is the lingua franca of Modi extended an invitation to U.S.
Tripura’s indigenous community, President Joe Biden to be the chief guest
spoken by nearly one-third of the state’s at India’s Republic Day celebrations on
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Tag One Future.” (To know more visit our
 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Unveils channel)
15-Point Winter Action Plan to Combat  43rd ASEAN Summit Begins in Jakarta
Air Pollution
  Prime Minister Modi Participated in
CENTRE & STATE GOVERNMENT the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and
SCHEMES & COMMITTEES 18th East Asia Summit (EAS)
 Next G20 Presidency: PM Modi Hands
 Indian government announced the Over G20 Presidency Gavel to Brazil’s
formation of a committee led by former President Lula da Silva
President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, to  14th edition of the Global Skills Summit
delve into the feasibility of ‘One Nation, has begun in Delhi.
One Election
 PM Modi Attends The ‘International
 Prime Minister Modi Launches PM Lawyers Conference’ In New Delhi
Vishwakarma Scheme to Empower
Traditional Artisans
ENVIRONMENT
SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
 Centre’s Report Says India Has 150
 India to host first-ever global AI Elephant Corridors, West Bengal emerges
summit in Oct, to boost innovation as the frontrunner in this report, with a
staggering 26 elephant corridors
 Kashmir to Host Miss World 2023 in
December  India Gets Its 54th Tiger Reserve
“Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve”
 The G20 Summit 2023 took place on In MP
September 9th and 10th, spanning two
days in the capital city, Delhi.held at the  Bihar To Establish Second Tiger
prestigious ‘Bharat Mandappam,’ which Reserve in Kaimur District.
is located in New Delhi’s Pragati  International Scientists Make Refined
Maidan, theme for the G20 Summit 2023 Map of World’s ‘8th Continent’
is “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam,” which Zealandia

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IMPORTANT DAYS  Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023- Moungi

G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I.
 World Nature Day - 3rd Oct Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis
 World Animal Welfare Day - 4th Oct of quantum dots”.
 World Teachers’ Day - 5th Oct  The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 was
 World Cotton Day - 7th Oct awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse
for his innovative plays and prose which
 Indian Air Force Day-8th Oct
give voice to the unsayable.
 Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Day – 9th Oct
 Nobel Peace Prize for 2023 to to Narges
 World Post Day – 9th Oct Mohammadi for her fight against the
 World Mental Health Day – 10th Oct oppression of women in Iran and her fight
 International Day of the Girl - 11th Oct to promote human rights and freedom for
 World Migratory Bird Day - 14th Oct all
 World Food Day - 16th Oct  Nobel Peace Prize for Economics
awarded to Claudia Goldin “for having
 International Day for the Eradication of
Poverty - 17th Oct advanced our understanding of women’s
labour market outcomes”
 World Polio Day - 24th Oct
 The Nobel Prize in Medicine
 National Unity Day or Rashtriya Ekta
Diwas - 31st Oct or Physiology for 2023 has been
awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew
Weissman for their groundbreaking
PERSONALITY work on nucleoside base modification
of messenger Ribonucleic Acid
 Legendary Spinner and Former Indian (mRNA).
Captain, Bishan Singh Bedi Passes Away
At 77  The First Woman to Get Global Indian
 EC To Appoint Actor Rajkummar Rao Award- Sudha Murty.
as Its ‘National Icon’  Dilip Nongmaithem Receives Bal Sahitya
Puraskar In Manipuri Language
AWARD  Professor Dr. Joyeeta Gupta Honored with
Dutch Spinoza Prize for Climate Change
 Nobel Laureates in Physics 2023,
Research
Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and
Anne L’Huillier were recognised “for  Tamil writer Sivasankari was honored
experimental methods that generate with the prestigious ‘Saraswati Samman’
attosecond pulses of light for the study of in 2022 for her memoirs, “Surya
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 NTPC Becomes the Only Indian PSU  ICC Names Sachin Tendulkar as ‘Global
To Feature in Forbes “World’s Best Ambassador’ For ODI World Cup 2023.
Employers 2023” List  Asian Games 2023, Neeraj Chopra Wins
 Hollywood actor Michael Douglas is set Gold in Javelin Throw
to receive the prestigious Satyajit Ray  Indian Men’s Hockey Team Clinches
Excellence in Film Lifetime Award at Gold at Asian Games 2023
the 54th International Film Festival to be  Indian Women’s Kabaddi Team Clinches
held in Goa Gold at Asian Games 2023
 Neeraj Chopra Nominated For the  Asian Games 2023, India Wins Gold in
prestigious Men’s Athlete of the Year Men’s Cricket
award for 2023  Jyothi Surekha Vennam Wins Gold in
 Shreya Ghoshal Won 5th National Women’s Archery at Asian Games 2023
Awards 2023  David Warner Becomes Fastest To 1000
 CJI Chandrachud Honored With ODI World Cup Runs
“Award for Global Leadership” By  19th Asian Games (of 2022, held in
Harvard Law School 2023)
 West Bengal Teacher Deep Narayan • 107 medals (28 gold, 38 silvers
Nayak Named Finalist for Global and 41 bronze)
Teacher Prize 2023 • Fourth country after China (383),
Japan (188) and the Republic of
Korea (190)
BOOKS & AUTHORS • 20th Asian Games will be held in
 “The Book Of Life: My Dance With Japan in 2027.
Buddha For Success - Vivek Agnihotri  37th edition of the National Games,
scheduled for 2023, is set to take place in
the picturesque state of Goa
SPORTS  The International Olympic Committee
(IOC) with the Olympic Museum has
 Indian Men’s Football Team Wins SAFF
aligned with Reliance Foundation to build
Under-19 Championship.
on the success of the Olympic Values
 Ajay Jadeja Appointed as Mentor for Education Programme (OVEP) in India
Afghanistan Cricket Team In ICC Cricket
 11th Sultan of Johor Cup to be held
World Cup 2023
in Johor, Malaysia in November 2023
 India’s Annu Rani won the gold medal (Sultan of Johor Cup is an annual,
in the women’s javelin throw with a international under-21 men›s field hockey
69.92m throw at the Asian Games 2023 in tournament held in Malaysia.)
Hangzhou
 PM Confirms India’s Bid to Host 2036
 Parul Chaudhary has become the third Olympics
Indian track and field athlete to win gold
 Lionel Messi Wins Eighth Ballon D’Or
at the 2023 Asian Games, winning the
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As Brand Ambassador
 Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2023,  Navneet Munot Elected Chairman of The
India has been ranked 111 out of 125 Association of Mutual Funds in India
countries, marking a decline from its (AMFI).
107th position in 2022
 Gold Medalist Neeraj Chopra Appointed
• Pakistan: 102nd Laureus Ambassador
• Bangladesh: 81st  Arindam Bagchi Appointed as India’s
Ambassador to UN In Geneva
• Nepal: 69th
 Puma Ropes In Mohammed Shami as Its
• Sri Lanka: 60th Brand Ambassador
 Mumbai Second Most Polluted Major  Ashok Vaswani To Succeed Uday Kotak
Global City As Air Quality Worsens after as New CEO Of Kotak Mahindra Bank
Beijing
 Mike Johnson elected as the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, United
DEFENCE States.
 Robert Fico To Become Slovakia’s New
 Indian Air Force Set to Induct Astra Prime Minister
Beyond Visual Range (BVR) Air-To-
Air Missile
 IAF To Stop Flying MiG-21 By 2025.
ECONOMY & BANKING
 India and Bangladesh commenced  The various rates
the 11th edition of their annual joint
• Policy Repo Rate: 6.50%
military exercise, SAMPRITI, in Umroi,
Meghalaya • Standing Deposit Facility (SDF):
6.25%
 Operation Ajay Set to Evacuate Indian
Nationals from Israel • Marginal Standing Facility
Rate: 6.75%
 Israel recently tested its new laser-based
‘Iron Beam’ missile defence system. • Bank Rate: 6.75%
• Fixed Reverse Repo Rate: 3.35%
APPOINTMENT • CRR: 4.50%
• SLR: 18.00%.
 President of Maldives - Mohamed Muizzu
 Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti Assumes INTERNATIONAL
Charge as Deputy Chief of The Naval
Staff  World’s Second Largest Hindu Temple
 RBI Appoints Muneesh Kapur as Outside India Inaugurated in US, the New
Executive Director Jersey Akshardham temple.
 Centre Extends SBI Chairman Dinesh  India And Saudi Arabia Tie Up for Green
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militant group governing the Gaza Strip, Ensure Minimum Wages for Workers
launched a massive surprise attack on
southern Israel  ‘Cyclone Tej’, has the potential to impact
Mumbai, Pune, and other regions of
 The inaugural India-UK ‘2+2’ foreign and Maharashtra and the Konkan area
defence dialogue was held in New Delhi.
 RBI Inaugurates Sub-Office in Itanagar,
 The tallest statue of the ‘Architect of the Arunachal Pradesh
Indian Constitution,’ B.R. Ambedkar,
known as the ‘Statue of Equality,’ is  West Bengal Governor Presents ‘Durga
set to be unveiled in Maryland, North Bharat Samman’ Awards
America on October 14.  Google Launches DigiKavach Program to
 Sri Lanka Announces Free Visas for Fight Online Financial Frauds in India
Indians to Boost Tourism  NCERT To Replace ‘India’ With ‘Bharat’
In Upcoming Books
NATIONAL  24th Hornbill Festival 2023 To Kick Off
in Nagaland from December 1
 Madhya Pradesh To Provide 35%
Reservation for Women in Govt. Jobs.  Tata To Become India’s First IPhone
Manufacturer
 Arunachal Pradesh’s Yak Churpi’
Receives GI Tag
 Nokia Opens 6G Lab Facility in SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
Bengaluru
 The 2023 World Health Summit took
 Hyderabad’s Landmark Achievement: place from October 15 to October 17
India’s First Solar Cycling Track under the theme “A Defining Year
 UP Declares Gangetic Dolphin as State for Global Health Action” in Berlin,
Aquatic Animal Germany
 Udaipur Set to Become India’s First  Prime Minister will virtually inaugurate
Wetland City (also known as the ‘City the third edition of the Global Maritime
of Lakes) India Summit 2023 in Mumbai
 The Ministry of Education and  India To Host World’s Largest Textiles
Government of India has initiated the Event, Bharat Tex 2024
APAAR ID, known as the “One Nation
One Student ID Card
 The Supreme Court decided to refer ENVIRONMENT
a group of petitions challenging the
electoral bond scheme for political party  New Mushroom Species Discovered In
funding to a five-judge Constitution Western Ghats
bench. The bench, led by Chief Justice
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IMPORTANT DAYS  India’s First Woman Supreme Court

Judge Justice Fathima Beevi Passes
 Zojila Day- 1st November Away
 World Tsunami Awareness Day - 5th
November AWARD
 National Cancer Awareness Day - 7th
November  India-Born Author Nandini Das Wins
2023 British Academy Book Prize for her
 Uttarakhand observes its 23rd Foundation debut book, ‘Courting India: England,
Day - 9th November
Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire.’
 National Education Day – 11 November
th
 All India Football Federation has
 World Pneumonia Day – 12 November
th
secured its second Grassroots Football
 Public Service Broadcasting Day - 12th award
November  The 19th edition of the prestigious
 World Diabetes Day + Children’s Day - ‘Kalakar Puraskar,’ was awarded
14 November
th
to Apolinaris D’Souza, a prominent
 International Students Day - 17th Konkani singer, lyricist, and composer.
November  96th Oscars in 2024: Jimmy Kimmel To
 Women’s Entrepreneurship Day - 19th Host Academy Awards For The Fourth
November Time
 World Children’s Day - 20th November  The prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for
Peace, Disarmament and Development
 World Television Day + World Fisheries
Day - 21st November for the year 2022 was jointly awarded to
the Indian Medical Association (IMA)
and Trained Nurses Association of
PERSONALITY India.
 Uttar Pradesh Bags First Prize for
 Time Magazine Features Sheikh Hasina, Best State in Inland Fisheries (Andhra
World’s Longest Serving Female Head of Pradesh is the largest producer of fish in
Govt India followed by West Bengal)
 Renowned Musician and Scholar Leela  Legendary actress Madhuri Dixit has
Omchery Passes Away At 94 been honored with the ‘Special
 Father of modern election science, Sir Recognition for Contribution to
David Butler, passes away at 98 Bharatiya Cinema ‘award at the 54th
 Former RBI Governor S. Venkitaramanan International Film Festival of
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 BBC 100 Women 2023 includes four  Shami Becomes First Indian Bowler to
Indian women viz. Actress Dia Mirza, Claim Seven Wickets in A Single ODI
Cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur, Cricket Match
Photographer Arati KumarRao, and  Australia became the new World Cup
Tibetan Buddhist nun Jetsunma 2023 winner by defeating India by
Tenzin Palmo. 7 wickets, The final took place at
Narendra Modi Stadium
 Anahat Singh Becomes Second Youngest
To Win National Squash Championship  Virat Kohli Earns The “Player of The
Title. Tournament” Title in The Cricket World
Cup 2023
 Paul Lynch who is an Irish author won
the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth  Australia’s Travis Head Got The ‘Man of
The Match’ Title in Cricket World Cup
novel ‘Prophet Song’
2023
 Angkor Wat Becomes The 8th Wonder
 Novak Djokovic Wins Record Seventh
of The World ATP Finals Title
 IFFI 2023: ‘Endless Borders’ Wins  ICC Moves Men’s U-19 World Cup
Golden Peacock from Sri Lanka to South Africa
 Anish Bhanwala Becomes First Indian
SPORTS Shooter to Win a Medal In 25m Rapid
Fire at ISSF World Cup Final
 Saudi Arabia to Host 2034 FIFA World  Italy Defeat Australia to Win Davis
Cup Cup for First Time Since 1976
 Mohammed Shami Becomes India’s  Rahul Dravid To Continue as India’s
Leading Wicket Taker in World Cup Head Coach
History
 In 2023, Lionel Messi and Aitana RANKING
Bonmati were awarded the Ballon
d’Or.
 Max Verstappen Wins Brazilian Grand  Mumbai Ranks Fourth in Global
Prix 2023 Housing Price Rise (1st-manila)
 India Among Top Countries with High
 Indian chess players Vidit Gujrathi and Income and Wealth Inequality: UNDP
R Vaishali achieved remarkable victories Report
at the FIDE Grand Swiss Chess 2023.
 India Ranks 2nd In Employee Well-
 International Cricket Council (ICC) Being, Japan Lowest
recently announced the induction of
 Bengaluru Tops In Women-Led
Virender Sehwag, Diana Edulji, and
Startups, Followed By Mumbai And
Aravinda de Silva into the coveted ICC
Delhi
Cricket Hall of Fame
 Virat Kohli, the Indian cricket captain,
achieved a remarkable feat by becoming DEFENCE
the first batter in the world to score 50
One Day International (ODI)  ‘Surat’ Becomes the First Navy Warship
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Exercise “Exercise MITRA Executive Officer at OpenAI
SHAKTI-2023” Begins in Pune  Microsoft Names Aparna Gupta as
 Indian Navy Launches 4th Anti- Leader of Global Delivery Center
Submarine Warfare Craft, Named  Colin Jackson Appointed Intl
‘Amini’ Ambassador For 2023 Tata Steel Kolkata
25KS
 Indo-US Joint Special Forces Exercise
“VAJRA PRAHAR 2023” Commences in  Mamata Banerjee Names Sourav
Meghalaya Ganguly as the ‘Brand Ambassador of
Bengal’
 India And Nepal Convene for the 17th
 India’s CAG Girish Chandra Murmu
Edition of Joint Military Exercise
Elected Vice-Chair Of UN External
SURYA KIRAN
Auditors’ Panel
 President of FICCI- Anish Shah
APPOINTMENT  HDFC Bank Appoints Former NABARD
Chairman Harsh Kumar Bhanwala as
 Bangladesh’s Saima Wazed, daughter of Director
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, emerged
victorious in the election for the
next World Health Organization (WHO)
ECONOMY & BANKING
Regional Director for South-East Asia.  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
 Manoranjan Mishra has been appointed issued a notification, granting Non-
as an Executive Director (ED) of the Resident Indians (NRIs) unrestricted
Reserve Bank of India (RBI). investment access to the Government’s
 Heeralal Samariya Appointed as The Sovereign Green Bonds for the fiscal
New Chief Information Commissioner year 2023-24.
 Hitesh Kumar S Makwana appointed  IMF to Provide $4.5 bn Loan for
Surveyor General of India Bangladesh to Combat Economic Crisis
 Former PM David Cameron Appointed  In the dynamic world of startups and
as The UK Foreign Secretary unicorns, India has secured the third
 Pedro Sanchez Re-Elected as Spanish position (after USA and China) globally
Prime Minister with an impressive count of 72 unicorn
 Biden Appoints Indian American companies
Shakuntla Bhaya to The Administrative
Conference Of US INTERNATIONAL
 Senior Indian Police Service (IPS)
 Thailand Announces Visa-Free Entry
officer Alok Sharma has been appointed
for Indians to Boost Tourism
as the new director of the Special
Protection Group (SPG), the elite  India And UAE Sign MoU to
security unit responsible for safeguarding Strengthen Educational Ties
the Prime Minister.  Chile has recently become the 95th
 President of Argentina - Javier Milei member of the International Solar
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Polish run company, have appointed Kozhikode, have been added to the
the world’s first humanoid robot CEO prestigious list of the United Nations
named Mika. Educational, Scientific and Cultural
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India Organization (UNESCO) Creative
did not participate in the virtual BRICS- Cities Network (UCCN).
Plus joint meeting on the Middle East  The 15th Tribal Youth Exchange
situation in Gaza. External Affairs Program is going to conclude in
Minister S. Jaishankar represented Mumbai
India at the meeting, emphasizing India’s
stance on terrorism.  International Workshop on ‘Food Loss
and Waste Prevention in the South Asian
 Afghanistan Closes Its Embassy In Region’ inaugurated in New Delhi
India Permanently
 Bharat Botanics announced the opening
 New Zealand’s recently elected of its cutting-edge wood-pressed Cold
government has decided to abandon its Oil processing facility in Gondal,
groundbreaking law aimed at banning Rajkot Gujarat.
smoking for future generations.  IIT Madras has become the first Indian
 Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau Volcano Institute of Technology to establish an
Erupts international campus on the picturesque
Zanzibar Island in East Africa.
NATIONAL  Mudra Port, the flagship of Adani Ports
and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ)
 Kozhikode Named India’s First ‘City Becomes India’s First Port to Handle
of Literature’ By UNESCO 16.1 million tonnes Of Cargo
 Prime Minister launches ‘Mera Yuva  IIT Kanpur Launches a Center of
Bharat (MY Bharat)’ platform on the Excellence Called ATMAN To Monitor
National Unity Day Air Quality
 Prime Minister declared the extension  The Supreme Court of
of Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna India emphasized that its directive,
Yojana for another five years issued in the 2021 order, banning the
use of barium and other prohibited
 The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) chemicals in firecrackers applies not only
Kanpur has a quick-fix solution to offer to the National Capital Region but to the
to Delhi and its neighbouring regions entire country.
choking in toxic air – it can help the
city wash down pollutants and dust with  Uttarakhand is on the brink of making
“artificial rains’ history as it prepares to become the
first state in India to implement the
 Kasaragod district of Kerala has Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Kerala is
achieved the distinction of becoming the first state in the country to formally
the first district in India to officially oppose the UCC, showcasing the
declare its own tree, flower, bird, and diversity of opinions and perspectives on
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 Uttarakhand’s finger millet, known  The AI Safety Summit 2023, hosted at
as Mandua, an integral part of the local Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, on
diet in Garhwal and Kumaon has been November 1 and 2, marked a significant
acknowledged with a GI tag. global event driven by the vision
 Two solar-powered ‘mini-cruise’ ships of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
are set to commence operations in the  G7 Foreign Ministers Meet in Japan,
sacred Saryu River in Ayodhya, just With the Israel-Gaza Conflict as A Key
ahead of the inauguration of the Ram Focus
Temple in January next year.
 6th India-OPEC Energy Dialogue High-
 Uttar Pradesh Government Banned Halal
Level Meeting Held in Vienna, Austria
Certified Products
 “Ghol” Fish Declared State Fish of  The Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary
Gujarat Summit, which took place in Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
 IIT Ropar Discovers Rare Metal
‘Tantalum’ In Sutlej River, Punjab  Second Voice of Global South Summit
hosted by India on November 17.
 Telangana Unveils the World’s First
3D-Printed Temple  ASEAN-India Millet Festival 2023 Kicks
 The National Cadet Corps (NCC), the Off in South Jakarta, Indonesia
youth wing of the Indian Armed Forces,
 India is set to take the helm as the
is set to celebrate its 75th anniversary on
chairman of the International Sugar
November 27, 2023.
Organisation (ISO) in 2024, marking a
 On November 23, 2023, after 17 significant milestone for the country.
harrowing days trapped underground,
all 41 workers were successfully rescued
from the collapsed Silkyara-Barkot ENVIRONMENT
tunnel in Uttarakhand, India.
 Cyclone ‘Michaung’ To Hit Bay of
 Odisha CM Launches ‘AMA Bank’ For Bengal, The Fourth Storm This Year
Gram Panchayat Banking  Cyclone ‘Midhili’ Makes Landfall on
Bangladesh’s Coast, the name ‘Midhili’
was given by the Maldives.
SUMMITS & CONFERENCES
 Madhya Pradesh: India’s Largest
 The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Tiger Reserve to Be Set Up in Damoh
Rishi Sunak, is set to host the AI Safety
Summit 2023 on 1st and 2nd November  After Gir National Park and Sanctuary,
at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. the Barda Wildlife Sanctuary of
Gujrat is set to become the second home
 India To Host 2024 World to Asiatic lions.
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