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 Index

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No. Topic No. Schedule Completed?
Yes or No ?
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1 Ranking
1st Day
7
2 Military Exercises
8
3 Appointments
2nd Day
9
4 Chief Justice of India & High Court
9
5 Brand Ambassadors
10
6 Awards & Honours
3rd Day
7 Grammy , Padma, Oscars, Dadasaheb
10-14
Phalke, Bafta, Golden Globe,
Pulitzer, Noble Prize,
14
8 Books & Authors
4th Day
15
9 Defence in News
17
10 First in News
5th Day
19
11 Sports/Awards/Events
21
12 Chess Grandmaster,
21
13 ICC player of the month,
21
14 Grand Prix, 6th Day
21
15 Grand Slam Tournaments
22
16 Days & Themes
24
17 Obituaries
25
18 Schemes/Programmes/Campaign/Policy 7th Day
27
19 Summit & Conferences
29
20 Festivals Current Affairs

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 India’s Ranking in various indexes
First Rank
1. World Press Freedom Index 2023 – 161st Norway
Reporters without Borders
2. Global Military Expenditure- 4th United States
3. First ever India’s Waterbody census West Bengal
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
4. Global Unicorn Index 2023 – 3rd (with 68 Unicorns) USA
Hurun Research Institute
5. World’s most populous country India
6. World’s ‘most criminal countries’ – 77 venezula
7. Human development index 2021-22, - 132 Switzerland
Released by United Nations Development Programme.
8. 2023 TIME100 Reader Poll Shah Rukh Khan
9. Busiest airport in the world – 9th (Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport)
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
10. Richest sports owner in the Forbes billionaire 2023 list Mukesh Ambani
11. UN’s World Happiness Report 2023 – 126 Finland
Report issued by The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
12. Global Terrorism Index – 13th Afganistan
13. World’s most polluted country – 8th Chad
14. Electoral Democracy Index 2022 – 108 th Denmark
15. Liberal Democracy Index 2022 – 97 th Denmark
V-Dem Institute
16. International IP Index – 42 United States
U.S. Chambers of Commerce
17. Global Fire Power Index Military Rankings – 4th (India) USA
18. Henley’s Passport Index 2022- 85 (January-23) Japan
87 (July-22) Japan
Data taken from International Air Transport Association.
19. Most Populated city of India Delhi
Central Pollution Control Board data
20. Global Airports of 2022 - 1st rank - Haneda, Tokyo, Japan
2nd rank - Kempegowda International Airport, Banglore
7th rank - Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delh
21. Best Cuisines of the World – 5 Italy
22. Top 25 of Forbes’ annual list of the world’s highest-paid female athletes Naomi Osaka (1st)
P.V. Sindhu (12th)
23. Global Food Security (GFS) Index 2022 - 68th Finland

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24. UN ranks ‘Namami Gange’ among Top 10 World Restoration Flagship programmes
25. Grievance Redressal Index Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
26. Forbes’ World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list Nirmala Sitaraman (36th)
Total six Indians are in this list (Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Falguni Nayar etc)
27. world’s strongest passport list 2022 - 87th UAE
By Arton Capital
28. List of countries at risk of mass killings 2022 – 8th Pakistan
29. Global Aviation Safety Rankings 2022 – 48 th Singapore
By International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
30. World’s Most Popular Leaders List Narendra Modi (77%)
31. Top 50 of Times Higher Education Employability Rankings - IIT Delhi (28 )th

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Times Higher Education Global Employability University Ranking and Survey
32. Top District under maximum Tap connection on the Jal Jeevan Mission Shahjahanpur (U.P)
33. Climate Change Performance Index 2023 – 8 th Denamark (rank-4th)
Germanwatch, NewClimate Institute and the Climate Action Network
34. Public Affairs Index 2022 (Big State) Haryana
(Small State) Sikkim
Public Affairs Centre (PAC)
35. Times Higher Education Rankings 2023, Top institute in India Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
World Oxford University
36. Global Hunger Index 2022 – 107/121 Belarus
Released by Concern worldwide & Welthungerhlife.
37. Global Innovation Index 2022- 40th Switzerland
World Intellectual Property Organization

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 Military Exercises
Exercise India with which Exercise India with which
country & Place country

Samudra Shakti 23 Indonesia 35th Indo-Thai Indian Navy with Royal Thai
(Batam Indonesia) Corpat Navy
(Andaman Sea)

AIME-2023 ASEAN India Maritime ASEAN India Saudi Arabia

Exercise Maritime Exercise (Port Al-Jubail)
(Singapore)
AJEYA WARRIOR – UK KAVACH Army, Navy, Air Force,
2023 (Salisbury Plains, Coast Guard
United Kingdom) (Andaman & Nicobar)

Cope India US (Air Force Station SLINEX 2023 Srilanka

Kalaikunda WB) (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Vayu Prahar Indian Army and Konkan 2023 Indian Navy and the Royal
Air Force Navy
(In Eastern Region) (Arabian Sea)

AFINDEX – 23 Africa-India Sea Dragon 23 US Navy

(Pune) (USA)

Bold kurukshetra Singapore Exercise La India, Australian, French,

(Jodhpur Military Perouse- 2023 Japanese, US Navy
Station) (Indian Ocean Area)

Maritime Partnership France Navy TROPEX-23 India’s Navy Exercise

Exercise (MPX) (Arabian Sea) (Culminated in Arabian sea)

IAF + Japan Air BSF

Veer Guardian 2023 DefenceForce Ops Alert (India – Pakistan Border)
(Japan)
Indian Air Force Indian Navy with IAF +
Poorvi Akash exercise (Northeast India) AMPHEX 2023 Indian Army
(Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh)

Indian & France Navy

PRALAY Indian Air Force 21st VARUNA (western seaboard)
(Northeastern India)
India-US Army
Exercise Cyclone – I Egyptian Army Yudh Abhyas (Nanda Devi, Uttarakhand)
(Jaisalmer, Rajasthan)
Nepal Army India-Kazakhstan
16th SURYA KIRAN (Nepal Army Battle KAZIND – 2022 (Umroi, Meghalaya)
School, Saljhandi, Nepal)
39th US-India Navy
IND-INDO CORPAT India-Indonesia Navy 7th Sangam Ex (GOA)
(Port Blair)
Exercise Japan Air Self-Defence
Shinyuu Maitri (Komatsu, Japan)

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 Appointments (Jan23 – May23)
JAN 23
Director General of the Border Security Force Director General Sujoy Lal Thaosen
Former Executive Director of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Dinesh Kumar Shukla
New Chief of police in Noida Laxmi Singh
Deputy Managing Directors In IDBI Bank Suresh Kishinchand Khatanhar
State Icon for Bihar by the Election Commission Maithili Thakur
Commander of the Indian Air Force's Western Air Command Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha
Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Canara Bank Lingam Venkata Prabhakar
First Female Sikh Judge in the US Man*preet Monica Singh
New Chief Technologist for the NASA A.C. Charania
Deputy national security advisor Pankaj Kumar Singh
41st PM of New Zealand Chris Hipkins
General Manager of Central Railway Naresh Lalwani
Director General of Police of Assam Police Gyanendra Pratap Singh
First Woman Chief Secretary of Telangana Santhi Kumari
New Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) of UPSC Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi
February23
Secretary General of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)
Shailesh Pathak
Drug Controller General of India Rajeev Raghuvanshi
Commission’s chair during the 62nd session Ruchira Kamboj
Secretary to the Government of India Shamika Ravi
Army Vice Chief Lt. Gen. MV Suchindra Kumar
March23
Vietnam president Vo Van Thuong
CEO of Hero Motocorp Niranjan Gupta
MD and CEO of UCO Bank Ashwani Kumar
She Changes Climate campaign: Ambassador for India Shreya Ghodawat
1st woman to command frontline IAF combat unit Group Captain Shaliza Dhami
1st Indian-American judge at New York Court Arun Subramanian
First justice of a district court in US Tejal Mehta (Indo-American)
New 28th Controller General of Accounts (CGA) S.S. Dubey
Principal Director General of the Press Information Bureau (PIB) Rajesh Malhotra
Interim Chairman of LIC Siddhartha Mohanty
Assistant secretary of the US air force Ravi Choudhary
President of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Ajay Singh
New chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority Deepak Mohanty
April23
Managing Director (MD) and the first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LIC Siddhartha Mohanty
Chairperson of Nasscom for the period 2023-24 Anant Maheshwari
Deputy Managing Director of HDFC Bank Kaizad Bharucha
New chief justice of Tripura HC Aparesh Kumar Singh
Warrant Officer of the UK's Royal Air Force Murugesvaran 'Subby' Subramaniam
40th president of FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) Sudha Shivkumar

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Vice-Chief of Naval Staff (VCNS) Vice-Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh
Executive Director of RBI Neeraj Nigam
President of UEFA Aleksander Ceferin
President of NRAI (National Rifle association of India) Kalikesh Singh
May 23
President of Basketball Federation of India Dr K. Govindaraj
Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India Ravneet Kaur
Chairman of UPSC Manoj Soni
Director of CBI Praveen Sood
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Parminder Chopra
Power Finance Corporation (PFC), India’s largest Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)
Administrator of the Basketball Federation of India P Krishna Bhat
th
14 President of World Bank Ajay Banga
Atomic Energy Commission chairman A K Mohanty

Chief Justice of India & High Court

Supreme Court Judges KV Viswanathan, Prashant Mishrato

Chief Justice, Calcutta High Court TS Sivagnanam

Chief Justice, High Court of J&K and Ladakh
Chief Justice, Tripura High Court
Chief Justice of Tripura High Court
Chief Justice, Gauhati High Court
Chief Justice, Gujarat High Court
Shri Justice N. Kotiswar Singh
Shri Justice Jaswant Singh (15 feb to 22 feb)
Aparesh kumar Singh
Shri Justice Sandeep Mehta
Ms. Justice Sonia Giridhar Gokani (13 feb to 25 feb)
Ashish Jitendra Desai (Acting)

49th Chief Justice of India Justice Uday Umesh Lalit

50th Chief Justice of India Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Brand Ambassadors 23
India’s Brand Ambassador to Other countries
New Brand Ambassadors
Tripura Toursim Sourav Ganguly
Wakefit signs Ayushman Khurana
Ambassador for Special Olympics Journey to Berlin Ayushman Khurana
She changes Climate Campaign Shreya Ghodawat
Star sports Rishabh Pant Singh
Brand Influencer of HSBC Virat Kohli
Luxor
Duroflex
Jio Cinema Rohit Sharma
Asian Hockey Federation(AHF) Athletes Ambassador Salima Tete
world’s first ‘Hand Ambassador’ by SAVLON Sachin Tendulkar
UNICEF India: Child Rights Ayush Khurana
High Commissioner to Namibia M Subbarayudu

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 These are ambassadors from Sept22 to Dec 23
India’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Suhel Ajaz Khan
India’s Ambassador to Slovak Republic Apoorva Srivastava
Nest Indian ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Partha Satpathy
India's High Commissioner to UK Vikram Doraiswami
India’s next ambassador to Kuwait Dr Adarsh Swaika
India’s next ambassador to Japan Sibi George
Indian Ambassador to Madagascar Bandaru Wilsonbabu
Next high commissioner of India to Canada Sanjay Verma
India’s ambassador to Thailand Nagesh Singh
These are ambassadors from Sept22 to Dec 23
Uttarakhand Government Prasoon Joshi
“Friendship Ambassador” by Switzerland Tourism Neeraj Chopra
Brand Ambassador of the Nikshay Mitra campaign Deepa Malik
Brand Ambassador for Lupin limited Shakti Campaign Mary Kom

Awards & Honours

May 23
International Booker Prize Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgarian)
for Novel = Time Shelter
Papua New Guinea and Fiji’s highest honour Narendra Modi
France's highest civilian award Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur N Chandrasekaran
Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 Jayant Narlikar
Sagar Shreshtha Sammaan Award 2023 Cochin Port
Shatabdi Purush (Man of the Century) Pandit Ramkishan (Former Loksabha MP)
World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO Niloufar Hamedi, Elaheh Mohammadi,
and Narges Mohammadi
(Imprisoned Iranian females)
Bharat Ratna Dr. Ambedkar Award for creating a fear-free U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath
April 23
Billboard’s Inaugural Latin Woman of the Year Award Shakira
Goldman Environment Prize 2023 Alessandra Korap
Order of Australia, Australia’s highest civilian honour Ratan Tata
1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award after 64 year Dalai Lama
Prestigious Santokbaa Humanitarian Award Sonam Wangchuk
Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Puraskar Asha Bhosle
The Grand Cross award Germany’s highest honor Angela Merkel
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Raj Subramaniam
Femina Miss India 2023 Nandini Gupta (from Rajasthan)
Business Leader of the Decade Award Kumar Mangalam Birla
World Vaccine Congress 2023 held in Washington, USA Bharat Biotech
(Best Production/Process Development award)
International Prize in Statistics 2023 Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao
Excellence in Public Administration-2022 in Innovation Category
PM GatiShakti national master plan
Global Gold Award for their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) work
Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL)

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 March 23
Lifetime Achievement Award by University of Texas Naveen Jindal
Prestigious Children's Champion Award 2023 Tapoban,
(an NGO based in Pathsala, Assam)
Wildlife Conservation Award 2023 Aliya Mir (from Kashmir)
Kerala Jyothi, the Kerala’s highest civilian honour M T Vasudevan Nair
Christopher Martin-Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Award Asif Sheikh (Nepali cricketer)
Sangita Kalanidhi Award 2023 Bombay Jayashri
Saraswati Samman 2022 Sivasankari (Tamil Writer)
(For her 2019 memoir, Surya Vamsam)
Governor of the Year for 2023 by Central Banking Shaktikanta Das (RBI Governor)
32nd Vyas Samman Gyan Chaturvedi
(for novel Pagalkhana)
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2023 Sir David Chipperfield
Central Board Of Irrigation And Power Award 2022 for ‘Best Contribution in Solar Energy’
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)
BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year for 2022 Mirabai Chanu (weightlifter-Manipur)
Business Standard Banker of the Year 2022 Sashidhar Jagdishan
(MD & CEO of HDFC Bank)
Abel Prize 2023 Luis Caffarelli
(for his seminal contributions to regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations including free-boundary
problems and the Monge-Ampère equation)
PEN/Nabokov Award Vinod Kumar Shukla (writer)
(For Achievement in International Literature for lifetime achievement in literature)
International Golden City Gate Tourism Awards 2023 Indian Ministry of Tourism and Government of India
(In category of TV/Cinema Commercials International and Country International)
Feb 23
Best adventure tourism award Jammu & Kashmir Tourism
Marconi Prize 2023 Hari Balakrishnan
Best International Film’ award at Hollywood Critics Association RRR (Directed by SS Rajamouli)
Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 Sajjan Jindal (chairman of JSW)
World Mother Language Award Dr. Mahendra Mishra
(Educator & Social worker)
National Geographic’s ‘Pictures of the year’ Karthik Subramaniam
Swaraj Trophy 2021-22 for Best District Panchayat Kollam District (Kerala)
UNESCO Peace Prize Angela Merkel
(For her assistance to refugees in Germany)
Raja Ram Mohan Roy National Award 2023 A.B.K. Prasad (Journalist)
‘Mathrubhumi Book of The Year’ award Dr Peggy Mohan
(for her book ‘Wanderers, Kings and Merchants)
3rd Grammy Award for the album - Divine Tides Ricky Kej (Bengaluru-Based Composer)
Lifetime Achievement Honour by UK Former PM Manmohan Singh
January 23
‘Best Police Unit’ awards Jalna and Nagpur Police
Lifetime Achievement Award at Jaipur Film Festival Aparna Sen
"Award for Global Leadership" Dr. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
71st Miss Universe 2022 Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel
Best Foreign Language Film and Best Song for Naatu Naatu RRR
Honorary Satelite Award RRR
Federal Bank Literary Award 2022 K Venu

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Golden Kailasha award for best film "Naanera" (Rajasthani)
Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award Dr. Prabha Atre
The most distinguished scientist of the year 2022 R Vishnu Prassad
Best sustainable Greenfield airport award Goa Manohar International Airport
World Habitat Award 2023 for its JAGA Mission odisha
Atal Samman Award for his excellence in field of science & research
Prabhu Chandra Mishra
Coveted Golden Peacock Award 2022 for its outstanding CSR efforts in the steel industry
steel producer Jindal Steel & Power
Best Director Award for RRR at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2022
SS Rajamouli
Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2023 for excellence in disaster management for the year 2023
Odisha State Disaster Management
Authority (OSDMA) and Lunglei Fire Station (LFS)

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65th Grammy Awards

Record of the Year Lizzo
Album of the Year Harry Styles for Harry’s House
Song of the Year Lizzo for About Damn Time
Best Dance/Electronic Recording Beyoncé – Break My Soul
Best Rap Song Kendrick Lamar – The Heart Part 5
Best Country Song Cody Johnson – ’Til You Can’t
 Beyonce is the most nominated artist this year with Nine Nominations
 First Transgender woman won Grammy in the category of best pop duo/group performance Kim
Petras.

Padma Awards
Padma Vibhushan
Name Field State or country
Shri Balkrishna Doshi (Posthumous) Architecture Gujarat
Shri Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous) Medicine West Bengal
Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous) Public Affairs Uttar Pradesh
Shri Zakir Hussain Art Maharastra
Shri S M Krishna Public Affairs Karnataka
Shri Srinivas Varadhan Science & Engineering United States of America
Total Padma Awards = 106.
Padma Vibhushan = 6 Awardees
Padma Bhushan = 9 Awardees
Padma Shri = 91 Awardees
95th Oscars Awards 2023
Best Actor Brendan Fraser (The Whale)
Best Actress Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Director Daniel Kwan and Daniel Schienert

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 (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Picture Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Original Song “Naatu Naatu” (RRR)
Best Documentary Short Film ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ by Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga
Naatu Naatu Song
Vocals for song = Rahul Sipligunj and Kaala Bhairava.
Composed by = MM Keeravani
Words & Music by = Chandrabose.
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2023
Best Film The Kashmir Files
Film of the Year RRR
Best Actor Ranbir Kapoor (Brahmastra Part One: Shiva)
Best Actress Alia Bhatt (Gangubhai Khatiawadi)
Best Director R Balki (Chup)
Best Web Series Rudra: The Edge Of Darkness (Hindi)

76th BAFTA Awards 2023

Best Film All Quiet on the Western Front
Leading Actor Austin Butler in Elvis
Leading Actress Cate Blanchett in Tar
Best Director Edward Berger in All Quiet on the Western Front
68th Filmfare Awards 2023
Best Film Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Actor Rajkummar Rao for Badhaai Do
Best Actress Alia Bhatt for Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Film (Critics) Badhaai Do
Best Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Gangubai Kathiawadi

Golden Globe Awards 2023

Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy Abbott Elementary
Best Director, Motion Picture Steven Spielberg in The Fabelmans
Best Original Song, Motion Picture Naatu Naatu in RRR
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Musical or Comedy
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Colin Farrell in The Banshees of Inisherin
Musical or Comedy
Best Motion Picture, Animated Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Pulitzer Prize 2023
Category Title and Author
Fiction “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
Fiction “Trust” by Hernan Diaz
Memoir or Autobiography “Stay True” by Hua Hsu
Poetry “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020” by Carl Phillips

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 General Nonfiction “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice”
by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
Music “Omar” by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
History “Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power”
by Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Biography “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century”
by Beverly Gage
Drama “English” by Sanaz Toossi

Noble Prize winner2022

Field Names Contribution
Alain Aspect, for experiments with entangled photons,
Physics John F. Clauser, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities
Anton Zeilinger and pioneering quantum information science
Chemistry Carolyn R. Bertozzi, for the development of click chemistry and
Morten Meldal, K. Barry Sharpless bioorthogonal chemistry
Physiology or Medicine Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of
extinct hominins and human evolution
for the courage and clinical acuity with which
Literature Annie Ernaux she uncovers the roots, estrangements and
collective restraints of personal memory
They have made an outstanding effort to
Ales Bialiatski, document war crimes, human right abuses
Peace Prize Memorial, and the abuse of power. Together they
Center for Civil Liberties demonstrate the significance of civil society
for peace and democracy
Economic Sciences Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, for research on banks and financial crises
Philip H. Dybvig

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Books & Authors

May 23
1. The Golden years Ruskin Bond
2. Guts Amidst Bloodbath : The Aunshuman Gaekwad Narrative Aditya Bhushan
3. Supreme Court On Commercial Arbitration Manoj kumar
4. Droupadi Murmu: From Tribal Hinterlands to Raisina Hills Kasturi Ray
5. MADE IN INDIA :75 Years of Business and Enterprise Amitabh Kant
6. Collective Spirit, Concrete Action Shashi Shekhar Vempati
April 23
1. Reflections Narayanan Vaghul
Launched by Nirmala Sitharaman
2. Saurashtra Tamil Sangam Prashasti Somnath Sanskrit University.
Revealed by Narendra Modi.
3. Smoke and Ashes Amitav Ghosh
4. Crosscourt (autobiography) Jaidip Mukerjea

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 5. Sachin@50 - Celebrating A Maestro Boria Majumdar
6. The Banker to Every Indian SBI
7. Gandhi: Siyasat aur Sampradaiykta Piyush Babele
8. Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire Nandini Das
9. Azaad Ghulam Nabi Azad
March 23
1. Pt. Deendayal Upadhaya : Dispersions of Thought R N Ravi
2. Mundaka Upanishad-The Bridge of immortality Jagdeep Dhankar
3. As Good As My Word KM Chandrashekhar
4. The Book of Bihari Literature Abhay K
5. Mundaka Upanishad: The Gateway to Eternity Dr. Karan Singh
6. India’s Struggle for Independence – Gandhian Era P. Jyothimani, former Judge
7. Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform Rachna Biswat Rawat
8. A Matter of the Heart: Education in India Anurag Behar
9. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Shrimant Kokate
10. Why can’t Elephants be Red Vani Tripathi Tikoo
11. War & Women MA Hasan
Feb 23
1. The Last Heroes Palagummi Sainath (P Sainath)
2. The Best of Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray
3. Victory City Salman Rushdie
4. Modi: Shaping a Global order in flux J.P. Nadda

Jan 2023
1. Breaking Barriers: the Story of a Dalit Chief Secretary Kaki Madhava Rao
2. Ambedkar: A Life Shashi Tharoor
3. Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom Sanjeev Sanyal
4. Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking Tamal Bandyopadhyay
5. Braving A Viral Storm: India's Covid-19 Vaccine Story Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir
6. Jadunama Javed Akhtar’s Journey Arvind Mandloi
7. Come! Let's Run Ma. Subramanian
8. India's Knowledge Supremacy: The New Dawn Dr. Ashwin Fernandes
9. COACHING BEYOND: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team Kaushik and Ramakrishnan Sridhar
The Poverty of Political Economy: How Economics Abandoned the Poor Meghnad Desai
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Defence in News(Jan23-May23)
1. New Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force Air Marshal A.P. Singh
2. On the Occasion of completion of 75 years of National Cadet Corps (NCC) at the Delhi NCC Event PM Modi has released
Rs. 75 Coins.
3. President, Droupadi Murmu has approved 412 Gallantry awards.
4. Fifth Kalvari class submarine Vagir has commissioned to Indian Navy, built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL)
Mumbai.
5. Tata Boeing Aerospace has Delivered First Fuselage for Indian Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.
6. The Indian Army has organized the second edition of the Hackathon named ‘SAINYA RANAKSHETRAM 2.0’ under
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7. First woman officer to be posted at BRO = Captain Surbhi Jakhmola.
8. Indian Coast Guard ship ‘Kamla Devi’ the Fast Patrol Vessel has been commissioned in kolkata, West Bengal,
built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers.
9. Aadi Shaurya-Parv Parakram Ka Tribal Dance Festival and Military Tattoo will held at 23 Jan
at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
10. Defence Acquisition Council has approved three proposals worth 4,276 crore rupees for Anti-tank, Air Defence Missile
Systems.
11. India has successfully carried out a test launch of the tactical ballistic missile Prithvi-II at Chandipur, Odisha coast.
12. India’s first female pilot, to pilot Sukhoi fighter jet Su-30MKI in Veer Guardian 2023 Exercise = Avani Chaturvedi.
13. DRDO Develops Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to carry out operations in Himalayan Frontier.
14. India will deploys Its Largest single unit of women peacekeepers to UN Mission in Sudan.
15. 100 more K9-Vajra tracked self-propelled howitzers will be bought by India from Larsen & Toubro.
16. 1st woman officer which has deployed in Siachen = Captain Shiva Chauhan.
17. 65th foundation day of DRDO = 1st January.
18. Operation Kaveri has been launched to evacuate Indians from Sudan.
19. First IAF woman officer who received Gallantry awards = Wing Commander Deepika Misra (Vayu Seva Medal).
20. INS Vikrant, India's first indigenous aircraft carrier, was presented with an original bell from the first carrier of the same
name commissioned in 1961.
21. Indian Air Force’s Rafale fighter jets will participate in a military exercise in France that involves thousands of NATO troops.
22. Recently Ministry of Defecnce has signed a contract worth 1700 crore with Brahmos Aerospace Private Limited for the
procurement of Next Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Batteries and BrahMos Missiles.
23. First batch of Agniveers with total 2,585 Agniveers including 272 women in Indian Navy successfully completed their training
at INS Chilka, Odisha.
24. 1st joint conference of army chiefs of India and African countries will held in pune with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh as
the guest of honor.
25. Defence Ministry has recently signed two contracts with Bharat Electronics Limited worth more than Rs 3,700 crore (Aim to
enhance the operational capabilities of the Indian Air Force.
26. Recently Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers has launched INS Androth who claimed to be the most silent ship in the
country.
27. Union home ministry has announced a 10 % reservation for former Agniveers in vacancies in the Central Industrial Security
Force.
28. President's Colour in honor of its outstanding services = INS Dronacharya (Indian Navy's top gunnery school).
29. In Jammu and Kashmir, Army installed the tallest 'Iconic National Flag' in the hilly Doda district on 9 March. The tricolour
which has been installed on a 100 feet-high pole, the highest Tricolour in the Doda district, was unfurled by GOC Delta Force,
Maj Gen Ajay Kumar.
30. The defence ministry has signed a contract for procurement of 6 Dornier-228 aircrafts for the Indian Air Force from
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited with a cost of ₹667 crore.
31. First woman to command an army battalion = Colonel Geeta Rana in Ladakh.
32. Indian Navy gets the first fully indigenized fuze YDB-60 for the underwater anti-submarine warfare rocket RGB-60.
33. 54th CISF Raising Day 2023 = 10 March.
34. Director-General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) = Rashmi Shukla.
35. Union Cabinet approved the procurement of 70 HTT-40 basic trainer aircrafts from Hindustan Aeronautics Limited.
36. Indian Army to Buy 310 Indigenous Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System for deployment along the borders with China and
Pakistan.
37. Indian Navy’s 6th & final Kalvari Class Submarine Vaghsheer begins sea trials.
38. Gajraj Corps from Indian army Conducts Joint Flood Relief Exercise Jal Rahat in Assam.
39. Deputy Chief of Air Staff = Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit.
40. First Airbus C295 aircraft for India successfully completes its inaugural flight.
41. Air Force receives 1st Batch of Indigenous Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) loitering munition.
42. INS Magar, the oldest Landing Ship Tank, was decommissioned by Indian Navy after 36 years of service at the Naval base in
Kochi.
43. Country's first Indian Air Force Heritage Centre has been inaugurated by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Chandigarh.
44. Border Roads Organisation (BRO) celebrated its 64th Raising Day on May 07, 2023, at all its detachments across the country.
45. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and his Maldivian counterpart Mariya Didi initiated the construction of a harbour at
Sifavaru for the coast guard of Maldives.
46. Indian Navy and Defence Research & Development Organisation collaborated to conduct the first successful test trial of Air
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47. The first woman pilot of Rafale fighter aircraft, Shivangi Singh is set to participate with IAF team in Exercise Orion in France.
48. 17th Commander-In-Chief, Andaman & Nicobar Command = Air Marshal Saju Balakrishnan.
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First in News(Jan23-May23)
1. India’s first Under Water Tunnel will be built in which state = West Bengal.
2. India’s first In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) mobile unit for animals was launched in Gujarat.
3. First woman army officer to get operationally deployed on Siachin Glacier = Captain Shiva Chauhan.
4. India’s first Green Hydrogen Blending Project = Gujarat.
5. First ABB FIA formula e world championship 2023 race will be held in Hyderabad, India.
6. First female sikh Judge in the US = Manpreet Monica Singh.
7. First state in India to go fully digital in its banking service = Kerala.
8. First court in India to inroduce e-system of functioning = Osmanabad District Court, Maharastra.
9. First woman Indian Army Officer to be posted on foreign assignment in BRO (Border Roads Organisation) under
Project Dantak in Bhutan.
10. First woman chief secretary of Telangana = A. santhi Kumari.
11. India’s first 5G-enabled drone = Skyhawk.
12. India’s first Constitution Literate district = Kollam, Kerala.
13. Asia’s first Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Truck for mining logistics and transportation = Adani Enterprises Limited.
14. India’s first U & T to completely switch to a digital method of administration = Jammu & Kashmir.
15. India’s first district to provide basic documents and facilities to all tribal people = Wayanad, Kerala.
16. Jammu & Kashmir will host first SARAS fair in February 2023.
17. First ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 hosted by South Africa won by India.
18. India's first national maritime security coordinator = G Ashok Kumar (retired Vice admiral).
19. First time in India All women marching contingent from CRPF – “Peacekeeper of the Nation” led by Poonam Gupta
(Assistant Commandant) participated in 74th Republic day Parade 2023.
20. India’s first hydrogen indigenously manufactured Train will be launched by December 2023.
21. Asia’s first floating festival “Gandhisagar Floating Festival” = Madhya Pradesh.
22. World’s First Living Heritage University = Visva Bharati University, India.
23. India’s first civic body to launch Green Bonds = Indore Municipal Corporation.
24. India’s first new mobility focused cluster as mobility valley has announced to be set up in Telangana.
25. India’s first traffic management system for drones “Skye UTM” has been launched by Skye Air.
26. First woman to be appointed as the Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court = Justice Sonia G. Gokani.
27. India’s first National Metro Rail Knowledge Centre will be built in Delhi.
28. India’s first electric air conditioned double decker bus has been inaugurated in Mumbai.
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30. Delhi Metro & Bharat Electronic Limited have developed first ever indigenous automatic train supervision system.
31. North India’s first Nuclear Power Plant is being constructed in Haryana.
32. India’s first virtual shopping app for the Metro “Momentum 2.0” has been launched by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation.
33. First high court to publish Judgement in Regional Language = kerala High Court.
34. First state in India to commercial cultivation of Mulethi = Himachal Pradesh.
35. Bengaluru has developed India’s first and only DNA Vaccine candidate for Dengue.
36. World’s first 200 m long Bamboo Crash Barrier “Bahu Balli” has been installed in Maharastra.
37. First woman officer in IAF to command a missile squadron in the western sector facing Pakistan = Shaliza Dhami.
38. First woman minister of Nagaland = Salhoutuono Kruse.
39. World’s first 3D printed rocket “Terran 1” has been developed by Relativity Space.
40. India’s first electric pilgrimage corridor = Uttrakhand.
41. Kochi Metro is the first metro in India to accept Central Bank Digital Currency.
42. First female Vande Bharat Express Loco Pilot = Surekha Yadav.
43. India’s first Behavioural lab will be set up in Jaipur.
44. First India-Bangladesh Friendship Pipeline with total length of 131.5km has been inaugurated.
45. Padma Lakshmi is the First Transgender woman enrolled as an advocate with Bar Council of Kerala.
46. Rajasthan is the First state to enact a law granting protection protection to advocates from assault and grievous hurt.
47. Haryana is the first state in India to have 100% electrified railway network.
48. Telangana is the first state to launch the Cool Roof Policy.
49. India’s first Solar Powered tourist boat “Sooryamshu” has been launched in Kerala.
50. India’s first 3D printed post office is being constructed in Bengaluru.
51. Rani Rampal become the first Woman hockey player in India to have a stadium named after her name “Rani Girls
Hockey Turf” in Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh.
52. India’s first Gold Medal in Asian Wrestling Championship 23 which was held in Kazakasthan has won by Aman Sehrawat.
53. Kerala is the first state in India to prepare a water budget.
54. Harmanpreet Kaur is the first Indian woman to win the Wisden Almanack cricket of the year 2023.
55. India’s first Voice Biometric Authentication Banking App has been launched by City Union Bank.
56. Wing Commander Deepika Misra has become the first woman officer in Indian Air Force who received Gallantry Award.
57. First Animal birth control training centre will be set up in Lucknow, UP.
58. India’s first mobile BSL – 3 Laboratory = RAMBAAN (Rapid Action Mobile BSL 3 + Advanced Augmented Network).
59. India’s first water metro = Kochi.
60. Recently Uttrakhand’s Mana village has been declared as the First Indian Village.
61. Arjun Vajpai has become the first Indian Man to reach the summit of Mt. Annapurna 1 in Nepal.
62. India’s first Solar City = Sanchi.
63. India’s first cable stayed rail bridge, Anil Khad bridge has been completed in Jammu & Kashmir.
64. First Asean Indian Meritime exercise 2023 (AIME) has started in Singapore.
65. India’s first undersea twin tunnels is being constructed in Mumbai.
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 67. Virat Kohli become the first to score 7000 runs in IPL.
68. Uttar Pradesh has become the first State to provide Digital Health cards for children.
69. Punjab become the first state to implement “Right to Walk”.
70. Jayant V. Narlikar has received the first ASI Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement award.

Sports,Awards,Events(May 23 – Jan23)
1. 3rd Edition of Khelo India Games Kicks Off in Uttar Pradesh.
2. Neeraj Chopra becomes World No.1 in men’s javelin ranking with 1455 points.
3. In South Asian Youth TT Championship 2023 held in Itanagar: India bags 16 gold medals.
4. FIFA World Cup™ Trophy has been revealed as a prominent feature of the official brand for the FIFA World.
5. Gatka Martial Art has been officially included in the 37th National Games-2023, which will be held in Goa.
6. ICC World cup 2023 will be held in India from Oct 23 to Nov 23.
7. The All India Football Federation has declared that 23 June, the birth anniversary of Indian football player Pradip
Kumar Banerjee, will be recognized as 'AIFF Grassroots Day'.
8. Yuzvendra Chahal becomes the first Indian to take most wickets in IPL.
9. Laureus sportsman of the year 2023 = Lionel messi (Argentina)
10.Madraid Open 2023 Men’s singles : C. Alcaraz Garfia
Women’s singles: A. Sabalenka
11.Babar Azam become the fastest player to score 5000 runs in One Day International (ODI) cricket.
12.3rd Khelo India University Games Held in : Uttar Pradesh
Mascot: Jitu (Barasingha)
Anthem: Khelo India - Har Dil Mein Desh
Launched By: Anurag Thakur
13.Diamond League 2023 Winner: Neeraj Chopra with 88.67m throw.
14.Badminton Asia Championships Gold medal in doubles pair : Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty
15.Hero Super Cup 2023 (Football) Winner: Odisha FC, Runnerup: Bengaluru FC
16.The Sharjah cricket stadium (UAE) has been renamed as the 'Sachin Tendulkar Stand' on honor of Sachin Tendulkar's
50th birthday.
17.Wisden T20I player of 2022 Harmanpreet Kaur, Suryakumar Yadav.
18.Asian Wrestling Championships 2023 Held in: Astana, Kazakhstan
Gold Medal: Aman Sehrawat (men’s 57kg freestyle category)
19.FIFA Rankings: India’s ranking = 101.
20.Sanjita Chanu Indian weightlifter who has won the Commonwealth Games twice, has been banned for 4 years by
the National Anti-Doping Agency of India.
21.Madrid Spain Masters 2023: Men’s singles
Winners: Kenta Nishimoto (Japan), Runnerup: Kanta Tsuneyama (Japan)
Women’s Singles
Winners: Gregoria Mariska Tunjung (Indonesia), Runnerup: PV Sindhu (India)
22.Vedanta’s Hindustan Zinc Limited has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Rajasthan Cricket
Association to build the world’s third-largest & India’s second largest cricket stadium in Chonp village, Jaipur.
23.Swiss Open 2023 Doubles Title: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty
24. IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship 2023 Gold Medal Winners
Lovlina Borgohain (75 kg)
Nitu Ghanghas (48 kg)

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 Nikhat Zareen (50 kg)
Saweety Boora (81 kg)
25.IBA Women’s World Boxing Championship 2023 Held in: Indira Gandhi Sports Complex, New Delhi.
Ambassadors: MC Mary Kom & Farhan Akthar.

26.Santosh Trophy (Football) Winner: Karnataka, Runnerup: Meghalaya.

27.Asian Chess Federation player of the year: D Gukesh (from Chennai, Tamil Nadu).
28.Best FIFA Men’s player of 2022 : Lionel Messi (Argentina)
29.Qatar Open title Winner: Daniil Medvedev, Runnerup: Andy Murray.
30.ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Held in: South Africa.
31.ISSF World Cup 2023 Held in: Lima, Peru.
Gold in 10m air rifle: Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil
Bronze in women’s 10m air rifle: Tilottama Sen
32.Argentina Open title 2023 Winner: Carlos Alcaraz, Runnerup: Cameron Norrie
33.Ranji Trophy final 2022-23: Winner: Saurashtra, Runnerup: Bengal
34.England Test captain Ben Stokes became the player to hit the most number of sixes in Test cricket.
35.Virat Kohli has become 6th and fastest player to score 25,000 runs in International cricket.
36.FIFA World Cup 2026: Host by: US, Canada, Mexico.
37.Formula E-Prix Hyderabad, India Winner: Jean-Eric Vergne.
38.5th Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Hosted By: Madhya Pradesh
Champion: Maharastra (Total:161 medals, 56 Gold ).
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39.Rohit Sharma becomes 1 Indian skipper to Record Hundreds in All 3 Formats.
40.Ravichandran Ashwin becomes the fastest Indian to pick up 450 Test wickets.
41.Football’s 2027 Asian Cup will be hosted by Saudi Arabia.
42.FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023 Held in: India, Kalinga Stadium in Bhubneswar.
Winner: Germany, Runnerup: Belgium
43.ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 Held in: Potchefstroom, South Africa
Winner: India, Runnerup: Englan
44.Australian Open 2023 Men’s Singles: Winner: Novak Djokovic, (Serbian)
Runnerup: Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greek)
45.India Open Badminton Championship Held at: D. Jadhav Indoor Stadium in New Delhi
Winner: An Seyoung (Korean)
46.National Sports Club of India Snooker Open Crown 2023 Winner: Laxman Rawat
47.Virat Kohli Climbs Back Into Top-Five In ODI Rankings

Rank 1: Babar Azam Pakistan

Rank 2: Rassie van der Dussen South Africa

Rank 3: Quinton de Kock South Africa
Rank 4: Virat Kohli India (750 Rating)
Rank 5: David Warner Australia
48.Rohit Sharma shattered MS Dhoni’s record of most sixes in ODIs in India by hitting total 125 sixes.
49.Shubman Gill becomes the youngest-ever to make a double century (208 off 149 balls).
50.India defeat Sri Lanka by 317 runs and sets a new world record of biggest win in terms of runs.
51.Surya Kumar Yadav becomes fastest player to reach 1,500 runs in T20 International Cricket in terms of facing 843
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52.Sania Mirza (Tennis Player) announced her retirement.
53.Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Will Held in: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (8 Districts).
Anthem: Hindustan Ka Dil Dhadka Do
Mascot: Cheetah Asha.
54.First-ever ABB FIA Formula E World Championship race is to be held in Hyderabad, India.
55.Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium inaugurated by Odisha CM in Rourkels, Odisha.

Chess Grandmaster
77th Aditya Mittal from Mumbai
78th Koustav Chatterjee from Kolkata, West Bengal
79th Pranesh M from Tamil Nadu
80th Vignesh NR – Chennai
81st Sayantan Das from West Bengal
82nd Vuppala Prraneeth – Telangana

ICC Player of The Month 2023

Month Men’s Women’s
Jan Shubman Gill (India) Grace Scrivens (England)

Feb Harry Brook (England) Ashleigh Gardner (Australia)

March Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh) Henriette Ishimwe (Rwanda)

April Fakhar Zaman (Pakistan) Naruemol Chaiwai (Thailand)

Grand Prix
Grand Prix Player Car-Brand
F1 Bahrain Grand Prix Max Verstappen Red Bull
Azerbaijan Grand Prix Sergio Perez Red Bull
Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Sergio Perez Red Bull
Miami Grand Prix Max Verstappen Red Bull

Grand Slam Tournaments 2023 (Tennis) 

Men’s Singles Women’s Single

Australia Open 2023 Australia Open 2023
Winner: Novak Djokovic Winner: Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka
Country: Serbian Country: Belarusian
Runner up: Stefanos Tsitsipas Runner up: Elena Rybakina
Court type: Hard court Court type: Hard court

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Days & Themes

May 23
1 International Labour Day
3 Press Freedom Day
8 World Red Cross Day
12 International Nurses Day
14 (second Sunday) Mother’s Day
17 World Hypertension Day
20 National Endangered Species Day
21 National Anti-Terrorism Day
31 World Anti-Tobacco Day
APR 23
April 1st to 7th Prevention of Blindness Week
2 World Autism Day
5 National Maritime Day
7 World Health Day
7 International Yoga Mahotsav
10 World Homeopathy Day
11 National Safe Motherhood Day
17 World Haemophilia Day
18 World Heritage Day
20-21 Global Buddhist Summit
21 National Civil Services Day
22 world Earth Day
24 National Panchayati Raj Day
25 World Malaria Day
26 World Intellectual Property Day
30 Ayushman Bharat Diwas
Mar 23
1 Zero Discrimination Day
1 World Civil Defence Day
3 World Wildlife day
4 World Obesity Day
8 International women’s day
10 CISF Raising Day
15 World Consumer Rights Day
16 National vaccination day
Everything we do comes #fromtheheart.
Our Nurses Our Future
'Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer
We need food, not tobacco
Transforming the narrative: Contributions at home, at work, in
the arts and in policymaking
Health for All
Humanity
Homeoparivar- Sarvajan Swasthya, One Health, One Family
Remain at home amid corona virus, protect mother and infant
safe from corona virus
Access for all: Prevention of bleeds as the global standard of car
Heritage Change
Responding to Contemporary Challenges from Philosophy to Practice
Viksit Bharat: Empowering Citizens and Reaching the Last Mile
Invest in Our Planet
Sustainable Panchayat: Building Healthy, Water Sufficient, Clean
& Green Villages
Time to deliver zero Malaria: invest, innovate, implement
Women and IP: Accelerating innovation and creativity”
and celebrates the “can do
Partnerships for wildlife conservation
Accelerating action to stop obesity
Empowering Consumers through Clean energy
transitions.
Vaccines work for all

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18 Ordinance Factory Day
20 International day of happiness Be mindful, be grateful, be kind
21 World Down Syndrome day With us not for us
21 World Forest day Forests and health
22 World Water Day Accelerating the change to solve the water and
sanitation crisis
23 World Meteorological Day The future of weather, climate and water across
generations
24 world Tuberculosis Day Yes! We can end TB!
February23

01 47th Raising day of Indian Coast Guard.

01-07 World Interfaith Harmony Week Harmony in a World in Crisis
02 World Wetlands Day It’s Time for Wetlands Restoration
04 World Cancer Day Close the Care Gap
06 International Day of Zero Tolerance for Women Transform Social and Gender Norms to End Female
Genital Mutilation
10 World Pulses Day Pulses for Sustainable Future
12 National Productivity Day Productivity, Green Growth, and Sustainability:
Celebrating India's G20 Presidency
13 World Radio Day Radio and Peace
13 National Women’s Day.
20 World observe International Day of Social Justice Overcoming Barriers and Unleashing Opportunities
for Social Justice
27 world sustainable energy day
28 National Science Day 2023 Impacts on Education, Skills and Work
Jan2023
4 World Braille Day
10 World Hindi Day or Vishwa Hindi Diwas Hindi – Traditional Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence
10 to 16 Startup India Innovation Week
11 National Human Trafficking Awareness Day To wear blue to raise awareness
12 National Youth Day Viksit Yuva Viksit Bharat
14 Armed Forces Veterans’ Day
15 Army Day Service before self
23 Prakaram Diwas (on Birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose)
24 National Girl Child Day Digital Generation, Our Generation
25 National Voters Day Nothing Like Voting, I Vote for Sure
25 National Tourism Day
26 74th Republic Day of India
29 World Leprosy Day Act Now: End Leprosy

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 Obituaries
Sarath Babu
A.R. Khaleel
Ranajit Guha
Arun Gandhi
Dr.N. Gopalakrishnan Former scientist at CSIR & creator of Indian Institute of Scientific
Chandan Ram Dass
Trilochan Kanungo
Parkash Singh Badal
Uttara Baokar
Jagarnath Mahto
Salim Durani
Sarah Thomas
Chandrashekhar Dasgupta
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
Sasthipada Chattopadhyay
Sameer khakkar
Pradeep Sarkar
Shanti Bhushan
Parimal Dey
Kasinadhuni Vishwanath
Kanak Rele
O P Kohli
Balipa Narayan Bhagwat
Tulsidas Balaram
Javed Khan Amrohi
K.V. Tirumalesh
J Jamuna
Sabir Ali, Iron Man of India
Balkrishna Doshi
Harjeet Singh Arora
Nilamani Phukan
Prabhaben Sobhagchand Shah
AD Damodaran
Mukarram Jah Bahadur
Rehman Rahi
Keshri Nath Tripathi
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May 23
Actor
Former All India Football Federation Vice-President
Historian
Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson
Heritage
April 23
Uttarakhand minister
Ex Odisha MP and MLA (3 times)
Former Punjab Chief Minister
Actor & Theatre Artist
(Sangeet Natak Akademi winner)
Jharkhand Education Minister
Former Indian cricketer
Novelist & short story writer
March 23
Indian diplomat and a Padma Bhushan recipient
Former Chief Justice of India
Bengali Novelist and Short Story Writer
Veteran actor
Filmmaker & Director
Feb 23
Distinguished jurist and former minister of law
Former Indian football player
Telugu actor and filmmaker
Winner of Padma Shri and Dadasaheb Phalke awards
Classical Dancer, Mohiniyattam exponent
(first Guru Gopinath National Puraskaram awardee)
Former Gujarat governor
Yakshagana singer and screenwriter
Indian Footballer
TV show Nukkad’s Veteran actor
Poet & Sahitya Akademi winner
Jan 23
Telugu film actor and former Parliamentarian
Decathlon gold at the 1981 Asian Athletics Championships
Architecture, Pritzker Prize (2018) & Padma Shri in 1976
Former Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal
Assamese Poet, Jnapith Award winner
Social Worker, Padma Shri Awardee
scientist and former director of the CSIR
Hyderabad’s Last Nizam
Poet, Kashmir’s first Jnanpith awardee
Former West Bengal Governor
 Schemes/Programmes/Campaign/Policy
GAINS 2023 startup
Launched By: Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers, Kolkata.
Aim: It is an initiative to identify and promote innovative solutions for technological advancements in
shipbuilding by startups.
Meri LiFE, Mera Swachh Shehar campaign
Launched By: Union Minister Shri Hardeep S. Puri
Aim: Transforming waste into wealth, this campaign encourages cities to establish Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle (RRR) Centres.
’75/25′ initiative
Launched By: Union Health Ministry
Aim: It will provide care to 75million individuals suffering from hypertension and diabetes by 2025.
Sanchar Saathi portal
Launched By: Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw in New Delhi.
Aim: It will empower mobile phone users by providing essential services, such as tracking and
blocking lost mobile phones.
SAKSHAM
Launched By: Union Health Ministry.
SAKSHAM: Stimulating Advanced Knowledge for Sustainable Health Management
Aim: It provides medical education and training to all healthcare professionals in India.
MISHTI Scheme for Mangrove Conservation
Introduced By: Nirmala Sitharaman (Finance Minister)
Aim: It protects and revives mangrove ecosystems on the Indian coast while enhancing the socio-
economic status of nearby communities.
Mahila Samman Savings Certificate Scheme
Launched By: Ministry of Finance.
Aim: It will promote investments among women.
Quantum Technology Mission
Launched By: Ministry of Science and Technology in Delhi.
Aim: For enhancing research and development and create an inventive atmosphere for quantum
technology within India.
Budget : Rs. 6003.65 Crore.
UDAN 5.0
Launched By: Civil Aviation Ministry
Goal: Improving connectivity to the nation’s rural and regional communities.
SATHI Portal & Mobile App
Launched By: Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.
Aim: To address the issues of seed production, quality identification, and certification.
Sangathan se Samriddhi
Launched By: Giriraj Singh (Rural Development Minister).
Aim: For empowering marginalized rural households.
Captive Employer scheme for rural youth
Launched By: Shri Giriraj Singh, Union Minister for Rural Development.
Aim: To train rural poor youth and provide employment opportunities through 19 captive employers who
will be offered training in different sectors, including hospitality, textiles, retail, and telecommunications.
Financial Assistance to Veteran Artists scheme

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 Administered By: Ministry of Culture.
Aim: It will provide financial assistance to veteran artists of the country of the age of 60 years and above.
“Jaadui Pitara” Learning and Teaching Material
Introduced By: Dharmendra Pradhan.
About: A play-based learning resource for kids aged three to eight.
Vibrant Villages Programme
Approved By: Cabinet.
Budget: 4800 crore.
Aim: To ensure the comprehensive development of villages along the northern border areas.
Namami Gange Mission-II
Approved By: Govt. of India
Budget: Rs.22,500 crore till 2026.
Save Wetlands Campaign
Launched By: Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Aim: It approaches to wetlands conservation, enabling affirmative actions for wetlands conservation at
all levels of society and involving all strata of society.
Nidhi Aapke Nikat programme
Launched By: Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation.
Aim: To reach all the districts of the country.
Womaniya / Womaniya on GeM
Launched by: Government e Marketplace (GeM)
Aim: Its aim to develop women entrepreneurship on the margins of society to achieve gender-
inclusive economic growth.
India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission
Announced By: Indian Government & headed by Cabinet Secretary.
Aim: According to this mission a production capacity of 5 Million Metric tons of Hydrogen per year by 2030.
National Urban Technology Mission
Launched by: Ministry of housing and urban affairs.
Aim: It focuses on to improve the online governance and monitoring of environmental
infrastructure of 1,000 cities.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY)
Launched By: Central govt. of India.
Aim: This scheme will provide free food grains to more than 80crore people across India.
Startup India Innovation Week
Duration: 10th to 16th Jan.
Organized By: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
Aims: It aims to engage start-up ecosystem stakeholders across and spur the spirit of entrepreneurship and
innovation in India. This is a part of 75th Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav in over 75 locations across India.
Aspirational Blocks Programme
Launched By: PM Narendra Modi.
Aim: It will imrove the performance of blocks with in districts lagging in various development parameters.
Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development (BIND) scheme
Approved By: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
Aim: It will focus on expanding and upgrading the infrastructure of Prasar Bharati, as well as improving
the distribution network and digital content.
Worth: Rs. 2500/- crore.
New integrated Food Security Scheme
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 Aim: It ensures effective and uniform implementation of the National Food Security Act, and to
provide affordability, accessibility, and availability of food grains for the poor.

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Summit and conferences

76th World Health Assembly
Held at: Geneva, Switzerland.
Addressed By: PM Narendra Modi.
Objective: To Determine the policies of the Organization, appoint the Director-General, supervise
financial policies, and review and approve the proposed programme budget.
6th Indian Ocean Conference 2023
Objective: The IOC is to facilitate discussions on regional cooperation for Security And Growth for
All in the Region (SAGAR) by bringing together important states and principal maritime partners
of the region on a common platform.
Sco Summit
Will be held at: Delhi, India
Aim: Its aim to strengthen the relations between member states by deepening political, security,
and economic cooperation.
About: Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India. In SCO there are total 8 members.
6th One Earth One Health
Inaugurated & Addressed By: Narendra Modi
Held at: Pragati Maidan, New Delhi through video conferencing.
Goal: India’s goal is physical, mental and social well-being.
8th India-Thailand Defence Dialogue
Held at: Bangkok.
Co-chaired By: Smt Nivedita Shukla Verma.
Aims: For reviewing the defence cooperation between India and Thailand.
Global Buddhist Summit
Addressed by : PM Narendra Modi.
Organized By: Ministry of Culture and the International Buddhist Confederation.
Aim: It aims to bring together leading Buddhist figures and experts from around the world to
discuss universal issues and Buddhist and generate policy recommendations to address them
together.
G7 Ministers’ Meeting on Climate, Energy, and Environment
Held in: Sapporo, Japan.
Aim: To tackle key issues such as steering the global agenda on climate action and proposing
solutions for the same.
India-Russia Business Dialogue 2023
Held in: New Delhi, India.
Attended by: S Jaishankar (External Affairs Minister) and Denis Manturov (Russian Deputy Prime Minister).
Discussion: Enhancing practical cooperation between Russia and India.
G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists

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 Held in: Varanasi.
Theme: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems for Healthy People and Planet
Discussion: food and nutrition security, One Health approaches, resilience to climate change,
digital agriculture, and public-private partnerships for research, education, and extension.

Food Conclave-2023
Held in: Hyderabad, Telangana.
Aim: It recognizes the primary obstacles and prospects for the Indian agri-food sector’s
expansion in the current decade.
2nd Meeting of G20 EMPOWER 2023
Organized By: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.
Theme: Women’s Empowerment: A Win-Win for Equity and Economy
One World TB Summit
Addressed By: PM Narendra Modi
Arranged By: Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
National Youth Conclave 2023
Organized under: India’s G20 Presidency
Aim: It brings together the country's youth and government leadership.
Global Millets Conference
Inaugurated By: PM Narendra Modi in Delhi.
Discussion: To promote and spread awareness about the benefits of millets (Shree Anna) for the
cultivator, consumer and climate.
SCO International Conference on ‘Shared Buddhist Heritage’
Hosted by: India in Delhi.
Aim: The purpose of the conference is to re-establish cross-cultural linkages and look for
similarities among Central Asian Buddhist art, art movements, archaeological locations, and
antiquity in various SCO nation-state museum collections.
23rd Commonwealth Law Conference
Inaugurated By: P.S. Sreedharan Pillai (Governor of Goa).
Objective: Objective is to see that corruption is minimized and eliminated and that the voices of
the most vulnerable in society are heard in decision-making.
India’s first G-20 Summit 2023
Held in : Rambhau Mhalgi Prabodhini’s Uttan campus in Mumbai.
Inaugurated By: Amitabh Kant.
About: The G20 brings together the world's major and systemically important economies. Its
members account for around 85 per cent of global GDP, 75 per cent of global trade and 65
percent of the world's population.
‘Think 20’ meeting of G20 in Bhopal
A 2Day Think-20 summit under the auspices of the G20 will bring together prominent individuals
from around the world in Bhopal.

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 FESTIVALS Current Affairs Jan23-May23
1. Second Phase of VIRAASAT Festival was organized by which ministry in New Delhi? = Ministry of Textiles.
2. “Aadi Shaurya-Parv Parakarm Ka”, A Military Tattoo & Tribal dance Festivals held in which city? = New Delhi.
3. “Parshuram Kund Festival 23” held on near the bank of Lohit River in which state? = Arunachal Pradesh.
4. In 8th Indian International Science Festival a “Vigyanika” science literature Festival was organized in which city? = Bhopal.
5. Asia’s first floating festival “Gandhisagar Floating festival” has been organised in which state? = Madhya Pradesh.
6. Kala Ghoda arts festival 2023 was celebrated in which city? = Mumbai.
7. Recently PM Narendra Modi inaugurated “AADI MAHOTSAV” festival in which city? = New Delhi.
8. Khajuraho Dace Festival 2023 has been inaugurated in which city? = Madhya Pradesh.
9. National Youth Parliament Festival 2023 has been organized by which ministry in New Delhi? = Ministry of Youth affairs &
sports.

Below Festivals are of Past few months

Q) From 25th March to 3 rd April 2022 Bharat Bhagya Vidhata festival is being celebrated in which city?
Answer: New Delhi
Q) Union Minister for Culture recently introduce a three-day festival called ‘Ishan
Manthan’ in New Delhi which showcased the relevance of ___.
Answer: North-Eastern India
Q) Bonjour India is a festival to celebrate 75 years of diplomatic relations between India and which country?
Answer: France
Q) The annual Kannagi festival is celebrated at the famous Mangala Devi Temple. The temple is located between
which two states?
Answer: Kerala & Tamil Nadu
Q) At the Mumbai International Film Festival MIFF 2022, the ‘Country of Focus’ is which state?
Answer: Bangladesh
Q) Which Indian documentary has won the 2022 L’Oeil d’Or at Cannes Film Festival 2022?
Answer: All That Breathes
Q) The 15th International Sufi Rang Festival 2022 began in which of the following states/union territories?
Answer: Rajasthan
Q) The 53rd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2022 will be held in which of the following states?
Answer: Goa
Q) Recently, it was announced that “Alma and Oskar” will open the 53 rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI),
Goa. This film is from which country?
Answer: Austria
Q) Recently, which of the following has started the Dil Maange More Short Film Festival 2022?
Answer: Indian Army
Q) which Bollywood actor has been honoured with the Etoile d'Or award at the 19 th edition of the Marrakech
International Film Festival 2022 ?
Answer: Ranveer Singh
Q) Who will be awarded the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 at the 53 rd edition of the International
Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2022 at Goa?
Answer: Carlos Saura
Q) Recently, India has nominated dance form Garba to be inscribed on UNESCO’s intangible cultural heritage list. Till
now, how many elements from India are inscribed on UNESCO’S list of Intangible Cultural Heritage and
Humanity?

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 Answer:14
Q) The 3rd National Tribal Dance Festival 2022 was organized in which of the following cities?
Answer: Raipur
Q) Which of the following ministries has organized the ‘Dance to Decarbonise’ event in New Delhi?
Answer: Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas

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