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Union Public Service Commission (UPSC)
Neeraj Chopra makes history, becomes

World No. 1 in men's javelin throw
PM Modi conferred with

highest civilian honours by Fiji,
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Contents
1. Ranking/Report/Indices............................................................................................................... 3
2. Appointment & Resignation........................................................................................................ 7
3. Banking Finance Economy......................................................................................................... 13
4. MoUs & Agreement.......................................................................................................................33
5. Merger & Acquisition................................................................................................................... 40
6. National News................................................................................................................................. 42
7. Inauguration News........................................................................................................................ 59
8. International News........................................................................................................................ 63
9. Sports News...................................................................................................................................... 67
10. Awards & Honours......................................................................................................................... 75
11. Summits & Conference................................................................................................................. 83
12. Defence News.................................................................................................................................. 88
13. Festival & Fairs............................................................................................................................... 91
14. Science & Tech................................................................................................................................ 92
15. Books & Authors............................................................................................................................ 93
16. Obituaries News............................................................................................................................. 94
17. Important Days............................................................................................................................... 95
18. State UT News................................................................................................................................ 99
19. Extra Highlights......................................................................................................................... 108
Practice Questions...................................................................................................................... 109
1 Ranking/Report/Indices
ITC Overtakes Infosys as India’s 6th Largest • Among regions, the largest gap is observed in South Asia,
Company; RIL tops the list favouring adolescent boys and young men by 27% points.
Extra Points About United Nations Children’s Fund:

• ITC Limited has overtaken Infosys Limited, an Indian ESTD 1946
multinational information technology company, to HQ New York, U.S.
become India’s 6th largest company, as per market
capitalization. Executive Director Catherine M. Russell
• ITC’s market cap stands at Rs 5.11 lakh crore (as of April
24, 2023) while the market cap of Infosys (7th place) World Press Freedom Index 2023: India ranked 161;
stands at ~Rs 5.08 lakh crore. topped by Norway
Ranking of top 5 India’s 5 companies: Report Name 2023 World Press Freedom Index
Rank Country Market Cap Size Global media watchdog Reporters
Published by
Without Borders (RSF)
Reliance Industries
1 Rs 16.07 lakh crore
Limited (RIL) Highlights of the Report:
Tata Consultancy • India’s ranking in the 2023 World Press Freedom Index
2 Rs 11.62 lakh crore has slipped to 161 out of 180 countries.
Services (TCS)
• This is the second consecutive year when India’s
3 HDFC Bank Rs 9.28 lakh crore ranking had slipped further from the previous year. In
4 ICICI Bank Rs 6.38 lakh crore the year 2021, India ranked 142 on the press freedom
index which came down to 150 last year.
Hindustan Unilever
5 Rs 5.85 lakh crore Ranking of Top 5 & last country:
Limited (HUL)
Rank Country
UNICEF Report: 9 out of 10 Adolescent Girls and 1 Norway
Young Women in Low-income Countries have No 2 Ireland
access to Internet 3 Denmark
4 Sweden
‘Bridging The Gender Digital Divide:
5 Finland
Challenges and an Urgent Call for
Report Name 180 (Last) North Korea
Action for Equitable Digital Skills
Development’ Rank of India & Its neighbouring countries:
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Rank Country
Published by
Fund)
90 Bhutan
Highlights of the report: 95 Nepal
• Around 90% (9 out of 10) of adolescent girls and 135 Sri Lanka
young women aged 15-24 in low-income countries are 150 Pakistan
offline (no access to the internet) compared to 78% of 152 Afghanistan
adolescent boys and young men of the same age who 161 India
do not use the internet.
163 Bangladesh
• Among 54 countries and territories analysed, only 173 Myanmar
eight have achieved gender parity in internet use
among youth. 179 China
Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo Tops Forbes’ World’s Highlights of the Ranking:
10 Highest-Paid Athletes 2023 • Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal) has become
the highest-paid athlete in the world in 2023 after he
World’s 10 Highest-Paid Athletes moved to Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr in January 2023
Report Name
2023 • He topped the list with a total earning of USD 136
Published by Forbes’ million – USD 46 million on-field and USD 90 million
off-field.
List of top 5 in The World’s 10 Highest-Paid Athletes 2023:

Total
Rank Name Nationality Sports On-Field Off-Field
Earnings
Cristiano
1 Portugal Soccer $136mn $46mn $90mn
Ronaldo
2 Lionel Messi Argentina Soccer $130 mn $65mn $65mn
3 Kylian Mbappe France Soccer $120mn $100mn $20mn
United States
4 LeBron James Basketball $119.5mn $44.5mn $75mn
(US)
5 Canelo Alvarez Mexico Boxing $110mn $100mn $10mn
Everest Annual ITS rankings: Accenture tops the list IDMC Report: 71.1 Million Internally Displaced
2023 PEAK Matrix Service Provider of Worldwide in 2022
Report Name
the Year Awards ‘Global Report on Internal
Published by Everest Displacement 2023 (GRID 2023):
Report Name
Internal Displacement and Food
Highlights of the report: Security’
• Accenture takes the number one spot for the seventh Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
straight year in the Everest 2023 PEAK Matrix Service
Published by and Internal Displacement Monitoring
Provider of the Year Awards for Information Technology
Centre (IDMC)
(IT) services.
• Since Everest Group, a global IT research firm, launched Highlights of the report:
the rankings in 2016, TCS has been in the top five, and • The number of internally displaced people (IDPs)
this year it climbed to second place.
around the globe reached 71.1 million in 2022, an
Ranking of ITS top 10 2023: increase of 20% from 2021.
• Meanwhile, 60.9 million new internal displacements
Rank ITS Top 10: 2023 ITS Top 10: 2022 were reported in 2022.
1 Accenture Accenture • India recorded the 4th largest disaster displacement,
with 2,507,000 displacements.
2 TCS Infosys • Internal displacements by disasters– 32.6 million.
3 Capgemini TCS • Internal displacements by conflict and violence– 28.3
million.
4 Wipro HCL Tech • The war in Ukraine triggered 16.9 million internal
5 HCL Tech Cognizant displacements in 2022, the highest figure ever recorded
for any country.
6 Cognizant Capgemini
India’s ultra wealthy population to grow by 58.4% in
7 Infosys Wipro
next five years, Knight Frank
8 NTT Corporation IBM
Report Name The Wealth Report 2023
9 IBM NTT Corporation
10 LTIMindtree NA Published by Knight Frank
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Highlights of the report: Highlights of the report:
• The number of ultra-high net worth individuals • In this, Tata Group is the only Indian company to feature
(UHNWIs) in India is expected to rise 58.4 per cent in in this list at 20th position.
the next five years from 12,069 in 2022 to 19,119 in • The list has been topped by Apple Inc and followed by
2027 Tesla Inc and Amazon.com Inc at 2nd and 3rd rank.
• The global UHNW population grew by 44 per cent in List of Top 5 most innovative Companies of 2023
the five years to 2022 and, although we forecast growth
to slow to 28.5 per cent over the next five years. Rank Company Country
• The report added that India’s billionaire population is
expected to increase from 161 individuals in 2022 to California, United States
1 Apple Inc.
195 individuals in 2027. (US)
• Moreover, the Indian high-net-worth-individual (HNI) 2 Tesla Inc. Texas, US
population, with assets of $1 million and more, will
rise 107 per cent from 797,714 persons in 2022 to 1.65 3 Amazon.com, Inc. Washington DC, US
million in 2027.
4 Alphabet Inc. California
Supreme Court appointed Sapre Committee submits
Microsoft
report on Adani-Hindenburg issue 5 Washington DC
Corporation
The Supreme Court on May 19 made public the report of
the court-appointed expert panel in the Hindenburg-Adani Mumbai (Maharashtra),
20 Tata Group
row case. India
Highlights of the report India’s AI Supercomputer ‘Airawat’ Ranked 75th in

• The report states that the Adani group has disclosed all Top 500 Global Supercomputing List
beneficial owners.
• There is no allegation that SEBI is rejecting the Report Name Top 500 Global Supercomputing List
declaration of beneficial owners of Adani.
Edition 61st
• The report clearly states that prima facie no violation
of existing rules or laws has been found. International Supercomputing
Published by
Conference (ISC 2023)
About Sapre Committee
• Constituted - By Supreme court on 2nd March 2023 Highlights of the report:
• Chairman - Former Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay • AIRAWAT or AI Research Analytics and Knowledge
Manohar Sapre (Retd). Dissemination Platform is installed at C-DAC (Centre
• Members of the Committee - O P Bhatt, Justice J P for Development of Advanced Computing), Pune under
Devadhar (Retd), Nandan Nilekani, K V Kamath and National Program on AI by Government of India.
Somasekhar Sundaresan • The list has been topped by the United States (US)
Frontier.
• Purpose of the Committee - To investigate any
violations of securties law by the Adani Group in the List of World’s Top 5 Supercomputers:
wake of the Hindenburg report.
Rank System Country
• Supreme Court made public the report - On 19 May
1 Frontier, HPE Cray EX235a US
Tata Group only Indian firm in BCG list of top 50
Most Innovative Firms 2023 2 Supercomputer Fugaku, A64FX Japan
Most Innovative Companies 3 LUMI, HPE Cray EX235a Finland

Report Name 2023: Reaching New Heights in
Uncertain Times Leonardo, Xeon Platinum 8358
4 Italy
32C
Published by Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Total Companies 50 5 Summit, IBM Power System AC922 US
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List of India’s Supercomputers in Top 500 List: Rank of Top 5 and Last country in Hanke’s
Rank System Installed At
Annual Misery Index (HAMI) 2022
75 AIRAWAT C-DAC Rank Country

PARAM 1 Zimbabwe
131 C-DAC
Siddhi-AI
2 Venezuela
Indian Institute of Tropical
169 Pratyush
Meteorology (IITM), Pune 3 Syria
National Centre for Medium-Range 4 Lebanon
316 Mihir Weather Forecasting, Noida, Uttar
Pradesh 5 Sudan
The Hanke’s Annual Misery Index (HAMI) 2022: 157 Switzerland

India ranked 103 Rank of India & Its neighbouring countries:
Report Name Annual Misery Index
Rank Country
Published by Hanke
Total countries 157 11 Sri Lanka
Highlights of the report: 35 Pakistan
• Zimbabwe has been ranked ‘most miserable country’ in
the Hanke’s Annual Misery Index (HAMI) 2022. 39 Myanmar
• According to the index, Zimbabwe experienced a 63 Nepal
skyrocketing inflation rate of 243.8 percent in the
previous year. 103 India
• India is placed at the 103rd spot, with unemployment 115 Bangladesh
identified as the primary contributing factor to the
country’s relative level of misery. 142 China

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2 Appointment & Resignation
Arun Kashyap appointed as COO of SpiceJet Rajneesh Karnatak appointed as the MD & CEO of
BoI
Appointed Person Arun Kashyap
Appointed Person Rajneesh Karnatak
Appointed as Chief Operating Officer of SpiceJet Appointed as MD & CEO of Bank of India (BoI)
Replaced Atanu Kumar Das
Pankaj Singh elected president of Indian Cycling
Federation Venkatasamy Jagannathan Steps Down from his
Position as Star Health CEO
Appointed Person Pankaj Singh
Resigned Person Venkatasamy Jagannathan
Appointed as Cycling Federation of India
president
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
Resigned as
Star Health and Allied Insurance
Siddharth Mohanty becomes chairman of LIC
Appointed Vodafone Appoints Finance Chief Margherita Della
Siddharth Mohanty
Person
Valle As CEO
Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation
Appointed as Appointed Person Margherita Della Valle
of India (LIC)
Mohanty was serving as the interim
Appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone
Extra Info chairman of the corporation from March
14, 2023.
Replaced Nick Read
About Life Insurance Corporation (LIC):
Embassy REIT CEO Vikaash Khdloya Resigns;
ESTD 1 September 1956 Aravind Maiya To Become New CEO
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra Resigned Person Vikaash Khdloya

Resigned as CEO of Embassy Office Parks REIT
Chairman Siddhartha Mohanty
Appointed Person Aravind Maiya
Siddhartha Mohanty, Ipe Mini, Tablesh
MDs Appointed as CEO of Embassy Office Parks REIT
Pandey & M Jagannath
Debadatta Chand appointed as new chief of BoB A K Mohanty appointed as new Atomic Energy
Commission chairman
Appointed Person Debadatta Chand
MD & CEO of Bank of Baroda Appointed Person A K Mohanty

Appointed as
(BoB)
Chairman of Atomic Energy
Appointed as
Commission
Replaced Sanjiv Chadha
Replaced KN Vyas
Justice S.V. Bhatti appointed Acting Chief Justice of Indian-origin Neera Tandon becomes domestic policy
Kerala advisor in Biden administration
Appointed Justice Sarasa Venkatanarayana Appointed Indian-American public policy

Person Bhatti person expert Neera Tandon
Appointed as Acting Chief Justice (CJ) of Kerala Domestic Policy Advisor in US President
Appointed as
Replaced Justice S. Manikumar Joe Biden’s team
Replaced Susan Rice
Air Marshal Balakrishnan takes over as AOC-in-C She became the first Asian-American to
Extra info
of S. Air Command lead the White House Advisory Council.
Appointed Air Marshal Balakrishnan
Person Manikantan Delhi HC appoints former Karnataka HC judge as
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC- Basketball Federation of India administrator
Appointed as
in-C) of Southern Air Command
Appointed
P Krishna Bhat
Person
Vanessa Hudson appoints as CEO of Qantas
Administrator of the Basketball
Appointed Person Vanessa Hudson Appointed as
Federation of India
CEO of Australia’s flagship carrier,
Appointed as
Qantas Ajay Vij appointed as MD of Accenture India
Replaced Alan Joyce
Appointed
Ajay Vij
Person
Paraguay’s Colorado Party’s Santiago Peña wins
presidential election
Appointed as Managing Director of Accenture India
Replaced Rekha M Menon
Paraguay’s ruling conservative
Appointed Person
Colorado party Santiago Peña
Korean brand Laneige ropes in Athiya Shetty as
Appointed as President of Paraguay
brand ambassador
Replaced Efraín Alegre
Appointed
Athiya Shetty
PM Prasad to be next Coal India chief Person
Appointed Appointed as Brand ambassador of Laneige
Polavarapu Mallikharjuna Prasad
Person
Chairman and Managing Director of Badminton Asia appoints Umar Rashid as chairman of
Appointed as
Coal India (CIL) the Technical Officials Committee
Replaced Pramod Agrawal
Appointed
Umar Rasheed
Person
Mark Nicholas to become next president of MCC
Chairman of the Technical Officials
Former England cricketer and Appointed as
Appointed Committee
veteran commentator Mark
Person
Nicholas
Parminder Chopra, first woman to lead India’s
President of the Marylebone
Appointed as largest NBFC
Cricket Club (MCC)
Replaced Stephen Fry
Appointed
Parminder Chopra
Person
Wakefit signs Bollywood actor Ayushmann
Khurrana as brand ambassador CMD of India’s largest NBFC by net
Appointed as worth (all reserves), Power Finance
Appointed Person Ayushmann Khurrana Corporation
Appointed as Wakefit.co’s brand ambassador Replaced Ravinder Singh Dhillon

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Chopra will be the first woman to Karthik Balagopalan appoints as new MD of Puma
be appointed as the Chairman and India
Extra Info
Managing Director (CMD) of the
Appointed Person Karthik Balagopalan
Maharatna company.
Appointed as Managing Director of PUMA India
NIIFL appoints Rajiv Dhar as interim CEO & MD Replaced Abhishek Ganguly
Appointed Person Rajiv Dhar Ayushmann Khurrana Joins Indian Team as

Interim CEO & MD of National Ambassador for Special Olympics Journey to Berlin
Appointed as Investment and Infrastructure Appointed
Fund Limited (NIIFL) Ayushmann Khurrana
Person
Replaced Sujoy Bose Ambassador for Special Olympics
Appointed as
Journey to Berlin
Wesley W Simina Elected as the 10th President of
Geeta Rao Gupta appointed US Ambassador for
the Federated States of Micronesia Global Women’s Issues
Appointed Indian-American Geeta Rao
Wesley W Simina Appointed Person
Person Gupta
10th President of the Federation Ambassador at Large for global
Appointed as
States of Micronesia Appointed as issues related to women at the
Replaced David W. Panuelo State Department
Gupta’s nomination was won by
Extra Info
About the Federated States of Micronesia 51-47 votes in the US Senate.
Capital Palikir Elon Musk appoints Linda Yaccarino as Twitter CEO
Currency United States Dollar
Appointed Person Linda Yaccarino
Rathendra Raman appointed as Chairman of Syama Appointed as CEO of Twitter

Replaced Elon Musk
Prasad Mookerjee Port
Appointed Person Rathendra Raman ACC appoints Anil Kumar Jain as New PNGRB
Chairman
Chairman of Syama Prasad
Appointed as
Mookerjee Port, Kolkata Appointed Person Anil Kumar Jain
Chairman of the Petroleum &
Alia Bhatt Becomes Gucci’s First Indian Global Appointed as
Natural Gas Regulatory Board
Ambassador Replaced Dinesh Kumar Sarraf
Appointed Person Alia Bhatt
ACC approved the appointment of Ravneet Kaur as
Appointed as Gucci’s global ambassador
Chairperson of CCI
Karnataka DGP Praveen Sood appointed next CBI Appointed Person Ravneet Kaur
director Chairperson of Competition

Appointed as
Commission of India (CCI)
Appointed
Praveen Sood Replaced Sangeeta Verma (Interim)
Person
Director of Central Bureau of Ravneet Kaur becomes the
Appointed as first woman and non-secretary
Investigation (CBI) Extra info
bureaucrat to be appointed as a
Replaced Subodh Kumar Jaiswal CCI Chairperson.
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Dr Manoj Soni Sworn in as Chairman of Union Paytm appoints Bhavesh Gupta as President & COO
Public Service Commission (UPSC) Appointed Person Bhavesh Gupta
Appointed Person Dr Manoj Soni President and Chief Operating
Appointed as
Appointed as Chairman of UPSC Officer (COO) of Paytm
Replaced Pradeep Kumar Joshi
Siddaramaiah appointed Karnataka CM, DK
Shivakumar to be Deputy CM
Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit Takes Over As Deputy
Chief Of Air Staff Appointed Person Siddaramaiah
Appointed Person Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit Appointed as Chief Minister of karnataka
Replaced Basavaraj Bommai
Appointed as Deputy Chief of the Air Staff
Appointed Person DK Shivakumar
He has participated in missions
Extra Info Appointed as Deputy CM of Karnataka
like 'Safed Sagar' and 'Rakshak'.
About Indian Air Force (IAF): Arjun Ram Meghwal replaces Kiren Rijiju as Union
Law Minister
ESTD 26 January 1950
Appointed Person Arjun Ram Meghwal
HQ New Delhi
Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Appointed as Union Law Minister
Chief of the Air Staff
Chaudhary Replaced Kiren Rijiju
Vice Chief of the Air • Kiren Rijiju has been assigned
Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh
Staff the portfolio of the Ministry of
Earth Sciences.
Extra Info
Duroflex ropes in Virat Kohli as brand ambassador • Meghwal is the current Minister
of State for Parliamentary
Appointed Person Virat Kohli Affairs & Culture.
Appointed as Brand ambassador of Duroflex Raheja QBE General Insurance appoints Rajeev
Dogra as the new MD & CEO
Sonal Srivastava appointed as new CFO of Vedanta
Appointed Person Rajeev Dogra
Appointed Person Sonal Shrivastava CEO & MD of Raheja QBE General
Appointed as
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Insurance Company Limited
Appointed as
Vedanta Limited Replaced Pankaj Arora
About Vedanta Limited Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, KV Viswanathan
sworn in as Supreme Court judges
ESTD 25 June 1965
HQ Mumbai Justice Prashant Kumar
Appointed Person Mishra and senior advocate K
CEO Sunil Duggal V Viswanathan
Appointed as Judges of the Supreme Court
Slovakia President appoints Central banker Ludovit
Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and
Odor as interim PM Replaced
M R Shah
Appointed Person Ludovit Odor Present strength of
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SC
Interim Prime Minister (PM) of
Appointed as K V Viswanathan will be the 58th
Slovakia Extra info
CJI of India in 2030
Replaced Eduard Heger Recent appointment of advocate/Justice

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DSCI appoints Pramod Bhasin as its New Chairman Sony Sports Network ropes in Sania Mirza as its
Appointed person Pramod Bhasin
Ambassador
Chairman of Data Security Council Appointed person Sania Mirza
Appointed as
of India (DSCI) Brand ambassador of Sony Sports
Appointed as
Replaced Rajendra S Pawar Network
Badminton Asia Appoints BAI Joint Secretary Omar Jayakumar S. Pillai appoints as Deputy MD of IDBI
Rashid as CTO Bank
Appointed Person Omar Rashid Appointed Person Jayakumar S. Pillai
Chair of the Technical Officials Deputy Managing Director of IDBI
Appointed as Appointed as
Committee of Badminton Asia Bank
Omar Rashid is the Joint Secretary
Extra info of the Badminton Association of PPBL gets RBI approval to Re-Appoint Vijay Shekhar
India (BAI) Sharma as Part-Time Chairman for 1 Year
Jayaprakash re-elected as President of Swimming Appointed Person Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Federation of India Part-time Chairman of Paytm
Appointed as
Payments Bank Limited (PPBL)
Appointed Person R.N. Jayaprakash
This mark’s his 3rd term as the
Extra Info
President of the Swimming chairman of PPBL
Appointed as
Federation of India (SFI)
Senior judge Ioannis Sarmas appointed as Caretaker
About Swimming Federation of India
PM of Greece
ESTD 1948
Appointed Person Senior Judge Ioannis Sarmas
HQ Ahmedabad, Gujarat Caretaker Prime Minister(PM) of
Appointed as
CEO Virendra Nanavati Greece
Replace Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Rakesh Ranjan Promoted as Food Delivery CEO at
Zomato About Greece:
Appointed Capital Athens

Rakesh Ranjan
person Currency Euro
Chief executive officer of food President Katerina Sakellaropoulou
Appointed as ordering and delivery vertical of
Zomato Realme ropes in Shah Rukh Khan as New Brand
Ambassador
Amy Pope became the first woman Director-General
of the United Nations Migration Agency Appointed person Shah Rukh Khan
Appointed person Amy Pope Appointed as Brand Ambassador of Realme
First female Director-General
TVS SCS’s Executive VC R Dinesh elected as
Appointed as of the United Nations Migration
Agency President of CII for 2023-24
About International Organization for Migration R Dinesh, executive vice-

(IOM) Appointed Person chairman of TVS Supply Chain
Solutions (TVS SCS)
ESTD 6 December 1951
President of Confederation of
Appointed as
HQ Geneva, Switzerland Indian Industry (CII)
Member 175 member states and 8 observer states Replaced Sanjiv Bajaj
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Indian-Origin Sikh Becomes First Turban-Wearing Suman Sharma sworn in as member of UPSC
Lord Mayor of UK City Coventry
Appointed Person Suman Sharma
Jaswant Singh Birdi, an Indian-
Appointed Person Member of the Union Public
origin Sikh councilor Appointed as
Service Commission (UPSC)
Lord Mayor of Coventry, a city in
Appointed as About UPSC
the West Midlands of the UK
ESTD 1 October 1926
Dream 11 CEO Harsh Jain appointed new chairman
of IAMAI HQ New Delhi
Chairman Dr. Manoj Soni
Appointed Person Harsh Jain
Chairman of ‘Internet and Mobile Karnataka Bank names Srikrishnan Harihara Sarma
Appointed as
Association of India’ (IAMAI) as MD & CEO
Replaced Sanjay Gupta
Appointed Person Srikrishnan Harihara Sarma
About Internet and Mobile Association of India
Managing Director and Chief
ESTD 2004 Appointed as Executive Officer of Karnataka
HQ Mumbai Bank
Replaced Mahabaleshwara M. S

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3 Banking/Finance/Economy
Redington & SBI Partners to Offer Solar Loans of • Under the partnership, Shivalik SFB will focus on small
up to Rs 5 crore and underserved segments through the delivery of
digitally focussed, affordable products
Extra Points
• Redington Limited (formerly known as Redington About Shivalik Small Finance Bank Ltd
(India) Limited) and State Bank of India (SBI) have
partnered to offer Solar Loans of up to Rs 5 crore. ESTD 1998
• The interest rates for these solar loans range between HQ Noida, Uttar Pradesh
9.5% and 10%.
MD & CEO Anshul Swami
About State Bank of India (SBI):
Tagline A Bank For Your Welfare
Established in 01 July 1955
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra SCBs end FY23 with 15.4% Credit Growth: RBI
Data
Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara
CS Setty, Swaminathan Extra Points
MDs Janakiraman, Ashwini Kumar • According to the Reserve Bank of India data on “Sectoral
Tiwari, Alok Kumar Choudhary Deployment of bank Credit- March 2023”, Scheduled
commercial banks (SCBs) reported a robust credit
Razorpay joins with ONDC to offer Payment growth of 15.4% in FY23 as compared to the 9.7% in
Reconciliation Service FY22.
Tabular representation of Growth in different sectors of
Extra Points Scheduled commercial banks:
• Razorpay joined with the e-commerce network Open
Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) as an alternative Growth Growth in
Sector
for internet shopping. in FY23 FY22
• With this, Razorpay becomes the first payment Overall credit growth of SCBS 15.4% 9.7%
gateway to launch a Payment Reconciliation Service
for Network Participants (NPs) like buyers, sellers, and Personal loans 20.6% 12.6%
logistic partners on ONDC.
Credit growth to services sector 19.8% 8.7%
About Razorpay: Credit to agriculture and allied
15.4% 9.9%
activities
ESTD 2014
Credit to industry (Overall) 5.7% 7.5%
HQ Bengaluru, Karnataka Credit to large industry 3% 2%
CEO Harshil Mathur Credit to medium industries 19.6% 54.4%
Credit to Micro and Small
Arya.ag Partners with Shivalik SFB to Lend Farmers 12.3% 23%
Industries
& FPO
NPCI International partners with PPRO to facilitate
Extra Points
global e-commerce payments through UPI
• Arya.ag, India’s largest Grain commerce platform made
partnership with Shivalik Small Finance Bank (SFB) to Extra Points
drive financial inclusion for farmers and FPOs (Farmers
• NPCI International Payments, a wholly-owned
Producers Organisations) through offering loans via
Shivalik SFB. subsidiary of National Payments Corporation of India
(NPCI), entered into partnership with digital payments • The deposit scheme aims to provide a safe investment
infrastructure provider PPRO to facilitate global option and is also available to other senior citizens
e-commerce payments through UPI. aged 60-80 at the rate of 7.65%.
• The agreement is aimed at expanding RuPay card and
UPI acceptance across global clients such as payment About Bank of India
service providers (PSPs) and global merchant acquirers.
ESTD 7 September 1906
• International payment service providers and their
merchants can now easily tap into an e-commerce HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
market that is expected to reach an estimated $111
billion next year and almost double to $200 billion by MD & CEO Rajneesh Karnatak
2026.
Tagline Relationship Beyond Banking
About National Payments Corporation of India
(NPCI) SBI collaborates with startup Garuda Aerospace
ESTD 2008 Extra Points

• State Bank of India (SBI), India’s largest public sector
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra bank, is collaborating with a startup, Garuda Aerospace
Pvt Ltd (GAPL).
CEO & MD Dilip Asbe
• Objective:- To make drone technology more accessible
Non Executive Chairman Biswamohan Mahapatra to the agricultural sector while simultaneously
enhancing efficiency in the industry’s usage of the
ADB Annual Report 2022: Pakistan is the Largest technology.
Recipient of ADB Loans in Asia About State Bank of India (SBI):
Extra Points
Established in 01 July 1955
• According to the Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Annual Report 2022, Pakistan got loans of USD 5.58 HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
billion, making it the largest recipient of ADB-funded
programs/projects in 2022. Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara
• ADB has disbursed a total of over USD 31.8 billion to 40 CS Setty, Swaminathan Janakiraman,
countries in 2022. MDs Ashwini Kumar Tiwari, Alok Kumar
• Out of a total lending of USD 5.58 billion, Pakistan Choudhary
which is in a deep economic crisis, received USD 2.67
billion as concessional funding from ADB in 2022. WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund launches Multi-
About Asian Development Bank asset NFO with Old Tax benefits
Extra Points
ESTD 19 December 1966
• White Oak Asset Management Company (AMC) has
HQ Manila, Philippines announced the launch of its new fund offer (NFO)
‘White Oak Capital Multi Asset Allocation Fund’.
Members 68
• It is an open-ended scheme that will invest across
Chief Economist Albert Park multiple asset classes, including equity-related
instruments, debt and gold instruments with old tax
President Masatsugu Asakawa benefits.
• The minimum application amount is Rs 500 and in
Bank Of India Increases Fixed Deposit Rates In Shubh multiples of Rs 1 thereafter. As it is an open-ended
Arambh Deposits Of 501 Days Tenor scheme, it will reopen again for buying later.
Extra Points GST revenue collection for April 2023 highest ever
• Bank of India increased interest rates on special term at Rs 1.87 lakh crore
deposits known as “Shubh Arambh Deposits” for 501
for deposits under Rs 2 crore. Extra Points
• Following the revision, the bank offered a rate of • The Finance Ministry reported the GST collections
interest of 7.80% in a limited period special scheme to for the month of April 2023 at Rs 1.87 lakh crore, the
super senior citizen customers. highest ever.

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• Gross GST collection in April 2023 is all-time high, Rs • HDFC Bank Smart Saathi will enable its agents to offer
19,495 crore more than the next highest collection of over 40 banking products and services, including loan
Rs. 1,67,540 lakh crore, in April 2022. products, especially for rural customers.
Collection of GST in April 2023: About HDFC Bank
Category Amount ESTD August 1994
Gross GST Revenue Rs 1,87,035 crore HQ Mumbai

Central GST Rs 38,440 crore MD & CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan
State GST Rs 47,412 crore
Tagline We Understand Your World
Rs 89,158 crore (including Rs
Integrated GST 34,972 crore collected on import
IFSCA inks MoU with IHub-Data, IIIT Hyderabad to
of goods)
support FinTech
Rs 12,025 crore (including ₹901
Cess crore collected on import of Extra Points
goods) • The International Financial Services Centers Authority
GST Collection of Previous Months (IFSCA) and IHub-Data, IIIT (International Institute of
Information Technology)-Hyderabad signed a MoU at
Month GST Collection IIIT- Hyderabad campus in Hyderabad.
• This MoU will enable cooperation and collaboration on
January 2023 1,55,922 crore
diverse initiatives regarding FinTech.
February 2023 1,49,577 crore • The IFSCA is responsible for development and
March 2023 1,60,122 crore regulation of international financial services, including
the insurance sector.
European Commission and EIB announce funds worth
Euro 18 bn About IFSCA:
Extra Points HQ Gandhinagar, Gujarat

• The European Commission and the European
Chairperson Injeti Srinivas
Investment Bank have announced Euro 18 billion of
financing under Global Gateway, Europe’s investment
strategy for partner countries. Airtel Payments Bank collaborates with NPCI
• This will boost investment in Global Gateway’s priority Extra Points
areas – climate action, clean energy and connectivity — • Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with the National
in Europe’s partner countries around the world.
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to introduce
About European Investment Bank facial recognition technology for Aadhaar-enabled
Payment System (AePS) at its 500,000 banking points.
ESTD 1958 • Airtel Payments Bank is amongst the first four banks to
offer Face Authentication for AePS in the country.
HQ Kirchberg, Luxembourg
• In the first phase, Airtel Payment Bank will make the
President Werner Hoyer facility available for non-financial transactions, balance
enquiry and mini-statements.
HDFC Bank Smart Saathi: HDFC Bank rolls Out
About Airtel Payments Bank
Digital Distribution Platform for BCs & BFs
Extra Points ESTD 2010
• HDFC Bank has launched ‘HDFC Bank Smart Saathi’,
a digital distribution platform (DDP) which will help
in connecting Business Correspondents (BCs) and HQ New Delhi
Business Facilitators (BFs) to the bank.
• This platform will make it easier for the HDFC Bank’s MD & CEO Anubrata Biswas
agents and BCs to sell services, especially in rural areas.
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RBI, BIS launch global technology competition ‘G20 Dvara SmartGold & Jana SFB Partners to Offer
TechSprint’ Gold Loans
Extra Points Extra Points
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Bank for International • Dvara SmartGold Private Limited has entered into a
Settlements (BIS) have launched G20 TechSprint, a strategic partnership with Jana Small Finance Bank
global technology competition. (SFB) to offer gold loans to its customers in Tamil Nadu,
Chhattisgarh, and Maharashtra.
• RBI and the BIS Innovation Hub have jointly announced
the fourth edition of the G20 TechSprint. About Jana Small Finance Bank
• TechSprint 2023 will focus on developing innovative
technology solutions for cross-border payments. ESTD 2008
• The competition is open for developers around the
HQ Bangalore, Karnataka
world for submitting application from today to 4th
June. The results will be announced at a final event in CEO & MD Ajay Kanwal
August or September this year.
• Shortlisted teams will be invited to develop their Axis Bank, IndiaShelter Enters Co-lending
solutions over a six-week period and each team will be Partnership to Offer MSME Loans
eligible for a stipend of eight lakh rupees approximately
10,000 US dollar. Extra Points
• The winners for each problem statement will receive • Axis Bank and India Shelter Finance Corporation
an award of forty lakh rupees approximately 50,000 US Ltd (IndiaShelter) have entered into a strategic
dollars. partnership under the co-lending model to offer
secured MSME(Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises)
About RBI loans to middle and low-income borrowers in semi-
urban areas.
ESTD 1 April 1935 • The digital co-lending platform of Axis Bank will offer a
superior customer experience.
ACT RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ACT, 1934
About Axis Bank
HQ Mumbai
Governor Shaktikanta Das ESTD 1993
Deputy T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao, Dr. HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra

Governors M. D. Patra, M. K. Jain Chairman Rakesh Makhija
Pine Labs Partners ICICI Bank to Accept Digital MD & CEO Amitabh Chaudhary
Rupee on its PoS Terminals Tagline Badhti Ka naam Zindagi
Extra Points
• Pine Labs India announced the acceptance of the digital SEBI launches LEI system
Rupee (e-Rupee- e₹) or central bank digital currency Extra Points
(CBDC), on its PoS (point-of-sale) terminals across key • The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has
retail outlets in Mumbai and Bengaluru in partnership introduced the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system
with ICICI Bank. for issuers that have listed or are planning to list non-
• The execution of Pine Labs’ e-Rupee payment process convertible securities, securitized debt instruments,
is completely digital via dynamic QR built within its
smart Android PoS terminals. • The LEI is a unique global identifier for legal entities
participating in financial transactions. Its purpose is
About ICICI Bank to create a global reference data system that uniquely
identifies every legal entity that is a party to a financial
ESTD 1994 transaction.
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra • The LEI code is a 20-character code to identify legally
distinct entities that engage in financial transactions.
CEO & MD Sandeep Bakhshi • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) mandates non-
individual borrowers having an aggregate exposure of
tagline Khayal Apka
above Rs 25 crore to obtain the LEI code.

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About SEBI About HDFC Bank
Estd April 12, 1988 (Uday Kotak committee) ESTD August 1994
Securities and Exchange Board of HQ Mumbai
ACT
India Act, 1992
MD & CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan
HQ Mumbai
Tagline We Understand Your World
Chairman Madhabi Puri Buch
Visa launches CVV-free payments for tokenized credit
Capital SFB Partners with Max Life Insurance to
in India
Offer Life Insurance Solutions
Extra Points
Extra Points
• Visa has launched a new feature CVV-free payments
• Capital Small Finance Bank (SFB), India’s 1st SFB, and in India that allows users to make online payments
Max Life Insurance Company Limited entered into a without the need for a CVV number.
partnership to offer life insurance offerings to Capital
• This facility is applicable on tokenized credit and debit
SFB’s customers.
cards and is available only for domestic transactions in
• Under the partnership, Capital SFB will offer a range India.
of savings, protection, retirement, and group life
insurance plans of Max Life to its customers. Extra Info
• CVV stands for card verification value. It’s a three- or
About Capital Small Finance Bank
four-digit number found on most debit and credit cards.
ESTD April 24, 2016
BharatPe Rebrands Multi-Brand Loyalty Program
HQ Jalandhar, Punjab PAYBACK India as ‘Zillion’
MD & CEO Sarvjit Singh Samra Extra Points
• BharatPe Group, a fintech startup, announced the
India, Russia Agreed to Explore RuPay and Mir cards rebranding of its loyalty program, PAYBACK India, the
for Easy Payments multi-brand loyalty program to “Zillion”.
• This new brand identity is in line with BharatPe’s
Extra Points vision to make Zillion ubiquitous to loyalty and rewards
• In the recently held high-level Internal Governmental across India.
Commission meeting on Trade, Economic, Scientific,
Technological and Cultural Cooperation (IRIGC-TEC), Ministry of Finance Permits 22 Finance Companies to
India and Russia discussed and agreed to explore Undertake Aadhaar-Based Verification Of Clients
the possibility of accepting RuPay (India) and Mir
cards (Russia) in each other’s country for hassle-free Extra Points
payments. • The Ministry of Finance (MoF) has allowed 22 financial
• The meeting was co-chaired by External Affairs Minister companies, including Amazon Pay (India) and Hero
S Jaishankar and Russia Deputy Prime Minister Denis FinCorp, to undertake Aadhaar-based authentication
Manturov. of clients.
• These 22 financial companies include Godrej Finance,
Vishesh: HDFC Bank launches programme for Amazon Pay (India) Pvt Ltd, Aditya Birla Housing
customers in semi-urban and rural Finance, Tata Motors Finance Solution, IIFL Finance
and Mahindra Rural Housing Finance Ltd.
Extra Points
• HDFC Bank launched its customised retail banking About Ministry of Finance
programme ‘Vishesh’ for customers in semi-urban and
rural (SURU) geographies. Union
Nirmala Sitharaman
• As a part of this, the bank plans to open more than 675 Minister
branches in these areas in FY24, onboard around 1 lakh
new customers, and launch customized products and Minister of
Bhagwat Karad, Pankaj Choudhary
financial solutions for this market segment. State
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UPI transactions decline in volume & value terms in Kotak Mahindra Bank becomes India’s 1st to
April 2023 Relocate Mauritius Domiciled Fund to GIFT IFSC
• Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions declined • Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited has become India’s
in volume as well as value terms in April 2023 after 1st to relocate Mauritius domiciled fund to Gujarat
peaking in the previous month. International Finance Tec-City (GIFT-city), Gujarat.
• As per the National Payments Corporation of India’s • It successfully re-domiciled Alchemy India Long
(NPCI) “UPI Monthly Product Statistics”, Transaction Term Fund from Mauritius to GIFT City, India’s 1st
volumes declined 7.96% month-on-month (m-o-m) International Financial Services Centre (IFSC).
in April 2023 to 796.29 crore against 865.16 crore in
March 2023.
About Kotak Mahindra Bank
• Transaction value declined 9.51% m-o-m in April 2023 ESTD 1985
to ₹12.71 lakh crore against ₹14.04 lakh crore in March
2023. HQ Mumbai
About National Payments Corporation of India CEO & MD Uday Kotak
(NPCI)
Fitch Ratings has lowered India’s 2023-24 GDP
ESTD 2008 forecast to 6% from 6.2%
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra Extra Points

• Fitch Ratings has lowered India’s 2023-24 (i.e.
CEO & MD Dilip Asbe Financial Year 2023-24 (FY24)) GDP (Gross Domestic
Product) growth forecast to 6% from 6.2% of its earlier
Non Executive projection
Biswamohan Mahapatra
Chairman • The projection for FY25 also decreased to 6.7% from
6.9% projected earlier.
RBI Imposes Rs 1.73 Crore Penalty On HSBC Federal Bank Launches e-Bank Guarantees in
Partnership with NeSL
Penalty
Rs 1.73 crore
Amount Extra Points
• Federal Bank Limited partners with National
Imposed on HSBC bank E-Governance Services Limited (NeSL) to launch
an electronic Bank Guarantee (e-BG) facility for its
AU Small Finance Bank Partners with RuPay to customers, enabling them to obtain a Bank Guarantee
digitally, replacing the traditional paper-based process.
Offer Cashback RuPay Credit Card
• Currently, the service is made available only in states
Extra Points where e-stamping is available.
• AU Small Finance Bank (SFB) partnered with RuPay to
About Federal Bank
introduce the Business Cashback RuPay credit card, a
solution tailored to meet the financial requirements
ESTD 1931
of self-employed customers and promote financial
inclusion. HQ Kochi, Kerala
• The bank intends to provide multiple range of benefits
to small businesses through this credit card. MD & CEO Shyam Srinivasan
About AU Small Finance Bank: Tagline Your Perfect Banking Partner
HQ Jaipur, Rajasthan Axis Bank enables UPI for RuPay Credit Cards
Extra Points
CEO & MD Sanjay Agarwal
• Axis Bank Limited, India’s third largest private sector
Tagline Badlaav Humse Hai bank, enabled RuPay Credit Card support on the Unified
Payments Interface (UPI).

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• Customers can now scan UPI QR codes or use the About State Bank of India (SBI):
merchant’s UPI checkout page to make a purchase
using their RuPay credit card. ESTD 2004
About Axis Bank Established
01 July 1955
in
ESTD 1993
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara
Chairman Rakesh Makhija CS Setty, Swaminathan Janakiraman,

MDs Ashwini Kumar Tiwari, Alok Kumar
Choudhary
MD & CEO Amitabh Chaudhary
Reserve Bank gold reserves rose 4.5% to 794.64
Tagline Badhti Ka naam Zindagi
tonnes in 2022-23
Yes Bank Launched Solar Financing Scheme ‘YES Extra Points

KIRAN’ for MSMEs • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) added 22 metric
tonnes of gold in the fiscal year that ended March 31,
Extra Points
2023, taking the total gold reserves to 794.64 metric
• Yes Bank Limited announced the launch of a solar
tonnes.
financing scheme named ‘YES KIRAN’ to offer financial
assistance to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises • RBI held 760.42 metric tonnes as of March 31, 2022,
(MSME) manufacturers who wish to install solar panels compared to 695.31 metric tonnes as of March 31,
at their premises. 2021.
• The bank has partnered with solar panel manufacturers • A recent World Gold Council (WGC) report showed that
like Tata Power Solar Systems, Goldi Solar and Loom the RBI added 7 metric tonnes of gold in January-March
Solar, and Panasonic Solar Power System to facilitate 2023.
MSME businesses for their transition to renewable
• As of March 31, 2023, the country’s total foreign
energy solutions.
exchange reserves stood at $578.449 billion, and gold
About YES Bank reserves were at $45.2 billion.
ESTD 2004 AIBEA to launch “Bank Clinic” to Help Retail

Customers with Grievance Redressal
Extra Points
MD & CEO Prashant Kumar • The All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA),
the oldest and largest national trade union of bank
Chairman Sunil Mehta
employees in India, plans to launch an online “Bank
Clinic” to assist bank customers with grievance redress.
Tagline Experience our Expertise
• Once a customer files a complaint with the Bank Clinic,
AIBEA’s team will take up the complaint with the bank
Rukart partners with SBI for Easy loan to buy Subjee
to address the issue.
cooler
About AIBEA
Extra Points
• Kalyan (Maharashtra) based Agritech firm Rukart,
20 April 1946
which sells “Subjee Cooler” to enhance the shelf life
of fruits and vegetables, has partnered with the State
HQ Chennai
Bank of India (SBI).
• Objective:- To help potential customers in getting easy
General Secretary C. H. Venkatachalam
loan options to buy the cold storage system ‘Subjee cooler’.
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RBL Bank goes live on “Direct Tax Collections” World Bank Group 5 (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA and ICSID)
through TIN2.0
President David Malpass
Extra Points
MD & CFO Anshula Kant
• RBL Bank has gone live with “Direct Tax Collections” on
behalf of the Government of India through the new Tax Chief Economist Carmen Reinhart
Information Network (TIN2.0) portal.
Executive Director Rajesh Khullar
• This is the 2nd such offering after Bank of India from
the Bank, following its empanelment by the Reserve
Bank of India as an ‘Agency Bank’ to conduct banking Kotak Bank unveils “Privy League” an Exclusive
business for the Central and State Governments. Premium Banking Programme; offers India’s 1st LED
• This service will enable RBL Bank customers to make Debit Cards
direct tax payments seamlessly via various digital
channels and RBL Bank branches. Extra Points
About RBL Bank Limited: • Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) has launched a
premium banking programme, Privy League targeting
ESTD 1943 High-Net-Worth Individuals (HNI)
• The program offers lifestyle privileges and bespoke
financial solutions.
MD & CEO R Subramaniakumar • It includes a Signature LED Debit Card, designed for the
Privy League Platinum tier, which is India’s first LED
Tagline Apno ka bank
card. It offers a 75% discount on Priority Pass.
Unnati Subsidiary Ora Finance receives NBFC Licence About Kotak Mahindra Bank
Extra Points
ESTD 2003
• Ora Finance Private Limited, a subsidiary of a fintech-
driven agritech firm Unnati, has become the 1st firm HQ Mumbai
to receive the Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC)
licence in the agritech space. CEO & MD Uday Kotak
• Ora Finance will enable the company to meet the Tagline Let's make money simple
financial needs of those in the agricultural sector, like
farmers, retailers, traders, brands, and food processors.
India’s retail inflation eases to 18-month low of
World Bank approves USD 82mn for Zoonotic 4.7% in April
Disease Prevention in India
Extra Points
Extra Points • India’s retail inflation in the month of April eased to
• World Bank’s (WB) Board of Executive Directors has an 18-month low of 4.70 per cent, data released by the
approved USD 82 million loan for Animal Health System National Statistical Office (NSO)
Support for One Health Program (AHSSOH) • At 4.70, the consumer price index (CPI) in April
• It will support India’s Livestock Health and Disease remained below the upper threshold of the Reserve
Control Program, which seeks to control animal
Bank of India’s medium-term 4+/- 2 percent target.
diseases by adopting global best practices for animal
health management. • In March, India’s headline inflation stood at 5.66 per
• The loan has a maturity of 11.5 years with a grace cent.
period of 4.5 years.
Month-wise list of retail inflation:
About World Bank
Month CPI
ESTD 1944 January 2023 6.52%
HQ Washington DC February 2023 6.44%
Members 189 March 2023 5.66%

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Bank of Baroda launches Electronic Bank Guarantee RBI: Banks to Commence ‘100 Days 100 Pays’
on its Baroda INSTA Platform Campaign for Return of Unclaimed Deposits
• Bank of Baroda (BOB) announced the launch of • As per the announcement of Reserve Bank of India
Electronic Bank Guarantee (e-BG) on its BarodaINSTA (RBI), banks are set to commence a ‘100 Days 100
platform, in partnership with the National E-Governance Pays’ campaign, where they will trace and settle the top
Services Limited (NeSL). 100 unclaimed deposits of every bank in every district
• An e-BG can be offered with a faster turnaround time within 100 days.
than the traditional paper-based process of issuing
• The banks will commence the campaign on June 01,
inland bank guarantees.
2023.
About Bank of Baroda
About unclaimed deposits
ESTD 1908 • Balances in savings/current accounts which are not
operated for 10 years, or term deposits not claimed
HQ Vadodara, Gujarat within 10 years from date of maturity are classified as
Tagline India’s International Bank “Unclaimed Deposits”.
MD & CEO Sanjiv Chadha About RBI
RBI imposes Rs 2.92 crore penalty on Canara Bank ESTD 1 April 1935
HQ Mumbai
Penalty
Rs 2.92 crore Governor Shaktikanta Das
Amount
Imposed on Canara Bank Deputy T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao, Dr.
Governors M. D. Patra, M. K. Jain
For violation of various norms,
including linking interest rates to
Reason
external benchmark, and opening
RBI provided license to Profectus Capital for
savings accounts of ineligible entities. Factoring Services to MSMEs
April WPI inflation falls to -0.92%, lowest in 34 Extra Points

months • Profectus Capital Private Limited received the
Certificate of Registration under the Factoring
Extra Points Regulations Act, 2011 from the Reserve Bank of India
• India’s wholesale inflation fell to a 34-month low to provide factoring services to Micro, Small & Medium
in April, led by easing of prices of food, fuel and Enterprises (MSMEs).
manufactured items • Factoring is a financial tool that provides the seller of
• The wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation was at goods (client) with an advance against the accounts
(-) 0.92% April compared with 1.34% in March and at receivable.
15.38% in April last year has been on a declining trend
for 11 months in a row ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Launches New Debt
• This is the first time since July 2020 that WPI-based Fund ‘ICICI Pru Constant Maturity Fund’
inflation has turned negative. In June 2020, WPI was
at (-) 1.81%. Extra Points
WPI Inflation in different categories: • ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited
launched a new debt fund ‘ICICI Pru Constant Maturity
Category Inflation (April 2023) Fund’ which will be available for investments with the
Company’s flagship Unit Linked Insurance Plans (ULIP)
Food articles 3.54 per cent offerings like ICICI Pru Signature, ICICI Pru Smart Life
and ICICI Pru LifeTime Classic.
Fuel and power basket 0.93% per cent • ICICI Pru Constant Maturity Fund is the first-of-its-kind
debt fund in the fixed-income ULIP space in India’s life
Manufactured products -2.42 per cent
insurance market.
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About ICICI Prudential Life Insurance RBI’s report estimates India’s Green Financing
Requirement at 2.5% of GDP
ESTD 2001
Extra Points
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra • The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) report on Currency
and Finance (RCF) for the year 2022-23 states that
India’s green financing requirement is estimated to be
MD & CEO N. S. Kannan at least 2.5 percent of GDP annually till 2030.
• The Government of India has set the target to achieve
IRDAI forms 5-Member Committee under net zero carbon emissions by 2070.
Chairmanship of Pratima Murthy to Advice on • The report further states that India’s goal to achieve the
net zero target by 2070 would require an accelerated
Mental Health Cover
reduction in the energy intensity of GDP by around 5
Committee to provide advice and percent annually.
Committee inputs to IRDAI on matters related to About RBI
mental health and insurance
Insurance Regulatory and ESTD 1 April 1935
Formed by Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) ACT RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ACT, 1934
Total Member 5 HQ Mumbai
Pratima Murthy, Director of the Governor Shaktikanta Das

Chaired by National Institute of Mental Health
and Neurosciences Deputy T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao, Dr.
Governors M. D. Patra, M. K. Jain
About IRDAI
London stock exchange group to set up technology
ESTD 2000 centre in Hyderabad
HQ Hyderabad Extra Points

Chairman Debasish Panda • Global financial markets infrastructure and data provider
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) will be establishing
a technology centre of excellence (CoE) in Hyderabad.
Netherlands becomes India’s 3rd Largest Export
• Which will be generating employment for about 1,000
Destination in FY23 after US, UAE people in a year.
Extra Points • The LSEG has significant operations in 70 countries
across Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), North
• As per the data of the Ministry of Commerce and America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. It employs
Industry, the Netherlands emerged as the 3rd largest 23,000 people globally, with more than half located in
export destination for India in FY23 after the United Asia Pacific.
States (US) and United Arab Emirates (UAE).
About London stock exchange
• India’s trade surplus with the Netherlands has
increased from USD 8 billion in FY22 to USD 13 billion ESTD 1801
in FY23.
HQ London, UK
• India’s exports to the Netherlands increased by about
48% to USD 18.52 billion in FY23 as against USD 12.5 Chairman Don Robert
billion in FY22.
• The Netherlands has taken over major destinations NSE India Launched Rupee-Denominated NYMEX
such as the UK, Hong Kong, Bangladesh and Germany. WTI Crude Oil & Natural Gas Futures Contracts
• The foreign direct investment (FDI) received from the Extra Points
Netherlands to India in FY23 (April-September 2022) • National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE India)
was about USD 1.76 billion. It was USD 4.6 billion in launched the rupee-denominated New York Mercantile
FY22. Exchange’s (NYMEX) West Texas Intermediate (WTI)

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Crude Oil and Natural Gas futures contracts in its EXIM Bank to launch GIFT City trade finance arm by
commodity derivatives segment. Q3 FY24
• The NYMEX WTI will provide effective trading and
hedging opportunities to the market participants, Extra Points
with the availability of key energy products on a single • EXIM (Export-Import) Bank is expected to
trading platform. operationalise its proposed GIFT City subsidiary for
trade finance by the third quarter (Q3) of the current
About National Stock Exchange financial year (FY24).
• The proposed subsidiary is set to be named India EXIM
ESTD 1994 Finserv IFSC Private Ltd.
HQ Mumbai • EXIM Bank plans to raise $4 billion via overseas debt.
• The bank expects to maintain the 14% growth of
Chairman Girish Chandr Chaturvedi FY23, pegging growth for the current financial year at
12-15%.
CEO & MD Ashishkumar Chauhan
About Export-Import Bank India
World Bank Granted Rs 51 Crore to set up ESTD 1982
Integrated Road Safety Enforcement System in
Shimla & Nurpur HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
Amount Rs 51 crore CEO & MD Harsha Bangari
To set up an integrated road safety RBI cracks down on three rural banks, monetary
enforcement system in the Shimla and
penalties imposed for non-compliance
Given for Nurpur police districts of Himachal
Pradesh and develop the Palampur- Penalty Amount Rs. 10,000
Sheela Chowk in Kangra
Under the first phase of the project, Imposed on Manipur Rural Bank
Shimla and Nurpur have been selected Penalty Amount ₹5 lakh
Phase- I and a sum of Rs 42 crore will be spent on
both police districts to strengthen their Imposed on
emergency response systems
Penalty Amount ₹2 lakh
The Palampur-Sheela Chowk stretch of
road in Kangra has been chosen to be Imposed on Tripura Gramin Bank
Phase-II
developed at a cost of Rs 9 crore as a safe
corridor Zomato inks pact with ICICI Bank to launch its own
About World Bank UPI
ESTD 1944 Extra Points

• Zomato has collaborated with ICICI Bank to introduce
HQ Washington DC its own Unified Payments Interface (UPI) service called
‘Zomato UPI’ for select users.
Members 189 • This feature allows customers to make direct payments
within the Zomato app by creating their own UPI
World Bank ID, eliminating the need for redirection to external
5 (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA and ICSID)
Group payment gateways like PhonePe, Google Pay, or other
third-party apps.
President David Malpass
About ICICI Bank
MD & CFO Anshula Kant
ESTD 1994
Chief
Carmen Reinhart HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
Economist
CEO & MD Sandeep Bakhshi
Executive
Rajesh Khullar
Director tagline Khayal Apka
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UN Projected India’s Economic Growth at 6.7% in About Mahila Samman Savings Certificate
2024; Global Growth at 2.5% in 2024 (MSSC)
UN GDP projection for India Launched in Budget 2023
Calendar Year 2023 5.8% Eligible Period 1st April 2023 to 31st March 2025
Eligibility Any women, including minor

Calendar Year 2024 6.7%
Interest rate 7.50%
UN GDP projection of Global
Minimum
Calendar Year 2023 2.3% Rs 1,000
investment
Calendar Year 2024 2.5% Maximum
Rs 2 lakh (combined in all accounts)
HDFC AMC launches India’s first Mutual Fund Maturity
focused on Defence Sector period
2 years
Extra Points The account holder can withdraw up

• HDFC Asset Management Company (AMC) Limited Partial to 40% of the account balance after
announced the launch of the ‘HDFC Defence Fund’ withdrawal one year from the account opening
i.e. India’s first mutual fund that plans to invest in the date.
defence sector. • On the death of the account holder
• At least 80% of the net assets of the defence fund will • On extremely compassionate
be invested in defence and allied sector companies. grounds, such as the account
About HDFC Asset Management Company holder’s life-threatening disease,
Premature the guardian’s death, etc.
ESTD 1999 closure • After six months from the date
of account opening without any
reason. But in this case, your
MD & CEO Navneet Munot interest rate will be reduced by 2%
and become 5.5%.
Paytm partners with NPCI to launch Paytm SBI Card
India to contribute 16% to global GDP growth over
on the RuPay network
2023-24: Morgan Stanley
Card Name Paytm SBI Card
Extra Points
Launched by Paytm, NPCI & SBI Card • According to Morgan Stanley, India is benefitting from
a combination of cyclical & structural tailwinds and is
Network Rupay expected to contribute 16 per cent of the global gross
domestic product growth over 2023-24.
About Paytm
ESTD 2010 IDBI, BOB and SBI Capital Appointed to Manage
IREDA IPO
HQ Noida
Extra Points
MD & CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma • The Union government has appointed the three
merchant bankers IDBI Capital Market & Securities Ltd,
No TDS on Interest from Mahila Samman Savings BOB Capital Markets Ltd and SBI Capital Markets Ltd to
Certificate: Finance Ministry manage the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the Indian
Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).
Extra Points • IDBI Capital is the lead banker for the transaction.
• The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) recently • The IPO, which is expected in FY24, will likely comprise
issued a notification clarifying that interest earned a 10% stake sale by the government and 15% fresh
from Mahila Samman Savings Certificate (MSSC) will equity issuance by the renewable energy project
not be subject to Tax Deducted at Source (TDS). financier to fund its business growth.

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About Indian Renewable Energy Development About ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company
Agency Limited:
ESTD 1987 HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra

MD & CEO Bhargav Dasgupta
Category Mini Ratna (Category – I)
YES Bank Launches YES PAY EASY App to Enable
HQ New Delhi
Merchants to Accept Card & Digital Payments on
Chairman & MD Pradip Kumar Das
Smartphones
Extra Points
RBI makes big announcement regarding Rs 2,000 • YES BANK partnered with Mastercard and Worldline
India, and launches YES PAY EASY, a mobile app for
currency notes
small-scale merchants to enable them to accept card and
Extra Points digital payments from their customers’ smartphones.
• The Reserve Bank of India has decided to withdraw the • YES PAY EASY will transform the customers’ smartphone
Rs 2,000 denomination banknotes from circulation. into a secure payment acceptance device and enable
• However, the central bank has said that the currency merchants to use their mobile phones as a Point of Sale
notes will continue to be legal tender till September 30. (PoS) terminal and accept remote payments.
• RBI has asked banks to provide deposit and/or About YES Bank
exchange facility for Rs 2,000 notes until September
30, 2023. ESTD 2004
• Exchange of Rs 2000 note will start on May 23. HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
• At a time maximum 20,000 Rs can be exchanged. MD & CEO Prashant Kumar
Chairman Sunil Mehta
About RBI Tagline Experience our Expertise
ESTD 1 April 1935 JCB partners with NPCI to offer 40% cashback for
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ACT, RuPay JCB Cardholders for in-store purchases
ACT
1934
Extra Points
HQ Mumbai • JCB International Co. Ltd, Japan’s international
payment brand, partners with the National Payments
Governor Shaktikanta Das Corporation of India (NPCI) to offer 40% cashback to
RuPay JCB cardholders on in-store purchases in the
T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao, UAE, Thailand, Malaysia, and Spain.
Deputy Governors
Dr. M. D. Patra, M. K. Jain • The maximum cashback amount per transaction will
be Rs 3,000, with an overall cap of Rs 15,000 per card
ICICI Lombard Partners with actyv.ai to Introduce during the offer period.
Revolutionary Insurance Solutions for SMEs
Extra Points (NPCI)
• ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Limited
announced a strategic partnership with actyv.ai to ESTD 2008
co-create comprehensive insurance offerings for Small
and Midsize Enterprises (SMEs) the entire supply HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
chain ecosystem, encompassing distributors, retailers,
and suppliers. CEO & MD Dilip Asbe
• The partnership was made to empower sustainable
growth, reduce the business, foster growth, and Non Executive
contribute to the overall economic development of the Biswamohan Mahapatra
Chairman
country.
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No TCS on LRS transactions upto Rs 7 lakh via SBI Records Highest-Ever Quarterly Profit in Q4
international debit, credit cards from July 1, 2023 2022-23
• The Centre excluded up to Rs 7 lakh of debit and credit
card payments in a financial year from the ambit of the • The State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest
liberalised remittance scheme (LRS). public-sector lender, has reported impressive financial
• These transactions will not attract a 20% levy of tax results for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2023.
collected at source (TCS). • The bank’s net profit witnessed a significant surge of
• In the Union Budget 2023, the government announced 83 percent, reaching a record high of Rs 16,694 crore.
that international credit card expenses would be • The bank’s net profit rose from Rs 9,113 crore in the
subject to a higher TCS rate of 20 percent, effective corresponding quarter of the previous financial year to
from July 1. Rs 16,694 crore.
• Additionally, for the entire financial year 2022-23, SBI
PSU Banks’ Profit Crosses Rs 1 Lakh Crore Mark in achieved a profit of Rs 50,232 crore, a substantial rise
FY23 from Rs 31,675 crore in 2021-22.
Extra Points • The Net Interest Income (NII) Growth for the quarter
• Public sector banks (PSBs) in India have achieved a rose by 29.5 percent to Rs 40,392 crore, compared to
significant milestone in the financial year ended March Rs 31,197 crore in the previous fiscal year.
2023, with their cumulative profit crossing the Rs 1 • SBI’s deposits experienced a healthy YoY growth of 9.19
lakh crore-mark. percent. Notably, current account and savings account
• These 12 PSBs witnessed a 57% increase in total profit (CASA) deposits grew by 4.95 percent YoY.
compared to ₹66,539.98 crore earned in 2021-22.
• In percentage terms, Pune-based Bank of Maharashtra
About State Bank of India (SBI):
(BoM) had the highest net profit growth with 126%
to ₹2,602 crore, followed by UCO with a 100% rise to Established in 01 July 1955
₹1,862 crore and Bank of Baroda with a 94% increase
to ₹14,110 crore. HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
• However, in absolute terms, SBI has reported an annual
profit of ₹50,232 crore in 2022-23, showing an increase
Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara
of 59% over the preceding financial year.
CS Setty, Swaminathan Janakiraman,
RBI Approves Rs 87,416 Crore Surplus Transfer to MDs Ashwini Kumar Tiwari, Alok Kumar
Government for FY23, Triple the Previous Year’s Choudhary
Amount
Extra Points Bajaj Allianz Life Launched India’s First ULIP
• The Reserve Bank approved Rs 87,416 crore dividend Small-Cap Fund
payout to the central government for 2022-23, nearly
triple of what it paid in the previous year.
Extra Points
• The dividend payout was Rs 30,307 crore for the • Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Ltd launched
accounting year 2021-22. India’s first small-cap fund in the ULIP (Unit Linked
Insurance Plan) segment namely ‘Bajaj Allianz Life
• The surplus transfer of Rs 87,416 crore from the RBI
to the central government is expected to bring in Small Cap Fund’.
additional revenue of around 0.2 percent of GDP. • The benchmark index is the Nifty Small Cap 100 index.
About RBI About ULIP

• A ULIP plan is a type of life insurance that offers the
ESTD 1 April 1935 policyholder two advantages: protection through life
RESERVE BANK OF INDIA ACT, coverage and the opportunity to invest in specific
ACT market-linked funds.
1934
HQ Mumbai About Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Company Ltd:
Governor Shaktikanta Das HQ Pune, Maharashtra
T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao,
Deputy Governors CEO & MD Tarun Chugh
Dr. M. D. Patra, M. K. Jain

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Tide and Transcorp launch India’s-first Recycled Paytm Money Launches Bond Investing on its
PVC RuPay Card Platform for Retail Investors
• Tide, United Kingdom-based fintech, in partnership
with Transcorp International Limited, launched India’s • Paytm Money Limited has launched India’s most
first recycled Polyvinyl Chloride (rPVC) Rupay card, advanced bonds platform for retail investors to simplify
along with MCT Cards & Technology Pvt. Ltd. and NPCI bonds and enable them to invest in three types of bonds
• Every 99% rPVC card weighing 5.5-6 grams, saves such as government, corporate and tax-free.
on 7-8 grams of CO2 emissions and 3.5-4.0 grams of
• All information related to coupon vs yield, clean price
plastic waste, which will be used in the production of a
new card made with virgin PVC. vs dirty price, coupon frequency, coupon record dates
etc, would be available on one dashboard on the Paytm
About Transcorp International Limited: Money app.
HQ New Delhi, Delhi
About Different types of Bonds:
CEO & MD Gopal Sharma
Bond Issued by
It is a Reserve Bank of India regulated Prepaid
Extra info
Payment Instrument (PPI) license holder.
Government Bond Government of India
RBI cancels Certificate of Registration of 7 NBFCS Tax-free Bonds Public Sector Undertaking (PSUs)
Extra Points
Corporate Bonds Private and public corporations
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the exercise of powers
conferred on it under Section 45-IA (6) of the RBI Act,
1934 has cancelled the Certificate of Registration (CoR) Aditya Birla Capital launches ‘Udyog Plus’: An
of seven Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFC). Innovative One-Stop Business Platform for MSMEs
The 7 NBFC are as follows: Extra Points
Registered Office (City/ • Aditya Birla Capital has announced the launch of
NBFC
State) “Udyog Plus”, an innovative one-stop business platform,
designed for the Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise
Coorg Tea Company
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Limited
• This new Business-to-business (B2B) digital platform
Trimurthi Finvest Limited Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh offers solutions for MSMEs, including financing,
East West Finvest India protection, investments, advisory.
Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Limited • The platform offers a completely paperless digital
Indore, Madhya Pradesh journey for business loans of up to Rs 10 lakh.
J.V.Modi Securities Limited
(MP) About Aditya Birla Capital
K K Patel Finance Limited Gwalior, MP
HQ Mumbai
Purvi Finvest Limited Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh
Genfin Capital Private MD & CEO Vishakha Mulye
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Limited
About RBI Bank of Baroda introduces Live Video chat & Web
Chat for Customers
ESTD 1 April 1935
Extra Points
• Bank of Baroda (BOB), launched two innovative
Mumbai customer service initiatives: “a Live Video Calling
HQ service- bob Video Chat” and “a Live Web Chat facility-
Governor Shaktikanta Das bob Live Chat” on its website to enhance the overall
experience for customers and prospective customers.
Deputy T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao, Dr. M. • BoB is the 1st Public Sector bank to offer live video chat
Governors D. Patra, M. K. Jain and live web chat services to its customers.
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About Bank of Baroda • The feature is now available to RuPay credit card
holders of Axis Bank, Bank of Baroda (BoB), Canara
ESTD 1908 Bank, HDFC bank, Indian Bank, Kotak Mahindra
Bank, Punjab National Bank(PNB) and Union Bank of
Vadodara, Gujarat India(UBI).
HQ
India’s International Bank

Tagline (NPCI)
Sanjiv Chadha ESTD 2008
MD & CEO
YES Bank Partners with IIT Kanpur to Transform
CEO & MD Dilip Asbe
Startups
Non Executive Chairman Biswamohan Mahapatra
Extra Points
• Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre (SIIC) at the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur signed a Axis Bank launches Digital Onboarding platform
MoU with YES Bank to provide financial support to the ‘Sarathi’ for POS Terminals
startups incubated at SIIC.
• As per the terms of the MoU, SIIC and YES Bank will Extra Points
collaborate to identify innovative startups and extend • Axis Bank Ltd has launched ‘Sarathi’, a first of its kind
them the necessary financial backing. digital onboarding platform to enable easy installation
of Electronic Data Capture (EDC) or Point of Sale (POS)
YES BANK Collaborates with Red Hat to Redefine for merchants.
Mobile Banking Experience • Sarathi provides a seamless and hassle-free experience
for merchants unlike the traditional onboarding
Extra Points process that can take several days.
• YES BANK has adopted Azure Red Hat OpenShift
to transform their next-generation mobile banking
About Axis Bank
applications for efficient mobile banking experience ESTD 1993
for its customers.
• Azure Red Hat OpenShift platform will enable YES HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
BANK to improve customer experience and provide
innovative banking solutions by launching security- Chairman Rakesh Makhija
focused and efficient modern applications.
MD & CEO Amitabh Chaudhary
About YES Bank
Tagline Badhti Ka naam Zindagi
ESTD 2004
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra SBI General launches ‘Surety Bond Bima‘ for

Infrastructure Projects
MD & CEO Prashant Kumar
Extra Points
Chairman Sunil Mehta • SBI General Insurance (SBIG), the non-life insurance
arm of State Bank of India (SBI), launched ‘General
Tagline Experience our Expertise Surety Bond Bima (Conditional & Unconditional)’
insurance product for infrastructure projects.
Google Pay & NPCI Collaborate to Integrate RuPay • It will act as a security arrangement to provide
Credit Cards with UPI protection for infrastructure projects and shield both
the contractor and the principal (the entity awarding
Extra Points the contract).
• Google pay has partnered with the National Payments • This Surety Bond Insurance is available in two variants
Corporation of India (NPCI) to enable the integration viz. Conditional and Unconditional.
of RuPay credit cards with Unified Payments Interface • In a conditional bond, a specified sum is paid to the
(UPI). beneficiary upon claim when specific conditions are met.

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• The unconditional bond allows the beneficiary to claim ADB, India sign $141.12 million loan for industrial
the money almost without any conditions. corridor development in Andhra Pradesh
About SBI General Insurance Extra Points
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the
Government of India signed a $141.12 million loan
MD & CEO Kishore Kumar Poludasu to support the development of high-quality internal
infrastructure such as roads, water supply systems
and electricity distribution network in three industrial
Plotch, IDFC FIRST Bank Collaborates and clusters in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Launches ONDC Focused Payment Solution Nodepe • This financing is the second tranche of the $500 million
multi-tranche financing facility (MFF) for the program
Extra Points
approved by ADB in 2016 to build infrastructure in
• Plotch, the SaaS (Software as a Service) firm, in three industrial clusters in the Visakhapatnam and
collaboration with IDFC FIRST Bank Limited, has Srikalahasti-Chittoor nodes in the state.
launched an Open Network for Digital Commerce
(ONDC)-focused payment solution NodePe. About Asian Development Bank
• These contracts include payment settlement amount,
period and bank details. NodePe also helping in ESTD 19 December 1966
reconciliation of the payments Manila, Philippines
HQ
About IDFC FIRST Bank Limited: 68
Members
ESTD 2018
Chief Economist Albert Park
HQ Mumbai
President Masatsugu Asakawa
MD & CEO V. Vaidyanathan

Growth expected to exceed 7% in FY23: RBI
Tagline Always You First Governor Das
Extra Points
HDFC Bank partners Manipal Global Academy of • Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said the
BFSI launches “Future Bankers 2.0” growth for 2022-23 is expected to be more than the
advance estimate of 7 per cent on the back of economic
Extra Points momentum maintained in the third and fourth quarters
• HDFC Bank Limited, India’s largest private sector bank, of the last fiscal.
in association with the Manipal Global Academy of • As per the second advance estimate released by the
BFSI (Banking, financial services and insurance), has National Statistical Office (NSO) in February, the
launched Future Bankers 2.0. economy is estimated to grow at 7 per cent in 2022-23
• Objective:- To transform young graduates into banking against 8.7 per cent in the preceding fiscal
professionals within 1 year.
• Future Bankers 2.0, a one-year professional diploma, Gupshup launches UPI payment for featurephone
aims to create a robust, future-ready talent pipeline for users
HDFC Bank’s retail banking business.
Extra Points
About HDFC Bank • Conversational engagement platform Gupshup has
introduced UPI payments for people using feature
ESTD August 1994 phones via a native app called GSPay.
Mumbai • The app, developed along with National Payments
HQ Corporation of India (NPCI), will use SMS or even IVR
based payments systems, and do away with the need
Sashidhar Jagdishan for data or internet connectivity.
MD & CEO
• The app will be available on latest models of Nokia 105
We Understand Your World and Nokia 106 4G feature phones, through partnership
Tagline
with HMD Global
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SBI’s Ecowrap Report Projects India’s GDP Growth List of top 3 performer in NPA management
to 5.5% in Q4 FY23 & 7.1% in FY23 during FY23 (Overall)
Rank Bank NPA Fall Rate
Growth projection by SBI’s Ecowrap Report
1 Bank of Maharashtra 0.25%
Fourth quarter (Q4) of Financial Year
5.5% 2 HDFC Bank 0.27%
2022-23 (FY23)
3 Kotak Mahindra Bank 0.37%
7.1%
Financial Year 2022-23 (FY23) List of top 3 performer in NPA management
during FY23 (public sector banks)
RBI imposes Rs 84.5 lakh penalty on Central Bank of Rank Bank NPA Fall Rate
India for non-compliance 1 Bank of Maharashtra 0.25%
Penalty 2 State Bank of India (SBI) 0.67%
₹84.50 lakh
Amount 3 Bank of Baroda 0.89%
Imposed Central Bank of India

List of top 3 performer in Capital Adequacy Ratio
on during FY23
Section 47 A (1) (c) read with sections 46 Capital Adequacy
(4) (i) and 51 (1) of the Banking Regulation Rank Bank
Reason Ratio
Act, 1949
2 Punjab & Sind Bank 17.10%
EDII Partners With SBI Foundation For Skill
3 Canara Bank 16.68%
Development Of 750 People With Disabilities Under
List of top 3 performer in loan growth during
Project Swavlamban
FY23
Rank Bank Loan growth Rate
• The Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
(EDII) has partnered with the State Bank of India
2 Indian Overseas Bank 21.28%
Foundation (SBIF) for the skill development and
training of 750 persons with disabilities (PwDs) under 3 Indusind Bank 21%
SBI’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project –
Swavlamban. About Bank Of Maharashtra
• EDII will implement the project in Anand, Kheda, ESTD 16 September 1935
Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, and Aravalli districts of
Gujarat. HQ Pune, Maharashtra
• The main objective of the project is to help PwD
CEO & MD A S Rajeev
entrepreneurs expand their market reach and ensure
an increase in their incomes. Ek Parivaar, Ek Bank (One Family
tagline
One Bank)
Bank of Maharashtra top performer in NPA
PhonePe becomes the First Payment App to Link Two
management during FY23 Lakh RuPay Credit Cards to UPI
• Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the best • PhonePe, announced that it has achieved two significant
bank as far as management of bad loans is concerned milestones.
with its net non-performing assets (NPAs) falling as • The company has become the first digital payments
low as 0.25 per cent during the financial year ended app to successfully enable linkage of two lakh RuPay
March 2023. credit cards to the Unified Payments Interface.

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• In addition, PhonePe has also processed a Total Cosmos Co-operative Bank Ltd, Pune (Maharashtra),
Payment Value (TPV) of Rs.150 crore via RuPay Credit the second largest urban cooperative bank of India
on UPI. • It was done in exercise of its powers conferred under
Sub-Section (4) of Section 44A read with Section 56 of
About PhonePe the Banking Regulation (BR) Act, 1949.
ESTD 2015 • In accordance with the scheme, all the 7 branches of
Maratha Sahakari Bank Ltd., will function as branches
HQ Bengaluru, Karnataka
of The Cosmos Co-operative Bank Limited.
CEO Sameer Nigam About RBI
Tagline Karte Ja Badhte Ja ESTD 1 April 1935

Patna becomes first municipal corporation to use
CBDC Mumbai
HQ
Extra Points Shaktikanta Das
Governor
• Patna Municipal Corporation in Bihar, India, has
become the first municipal corporation in the country Deputy T. Rabi Sankar, M. Rajeshwar Rao, Dr. M.
to adopt Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Governors D. Patra, M. K. Jain
• The digital currency called e-Rupee generated by the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will be used in the entire
Goldman Sachs hikes India’s 2023 GDP forecast to
Patna Municipal Corporation area.
• The implementation of the CBDC will start from the
6.3%
municipal headquarters in the Maurya Lok complex, Forecast by Goldman Sachs
and later extend to all regional offices and payment
counters within the corporation. Calendar Year (CY) 2023 6.3%
SEBI sets up Intermediary Advisory Committee Jan-March 2023 4.9%

Chaired by former SEBI ED S Ravindran April-June 2023 6.5%
Committee Intermediary Advisory Committee July-September 202 5.9%
Securities and Exchange Board of October-December 2023 8.1%
Formed by
India (SEBI)
Total Members 21 Equitas SFB partnered with IBM for digital banking
Chaired by S Ravindran
Extra Points
About SEBI • Equitas Small Finance Bank has signed an agreement
with International Business Machines (IBM) to design
April 12, 1988 (Uday Kotak
Estd and build a digital banking platform.
committee)
• The collaboration between the two entities aims at
Securities and Exchange Board of boosting the digital products offered by Equitas as well
ACT
India Act, 1992 as its service offerings, as it evolves its business for a
HQ Mumbai digital-first generation.
Chairman Madhabi Puri Buch About Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited
(ESFBL):
RBI approves the voluntary amalgamation of ESTD 1993
Maratha Co-op Bank with Cosmos Co-operative Bank Chennai, Tamil Nadu
HQ
Extra Points Vasudevan Pathangi Narasimhan
MD & CEO
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sanctioned the merging
of the voluntary Scheme of Amalgamation of Maratha Tagline It’s Fun Banking
Sahakari Bank Ltd, Mumbai (Maharashtra) with the
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Indian Bank Empanelled as Clearing & Settlement CEO of ICCL.
Bank with ICCL • Clearing members can open settlement accounts with
the Indian Bank for fund settlement under the equity
Extra Points derivatives segment.
• Indian Bank signed an agreement with Indian Clearing
About Indian Bank
Corporation Limited (ICCL) as its clearing and
settlement bank. ESTD 15 August 1907
• Indian Bank will now facilitate banking services to Chennai
HQ
members of BSE (formerly Bombay Stock Exchange)
for clearing and settlement operations. MD & CEO Shanti Lal Jain
• Mahesh Kumar Bajaj, executive director of Indian Bank,
Tagline Your Own Bank
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4 MoUs and Agreements
NLCIL signs MoU with TNC India for Repurposing Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0
Mined-Out Lands for RE Projects
Launched in October 2, 2021
NLC India Limited (NLCIL) & Nature Objective Under this, 3.5 lakh individual,
Signed between Conservancy Centre India (TNC community and public toilets will be
India) constructed for the population going
To collaborate on research work to urban areas for employment in the
pertaining to the repurposing of next 5 years.
Objective
mined-out lands for setting up of
Renewable Energy (RE) projects. About Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
India, UK sign landmark agreement to collaborate on Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri
science and innovation
Minister of State Kaushal Kishore
Signed between India & UK
To collaborate on science and NTPC and NPCIL sign agreement for joint
Objective
innovation. development of nuclear power plant
The agreement between the two NTPC Ltd & Nuclear Power
nations was signed after the meeting Signed between
Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL)
between the Union Minister of State
Extra info For the development of nuclear
(Independent Charge) for Science Objective
and Technology Jitendra Singh and power projects in the country.
UK Science Minister George Freeman.
Initially, the JV company shall develop
two pressurized heavy-water reactor
Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs signs MoU (PHWR) projects – Chutka Madhya
with RITES Extra Info Pradesh Atomic Power Project
(2×700 MW) and Mahi Banswara
Ministry of Housing and Urban Rajasthan Atomic Power Project
Signed between
Affairs & RITES Limited (4×700 MW).
To accelerate solid waste and used NTPC, India’s largest power producer,
Objective
water management. aims to start generating 2,000 MW of
Target nuclear energy by 2032, 4,200 MW
The Technical Support Unit (TSU) by 2035 and eventually scale up to
of RITES will assist Swacch Bharat 20,000 MW by 2050.
Extra Info
Mission-Urban (SBM-U) for a period
of 3 years. About NTPC Limited
About Swachh Bharat Mission ESTD 7 November 1975
Swachh Bharat Mission 1.0
HQ New Delhi, India
Objective Promoting ‘cleanliness and Chairman &
Sanitation’ in the society and the Gurdeep Singh
MD
country.
India, Israel sign MoU on Industrial R&D
PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Cooperation
President Ram Chandra Poudel
Signed between India & Israel
On Industrial Research and BEL signs MoU with Emjay Contro Systems to
Objective Development Cooperation with focus Manufacture Electro-Mechanical Bollards
on several key technology areas.
Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) & Emjay
Signed between
About Israel Control Systems Pvt Ltd
Capital Jerusalem To jointly manufacture and develop
business for state-of-the-art, electro-
Currency Israeli New Shekel Objective mechanical bollards for use in
various defence, homeland security,
President Isaac Herzog paramilitary, and export projects.
The bollards are built to withstand
Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata and Bharti Airtel sign
the impact of IED(Improvised
binding term sheet
Explosive Device)-laden vehicles
Extra Info
Signed between Dialog Axiata & India’s Bharti Airtel weighing from 24,000 to 1,50,000 kg
and coming in at alarming speeds of
With this merger, Bharti Airtel will 80 to 100 km/h.
Objective get access to a large customer base
in the island nation. About Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL)
About Sri Lanka ESTD 1954
Capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte HQ Bengaluru
Currency Sri Lankan rupee Chairman & MD Bhanu Prakash Srivastava (Additional)
President Ranil Wickremesinghe

BMC & MGL Partners to set up Asia’s largest bio-
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena gas plant in Mumbai
Indian embassy in Nepal ink MoU with STMHF for Signed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation
between (BMC) & Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL)
Distribution of LPG Stoves, Cylinders
To set up Asia’s largest biogas plant in
Embassy of India, Kathmandu Objective
Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Signed between (Nepal) & Sushila Thakur Memorial
Health Foundation (STMHF) The upcoming plant will be able to
scientifically treat the segregated
For distribution of LPG(Liquefied Extra Info
1000 tonnes of wet-waste per day into
Petroleum Gas) Stoves & Cylinders compressed bio-gas (CBG).
in Mahottari District, Nepal with
Objective the Indian grant assistance of ~
India Post signs MoU with CAIT and Tripta
Nepalese Rupees (NRs) 50 million
under India-Nepal Development Technologies
Cooperation. India Post, Confederation of All
Signed
This project will benefit nearly 8000 India Traders (CAIT) and Tripta
between
underprivileged and marginalized Technologies for logistics services
Extra Info families of 5 Municipalities in To benefit small and medium traders
Mahottari District, Madhesh as they will be able to use India Post
Pradesh of Nepal. Objective
as a single logistics service provider
across the country.
About Nepal:
It will provide shipping and last mile
Capital Kathmandu delivery services to CAIT’s strong
Extra Info
merchant base and small and medium
Currency Nepalese Rupee
business in the unorganized sector.

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About India Post Payment Bank (IPPB) PTC India inks MoU with Brookfield for 100 MW
30 January 2017 [Ranchi solar power in Rajasthan
Launched as Pilot
(Jharkhand) and Raipur
Project Signed PTC India Limited & Brookfield
(Chhattisgarh)]
between Renewable
Formally launched 1 September 2018
For the procurement of 100 MW solar
HQ New Delhi Objective
power on a long-term basis.
MD & CEO J Venkataramu
Brookfield Renewables is developing
Tagline Apna Bank Aapke Dwaar Extra Info a 400 MW solar power project at the
Bikaner solar park in Rajasthan.
MakeMyTrip Teams Up with Microsoft to Transform Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of
Travel Booking with Voice-Assisted AI in Indian AYUSH signed MoU
Languages Signed Indian Council of Medical Research &
between AYUSH Ministry
Signed between MakeMyTrip & Microsoft
For collaborative and cooperative
To make travel planning more Objective momentum on health research in the
inclusive and accessible by field of Integrated Medicine.
Objective
introducing voice-assisted booking
in Indian languages. About Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)
Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service 1911 as Indian Research Fund
ESTD
and Azure Cognitive Services will Association
Extra Info
converse with the user to offer
personalised travel recommendation Name changed 1949 as ICMR
HQ New Delhi
About Microsoft:
Works under Department of Health Services
ESTD 4 April 1975
Director General Rajiv Bahl
HQ Redmond, Washington, United States
About Ministry of AYUSH
Chairman Satya Nadella
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
Tata Tech signs MoU with IIT Hyderabad to
collaborate on SDVs, ADAS development Minister of State Dr. Munjapara Mahendrabhai
Signed Tata Technologies & TiHAN IIT

between Hyderabad
IIT Madras, DRDO develop sensor technology for
underwater communications
To collaborate in the areas of Software
Objective Defined Vehicles (SDV) and Advanced Indian Institute of Technology
Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Madras (IIT Madras) & Defence
Signed between
Research and Development
As part of the collaboration, engineers
Organization (DRDO)
Extra info at Tata Technologies will be upskilled
at TiHAN in new technology areas. To develop cutting-edge sensor
Objective technology for underwater
About Tihan communications.
• TiHAN stands for “Technology Innovation Hub on
Autonomous Navigation”. It will be advantageous to defence
• It is India’s first Autonomous Navigation facility Extra Info applications, especially in the Indian
Navy.
inaugurated at the campus of IIT Hyderabad.
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India Semiconductor Mission signs MoU with Purdue India, Nepal sign MoU for undertaking two HICDPs
University in USA
Embassy of India, Kathmandu &
India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) & Ministry of Federal Affairs and
Signed between Signed between
Purdue University, USA General Administration, Government
of Nepal
For capacity building, research and
For undertaking two High Impact
Objective development (R&D), and industry
Community Development Projects
participation. Objective
(HICDPs) in Nepal under the grant
The MoU between Purdue and India assistance of Government of India
Extra Info
and ISM is valid for 5 years These include one each in health
Extra Info care and education sectors, at a total
AIIMS Delhi Partners with WHO, Duke-NUS on estimated cost of NRs. 80.33 million.
Patient Safety, Quality Control
Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways & Assam
All India Institute of Medical Sciences signed an MoU for a Riverine based Tourism Circuit
(AIIMS), Delhi, World Health
Signed between Ministry of Ports, Shipping &
Organization -South East Asian Signed between
Regional Office & Duke-NUS Waterways & Assam Government
For a ‘Riverine based Tourism
To ensure patient safety and quality Circuit’ being developed over
Objective
control. Objective the River Brahmaputra in Assam
Administrative Staff College in
Under the collaboration, AIIMS
Guwahati, Assam.
will follow the learning curriculum
Extra Info
proposed by WHO in collaboration About the Project:
with the Duke-NUS
Cost INR 40-45 crores
Cabinet approves signing of MoU between Sagarmala Development Corporation
Competition Commission of India and Egyptian Limited (SDCL) and Inland Waterways
Competition Authority Cost Authority of India (IWAI) will jointly
distribution contribute 55%. Remaining 45%
Competition Commission of India will be given by Assam Tourism
Signed between (CCI) and Egyptian Competition Development Corporation (ATDC)
Authority (ECA) The circuit will sail from Hanuman
Ghat, Uzan Bazar (Assam) and will
To develop and strengthen the Sail from
complete its journey by covering all
relationship between the CCI and
7 temples/sites through waterways.
Objective the ECA and to facilitate learning and
cooperation in the enforcement of About Ministry of Ports, Shipping & Waterways
competition law.
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
Union Cabinet approves MoU between chartered
accountants’ bodies of India, Maldives Minister of State Shripad Naik, Shantanu Thakur
Institute of Chartered Accountants

Signed between of India (ICAI) and Chartered Israel & India Partners to Establish Center of Water
Accountants of Maldives Technology at IIT Madras
To establish mutual cooperation
for the advancement of accounting Signed between IIT Madras & Israel
knowledge, professional and
Objective To build an “India-Israel Center
intellectual development, and
of Water Technology” (CoWT) in
development of the accounting Objective
Water Resource Management and
profession in Maldives and India.
Water Technologies at IIT Madras.

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USAID & IACC extends MoU for 5 years to Enhance Garuda Aerospace & HAL’s subsidiary Naini
Collaboration across Sectors Aerospace partners to Manufacture Make in India
drones
United States Agency for
International Development (USAID)
Signed between
& Indo-American Chamber of Signed between Naini Aerospace engineering limited
Commerce (IACC) (NAeL)
To manufacture indigenous drones
Extended for 5 Years Objective
for various applications.
As part of the partnership, 5000
Signed in 2nd April 2019 Extra Info
drones are planned in the first year.
To enhance collaboration between About the advanced precision drones:
the American and Indian business
• The advanced precision drones developed by Garuda
communities across sectors
Objective Aerospace will be able to carry a payload of around 25
including health, climate change,
kg and shall cover a radius of 500 metre with speed of
economic growth, education and
5 metre/second.
women empowerment.
• The drone has a spray efficiency of 1500-2550 square
About USAID metre/minute.
About Garuda Aerospace:
ESTD 3 November 1961
ESTD 2015
HQ Washington, D.C
HQ Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Administrator Samantha Power CEO Agnishwar Jayaprakash
About IACC About Naini Aerospace engineering limited

ESTD 1968 ESTD 29th December 2016
HQ New Delhi HQ Naini, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
National President Dr Lalit Bhasin CEO R.R.Thakur
NTPC Green ties up with HPCL Mittal Energy for India and Australia sign agreements in the field of
green hydrogen migration, mobility partnership and green hydrogen
NTPC Green Energy Ltd & HPCL Signed between India & Australia
Signed between
Mittal Energy Ltd Prime Minister Narendra Modi &
Signed by Australian counterpart Anthony
To collaborate in renewable energy Albanese
Objective
and generation of green hydrogen.
In the field of migration and mobility
The two companies will work Objective partnership and on the Green
together to source 250 MW of Hydrogen task force.
Extra info
renewable energy power for HPCL
Mittal Energy. Odisha Govt Partnered with Infosys & Nasscom to
boost Employability of students in HEIs
About NTPC Limited
Odisha, Infosys & Nasscom (National
ESTD 7 November 1975 Signed between Association of Software and Service
Companies)
HQ New Delhi, India
To enhance the skills and employability
Objective of students in Higher Education
Chairman & MD Gurdeep Singh Institutions (HEIs) in Odisha.
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• This partnership will provide About Goa
training to 800,000 students
Capital Panaji
through their future skills prime
program. CM Pramod Sawant
• Infosys, in line with its
Extra Info ESG (Environmental Social Governor S. Sreedharan Pillai
Governance) Vision 2030 aims to Bhagwan Mahaveer and Mollem
enable digital skills at scale and National Parks
National Park
empower over 10 million people
in India by 2025 through the About Uttarakhand
Infosys Springboard program.
Gairsain (summer) Dehradun
Capital
(winter)
Puducherry & L&T Engineering signed a MoU to
develop Tourist Spots under Centre’s SD2.0 CM Pushkar Singh Dhami
Puducherry & Larsen & Toubro Governor Gurmit Singh

Signed between
(L&T) Engineering Limited Ramganga National park, Rajaji
National Park, Valley Of Flowers
To prepare a concept paper, initiate
National Parks National Park, Nanda Devi National
consultations with stakeholders
Park, Gangotri National Park, Govind
Objective and a detailed report to develop the
Pashu Vihar National Park
infrastructure of the tourism spots in
Puducherry and Karaikal
Ministry of Ayush and Ministry of Minority Affairs
The MoU was signed following the
Join Hands for the Development Unani Medicine
inclusion of Puducherry and Karaikal
Extra Info regions under the Government of System
India(GoI)’s Swadesh Darshan 2.0
scheme(SD2.0). Ministry of Ayush and Ministry of
Signed between
Minority Affairs
About Swadesh Darshan scheme 2.0 (SD2.0):
To promote and develop the Unani
Objective
1st edition system of medicine in India.
2014-15
Launched in
• Ministry of Minorities Affairs has
2.0 launched in 2022
approved a grant of Rs. 45.34
To develop sustainable and
Crore under Pradhan Mantri
Objective responsible destinations following a
Jan Vikas Karyakram (PMJVK),
tourist & destination centric approach.
a centrally sponsored scheme
Around Rs 80 crore for each region Extra Info (CSS).
Financial will be provided to develop places of
• With support of this scheme
Assistance importance that have heritage and
Unani Medicine facilities will be
cultural significance, as tourism spots.
upgraded at Hyderabad, Chennai,
Lucknow, Silchar and Bengaluru
About Puducherry locations.
Capital Pondicherry
CM N. Rangasamy ISA partnered with AISC for Growth and
Sustainability in Steel Sector
Goa Signs MoU with Uttarakhand to Strengthen
Tourism Cooperation Indian Steel Association (ISA) &
ASEAN (Association of Southeast
Government of Goa and the Signed between
Signed between Asian Nations) Iron and Steel Council
Government of Uttarakhand (AISC)
To collaborate towards enhancing
Objective the tourism landscape of both Goa To unlock new avenues of growth and
Objective
and Uttarakhand. sustainability in the steel sector.

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About Indian Steel Association About Government-e-Marketplace (GeM)
Platform
ESTD 2014
Launched in 2016
HQ New Delhi
To bring transparency and efficiency in
President Dilip Oommen Objective
the government procurement process
Nodal Ministry Ministry of Commerce and Industry
IIT Guwahati, NHIDCL Sign MoU For R&D In Civil
Engineering, Road Construction Tamil Nadu Signs Business Pacts For Rs 800 Crore
IIT Guwahati & National Highways With Japanese Firms
Signed between & Infrastructure Development
Signed between Tamil Nadu & Japanese Firms
Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL)
To collaborate for research and A total of six MoUs envisaging Rs
development in the areas of civil 818.90 crore investments in the fields
Objective of automotive spares, metals used
engineering, road construction,
planning and design. Objective in space, defence and construction,
as well as construction engineering
were signed in Tokyo in the presence
Uber partners with GeM portal to offer taxi services of Chief Minister MK Stalin.
to govt offices, agencies, PSUs at fixed price
About Tamilnadu
Ube & Public procurement portal
Signed between Capital Chennai
Government e-Marketplace (GeM)
To provide taxi services to Govt CM Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin
Objective offices, Govt agencies, and Public
Sector Units (PSUs) on a pilot basis. Governor R. N. Ravi
Under this, Uber will provide thecab Indira Gandhi National Park, Mudumalai
service at a fixed price with zero National National Park, Mukurthi National Park, Gulf
Extra Info
cancellation charges and no surge parks of Mannar Marine National Park, Guindy
pricing. National Park, Palani Hills National Park
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5 Merger and Acquisition
Brookfield Acquires 51% Stake in 4 Commercial About Groww:

Properties of Rostrum Realty
HQ
Acquirer Brookfield Asset Management
CEO Lalit Keshre
4 commercial properties Rostrum Realty
Target
Private Limited RBI gives nod to SBIFML to acquire 9.99% stake in
Stake 51% HDFC Bank
Aditya Birla Fashion to acquire 51 per cent stake in Target HDFC Bank Ltd.
TCNS Clothing for Rs 1,650 crore Acquirer SBI Funds Management Ltd
Target TCNS Clothing Co. Stake Percent 9.99%
Acquirer Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. About SBI Funds Management Ltd.
Cost Rs 1,650 crore
Stake 51%
MD & CEO Shamsher Singh
CCI clears Edelweiss, ESOF III Investment Fund and

CCI Approved the Merger of Credit Suisse Group
Biocon Biologics deal
with UBS Group
Target Biocon Biologics Limited
Target Credit Suisse Group
Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors
Acquirer Acquirer UBS Group
Limited and ESOF III Investment Fund
Act Section 5(a) of the Competition Act, 2002 Section 5(c)(i)(A) of the Competition Act,
Act
2002
About Competition Commission of India
About Competition Commission of India
ESTD 14 October 2003
ESTD 14 October 2003
HQ New Delhi
HQ New Delhi
Chairman Ashok Kumar Gupta
Chairman Ravneet Kaur
Groww completes Rs 175 Cr Acquisition of
Indiabulls’ Mutual Fund Business JSW Steel to acquire National Steel and Agro
Mutual Fund business of Indiabulls Industries for ₹621 cr
Target
Housing Finance Loans (IBHFL) National Steel and Agro Industries
Target
(NSAIL)
Nextbillion Technology Private
Acquirer
Limited (Groww) JSW Steel Coated Products Limited
Acquirer
(JSWSCPL)
Acquisition cost Rs.175.6 crore
Acquisition Cost ₹621 crore
Blackstone Acquires International Gemological ICICI Bank To Raise Stake In ICICI Lombard General
Institute For Over $525 Million Insurance By Up To 4%
ICICI Lombard General Insurance
International Gemological Institute Target
Target Company
(IGI)
Acquirer ICICI Bank
Acquirer Blackstone Stake Acquired 4% (Present Total Stake:- 52.02%)
Acquisition Cost $525 million (Rs 4,352.54 crore) About ICICI Bank
ESTD 1994
Reliance Retail Arm Completes Acquisition Of 51% HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra
Stake In Lotus Chocolate
CEO & MD Sandeep Bakhshi
Target Lotus Chocolate Company Tagline Khayal Apka
Acquirer Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd Sun Pharma Proposes To Fully Acquire Taro
Pharmaceutical Industries
Stake percent 51%
Israel-based Taro Pharmaceutical
Target
Industries Ltd.
Acquisition Cost Rs. 74 crore
Acquirer Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.
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6 National News
Total enrolment under Atal Pension Yojana crossed • The center will provide a platform for stakeholders
5.20 crore mark from both countries to work together in areas such as
manufacturing processes, transportation systems and
Extra Points decarbonization of green hydrogen as a renewable
• The Finance Ministry has said that the total enrollment source.
under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) has crossed the • This was announced by Science and Technology
figure of 5 crore 20 lakh till March 31 this year. Minister Dr Jitendra Singh at a meeting of the India-UK
• The scheme envisages enrollment of more than one Science and Innovation Council meeting.
crore 19 lakh new subscribers in the financial year
2022-23 as compared to 99 lakh in the previous MSME Minister Narayan Rane launches Revamped
financial year, showing a growth of over 20 per cent. CGTMSE Scheme
• The total assets under management in APY is more
than Rs 27 thousand 200 crore and the scheme has Extra Points
earned an investment return of 8.69 per cent since the • Union Minister Narayan Tatu Rane, Ministry of
inception of the scheme. Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises launched the
• In the public sector banks (PSBs) category, nine banks revamped Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro
achieved the annual target, while Bank of India, State and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) Scheme in Mumbai,
Bank of India and Indian Bank opened more than a Maharashtra.
hundred APY accounts per branch. • This launch was on the lines of an additional corpus
• Under the category of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs), support of Rs 9,000 crore in the Union Budget for FY
32 banks achieved the annual target, while Jharkhand 2023-24 to CGTMSE to revamp its Scheme to provide
State Gramin Bank, Vidarbha Konkan Gramin Bank, guarantee for additional Rs 2 lakh crore to MSEs.
Tripura Gramin Bank and Baroda Uttar Pradesh Gramin
Bank opened more than 160 APY accounts per branch.
Revamped Measures:
• Reduction in guarantee fees for loans upto Rs 1 crore
About Atal Pension Yojana: by 50% bringing the minimum guarantee fee to the
level of 0.37% pa only.
Launched on 9th May, 2015
• Raising of ceiling for guarantee from Rs 2 crore to Rs
Pension Fund Regulatory and 5 crore.
Administered By
Development Authority • Enhancing the threshold limit for claim settlement
Eligibility Age group of 18-40 years without initiation of legal action to Rs 10 lakh.
• It provides a minimum About Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and
guaranteed pension ranging Small Enterprises (CGTMSE)
from Rs 1000 to Rs 5000 on
attaining 60 years of age.
Benefit Launched in Aug’2000
• The amount of pension is
guaranteed for lifetime to
the spouse on death of the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium
subscriber. Enterprises (MSME), Government of
Set up By
India and Small Industries Development
India-UK NET Zero Innovation virtual centre Bank of India (SIDBI)
Extra Points
To catalyse flow of institutional credit to
• India and the United Kingdom have agreed to create an Objective
Micro & Small Enterprises (MSEs).
India-UK Net Zero Innovation Virtual Centre.
MoHUA launches the ‘City Beauty Competition’ • Both these parks are connected to Rajaji National Park
Portal through dense forest. It appears that tigers are using
this corridor for roaming.
Portal Name City Beauty Competition
India’s First Cable-Stayed Anji Khad Railway Bridge
Launched by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs will be ready in May 2023
Through this portal, all the Urban
Extra Points
Local Bodies (ULBs) across India can
Objective • The Anji Khad cable-stayed train bridge, the 96 cables
participate in the competition via an
on India’s 1st cable-stayed bridge connecting Katra and
online process.
Reasi in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), have been installed.
About the City Beauty Competition: Information about Anji Khad Railway Bridge
• The City Beauty Competition was launched by the
MoHUA in December 2022. Long 473 meters
• Objective: To encourage and recognize the Length 725m
transformational efforts made by cities and wards
across the country to create beautiful, innovative and Anji River, a tributary of the
Crossing river
inclusive public spaces. Chenab
Katra and Reasi in Jammu and
Index of Eight Core Industries increases by 3.6 Connecting
Kashmir
percent in March 2023 96 (48 cables each on lateral and
Total cables
central spans)
Extra Points
• The combined Index of Eight Core Industries (ICI) Cost of the project Rs 400 crore
increased by 3.6 percent (provisional) in March 2023
as compared to the Index of March 2022. Government of India blocked 14 messenger mobile
• The Eight Core Industries comprise 40.27 percent of applications for spreading terror
the weight of items included in the Index of Industrial
Production (IIP). Extra Points
• The Government of India blocked 14 messenger mobile
Summary of the Index of Eight Core Industries: applications widely used in Jammu and Kashmir for
spreading terror.
Industry Production in March 2023
• The banned apps were primarily used as communication
Coal Increased by 12.2 percent platforms to disseminate information in the field.
Crude Oil Declined by 2.8 percent • The ban on these apps has been implemented under
Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000.
Natural Gas Increased by 2.8 percent
Petroleum Refinery
Increased by 1.5 percent
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on 3-day visit to
Products Maldives
Fertilizers Increased by 9.7 percent
Extra Points
Steel Increased by 8.8 percent • Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reached Maldives as
Cement Declined by 0.8 percent part of his 3 day visit to the archipelago nation.
Electricity Declined by 1.8 percent • He is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with his Maldivian
counterpart to review the entire gamut of defence
Tiger at Kalesar National Park in Yamunanagar relations between the two countries.
caught on camera • He will hand over a fast patrol vessel and a landing craft
to the Maldives as India’s “gift” during his visit to the
Extra Points island nation.
• A tiger has been spotted in a camera trap at Kalesar About Maldives
National Park in Yamunanagar district of Haryana.
• Recently tiger sightings in the Kalesar area have Capital Male
happened after a gap of 110 years.
Currency Rufiyaa
• Kalesar Park is adjacent to the Simbalbara National
Park in the Sirmour district of Himachal Pradesh. President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
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IIT-Kanpur launches cybersecurity skilling Additional benefits to eligible MSMEs, affected
programme during the COVID-19 period:
• 95% of the performance security forfeited shall be
Extra Points refunded.
• IIT Kanpur’s C3iHub, a cybersecurity Technology
• 95% of the Bid security shall be refunded.
Innovation Hub, formally inaugurated its Cybersecurity
Skilling Programme with support from the Department • 95% of the Liquidated Damages (LD) deducted shall be
of Science and Technology, Government of India, under refunded.
the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber- • 95% of the Risk Purchase amount realized shall be
Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). refunded.
• The C3iHub-incubated start-ups Threat Guardians
Pvt Ltd and Worker Union Support provide additional Ministry of Culture to release comic book series
assistance to the Cybersecurity Skilling Programme.
Extra points
India to join international climate action in civil • The Culture Ministry has decided to release a 12-part
comic book series based on the themes and people
aviation from 2027
featured in Prime Minister Modi’s Mann Ki Baat
Extra Points programme.
• India will join the International Civil Aviation • The special project is being implemented by Amar
Organization (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Chitra Katha, which will release the series in English,
Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) and Long- followed by translations in 12 Indian languages.
Term Aspirational Goals (LTAG) from 2027. • The Culture Ministry will also hold projection mapping
• This announcement was made in the meeting of the shows at 13 monuments.
Consultative Committee of the Parliament of the
Ministry of Civil Aviation under the chairmanship of About Ministry of Culture
Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
Union Minister G.K Reddy
• ICAO has adopted several key ambitious targets,
including a two percent annual fuel efficiency
Arjun Ram Meghwal / Meenakashi
improvement by 2050, carbon neutral development, Minister of State
Lekhi
and net zero by 2050, all covered under CORSIA and
LTAG.
Union Govt extends EV battery Safety Certification
About International Civil Aviation Organization
deadline by 6 months till October 1, 2023
(ICAO):
Extra Points
ESTD 7 December 1944 • The Union Government has extended the deadline for
obtaining the mandatory electric vehicle (EV) battery
HQ Montreal, Canada safety test certification from the Ministry of Heavy
Industries by six months till October 1, 2023 from April
Secretary General Juan Carlos Salazar Gómez 1, 2023.
• The certification was compulsory for manufacturers if
they wanted to be eligible for incentives under various
Government launches Vivad se Vishwas scheme EV promotion schemes.
Extra Points
• The Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance,
India’s unemployment rate at a four-month high in
has launched the scheme, “Vivad se Vishwas I – Relief April 2023
to MSMEs” for providing relief to Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for COVID-19 period. Overall unemployment rate of Apr 2023 8.11%
• The scheme was announced in the Union Budget 2023-
24 by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Rural unemployment rate of Apr 2023 7.34%
• The relief provided under this scheme is in continuation
to the efforts of the government in promoting and Urban unemployment rate of Apr 2023 9.81%
sustaining the MSME sector.

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Previous Months unemployment rate: CMIE Data Union Govt Constitutes 11-member Committee to
Restructure 94-years-old ICAR
Unemploy- Unemploy- Unemploy-
Month ment rate ment rate ment rate Committee to restructure the 94-year-
(Overall) (Overall) (Overall)
Committee old Indian Council of Agricultural
Research (ICAR)
Jan 2023 7.14% 6.48% 8.55%
Total Member 11
Feb 2023 7.45% 7.23% 7.93%
Sanjay Garg, Additional Secretary of the
Mar 2023 7.8% 7.5% 8.4% Chaired by Department of Agricultural Research
and Education
UGC launches ‘CU-Chayan’ portal for faculty
recruitment Kiren Rijiju launched the trailer of the first Tagine
language film
Portal Name CU-Chayan
Launched by University Grants Commission
Extra Points
• The trailer of ‘Love in 90s’, the first film made in Tagin
For the recruitment of faculty in central language of Arunachal Pradesh, was launched by Union
Objective
universities. Law and Justice Minister Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi.
• The film depicts the vibrant and colorful world of the
India’s domestic coal production rises by over 22 % 90s, based on the Tagin community in Upper Subansiri
during last 5 years district of Arunachal Pradesh and the first film made
entirely in Tagin language.
Extra Points
• Directed by Tapen Natam, the film brings to the
• India’s domestic coal production has risen by over 22 national platform the rich culture, tradition and local
percent during the last five years. filmmaking initiatives of Arunachal Pradesh.
• The country’s overall coal production has seen a
quantum jump to 893.08 million tonnes in the Financial NTPC marks its first overseas capacity addition
Year 2022-23 as compared to 728.72 million tonnes in
the Financial Year 2018-2019 with a growth of about Extra Points
22.6 percent. • NTPC has marked its first overseas capacity addition,
• The production of Coal India Limited (CIL) has beginning with Bangladesh.
increased by 703.21 million tonnes as compared to • The Group recently added Unit-1, a 660 MW capacity,
606.89 million tonnes in the Financial Year 2018-2019 of the 1320 MW (2x660) Maitree Super Thermal Power
with a growth of 15.9 percent in the last five years. Plant (MSTPP) located in Rampal, Mongla, Bangladesh.
• It takes the Installed capacity of NTPC to 72304 MW.
India’s First International Multimodal Logistics
The project was executed in collaboration with the
Park at Jogighopa, Assam Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company Pvt Ltd.
Extra Points About NTPC Limited
• Union Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways and
Ayush, Sarbananda Sonowal reviewed progress of ESTD 7 November 1975
India’s first International Multi Modal Logistics park in
Jogighopa, Assam. HQ New Delhi, India
• The park is likely to be completed within this year.
Chairman & MD Gurdeep Singh
About India’s First International Multimodal
Logistics Park
Japan to train 1000 Indian engineers for bullet train
• The park is being developed under the ambitious
project
Bharatmala Pariyojana.
• First such MMLP, it is being made by NHIDCL in Extra Points
Jogighopa of Assam. • Japan has decided to provide specialized training to
• This is being developed in 317-acre land along the 1,000 Indian engineers ahead of starting work on
Brahmaputra. the high-speed rail track system for the Mumbai-
Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor (MAHSR).
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• The bullet train being built between Mumbai and • The United Nations had declared 2023 the International
Ahmedabad will use the ballast-less Slab Track system Year Millets.
(popularly known as J Slab track system) as used in
Japanese Shinkansen high speed railways. About National Disaster Response Force
• For this purpose, 20 Japanese experts will provide
ESTD 2006
intensive training to Indian engineers, supervisors and
technicians and certify their skills.
HQ New Delhi
Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor
• The total length of the corridor between Ahmedabad Director General Atul Karwal
and Mumbai is 508 km, of which 348 km falls in Gujarat
and 156 km in Maharashtra. The remaining four Oil Ministry panel proposes ban on 4-wheeler diesel
kilometers will fall in Dadra Nagar Haveli. vehicles by 2027
About Japan Extra points

• Four-wheeler vehicles powered by diesel may get
Capital Tokyo banned by 2027.
• By 2030, no city buses should be added which are not
Currency Japanese Yen electric…diesel buses for city transport should not be
added from 2024 onwards.
PM Fumio Kishida • The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has set up
an Energy Transition Advisory Committee, headed by
India operationalizes Sittwe Port in Myanmar former oil secretary Tarun Kapoor.
• The country aims at producing 40% of its electricity
Extra Points from renewables to achieve its 2070 net zero goal.
• India has operationalized the Sittwe Port in Myanmar
with the departure of the inaugural shipment, the
C apacity building program organized in
MV-ITT LION (V-273), from Syall Prasad Mookerjee M ussoorie
Port, Kolkata. Extra Points
• The initiative is part of the Kaladan Multimodal Transit • In Uttarakhand, a capacity-building program for
Transport project. civil servants of Maldives and Bangladesh is being
• The port will open up new opportunities for trade and organized by the National Center for Good Governance
transit from and to Myanmar, particularly the Rakhine (NCGG) at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of
state. Administration, Mussoorie.
• 50 administrative trainees from Maldives and 45 from
About Myanmar Bangladesh are participating in this programme.
Capital Naypyidaw Union Health Ministry launched SAKSHAM, a

learning management information system
Currency Myanmar Kyat
PM Min Aung Hlaing Portal SAKSHAM
President Myint Swe Stimulating Advanced Knowledge for

Full Form
Sustainable Health Management
Home Ministry decides to introduce Millets, Shree Developed by

National Institute of Health and Family
Anna in the meals of personnel of CAPFs and NDRF Welfare
Extra Points Launched by Union Health Ministry

• The Ministry of Home Affairs has recently decided to To provide online training and medical
introduce Millets, Shree Anna in the meals of personnel Objective education to all health professionals
of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and National across the country.
Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
It offers over 200 public health and 100
• The decision to introduce 30 per cent Millets in the Extra Info
clinical courses in an online format.
meals.

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PMJJBY, PMSBY and APY completed 8 years of • She also launched the Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana
providing social security cover Portal.
Extra Points About Phase-III of Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana

• Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), • The third phase of the program will continue to provide
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) financial assistance towards the package cost of 10 lakh
and Atal Pension Yojana (APY) completed 8 years of per HSCT (haematopoietic stem cell transplant), which
providing social security cover. will be directly transferred from CIL to the institutions
• PMJJBY, PMSBY and APY were launched by Prime performing HSCT.
Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 9th May, 2015 from • 10 reputed hospitals across India have been empaneled
Kolkata, West Bengal.
under the programme.
Benefits & Eligibility of these schemes:
India extends $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by a
Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) year
Persons in the age group of 18-50 years
Eligibility having an individual bank or a post office Extra Points
account • India has extended a $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka
Life cover of Rs. 2 Lakh in case of death by one year giving the crisis-hit country a backup
Benefits due to any reason against a premium of infusion of dollars for essential imports.
Rs. 436/- per annum. • The credit line, part of about $4 billion in emergency
assistance extended by India during the peak of Sri
Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) Lanka’s financial crisis early last year, was scheduled
Persons in the age group of 18-70 years to end in March.
Eligibility having an individual bank or a post office • Post-negotiations, the credit line was extended until
account March 2024. There is about $350 million left of the
Accidental death cum disability cover credit line that can be utilized as needed.
of Rs.2 lakh (Rs.1 lakh in case of partial
Benefits disability) for death or disability due to About Sri Lanka
an accident against a premium of Rs.20/-
per annum. Capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Atal Pension Yojana (APY) Currency Sri Lankan rupee

APY is open to all bank account holders
Eligibility in the age group of 18 to 40 years who PM Dinesh Gunawardena
are not income tax payers
Guaranteed minimum monthly pension President Ranil Wickremesinghe
of Rs. 1000 or Rs. 2000 or Rs. 3000 or
Rs. 4000 or Rs. 5000 after the age of
Benefits MyGov and Ministry of Culture launches ‘YUVA
60 years, based on the contributions
made by the subscriber after joining the PRATIBHA’
scheme.
Extra Points
Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar launches Phase-III of • MyGov in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture
Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana has launched a YUVA PRATIBHA Singing Talent Hunt.
• Singing Talent Hunt is a unique opportunity for citizens
Extra Points across India to display their singing talent and skills
• Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for and to gain national recognition.
Health and Family Welfare launched the third phase
of Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojana (TBSY) of the Health Reward & Recognition:
Ministry. • 1st Winner: INR. 1,50,000/- + Trophy + Certificate
• TBSY is an initiative of MoHFW and which is being • 2nd Winner: INR. 1,00,000/- + Trophy + Certificate
supported by Coal India Limited (CIL) as part of their • 3rd Winner: INR. 50,000/- + Trophy + Certificate
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
• Following 12 Contestants will be rewarded with a Cash
• MoHFW has been implementing the TBSY since 2017. Prize of INR. 10,000/- each
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About Ministry of Culture About Indian Railway
Union Minister G.Kishan Reddy ESTD 1836
Arjun Ram Meghwal, Meenakashi Minister Shri Ashwini Vaishnav
Minister of State
Lekhi
Chairman & CEO Anil Kumar Lahoti
Suniel Shetty launches food delivery app Waayu Motto Lifeline of the Nation
Extra Points
• Actor Suniel Shetty has been roped in as a brand Smriti Zubin Irani launches “Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi”
ambassador and investor in a new venture, ‘Waayu’, a
Extra Points
food delivery app
• Union Women and Child Development Minister, Smriti
• The app aims to help hotels and restaurants to log
Zubin Irani launched “Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi”, an Early
orders for food delivery without any commission.
Childhood Care and Education program under Mission
• The app claims to be 15% to 20% less expensive than Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0
aggregators like Swiggy or Zomato.
• Under this campaign, work will be done in Anganwadis
Sarbananda Sonowal launched ‘Harit Sagar’ the across the country to provide nutrition as well as better
Green Port Guidelines 2023 education to children in the age group of 3 to 6 years.
• There are about 13 lakh 90 thousand Anganwadis
Extra Points across the country, in which work is being done to
• Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda provide better nutrition as well as better education to
Sonowal has launched ‘Harit Sagar’ the Green Port the students.
Guidelines 2023 at a function in New Delhi.
• The guidelines have been launched to meet the larger About Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0
vision of achieving the Zero Carbon Emission Goal set • The scheme was approved by the Government of
by the Ministry. India for implementation during the 15th Finance
• Harit Sagar Guidelines – 2023 envisages ecosystem Commission period 202l-22 to 2025-26.
dynamics in port development, operation, and • The restructured scheme consists of ICDS, POSHAN
maintenance while aligning with the ‘Working with Abhiyan, Scheme for Adolescent Girls (SAG) and
Nature’ concept and minimizing impact on biotic National Creche Scheme.
components of harbor ecosystem.
728 Railway Stations across States and UTs covered Indian govt to launch faster immigration clearance
under One Station One Product scheme for ‘trusted travellers’

• Under the One Station One Product’ (OSOP) scheme • With an aim to reduce congestion at airport checkpoints,
of Indian Railways, 728 stations are covered with the Indian government will soon launch a ‘Trusted
785 OSOP outlets in 21 States and 3 Union Territories Traveller Programme’ for faster immigration clearance
across the country so far. of pre-verified travellers.
• Its aim is to promote the government’s ‘Vocal for Local’ • The new scheme will be launched for travellers with
Vision. Indian passports across international airports in India.
• Under this scheme, OSOP stalls at railway stations offer a • The program will be started on a pilot basis at Delhi
diverse range of unique products related to handicrafts, and Mumbai airports this year.
textiles, traditional wear and local agricultural produce
and processed food items. • Later it will be expanded to 15 more international
• The stalls have been uniformly designed through the airports by 2027 and all airports by 2032.
National Institute of Design. • For the implementation of the programme at Delhi
airport, three electronic gates, two for arrival and one for
About One Station One Product Scheme departure, have already been established at the airport.
Started in 25 March 2022 Coastal Road in Mumbai renamed after Chhatrapati
To help local manufacturers sell their
Sambhaji Maharaj
products and create additional income Extra Points
Objective
opportunities for the marginalized • Chief Minister Eknath Shinde recently renamed the
sections of the society. Coastal Road in Mumbai to the new name Chhatrapati
Sambhaji Maharaj.

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• In the memory of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, on Allahabad High Court orders carbon dating of
his 366th birth anniversary, a grand ceremony was ‘Shivling’ at Gyanvapi
organised for the first time at the Gateway of India.
Extra Points
About Maharashtra
• The Allahabad High Court has recently ordered the
capital Mumbai Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to conduct a
carbon dating test of a ‘Shivling’ located inside the
CM Eknath Shinde Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi, India.
Governor Ramesh Bais • The court order came in response to a petition filed
by a group of Hindu activists, which claimed that the
Gugamal National Park, Sanjay Gandhi mosque was built on the site of a Hindu temple.
National Park, Tadoba National Park,
National Park • Activists argued that the ‘Shivling’ inside the mosque
Chandoli National Park, Navegaon
was proof of the presence of a pre-existing Hindu
National Park
temple at the site.
• The carbon dating test will be carried out by a team
ICMR successfully tests blood bag delivery under
of experts from the Physical Research Laboratory in
iDrone initiative
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Extra Points
Bhupender Yadav launched Meri LiFE App, track the
• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has
progress made on Mission LiFE
recently successfully tested the delivery of blood bags
by drone under its iDrone initiative. App Name Meri LiFE (My life)
• A drone carrying a blood bag weighing 500 grams flew
for a distance of 12 kilometers and delivered it safely at Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for
Launched by
the designated location. Environment, Forest & Climate Change
• The drone then returned to the base station with To activate the youth action for climate
Objective
another blood bag. change.
About Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) About ‘Mission LiFE’ (Lifestyle For Environment)
1911 as Indian Research Fund 26th United Nations Climate Change
ESTD
Association Introduced in Conference of the Parties (COP26) in
Glasgow in 2021
Name changed 1949 as ICMR
HQ New Delhi 20 October 2022
Works under Department of Health Services Launched by PM Narendra Modi at Kevadia, Gujarat
Director General Rajiv Bahl To encourage individual and

Objective community action to protect the
DGCA slaps Rs 30 lakh fine on Air India environment.
Extra Points MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar launches 3rd Semicon

• DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) has India Roadshow in Delhi
imposed a fine of Rs 30 lakh on Air India for violating
the rules. Extra Points
• In the violation in question, an Air India pilot allowed a • Minister of State for Electronics and Information
female friend into the cockpit during a Dubai-Delhi flight. Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has launched the
• The DGCA has suspended the pilot’s license for three third Semicon India future design roadshow at IIT
months for violating regulations and “misuse of his Delhi.
authority.” • During the roadshow, global semiconductor leaders will
exchange their visions to catalyze the semiconductor
About Directorate General of Civil Aviation ecosystem in India.
HQ New Delhi • The country’s semiconductor sector offers wide-
ranging opportunities as it is expected to grow to 110
Director General Vikram Dev Dutt billion US dollars by the year 2030.
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• The government has announced incentives worth About PLI Scheme 2.0 for IT hardware
Rupees 76 thousand crores for semiconductor
manufacturing in the country. Tenure 6 years
About Ministry of Electronics and Information Expected incremental

Technology Rs 3.35 Lakh crore
production
Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw
Expected incremental
Rs 2,430 crore
Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar investment
UGC launches new user-friendly website, two portals Expected incremental

75,000
direct employment
Undertaking Transformative
Strategies and Actions in Higher About PLI Scheme
Portals Name
Education (UTSAH) and Professors
Launched in March, 2020
of Practice (PoP)
• Mobile and allied Component
Launched by University Grants Commission (UGC)
Targeted Manufacturing
It serves as a platform for detailed Industry • Electrical Component Manufacturing
Objective of information about UGC’s initiatives Medical Devices
UTSAH Portal for qualitative improvement in higher
education. The incentives, calculated on the basis
of incremental sales, range from as
Objective of It facilitates interaction between Incentive
low as 1% for the electronics and
Professors of industry professionals, faculty technology products to as high as 20%
Practice (PoP) members and students.
MHA prepares “Model Prisons Act 2023” to replace
Sanchar Saathi Portal launched by Union Minister Existing British-era law
Shri Ashwini Vaishnav
Extra Points
Portals Name Sanchar Saathi • The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has prepared
the “Model Prisons Act 2023” which will replace “The
Union Communications Minister Prisons Act, of 1894”.
Launched by
Ashwini Vaishnav • The Model Prison Act, 2023 may serve as a guiding
Developed by Department of Telecom document for the States, and for adoption in their
jurisdiction.
The portal provides essential services • MHA also reviewed ‘The Prisoners Act, of 1900’ and
Objective such as tracking and blocking of lost ‘The Transfer of Prisoners Act, of 1950’ by taking
mobile phones relevant provisions of these Acts
Cabinet approves Production Linked Incentive Scheme Jal Jeevan Mission Achieves Milestone Of 12 Crore
Tap Water Connections
- 2.0 for IT Hardware
Extra Points
Extra Points • The Jal Jeevan Mission, a flagship program launched
• The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister by the Government of India, has achieved a significant
Narendra Modi approved the Production Linked milestone by providing 12 crore tap water connections
Incentive Scheme 2.0 for IT Hardware With a budgetary across the country.
outlay Rs 17,000 crore. • At the time of announcement of launch of JJM only 3.23
• Electronics manufacturing in India has seen a steady Crore (16.64%) households in villages had access to
growth with a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) piped water connection.
of 17% in the last 8 years. • Himachal Pradesh at 98.35%, followed by Bihar at 96.05%,
are also set to achieve saturation in the near future.
• This year it crossed a major benchmark in production
of USD 105 billion (about Rs 9 lakh crore). • Till date, 5 states (Goa, Telangana, Haryana, Gujarat and
Punjab) and 3 union territories (Puducherry, Daman
• India has become the second largest mobile phone and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Andaman and
manufacturer in the world. Nicobar Islands) have reported 100% coverage.

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About Jal Jeevan Mission About all phase of Sagar parikrama:
Launched In August 15, 2019 March 5, 2022 from Mandvi, Gujarat to
Phase-I
Okha-Dwarka
Ministry in
Ministry of Jal Shakti on September 23-25 2022 and covered
responsible Phase-II
seven locations
To supply potable tap water in adequate
quantity, prescribed quality and on a on February 18-21 2023 and covered
Objective Phase-III
regular and long-term basis to every coastal districts of Gujarat and Maharashtra
rural household of the country by 2024 From March 18-19 covering three coastal
Phase-IV
Center and the states under the mission districts of Karnataka
Funding are 90:10 for Himalayan and North-
Eastern states and 50:50 for other states Ministry for Corporate Affairs launched C-PACE
Government to set up 1,100 new farmer producer Extra Points
organisations in the cooperative sector • The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has set up
the Centre for Processing Accelerated Corporate
Extra Points Exit (C-PACE) to centralize the process of striking off
• The government will set up 1,100 new Farmer Producer companies from the MCA Register.
Organizations (FPOs) in the cooperative sector and • The purpose of C-PACE is to reduce the burden on
the initiative is in line with Prime Minister Narendra the registry and provide a convenient process for
Modi’s vision of “prosperity through cooperation”. stakeholders to remove their company’s name from
• The National Cooperative Development Corporation the register.
(NCDC) will monitor the allotment of these additional • The C-PACE institution, established under sub-section
FPOs. (1) of section 396, will be operational through the
• Each FPO will get financial assistance of Rs 33 lakh. Registrar of Companies (RoC)
• Cluster based business organisations associated with • Harihara Sahoo, Indian Corporate Law Services (ICLS),
FPOs will be given Rs 25 lakh per FPO. was appointed as the first Registrar of C-PACE.
• The C-PACE office will work under the supervision /
About National Cooperative Development administration of the Director General of Corporate
Corporation Affairs in New Delhi, Delhi.
ESTD March 13, 1963 75/25 Initiative and Empowered Portal
HQ New Delhi, India Extra Points
• The Union Health Ministry announced the “75/25”
MD Pankaj Kumar Bansal initiative to provide standard care to 75 million people
with hypertension and diabetes by 2025 through
Primary Health Centers (PHCs).
Parshottam Rupala launches Sagar Parikrama Yatra
Phase-V About 75/25 Initiative:
• 40,000 primary health care medical officers will be
Extra Points trained on standard treatment workflow for non-
• The Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry communicable diseases (NCDs) through the SASHAKT
& Dairying, Parshottam Rupala launched the portal.
Sagar Parikrama Yatra Phase-V in Karanja, Raigad, • India has the largest coverage of NCDs globally, aiming
Maharashtra to reach 75 million people with hypertension under
• The Sagar Parikrama Yatra Phase-V would be standard care in primary healthcare by 2025.
proceeding towards coastal regions are like Gateway of
India, Karanja (Raigad District), Mirkarwada (Ratnagiri About SASHAKT Portal:
District), Devgad (Sindhudurg District), Malvan, Vasco,
Portal SASHAKT (Systematic Assessment of Health
Mormugao, Canacona (South Goa).
Name care providers Knowledge and Training)
• The Yatra will cover various fisheries schemes and
programmes, including Pradhan Mantri Matsya Developed National Health Systems and Resources
Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) and Kisan Credit Card. Center (NHSRC)
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HPCL to set up Rs 500 cr ethanol plant in Una, HP • Indian Naval Ships Shivalik, Kamorta and Savitri were
the first Naval ships to arrive at Yangon with relief
Extra Points material.
• Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder • The ships are carrying emergency food supplies, tents,
Singh Sukhu announced that Hindustan Petroleum essential medicines, water pumps, portable generators,
Corporation Limited (HPCL) has committed to setting clothes, hygiene items, etc.
up a state-of-the-art ethanol plant in Jeetpur Baheri,
Una district. About Cyclone Mocha
• With an estimated cost of Rs 500 crore, this project
aims to bolster the production of ethanol in the region Name given by Yemen
and create numerous employment opportunities for
local communities. Speed 277 kmph
• The government will invest 50% equity in the project Originated in Bay of Bengal
and would extend cooperation to the company for
setting up the plant. Mocha has become the strongest
all-season cyclone to form in the
About Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited Extra Info
Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal since
ESTD 1974 1982.
HQ Mumbai, Maharashtra India’s fish production touches a record 162.48 lakh

tons per annum in 2021-22: Shri Parshottam Rupala
CMD Pushp Kumar Joshi
Extra Points
India Achieves 47 % growth in Coal Production • India’s fish production hit an all-time high of 162.48
during last Nine Years lakh tonnes in fiscal year 2021-22, Union minister of
Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying Parshottam
Extra Points Rupala said.
• During the last nine years, India’s total coal production
• India’s fish production has grown 22-fold since
has increased by 47 percent to 893.08 million tonnes
independence, from 7.5 lakh tonne in 1950-51 to
(MT) and supply has reached 877.74 million tonnes,
a record-breaking 162.48 lakh tonne in 2021-22,
registering a growth of 45.37 percent.
reflecting a growth rate of 10.34% compared to the
• In FY2023, the country has made a huge jump in the previous year.
history of coal production with 893.08 MT.
• With approximately 8% share in global fish production,
• As per the action plan for 2023-24 of the Ministry of India is now the world’s third-largest fish-producing
Coal, there is a target of 1012 million tonnes of coal country after China and Indonesia.
production in the financial year 2023-24
• From mere 28.23 lakh tons per annum in 2000-01, the
• During the financial year 2022-23, the Ministry of Coal
inland fish production stood at 121. 21 lakh tons per
has signed agreements for a total of 23 coal mines with
annum in 2021-22, a staggering 400 percent increase.
a cumulative peak rated capacity (PRC) of 33.224 MT
per annum. Meri LiFE, Mera Swachh Shahar’ mega campaign
• It is expected that 25 coal blocks will be allotted for
launched by Union Minister Hardeep S Puri
commercial mining during the financial year 2023-24.
About Ministry of Coal Extra Points
• Minister Hardeep S Puri Launched the campaign ‘Meri
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi LiFE, Mera Swachh Shahar’ in New Delhi.
Minister of State Raosaheb Patil Danve • The campaign promotes the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
(RRR) concept of waste management.
India launches ‘Operation Karuna’ to provide aid to • This campaign will strengthen the resolve of the citizens
under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 (SBM-U 2.0)
Myanmar and also promote the purpose of Mission Life.
Extra Points • RRR centres or one-stop collection centres were set up
• India launched “Operation Karuna” to provide across the country
humanitarian assistance for people in Myanmar, which • Citizens can donate used clothes, shoes, books, toys
is affected by Cyclone Mocha. and plastic at RRR centres.

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About Mission LiFE: • SAF was supplied by Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOCL)
in partnership with Praj Industries Ltd.
• Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Ministry of
Launched at Kevadia, Gujarat Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) received the
special flight at the airport.
Ministry of Environment, Forest and
Nodal Ministry
Climate Change About the targets & requirments:
To bring about behaviour change • This development is a part of Aatmanirbhar Bharat
Objective in individuals through simple, Abhiyan mission, Net Zero emissions by 2070
actionable steps. • By 2025, if India targets to blend 1% SAF blending in
jet fuel, then around 14 crore litres of SAF per annum
About Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban 2.0 will be required.
(SBM-U 2.0) • If India targets for 5% SAF blend, India requires around
Launched in 1 October 2021 70 crore litre of SAF/ annum.
Making all cities ‘garbage free’ and India-US Working Group on Education and Skill
Objective ensuring proper grey and black water Development virtually launched
management.
Extra Points
Mahatma Gandhi Scholarships awarded to 300 • Ministry of Education, Government of India and US
students in Sri Lanka Department of State launched the India-US Working
Group on Education and Skill Development in virtual
Extra Points mode.
• Recently three hundred school students from all 25 • Its aim is to enhance cooperation and collaboration
districts of Sri Lanka have received the prestigious between the two countries in the field of education and
Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship. skill development.
• Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay, • The establishment of an India-US Working Group on
Sri Lankan Education Minister Dr. Sushil Premjayantha Education and Skill Development was announced
and Minister of State for Education A.K. Arvind Kumar during the 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue held between
provided scholarships to the students. India and the US in Washington DC
• The scholarship provides 2500 Sri Lankan Rupees per
student per month to the top six students from each About Ministry of Education
district based on merit.
• In addition to the Mahatma Gandhi Scholarship, the Union Minister Dharmedra Pradhan
Government of India offers about 210 scholarships
annually to Sri Lankan students in fields such as Subhas Sarkar, Annapurna Devi
Minister of State
engineering, technology, arts, science and indigenous Yadav, Rajkumar Ranjan Singh
medicine.
EPFO adds 1.39 crore members during financial year
About Sri Lanka
2022-23
Capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Extra Points
Currency Sri Lankan rupee • Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has
added 1.39 crore members during the financial year
PM Dinesh Gunawardena
2022-23.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe • Provisional payroll data of EPFO highlights that it
added over 13 lakh members in March 2023.
AirAsia India i5-767 becomes India’s first commercial • According to the Ministry of Labor and Employment,
plane to took off using SAF from Pune to Delhi out of the 13.40 lakh members added during March,
over seven lakh new members have come under the
Extra Points EPFO ambit for the first time.
• AirAsia India flight i5-767 became India’s first • Among newly joined members, the highest enrollment
commercial passenger flight to successfully take off using is in the age group of 18 to 21 years with 2.35 lakh
an indigenously produced Sustainable Aviation Fuel members, followed by about two lakh members in the
(SAF) from Pune (Maharashtra) to New Delhi (Delhi). age group of 22 to 25 years.
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About EPFO About International Standards Organisation (ISO)
ESTD 4 March 1952 ESTD 1947
HQ New Delhi HQ Geneva, Switzerland
Ministry of Labour and
Ministry in responsible Members 168 members
Employment
Central Provident Fund President Ulrika Francke
Neelam S Rao
Commissioner
GRSE launched ‘GAINS’ Startup Challenge

Ministry of Education and PARAKH organise the 1st
National level workshop Extra Points
Extra Points • Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE)
• Recently, the Ministry of Education organized a Ltd launched GRSE Accelerated Innovation Nurturing
workshop in New Delhi to discuss the integration of 60 Scheme (GAINS) 2023 in Kolkata.
school examination boards operating in different states • The GAINS 2023 Challenge is designed to encourage
and union territories. innovation and fresh perspectives in the shipbuilding
• The key component of the scheme is PARAKH, a industry.
National Assessment Center set up under the National
• The primary focus areas for this challenge are Artificial
Council of Educational Research and Training.
Intelligence, Renewable/Green Energy, Energy
• The central government is planning for uniformity of
boards to facilitate seamless transition for students in Efficiency, and Efficiency Enhancement.
different boards or regions.
About GRSE
About PARAKH
ESTD 1884
• PARAKH full name is -Performance Assessment, Review
and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development.
HQ Kolkata, West Bengal, India
• It will act as a constituent unit of the NCERT.
• This framework will seek to curb the emphasis on
CMD PR Hari
rote learning as envisaged by the National Policy on
Education (NEP) 2020.
More than 90% of funds allocated under Smart
India to host 44th ISO COPOLCO Plenary
Cities Mission utilised
Extra Points
Extra points
• India will host the 44th edition of the annual ISO
COPOLCO Plenary by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, • Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep
Food and Public Distribution. Singh Puri has announced that more than 90% of the
• The event to be held in New Delhi will be inaugurated funds allocated under the Smart Cities Mission are
by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal. being utilized and 73% of the projects have already
• COPOLCO President Sadie Denton, ISO Secretary been completed.
General Sergio Mujica and other high ISO officials will • The smart city project was to be completed within five
also attend the event.
years of the selection of the city.
• Organized by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS),
the grand event will include interactive sessions and • However, in 2021, the ministry changed the deadline to
workshops on relevant topics, apart from various June 2023 for all cities.
activities aimed at enhancing consumer engagement in
About Smart Cities Mission
the standardization process.
• Theme:- Challenges and Good Practices for Consumer Launched in 2015
Engagement’, ‘Empowering Consumers for a
Sustainable Future’ and ‘Consumer Protection and Union Ministry of Housing and Urban
Ministry
Legal Framework Affairs

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To transform urban areas into UDAN 3.0
Objective sustainable, citizen-friendly and
technologically advanced cities. Launched in 2018
• Till 1 May 2023, a total of Rs 38,400
crore was released for the Smart Objective Inclusion of Seaplanes for connecting
Fund Cities Mission. Water Aerodromes and bringing in a
utilisation • Out of this amount, ₹35,261 crore number of routes in the North-East
has already been utilized for Region under the ambit of UDAN.
various projects. UDAN 4.0
• The Smart Cities Mission includes
around 7,800 projects worth Rs 1.8 Launched in 2020
lakh crore.
Objective 78 new routes were approved under
• Of these projects, more than 5,700
Project the 4th round and Kavaratti, Agatti, and
projects worth Rs 1.1 lakh crore
Completion Minicoy islands of Lakshadweep were
have been completed.
also connected by the new routes.
• The remaining projects are
expected to be completed by June UDAN 4.1
30, 2024.
Launched in 2021
Ministry of Civil Aviation launches UDAN 5.1 Objective Focuses on connecting smaller airports,
along with special helicopter and seaplane
Extra Points routes.
• The Ministry of Civil Aviation in India has launched
KRISHI UDAN
UDAN 5.1, a special edition of the UDAN (Ude Desh ka
Aam Nagrik) scheme, with a special focus on helicopter Launched in August 2020
routes.
Objective On international and national routes to
• The airfare ceiling has been reduced by 25% to make assist farmers in transporting agricultural
flying in helicopters more affordable for passengers. products
• So far 46 helicopter routes have been operationalized
International UDAN
under the scheme, benefitting many hilly and North
East states and UDAN 5.1 is targeting coverage of a Launched in 2022
much larger number of routes.
Objective To connect India’s smaller cities directly
About UDAN Scheme: to some key foreign destinations in the
neighbourhood.
Full Form Ude Desh Ka Aam Nagrik UDAN 5.0
UDAN 1.0
Launched in April 2023
Launched in 2016
Objective Focuses on Tier-II (20-80 seats) and Tier-
Objective Under this phase, 5 airlines companies
III (80 seats)
were awarded 128 flight routes to 70
airports (including 36 newly made
operational airports). Union AYUSH Minister launched PCIM&H ‘e-office’
and online portal
UDAN 2.0
Portal name PCIM&H e-Office Portal
Launched in 2018
Objective The Ministry of Civil Aviation announced Union Minister for AYUSH Sarbananda
Launched by
73 underserved and unserved airports Sonowal
and For the first time, helipads were also To facilitate easy access of
connected under phase 2 of the UDAN objective Pharmacopoeia Monographs to the
scheme. stakeholders across the globe.
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About Ministry of AYUSH
Oilseeds 409.96 lakh tonnes
ESTD 2014
343.47 lakh bales (170 kg per
Union minister Sarbananda Sonowal Cotton
bale)
Minister of State Mahendra Munjapara
Sugarcane 4942.28 lakh tonnes
India’s AI Push: Microsoft launches ‘Jugalbandi’, AI- 94.94 lakh bales (180 kg per
Jute and Mesta
based multilingual chatbot for rural India bale)
Extra Points 30 percent financial support from the Center to

• Microsoft unveiled Jugalbandi, a multilingual chatbot promote green shipping
powered by generative AI, which can be accessed
through the popular messaging platform WhatsApp. Extra Points
• The chatbot has been specifically designed to serve • Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways,
rural areas in India that have limited media access and Sarbananda Sonowal has announced 30 per cent
financial assistance to promote green shipping.
lack information about government welfare activities.
• Green Hydrogen hubs will be developed at the
• Developed in collaboration with AI4Bharat and IIT
Deendayal Port at Kandla and Chidambaranar Port at
Madras, Jugalbandi aims to provide personalized Tuticorin.
assistance by understanding user queries in multiple
• Two tugs each will be procured for Jawaharlal Nehru,
languages, whether spoken or typed. VO Chidambaranar, Paradip and Deendayal ports under
• The chatbot was launched in April and has undergone the Green Tug Transition Programme.
testing in Biwan, a village near New Delhi, India’s
About Ministry for Ports, Shipping and
capital city
Waterways
Third advance estimate of production of major crops Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
for 2022-23
Minister of State Shripad Naik, Shantanu Thakur
Extra points
• Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister NTCA formed a 11 member Committee Headed by
Narendra Singh Tomar released the third advance Rajesh Gopal to oversee Project Cheetah
estimates of production of major crops for the
agricultural year 2022-23. Cheetah Project Steering
Committee name
Committee
• In which food grains production has been estimated at
3305.34 lakh tonnes in the current agricultural year. National Tiger Conservation
Formed by
Authority (NTCA)
List of estimates for agricultural year 2022-23:
Member 11
Total Estimate 3305.34 lakh tonnes
Rice 1355.42 lakh tonnes Rajesh Gopal, Secretary-General of
Chaired by
Global Tiger Forum as its chairman
Wheat 1127.43 lakh tonnes
To oversee the implementation of
Objective
Bajra 111.66 lakh tonnes ‘Project Cheetah’
Nutri/Coarse This move comes following the
547.48 Lakh Tonnes
Cereals (Shri Anna) death of six cheetahs, including
three newborn cubs, within a
Maize 359.13 lakh tonnes Extra Info
period of two and half months
Total Pulses 275.04 lakh tonnes at Kuno National Park (KNP) in
Madhya Pradesh.

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Defense Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Nigeria • The major thrust of ‘Samarth Abhiyan’ is to promote
digital transactions in rural areas with special focus on
Extra Points women.
• Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh left for a three- • On this occasion, the Union Rural Development and
day (May 28 to 30, 2023) official visit to the West Panchayati Raj Minister informed that the NPA of Self
African country of Nigeria. Help Groups (SHGs) which was 9.58% in 2013, has
• Rajnath Singh will attend the swearing-in ceremony of come down to below 2% now.
newly elected President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Eagle
Square in Abuja About Ministry of Rural Development and
• This is the first visit by an Indian Defense Minister to Panchayati Raj
Nigeria. Union Minister Giriraj Singh
About Nigeria Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, Faggan Singh
Minister of State
Kulaste
Capital Abuja
Currency Nigerian naira Shri Ramcharitmanas became the longest song in the
world
President Muhammadu Buhari
Extra Points
• Dr. Jagadish Pillai of Varanasi created a Guinness World
India gets approval to set up second hydroelectric Record by singing Shri Ramcharitmanas for 138 hours,
project in Nepal 41 minutes and two seconds.
• This achievement made Shri Ramcharitmanas the
Extra Points
• The Government of Nepal has approved India’s Sutlej • Dr. Jagadish Pillai has been credited with five years of
Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVN) to develop the second broadcast of Sri Ramcharitmanas recitals on more than
hydroelectric project in the country. 100 official audio channels across the globe.
• SJVN is currently involved in the development of the • The entire process of recording, editing and mixing
Arun-III Hydroelectric Project in eastern Nepal with a took four years, 63 days and 295 hours to complete.
capacity of 900 MW. • The previous record for the longest song was held by UK’s
• The Investment Board Nepal (IBN), chaired by Prime Mark Christopher Lee and The Pocket Gods on December
Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, approved the draft Project 1, 2021 with a duration of 115 hours and 45 minutes.
Development Agreement (PDA) between Nepal and SJVN.
• The PDA is for development of the Lower Arun Atal Bhujal Yojana Water Scheme extended for
Hydroelectric Project in eastern Nepal with a capacity another 2 years, beyond 2025
of 669 MW.
Extra Points
About Nepal • National Level Steering Committee at its fourth
meeting held in New Delhi has made a decision for the
Capital Kathmandu continuation of the Atal Bhujal Yojana (Atal Jal), India’s
Central Sector water conservation Scheme for an
Currency Nepalese Rupee additional two years beyond its original 2025 end date.
About Atal Bhujal Yojana scheme:
PM Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda
Launched in April 2020
President Ram Chandra Paudel Implemented by Ministry of Jal Shakti
Rs.6000 crores (Rs.3000 crores
SAMARTH Abhiyan launched by Union Minister will be as loan from the World
Giriraj Singh Outlay Bank & Rs.3000 crores as
matching contribution from the
Extra Points Government of India)
• Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister
Giriraj Singh launched ‘Samarth Abhiyan’ to promote For sustainable management of
digital transactions in 50,000 gram panchayats under Objective groundwater with community
‘Amrit Mahotsav’ in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh. participation.
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Atal Jal is active across 8,220 About COP28
water-stressed Gram Panchayats
Conference of the
within 80 districts of seven Full Form
Parties
Extra Info Indian states Gujarat, Haryana,
Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Rajasthan and COP28 conference will be
Dubai
Uttar Pradesh. held in
Mukesh Ambani joins advisory committee of global

Total member of committee 31
climate change panel COP28
Extra Points
1DGCA approved for night landing facility at
• Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani has been
nominated to the Consultative Committee for the 28th
Kalaburagi Airport
session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to Extra Points
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
• Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has
Change (UNFCCC).
approved the night landing facility at Kalaburagi
• This committee will work to guide and advise the 28th Airport, Karnataka.
session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) on
• The Kalaburagi Airport was inaugurated on November
Climate Change.
22, 2019, by the then Chief Minister of Karnataka Shri
• Apart from Sunita Narayan, director general of the B S Yediyurappa.
Center for Science and Environment, Ambani is the
• It has a runway of 09-27 (3175m x 45m) and an apron
only Indian to be included in the COP28 President’s
suitable to park 03 aircraft.
Advisory Committee.

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7 Inauguration News
PM Modi inaugurates NAMO Medical Education and PM Jan Aushadhi Kendra inaugurated at Warasiguda
Research Institute in Silvassa in Secunderabad

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated NAMO • Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy has
Medical Education and Research Institute in Silvassa, inaugurated a PM Jan Aushadhi Kendra at Warasiguda
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. in Secunderabad.
• Notably, the foundation stone of NAMO Medical • These Jan Aushadhi Kendras provide affordable
Education and Research Institute was also laid by the healthcare and generate self-employment opportunities
Prime Minister himself in January 2019. for youth.
• Thereafter, the Prime Minister inaugurated the Devka • Medicines are available at 50-90 percent lower prices
Seafront in Daman. The 5.45 km Seafront built at a in Jan Aushadhi Kendras than the rates found in regular
cost of around Rs 165 crore is one of its kind coastal medical shops
promenade in the country. About Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi
Pariyojana
10th Landport between India and Bangladesh
inaugurated in Meghalaya Launched in 2008 (As Jan Aushadhi Scheme)
2015 (As Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya
Extra Points Redesigned in
Jan Aushadhi Yojana)
• The 10th Landport between India and Bangladesh was
inaugurated at Dawki in Meghalaya by State Minister Introduced by Department of Pharmaceuticals
for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai. Implementing Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices
• The landport will boost trade and facilitate easier travel Body Bureau of India (PMBI)
between the two countries.
• The Dawki landport is situated about 84 kilometers Border Haat between India and Bangladesh
away from the Meghalaya capital Shillong. inaugurated at Bholaganj in Sylhet
India’s first Air Force Heritage Centre inaugurated in Extra Points

Chandigarh • A new Border-Haat between India and Bangladesh
was inaugurated in Bholaganj under the Companiganj
Extra Points upazila of Sylhet.
• Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated the • Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment
first-of-its-kind Indian Air Force (IAF) Heritage Centre Minister of Bangladesh Imran Ahmed and Assistant
at Chandigarh. High Commissioner of India Niraj Kumar Jaiswal jointly
• It was set up under a memorandum of understanding inaugurated the Border-Haat.
(MoU) between the Union Territory of Chandigarh and • This is the fourth Border Haat in Sylhet division out
the IAF which was signed last year. of which three are currently functional. Three more
• Spread over 17,000 square feet, this is the first heritage Border Haats are planned to be opened in the Sylhet
centre of the IAF and depicts its role in 1965, 1971 division.
and the Kargil wars and the Balakot air strike through About Bangladesh
murals and scale models.
• The heritage centre has several attractions such as Capital Dhaka
aircraft models, aero engines and weapons, including
Currency Taka
Gryazev-Shipunov twin-barrelled guns.
PM Sheikh Hasin Amit Shah inaugurates training program on legislative
drafting
President Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu
Extra Points
PM Modi inaugurates projects worth over 5500 • Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated a training
crore in Rajasthan
program on legislative drafting in New Delhi on 15 May.
• The event is organised by the Institute of Constitutional
Extra Points and Parliamentary Studies in association with the Institute
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated and of Parliamentary Research and Training for Democracy.
laid the foundation stone for a variety of development • The objective of the program is to create an understanding
projects worth over ₹5,500 crores in Rajasthan. of the principles and practices of legislative drafting among
• Modi dedicates three key national highway projects to officials of Parliament, State Legislatures, Ministries,
the country, including the 114 km (71 miles) six-lane Statutory Bodies and other Government Departments.
Udaipur-Shamlaji section of NH-48, the 110 km Bar-
Bilara-Jodhpur section of NH-25, and the 47 km NH 58E. PM Modi lays foundation stone worth INR 4,400
• These projects aim to enhance the region’s crores in Gujarat
infrastructure and connectivity, ultimately improving
the socioeconomic conditions of local residents. Extra Points
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation
Meenakshi Lekhi Inaugurates ‘Buddham Saranam stone and inaugurated projects worth Rs 4400 crores in
Gacchami’ Exhibition Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• The projects inaugurated include augmentation of multi-
Extra Points village drinking water supply schemes in Banaskantha
• Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture district, river overbridge in Ahmedabad and sewage
Meenakashi Lekhi inaugurated the “Buddham Saranam treatment plants in Mehsana and Ahmedabad.
Cacchami” Exhibition.
• The projects include PM Awas Yojna (PMAY) projects
• It was inaugurated in the presence of senior Buddhist worth INR 1,950 crores.
monks, Ambassadors, diplomats and Ministry officials
at the National Gallery of Modern Arts, Delhi. Parshottam Rupala launches Sagar Parikrama Yatra
• The aim of the exhibition is to delve into an exploration Phase-V
about the spirituality of art and their elements related
with Buddhism. Extra Points
• Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry &
PM Modi lay foundation stone of scientific projects Dairying, Parshottam Rupala launched the Sagar
worth over Rs 5,800 cr Parikrama Yatra Phase-V in Karanja, Raigad, Maharashtra
• The Sagar Parikrama Yatra Phase-V would be
Extra Points
proceeding towards coastal regions are like Gateway of
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation
India, Karanja (Raigad District), Mirkarwada (Ratnagiri
stone and dedicated to the nation multiple scientific
District), Devgad (Sindhudurg District), Malvan, Vasco,
projects worth over 5800 crore rupees on the occasion
Mormugao, Canacona (South Goa).
of National Technology Day in New Delhi.
• The Yatra will cover various fisheries schemes and
• This year, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has
programmes, including Pradhan Mantri Matsya
received special attention in the celebration of National
Sampada Yojana (PMMSY) and Kisan Credit Card.
Technology Day.
The projects whose foundation stone was laid by About all phase of Sagar parikrama:
the PM: Phase-I
March 5, 2022 from Mandvi, Gujarat to
• Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory – Okha-Dwarka
India (LIGO-India), Hingoli. on September 23-25 2022 and covered
Phase-II
• Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, seven locations
Jatni in Odisha. on February 18-21 2023 and covered coastal
Phase-III
• Platinum Jubilee Block of Tata Memorial Hospital, districts of Gujarat and Maharashtra
Mumbai. From March 18-19 covering three coastal
Phase-IV
districts of Karnataka
Jitendra Singh inaugurates 8th All India Pension • The trade union informed that 2,000 seminars would
Adalat in Delhi be held across the country and out of those 200 would
be held in Kerala.
Extra Points
• Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, PM Modi flagged off Uttarakhand’s first Vande
Pensions, Jitendra Singh has inaugurated the 8th All Bharat Express
India Pension Adalat in Delhi.
Extra points
• The initiative was started in 2017 and has organized
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has virtually inaugurated
seven all-India pension adalats so far
the Delhi (Anand Vihar)-Dehradun Vande Bharat Express.
• In which 24,218 cases have been taken up and 17235
• This is the first Vande Bharat to be introduced in
cases have been resolved. Uttarakhand
• The Minister has also presided over the 50th Pre- • It is the 17th Vande Bharat express of India.
Retirement Counselling Workshop, conducted by the
Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare. PM Narendra Modi inaugurates new Parliament
building
PM Modi launches Railway Projects & Flags off
Vande Bharat Express All about the New & old Parliament building:
Extra Points New Building Old Building
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation Foundation 10 December 2020 by F e b r u a r y
stone and dedicate several railway projects worth over laid PM Modi 12, 1921 by
8,000 crore rupees in Odisha via video conferencing Britain’s Duke
• During the event, Modi flagged off the Vande Bharat of Connaught
Express between Puri and Howrah. Inaugurated 28th May 2023 by PM January 18,
• It is the 16th Vande Bharat express of India. on Modi on 140th birth 1927, by the
• Modi also dedicated 100% electrification of the rail anniversary of Veer then Viceroy
network in Odisha. Savarkar Lord Irwin
Designed & Designer:- Architect Sir Edwin
Mahatma Gandhi bust unveiled by PM Modi in Constructed Bimal Patel (HCP Lutyens and
Hiroshima by Design, Ahmedabad) Herbert Baker
Tata Projects Ltd
Extra Points
Shape Triangular Round
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a bust of
Mahatma Gandhi in the Hiroshima City of Japan. Total area Around 64,500 sq m Nearly six acres
(24,281 sq m)
• The location of the bust of Gandhi has been chosen as a
mark of solidarity for peace and non-violence. Total Cost 970 Crore 83 lakh
• The US conducted the world’s first nuclear attack on Total Seats 888 in the Lok Sabha 543 in the Lok
Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroying the city and and 300 in the Rajya Sabha and and
killing some 140,000 people. Sabha 250 in the Rajya
• Created by the renowned Padma Bhushan awardee Shri Sabha
Ram Vanji Sutar, the triumphant statue stands tall at 42 Joint Sessions The new building does It has a separate
inches, crafted from durable bronze material. not have a Central Central Hall for
Hall for Joint Session, Joint Session.
Smriti Irani inaugurates women labourers convention instead the Lok Sabha
in Kerala chamber will be used
for joint sessions.
Extra Points The Lok Sabha chamber
• Union Women and Child Development Minister, will be able to house
Smriti Irani has inaugurated the women laborer’s 1,272 members in case
convention organized by the Kerala unit of BMS in of a joint session.
Thiruvananthapuram. No. of Gates 3 (Gyan Dwar, Shakti 12
• Around 3,000 women workers and laborers are Dwar, and Karma Dwar)
expected to take part in the convention.
Other Important Facts about New Parliament Finance Ministry announces launch of Rs 75 special
building: coin
• Its interiors will have three national symbols as their
main themes -- Lotus, Peacock and Banyan Tree. Extra Points
• In the Lok Sabha chamber, we have used the national • The Center will launch a new ₹75 coin on May 28 to
bird Peacock as its theme, in Rajya Sabha chamber we mark the inauguration of the new Parliament.
have used the national flower Lotus as its theme and • The coin will be unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra
in Central Lounge courtyard we have used the national Modi on May 28 and coincides with the celebration of
tree Banyan as its theme 75 years of India’s independence.
• The voice over of the inauguration video of the New About Rs. 75 Coin
Parliament Building has been given by actor Shah Rukh
Khan.
Diameter 44 millimeters
• Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah announced that
a golden scepter which is known as “Sengol” will be
established in the new Parliament building. Weight 35 grams
• It will shine near the Lok Sabha Speaker’s podium as a
national symbol of the Amrit Kaal Alloy 50% silver, 40% copper, 5% nickel, and
Composition 5% zinc for durability and value
About Sengol
• Sengol comes from the Tamil word “Semmai” which
means righteousness. PM Modi flags off Northeast’s first Vande Bharat
• It is a scepter made of gold and silver and is decorated Express
with many precious stones.
• The Sengol is 5 feet long and carries a golden orb at
Extra Points
the top. The orb has a carving of Nandi, the bull that is • Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually flagged off the
precious to Lord Shiva. northeast’s first Vande Bharat Express from Guwahati
• The Sengol is a powerful symbol of the Chola Kings to New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal.
authority and their commitment to justice. • It is India’s 18th Vande Bharat Express.
• It was presented to India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru on August 14, 1947. This was marked as the About Vande Bharat Express:
transfer of power from the British Government to India.
First Vande Bharat express 15 February 2019
• Jawaharlal Nehru received the ‘Sengol’ from the
Adheenams (Priests) of the ThiruvaduthuraiAdheenam
Integral Coach Factory
(Mutt) in Tamil Nadu, who had specially arrived for the Manufactured by
occasion. (ICF), Chennai
• The Sengol will be placed in the new Parliament
Cost Around Rs 100 crore
Building in Delhi on May 28, 2023, and it will have the
same ceremony with 20 Adheenam (priests) who will
vest the Prime Minister with the Sengol. Maximum speed 160 kmph
8 International News
Dubai’s airline Emirates unveils world’s first robotic Russia stages the 78th Victory Day parade at Red
check-in assistant Square, Moscow
• Dubai-based airline Emirates has unveiled the world’s • Russia holds the 78th Victory Day parade anniversary
first robotic check-in assistant named ‘Sara’. at Red Square, Moscow on May 9 to commemorate the
historic victory in 1945 when the Soviet Union defeated
• The system is part of a new City Check-in and Travel
Nazi Germany in World War II, which is also known as
Store that is set to launch in Dubai’s financial district.
the Great Patriotic War.
• Sara will match customers’ faces with scanned • This year’s parade featured more than 10,000
passports, check passengers in, and guide them to the individuals and 125 pieces of weaponry, which were
luggage drop area. all showcased by the Russian Defense Minister, Sergey
Shoigu.
About United Arab Emirates (UAE)
About Russia
Capital Abu Dhabi
Capital Moscow
Currency Dirham
Currency Rubel
President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
President Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Sharjah Police Launches ‘Stay in Your Lane’
Devendra Fadnavis unveiled the statue of Chhatrapati Campaign
Shivaji Maharaj in Mauritius
Extra Points
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis
• The Sharjah Police launched a traffic campaign, “stay in
unveiled the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in
your lane” in May to curb road lane violations.
Mauritius.
• The aim is to improve traffic culture among drivers and
• The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister of other road users, educate them on the significance of
Mauritius Pravind Jugnauth and members of the adhering to traffic regulations and instructions, and
Mauritius Marathi Mandali Federation. inform them of the risks involved in the event of non-
• He also announced a grant of Mauritius Rupees 44 compliance with them.
million for the construction of a multi-purpose hall and
a scholarship for 10 students. India & Bangladesh launch ‘50 Start-ups Exchange
Programme’
About Mauritius
Extra Points
Capital Port Louis • India and Bangladesh have recently jointly launched
the ‘50 Start-up Exchange Programme’ to promote
Currency Mauritian rupee
collaboration and exchange between the start-up
PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth ecosystems of the two countries.
• It provides a platform for entrepreneurs, investors and
President Prithviraj Singh Rupan stakeholders from both the countries to connect and
collaborate.
About Bangladesh About G7
Capital Dhaka ESTD 25 March 1973
Members Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Currency Bangladeshi Taka
the United Kingdom, and the United
PM Sheikh Hasina States
First Meeting 15 November 1975
President Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu
2023 Edition 49th
Afghanistan reports first polio death of 2023 2023 held at Japan
2022 held at Germany
Extra Points
• Afghanistan has reported the first case of poliovirus of About UK
2023. The country’s health authorities detected it in Capital London
the Nangarhar province.
• A total of 56 cases of polio were reported in Afghanistan Currency Pound Sterling
in 2020, while four cases were reported in 2021. PM Rishi Sunak
Emperor Charles III
Capital Kabul Big win for Twitter, Google at US Supreme Court in

internet liability cases
Currency Afghan Afghani
Extra Points
Libyan parliament suspends its prime minister Fathi • Recently social media platforms Twitter and Google
have registered a big victory in the US Supreme Court.
Bashagha
• The court ruled that Internet companies could not be
Extra Points held liable for content posted on their sites.
• Recently, the Libyan Parliament has decided to suspend 5000 year old tree from Chile recognized as the
the Libyan Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha from his
oldest tree in the world
post.
• A giant tree in southern Chile, known as the “Great
• The suspension reflects the internal conflicts and Grandfather” and this tree, a Patagonian cypress,
challenges facing the government in the country. located in the Alerce Costero National Park is the oldest
• Fathi Bashagha has served as Prime Minister of Libya, tree in the world.
leading the Government of National Accord (GNA). • It is over 5,000 years old, surpassing the oldest tree
currently known as the Methuselah, which is 4,850
About Libya years old.
• It is located in a forest in the southern Los Ríos region,
Capital Tripoli
800 kilometres (500 mi) south of the capital Santiago.
Currency Libyan dinar About Chile
Capital Santiago
UK announces sanctions on Russian diamonds and
Currency Chilean Peso
metals ahead of the G7 meeting in Japan
President Gabriel Boric
Extra Points
• The United Kingdom has announced sanctions on 2025 to be observed as ‘special tourism year’ in Nepal
the military-industrial complex and metals as well as
Russian diamonds in a new round of sanctions ahead Extra Points
of the G7 meeting in Japan. • The decade of the 2080s of Bikram Samvat will be
marked as ‘the Visit Nepal decade’ and the year 2025
• The ban specifically covers imports of copper,
as the special year for tourism.
aluminium and nickel of Russian origin.

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• This was announced by the President of Nepal Ram About Ireland
Chandra Paudel while presenting the policies and
programmes for the fiscal year, 2080/81 at the joint Capital
meeting of the federal parliament. Currency Euro
• As per the latest statistics maintained by Nepal Tourism
Board, Nepal recorded the arrival of over 3.26 lakh PM Leo Varadkar
foreign tourists in the first four months of 2023.
India will open its new consulate in Brisbane
About Nepal
Extra Points
Capital Kathmandu
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address at the
Currency Nepalese rupee community event in Sydney during his Australian visit
informed that a new consulate will be constructed in
President Ram Chandra Paudel Brisbane.
Prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal • The main objective of setting up the Consulate in
Brisbane is to fulfill the long standing demand of Indian
India hands over 20 broad gauge locomotives to expatriates in Australia.
Bangladesh • Meanwhile, Prime Minister Albanese also declared
Harris Park as “Little India” during the reception for
Extra Points Prime Minister Modi.
• Taking a significant step towards enhancing bilateral • Harris Park is a center in western Sydney where the
cooperation in the railway sector, India and handed Indian community celebrates Indian festivals and
over 20 broad gauge locomotives to Bangladesh. events including Diwali and Australia Day.
• The initiative is aimed at meeting the growing demand About Australia:
for passenger and freight traffic between the two
neighboring countries. Capital Canberra
• The handover ceremony was conducted virtually,
Currency Australian Dollar
which was attended by Indian Railway Minister
Ashwini Vaishnav and Bangladesh Railway Minister PM Anthony Albanese
Nurul Islam Sujan.
• Currently, there are nine interchanges between India World Meteorological Congress approves a global
and Bangladesh, of which five are already operational
tracker for greenhouse gas emissions
and two are under construction.
About Bangladesh Extra Points
• According to the World Meteorological Organization
Capital Dhaka (WMO), the World Meteorological Congress approved
a new greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring initiative.
Currency Bangladeshi Taka
• The initiative aims to support urgent action in
PM Sheikh Hasina reducing heat-trapping gasses that contribute to global
temperature rise.
President Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu
• The unanimous support of the 193 members of the
WMO highlights the importance of greenhouse gas
Ireland to become the first country in the world to monitoring.
introduce health warnings on alcohol
About World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Extra Points
ESTD 1873
• Ireland’s health minister, Stephen Donnelly, signed
new regulations that will carry warnings about the
HQ Geneva, Switzerland
health risks of drinking alcohol, as well as the product’s
calorie count.
President Gerhard Adrian
• This innovative step aims to raise awareness about
the potential health risks associated with alcohol Secretary General Petteri Taalas
consumption.
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Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority Sets • The strategy, aptly named “Zero-Emissions Public
Ambitious Goal for Zero-Emissions Public Transportation in Dubai 2050.”
Transportation by 2050 About UAE
Extra Points Capital Abu Dhabi
• Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has
unveiled a groundbreaking strategy, aiming to achieve
zero-emissions public transportation by 2050. Currency United Arab Emirates Dirham
• This strategic move aligns with the United Arab
Emirates’ preparations for COP28 and the UAE Net President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Zero by 2050 Strategic Initiative

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9 Sports News
Jaden Pariat becomes 1st Indian in 6 years to get on Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty won men’s doubles at
Podium in British F4 Championship the Badminton Asia Championships gold medal

• Jaden Pariat, a young Indian racing talent representing • In the Badminton Asia Championship 2023, the Indian
Argenti Motorsport, has demonstrated his exceptional pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy won
skills by securing a podium position in the opening the men’s doubles title, held in Dubai
round of the ROKiT British F4 Championship held at • They defeated eighth-seeded Malaysian pair Teo Ee Yi
Donington Park, UK. and Ong Yew Sin in the final
• He has become the second Indian racer to achieve an • With this win, the duo became the first Indian men’s
international podium in a Tatuus F4 car, following Kush doubles pair to win the Badminton Asia Championships
Maini’s feat in 2017. title.
• Also, this was India’s second-ever Badminton Asia
Sergio Pérez wins Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2023 Championships title after Dinesh Khanna in 1965.
Extra Points List of winners of Badminton Asia Championship

• Red Bull’s Sergio Perez won the Azerbaijan Grand 2023
Prix, the fourth round of the 2023 Formula 1 World
Championship, in Baku. Category Winner
Ding Liren becomes China’s first world chess Anthony Sinisuka Ginting
Men’s singles
champion (Indonesia)
Extra Points
Women’s singles Tai Tzu-ying (Taiwan)
• Ding Liren has become 17th world chess champion
– the first from China – defeating Russia’s Ian
Nepomniachtchi in a tie-breaker. Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj
Men’s doubles
• Ding defeated Nepo in the last of the four Rapid Rankireddy
tiebreaks.
Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota
Women’s doubles
Indian shooter duo Mairaj Khan and Ganemat (Japan)
Sekhon wins gold at the 2023 ISSF Shotgun World
Cup in Cairo Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin
Mixed doubles
(China)
Extra Points
• In shooting, the two-time Olympian Mairaj Ahmad Vantika becomes 11th women to achieve
Khan and Ganemat Sekhon won the gold in mixed
International Master title
skeet of the ongoing 2023 International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Cairo, Egypt. Extra Points
• The Indian pair outclassed Gabriela Rodriguez and Luis • Vantika Agrawal is the new India Women No.3 in Chess
Oliveros of Mexico 6-0. and the 11th Indian women to achieve the International
• Italy won the bronze medal. Master title.
• This is the first medal for India in the competition. • She has played 4 International tournaments previously
where she has increased her FIDE rating by 61 points.
• She has also won a bronze medal in the National Women’s Pakistan’s Babar Azam becomes fastest player to
Championship held in Kohlapur in Jan 2023 and a gold reach 5000 runs
medal for the Airport Authority of India in Feb 2023.
• Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi is an Indian chess player Extra Points
who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) • Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has become the fastest
and Woman Grandmaster (WGM), the first female player to reach 5000 runs in the ODI
player in her country to achieve these titles. • He crossed the 5000 run-mark in 97 innings. Babar
broke Hashim Amla’s record of scoring 5000 runs in
India surpasses Australia to become No. one Test 101 innings.
team • After Babar managed to edge past Amla’s record, the
former West Indian legend Viv Richards moved to third
Extra Points position as he had scored 5000 runs in 114 innings.
• Rohit Sharma-led India overtook Australia to become
the number one Test team in the latest rankings Max Verstappen wins Miami F1 Grand Prix
released by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Extra Points
• Australia’s reign at the top of the men’s Test rankings
• Max Verstappen defeated Sergio Perez to win the Miami
ended after 15 months
Grand Prix.
• India are currently on top with 121 points, while • Fernando Alonso, who started second, claimed third-
Australia are second with 116 points. place.
List of top 5 Test team
Asia Cup Stage 2 Archery: India Claim 14 Medals
Rank Country
Extra Points
1 India • India has bagged 14 medals at the Asia Cup Stage 2
2 Australia World Ranking Tournament to top the event in Tashkent
• In 14 medals seven were gold, five were silver and two
3 England bronze.
4 South Africa
List of Indian medal winners
5 New Zealand
Category Winner
Luca Brecel wins World Snooker Championship Women’s Team Gold (Sakshi Chowdhary, Preneet
Compound Kaur and Aditi Gopichand Swami)
Extra Points
Men’s Team Gold (Rishabh Yadav, Prathamesh
• Belgium’s Luca Brecel became the first player Compound Phuge and Prathamesh Javkar)
from continental Europe to win the World Snooker
Championship. Mixed Team Gold (Prathmesh Phuge and
Compound Preneet Kaur)
• He beat four-time champion Mark Selby 18-15.
Prathamesh Phuge (Gold);
Men’s Individual
About World Snooker Championship Rishabh Yadav (Silver); Javkar
Compound
Solutions (Bronze)
Started in 1927
Women’s Individual Sakshi Chowdhary (Gold);
Organisation World Snooker Association Compound Preneet Kaur (Silver)
Women’s Team Gold (Avni, Bhajan Kaur and
2022 Winner Ronnie O’Sullivan
Recurve Lakshmi Hembrom)
South Africa fast bowler Shabnim Ismail announced Gold (Mrunal Chauhan, Partha
Salunkhe and Juyel Sarkar)
her retirement
Mixed Team Silver (Parth Salunkhe & Bhajan
Extra Points Recurve Kaur)
• South African fast bowler Shabnim Ismail has Men’s Individual Mrinal Chauhan (Gold); Parth
announced her retirement from international cricket. Recurve Salunke (Bronze)
• Ismail (34) claimed 191 wickets in ODIs which is second Women’s Individual
Bhajan Kaur (Silver)
only to India’s Jhulan Goswami (255) on the all-time list. Recurve

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Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz wins Madrid Open 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships 2023: India’s
Extra Points medal winners
• Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcaraz has successfully Women’s
defended his title at Madrid Open 2023.
• In the final, he defeated Jan-Lennard Struff (German) Name Category Medal
6-4 3-6 6-3.
Bindyarani Devi Overall
List of winners of Madrid Open 2023 (women’s 55kg Silver
event) Clean and Jerk
Category Winner
Men’s
Men’s singles Carlos Alcaraz (Spain)
Jeremy
Women’s Singles Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) Lalrinnunga
Snatch Silver
Men’s doubles Karen Khachanov & Andrey Rublev (Men’s 67kg
event)
Victoria Azarenka & Beatriz Haddad
Women’s doubles
Maia
Praveen Chithravel sets national record in triple
Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra clinches Doha jump in Cuba
Diamond League title Extra Points
Extra Points • Indian triple jumper Praveen Chithravel won the men’s
• Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra won triple jump event at an athletics meet in Havana, Cuba
the Diamond League title with 88.67 m throw in Doha. with a national record-breaking mark of 17.37m.
• Czech Republic’s Vadlejch stood second, with Grenada’s • The previous men’s triple jump national record of
Peters finishing third. 17.30m was set by Renjith Maheswary at the third
• On the other hand, India’s Eldhose Paul, who is a Indian Grand Prix in Bangalore in 2016.
champion in triple jump at the Commonwealth Games,
secured the 10th position in a field of 11 men during Dr. Akhilesh memorial Deccan Premier Carrom
his Diamond League debut.
League
Fakhar Zaman, Naruemol Chaivai named ICC Players Extra Points
of the Month for April
• Deccan Premier Carrom League to be held in
Extra points Nizamabad, Telangana.
• Pakistani cricketer Fakhar Zaman was named ICC • Players from the seven States ,Telangana, Andhra
Men’s Player of the Month for April 2023 and Thailand Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra
women’s cricket team captain Naruemol Chaiwai was and Odisha, besides some internationals will be in
named ICC Women’s Player of the Month for April 2023. action.
• For the first time in India, Carrom Live Platform will
About ICC be paperless with the scores to be entered through
ESTD 15 June 1909 mobiles, live scores and online statistics, besides live
streaming.
HQ Dubai, United Arab Emirates
RR’s Yashasvi Jaiswal smashes fastest fifty in IPL
Chairman Greg Barclay
history
CEO Geoff Allardyce
Extra Points
Asian Weightlifting Championships Jinju 2023: India • Rajasthan Royals (RR) opener Yashasvi Jaiswal broke
Finishes Campaign with 3 Silver Medals the record for slamming the fastest fifty in the history
of IPL.
Extra Points • The 21 -year-old reached his half-century off 13
• Indian weightlifters concluded the Asian Weightlifting deliveries against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at Eden
Gardens in Kolkata.
Championships Jinju 2023 in Jinju, South Korea, with a
• The previous record was jointly held by KL Rahul and
total of 3 silver medals.
Pat Cummins, who had taken 14 deliveries each.
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Rhythm Sangwan wins bronze medal in air pistol Taolu
event at ISSF World Cup 2023 in Baku
L Linthoingambi Sub Junior Girls
Extra Points Gold
Priyngka Devi Sub Junior Girls
• Rhythm Sangwan representing India won a bronze
medal in the women’s 10m air pistol event at the ISSF
World Cup 2023 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Asian Kabaddi Championship to be held in South
• Anna Korakiaki of Greece, the 2016 Rio Olympic Korea
champion, won the gold medal, while Olena Kostevich,
the 2004 Athens Olympic gold medalist of Ukraine, Extra Points
won the silver medal. • The Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 is scheduled to
be held in Busan, South Korea from June 27 to 30.
Yuzvendra Chahal creates history, takes most
• The continental kabaddi event will be played after a
wickets in IPL
hiatus of six years. The last edition was held in Gorgan,
Extra Points Iran in 2017.
• RR leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal created history by • India is the defending champions having beaten
becoming the highest wicket-taker in IPL. Pakistan 36-22 in the final in 2017.
• He achieved this feat by dismissing KKR captain Nitish
• In the women’s category, too, India are the defending
Rana in their IPL 2023 match
champions. They defeated South Korea 42-20 in the
• Chahal took his tally of wickets in IPL to 184.
final in 2017.
• He overtook Dwayne Bravo, who was the previous
highest wicket-taker in IPL with 183 scalps. About Asian Kabaddi Championship
India wins 17 medals at Moscow Wushu Stars Started in 1980
Championship 2023
India Hosted 4 times (1980,1988,2005,2008)
Extra Points
• Indian Wushu athletes have won a total of 17 medals Last time held at Gorgan, Iran in 2017
(10 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze) at the Moscow Wushu
Stars Championship 2023 held in Moscow, Russia
Vuppala Praneeth becomes India’s 82nd Grandmaster
• The Sports Authority of India (SAI) felicitated the 17
medal winners in the felicitation ceremony hosted by Extra Points
SAI in New Delhi, Delhi.
• 15-year-old chess player Vuppala Praneeth from
List of Gold medal winners: Telangana has become the 82nd Grandmaster of India.
Name Category Medal • Vuppala Praneeth defeated GM Hans Niem of USA

during the final round of Baku Open 2023 to clinch the
Sanda (fight) Grandmaster title.
Komal 52 Kg Junior Girls • He is the sixth Grandmaster from the Telangana State.
Deepika 56 Kg Junior Girls
Onilu Teg 48 Kg Senior
conquer Everest for the 26th time
Girls
N Roshibina Devi 60 Kg Senior Extra Points
Girls • 46 year old Pasang Dawa Sherpa, has become the
Gold
Jiya 36 Kg Sub Junior second person to climb Mount Everest for the26th
Girls time.
Sweta Rani 48 Kg Sub Junior • The Himalayan database confirms that Pasang Dawa
Mahanta Girls Sherpa has previously climbed Everest 25 times,
Sonia 45 Kg Junior Girls including two in 2022.
• Kami Rita is the first person to conquer Mount Everest
Himanshi 60 Kg Junior Girls
for the 26th time.

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Sumit Mukherjee wins gold at BFAME Championships • Alejandro Balde and Jules Koundé also scored for
in Lahore Barcelona, which now has 27 league titles, eight fewer
than Real Madrid.
Extra Points
• Mukherjee from Kolkata has bagged a gold medal India bags 16 gold medals at the South Asian Youth
in the Bridge Federation of Asia and Middle-East Table Tennis Championship 2023
Championship (BFAME) held at Pakistan’s Lahore.
Extra Points
• Sumit was the only railway staff in the Indian contingent • The three-day international event South Asian Youth
which had 24 members. Table Tennis Championship 2023 concluded in
• The teams that played under each category had six Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
players in it. Sumit bagged one gold medal and the • In this event more than 100 athletes from six countries
Indian team bagged 4 gold medals in 4 categories. Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka and
Nepal participated.
ISSF World Cup Baku 2023: India ends campaign • Arunachal Pradesh Governor, Lt. General KT Parnaik,
with four medals (Retd.) attended the closing ceremony as Chief Guest at
Dorjee Khandu Indoor Stadium, Itanagar.
Extra Points
• The hosts India won all the gold medals on offer on the
• Indian rifle and pistol shooters finished the last day at the Dorjee Khandu Indoor Stadium
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World • Besides, the Indians also bagged four silver medals in
Cup Rifle/Pistol 2023 held in Baku, Azerbaijan with 4 the singles.
medals (1 Gold; 2 Silver and 1 Bronze).
List of winners of South Asian Youth Table Tennis
List of Indian Winners of ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Championship 2023
Pistol 2023:
Category Winner
Event Indian Winners Medal
U-19 Boys Singles Ankur Bhattacharjee (India)
10m air pistol Sarabjot Singh & Divya
Gold
mixed team TS U-19 Boys Doubles Divyansh Srivastava/Jash Modi
(India)
Men’s 10m air rifle Hriday Hazarika Silver
Women’s 10m air U-19 Girls Singles Suhana Saini (India)
Nancy Mandhotra Silver
rifle U-19 Girls Doubles Yashaswini Ghorpade/Suhana
Women’s 10m air Saini (Ind)
Rhythm Sangwan Bronze
pistol
U-19 Mixed Doubles Payas Jain/Yashaswini Ghorpade
Top 3 country in Medal tally: (Ind)
U-15 Boys Singles Priyanuj Bhattacharya (India)
Rank Country Medal
U-15 Boys Doubles PB Abhinand/Priyanuj
7 medals (4 Gold; 1 Silver and Bhattacharya (India)
1 China
2 Bronze)
U-15 Girls Singles Jennifer Varghese (India)
4 medals (1 Gold; 2 Silver and
2 India U-15 Girls Doubles Jennifer Varghese/Avisha
1 Bronze)
Karmarkar (India)
Islamic Republic
3 2 medals (1 Gold and 1 Silver) U-15 Mixed Doubles Abhinand/Jennifer Varghese
of Iran
(India)
Barcelona wins La Liga for 1st time since 2019
Annu Rani clinched gold medal in Federation Cup
Extra points 2023
• Barcelona has won its first Spanish league title after
the departure of Lionel Messi with a 4-2 victory against Extra Points
Espanyol • Olympian Annu Rani bagged the gold medal in the
• Robert Lewandowski scored twice to lead the Catalan javelin throwing Federation Cup 2023 athletics event
club to its first league title since 2019. at the Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi.
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• With the victory, Annu Rani also breached the Asian Kabaddi competition begins in Uttar Pradesh, Khelo
Games 2023 qualifying standards set by the Athletics India University Games
Federation of India (AFI).
• The 30-year-old javelin thrower made the cut with an Extra Points
effort of 59.24m, well above the AFI’s mark of 56.46m. • The third Khelo India University Games will begin with
• She also qualified for the Asian Athletics Championships, a Kabaddi event in Gautam Budh Nagar district of Uttar
scheduled for July in Bangkok, Thailand. Pradesh.
India win 3 gold and a bronze medal in Archery • 15 teams representing different universities are
World Cup Stage 2 at Shanghai participating in the Kabaddi competition.
• The matches will be held at the Shaheed Vijay Singh
Extra points Pathik Stadium in Gautam Budh Nagar district.
• In Archery World Cup Stage 2 at Shanghai teenage
Indian archer Prathamesh Jawkar defeated the world All About Khelo India University games:
number one Mike Schloesser of the Netherlands to win
a maiden World Cup gold medal in the men’s individual 1st edition 2020 (Bhubaneswar, Odisha)
compound section.
• In the non-Olympic compound section, India bagged 2nd Edition 2021 (Bangalore, Karnataka)
two golds with the mixed team duo of Ojas Deotale and 3rd Edition 2023
Jyothi Surekha Vennam beating top-seeded Korean
team 156-155. 3rd Edition Uttar Pradesh (Varanasi, Noida and
• Meanwhile, Avneet Kaur won bronze medal in the held Gorakhpur)
women’s individual compound category
Shooting
Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in
Jyothi Yarraji clinches gold in women’s 100 m competition
Delhi
hurdles will be held
Extra Points 3rd edition Jitu Barasingha, an exotic live state

mascot animal and a symbol of ‘Pride of Pride’
• Athlete Jyothi Yarraji won a gold medal in the women’s
100 m hurdles at the Federation Cup athletics event at 3rd Edition Khelo India - Har Dil Mein Desh (Sung
the Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi. Anthem by renowned singer Palash Sen)
• Yarraji, representing Andhra Pradesh, had set a meet
record (13.18 secs) in the heats of women’s 100m Torch name Shakti
hurdles. Total budget Rs 30 Crore
Italian Open: Daniil Medvedev defeats Rune, wins Total Events 21
maiden clay court title More than 4000 athletes from 200
Participants
Extra Points Indian universities
• In the Italian Open final, world number three tennis
Rohit Sharma becomes 2nd Indian player to complete
star Daniil Medvedev defeated Holger Rune to win his
first clay court title. 11000 runs in T20
• This is Medvedev’s fifth title of 2023 and the win has Extra Points
lifted him above Novak Djokovic to the second spot in • Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma has become the
the world rankings. second Indian batter after Virat Kohli (11, 864 runs) to
List of Winners of Italian Open 2023 surpass 11,000 runs in Twenty-20 cricket.
• He also becomes the seventh batter overall to score
Category Winner 11000 runs after Chris Gayle, Shoaib Malik, Kieron
Pollard, David Warner, and Aaron Finch, and Virat Kohli.
Men’s singles Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
Neeraj Chopra makes history, becomes World No 1 in
Women’s singles Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) men’s javelin throw
Extra Points
Men’s doubles Hugo Nieves and Jan Zielinski
• Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Neeraj Chopra achieved
Women’s doubles Storm Hunter and Elise Mertens the number one ranking in men’s javelin throw for the
first time.

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• Neeraj Chopra is on top with 1455 points, 22 ahead of Hari Buddha Magar conquered Mount Everest with
Anderson Peters of Granada. artificial legs
• Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of
Czech Republic was third with 1416 points. Extra Points
• Hari Budha Magar, a double-amputee ex-British
List of Top 5 in Men’s javelin throw Gurkha soldier from Nepal, scaled Mount Everest with
prosthetic legs.
Person Points
• He joined the British Gurkhas in 1999 at the age of 19.
Neeraj Chopra (India) 1455 points • In the past decade, he accomplished numerous
mountaineering feats, including the ascents of Ben
Anderson Peters (Granada) 1433 points Nevis (1,345 m), Mont Blanc (4,808.72 m), Kilimanjaro
Jakub Vadlejch (Czech Republic) 1416 points (5,895 m), Mera Peak (6,476 m), and Mount Toubkal
(4,167 m).
Julian Weber (Germany) 1385 points
Indian Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar wins gold at
Arshad Nadeem (Pakistan) 1306 points
International Jumping Meeting in Greece
China claims record 13th Sudirman Cup title Extra points
• Indian Long jumper Murali Sreeshankar won gold
Extra Points while compatriot Jeswin Aldrin finished bagged silver
• China has claimed a record 13th Sudirman Cup title at the International Jumping Meeting 2023 at Kallithea
defeating South Korea 3-0 at Suzhou. in Greece
• Chen Yufei defeated World Number two An Se Young • Kerala’s Murali Sreesankar won the gold medal in the
21-16,22-20, in the women’s singles to seal the victory. International Jumping Meet with a jump of 8.31 metres.
• In the men’s singles, Korea’s Lee Yun Gyu was easily • Sreeshankar, who has played in the Tokyo Olympics,
outmatched by Shi Yuqi. holds the national record of 8.36 metres.
About Sudirman Cup
Slovenia Open: Sameer Verma Wins Gold; Rohan
Founded 1989 Kapoor-Sikki Reddy Bag Silver
No. of teams 16 Extra Points
• Indian shuttler Sameer Verma has won gold in the
Most titles China (13) Slovenia Open Badminton Tournament being held in
2023 held in Suzhou, China Maribor, Slovenia.
• In the men’s singles final, he beat Taiwan’s Su Li Yang.
BCCI announces Adidas as Team India’s kit sponsor • While the duo of Rohan Kapoor and Sikki Reddy bagged
silver in the mixed doubles
Extra Points
• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) ICC suspends West Indies batsman Devon Thomas for
announced that the Indian national cricket team had alleged fixing in LPL 2021
secured a new kit sponsorship deal with the renowned
German sportswear powerhouse, Adidas.
Extra points
• The International Cricket Council (ICC), on behalf of Sri
• This partnership aims at facilitating access to high-
Lanka Cricket (SLC), the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB),
quality Indian cricket fan merchandise, including the
and the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), has charged
coveted Indian cricket team jersey for cricket fans not
West Indies player Devon Thomas with seven counts
just in the country but globally. under their anti-corruption codes .
About Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
Magnus Carlsen Won 2023 Superbet Rapid and Blitz
ESTD 1928 Poland
HQ Mumbai Extra Points
President Roger Binny • World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen won the 2023
Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second leg of the
Secretary Jay Shah Grand Chess Tour (GCT) at the Museum of the History
of Polish Jews.
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• The Norwegian Grandmaster, the World No.1, Magnus IPL 2023-Full list of Award Winners :
Carlsen finished with a score of 24/36 and took home
Shubman Gill (980
the $40,000 1st place prize. Orange Cap (Most runs)
runs)
• Jan-Krzyzstof Duda was placed second
Most fours Shubman Gill (84)
India’s ace shuttler HS Prannoy won the Malaysia Most Valuable Player of the
Shubman Gill
Masters Badminton Championship 2023 title Season
Dream11 Gamechanger of the
Extra Points Season
Shubman Gill
• India’s star shuttler HS Prannoy won the gold medal in
Mohammad Shami
the Malaysia Masters Badminton Championship 2023 Purple Cap (Most wickets)
(28)
played in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Fairplay of the Season Ajinkya Rahane
• Prannoy won the final by defeating China’s Wang
Hongyang in three games 21-19, 13-21 and 21-18. Catch of the Season Rashid Khan
• Prannoy became the third Indian after Saina Nehwal and Longest Six of the Season
PV Sindhu to win the Malaysia Masters Championship. Faf du Plessis
(115m)
• Also became the first Indian to win in the men’s singles
Super Striker of the Season Glenn Maxwell
category.
Emerging Player of the Year Yashasvi Jaiswal
Extra Info:
Eden Gardens and
• At the same time, India has won gold three times in Best Venues of the Season
Wankhede Stadium
women’s singles.
• PV Sindhu twice and Saina Nehwal once won the About Indian premier league (IPL):
championship. Started in 2008
Chennai Super Kings win IPL 2023 beating defending Number of teams 10
champions Gujarat Titans Mumbai Indians (5 titles), Chennai
Most successful
Super Kings (5 titles)
Extra Points
2023 Edition 16th
• Chennai Super Kings won their fifth IPL title by
defeating defending champions Gujarat Titans by 5 Current champion Chennai Super Kings (5th title)
wickets in a rain-curtailed match at the Narendra Modi
Stadium in Ahmedabad Uttar Pradesh Hockey won the 13th Hockey India
• Chasing a revised victory target of 171 runs in 15 overs
Sub Junior Men National Championship 2023
against defending champions Gujarat Titans, Chennai Extra Points
Super Kings reached the target in the last ball of the • Pradesh Hockey emerged as the champions of the 13th
final over with the loss of 5 wickets. Hockey India Sub-Junior Men’s National Championship
2023.
IPL 2023 Final Match awardees- • Its final was held at Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium,
Odisha.
Player of the Match Devon Conway • Uttar Pradesh Hockey defeated Odisha Hockey
Association in the final.
Catch of the Match MS Dhoni • Hockey Haryana defeated Hockey Madhya Pradesh to
secure the third position.
Longest Six, Maximum Fours, Max Verstappen wins Monaco Grand Prix 2023
Most Valuable Asset of the Match, Sai Sudharsan
Game Changer of the Match Extra Points
• Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has won the 2023 Monaco
Electric Striker of the Match Ajinkya Rahane Grand Prix, his fourth win of the season.
• Fernando Alonso finished second in the race.

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10 Awards & Winners
Dalai Lama receives Ramon Magsaysay Award Best Director Sanjay Leela Bhansali For
Gangubai Kathiawadi
Extra Points
• The 1959 Ramon Magsaysay Award was presented to Best Actor In A Anil Kapoor For Jugjugg Jeeyo
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in person after Supporting Role
64 years in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh (Male)
• The 1959 Ramon Magsaysay award was given by the Best Actor In A Sheeba Chaddha For Badhaai
Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation in the Philippines Supporting Role Do
in August 1959. (Female)
• GyaloThonden, elder brother of Dalai Lama, had Best Music Album Pritam for Brahmastra Part
received the Magsaysay Award on his behalf in Manila, One: Shiva
the Philippines in August 1959. Best Lyrics Amitabh Bhattacharya For
About The Ramon Magsaysay award: Kesariya From Brahmastra Part
One: Shiva
First awarded 1958 Best Playback Singer Arijit Singh For Kesariya From
Presented by Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (Male) Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Best Debut Female Andrea Kevichusa For Anek
Outstanding contributions in
Government Service, Public Best Dialogue Prakash Kapadia, Utkarshini
Service, Community Leadership, Vashishtha For Gangubai
Awarded for Journalism, Literature and Creative Kathiawadi
Communication Arts, Peace and Best Screenplay Akshat Ghildial, Suman
International Understanding and Adhikary And Harshavardhan
Emergent Leadership Kulkarni for Badhaai Do
First Indian to CD Deshmukh (In 1958 in the category Best Story Akshat Ghildial, Suman
Get this award of Government Service) Adhikary for Badhaai Do
Best Action Parvez Shaikh for Vikram
68th Hyundai Filmfare Awards Vedha
Best Background Sanchit Balhara And Ankit
List of winners of Filmfare Awards 2023:
Score Balhara for Gangubai
Category Winner Kathiawadi
Best Film Gangubai Kathiawadi Best Choreography Kruti Mahesh for Dholida from
Gangubai Kathiawadi
Badhaai Do (Harshvardhan
Best Film (Critics’) Best Cinematography Sudeep Chatterjee for Gangubai
Kulkarni)
Kathiawadi
Best Actor In A Rajkummar Rao For Badhaai
Leading Role (Male) Do Best Costume Sheetal Iqbal Sharma for
Gangubai Kathiawadi
Best Actor (Critics’) Sanjay Mishra For Vadh
Best Editing Ninad Khanolkar for An Action
Best Actor In
Alia Bhatt For Gangubai Hero
A Leading Role
Kathiawadi Best Production Subrata Chakraborty And Amit
(Female)
Design Ray Gangubai Kathiawadi
Bhumi Pednekar For Badhaai
Best Actress (Critics’) Best Sound Design Bishwadeep Dipak Chatterjee
Do
for Brahmastra Part One: Shiva
Best Actress (Critics’) Tabu For Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2
Best VFX (Visual Dneg, Redefine for Brahmastra Three jailed Iranian women journalists win UN press
effects) Part One: Shiva freedom prizes
Lifetime Achievement Extra Points

Prem Chopra
Award
• The United Nations announced that its premier prize for
R D Burman Award press freedom has been awarded to three imprisoned
For Upcoming Music Jahnvi Shrimankar (Dholida – Iranian female journalists “for their commitment to
Talent Gangubai Kathiawadi) truth and accountability.”
• Award winners include Niloufer Hamidi, Elaheh
About Filmfare Awards: Mohammadi and Nargis Mohammadi.
UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize
Introduced in 1954
Started in 1997
Presented by The Times Group Given by UNESCO
First winner Gao Yu (China)
2023 Edition 68th
Belarusian Association of Journalists
2022 Winner
(Belarus)
Rajasthan Housing Board got National Award for
Real Estate King Charles III confers Britain’s Honorary MBE on
Dr. M.N. Nandakumar
Extra Points
• The Rajasthan Housing Board has received a national Extra Points
award for registering the highest number of home • King Charles III awarded an Honorary MBE to Dr
projects with the Real Estate Regulatory Authority MN Nandakumar, a renowned Sanskrit scholar and
(RERA) and selling the highest number of housing executive director of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Center
units in the country. in London, for his contribution to Indian classical arts
• The National Real Estate Development Council gave in Britain.
away the award to Housing Board Commissioner • Dr. M.N. Nandakumar has been associated with the
Pawan Arora in New Delhi. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Center in London for 46 years
• The Housing Board has bagged as many as 15 national • The Honorary MBE award is given to foreign nationals
and international awards during the last four years for for their services in public life.
its achievements.
South Asian American Author Fatimah Asghar wins
Russian poet Maria Stepanova wins Leipzig Book Inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Prize 2023
Extra Points
Extra Points • Fatimah Asghar, a South Asian American poet and
• Maria Stepanova, a powerful contemporary voice of screenwriter, won the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for
Russian literature now living in exile in Berlin, has Fiction for her debut novel “When We Were Sisters”,
been awarded the prestigious Leipzig Book Prize for published by One World/Random House.
European Understanding in 2023. • In addition to the cash prize of USD 150,000, Fatimah
• She was honored in Leipzig for her volume of poetry Asghar will receive a residency at the award-winning
“Madchen ohne Kleider” (Girls Without Clothes). Fogo Island Inn in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
About the Leipzig Book Prize Ram Nath Kovind confers ‘Bharat Ratna Dr
Ambedkar Award’ on CM Yogi Adityanath for
Started in 1994
Creating Fear-Free UP
To promote greater understanding Extra Points

between European cultures by recognizing • Ram Nath Kovind, a former President of India, honoured
Given for Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh with
outstanding works of fiction, non-fiction
and poetry that contribute to this goal. the 13th edition of the Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar
Award, for creating a fear-free UP.

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• The award was received by Lalji Prasad, a Member of • This is the 2nd time that Lionel Messi has been
the Legislative Council (MLC) in UP. honoured with the Laureus World Sportsman Of The
Year Award. In 2020, he shared the award with British
About the Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award: race car driver Lewis Hamilton.
Started in 1992 • He also became the first person to win the team and
individual award in the same year (2023).
First Awarded 1993
Dr Ambedkar Foundation
List of winners of the 2023 Laureus World Sports
Given by
Awards:
Prize money Rs 10 Lakhs
Category Winner Sport
National Institute of Social Work and
First Winner
Social Science, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Laureus World Lionel Messi
Sportsman Of Football
President Droupadi Murmu confers 37 Gallantry The Year (Argentina)
awards
Laureus World Shelly-Ann
Extra Points Sportswoman Of Fraser-Pryce Athletics – track
• President Draupadi Murmu, who is the Supreme and field sprinter
The Year (Jamaica)
Commander of the Armed Forces, presented eight Kirti
Chakras including five posthumously and 29 Shaurya Laureus World
Chakras including five posthumously to Armed Forces, Argentina Men’s
Team Of The Football
Central Armed Police Forces and State/UT personnel Football Team
Year
in New Delhi
Laureus World Carlos Alcaraz
List of Winners Breakthrough Of Tennis
The Year (Spain)
Award Winner
Kirti Chakra • Naik Devendra Pratap Singh Laureus World Christian Eriksen
(non • Major Shubhang, Comeback Of Football
The Year (Denmark)
posthumous) • Naik Jitendra Singh
• Rifleman Aurangzab Laureus World Catherine
• Sepoy Karan Vir Singh Sportsperson Of Para Athletics –
Shaurya Chakra Debrunner
• GUNNER JASBIR SINGH The Year With A wheelchair racer
(Posthumous) Disability (Switzerland)
• Mudassir Ahmad Shaikh
• Naik Jasbir Singh Laureus Eileen Gu
• Sudeep Sarkar World Action
(China) Freestyle Skiing
• Deepak Bhardwaj Sportsperson Of
Kirti Chakra The Year
• Sodhi Narayan
(posthumous)
• Shravan Kashyap Laureus Sport
• Rohit Kumar Teamup Global
For Good
2023 Laureus World Sports Awards: Lionel Messi &

2023 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism; Books, Drama
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce win top awards
and Music
Extra Points
• Lionel Messi was honoured with the Laureus World Extra Points
Sportsman Of The Year 2023 at the 2023 Laureus • Associated Press won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in
World Sports Awards. Journalism under the Public Service category.
• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaican track and field
sprinter, won the Laureus World Sportswoman Of The • Categories: The Pulitzer Prize recognises the work in
Year 2023 22 categories, i.e. 15 journalism categories; seven arts
• Laureus Awards 2023 marks the 24th edition of the categories and one special citation.
Laureus World Sports Awards.
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2023 Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism: 2023 Pulitzer Prizes – Books, Drama & Music:
Category Winners Category Winners
Associated Press, for the • Demon Copperhead, by Barbara

work of Mstyslav Chernov, Kingsolver (Harper)
Fiction
Public Service Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa • Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead
Stepanenko and Lori Books)
Hinnant
Staff of the Los Angeles

Breaking News Reporting Drama English, by Sanaz Toossi
Times
Staff of The Wall Street History Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White

Investigative Reporting Resistance to Federal Power, by
Journal
Jefferson Cowie (Basic Books)
Caitlin Dickerson of The
Explanatory Reporting Biography G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making
Atlantic
of the American Century, by Beverly
• Anna Wolfe of Gage (Viking)
Local Reporting (There Mississippi Today,
Ridgeland, Miss. Memoir or Stay True, by Hua Hsu (Doubleday)
were two winners under
Autobiography
this category. They don’t • John Archibald, Ashley
share the category, each Remkus, Ramsey Poetry Then the War: And Selected Poems,
receive the full prize Archibald and Challen 2007-2020, by Carl Phillips (Farrar,
amount of US$15,000) Stephens of AL.com, Straus and Giroux)
Birmingham
General His Name Is George Floyd: One
Caroline Kitchener of The Nonfiction Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial
National Reporting
Washington Post Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse
Olorunnipa (Viking)
Staff of The New York
International Reporting
Times Music Omar, by Rhiannon Giddens and
Michael Abels
Eli Saslow of The
Feature Writing
Washington Post
About Pulitzer Prize
Kyle Whitmire of AL.com,
Commentary Started in 1917
Birmingham
Andrea Long Chu of New

Criticism Excellence in newspaper
York magazine
Given For journalism, literary achievements,
Nancy Ancrum, Amy musical composition
Driscoll, Luisa Yanez,
Editorial Writing Isadora Rangel and Lauren First Indian to Gobind Behari Lal (1937 in
Costantino of the Miami win Journalism)
Herald
Illustrated Reporting and Mona Chalabi, contributor, ‘Sagar Shreshtha Samman’ Awards 2023
Commentary The New York Times
‘Extra Points
Breaking News Photography Staff of • The ‘Sagar Shreshtha Samman Awards 2023’ were
Photography Associated Press conferred to major ports for their all-time best
performance on select operational and financial
Christina House of the Los
Feature Photography parameters during FY 2022-23.
Angeles Times
• Visakhapatnam Port Authority (VPA) (Andhra Pradesh)
Staff of Gimlet Media, received Sagar Shrestha Samman Award 2023 from
Audio Reporting
notably Connie Walker Sarbananda Sonowal.

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Other Recipients of Sagar Shreshtha Samman 2023 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize won
Awards 2023: by Arinze Ifeakandu
Port Category Extra Points

Awarded as best port for • Nigerian writer Arinze Ifeakandu was announced
the year 2022-23 as the winner of the 2023 Swansea University Dylan
Thomas Prize, for his debut book ‘God’s Children Are
Awarded for best
Little Broken Things’.
incremental performance
Paradip Port, Jagatsinghpur for attaining the highest • Arinze Ifeakandu was awarded the prestigious £20,000
(Pounds) Prize at a ceremony held in Swansea in the UK
(Odisha) cargo growth rate of
16.56% in FY23 About Dylan Thomas Prize
Received a performance
Started in 2006
shield on Ship Berth Day
Output Given by Swansea University
Awarded for the best Patricia Lockwood, an American poet,
Absolute Performance for 2022 winner novelist for her debut novel No One Is
Deendayal Port, Kandla
the year FY23 for handling Talking About This
(Gujarat)
the highest cargo of 137.56
MMT Pakistani-Canadian Author Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Awarded for achieving wins the Inaugural Armory Square Prize for
Jawaharlal Nehru Port,
major milestone in Turn
Mumbai(Maharashtra) Translation
Around Time
Kamarajar Port, Chennai Awarded for pre-berthing Extra Points
(Tamil Nadu) detention time • Pakistani-Canadian author, translator, and storyteller,
Received a performance Musharraf Ali Farooqi, who translated Siddique Alam’s
Cochin Port (Kerala) shield in turn-around time short story collection “The Kettledrum and Other
(non-container port) Stories” from Urdu to English, won the inaugural
edition of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian
Deepika Padukone appears on cover of TIME Literature in Translation.
magazine
• As part of the prize, the Kettledrum and Other Stories
will be published by Open Letter Books in 2024.
Extra Points
• Bollywood star Deepika Padukone has been featured N Chandrasekaran, Tata Sons Chairman Conferred
on the latest cover of TIME magazine. with Highest French Civilian Honour
• The iconic American magazine described Padukone as
a ‘global star’ bringing ‘the world to Bollywood’.
Extra Points
• It had previously named Padukone among its list of 100 • Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, was
most influential people in the world in 2018. honoured with the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
(Knight of the Legion of Honour), the highest French
Jayant Narlikar awarded Lifetime Achievement Award Civilian award
by ASI • N Chandrasekaran received the award from Catherine
Colonna, French Minister for Europe and Foreign
Extra Points Affairs, who gave the award on behalf of French
• Veteran astronomer Jayant Naralikar has been conferred President Emmanuel Macron.
the first Govind Swarup Lifetime Achievement Award
instituted by the Astronomical Society of India (ASI). Trichy Airport’s New Terminal Project Bags
• The award is named in honour of Prof. Govind Swarup International Safety Award: British Safety Council
(1929-2020), widely regarded to be the founder of
radio astronomy in the country. Extra Points
• The award was announced at the 41st ASI meeting held • The Tiruchirappalli International Airport project
at IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Indore, Madhya (Trichy Airport Project) of ITD Cementation India
Pradesh Limited has been awarded the International Safety
• The award carries a citation and plaque, and a cash Award under the 1st- class merit category by the
prize of Rs 1,50,000. British Safety Council.
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• ITD Cementation India Limited received the award for Kwame Jamaica
demonstrating a strong commitment to good health Ocoee
McPherson (Caribbean)
and safety management in 2022.
New Zealand
Himali McInnes Kilinochchi
Extra Points (Pacific)
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with the
highest honor by Fiji and Papua New Guinea First Bulgarian author to win International Booker
• PM Modi was awarded “The Companion of the Order Prize 2023
of Fiji” by his Fijian counterpart Sitweni Rabuka for his
global leadership, a rare honor for a non-Fijian. Extra Points
• Papua New Guinea conferred its highest civilian • Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov won the 2023
honour, Grand Companion of the Order of Loghu (GCL) International Booker Prize for his novel “Time Shelter”.
on PM Modi for his efforts towards unity of the Pacific • The novel was translated into English by Angela Rodel
island nation. and is the first Bulgarian novel to win the International
About Republic of Fiji Booker Prize.
Capital Suva About International Booker Prize:
Currency Fijian Dollar Started in 2004
PM Sitiveni Rabuka First awarded 2005

Given at UK
About Papua New Guinea
outstanding works of fiction translated
Capital Port Moresby Given for
into English.
Currency kina Geetanjali Shree (India) for her work
2022 winner ‘Tomb of Sand’ translated by Daisy
PM James Marape Rockwell (US)
Commonwealth Foundation Announced 2023 Actor Sonu Sood Receives Honoris Causa at Apex
Commonwealth Short Story Prize Regional Winners University’s Jaipur
• The regional winners of the 2023 Commonwealth • Sonu Sood, the acclaimed actor and philanthropist,
Short Story Prize have been announced. was the centre of attention at the 1st Convocation
• The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, which is a Ceremony of Apex University Jaipur, where he received
cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation, the esteemed Honoris Causa for his noble work.
of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth. • The Honoris Causa, a prestigious award, was bestowed
upon Sonu Sood by Apex University Jaipur in recognition
• On 27 June 2023, the overall winner of the prize will be
of his exceptional contributions to society.
announced in the 12th edition of Commonwealth Short
Story Prize in an online ceremony.
3 Indian peacekeepers honoured with UNs Dag
• Regional winners each receive £2,500 and the overall
winner receives £5,000. Hammarskjold Medal
List of winners of Commonwealth Short Story Extra Points
Prize • 3 Indian peacekeepers, Border Security Force(BSF)
personnel Head Constables Sanwala Ram Vishnoi &
Winner Name Region Story Shishupal Singh and civilian peacekeepers (national
South Africa The Undertaker’s staff) Shaber Taher Ali, were Posthumously awarded
Hana Gammon the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Medal.
(Africa) Apprentice
• Ruchira Kamboj, India’s Permanent Ambassador to
Oceans Away
the UN, received the medals on behalf of the Indian
Agnes Chew Singapore (Asia) From My
Peacekeepers from UN Secretary-General Antonio
Homeland Guterres.
United Kingdom • 2022 Military Gender Advocate of the Year Awarded
Lech, Prince, and
Rue Baldry (Canada & to Captain Cecilia Erzuah from Ghana who served with
the Nice Things
Europe) the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).

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• The medal is named after Dag Hammarskjold, the IIFA 2023: Hrithik Roshan and Alia Bhatt won the
second Secretary-General of the United Nations. Best Actor awards
Goan writer Damodar Mauzo gets Jnanpith Award Extra Points
Extra Points • The 23rd edition of NEXA International Indian Film
• Goan writer Damodar Mauzo Goa has received the Academy (IIFA 2023) Awards held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
prestigious 57th Jnanpith Award, the country’s highest • Hrithik Roshan won the Best Actor in a Leading Role
literary honour, from state Governor P S Sreedharan (male) for his performance in Vikram Vedha.
Pillai. • Alia Bhatt won the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female)
• Renowned poet Gulzar was present during the function for her role in Gangubai Kathiawadi.
held at the Raj Bhavan near Goa capital Panaji.
• Mauzo’s famous novel ‘Karmelin’ received the Sahitya
List of all the award winners at IIFA 2023-
Akademi Award in 1983. Best Film Drishyam 2
• Mauzo is the second Goan to receive the Jnanpith R Madhavan for Rocketry:
Award. Earlier, Ravindra Kelekar from the coastal state Best Director
The Nambi Effect
got the award in 2008.
Best Actor in a Leading Alia Bhatt for Gangubai
About Jnanpith Award Role (Female) Kathiawadi
1961 Best Actor in a Leading Hrithik Roshan for Vikram
Instituted in
Role (Male) Vedha
1965 Best Actor in a
First Awarded Mouni Roy for Brahmastra:
Supporting Role
Part One – Shiva
₹11 lakh (Female)
Prize money
Best Actor in a Anil Kapoor for Jugg Jugg
G. Sankara Kurup (Malayalam) Supporting Role (Male) Jeeyo
First winner
Outstanding
Nilamani Phookan (Assamese) Achievement for Fashion Manish Malhotra
56th Winner in Cinema
Outstanding
4th National Water Award 2023 Selection of 41 Achievement in Indian Kamal Haasan
winners Cinema
Aamil Keeyan Khan and
Extra Points Best Adapted Story Abhishek Pathak for
• The Department of Water Resources, River Drishyam 2
Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Ministry of Jal Perveez Sheikh and
Shakti will organize the 4th National Water Awards Best Original Story
Jasmeet Reen for Darlings
Distribution Ceremony on June 17, 2023 at Vigyan
Bhawan, New Delhi. Outstanding
Marathi film Ved directed
Achievement in Regional
• Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has been requested to by Riteish Deshmukh
Cinema
be the chief guest at the function. 41 winners including
joint winners have been selected for the 4th National Shantanu Maheshwari for
Best Debut (Male) Gangubai Kathiawadi and
Water Awards, 2022.
Babil Khan for Qala
• The awards include 11 categories including ‘Best State’,
Khushali Kumar for Dhoka
‘Best District’, ‘Best Gram Panchayat’, ‘Best Urban Local Best Debut (Female)
Around the Corner
Body’.
• An amount of Rs 2 lakh has been kept for the first prize, Shreya Ghoshal for the song
Best Playback Singer
Rs 1.5 lakh for the second prize and Rs one lakh for the Rasiya from Brahmastra:
(Female)
third prize. Part One – Shiva
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Arijit Singh for the song Best Choreography for
Best Playback Singer
Kesariya from Brahmastra: title track, Best Sound Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2
(Male)
Part One – Shiva Design
Pritam for Brahmastra:
Best Music Direction Best Editing Drishyam 2
Part One – Shiva
Amitabh Bhattacharya for Best Special Effects Brahmastra: Part one –
the song Kesariya from (Visual) Shiv
Best Lyricist
Brahmastra: Part One –
Best Background Score Vikram Vedha
Shiva
Best Cinematography,
Best Screenplay, Best Gangubai Kathiawadi Best Sound Mixing Monica O My Darling
Dialogue

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11 Summits & Conference
Summit on Farm Machinery Technology UAE launches ‘Machines Can See 2023’ Summit
Summit on Farm Machinery Summit ‘Machines Can See 2023’ Summit
Summit
Technology
Held at Dubai
Held at New Delhi
Dubai’s Department of Economy
Confederation of Indian Industry Hosted by and Tourism and the Dubai Future
Organised by (CII) and the Tractor and Foundation
Mechanisation Association (TMA)
Union Minister of Agriculture and Foreign Ministers meeting of SCO member countries
Inaugurated by Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh begins in Goa
Tomar
Meeting of foreign ministers
India Calling Conference 2023 organized by IMC in Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation
Mumbai Organization (SCO)
Conference India Calling Conference 2023 Held at Goa
Held at Mumbai Theme SECURE-SCO
Organised by Indian Merchants Chamber 21st meeting of Bangladesh-India Joint Steering

Union Minister for Commerce and
Committee on Cooperation in Power Sector
Inaugurated by
Industry, Piyush Goyal Meeting of the Bangladesh–India
Meeting
Joint Steering Committee
Rising India Inviting Partnership
Theme
for Growth Edition 21st
Science 20 Engagement Group meeting under India’s Held at Khulna, Bangladesh

G20 chairmanship begins in Lakshadweep
Bangladesh’s Ministry of Power,
Science 20 Engagement Group Energy and Mineral Resources
Chaired by
Meeting meeting on Universal Holistic Secretary Habibur Rahman and his
Health Indian counterpart Alok Kumar
Held at Lakshadweep, Bangaram Island ‘Youth-20 Consultation Programme’ conference

concludes in Uttarakhand
India-Kuwait holds Foreign Office Consultations
Conference Youth-20 Consultation Programme
India-Kuwait Foreign Office
Meeting All India Institute of Medical
Consultations Held at
Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand
Edition 5th
Theme Health Wellness and Sports
Held at New Delhi
27th Meeting of the Financial Stability and 6th Indian Ocean Conference- 2023
Development Council
Conference Indian Ocean Conference (IOC)
Meeting of the Financial Stability
Meeting
and Development Council (FSDC) Edition 6th
Edition 27th
Held at Dhaka, Bangladesh
Held at New Delhi
Union Finance and Corporate Affairs India Foundation, Ministry of
Chaired by
Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh
Organised by and the S Rajaratnam School of
6th India- Canada Ministerial Dialogue on Trade and International Studies
Investment
Inaugurated by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
India- Canada Ministerial Dialogue
Meeting
on Trade and Investment Partnership for Peace, Prosperity
Edition 6th Theme and a Resilient Future
Held at Ottawa
Piyush Goyal (India) & Mary Ng 42nd ASEAN Summit Held in Indonesia
Chaired by
(Canada)
Summit of the Association of
Summit Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2023
Meeting Petersberg Climate Dialogue 2023 Edition 42nd
Held at Berlin, Germany
Held at Indonesia
Hosted by Germany & UAE
Attendees Ministers from 40 countries Joko Widodo (President of
Presided by Indonesia)
First high-level Steering Committee Meeting of Deep
Ocean Mission Theme ASEAN Affairs: Epicenter of Growth
Steering Committee Meeting of

Meeting 6th Session of the Meeting of Ministers of Health of
Deep Ocean Mission
SCO member states
Edition 1st
Session of the Meeting of Ministers
Held at New Delhi Meeting of Health of SCO member states
Chaired by Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh
Edition 6th
The Committee consisted of Union
Ministers of State for Environment,
Extra Info External Affairs, Defence, and Held at Virtually
Finance in addition to Vice
Union Minister of State for Health
Chairman NITI Aayog.
Chaired by and Family Welfare, Bharati Pravin
Pawar
Annual Investment Meeting starts in UAE
Meeting Annual Investment Meeting Theme Secure SCO
Held at Abu Dhabi, UAE

Mumbai to host first mining start-up Summit
Organised by AIM Foundation
Summit Mining start-up Summit
The Investment Paradigm Shift:
Future Investment Opportunities Edition 1st
Theme
to Foster Sustainable Economic
Growth, Diversity, and Prosperity Held at Mumbai

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29th Biennial Conference of the All India Primary 3rd G20 TWG meeting to be held in Srinagar
Teachers’ Federation
G20 Tourism Working Group
Meeting
Biennial Education Conference of All (TWG) meeting
Conference
India Primary Teachers’s Federation
Edition 3rd
Edition 29th
Held at Gandhinagar, Gujarat Held at Srinagar, J&K
Chaired by PM Narendra Modi 1st Edition Dhordo in Rann of Kutch in Gujarat

Teachers at the Heart of Transforming 2nd Edition Siliguri, West Bengal
Theme
Education
MHA to organize “G20 Conference on Crime and Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated
Security” in July 2023 the two-day National Ayush Mission Conclave in
New Delhi
G20 Conference on Crime and Security
Conference in the Age of NFTs (Non-Fungible National AYUSH Mission (NAM)
Tokens), Al and Metaverse Event
Conclave
Held at Gurugram, Haryana
Held at New Delhi
Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY), Union Minister of AYUSH
Organised by Inaugurate by
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), and Sarbananda Sonowal
the Ministry of Home Affairs
The National AYUSH Mission was
3rd Energy Transitions Working Group (ETWG) Extra info approved by the Prime Minister for
meeting its launch on 15th September 2014
Energy Transition Working Group

Conference
Meeting
PM to inaugurate International Museum Expo 2023
Edition 3rd Event International Museum Expo 2023
Held at Mumbai Held at New Delhi
Narendra Singh Tomar chairs 8th SCO Agriculture Inaugurate by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Ministers meet
It will be organised to mark the
Agriculture Ministers of Shanghai Extra info 47th International Museum Day on
Meeting Cooperation Organization (SCO) 18th May
member
Edition 8th First meeting of India-EU trade, technology Council
at Brussels
Held at Virtually
Narendra Singh Tomar Ministerial-level meeting of the
Chaired by
Meeting India-European Union Trade and
Technology Council (TTC)
2nd G20 Culture Group (CWG) Meeting held in
Bhubaneswar Edition 1st
Meeting Culture Group meeting under G20
Held at Brussels, Belgium
Edition 2nd
Commerce Minister, Piyush Goyal
Held at Bhubaneswar, Odisha co-chaired the meeting along
India was chaired
with EAM S Jaishankar and MoS,
Theme Culture Unites All by
Electronics and information
technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar.
First edition held at Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh
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Health Minister addresses G7 Ministerial meeting on 1st Inter-Ministerial Committee Meeting held on
Health Innovation in Japan World Food India 2023
G7 Health Ministerial meeting on
Meeting Meeting
Global Health Architecture Meeting for World Food India 2023
Held at Nagasaki, Japan Edition 1st
Health ministers of the G7 countries Held at New Delhi
and the “Outreach 4” countries
Attendees Smt. Anita Praveen, Secretary of
of India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Chaired by
Food Processing Industries
Thailand
Union Minister of Health and Family PM Modi addresses 76th Session of the World
Indian delegation
Welfare, Dr Mansukh Mandaviya
Health Assembly in Geneva
PM Narendra Modi holds bilateral meeting with Event
Session of the World Health
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima Assembly
Bilateral meeting of India & Japan Edition 76th

Meeting Name
Held at Geneva, Switzerland
Held at Hiroshima, Japan
PM Modi & Japanese counterpart Indian Delegate The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi
Chaired by
Fumio Kishida
PM Modi attended FIPIC summit in Papua New
Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference 2023 Guinea
Asia Petrochemical Industry India-Pacific Islands Cooperation
Conference Summit
Conference 2023 (FIPIC) Summit
Edition 3rd
Edition 41st
Held at Papua New Guinea
Chemical and Petrochemicals 14 countries from the Pacific Islands
Organised by Attendees
Manufacturers Association (PICs)
Held at New Delhi Papua New Guinea’s PM James
Chaired by
Marape and PM Modi
Union Minister of Health, Chemicals
Chaired by and Fertliser Dr Mansukh 1st Edition 2014 [Suva, Fiji]
Mandaviya Established
2015 [In jaipur]
in2nd Edition
Theme Ushering in a Sustainable Future
About India Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC)
The conference is hosted on a
rotational basis by the seven Estd November 2014
Extra Info member countries–Japan, Korea,
14 (Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati,
Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,
Marshall Islands, Micronesia,
Taiwan and India.
Members Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New
Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands,
2nd Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group meet to Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu)
be held in Mumbai
Meeting of the G-20 Disaster 2nd Trade and Investment Working Group meeting
Meeting Risk Reduction Working Group begins in Bengaluru
(DRRWG)
Trade and Investment Working
Meeting
Edition 2nd Group meeting
Held at Mumbai, Maharashtra Edition 2nd

Held at Bengaluru
1st edition Gandhinagar, Gujarat
1st Edition Mumbai

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PM Modi chairs the 8th meeting of the NITI Aayog Second G-20 Anti-Corruption Working Group
Governing Council meeting concluded in Rishikesh (Tehri), Uttarakhand
Meeting of the Governing Council of G-20 Anti-Corruption Working

Meeting Meeting
NITI Aayog Group (ACWG)
Edition 8th Edition 2nd
Held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
Held at Rishikesh (Tehri), Uttarakhand
Chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
First edition Gurugram, Haryana
Growth India @ 2047: Role of Team
Theme
India”
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12 Defence News
Indian Navy Conducts ‘Sam No Varunah’ Coastal ASEAN-India Maritime Exercise

Exercise
Car Rally covering entire coastline (AIME-2023)
Extra Points Edition 1st

• The Indian Navy in association with Navy Welfare Held at Singapore
and Wellness Association (NWWA) had organised a
month-long maritime awareness coastal motor car Held between India & ASEAN countries (Navy)
expedition, “SAM NO VARUNAH” covering the entire
Indian
Indian coastline, from Kolkata to Gujarat. INS Satpura and INS Delhi
Participant
• The car rally was flagged off from INS Netaji Subhas at
Kolkata, and covered more than 8500 km routing via
the entire East and West coast of India.
Border Roads Organisation Project Dantak 64th
• The Raksha Rajya Mantri (RRM), Shri Ajay Bhatt
Raising Day
flagged-in the rally. Extra Points
• The central theme of this coastal motor car rally was • The Prime Minister has praised the initiative by Border
‘enhancing maritime consciousness.’ Roads Organisation Project Dantak to commemorate
64th Raising Day.
Indian Army inducts five women officers into its
Artillery Regiment About Project Dantak
• Project Dantak is one of the oldest projects of the
Extra Points Border Roads Organization (BRO).
• The women officers, including Lt Mehak Saini, Lt • It was established on 24th April 1961.
Sakshi Dubey, Lt Aditi Yadav, Lt Pavitra Moudgil and • It was a result of the visionary leadership of the King
Lt Akanksha, joined major artillery units of the Army of Bhutan and Jawahar Lal Nehru, then Prime Minister
after completing their training at the Officers Training of India.
Academy in Chennai.
• It was established under the provision of the Indo-
• The move is a significant step towards gender equality Bhutan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, 1949.
in the Indian Armed Forces and reflects the Army’s
commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity. About Border Roads Organisation
• Out of the five women officers, three have been posted ESTD 7th May 1960
on the forward front along the Line of Actual Control
(LAC) with China, while the other two have been posted HQ New Delhi
at challenging positions near the border with Pakistan. Lieutenant General Rajeev
Director General
Chaudhry
About Indian Army
ESTD 26 January 1950 Ex Agni Daman-23: Civil – Military Agencies Combat
Fire Together
HQ New Delhi
Exercise Name Agni Daman-23
Chief of the Army
General Manoj Pande
Staff Southern Command, Pune
Held at
(Maharashtra)
Maiden ASEAN-India Maritime exercise begins in A total of 56 firefighting columns
Participants
Singapore including 32 from civil agencies
Indian Navy decommissions INS Magar at Naval Indian Army to Have Common Uniform for Brigadier
base in Kochi after 36 years of Service and Above rank officers from August 1
Extra Points
Extra Info
• Indian Navy decommissioned Indian Naval Ship (INS)
• The Indian Army has decided that from August 1,2023
Magar, the oldest Landing Ship Tank (Large) after 36
officers of the rank of Brigadier and above will have a
years of service at the Naval base in Kochi, Kerala.
common uniform irrespective of their different parent
• It was decommissioned in the presence of Vice Admiral cadre and appointment.
MA Hampiholi, Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval
• As part of the decision, headgear, shoulder rank badges,
Command, as a Chief Guest.
gorget patches, belts and shoes of senior officers will
• INS Magar was launched on November 16, 1984 by be standardised.
Meera Tahiliani and commissioned on July 18, 1987 at
• There will be no change in the uniform worn by officers
Garden Reach Shipyard and Engineers (GRSE) Limited,
of the rank of Colonel and below.
Kolkata.
First Airbus C295 for India successfully completes INS Kavaratti arrives in Batam to participate in India-
its maiden flight
Indonesia exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’
Exercise Samudra Shakti
Extra points
• India’s first Airbus C295 successfully completed its Edition 4th
maiden flight
Held at Batam, Indonesia
• This is an important milestone towards its delivery by
the second half of 2023. Indian Navy and the Indonesian
Held between
• This maiden flight marks a significant milestone for the Navy
first Make in India aerospace programme. Indian
INS Kavaratti
About Airbus C295 participant
• The aircraft was tested in Seville, Spain and flew for
three hours to check various onboard systems. Ministry of Defence approves fourth positive
• The first 16 such aircraft are being built in Spain, while indigenization list
40 are to be built in Gujarat by Tata Advanced Systems Extra Points
Limited in collaboration with Airbus.
• The Defence Ministry approved the fourth positive
• The first aircraft is likely to be delivered by indigenization list, which includes 928 strategically
September 2023 important line replacement units, sub-systems, spares
• Tata is setting up a main manufacturing facility at and components.
Vadodara and will also set up an aerospace and defense • The import substitution value of the approved list is
complex at Dholera. Rs 715 crore.
• The company has tied up with Airbus which signed a Rs • The previous three list were published in December
21,935 crore contract to supply 56 transport aircraft to 2021, March 2022 and August 2022 respectively.
the Indian Air Force in 2021.
Flood Relief Exercise ‘Jal Rahat’ in Assam
35th Indo-Thai Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) held
Exercise name Exercise Jal Rahat
at IMBL in the Andaman Sea
India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol Hagrama Bridge on Manas River in

Exercise Name Held at
(Indo-Thai CORPAT) Assam
35th Held by Indian Army’s Gajraj Corps
Edition
Held at Andaman Sea Defence production crosses Rs 1 lakh crore mark for
the first time ever
Held between India & Thailand (Navy)
Extra Points
INS Kesari, an indigenously built
Indian LST (L) and Maritime Patrol • The value of defense production in the financial year
Participant Aircraft (FY) 2022-23 has crossed the Rs one lakh crore mark
for the first time.
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• The value is currently Rs 1,06,800 crore and may Extra Points
increase further once data is received from the • Indian Navy’s latest indigenous guided missile
remaining private defense industries. destroyer, Indian Naval Ship (INS) Mormugao,
• The present value of defense production in FY 2022-23 successfully carried out the engagement of a sea-
is over 12 per cent higher than Rs 95,000 crore in FY skimming supersonic target with Medium Range
2021-22. Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM) missile.
• The vision of the government is to achieve a turnover of • The Indian Navy undertook the 1st MRSAM firing from
$25 billion, including exports of $5 billion in aerospace
and defence goods and services by 2025. • sea-skimming is a technique that is used by anti-ship
missiles and some fighter or strike aircraft to avoid
Indian Navy’s sixth and final Kalvari Class radar or infrared detection during their approach to
Submarine, Vaghsheer commences sea trials the target.
Extra Points
INSV Tarini crew back home after 188 days
• The Indian Navy’s sixth and final Kalvari class
submarine, Vaghsheer, has begun its sea trials. Extra Points
• Vaghsheer is scheduled for delivery to the Indian Navy • The crew of INSV Tarini, who returned after an inter-
in early 2024 after completion of these trials. continental voyage, were accorded a grand welcome at
• The submarine was launched on 20th April 2022 the flag-in ceremony in Goa.
from the Kanhoji Angre Wet Basin of Mazagon Dock • The crew returned home after an arduous voyage of
Shipbuilders Limited (MDL). 17,000 nautical miles.
• The commissioning of the submarine, built under • Two women officers, Lt Cdr Dilna K and Lt Cdr Roopa A,
Project-75, is set to enhance the Navy’s combat were involved in the entire operation.
capability
• Project - 75 includes indigenous construction of 6 ‘Sudarshan Shakti Exercise 2023’
submarines.
Exercise Sudarshan Shakti 2023
List of all 6 submarines
Western borders in Rajasthan and
Name Launched in Held at
Punjab
INS Kalvari 2015 Sapta Shakti Command of the
Organised by
INS Khanderi September 2019 Indian Army
INS Karanj March 2021
Iran successfully launched ballistic missile ‘Kheibar’
INS Vela November 2021
INS Vagir 2022 Extra Points
INS Vagsheer April 2022 • Iran has successfully test-launched a ballistic missile
with a range of around 2,000-km.
AL MOHED AL HINDI 2023 Naval Exercise of India • The liquid-fuel missile had been named the Kheibar the
& Saudi Arabia latest version of the Khorramshahr. The missiles are
capable of carrying 1,500 kg of warheads.
AL-MOHED AL-HINDI • Iran, which has one of the biggest missile programmes
Exercise Name
2023 in the Middle East, says its weapons are capable of
Held at Port Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia reaching Israel and U.S. bases in the region.
India & Saudi Arabia About Iran

Held Between
(Navy)
Capital Tehran
INS TARKASH and INS
Indian Participant Rial
SUBHADRA Currency
President Ebrahim Raisi
Indian Navy’s warship INS Mormugao Engages Sea-
skimming Supersonic Target

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13 Festival & Fairs
Sinthan Snow Festival-2023 to take place in J&K • The event witnessed the participation of a number of
companies representing various sectors.
Extra Points • The candidates who are Class 5 to Class 12 pass outs
• The Directorate of Tourism, Jammu and Kishtwar or have skill training certificates or are ITI certificate
Tourism Development Authority (KTDA) is organising holders or Diploma holders or graduates can apply in
a two-day Sinthan Snow Festival-2023 at Sinthan this apprenticeship mela.
Maidan, Kishtwar.
• The snow festival is being organized in collaboration
Thiruvananthapuram to host fifth Global Ayurveda
with the District Administration Kishtwar, the Jammu Festival in December
& Kashmir Academy of Art, Culture, and Languages Extra Points
(JKAACL), and the Army.
• The fifth edition of the Global Ayurveda Festival (GAF
2023) will take place in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Goa govt organized 3-day Heritage Festival from December 1 to December 5, 2023.
Extra Points • The event is being organized by the Center for
Innovation in Science and Social Action (CISSA) in
• The Goa tourism department has inaugurated a three-
collaboration with the Ministry of AYUSH, Government
day heritage festival, which will showcase art forms,
of Kerala and several Ayurveda associations.
dances and cuisine of the coastal state.
• The theme of GAF 2023 is “Emerging Challenges in
• The Goa Heritage Festival truly captures the essence Healthcare and a Resurgent Ayurveda”.
of the rich cultural heritage, showcasing the vibrant
traditions and customs that make Goa so unique. First Urban Climate Film Festival
International Apparel & Textile Fair kicks off in Extra Points
Dubai • The first ever Urban Climate Film Festival is going
to be held in New Town, Kolkata from June 3 to 5 to
Extra Points sensitize the audience about the environmental, social
• The International Apparel & Textile Fair (IATF) has and economic impacts of climate change on urban
returned to Dubai in 2023, for its 15th edition. settlements.
• The India Pavilion is being jointly organised by the • During this, 16 films from 12 countries will be screened.
Apparel Export Promotion Council Ministry of Textiles, • The film festival is being organized by the National
Government of India and Federation of Indian Export Institute of Urban Affairs.
Organisation.
Ladakh’s Annual Great Prayer Festival ‘Ladakh
• IATF has over 200 exhibitors from 22 countries.
Monlam Chenmo 2023’ held
Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela Extra Points
• Ladakh’s annual five-day group prayer camp of
Extra Points
Buddhist monks and nuns named ‘Ladakh Monlam
• Under Skill India Mission, the Ministry of Skill Chenmo 2023’ which is also called the Great Prayer
Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is Festival was held in Leh (Ladakh) for world peace and
organized the Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship happiness.
Mela (PMNAM) on 8th May 2023, in 200 districts • The Monlam Chenmo 2023 mass prayer camp event is
across the country. organised by the All Ladakh Gonpa Association.
14 Science & Tech
ISRO to start online training programme for PG and • This geospatial offering is expected to be available for
and final-year UG students preview in the second half of this year.
Extra Points Phase-3 trial for Panacea Biotech’s Dengue Vaccine

• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has
announced a new introductory-level online training Extra Points
programme called Space Science and Technology • The phase-3 trial of a dengue vaccine developed by
Awareness Training (START). Panacea Biotech in collaboration with the Indian
• START is aimed at postgraduate and final-year Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is likely to begin in
undergraduate students of Physical Sciences and August or September 2023.
Technology.
• Serum Institute of India and Panacea Biotec have
• It will be delivered by scientists from Indian academia
applied for expression of interest for clinical trials for
and ISRO centres.
indigenous manufacturers of dengue vaccine.
About Indian Space Research Organization
Rayyanah Barnawi, the first Arab woman astronaut
ESTD 15 August 1969
to go to space
HQ Bangalore, Karnataka
Extra Points
Chairman S Somanath (10th)
• Part of Axiom Space’s private mission to the
International Space Station (ISS), Rayyanah Barnawi
BITS Pilani develops face mask with sensor to check (Saudi Arabia) became the first Arab woman astronaut
for Illness
to go into space.
Extra Points • Barwani is part of a team which has travelled to the ISS
• Researchers at BITS Pilani Hyderabad have designed a in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space
face mask equipped with a sensor to detect illness. Center at Cape Canaveral in the southern state of
• The team designed and developed a ‘Kirigami’ based Florida.
stretchable, flexible Laser induced Graphene (LIG) a
3-D carbon nanomaterial, for real-time attachments ISRO to launch Chandrayaan-3 in July this year
with surgical masks.
• LIG is a widely used material for monitoring vital Extra Points
physiological signs such as breath rate (BR) or • ISRO Chairman S Somnath has announced that
respiratory rate (RR), body temperature, pulse rate, Chandrayaan-3, the successor of Chandrayaan-2, will
and blood oxygen saturation. be launched in July this year.
IBM partners with NASA to convert satellite data • The announcement was made after the successful
into high-resolution maps launch of second generation navigation satellite NSV-
01 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota.
Extra Points
• International Business Machines (IBM) has About Indian Space Research Organization
collaborated with the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) to launch a new geospatial ESTD 15 August 1969
foundation model.
• It is designed to convert satellite data into high- HQ Bangalore, Karnataka
resolution maps of floods, fires, and other landscape S Somanath (10th)
Chairman
changes to reveal the planet’s past and hint at its future.
15 Books & Authors
Shashi Shekhar Vempati, Former Prasar Bharati’s The Indian Metropolis: Deconstructing India’s Urban
CEO, released Book Titled “Collective Spirit, Spaces” book by Varun Gandhi
Concrete Actions” The Indian Metropolis:
Collective Spirit, Concrete Actions Book Name Deconstructing India’s Urban
Book Name
Spaces
Shashi Shekhar Vempati, a former Authored by Feroze Varun Gandhi
Authored & Chief Executive Officer of Prasar
launched by Bharati
Ruskin Bond Authored a New Book Titled “The
Amitav Ghosh’s non-fiction book ‘Smoke and Ashes’ Golden Years”
to be released in July 2023 The Golden Years: The Many Joys
Book Name of Living a Good Long Life
Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s
Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Authored by Ruskin Bond
Book Name
Histories
Aditya Bhushan’s book “Guts Amidst Bloodbath: The
Amitav Ghosh Anshuman Gaekwad Narrative” released
Authored by
Guts Amidst Bloodbath: The
Book Name Anshuman Gaekwad Narrative
Nirmala Sitharaman launches a book titled
‘Reflections’ Former Indian Test cricketer
Authored by Anshuman Gaekwad
Book Name Reflections
Authored by Narayanan Vaghul Assam Governor Gulab Chand Kataria releases a

Book Titled “Partitioned Freedom”
Union Minister of Finance and
Released by Corporate Affairs Nirmala Book Name Partitioned Freedom
Sitharaman
Authored by Ram Madhav
Book “Made in India: 75 Years of Business and
Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of
Enterprise” by Amitabh Kant Released by Assam
Made in India: 75 Years of Business
Book Name
and Enterprise
Dr. Vijay Darda’s New Book, ‘RINGSIDE,” to be
Authored by Amitabh Kant Released by Shashi Tharoor
RINGSIDE – Up, Close, and
K.K. Shailaja comes with her new book ‘My Life as a Book Name Personal on India and Beyond
Comrade’
Authored by Dr Vijay Darda
Book Name My Life as a Comrade
K. Shailaja Published by Dr Shashi Tharoor

Authored by
16 Obituaries News
Malayalam actor Mamukkoya passes away Former AIFF vice-president AR Khaleel passed away
• Popular Malayalam actor Mamukkoya passed away at • The former All India Football Federation (AIFF) Vice-
the age of 76. President, AR Khaleel passed away at the age of 91.
• Mamukkoya made his acting debut in the theater in • He also served as the president of the Karnataka State
1979. Football Association (KSFA) for 28 years till 2018.
• He won two Kerala State Film Awards for his
performances in Perumazhakkalam and Innathe SP Hinduja, UK-based Billionaire Businessman &
Chintha Vishayam.
Chairman of Hinduja Group, Passed away
Tamil actor Manobala passes away Extra Points
Extra Points • India-born British industrialist and Chairman of the
• Popular Tamil actor, comedian, director, and producer Hinduja Group, Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (SP
Manobala passed away at the age of 69. Hinduja) passed away at the age of 87 in London,
• Starting his career working under legendary filmmaker United Kingdom (UK).
Bharathirajaa, Manobala had eventually made his • SP Hinduja was also serving as the chairman of the
directorial debut with Agaya Gangai in 1982. Hinduja Bank of Switzerland and Hinduja Foundations.
• He founded the only Indian-owned Swiss bank, S P
Renowned Bengali author Samaresh Majumdar Hinduja Banquee Privee in 1994, headquartered in
passes away Geneva, Switzerland.
Extra Points
Renowned Telugu writer, Sahitya Akademi Awardee
• Renowned Bengali author Samaresh Majumdar passes
away at the age of 79. Kethu Viswanath Reddy Passed Away
• He was first published in the year 1967- a novel named Extra Points
‘Dour’ (Run). One of his works was even adapted into
the 2013 film ‘Arjun-Kalimpong E Sitaharan’. • A noted Telugu writer, novelist and Sahitya Akademi
awardee Kethu Viswanath Reddy passed away in
• The writer-poet has innumerable accolades under his
belt, including Sahitya Akademi Award which he won Ongole, Andhra Pradesh (AP) at the age of 84
for ‘Kalbela’ in 1984. • In 1996, Viswanatha Reddy received the Sahitya
Akademi Award (Telugu) for his Short story Kethu
Padma Bhushan Awardee and Indian-American Viswanatha Reddy Kathalu.
development economist Padma Desai passed away
Industrialist and philanthropist Karumuttu T
Extra Points Kannan passes away
• Indian-American development economist and Padma
Bhushan award winner, Padma Desai passed away at Extra Points
the age of 92 in New York, the United States of America • Karumuttu T Kannan, a prominent industrialist, and
(USA). philanthropist, passed away.
• In 2009, the Government of India honoured her with
• He was the Chairman & Managing Director of
Padma Bhushan for literature and education.
Thiagarajar Mills Ltd.
17 Important Days
28 April – World Day for Safety and Health at 1 May – Maharashtra Day and Gujarat Day
Work
Extra Points
Day 28 April • Maharashtra Day or Maharashtra Diwas is celebrated
World Day for Safety and Health at annually on 1 May to commemorate the day on which
Day Name the western Indian state was created in the year 1960.
Work
• The day marks the formation of the state of Maharashtra,
A safe and healthy working which occurred on May 1, 1960, following the partition
Theme 2023 environment as a fundamental of the Bombay State into the linguistic states of
principle and right at work Maharashtra and Gujarat.
World Veterinary Day 2023 List of state foundation days of March & April
Day Last Saturday of April Day State
This year 29 April
22 Mar Bihar
Day Name World Veterinary Day 2023
30 Mar Rajasthan
Promoting diversity, equality and
Theme 2023 01 Apr Odisha
inclusion in the veterinary field
15 Apr Himachal Pradesh
International Dance Day: 29 April
World Tuna Day 2023 – May 2
29 April
Day
Day 2nd May
International Dance Day Day Name
Day Name World Tuna Day
Started in 2016
30 April – International Jazz Day
30 April World Asthma Day 2023- May 2
Day
Day First Tuesday of May
Day Name International Jazz Day
This year 2nd May
To raise awareness about the virtues
of jazz as an educational tool, and Day Name World Asthma Day
Objective a force for empathy, dialogue, and
Theme 2023 Asthma care for All
enhanced cooperation among people.
World Press Freedom Day: 3 May
International Workers’ Day: 01 May
Day 3rd May
Day 1 May
Day Name World Press Freedom Day
International Workers’ Day or Labour
Day Name Day Shaping a Future of Rights: Freedom
Theme 2023 of Expression as a Driver for All Other
Started in 1889 Human Rights
5 May – World Portuguese Language Day Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those
Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War
Extra Points
– 8-9 May 2023
• World Portuguese Language Day is celebrated every
year on May 5. Day 8-9 May 2023
• This makes the Portuguese language the sixth most
Time of Remembrance and
spoken language in the world.
Reconciliation for Those Who Lost
Day Name
5 May – World Hand Hygiene Day Their Lives during the Second World
War
Day 5 May To pay tribute to the victims of the
Celebrated as
World Hand Hygiene Day Second World War(WWII).
Day Name
Together, we can accelerate action to 10 May – International Day of Argania
prevent infections and antimicrobial
resistance in health care and build a Day 10th May
Theme 2023
culture of safety and quality in which
Day Name International Day of Argania
hand hygiene improvement is given
high priority. Socio-economic development
Theme 2023 & sustainability of the Argan
5 May – International Day of the Midwife ecosystem
Day 5 May
National Technology Day-11 May
Day Name International Day of the Midwife
Day 11th May
Together Again: From Evidence to
Theme 2023
Reality National Technology Day
Day Name
6 May – International No Diet Day School to Startups-Igniting Young
Theme 2023 Minds to innovate
Day 6 May
Day Name International No Diet Day International Nurses Day - 12 May

Day 12 May
7 May – World Athletics Day
7 May Day Name International Nurses Day
Day
Day Name World Athletics Day Theme 2023 Our Nurses, Our Future
Theme 2023 Athletics for All – A New Beginning

12 May – International Day of Plant Health
8 May – World Red Cross Day 12 May
Day 8 May International Day of Plant Health
Day Name
Day Name World Red Cross Day Plant Health for Environmental
Theme 2023
Everything we do comes from the Protection
Theme 2023
heart
13 May 2023 – World Migratory Bird Day
8 May – World Thalassemia Day Day 2nd Saturday in May and in October
Day 8 May 13th May & 14th October 2023
This year
Day Name World Thalassemia Day
Day Name World Migratory Bird Day
Strengthening Education to Bridge
Theme 2023 Theme 2023 Water: Sustaining Bird Life
the Thalassemia Care Gap

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15 May – International Day of Families International Museum Day 2023 – May 18
15 May Day 18th May
Day
International Day of Families Day Name International Museum Day

Day Name
Demographic Trends and Families Museums, Sustainability and

Theme 2023 Theme 2023
Wellbeing
15 – 21 May – UN Global Road Safety Week World AIDS Vaccine Day 2023 – May 18
Day 15 to 21 May Day 18th May
Day Name UN Global Road Safety Week Day Name World AIDS Vaccine Day
Edition 7th Started in 1998
To raise awareness about road safety World Metrology Day - 20 May

Objective and the importance of taking steps
to prevent accidents. Day 20 May
National Dengue Day – May 16 2023 Day Name World Metrology Day
Day 16 May Measurements supporting the

Theme 2023
global food system
Day Name National Dengue Day
World Bee Day - 20 May
International Day of Living Together in Peace 2023 Day 20 May
– May 16
Day Name World Bee Day
Day 16 May
International Day of Living Together Engaging in Pollinator-Friendly
Day Name Theme 2023
Agricultural Production
Started in 2018
21 May – World Day for Cultural Diversity for
16 May – International Day of Light Dialogue and Development
Day 16 May Day 21 May
Day Name International Day of Light World Day for Cultural Diversity
Day Name
for Dialogue and Development
To highlight the importance of light
and its role in science, culture, To raise awareness of the
Objective
art, education, and sustainable importance of cultural diversity
Objective
development. for peace and sustainable
development.
17 May – World Telecommunication and Information
Society Day National Anti-Terrorism Day: 21 May
Day 17 May Day 21 May
Day Name World Telecommunication Day Day Name National Anti-Terrorism Day
Empowering the least developed To commemorate the death of

Theme 2023 countries through information and former Prime Minister Rajiv
Objective
communication technologies Gandhi, who was assassinated on
this day in 1991.
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21 May – International Tea Day World Thyroid Awareness Day - 25 May
21 May Day 25 May
Day
Day Name World Thyroid Awareness Day
International Tea Day
Day Name
Bee engaged in pollinator-friendly

25 May – International Missing Children’s Day
Theme 2023 agricultural production 25 May
Day
International Missing Children’s
Day Name
International Day for Biological Diversity - 22 May Day
Started in 1983
Day 22 May
International Day for Biological 29 May - National Memorial Day

Day Name Diversity
Day Last Monday of May
Agreement to Action: Build Back This Year 29 May

Theme 2023 Biodiversity
Day Name National Memorial Day
23 May – World Turtle Day The day honours and remembers

Observed as the fallen American Military
personnel.
Day 23 May
Day Name World Turtle Day International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers -
29 May
Theme 2023 I Love Turtles
Day 29 May
23 May – International Day to End Obstetric Fistula Day name

International Day of United Nations
Day 23 May
Theme 2023 Peace begins with me
International Day to End Obstetric
Day Name 28 May – Menstrual Hygiene Day
Fistula
Day 28th May
20 years on – progress but not
Theme 2023 enough! Act now to end fistula by Day name Menstrual Hygiene Day
2030!
Making menstruation a normal fact
Theme 2023
of life by 2030
24 May – Commonwealth Day
28 May – World Hunger Day
Day Globally 13 may , In India 24 May
Day 28th May
Day Name Commonwealth Day
Day name World Hunger Day
Forging a Sustainable and Peaceful Celebrating sustainable solutions
Theme 2023 Common Future Theme 2023 to hunger and poverty

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18 State/UT News
First time in India, Jharkhand Govt launches Air Odisha to build India’s 1st resettlement colony for
Ambulance services climate change victims

• The Jharkhand Government launched the much awaited • India’s first resettlement colony is set to be built in
Air Ambulance Service in the State. Odisha.
• It is the state’s first air ambulance service from Ranchi • This colony will be set up in Satbhaya in Kendrapada
to other parts of the country. district for the people displaced due to coastal erosion
• The service will be provided at rates between ₹ 3-8 lakh and climate change.
for places such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, • This is the first colony in the nation for the resettlement
Hyderabad, Varanasi, Lucknow and Tirupati. of people impacted by climate change.
• Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik sanctioned
About Jharkhand ₹22.5 crore for the colony’s first development phase at
Capital Ranchi Bagapatia.
Hemant Soren About Odisha

CM
C. P. Radhakrishnan Capital Bhubaneswar
Governor
Betla National Park CM Naveen Patnaik
National park
Governor Ganeshi Lal
Telangana Government launches Agri Innovation Bhitarkanika National Park, Simlipal
National Parks
Challenge National Park
Extra Points Telangana Govt Implement Insurance Scheme for

• The Telangana Government has launched a Grand
Toddy Tappers
Challenge for Innovation to promote innovation in the
food processing sector. Extra Points
• Telangana Agriculture Minister S Niranjan launched the • Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has
Challenge at the inaugural of the Food Conclave 2023. introduced the ‘Geetha Karmikula Bhima’ (insurance
• The Telangana government is organising a Food for toddy tappers) on the lines of Rythu Bhima for
Conclave-2023 here focussing on the opportunities in farmers.
Green, White, Yellow, Blue, and Pink revolutions. • Insurance money of Rs five lakh would be deposited
• The theme of the conclave is “Envisioning India’s directly in the bank account of the respective family
Decade in the Agri-Food Sector.” members in case any toddy tapper dies accidentally
while collecting toddy from palm trees in the fields.
About Telangana
About Telangana
Capital Hyderabad
Capital Hyderabad
CM K Chandrashekar Rao
Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National
Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National
Park, Mahavir Harina Vanasthali
National Parks National Parks Park, Mahavir Harina Vanasthali
National Park, Mrugavani National
National Park, Mrugavani National Park
Park
SJVN secures 100 MW wind power project in • The project will require the transfer of 1500 hectares
Gujarat of land from the Animal Husbandry Department to the
Industrial Development Department.
Extra Points • The state government will spend Rs 1560 crore for
• State-owned SJVN Ltd has secured a 100 MW grid development works and providing necessary facilities
connected wind power project in Gujarat. to the investors in Lalitpur Pharma Park.
• The project, with an estimated cost of $108 million, will • Apart from the Pharma Park, the Uttar Pradesh
be developed by SGEL through an EPC contract and can government is also setting up a Medical Device Park on
be set up anywhere in India. 350 acres of land at the Yamuna Expressway Industrial
• In its first year, it is projected to generate 281 million Development Authority (YIDA) in Gautam Buddha
units of electricity, with a 25-year total of 7,025 Nagar.
million units. The project will also help reduce carbon • The park is located in Sector 28 of YIDA, where plots
emissions by 344,255 tons.
have been allotted to 50 entrepreneurs so far.
• SJVN also emphasizes the importance of bolstering
its green energy portfolio and advancing toward its About Uttar Pradesh
50,000 MW target by 2040.
Capital Lucknow
About Gujarat
Capital Gandhinagar CM Yogi Adityanath
CM Bhupendra Patel Governor Anandiben Patel

Governor Acharya Devvrat
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Gir Forest National Park, Blackbuck
National Parks National Park, Vansda National Park, National Park Dudhwa National Park
Marine National Park
Uttar Pradesh government plans to develop a theme New Lithium deposits discovered in Rajasthan after
park on the lines of Disneyland J-K
• The Uttar Pradesh government plans to develop a • After Jammu and Kashmir, Lithium reserves have been
theme park named ‘Ramland’ in Ayodhya on the lines traced in the Degana district of Rajasthan.
of Disneyland to showcase the story of Lord Ram and • According to officials, the lithium reserves are higher
attract tourists. than the ones recently found in Jammu and Kashmir.
• The park aims to provide visitors a unique learning • Officials have also informed that the quantity of lithium
experience with entertainment, catering to both
here can meet around 80% of India’s demand. For the
children and adults.
first time, lithium reserves were found in Jammu and
• Around Rs 30,000 crore is expected to be spent on the Kashmir’s Reasi in February 2023.
rejuvenation of Ayodhya
• Lithium reserves are concentrated in the lithium
About Uttar Pradesh triangle in South America – Argentina, Bolivia & Chile,
with 50% of the deposits concentrated in these regions.
Capital Lucknow
About Rajasthan
CM Yogi Adityanath
Governor Anandiben Patel Capital Jaipur
Classical Dance Kathak CM Shri Ashok Gehlot

National Park Dudhwa National Park
Governor Kalraj Mishra
First Pharma Park to be built in Uttar Pradesh Desert National Park, Keoladeo
Extra Points National Park, Mukundara Hills
National Parks National Park, Ranthambore
• The Uttar Pradesh government has approved the National Park, Sariska National
establishment of the state’s first Pharma Park in Park
Lalitpur district of Bundelkhand.

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Telangana CM lays foundation of Hare Krishna Telangana Govt Launches India’s 1st State Robotics
Heritage Tower in Hyderabad Framework
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• Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has laid • Telangana government launched ‘Telangana State
the foundation for the Hare Krishna Heritage Tower in Robotics Framework’, a first-of-its-kind policy in India.
Hyderabad. • Objective: To provide a roadmap for the state to create
• The 400 feet (120 meters) tall structure will be a sustainable robotic ecosystem and be a leading state
constructed on six acres of land in Narsingi at a cost of in the field of robotics.
Rs 200 crore.
About Telangana
• The tower will house the temples of Sri Sri Radha
Krishna and Sri Venkateswara Swamy. Capital Hyderabad
• The chief minister announced Rs 25 crore on behalf
of the state government for the construction of the
temple. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan
About Telangana Kasu Brahmananda Reddy
National Park, Mahavir Harina
Capital Hyderabad National Parks
Vanasthali National Park,
Mrugavani National Park
Punjab Becomes 1st State to Enforce ‘right to walk’
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Kasu Brahmananda Reddy • Punjab has become the first Indian State to implement
National Park, Mahavir Harina the “Right to walk” by making it mandatory for all road-
National Parks
Vanasthali National Park, owning agencies, including the National Highways
Mrugavani National Park Authority of India
• Objective:- To provide footpaths and cycle tracks in
Uttar Pradesh becomes first state to make digital all future expansion of roads and construction of new
health cards for children ones.
• This is a part of the efforts of Punjab to control the
Extra Points number of accidents and deaths of pedestrians and
• The Uttar Pradesh’s Urban Development Department cyclists.
and Lucknow Smart City launched a “School Health
Program”. About Punjab
• Under the pilot project, the School Health Program has Capital Chandigarh
been started by Lucknow Smart City in three schools
in Lucknow. CM Bhagwant Mann
• A digital health report card for the overall physical and Governor Banwarilal Purohit
mental well-being of 1765 municipal school students is
also being prepared under the project.
Assam CM launches Ayushman Assam Scheme
• The benefit of health insurance worth Rs 25,000 is also
being given to these children. Extra Points
About Uttar Pradesh • Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has
launched the Ayushman Assam Scheme under the
Capital Lucknow Mukhya Mantri Jan Arogya (MMJA) in Guwahati.
• The scheme will be available in more than 300 hospitals.
CM Yogi Adityanath • Under this scheme, beneficiaries will be able to get
facilities in more than 300 empanelled hospitals in
Governor Anandiben Patel
Assam and all the AB-PMJAY empanelled hospitals
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• Approximately 2.6 million beneficiary families will be
National Park Dudhwa National Park covered under the scheme.
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About Assam MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan Flags off 406
Capital Dispur Veterinary Ambulances
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma Extra Points

• Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya
Governor Gulab Chand Kataria Pradesh flagged off 406 veterinary ambulances under
Satriya Nritya the “Pashu Chikitsa Ambulance” (animal ambulance)
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scheme.
Kaziranga National Park, Dibru • The ambulance, mainly meant for the treatment of
- Saikhowa National Park, Rajiv cows, will operate in urban areas and all development
National Park
Gandhi Orang National Park, Manas blocks of MP.
National Park, Nameri National Park • Shivraj Singh Chouhan also launched a toll-free number
“1962” for the treatment of animals in an emergency.
Kerala becomes first state to have Drone
Surveillance in all police districts About Madhya Pradesh
• Kerala has become the first state in the country to have
Capital Bhopal
a drone surveillance system in all police districts in
the state.
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
• Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan distributed the drones
to all police districts and the drone pilot licences to the Governor Mangubhai C. Patel
specially trained drone pilots.
• He also launched indigenously developed anti-drone Satpura National Park, Bandhavgarh
software on the occasion. National Park, Kanha National Park,
About Kerala National Parks
Pench National Park, Madhav National
Park, Panna National Park, Sanjay-
Capital Thiruvananthapuram
Dubri National Park, Fossil National
CM Pinarayi Vijayan Park, Van Vihar National Park
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan

Kerala Becomes 1st Indian State to Launch Welfare
Eravikulam National Park, Periyar Fund for Workers under MGNREGA
National Park, Silent Valley National
National Parks Park, Mathikettan Shola National Extra Points
Park, Anamudi Shola National Park, • Kerala became the first state in India to launch a
Pampadum Shola National Park welfare fund for Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment
Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) workers in the State.
Varanasi’s LBSI airport gets India’s first reading • This fund is based upon the Kerala Employment
lounge Guarantee Workers’ Welfare Fund Act, 2021.
Extra Points • Under this, the workers need to pay a nominal monthly
amount of Rs 50 as a contribution to the fund and the
• The Lal Bahadur Shastri International (LBSI) Airport,
government will also contribute an equal amount.
Varanasi (UP) has now become the first in India to have
a free dedicated reading lounge, set up by the National • Eligibility for membership includes being between
Book Trust of India. 18 to 55 years of age and having engaged in unskilled
• Travellers going to and from the Varanasi Airport will work for at least 20 days in the year of application or
now be able to read books for free. any year in the two years immediately preceding it.
About Uttar Pradesh About MGNREGA

Capital Lucknow Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Full Form
Yogi Adityanath Employment Guarantee Act
CM
Anandiben Patel Launched in 2nd February 2006
Governor
Classical Dance Kathak Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Guarantee Act was
National Park Dudhwa National Park passed on 23rd August 2005

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• SDC is targeted intervention aimed to uplift and
Earlier known National Rural Employment
improve the lives of the tribal communities residing in
as Guarantee Act
the state.
Provision of at least 100 days of work
Mandate of About Odisha
that provides guaranteed wage in a
MGNREGA
financial year Capital Bhubaneswar
About Kerala Naveen Patnaik

CM
Governor Ganeshi Lal
CM Pinarayi Vijayan
Bhitarkanika National Park,
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan National Parks Simlipal National Park
Eravikulam National Park, Periyar
National Parks Park, Mathikettan Shola National Andhra Pradesh launches ‘e-Chits’ app
Park, Anamudi Shola National Park,
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Pampadum Shola National Park
• Andhra Pradesh government has introduced an
Himachal CM launched ‘Him Data Portal’ electronic service delivery system, e-Chits’ to regulate
and usher in transparency in the sector.
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• The initiative through which transactions can be done
• Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh
only online, will enable the registration department
Sukhu has launched a ‘Him Data Portal’ a common
officials to verify subscribers and only then give
digital platform to integrate data of all organizations
for the deliverance of welfare schemes and to better approval.
serve the public. • The app will also ensure that subscribers know which
• The state government would start the ‘Him Parivar’ registered companies are operating in the chit fund
project from July 2023 which will give a special digital business.
identity to the people.
• The people associated with the Him Pariyojna project About Andhra Pradesh
would get information about various welfare schemes
Capital Amaravati
easily.
About Himachal Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala Governor S. Abdul Nazeer

Capital
(Winter)
CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Papikonda National Park, Rajiv
Gandhi (Rameswaram) National
Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla National Parks Park, Sri Venkateswara National
Great Himalayan National Park, Park
Pin Valley National Park, Inderkilla
National Parks
National Park, Khirganga National Lucknow to get new Pharmaceutical Research and
Park, Simbalbara National Park
Innovation Institute
Odisha CM expands ‘Special Development Councils’ in Extra Points
14 Districts
• Uttar Pradesh government will set up a pharmaceutical
Extra Points research and innovation institute in Lucknow.
• The Odisha government has expanded the jurisdiction • The institute will promote research and manufacturing
of Special Development Councils (SDCs) from nine to
in the pharma sector.
23 districts to improve the lives of 84 lakh tribal people.
• This extension signifies the government’s commitment • UP’s contribution to pharma manufacturing in the
to ensuring the comprehensive development of country is currently 2%, which needs to be increased
indigenous communities residing in these districts. to 10-12%.
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About Uttar Pradesh MP’s Bhopal becomes first city in India to measure
Capital Lucknow SDG progress
CM Yogi Adityanath Extra Points

• Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal has become the first
Governor Anandiben Patel city in India to accept the localization of the Sustainable
Kathak Development Goals (SDGs).
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• MP’s capital city will now have voluntary local reviews
National Park Dudhwa National Park (VLR) to demonstrate local government’s capacity and
commitments.
Madhya Pradesh cabinet approves ‘Mukhya Mantri • The SDGs localization is translating the agenda,
Sikho Kamao Yojana’ for unemployed youth transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development (known as Agenda 2030),
Extra Points into local actions and impacts that contribute to the
• The Madhya Pradesh cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister global achievement of the goals.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan, approved the ‘Mukhya Mantri • VLRs have emerged as a powerful tool that forefront
Sikho Kamao Yojana’ for unemployed youth. local action. New York City became the first city to
• It was decided in the meeting that the name of Mukhya present its VLR to the High-Level Political Forum on
Mantri Kaushal Kamai Yojana will be ‘Mukhyamantri sustainable development (HLPF) in 2018.
Sikho-Kamao Yojana’ (Chief Minister Learn-Earn • By 2021, some 33 countries had made 114 VLRs or
Scheme). similar review documents publicly available.
• Under the scheme, at least one lakh youths will be
provided training in establishments.
About Madhya Pradesh
• All the youth who have done 12th pass, ITI, Diploma, Capital Bhopal
Graduation and Post Graduation will be eligible for this
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan
scheme.
Governor Mangubhai C. Patel
List of Stipend under Mukhya Mantri Sikho
Kamao Yojana Satpura National Park,
Bandhavgarh National Park, Kanha
Category Stipend (Monthly) National Park, Pench National
National Parks Park, Madhav National Park, Panna
12th passed Rs 8000
National Park, Kuno National Park,
Fossil National Park, Van Vihar
ITI passed Rs 8500
National Park
Diploma passed Rs 9000
TN CM Stalin inaugurates India’s longest Skywalk
Graduate passed or higher Rs 10000 Bridge
educational qualification
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• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin has inaugurated
About Madhya Pradesh a 570-meter long and 4.2-meter-wide skywalk bridge
Bhopal connecting the Mambalam railway station and T Nagar
Capital
bus terminus.
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan • The bridge was constructed by the Greater Chennai
Governor Mangubhai C. Patel
funds.
Satpura National Park, Bandhavgarh
National Park, Kanha National About Tamilnadu
Park, Pench National Park, Madhav
Capital Chennai
National Parks National Park, Panna National Park,
Sanjay-Dubri National Park, Fossil CM Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin
National Park, Van Vihar National
Park Governor R. N. Ravi

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Indira Gandhi National Park, Governor Mangubhai C. Patel
Mudumalai National Park, Satpura National Park, Bandhavgarh
Mukurthi National Park, Gulf of National Park, Kanha National
National parks
Mannar Marine National Park, Park, Pench National Park, Madhav
National Parks
Guindy National Park, Palani Hills National Park, Panna National Park,
National Park Kuno National Park, Fossil National
Park, Van Vihar National Park
Uttar Pradesh surpasses Maharashtra in sugar
Maharashtra becomes the first state in the country
production this season
to approve Good Governance Regulations
• The total sugar produced by Uttar Pradesh in the sugar
season 2022-2023 is 107.29 lakh tonnes, while the total Extra Points
sugar produced by Maharashtra is 105.30 lakh tonnes. • Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has
• The area under sugarcane cultivation in Uttar Pradesh approved the first Good Governance Regulations of the
country.
is 28.53 lakh hectares (highest in India) as compared to
14.87 lakh hectares in Maharashtra. • Objective – To make the State administration more
accountable, accessible, dynamic, and transparent.
• Total cane crushed by sugar mills in UP in the 2022-
• The good governance manual will provide end-to-end
2023 season was 1,084.57 lakh tonnes, whereas it was online services to the citizens within stipulated time
1,053 lakh tonnes in Maharashtra frames by expanding the scope of the ‘Aaple Sarkar
• In Uttar Pradesh, 19.84 lakh tonnes of sugar was Seva Kendra’ and citizens’ grievances will be redressed
converted into ethanol, while in Maharashtra it was at a faster speed.
15.70 lakh tonnes. • A separate cell will be set up to address the effects of
• There are 210 sugar mills operating in Maharashtra as climate change.
compared to 118 in Uttar Pradesh.
About Maharashtra
Madhya Pradesh Becomes India’s 1st State to Capital Mumbai
Provide Free Air Travel to Pilgrims CM Eknath Shinde
Extra Points Governor Ramesh Bais
• Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Chief Minister of Madhya Gugamal National Park, Sanjay
Pradesh, flagged off a batch of 32 senior citizens Gandhi National Park, Tadoba
National Park
(comprising 24 men and eight women) on pilgrimage National Park, Chandoli National
to Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, from Raja Bhoj Airport in Park, Navegaon National Park
Bhopal, through a flight under the state’s scheme of
Mukhya Mantri Teerth-Darshan Yojana. Andhra Pradesh CM launches Machilipatnam port
• Madhya Pradesh has become India’s 1st state to project for economic growth
conduct pilgrimage by air on government expenditure Extra Points
under the Mukhya Mantri Teerth-Darshan Yojana.
• Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
• So far, 7,82,000 senior citizens have travelled on has formally launched the ₹5,156 crore Machilipatnam
pilgrimage on 782 special trains as part of the Mukhya port works.
Mantri Teerth-Darshan Yojana. • The port, with an initial cargo capacity of 35 million
About the Mukhyamantri Tirth Darshan Yojana:
• The capacity of the 4-berth deep water port will
2012 by Government of Madhya be increased to 116 million tonnes as cargo traffic
Launched in
Pradesh gradually increases.
The senior citizens of MP who are 60 About Andhra Pradesh
Eligible person
years of age and older
Capital Amaravati
Under the scheme, senior citizens
Objective will be taken on a free spiritual tour CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
across India. Governor S. Abdul Nazeer
Papikonda National Park, Rajiv
About Madhya Pradesh
Gandhi (Rameswaram) National
National Parks
Capital Bhopal Park, Sri Venkateswara National
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan Park
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HP government to formulate Green Hydrogen policy • The initiative aims to provide citizens easy access to
government schemes and documents at one place.
Extra Points • Around 75,000 local people are expected to benefit
• Himachal Pradesh government has formulated the from these camps.
‘Green Hydrogen’ policy to promote the use of green
hydrogen and establish the state as a leading hub for About Maharashtra
its production.
• It aims to attract investments in large-scale renewable Capital Mumbai
energy projects, ensuring a consistent and sustainable
CM Eknath Shinde
supply of green electricity for electrolysis.
About Himachal Pradesh Governor Ramesh Bais
Shimla (Summer), Dharamshala Gugamal National Park, Sanjay

Capital Gandhi National Park, Tadoba
(Winter) National Park
National Park, Chandoli National
CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu Park, Navegaon National Park
Governor Shiv Pratap Shukla

Chhattisgarh CM launched ‘Hamar Sughghar Laika
Great Himalayan National Park, Abhiyan’
Pin Valley National Park, Inderkilla
National Parks
National Park, Khirganga National
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Park, Simbalbara National Park • Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has
launched the ‘Hamar Sughar Laik Abhiyan’ in the
‘Bharose Ka Sammelan’ program at Sankra in Durg
Kerala to be the first fully e-governed state district.
Extra Points • The campaign aims to bring 1,800 malnourished
• Kerala is set to declare itself India’s first “total children, identified through a survey, into the category
e-governed state”. of well-nourished children.
• The achievement has been realized through a set • This is the first district-level campaign of its kind in the
of policy initiatives of the government seeking to state and focuses on managing the growth of children
transform the state into a digitally-empowered society. through hunger testing.
• The achievement enables online delivery of the whole About Chhattisgarh
range of government services by leveraging state-of-
the-art technology and platforms. Capital Raipur
About Kerala
CM Bhupesh Baghel
Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan
CM Pinarayi Vijayan
Indravati National Park, Kanger
National Parks
Governor Arif Mohammad Khan Ghati National Park
Eravikulam National Park, Periyar President Murmu inaugurates new Jharkhand High
Court building
National Parks Park, Mathikettan Shola National
Park, Anamudi Shola National Park, Extra Points
Pampadum Shola National Park
• President Droupadi Murmu has inaugurated the new
building of the Jharkhand High Court in Ranchi, built at
Maharashtra government launches ‘Shasan Aplya a cost of about ₹ 550 crore.
Dari’ initiative • The 165-acre compound of the new high court is one of
Extra Points the largest in the country in terms of area.
Eknath Shinde, Chief Minister of the Government of • The new high court building has 25 air-conditioned
Maharashtra launched the ‘Shasan Aplya Dari’ initiative courtrooms and two halls for lawyers with a sitting
in Satara district of Maharashtra. capacity of 1,200 people each, along with 540 chambers.

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• This high court was set up after Jharkhand was carved Telangana achieves 100% coverage of PMJDY
out of Bihar in November 2000.
Extra Points
About Jharkhand • Since the launch of Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana,
Capital Ranchi Telangana State has achieved 100 percent household
coverage of banking services extending them to all
CM Hemant Soren sections of people.
Governor C. P. Radhakrishnan • As per the Social Security Administration survey,
the state has achieved 100 percent coverage and the
National park Betla National Park benefits of 135 welfare schemes and programmes
under 20 departments are credited to these zero-
Home Minister Amit Shah lays Foundation Stone of balance bank accounts of the beneficiaries.
NFSU Assam & launches “Assam Police Seva Setu” • Telangana state has over 1 crore 11 lakh Jan Dhan bank
account holders by the middle of this month. As per the
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official records, these accounts have a balance of over 3
• Union Minister Amit Shah, Ministry of Home Affairs thousand crore rupees
(MHA), laid the foundation stone of the Guwahati
(Assam) campus of the National Forensic Science • However, as the footprint of banking services has
University (NFSU). expanded to the nook and corner of the state, over 61
lakh people have opened their Jan Dhan accounts in
• This will be the world’s 11th NFSU Campus and India’s rural areas whereas, nearly 50 lakh people in urban
10th Campus. areas have zero balance accounts.
• Amit Shah also launched the web portal “Assam Police
Seva Setu” to make the services of the Assam police About Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana
more accessible and transparent for the people.
August 28, 2014 by Ministry of Finance
About National Forensic Science University Launched in
• The Assam Government has given 50 acres of land
to this Forensic Science University and the Union At least one bank account in all
government will provide Rs 500 crore on this NFSU for Purpose households
the graduation and post-graduation of 3,500 students.
• The campus, which is located in the Changsari suburb of
Accident insurance of Rs 2 lakh and life
Kamrup’s Molong district, is expected to be completed
Benefits insurance of Rs 30,000
in 2 stages.
• The 1st phase is expected to complete by 2026, while
the 2nd phase is targeted for 2030. About Telangana
About Assam
Hyderabad
Capital
Capital Dispur
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma K Chandrashekar Rao

CM
Governor Gulab Chand Kataria
Tamilisai Soundararajan
Classical Dance Satriya Nritya Governor
Kaziranga National Park, Dibru -
Saikhowa National Park, Rajiv Gandhi Kasu Brahmananda Reddy National
National Park Park, Mahavir Harina Vanasthali
Orang National Park, Manas National National Parks
Park, Nameri National Park National Park, Mrugavani National Park
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Rashki launches India’s First-ever range of Handbags • ONGC’s discoveries are expected to attract investment
made from Banana and foster development, creating opportunities for job
creation and economic growth.
Extra Points
About ONGC
• An Indian fashion brand, Rashki has launched the
country’s first-ever range of handbags made from
ESTD 1956
banana leather, in an effort to promote sustainable and
eco-friendly fashion. HQ New Delhi
• Banana leather is an innovative and sustainable
alternative to traditional leather, which is CMD Arun Kumar Singh
environmentally damaging and often sourced through
unethical practices.
Google invests $1 million to IIT-Madras Al research
Microsoft Launches Two New Initiatives to Support centre
Indian SMBs
Extra Points
Extra Points • US technology giant Google announced an investment
• Microsoft India has introduced two new initiatives of $1 million in the form of grants to the Indian Institute
namely an SMB-focused website and a dedicated of Technology Madras (IIT Madras).
helpline.
• Google has been announced as the inaugural ‘platinum
• The SMB-focused website – Microsoft for Small and
consortium’ member of the IIT Madras newly formed
Medium Businesses, aims at bringing together business
owners and entrepreneurs in India to network with Centre for Responsible Artificial Intelligence (CeRAI).
peers, enhance their skills and achieve holistic growth. • CeRAI’s major goal will be to create high-quality
• While the Digital Transformation helpline offers research outputs such as research publications in
dedicated support to help SMBs navigate their high-impact journals or conferences, white papers, and
technological adoption and deployment journey. patents, among other things.
ONGC Discovers Crude Oil and Natural Gas in Two

ITI Bags Rs 3,889 Crore Advance Purchase Order
Blocks in Mumbai
From BSNL For 4G Services
Extra Points
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• State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC)
has discovered crude oil and natural gas in two blocks • State-owned telecom gear maker ITI has bagged an
in Mumbai offshore advance purchase order worth Rs 3,889 crore from
• The discoveries, which have been named ‘Amrit’ and BSNL for deploying 23,633 sites for 4G services.
‘Moonga’, were made in the blocks that the company • The supply period for the 4G telecom gear is 18-24
won in recent open acreage licensing rounds. months under the contract.
Q Practice Questions
1. Which of the following has recently (in May 2023) 5. Which of the following is correct regarding the recent
announced a plan to launch an online “ Bank Clinic” to data published regarding 12 Public Sector Banks
assist customers with grievance redress? (PSBs)?
(a) All India Grievances Redressal Union 1. The cumulative profit of 12 Public Sector Banks
(b) All India Bank Employees Association (PSBs) in FY23 surpassed the Rs 1 lakh crore
(c) Indian Banking Association milestone, reaching Rs 1,04,649 crore, witnessing
(d) Reserve Bank of India a 57% increase in total profit compared to Rs
(e) None of these 66,539.98 crore earned in FY22.
2. Match the following correctly: 2. In the March 2023 quarter, the PSBs collectively
witnessed a remarkable profit surge of over 99%,
1. Reserve Bank A. Digitalized Submission
amounting to Rs 34,800 crore, compared to Rs
of India of Form 15G/15H
16,777 crore in March 2022.
2. Visa B. ‘100 Days 100 Pays’
3. Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) recorded the highest
Campaign
net profit growth, with a remarkable 126% increase
3. Canara Bank & C. Vishesh
to Rs 2,602 crore.
Reserve Bank
Innovation Hub 4. PNB’s annual net profit declined by 27% from Rs
3,457 crore in 2021-22 to Rs 2,705 crore in March
4. HDFC Bank D. CVV-Free Payments
2023.
Feature
(a) 1-A, 2-D, 3-C, 4-B (b) 1-D, 2-B, 3-A, 4-C (a) Both 1 and 3
(c) 1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C (d) 1-B, 2-D, 3-C, 4-A (b) Only 1
(e) None of these (c) Both 1 and 2
3. Recently, India’s first recycled Polyvinyl Chloride (d) Both 3 and 4
(rPVC) Rupay card was launched. Which of the (e) All 1, 2, 3 and 4
following is the odd one out with respect to the launch?
6. Recently, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
(a) Tide
Plotch has launched a focussed payment solution
(b) Transcorp International Limited
Nodepe in collaboration with ___________.
(c) MCT Cards & Technology Private Ltd
(a) IDFC FIRST Bank
(d) National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
(b) State Bank of India
(e) Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
(c) Bank of Maharashtra
4. Which of the following is incorrect?
1. At the 602nd meeting of the RBI’s Central Board (d) HDFC Bank
of Directors, the board of the Reserve Bank of (e) Axis Bank
India (RBI) gave its approval to transfer a surplus 7. The launch of “Udyog Plus,” an innovative one-stop
amount of Rs 87,614 crore to the Government for
business platform designed for Micro, Small & Medium
the financial year (FY) 2022-2023.
Enterprise (MSME) customers, has been announced by
2. It has been decided to raise the contingency risk
________.
buffer to 6.5% from 5.5%.
3. In the financial year (FY) 2021-2022, the RBI (a) Aditya Birla Group
transferred Rs 30,307 crore to the government. (b) Aditya Birla Finance
(a) Both 1 and 3 (b) Only 1 (c) Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise
(c) Only 3 (d) Only 2 (d) Small Industries Development Bank of India
(e) None of these (e) None of these
8. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently announced (1) General Insurance Corporation of India Limited
the withdrawal of Rs 2000 banknotes and instructed (2) Life Insurance Corporation of India
banks to stop issuing them immediately. The public must
(3) New India Assurance Company Limited
deposit or exchange their Rs 2000 banknotes within 4
months, from May 23, 2023, to September 30, 2023. (4) National Insurance Company Limited
The Rs 2000 denomination banknote was introduced in (5) United India Insurance Company Limited
November 2016 under _____________. (a) 1, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4
(a) Section 24(1) of RBI Act, 1934. (c) All 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 (d) Both 1 and 2
(b) Section 18 of RBI Act, 1934. (e) None of these
(c) Section 56 of RBI Act, 1934. 14. In May 2023, the Ministry of Finance revised the
(d) Section 41 (2) of RBI Act, 1934. Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account
(e) None of these Transactions) Rules, 2000, by removing rule 7. This
9. During FY23, Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) change incorporated International Credit Card (ICCs)
reduced their holdings in several private sector banks by expenditures outside India within the RBI’s Liberalized
a slight margin, withdrawing approximately Rs ______ Remittance Scheme (LRS). The Tax Collected at Source
crore from the Banking and Financial Services sector. (TCS) for foreign remittances under the LRS will be
(a) Rs 29,921 crore (b) Rs 51,138 crore adjusted from 5% to ______ % effective after _______.
(c) Rs37,674 crore (d) Rs 45,656 crore (a) 10%; 1 July 2023 (b) 15%; 31st July 2023
(e) None of these (c) 25%; 1st June 2023 (d) 20%; 1 July 2023
10. Airtel Payments Bank partnered with the National (e) None of these
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to introduce Face 15. Which of the following has become India’s first
Authentication for AePS (Aadhaar-enabled Payment payment gateway player to facilitate Central Bank
System). Among the following options, which banking Digital Currency (CBDC) or Digital Rupee (e-rupee)
service is not provided by AePS? transactions for online retail merchants?
(a) Balance Inquiry (b) Cash Deposit (a) Paytm (b) CC Avenue
(c) Mini Statement (d) Cash Withdrawal (c) PayPal (d) Bill Desk
(e) Opening of new bank account (e) Razorpay
11. Which of the following is the first Public Sector Bank 16. Zomato, an Indian multinational restaurant aggregator
(PSB) to offer live web and video chat services for its and food delivery company, has collaborated with
customers? ________ to introduce its own Unified Payments
(a) Bank of Baroda Interface (UPI) service called ‘Zomato UPI’ for select
(b) State Bank of India users.
(c) Punjab National Bank (a) ICICI Bank (b) Yes Bank
(d) Canara Bank (c) HDFC Bank (d) Axis Bank
(e) None of these (e) IDFC FIRST Bank
12. The Union government has appointed three merchant 17. According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
bankers to manage the Initial Public Offer (IPO) of data, which country emerged as the third-largest export
the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency destination for India in the Financial Year 2023-23
(IREDA). Which of the following is not one of the three (FY23)?
merchant bankers? (a) United Arab Emirates (b) Netherlands
(a) ICICI Securities Ltd (c) United Kingdom (d) Germany
(b) IDBI Capital Market & Securities Ltd (e) China
(c) BOB Capital Markets Ltd 18. Which company has unveiled a meta-commerce
(d) SBI Capital Markets Ltd platform for Small Businesses & Consumers ahead
(e) None of these of the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC)
Platform?
13. Which of the following companies was/were recently
(in March 2023) identified as Domestic Systemically (a) PhonePe (b) Cashfree Payments
Important Insurers (D-SIIs) for the financial year (c) PayNearby (d) Cheq
2022–23 by the Insurance Regulator and Development (e) None of these
Authority of India (IRDAI)?

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19. Which general insurance company has made history by 24. Which of the following points is/are “correct” with
becoming the first to accept the Reserve Bank of India’s respect to the recent inaugurations made by Prime
(RBI) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) e-Rupee (e`) Minister (PM) Narendra Modi in May 2023?
for premium payments? I. Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, laid the foundation
(a) HDFC Ergo General Insurance stone and dedicated to the nation several railway
projects worth more than Rs 12,000 crores in
(b) ICICI Lombard General Insurance Odisha.
(c) Reliance General Insurance II. PM flagged off the Vande Bharat Express between
(d) Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Puri (Odisha) and Howrah(West Bengal), which
(e) None of these reduced the travel time between Puri and Howrah
to only 6 hours 30 min.
20. According to the World Economic Situation and
III. PM laid the Foundation Stone for the Redevelopment
Prospects mid-2023 of the United Nations (UN), India’s
of Puri and Cuttack railway stations to provide a
economy, the largest in the South Asian region, is
world-class experience to rail travelers by equipping
expected to grow by _____ in 2023 and _____ in 2024. the stations with modern amenities
(a) 5.4% ; 7.6% (b) 5.8% ; 6.7% (a) I and II only (b) II and III only
(c) 6.5% ; 6.9% (d) 6.1%, 6.7% (c) I and III only (d) All of the above
(e) None of these (e) None of the above
21. In May 2023, ____________ became the first state in 25. As of May 2023, which of the following points is/are
India to launch a welfare fund for Mahatma Gandhi “correct” with respect to the Government of the National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD)?
worker I. The judgment of a five-judge Constitution Bench
(a) Tamil Nadu (b) Kerala of the Supreme Court(SC) of India stated that
the elected Delhi government has legislative and
(c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Maharashtra
executive control over services, except law and
(e) Madhya Pradesh order and land, in Delhi.
22. In May 2023, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) II. GoI passed the Government of National Capital
set up the C-PACE to centralise the process of striking Territory of Delhi(GNCTD) (Amendment)
off companies from the MCA Register. In C-PACE, Ordinance, 2023, which reinstated the final
what does ‘A’ stand for? authority of the Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG)
(a) Automated (b) Acquiring in transfers and postings of bureaucrats serving the
Delhi Government.
(c) Affidavit (d) Accelerated
III. The National Capital Civil Service Authority
(e) Action (NCCSA) will be headed by the elected Chief
23. Which of the following points is/are “correct” with Minister(CM) of Delhi and the Chief Secretary of
respect to the recent cabinet approval in May 2023? GNCTD.
I. The Union Cabinet has approved signing the (a) I only (b) II only
Project Collaboration Agreement between India’s (c) III only (d) All of the above
Department of Health Research and the World (e) None of the above
Health Organization for promoting access to high- 26. Which state government just launched the “SAHAS”
quality, affordable assistive technology. project to make workplaces safer for women (in
II. The Union Cabinet also approved the Production May’23)?
Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme 2.0 for Automobile (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka
and Auto Component Industry with an outlay Rs (c) Telangana (d) Kerala
10,000 crore.
(e) Andhra Pradesh
III. The Union Cabinet has approved the signing 27. According to a report released by the United Nations
of the MoU between the Institute of Chartered Environment Programme (UNEP) in May 2023,
Accountants of India (ICAI) and The Chartered countries can eliminate plastic pollution by 80% by
Accountants of the Maldives (CA Maldives). __________ (year) utilising existing technologies.
(a) I and III only (b) I only (a) 2028 (b) 2040
(c) III only (d) II and III only (c) 2035 (d) 2026
(e) All of the above (e) 2030
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28. In May 2023, ____________ was ranked as the World’s 33. Which of the following merchant bankers was recently
Top Public/Private Business Incubator in the 2nd edition appointed (in May ‘23) to oversee the Indian Renewable
of the UBI Global World Rankings of business incubators Energy Development Agency’s (IREDA) Initial Public
and accelerators (World Ranking Report 21/22). Offering (IPO)?
(a) BYJU’S (a) IDBI Capital Market and Securities Ltd.
(b) UpGrad (b) BOB Capital Markets Limited
(c) Paytm (c) SBI Capital Markets Limited
(d) Kerala Startup Mission (d) Both a & b
(e) All a, b & c
(e) Bharat Biotech International Limited
34. Name the bank that has recently (in May ‘23)
29. Which state’s Chief Minister (CM) recently (in May ‘23)
collaborated with Zomato to introduce the Unified
started a jail inmate plan and ISHTH Campaign?
Payments Interface (UPI) service called ‘Zomato UPI’
(a) West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee for select users.
(b) Odisha’s Naveen Patnaik (a) Axis Bank (b) HDFC Bank
(c) Maharashtra’s Eknath Shinde (c) YES Bank (d) ICICI Bank
(d) Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu (Himachal Pradesh) (e) IndusInd Bank
(e) Aditya Nath, Yogi (Uttar Pradesh) 35. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
30. Which state administration recently (in May ‘23) of India (IRDAI) formed a task force in May 2023 to
introduced a new initiative called the ‘Mukhyamantri enhance the convenience of completing Know Your
Customer (KYC). Who is the task force’s 12-member
Sikho Kamao Yojana’ (Chief Minister Gain and Earn
leader?
initiative) to create opportunities for unemployed youths
to gain skills? (a) Mr. Rakesh Joshi
(a) Maharashtra (b) Khuntia, Subash Chandra
(b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Panda Debasish
(d) Pramod Kumar Arora
(c) Uttar Pradesh
(e) S.N Rajeswari
(d) West Bengal
36. Which bank recently (in May 23) collaborated with
(e) Odisha
Mastercard and Worldline India to build a mobile app
31. Identify the stock exchange that recently (in May ‘23) that allows small-scale retailers to accept smartphone
released the rupee-denominated New York Mercantile card and digital payments?
Exchange’s (NYMEX) West Texas Intermediate (WTI) (a) Axis Bank (b) YES Bank
Crude Oil and Natural Gas futures contracts.
(c) ICICI Bank (d) HDFC Bank
(a) National Stock Exchange of India
(e) IndusInd Bank
(b) Vadodara Stock Exchange of India
37. Which of the following points about the ‘Certificate of
(c) Calcutta Stock Exchange of India Registration (CoR)’ is/are “correct” as of May 2023?
(d) Bombay Stock Exchange of India I. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has terminated
(e) Madras Stock Exchange of India the Certificates of Registration (CoR) of seven
NonBanking Finance Companies (NBFC) in the
32. Which organization/bank recently (in May ‘23) gave
execution of the powers granted on it by Section
Rs 51 crore to establish an integrated road safety
45-IA (6) of the RBI Act, 1934.
enforcement system in Himachal Pradesh’s (HP) Shimla
and Nurpur police districts, as well as to develop the II. As a result of this, notified firms are prohibited
from conducting the activity of a Non-Banking
Palampur-Sheela Chowk as a “safe corridor” in Kangra,
Financial Institution (NBFI), as specified in clause
HP?
(a) of Section 27-A of the RBI Act, 1934.
(a) World Bank
III. The 14 NBFCs have returned the Certificate of
(b) IMF (International Monetary Fund) Registration (CoR) issued by the RBI.
(c) Asian Development Bank (ADB) (a) I and II only (b) I only
(d) Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) (c) II only (d) III only
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38. Name the company that recently introduced “Udyog 44. Which of the following statements is/are “correct”
Plus,” an innovative one-stop business platform in relation to India’s G20 Presidency’s third Energy
for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSME) Transition Working Group (ETWG) meeting in Mumbai,
customers (in May ‘23). Maharashtra in May 2023?
(a) Tata Capital Financial Services I. Bhupinder Singh Bhalla, Secretary of the Ministry
(b) Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), stated
India is committed to a rapid, responsible, and just
(c) Aditya Birla Capital
energy transition through international cooperation
(d) Muthoot Finance Ltd and partnership.
(e) Bajaj Finance Ltd II. A paper titled “Low-Cost Finance for Energy
39. According to the United Nations (UN) study ‘World Transition” was also produced by IRENA in
Economic Situation and Prospects as of Mid-2023’, partnership with the MNRE.
released in May 2023, India’s economy is anticipated to III. Reports on the Financing Needs for New Age
rise by ________ in 2024. Critical Technologies: CO2 Capture Utilisation
(a) 6.7% (b) 6.5% and Storage (CCUS), and Battery Energy Storage
(c) 5.9% (d) 6.2% (BES) were also released.
(e) 5.7% (a) I Only (b) I and II Only
40. In May 2023, JSW Steel Limited and Japan’s JFE Steel (c) II and III Only (d) I and II Only
Corporation will form a joint venture (JV) business (e) All of the above
(50:50) to manufacture the whole range of Cold Rolled 45. Which country’s Naval Force recently (in May ‘23)
Grain Oriented (CRGO) products in _______________. partnered with the Indian Navy for the first-ever afloat
(a) Chennai, Tamil Nadu training?
(b) Vijayanagara, Karnataka (a) United Arab Emirates (b) France
(c) Pune, Mahabharata (c) Australia (d) Japan
(d) Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (e) Saudi Arabia
(e) Gandhinagar, Gujarat 46. Name the firm that just (in May ‘23) announced a
41. Which country recently (in May ‘23) signed a Letter collaboration with SpaceX to launch the world’s first
of Intent (LoI) with India to create the Centre of Water commercial space station, ‘Haven-1,’ into low-Earth
Technology (CoWT) through the Indian Institute of orbit by 2025 utilizing the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Technology Madras (IIT-M)? (a) Astra (b) Vast
(a) Bangladesh (b) Indonesia (c) Hydrosat (d) Blue Origin
(c) Israel (d) Sri Lanka (e) Axiom Space
(e) Maldives 47. Name the Indian athlete that won the bronze medal in
42. Name the person who was just elected (in May ‘23) as the the women’s long jump event at the Seiko Golden Grand
first female Director General (DG) of the International Prix 2023 in Yokohama, Japan, lately (in May ‘23).
Organisation for Migration (IOM), effective October 1, (a) Nayana James (b) Shaili Singh
2023.
(c) Neena Varakil (d) Reeth Abraham
(a) Jacinda Ardern
(e) Sylvia Gauntlet
(b) Sandra Day O’Connor
48. Who wrote the book “Partitioned Freedom,” which
(c) Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gulab Chand Kataria, Governor of Assam, recently
(d) Amy E. Pope issued (in May ‘23)?
(e) Condoleezza Rice (a) Bina Agarwal (b) Ram Madhav
43. Name the individual bestowed with the highest French (c) Shashi Tharoor (d) Utsa Patnaik
Civilian award, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (e) Sugata Bose
(Knight of the Legion of Honour), in May ‘23.
49. Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. (Robert Lucas), an American
(a) T.V. Narendran economist and Nobel laureate, died in May 2023. In
(b) Natarajan Chandrasekaran what year did he get the Nobel Prize in Economics?
(c) Banmali Agrawala (a) 1995 (b) 1997
(d) Shapoor Mistry (c) 2000 (d) 2002
(e) N. R. Narayana Murthy (e 2015
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50. ____________, the India-born British industrialist and 56. Credit card payments for foreign travel will be brought
Chairman of the Hinduja Group, died in May 2023. under the Reserve Bank’s Liberalised Remittance
(a) Prakash Parmanand Hinduja Scheme (LRS) in May 2023 to ensure that such expenses
are not exempt from Tax Collection at Source (TCS).
(b) Gopichand Parmanand Hinduja
The Union Budget 2023 proposed a TCS of _________
(c) Ashok Parmanand Hinduja percent (%) for overseas outgoing remittances under
(d) Srichand Parmanand Hinduja LRS other than for education and medical purposes,
(e) Ajay Parmanand Hinduja effective July 1, 2023.
51. What was the theme of the United Nations (UN) World (a) 20 (b) 10
Telecommunication and Information Society Day (c) 15 (d) 30
(WTISD) 2023, which was observed worldwide on May (e) 25
17, 2023?
57. After Reliance Industries, ___________ emerged as the
(a) Accelerating digital transformation in challenging most profitable firm in Financial Year (FY) 23 in May
times 2023.
(b) Empowering the least developed countries through (a) HDFC Bank
information and communication technologies
(b) State Bank of India
(c) Connect 2030: ICTs for the Sustainable
(c) ICICI Bank
Development Goals (SDGs)
(d) Oil & Natural Gas Corporation
(d) Bridging the standardization gap
(e) Tata Consultancy Services
(e) Digital Technologies for Older Persons and Healthy
Ageing 58. Who is the current Managing Director (MD) and Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of YES Bank (as of May ‘23)?
52. When was Anti-Terrorism Day 2023 marked in India to
commemorate former Indian Prime Minister (PM) Rajiv (a) Rama Subramaniam (b) Rana Kapoor
Gandhi’s death anniversary in 1991? (c) Atul Malik (d) Ashok Kapoor
(a) 20th May 2023 (b) 18th May 2023 (e) Prashant Kumar
(c) 21st May 2023 (d) 19th May 2023 59. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met
(e) 22nd May 2023 with Masatsugu Asakawa, president of the Asian
Development Bank (ADB), on the margins of the ADB
53. Name the Gecko species discovered recently (in May ‘23) Annual Meetings in South Korea in May 2023. Where
along the Indo-Myanmar border. is the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) headquarters?
(a) Indian golden Gecko (b) Naked-toed Gecko (a) Dhaka, Bangladesh
(c) Switak’s banded Gecko (d) Gekko Mizoramensis (b) Jakarta, Indonesia
(e) Leopard Gecko (c) Shanghai, China
54. Identify the state government that recently (May ‘23) (d) Mandaluyong, Philippines
launched the ‘e-Chits’ app to regulate funds through
(e) Kathmandu, Nepal
Internet transactions.
60. Name the person who, after finishing T5 at the LPGA
(a) Odisha (b) Andhra Pradesh
Founders Cup in May ‘23, became the first Indian
(c) Jharkhand (d) Telangana female golfer to join the top 50 in the world rankings.
(e) Maharashtra (a) Smriti Mehra (b) Aditi Ashok
55. Name the Union Minister who recently (in May ‘23) (c) Diksha Dagar (d) Anisha Padukone
created the Sanchar Saathi platform to combat mobile
(e) Vani Kapoor
phone fraud.
61. The Union Government has extended the deadline for
(a) Amit Shah (Union Minister of Home Affairs)
obtaining the necessary Ministry of Heavy Industries
(b) Piyush Goyal (Union Minister of Commerce and certification for the electric vehicle (EV) battery safety
Industry) test to qualify for incentives under various EV promotion
(c) Virendra Kumar (Union Minister of Social Justice schemes until _____________.
and Empowerment) (a) October 1, 2023 (b) September 1, 2023
(d) Jitendra Singh (MoS of Science and Technology) (c) July 1, 2023 (d) August 1, 2023
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62. To provide relief to micro, small, and medium-sized 68. To promote youth climate change activism, Bhupender
enterprises (MSMEs) during the COVID-19 period, Yadav, the Union Minister for Environment, Forestry,
which Department recently (in May ‘23) launched the and Climate Change, recently (in May 2023) in New
“Vivad se Vishwas I: Relief to MSMEs” scheme? Delhi, Delhi, launched a mobile application called Meri
(a) Department of Financial Services LiFE (My Life). PM Narendra Modi introduced Mission
(b) Department of Revenue LiFE in Kevadia, Gujarat, in __________.
(c) Department of Economic Affairs (a) November 2021 (b) October 2022
(d) Department of Expenditure (c) August 2021 (d) September 2022
(e) Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal (e) None
Trade 69. In May 2023, ____________ became the first state in
63. Which organisation has recently (in May 2023) India to make digital health cards for children.
collaborated with the NITI (National Institute for (a) Kerala (b) Maharashtra
Transforming India) Aayog to release “Best Practices in (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Uttar Pradesh
Social Sector: A Compendium, 2023’?
(e) Odisha
(a) United Nations Human Settlement Programme
70. Which state/UT witnessed the recent (in May 2023)
(b) United Nations Environment Programme inauguration of India’s unique Indian Air Force (IAF)
(c) United Nations Human Settlement Programme Heritage Centre by Union Minister of Defence Rajnath
(d) United Nations Development Programme Singh?
(e) None (a) Chandigarh (b) Uttar Pradesh
64. In May 2023, the Union Government established an (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Odisha
11-member high-level committee to restructure the (e) Delhi
94-year-old Indian Council of Agricultural Research
71. Which Autonomous Bodies under the Ministry of
(ICAR). Who is the chairman of this committee?
Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) have developed
(a) Suman Berry (b) Mahesh Gupta the learning management information system (LMIS)
(c) Sanjay Garg (d) Dr MS Swaminathan called SAKSHAM (Stimulating Advanced Knowledge
(e) Dr RA Mashlekar. for Sustainable Health Management), which Union
65. In May 2023, which country hosted the inaugural Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan launched?
ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-India (a) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Maritime Exercise (AIME-23)? (b) Medical Council Of India, New Delhi
(a) Brunei (b) Singapore (c) National Institute of Health & Family Welfare,
(c) Thailand (d) Indonesia New Delhi
(e) Cambodia (d) National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
66. Name the Union Minister who recently (in May 2023) (e) National Institute of Mental Health & Neuro
reviewed the Food Street Project, which aims to create Sciences, Bangalore
100 hygienic and healthy food streets across India. 72. In May 2023, _______________ became the 1st Indian
(a) Sarbananda Sonowal (Union Minister of AYUSH) Airline to operate a commercial, domestic flight with
(b) Pashupati Kumar Paras (Union Minister of Food Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
Processing Industries (a) SpiceJet (b) Go First
(c) Mansukh L. Mandaviya (Union Minister of Health (c Air Vistara (d) IndiGo
and Family Welfare)
(e) Akasa Air
(d) Anurag Thakur (Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports)
73. Which ministry/Institution has recently (in May ‘23)
(e) Amit Shah (Union Minister of Home Affairs) collaborated with MyGov Platform to launch “YUVA
67. Which company has taken the recent initiative (May 23) PRATIBHA – Culinary Talent Hunt” across the country?
to establish the National Energy Management Centre (a) National Council for Hotel Management and
(NEMC) specifically for Indian Railways? Catering Technology (NCHMCT)
(a) Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (b) Institute of Hotel Management, Catering, and
(b) SJVN Limited Nutrition, Pusa
(c) NTPC Limited (c) Spices Board of India
(d) RailTel Corporation of India Limited (d) Indian Culinary Institute
(e) Railway Energy Management Company Limited (e) None of the above
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74. In May 2023, the Ministry of Defence granted approval 80. Which state government has recently (May 2023)
for the ________ Positive Indigenization List (PIL) launched India’s 1st State Robotics Framework to
consisting of 928 strategically-significant Line promote the robotic ecosystem?
Replacement Units (LRUs) to foster Aatmanirbharta in (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Telangana
the defence sector.
(c) Karnataka (d) Kerala
(a) 7th (b) 4th
(e) West Bengal
(c) 6th (d) 3th
81. Who has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer of
(e) 8th SpiceJet?
75. Which company has recently (in May ‘23) signed an (a) Abhishek Singhvi (b) Aryama Sundaram
MoU with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (c) Kishor Kumar Basa (d) Arun Kashyap
(MoHUA) for technical assistance for Solid Waste
Management (SWM) & Used Water Management (e) None of the above
(UWM) under Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U) 82. Who has been elected as president of Cycling Federation
2.0? of India?
(a) Rail India Technical and Economic Service Limited (a) Rajesh Verma (b) Pankaj Singh
(b) Larsen & Toubro Limited (c) Sanjay Khanna (d) Vijay Jasuja
(c) Hotel Corporation of India Limited (e) Vinayak Godse
(d) International Institute of Waste Management 83. Which bank has partnered with Redington Limited to
offer Solar Loans of up to Rs 5 crore?
(e) Air India Limited
(a) State Bank of India (b) HDFC Bank
76. In May 2023, __________ achieved the distinction of
being the inaugural Indian state to enforce the “Right to (c) Axis Bank (d) Bank of Baroda
Walk” policy. (e) ICICI Bank
(a) Kerala (b) Punjab 84. Who has joined the e-commerce network Open Network
(c) Haryana (d) Rajasthan for Digital Commerce (ONDC) as an alternative for
Internet shopping?
(e) Karnataka
(a) PayPal (b) PayU
77. Which Union Minister has recently (in May 2023)
unveiled the “Poshan Bhi, Padhai Bhi” initiative aimed (c) Stripe Connect (d) Paytm Business
at enhancing Early Childhood Care and Education (e) Razorpay
(ECCE)? 85. Arya.ag partnered with which of the following Small
(a) Dharmendra Pradhan Finance Bank to drive financial inclusion for farmers
(b) Virendra Kumar and FPOs through offering loan?.
(c) Mansukh L. Mandaviya (a) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
(d) Smriti Zubin Irani (b) AU Small Finance Bank
(e) Anurag Thakur (c) Shivalik Small Finance Bank
78. According to the ‘National Manufacturing Innovation (d) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
Survey (NMIS) 2021–22: Summary for Policymakers’, (e) None of these
which state has secured the highest position in the Indian 86. According to the Reserve Bank of India, data on
Manufacturing Innovation Index (IMII) ranking 2022? “Sectoral Deployment of bank Credit- March 2023”,
(a) Karnataka (b) Madhya Pradesh Scheduled commercial banks reported a robust credit
(c) Gujarat (d) Maharashtra growth of how much percent in FY23?
(e) Dadar And Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (a) 10.3% (b) 12.6%
79. According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (c) 13.8% (d) 14.8%
(CMIE), India’s unemployment rate rose to a 4-month (e) 15.4%
high in April 2023 at_____, compared to 7.8% in 87. Who has been appointed as Chairman of the Life
March 2023. Insurance Corporation of India?
(a) 8.31% (b) 8.26% (a) Siddhartha Mohanty (b) Ipe Mini
(c) 8.18% (d) 8.11% (c) Tablesh Pandey (d) M Jagannath
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88. The Finance Ministry has said that the total enrollment 96. The combined Index of Eight Core Industries increased
under the Atal Pension Yojana (APY) has crossed the by how much percent in March 2023 as compared to the
figure of ______ till March 31 this year. Index of March 2022?
(a) 3 crore 10 lakh (b) 5 crore 20 lakh (a) 1.6 (b) 2.4
(c) 5 crore 10 lakh (d) 3 crore 20 lakh (c) 3.6 (d) 4.9
(e) None of these (e) 5.2
89. MSME Minister Narayan Rane launches Revamped 97. A tiger has been spotted in a camera trap at which
Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small National Park of Haryana?
Enterprises (CGTMSE) Scheme. In which year was the
(a) Kalesar National Park
CGTMSE scheme launched?
(b) Great Himalayan National Park
(a) 1998 (b) 1999
(c) 2000 (d) 2002 (c) Simbalbara National Park
(d) Pin Valley National Park
(e) 2005
(e) Sultanpur National Park
90. Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of the
Bank of Baroda? 98. India’s First Cable-Stayed Anji Khad Railway Bridge
will be ready in May 2023. What is the cost of this
(a) Pranav Haridasan (b) Ashwani Kumar
project?
(c) Deepak Mohanty (d) Debadatta Chand
(a) Rs 200 crore (b) Rs 300 crore
(e) Rajneesh Karnatak
(c) Rs 400 crore (d) Rs 500 crore
91. Who has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of the
Bank of India (BoI)? (e) Rs 600 crore
(a) Pranav Haridasan (b) Ashwani Kumar 99. Which country has topped the 2023 World Press
Freedom Index?
(c) Deepak Mohanty (d) Debadatta Chand
(a) Norway (b) Ireland
(e) Rajneesh Karnatak
(c) Denmark (d) Sweden
92. Which of the following has partnered with digital
payments infrastructure provider PPRO to facilitate (e) None of the above
global e-commerce payments through UPI? 100. Vanessa Hudson has been appointed as the next CEO of
(a) NPCI International Payments Qantas Airline. Qantas is the airline of which country?
(b) PhonePe (a) Australia (b) Russia
(c) Paytm (c) Japan (d) USA
(d) GooglePay (e) China
(e) None of these 101. Santiago Peña is elected as the president of which
93. According to the Asian Development Bank Annual country?
Report 2022, Pakistan got loans of how much billion (a) Paraguay (b) New Zealand
USD, making it the largest recipient of ADB-funded
(c) Australia (d) South Africa
programs/projects in 2022.
(e) Ireland
(a) USD 3.26 billion (b) USD 3.85 billion
102. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched G20
(c) USD 4.27 billion (d) USD 5.58 billion
TechSprint, a global technology competition associated
(e) USD 6.84 billion with which of the following?
94. Which bank increased interest rates on special term
(a) NABARD
deposits known as “Shubh Arambh Deposits” for 501
for deposits under Rs 2 crore? (b) Bank for International Settlements
(a) Bank of India (b) Bank of Baroda (c) Bureau of Indian Standards
(c) Karnataka Bank (d) Bank of Maharashtra (d) Finance Ministry
(e) None of these (e) SIDBI
95. Recently India and which country signed a landmark 103. Which bank has partnered with Pine Labs India to
agreement to collaborate on science and innovation? accept Digital Rupee on its PoS Terminals?
(a) UK (b) Canada (a) HDFC Bank (b) Axis Bank
(c) Japan (d) Malaysia (c) ICICI Bank ( ) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(e) None of these (e) None of the above
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104. Which small finance bank has partnered strategically 111. Which small finance bank and Max Life Insurance
with Dvara SmartGold Private Limited to offer gold Company Limited entered into a partnership to offer life
loans to its customers in Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, and insurance offerings?
Maharashtra? (a) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
(a) Equitas Small Finance Bank (b) Capital Small Finance Bank
(b) Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (c) A U Small Finance Bank
(c) Suryoday Small Finance Bank (d) Suryoday Small Finance Bank
(d) Jana Small Finance Bank (e) None of these
(e) None of the above 112. India and which country has agreed to Explore RuPay
105. India’s Bharti Airtel has signed a binding term sheet and Mir cards for Easy Payments?
for a merger with which country’s telecommunications (a) Russia (b) Germany
company? (c) China (d) UK
(a) Iran (b) Maldives (e) UAE
(c) Bhutan (d) Mauritius 113. Which bank launched its customized retail banking
(e) Sri Lanka program ‘Vishesh’ for customers in semi-urban and
rural (SURU) geographies?
106. Which of the following has launched a unified
recruitment portal “CU-Chayan” for the recruitment of (a) HDFC Bank (b) Axis Bank
faculty? (c) Canara Bank (d) ICICI Bank
(a) All India Council for Technical Education (e) None of these
(b) University Grants Commission 114. Who has jointly signed an MoU with Emjay Control
Systems Pvt Ltd to manufacture and develop a business
(c) Staff Selection Commission
for state-of-the-art electro-mechanical bollards?
(d) Union Public Service Commission
(a) NTPC (b) GAIL
(e) National Testing Agency
(c) BHEL (d) BEL
107. Who has become the highest-paid athlete in the world in
(e) None of these
2023?
115. Union Govt Constitutes 11-member Committee to
(a) Cristiano Ronaldo (b) Lionel Messi Restructure 94-years-old ICAR. Who will chair the
(c) Kylian Mbappe (d) LeBron James committee?
(e) Canelo Alvarez (a) Sanjay Garg (b) BS Chauhan
108. Who has been elected as the next president of the (c) Amitabh Kant (d) Bhuvnesh Kumar
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)? (e) Adarsh Kumar Goel
(a) Michael Slater (b) Shane Watson 116. NTPC has marked its first overseas capacity addition,
(c) Michael Clark (d) Michael Clark beginning with which country?
(e) Mark Nicholas (a) Bangladesh (b) Thailand
109. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of (c) Myanmar (d) Angola
Wakefit? (e) Ethiopia
(a) Parineeti Chopra 117. According to Everest Annual ITS rankings 2023, which
(b) Ayushmann Khurrana of the following companies has topped the list?
(c) Bhumi Pednekar (a) TCS (b) Wipro
(d) Rajkummar Rao (c) HCL (d) Accenture
(e) Malaika Arora (e) Capgemini
110. SEBI has introduced the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) 118. Who has been appointed Chairman of Badminton Asia’s
system for issuers of non-convertible securities, Technical Officials Committee?
securitized debt instruments, and security receipts. LEI (a) Chandra Shekhar Rajan
is the code of how many characters? (b) Anshuman Singhania
(a) 5 (b) 8 (c) Arun Sinha
(c) 12 (d) 15 (d) Mahavir Singh Phogat
(e) 20 (e) Umar Rasheed

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119. Which bank partners with National E-Governance 127. Who has been named the first woman to lead India’s
Services Limited (NeSL) to launch an electronic Bank largest NBFC, Power Finance Corporation (PFC)?
Guarantee (e-BG) facility for its customers? (a) Parineeti Chopra (b) Priyanka Chopra
(a) Kotak Mahindra Bank (b) Federal Bank (c) Parminder Chopra (d) Pawani Chopra
(c) HDFC Bank (d) ICICI Bank (e) Sajal Chopra
(e) Karnataka Bank 128. Wesley W Simina has been appointed as the ___th
120. What is the name of the solar financing scheme launched President of the Federation States of Micronesia.
by Yes Bank to offer financial assistance to MSME (a) 5th (b) 7th
manufacturers who wish to install solar panels at their (c) 8th (d) 9th
premises?
(e) 10th
(a) Yes Surya (b) Yes Solar
129. As of 31 March 2023, what are the RBI’s total gold
(c) Yes Roshni (d) Yes Kiran reserves?
(e) None of these (a) 754.64 tonnes (b) 764.64 tonnes
121. Maharashtra-based Agritech firm Rukart has partnered (c) 774.64 tonnes (d) 784.64 tonnes
with which bank to help potential customers get easy
(e) 794.64 tonnes
loan options to buy the cold storage system ‘Subjee
cooler’? 130. The All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA)
plans to launch an online “Bank Clinic” to assist
(a) State Bank of India (b) HDFC Bank customers with grievance redress. In which year was
(c) Axis Bank (d) ICICI Bank the All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA)
(e) Bank of Maharashtra established?
122. PTC India Limited & Brookfield Renewable have (a) 1942 (b) 1943
signed an MoU for the procurement of _____ MW solar (c) 1944 (d) 1946
power on a long-term basis. (e) 1950
(a) 50 (b) 100 131. Recently which bank has gone live with “Direct Tax
(c) 200 (d) 250 Collections” on behalf of the Government of India
(e) 300 through the new Tax Information Network portal?
123. Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana, Pradhan (a) HDFC Bank (b) Karnataka Bank
Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana and Atal Pension Yojana (c) Bank of Maharashtra (d) RBL Bank
completed 8 years. In which year these schemes were (e) None of these
launched?
132. Which company has become the 1st firm to receive the
(a) 2014 (b) 2015 Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) licence in
(c) 2016 (d) 2017 the agritech space?
(e) 2018 (a) Asana (b) Ora Finance
124. Dr Bharati Pravin Pawar, Union Minister of State for (c) Todoist (d) Airtable
Health and Family Welfare, launched which Thalassemia (e) None of these
Bal Sewa Yojana phase? 133. Which IIT has partnered with Defence Research and
(a) First (b) Second Development Organization (DRDO) scientists to
(c) Third (d) Fourth develop cutting-edge sensor technology for underwater
communications?
(e) Fifth
(a) IIT Guwahati (b) IIT Delhi
125. India has recently extended a $1 billion credit line for
which country by one year, hitting the crisis? (c) IIT Madras (d) IIT Kanpur
(a) Sri Lanka (b) Ghana (e) IIT Roorkee
(c) Sudan (d) Zimbabwe 134. Which ministry has launched Yuva Pratibha Singing
Talent Hunt in association with MyGov?
(e) Myanmar
(a) Ministry of Culture
126. Russia has celebrated which edition of the Victory Day
Parade on 8th May 2023? (b) Ministry of Environment and Forests
(a) 70th (b) 72nd (c) Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
(c) 74th (d) 75th (d) Ministry of Education
(e) 78th (e) Ministry of Jal Shakti
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135. Who has inaugurated the “Buddham Saranam 143. Who has created history by becoming the highest
Gacchami” Exhibition at the National Gallery of wicket-taker in IPL?
Modern Arts, Delhi? (a) Mohammad Shami (b) Jasprit Bumrah
(a) Meenakshi Lekhi (b) Narendra Modi (c) Bhubaneswar Kumar (d) Kuldeep Yadav
(c) Amit Shah (d) Anurag Thakur (e) Yuzvendra Chahal
(e) Jitendra Singh 144. According to the ‘Global Report on Internal
136. Who has broken the record for slamming the fastest fifty Displacement 2023, the number of internally displaced
in the history of IPL? people globally reached how many million in 2022?
(a) Yashasvi Jaiswal (b) Ishan Kishan (a) 60.5 (b) 62.9
(c) Rohit Sharma (d) Sanju Samson (c) 67.9 (d) 70.5
(e) Rinku Singh (e) 71.1
137. Who has taken over as Chairman of Syama Prasad 145. The US Senate has appointed _________ as the
Mookerjee Port, Kolkata (SMP, Kolkata)? ‘Ambassador at Large for global issues related to
women at the State Department.
(a) Dr. Vasudha Gupta (b) Rajiv Kumar
(a) Sonia Guajajara (b) Aruna Miller
(c) Rathendra Raman (d) Kapil Maheshwari
(c) Apsara A Iyer (d) Janani Ramachandran
(e) Adille Sumariwalla
(e) Geeta Rao Gupta
138. Who has been appointed as Gucci’s first Indian Global
146. Who has been appointed as the new CEO of Twitter?
Ambassador?
(a) Margherita Della Valle (b) Vanessa Hudson
(a) Anushka Sharma (b) Alia Bhatt
(c) Linda Yaccarino (d) Elon Musk
(c) Priyanka Chopra (d) Katrina Kaif
(e) None of these
(e) Aishwarya Rai
147. Which Insurance Company has launched the first-of-
139. The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has
its-kind debt fund in the fixed-income Unit Linked
approved how much a million USD loan is for Animal
Insurance Plans (ULIP) space in India’s life insurance
Health System Support for One Health Program.
market?
(a) 80 (b) 81
(a) Sahara India Life Insurance
(c) 82 (d) 83
(b) Reliance Nippon Life Insurance
(e) 84
(c) PNB MetLife India Insurance
140. Which bank has launched a premium banking program,
(d) ICICI Prudential Life Insurance
Privy League targeting High-Net-Worth Individuals?
(e) SBI Life Insurance
(a) HDFC Bank
148. IRDAI forms a 5-Member Committee to advise on
(b) Kotak Mahindra Bank
Mental Health Cover. Who will chair the committee?
(c) Axis Bank
(a) Pratima Murthy (b) Debasish Panda
(d) ICICI Bank
(c) Atanu Kumar Das (d) A.S Rajeev
(e) None of the above
(e) None of these
141. Who has launched ‘Harit Sagar’ the Green Port
149. As per the data of the Ministry of Commerce and
Guidelines 2023 in New Delhi?
Industry, the Netherlands emerged as the ____th largest
(a) Anurag Thakur (b) Piyush Goyal export destination for India in FY23.
(c) Jitendra Singh (d) Sarbananda Sonowal (a) 1st (b) 2nd
(e) Amit Shah (c) 3rd (d) 4th
142. Under the One Station One Product’ scheme of Indian (e) 5th
Railways, how many stations are covered with 785 150. The Reserve Bank of India’s report states that India’s
OSOP outlets in 21 States and 3 Union Territories across green financing requirement is estimated to be at least
the country so far? how much percent of GDP annually till 2030?
(a) 652 (b) 687 (a) 1% (b) 1.5%
(c) 728 (d) 785 (c) 2% (d) 2.5%
(e) 790 (e) 3%

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ANSWER KEY
1. (b) 2. (c) 3. (e) 4. (d) 5. (a) 6. (a) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (e)
11. (a) 12. (a) 13. (a) 14. (d) 15. (b) 16. (a) 17. (b) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (b)
21. (a) 22. (d) 23. (d) 24. (c) 25. (b) 26. (c) 27. (e) 28. (b) 29. (d) 30. (a)
31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (b) 34. (b) 35. (a) 36. (b) 37. (d) 38. (a) 39. (d) 40. (b)
41. (b) 42. (d) 43. (a) 44. (b) 45. (d) 46. (c) 47. (b) 48. (d) 49. (d) 50. (b)
51. (a) 52. (a) 53. (e) 54. (d) 55. (a) 56. (b) 57. (a) 58. (c) 59. (e) 60. (b)
61. (c) 62. (d) 63. (b) 64. (e) 65. (e) 66. (b) 67. (b) 68. (b) 69. (a) 70. (d)
71. (b) 72. (c) 73. (d) 74. (b) 75. (e) 76. (a) 77. (b) 78. (e) 79. (d) 80. (b)
81. (d) 82. (b) 83. (a) 84. (e) 85. (c) 86. (e) 87. (a) 88. (b) 89. (c) 90. (d)
91. (e) 92. (a) 93. (d) 94. (a) 95. (a) 96. (c) 97. (a) 98. (c) 99. (a) 100. (a)
101. (a) 102. (b) 103. (c) 104. (d) 105. (e) 106. (b) 107. (a) 108. (e) 109. (b) 110. (e)
111. (b) 112. (a) 113. (a) 114. (d) 115. (a) 116. (a) 117. (d) 118. (e) 119. (b) 120. (d)
121. (a) 122. (b) 123. (b) 124. (c) 125. (a) 126. (e) 127. (c) 128. (e) 129. (e) 130. (d)
131. (d) 132. (b) 133. (c) 134. (a) 135. (a) 136. (a) 137. (c) 138. (b) 139. (c) 140. (b)
141. (d) 142. (c) 143. (e) 144. (e) 145. (e) 146. (c) 147. (d) 148. (a) 149. (c) 150. (d)
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