According to the 2022 tiger census

Tiger Population – 3167

Tezpur airport station – Assam

Bengaluru will soon have India’s first
post office constructed using 3D
printing technology
The world’s first conservation and
breeding center for the critically
endangered Asian king vulture is set to
open in Maharajganj district, UP
The 2023 International Prize in Statistics, which is
regarded as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in
statistics, has been awarded to Calyampudi
Radhakrishna Rao, an Indian-American statistician

In a recent cyberattack, eight Central government

entities, including central paramilitary forces and the
Income Tax department, were targeted by the Raccoon
Stealer malware.
The UP-Education Service Selection
Commission will be set up by the Uttar
Pradesh Government for the teacher
recruitment in the state

Northeast India first AIIMS - Guwahati

Finland become the 31st
member of NATO
 Human Development Index

India’s rank in 2023 – 132/191

Top 3 Countries – Switzerland,

Norway, Iceland
The Geological Survey of India has found lithium reserves in J & K.

India’s first under Water metro being built In Kolkatta.

Mughal garden has been renamed as Amrit udyan

Ecaudor become the first country to give legal rights to wild animals
 Complete list of national parties in India.
At present, there are 6 national political parties in India.

1. Bharatiya Janata Party - 6 April 1980

2. Communist Party of India (Marxist) – 7 Nov 1964

3. Indian National Congress – 28 December 1885

4. Bahujan Samaj Party – 14 April 1984

5. National People’s Party – 6 January 2013

6. Aam Aadmi Party – 26 November 2012

Communist Party of India – 26 December 1925

All India Trinamool Congress – 1 January 1998

Nationalist Congress Party – 10 June 1999

 Jyotirao Govindrao Phule ( 11th April )

From Maharashtra

In 1848, he taught his wife (Savitribai Phule) how to

read and write, after which the couple opened the
first indigenously run school for girls in Pune where
they both taught.

Author of the Book – Gulamgiri

What is the Vibrant Villages Programme?

• It is a Centrally sponsored scheme, announced in the Union

Budget 2022-23 (to 2025-26) for development of villages on
the northern border, thus improving the quality of life of people
living in identified border villages.

• It will cover the border areas of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand,

Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Ladakh.

• Ministry of Home Affairs

• Inaugurate at Kibithoo, a border village in Arunachal Pradesh.

 Ambedkar Jayanti – 14th April

Born - 14 April 1891 in Mhow, MP

Telangana CM will unveil a 125-feettall statue

of Dr B R Ambedkar on the banks of
Hussainsagar, marking the latter’s 132nd birth
anniversary.

It is claimed to be the tallest statue in the

country ever built for Dr B R Ambedkar.
 Jallianwala Bagh massacre – 13th April 1919

The Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore renounced the knighthood
he had received in 1915.

The Hunter Committee was appointed by the British government to discuss the issue.

Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921) was the Governor-General/Viceroyof India during the

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

Governor Michael O' Dyer was assassinated by Udham Singh in London in 1940 as
revenge against the massacre.
 International Intellectual Property Index 2023

India’s ranked 42nd

1. USA

Released by : US Chambers of
Commerce
 World Happiness Index 2023

India – 126 / 146.

Rank 1 - Finland

Published by the UN Sustainable

Development
Solutions Network (SDSN)
 Republic Day 2023

Chief Guest for Republic

Day 2023

Egyptian Prez Abdel Fattah El-

Sisi
 Best tableaux of Republic Day Parade 2023

Category By a panel of judges

Best State/UT tableau Uttarakhand

 Ladli bahna scheme

Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

announces 'Ladli Bahna' scheme for the girls.

No matter their caste or status,

underprivileged women would receive Rs
1,000 each month under this Yojna in order to
gain financial independence.
 Odisha wins World Habitat Award 2023 for its JAGA Mission.

About the Jaga Mission

Aims at empowering the

lives of slum
dwellers
European Union : JUICE Spacecraft in April 2023
to study or explore the moons of Jupiter
 ISRO going to launch Aditya L1 in
July –august 2023 for exploration of Sun
 NISAR Mission

NISAR is an earth-observing satellite

planned to be launched in 2024.

It stands for NASA-ISRO Synthetic

Aperture Radar.
 Jupiter now has the most moons in
the solar system, beating Saturn
thanks to 12 newfound satellites

Jupiter has 92 moons.

Jupiter planet has

overtaken Saturn planet,
which has 83 moons at
present
 Ganga Vilas Cruise

It is the world’s longest river cruise.

Started From Varanasi.

51 days reaching Assam’s Dibrugarh through

Bangladesh.

UP , Bihar , Jharkhand ,Kolkatta , Dhaka &

Assam
Siyom bridge – Arunachal Pradesh (built by BRO)
 India signs pact with South Africa to get
over 100 cheetahs in a decade ( 10 Years )
Shashi Tharoor’s latest book ‘Ambedkar: A Life’ launched
 108th Indian Science Congress - Nagpur

2023 Theme - 'Science and

Technology for Sustainable
Development with Women's
Empowerment'.
Captain Shiva Chauhan becomes the 1st
women officer to be operationally
deployed in Siachen.
Salman Rushdie new novel ‘Victory
City’ released.

14th edition of Aero India 2023 -

Yelahanka Air Force
Station in Bengaluru.
 PM Narendra Modi named the 21 largest unnamed islands of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands after Param Vir Chakra awardees on
the occasion of Parakram Diwas.
 Right to Health.

Rajasthan has become the first

and the only State in the
country to legislate the right to
health.
 Airport

1) Donyi Polo Airport – Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh

2) Shivamogga Airport – Karnataka

3) Maharaja Agrasen Airport – Hisar, Haryana

4) Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Airport – Aurangabad,

Maharashtra
 Election Commission Of India

Supreme Court ruled that appointment of the

Chief Election Commissioner and Elections
Commissioners will be done by the President on
the advice of a committee comprising the PM,
the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha
and the Chief Justice of India.
 North India’s first Nuclear power plant

Gorakhpur Nuclear Power

Plant – Haryana
 Operation Dost - 2023
Launched By : Indian Govt.

To Help Turkiye & Syria

Hit By 7.8 Magnitude Intense

Earthquake

Under This Operation : India Sent -

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF),
materials, medicines, Medical equipment
etc
 Visva-Bharati to be World’s First Living
Heritage University

‘Heritage’ tag from UNESCO

Founded by Rabindranath Tagore

in 1921 Chancellor – PM of India

Located in – Shantiniketan, WB
 PM Modi Inaugurates Asia’s Largest Helicopter
Manufacturing Facility In Karnataka’s Tumakuru.

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

(HAL) helicopter factory
 36th Surajkund International Crafts fair 2023 - Haryana

Vice President, Shri Jagdeep

Dhankhar inaugurated

Partner Nation: Shanghai Cooperation

Organization (SCO)

Partner State: North Eastern Region is the

theme state
 Tamil writer Sivasankari has been
selected for Saraswati Samman for 2022
for her book Survya Vamsam.

Hindi writer Dr Gyan Chaturvedi's -

Pagalkhana, has been selected for the
32nd Vyas Samman, 2022.
 India’s Ricky Kej wins third Grammy Award

Youngest person from India

For his album Divine Tides

 Former PM Manmohan Singh conferred Lifetime
Achievement Honour by UK

Economic & Political

Contribution.
 Pritzker Architecture Prize 2023

Sir David Alan Chipperfield

Architecture’s highest honor.

 Abel Prize 2023

Luis Caffarelli (USA)

Neal Mohan of Indian origin has been
made the new CEO of YouTube.

CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank,

after its current chief David Malpass
announced plans to step down early.
 New Development Bank (NDB)

New Development Bank (NDB) has

announced that former Brazilian
President Dilma Vana Rousseff has
been elected as the new President
of the Bank.

15th BRICS summit 2023 – South Africa

Government appointed B.V.R. Subrahmanyam
as the new CEO of Niti Aayog.
IPS officer Rashmi Shukla appointed
Director- General of Sashastra Seema Bal
SSB is the border-guarding force
deployed along Nepal and Bhutan border
 Raisina Dialogue

Raisina Dialogue is India’s flagship conference on

geopolitics and geo-strategy ( Delhi )

It is organized by the Ministry of External Affairs in

collaboration with Observer Research Foundation.

Chief Guest – Georgia Meloni (Italy 1st Women PM)

 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

SCO Summit 2023 – India ( Goa)

Theme - “FOR A SECURE SCO”.

SCO film festival 2023 – Mumbai

India to host Shanghai

Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
Tourism Ministers’Meeting (TMM)
on 17th -18th March 2023 in Kashi
 PM of Japan Kishida Fumio will arrive on an
official visit to India to expand bilateral
cooperation with India on March 20-21, 2023

Australian PM Anthony Albanese

arrived in India on 8 March 2023.
Deakin University (Australia) has
become the first foreign university
- To Open International Branch
Campus in GIFT City.
 Ukraine ( Neighbouring Countries )

Russia has reached an

agreement with Belarus to
station tactical nuclear
weapons
 Vikram-S, India’s 1st privately built rocket
launched successfully

Developed by Skyroot Aerospace

(Hyderabad)

Launched By ISRO

From : Satish Dhawan Space Centre,

Sriharikota

Mission Name - Prarambh

 Climate Change Performance Index 2023

Released by : Germanwatch

First 3 Ranks Kept Empty (No Country Performed

Well)

Top Countries

Denmark : Rank - 4th

Rank - 8th
 COP27 international climate conference - Egypt

6–18 Nov 2022 , Sharm El Sheikh,

Egypt

Participants : UNFCCC (UN

Framework Convention On Climate
Change) Member Countries
 India’s Purnima Devi Barman honoured
with U.N.’s highest environmental award

“UN. Environment
Programme’s 2022
Champions of the Earth award”
 40th & 41st ASEAN Summit

Date : 10 To 13 Nov

Host City : Phnom Penh

(Cambodia)

ASEAN-India Friendship year -

2022
 17th East Asia Summit (EAS) 2022
Held - Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Participated From India - Jagdeep

Dhankhar (Vice President)

East Asia Summit :

A Regional Forum

Total Members : 18 (Including 10

Members Of ASEAN)
 53rd International Film Festival of India
Panaji, Goa

1. Golden Peacock (Best Film) :

I Have Electric
Dreams (Spanish Film)
 Law Commission of India
An advisory body to Min. Law and Justice

Chairman : Justice Rituraj

Awasthi First Time Formed

1834

1st Time In Independent India - 1955

Prime Minister lays foundation stone of C-295 transport
aircraft manufacturing facility - country’s first in private
sector - in Vadodara, Gujarat
 Nikshay Mitra Ambassador

Nikshay Mitra

An initiative Of Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt

Bharat Abhiyaan

Deepa Malik

India Target To Eliminate TB By

2025 World TB Day : 24 March

 Gandhi Mandela Award 2022

Dalai Lama receives

Gandhi
Mandela Award
Important Days & Themes
 World Diabetes Day ( 14 Nov )

Theme

Access to diabetes
education
 National Milk Day : 26 Nov

On Birth Anniversary of Dr. Verghese

Kurien (Father Of White Revolution)
 Janjatiya Gaurav Divas {Tribal Pride Day}

Celebrated On : 15th
November

On The Birth Aniversary

Of
Birsa Munda
World AIDS Day : 1st Dec
Theme 2022 : “Equalize”
 World Soils Day : 5 DEC

Theme 2022 : Soils: Where

food begins
 Human Rights Day : 10 DEC

Theme 2022 : Dignity, Freedom, and

Justice for All
“National Mathematics Day’ : 22 Dec
On The Birth Anniversary Of S Ramanujan

National Farmers Day : 23rd Dec.

On The Birth Aniversary Of Choudhary Charan Singh

National Consumer Rights
Day : 24 Dec.

Good Governance Day : 25 Dec.

On The Birth Aniversary Of Atal Bihari

Vajpayee Ji
 January 2023 Imp Days

16 Jan - Startup India Day

23 Jan – Prakaram Divas (Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose )

24 Jan – National Girl Child Day

25 Jan – National Tourism Day
 Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas – 9 January

Theme : Diaspora: Reliable Partners for India’s Progress

in Amrit Kaal”

Celebrated in Indore ( MP) - 17th Pravasi Bharatiya

Divas

Chief Guest, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, the President of

Guyana
 12 Jan – National Youth Day

2023 Theme – Viksit Yuva,

Viksit Bharat

Birth Anniversay of Swami

Vivekananda
 25 Jan – National Voters Day

Theme: ‘Nothing Like Voting, I

Vote for Sure’
 Feb Imp Days with Theme

World Wetlands Day – 2 February

2023 Theme – It’s time for Wetland

Restoration
National Science Day – 28TH
February

2023 Theme : 'Global Science for

Global Wellbeing’.
 Important Days Of March 2023

3 March – World Wildlife Day

Theme 2023 - Partnerships for wildlife conservation" .

8 March – International Women’s Day

Theme 2023 - “DigitALL : Innovation and technology for gender equality”

15 March - World Consumer Rights Day

Theme 2023 -Empowering Consumers Through

Clean Energy Transitions.

20 March – International Day of Happiness

Theme 2023 – Be Mindful, Be Greatful, Be Kind

21 March – International
Forest Day

Theme 2023 – Forests and

Health
22 March – World Water Day

Theme 2023 – Accelerating Change

24 March – World TB Day

Theme 2023 – Yes! We can end TB.

PM addresses One World TB Summit in

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
7 April

World Health Day

2023 Theme : Health for All

8th India International Science Festival 2022 -
Bhopal
UAE to Host the 13th WTO
Ministerial Meeting in 2024
 “Veer Bal Diwas”
26 Dec

In the memory of Guru Gobind Singh’s

sons ( 10th Guru ) Guru Gobind Singh’s

Sons

1. Zorawar Singh (9 Years) &

2. Fateh Singh (7 Years)

Mrs World 2022

Winner : Sargam Koushal

(Mumbai based)

Born : Jammu Kashmir

 Miss India World 2023.

Rajasthan's Nandini Gupta

has been crowned Femina
 Miss Universe 2022

R'Bonney Gabriel (US)

 Hanle Dark Sky Reserve (HDSR)

India 1st Dark Night Sky

Reserve

Laddakh
International Year of Millets – 2023
 ‘Goblin Mode’ Is Oxford’s 2022 Word of the Year

Does not express regret

self-indulgent (desires )
Volodymyr Zelensky is Time Magazine's 2022 Person of the Year
Sonakshi Sinha named PETA Person of the Year 2022
 Gati Shakti University: Railway Minister
Ashwini Vaishnaw appointed as first
Chancellor

Gati Shakti University

Location : Vadodara, Gujarat

 Sahitya akademi awards 2022
announced
2nd Highest Literary Award After Jnanpith Award

Est : 1954

Given In 24 Languages {22 From 8th Schedules +

English & Rajashthani}

English : Winner – Anuradha Roy {For Her Novel –

All the Lives We Never Lived}

Hindi : Tumadi Ke Shabd (Poetry) - Badri Narayan

 Hansraj Gangaram Ahir named as
the new NCBC chairperson

National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC)

Formed : 1993

Under - M/o Social Justice and Empowerment

Constitutional Status - By 102nd Constitution

Amendment Act, 2018

Under Article - 338-B

 NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture & Rural
Development)

Formed : 1982

HQ - Mumbai

Under : Ministry Of
Finance

Chairman - Shaji K V
Anil Kumar Lahoti named as
next railway board chairman
and CEO
 Women's Premier League 2023

Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals

by seven wickets in the WPL 2023 final,
at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.
 Santosh Trophy 2022–23

At the King Fahd International

Stadium in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia, Karnataka defeated
Meghalaya 3-2 to win the
Santosh Trophy for 2022–23.
 ISSF World Cup Shooting Championship

ISSF World Cup 2023 in Bhopal, is scheduled

from March 21 to 27.

India 2nd Position – 7 Medals ( 1G , 1S , 5B )

Sarabjot Singh - Gold

China 1st Position – 12 Medals (8G , 2S ,2B )

 2023 ICC Women's T20 World Cup

Hosts – South Africa

Winner – Australia Runner Up

– South Africa
 Rajni trophy 2023 (Cricket tournament)

Champions 2023 : Saurashtra

Runner Up 2023 –

Bengal Final - Eden

Gardens, Kolkata
Salim Durani, who passed away,
belongs to Cricket.

Priyanshu Rajawat- Badminton ( MP )

 2022 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup

1) Host Country : Australia

2) Champions : England

3) Runners-up : Pakistan

2024 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup

Host Country - West Indies &

USA
 FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023

Winner – Germany ( 3rd Title) Runner Up – Belgium

Host - Bhubaneswar and Rourkela from January 13 to 29

 Australian Open 2023

Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) win maiden

grand slam Australian open

Novak Djokovic win the 10th Men’s

Singles title in Australia open.
 ICC T20 U19 World cup

India win after beating England 2023

ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup
was the 1st edition of the ICC
Women's Under-19 Cricket World Cup,
hosted by South Africa in 2023
 Uttar Pradesh to host 2023 Khelo India
University Games

4 cities of Uttar Pradesh including Lucknow,

Gorakhpur, Varanasi, and Noida.

2nd edition Of “Khelo India University Games”

Host : Banglore

Winner : Jain University (Bangluru)

First Women President of Indian Olympic Association - PT Usha
 Pele (Legendary Footballer - Brazil)

1958, 1962 & 1970

FIFA World Cup

winner
 Cristiano Ronaldo (Portuguese Footballer)

Joined Saudi Arabian club Al-

Nassr (On
200 M Euros Deal)
 4th Tennis Premier League (TPL) 2022

Held - Pune

Winners : Hyderabad
Strikers
 “2022 Pro Kabaddi League” Title

9th 2022 Pro Kabaddi League

Champions : Jaipur Pink Panthers (2nd

title)
 3rd “T20 World Cup for Blind”

Hosted - By India

Winner : INDIA (3rd Title)

Defeated - Bangladesh
WHO renames monkeypox as ‘mpox’
 Gaganyaan Mission

India’s First Human Space Mission

Launched Date : 2024

India Will Send 3 Male Astronaut + 1

Female Robot - Vyom Mitra
 Kīlauea - Recently Volcanics Eruption

Hawaii, USA
 Cyclones Mandous

Formed Bay Of Bengal

Area Affected -Tamilnadu,

Andhra
Pradesh, Srilanka

Cyclone Mandous named by

UAE
Military Exercises
 Malabar' 2023

The Malabar multilateral naval

exercise, which includes
participation from India,
Australia, Japan, and the United
States, will be hosted by
Australia for the first time in
August 2023.
 95th Academy Award 2023 Winner’s List
Best Original Song’ At Oscar 2023

“Naatu Naatu” : 1st India Film Song to win OSCAR Award Movie : RRR

Composed by M. M. Keeravani

Lyricists : Chandrabose

Also won the Best Original Song Award in Golden globe Awards 2023
The Oscar-winning short documentary
'The Elephant Whisperers' was shot in
the Theppakadu Elephant Camp at the
Mudumalai Tiger Reserve in the Nilgiri
Mountains in Tamil Nadu.
 Latest GI Tags in India

MP’s Gond Painting of Acquires GI Tag.

New Governors of States 2023
Khelo India Youth Games 2022-23
Budget 2023
Economic Survey 2023
 Padma Awards 2023

PADMA VIBHUSHAN : 6

PADMA BHUSHAN : 9

PADMA SHREE: 91

Total – 106
Appointments
2022 FIFA World Cup - Argentina
 G20 Summit

G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New Delhi.

IIT Kanpur, one of India’s premier institutes of

technology, will host the Youth20 Consultation
under the G20 Presidency of India from April
5th-6th, 2023.
The first meeting of the W20 (Women 20) under India’s G20 presidency was held in
Sambhaji Nagar.

Business-20 (B-20) Inception Meeting – Gandhinagar (22- 24 January 2023)

Think-20 Meeting – Bhopal (16 – 17 January 2023)

Secretariat for Science 20 (S20) Meeting – IISc Bengaluru