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Year Book by Smart Notes
November 2022
Important APP / Portal / Services –

→ Himachal Pradesh launched “Satya Nishtha” app to help police.
→ The Central government launched the mobile app “Sign Learn”, a sign language
dictionary mobile app.
→ Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel launched the “Hamar Beti Hamar
Maan” campaign.
→ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the “Football for All” initiative.
→ Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh is launching a website titled “Maa Bharti
Ke Sapoot”.
→ Governor of Karnataka launched “Tele-MANAS” initiative.
→ President Draupadi Murmu launched a portal for women entrepreneurs called
“her-start”.
→ Odisha launches a common credit portal for farmers named "SAFAL".
Important Deaths –
→ Legendary actor “Arun Bali” passed away at the age of 79.
→ Eminent businessman and Suzlon Energy Ltd founder, CMD “Tulsi Tanti” dies at
64.
→ Prominent British film actor Anthony Robert Macmillan has died at the age of 72.
→ Renowned music director Swapan Sengupta died at the age of 90.
→ Iran's Amou Haji, the dirtiest man in the world, died recently at the age of 94.
→ Jayanthi Patnaik, the first chairperson of the National Commission for Women,
died at the age of 90.
Important National appointments –

→ Attorney General of India - R. Venkatramani.
→ Chief of Defence staff of India - Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan.
→ Governor of Meghalaya - B.D. Mishra.
→ Deputy Election Commissioner - Ajay Bhadu.
→ Chairman of association of mutual funds in India - A. Balasubramanyam.
→ Brand ambassador of Bandhan Bank - Sourav Ganguly.
→ Chief justice of the Supreme Court - D.y. Chandrachur.
→ Full time member of SEBI - Anant Narayan Gopalakrishnan.
→ CEO of Paytm payments Bank - Dipendra Singh Rathore.
→ President of BCCI - Roger Binny.
→ President of the Indian National Congress Party - M. Mallikarjun Kharge.
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→ The Chief Scientist of the mission ISRO's “Aditya L-One” - Dr. K. Shankar
Subramaniam.
→ New controller general of accounts of India - Bharati Das.
→ India's New Revenue Secretary - Sanjay Malhotra.
→ India's New Defence Secretary - Aramane Giridhar.
→ Chairman of Quality Council of India - Jakhaya Shah.
→ New director general of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) - Sujay Lal Thaosen.
→ 32nd director general of Indo Tibetan Border Police - Anish Dayal Singh.
→ Director of national disaster management authority - Mrinalini Srivastava.
International appointments –
→ Vice president of International astronautical Federation - Dr Anil Kumar (Senior
scientist of ISRO).
→ President of Indian American Chambers of Commerce (IACC) - Lalit Bhasin.
→ Prime minister of Italy - Giorgia Meloni.
→ Brand ambassador of Walkaroo International Limited - Ajay Devgan.
→ Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia - Mohammed Bin Salman Al saud.
Important index / report / ranking –

→ Global innovation index 2022 - Switzerland (1st), India (40th)
→ IIFL wealth Hurun India rich list 2022 - Gautam Adani (1st) Mukesh Ambani
(2nd)
→ Time Hundred Next Rising Person List - Akash Ambani is the chairman of Reliance
Jio as an Indian only from India.
→ 15th Global innovation index - Switzerland (1st), India (40th)
→ Currently, India is the largest sugar producing country in the world.
→ Global hunger index 2022 - China (1st), India (107)
→ Public affairs index 2022 - Haryana tops the large state category and Sikkim tops
the small state category.
→ World University ranking 2023 - Oxford University (1st), IISC Bengaluru (1st in
India)
→ India ranks third in the world in fish production.
→ Global pension index 2022 - Iceland (1st), India (41th)
Important days –
→ 26 September - International Day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
→ 26 September - World Environment Health Day.
→ 27 September - World Tourism day.
→ 28 September - International Day for Universal access to information.
→ 28 September - World rabies day.
→ 29 September - World Heart day.
→ 1st October - International Coffee Day.
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→ 1st October - International Day for older persons.
→ 1st October - National voluntary blood donation day.
→ 2nd October - Swachh Bharat Divas.
→ 4 October - World animal day (A shared planet).
→ 5 October - World Teachers Day.
→ 8 October - Indian Air Force Day.
→ 9 October - World Post Day.
→ 10 October - World Mental Health Day.
→ 11 October - International Day of girl child.
→ 12 October - World Arthritis day.
→ 15 October - International day of rural women.
→ 15 October - World students day.
→ 16 October - World food day (Leave no one behind).
→ 17 October - International Day for the eradication of poverty.
→ 20 October - International safe day.
→ 20 October - World statistics day.
→ 24 October - United Nations day.
→ 28 October - International animation day.
→ 31st October - Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (On the occasion of the birth anniversary of
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel).
Important Summit / festival –

→ The 9-day Bathukamma festival was celebrated in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
from September 25 to October 3.
→ UNESCO-Mondiacult 2022 World Conference - Held in Mexico.
→ Kati Bihu festival is celebrated in Assam on 18 October.
→ SARANG - The festival of India in the Republic of Korea - Celebrated from the
Indian Embassy in South Korea.
Defense –
→ The Indian Navy conducted a security exercise called “Prasthan”.
→ Israel Navy successfully tests anti-ship missiles “Gabriel-V”.
→ United States intelligence satellite - “NROL-91”.
→ India started a joint air force exercise called “Garuda-7” with France at Jodhpur in
Rajasthan.
→ Prachanda is the first "Made in India" light combat helicopter of the Indian Air
Force.
→ “IBSAMAR” military exercise was held between the navies of Brazil and South
Africa.
→ India begins exercise “Tiger Triumph” with the American military in
Visakhapatnam.
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→ Indian Navy to conduct Naval Exercise “SIMBEX-2022” in Visakhapatnam with
Singapore.
Important books and authors –

→ The philosophy of modern song - Bob Dylan.
→ A confused mind story - Sahil Seth.
→ Wildlife India@50 - Manoj Kumar Mishra.
→ Ambedkar: A life - Shashi Tharoor.
→ The last heroes - P. Sainath.
Science and Technology –

→ The country's first avalanche surveillance radar was installed in North Sikkim.
→ NASA's Launchbox side instrument “MOXIE” successfully produced oxygen on
Mars.
→ On September 27, Nasa completed a successful double asteroid redirection (DART)
test.
→ Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni launched a camera drone called “Droni”.
→ China's first solar observatory’s name is - “Kvafu-1”.
→ Russia has successfully tested a navigation satellite - “GLONASS-K1-17”.
→ Tata Motors has launched India's first electric hatchback car.
→ India's first suspension bridge to be built over Krishna River to connect Andhra
Pradesh and Telangana.
→ India's first Migration Monitoring System inaugurated in Mumbai.
→ Israel has launched the world's first electric passenger plane called “Alice”.
→ In 2023, NASA will jointly launch a satellite project called “Nishar” with ISRO.
→ PhonePe recently launched a green data center in India.
Host –
→ “Goa” will host the 37th National Games in 2023.
→ “Megha Kayak Festival 2022” started recently in Meghalaya.
→ India will host the “90th General Assembly of INTERPOL”.
→ Vienna, the capital of Austria, will host the “INTERPOL General Assembly in
2023”.
→ Recently the Global Youth Climate Summit was held in Bangladesh.
→ “India” will host the UN Counter-Terror Panel.
→ “Fiji” will host the 12th World Hindi Conference in 2023.
Important MOU –
→ ICAO and ISA - The MOU was signed to reduce carbon emissions.
→ ICCR and Google - This MOU is signed for use of Sanskrit language in internet
searching.
→ NPCI and Central Bank of Oman - This MoU was signed for the purpose of
launching “Rupay debit cards” in Oman.
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Awards and honour –
→ The state of Uttar Pradesh has been awarded the Ayushmann Utkrisht Award
2022.
→ “Kumar Shanu” has been honored with the Lata Mangeshkar Award in 2021.
→ US President lifetime achievement award 2022 - Dr Vivek Lall.
→ Asian achievers award 2022 - Suella Braverman.
→ FIH hockey star award 2021-2022 - Mumtaz Khan from India.
→ Recently, a Durga Puja pandal with a height of 136 feet in Jankipuram town in
Lucknow district of Uttar Pradesh was registered in the Guinness Book of World
Records as the tallest Durga Puja pandal in the world.
→ “SASTRA” Ramanujan prize 2022 - Yunqing Tang.
→ Booker prize 2022 - SSehan Karuna Tilak for “The Seven Moons Of Maali
Almeida”.
→ Indore in Madhya Pradesh has been named India's cleanest city for the sixth time.
→ UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award - Angela Merkel.
→ Anil Agarwal won the Global India Award in Canada.
→ Ratan Tata received Seva Ratna honor for social service.
→ World Green City Award 2022 - Hyderabad.
→ Sir Syed excellence award for 2022 - Barbara Metcalf.
→ Satyajit Ray's “Pather Panchali” was named Best Indian Film by the International
Federation of Film Critics.
Nobel Prize - 2022

→ Medicine - Svante Paabo (Sweden),
→ Physics - Alain Aspect (France), John.F. Clauser (USA), Anton Zeilinger (Austria).
→ Chemistry - Morten Meldal (Denmark), Carolyn R. Bertozzi (USA), K. Barry
Sharpless (USA).
→ Literature - Annie Ernaux (France).
→ Peace - Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), Memorial (Russia), Center for Civil Liberties
(Ukraine).
→ Economics - Ben S. Bernanke (USA), Douglas Diamond (USA), Philip Dybvik
(USA).
Sports –
→ West Zone champions in Dilip Trophy.
→ ICC Player of the month - Mohammad Rizwan (Wicketkeeper of Pakistan).
→ India are champions in the Women's Asia Cup T20.
→ Novak Djokovic wins men's singles at Astana Open tennis tournament 2022.
→ Japanese F1 Grand Prix - Max Verstappen.
→ Recently the 6th National Women's Marathon 2022 was held in Madhya Pradesh.
→ The fifth Khelo India Youth Games 2022 will be held in Madhya Pradesh.
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→ Yuvraj Singh has been appointed as the brand ambassador of the T20 World Cup
for the Blind.
→ Virat Kohli is the highest Indian run scorer in the history of T20 cricket.
Miscellaneous –
→ Haryana government to set up world's largest jungle safari park.
→ China has created the world's first cloned arctic wolf named Maya.
→ Country's first wild turbine generator installed at Valliyur near Tirunelveli, Tamil
Nadu.
→ A postage stamp to mark the golden jubilee of Pin Code was released in
Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
→ The new tiger conservation center in Madhya Pradesh is named Durgavati Tiger
Reserve.
→ Tamil Nadu is the only state to achieve the Janajivan Mission target.
→ Asia's largest compressed biogas plant was inaugurated in Sangrur, Punjab.
→ The Karnataka Governor recently approved the anti-conversion bill.
→ India's first helicopter taxi service to be launched in Bangalore.
→ Union Minister Anurag Thakur recently inaugurated a water sports center in
Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh.
→ India's second National Model Vedic School was inaugurated in Puri, Odisha.
→ Tripura recently inaugurated the first government English medium college in the
state.
→ The 369 feet tall world's tallest Shiva statue named "Viswas Swarupam"
inaugurated in Nathdwara, Rajasthan.
→ Thailand has named Cyclone Sitrang (Meaning - leaf) in the Bay of Bengal.
→ Recently, a museum on the life and words of Mahatma Gandhi was built in
America.
→ Japan recently lifted the ban on remarriage of pregnant women.
→ Recently MasterCard launched Carbon Calculator for Indian customers.
December 2022
Important days -
✓ 25 November - International Day for the elimination of violence against women

(Theme: UNITE! activism to end violence against women and girls).
✓ 26 November - Constitution day (Theme: India - The mother of democracy).
✓ 26 November - National milk day.
✓ 27 November - National organ donation day.
✓ 28 November - Red Planet day.
✓ 1 December - World AIDs day (Theme: Equalize).
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✓ 2 December - International Day for the abolition of slavery.
✓ 2 December - National pollution control day.
✓ 3 December - International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
✓ 4 December - Navy Day.
✓ 4 December - International Day of banks.
✓ 5 December - World soil day.
✓ 7 December - International Civil Aviation day.
✓ 8 December - Indian Army service corps day.
✓ 9 December - International Anti-Corruption day.
✓ 10 December - Human Rights Day (Theme: Dignity, Freedom and Justice for all).
✓ 11 December - International mountain day (Theme: Women move mountains).
✓ 16 December - Vijay Divas.
✓ 20 December - International Day of Human Solidarity.
✓ 22 December - National mathematics day.
✓ 24 December - National Customer Day.
✓ 27 December - International Pandemic Preparedness Day.
✓ 28 November to 2 December - Aviation safety awareness week.
Important Projects/Apps/Portals/Services -
✓ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched “Amlan Abhiyan” to completely

eliminate anemia from women and children of Odisha.
✓ The Government of Odisha has created “E-detection portal” for document
verification of vehicles plying on National Highways and State Highways.
✓ Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar launched “Gangajal Apruti Yojana”, a one-of-a-
kind Ganga water supply scheme.
✓ Amit Shah launched the “Prahari” app for BSF jawans.
✓ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the scheme “One district
One sport” for the restoration and promotion of indigenous and sports.
✓ The construction of “Ghar” Portal was initiated by the National Commission for
Protection of Child Rights.
Important summits/meetings/sessions/festivals/conferences -
✓ 41st India International Trade Fair - Industry and Commerce Minister Piyush
Goyal inaugurated. Held at Delhi's Pragati Maidan. Theme: Vocal for local, local to
global.
✓ 22nd IORA-COM - The 22nd Indian Ocean Rim Association Council of Ministers
meeting was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh on November 24.
✓ Shanghai Festival 2022 was celebrated in Manipur in the month of November.
✓ The 23rd Hornbill Festival was celebrated in Heritage Village near Kohima,
Nagaland in the month of December.
✓ The International Ruswapan Festival was held in Goa in the month of December.
✓ The first Silchar Sylhet Festival 2022 was celebrated in Silchar, Assam.
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✓ The first Tribal Winter Festival was celebrated in North Kashmir's Bandipora
district in November.
✓ The Union Ministry of Culture and Swar Dharohar Foundation jointly inaugurated
the three-day long festival “Swar Dharohar Festival”.
✓ The three-day, 7th Global Technology Summit was held in New Delhi.
Defense -
✓ The South-Western Command of the Indian Army organized “SHATRU NASH”

exercise in the Thar desert of Rajasthan.
✓ The “seventh Sangam” exercise between the Indian Navy Marine Commandos and
the US Navy was held in Goa on December 1.
✓ Nepal started a joint training exercise called “Surya Kiran-XVI” with India.
✓ India begins “Sixth Ex- Kazind” with Kazakhstan.
✓ India begins “12th Agni Warrior” exercise with the Singapore Army.
✓ In 2023, India will hold an air force exercise called "Veer Guardian 23" with Japan.
✓ The 13th Naval Exercise “Naseem Al Bahar 2022” was held between Indian Navy
and Oman Navy.
✓ “Ikshak” is the third and largest vessel of the Indian Navy's Survey Vessel Project.
✓ Joint military exercise “Harmou Shakti 2022” of India and Malaysia Army was
held.
✓ The annual humanitarian assistance and disaster relief exercise "Samanvay 2022"
was organized by the Indian Air Force at Agra Airport Station in Uttar Pradesh.
✓ A trained kite (Drone) capable of destroying enemy drones has been developed by
the Indian Army and has been named Aryun.
✓ The 39th “INDIA-INDO Corpat” India-Indonesian naval exercise took place in Port
Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands in December.
✓ India successfully test-fired Agni 5 nuclear ballistic missile on 15 December. This
missile has a length of 17 meters and is capable of hitting targets located between
5 thousand kilometers.
Important MOU -
✓ An agreement has been signed between India and Germany for easier access to
educational research and work.
✓ Agreement signed between Qatar and China for natural gas supply for 27 years.
✓ A MOU has been signed between CAG of India and CAG of Chile to maintain
professional practices between the two countries.
✓ MoU signed between ISRO, In-Space and Vyom Space for construction of the space
capsule.
✓ A MoU has been signed between the Indian Embassy in Nepal and the
Government of Nepal to undertake three high impact development projects in
Nepal.
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✓ An agreement has been signed between India and Finland for the purpose of
relocation and repatriation.
✓ An MoU was signed between USDMA & IMD to strengthen the weather forecasting
network in Uttarakhand.
✓ An agreement has been signed between Indian Overseas Bank and SMC Global for
opening 3 in 1 account.
✓ A MoU signed between India and South Korea for a loan of Rs 1495.68 crore to the
Economic Development Corporation Fund.
Science and Technology -
✓ NASA's “Orion” spacecraft has successfully entered lunar orbit.

✓ The Rolls Royce company tested the world's first hydrogen-powered aircraft
engine.
✓ 40 ONE WEB satellites were launched on Dec. 9 by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 rocket.
✓ JAXA successfully launched the world's first steam powered spacecraft.
✓ India's first Gold ATM set up in Hyderabad.
✓ The US Air Force launched a nuclear bomber named B-22.
✓ India's first Dark Night Sky Reserve to be created at Hanle village in Ladakh.
✓ NASA launches Earth Science Satellite to study Earth's surface water.
✓ Indian Navy's fifth Scorpion class submarine named "Vagir".
✓ IIT Kanpur developed an artificial heart.
✓ The Indian Army made 3-D printed Dwelling units for the first time in Gujarat.
✓ India is getting Ballistic Missiles named "Pralaya" with a target range of 150 to 500
km.
✓ India will become the first country in the world to auction satellite spectrum.
✓ Recently, ISRO successfully completed the hypersonic vehicle test run.
✓ Japan's I Space Company launched the world's first commercial moon lander.
✓ India's first carbon neutral farm inaugurated in Kerala.
✓ IIT Madras developed a device to generate electricity from ocean waves.
✓ India's first drone station to deliver medicine has been set up in Meghalaya.
✓ The most Google searched term from India in 2022 is "IPL".
Important Books and Authors -
✓ Fit @ any age: A practitioner’s guide - P.V Iyer.

✓ Forks in the road: My days at RBI and beyond - C. Rangarajan
✓ Black river - Nilanjana S. Roy
Index and rankings -
✓ Global Prime cities index 2022 - Mumbai is ranked 22nd.
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✓ 12th Global employability University ranking and survey 2022-23 - Massachusett
Institute of Technology of USA (1st). Among the Indian universities, IIT Delhi (1st)
& ranked 28 globally.
✓ India ranks 8th and Pakistan ranks 1st on the “Nations Risks of Violence list”.
✓ In the “Global Aviation Safety” Ranking, India is ranked 48 and Singapore is
ranked 1st.
✓ New York and Singapore top the list of the world's most expensive cities to live in.
✓ India ranks 110 in “2022 Social Progress Index” Norway is ranked 1st.
✓ South Africa tops “the 2022 Global Food Security Index” and India ranks 68.
✓ “2022 Harun Global 500 Most Valuable Companies list” - America ranked first and
India ranked 5th.
✓ Russia will overtake Iraq as India's top oil supplier in November 2022.
✓ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ranks 36 in “world's 100 Most Powerful
Women list”.
✓ India ranks 87 in “world's strongest passport list 2022” UAE is ranked 1st.
✓ India tops “Global Minority Index 2022” followed by South Korea and Japan third.
✓ BBC’s 100 influential women list - Priyanka Chopra.
Important National recruitments -
✓ CEO of Khadi and Village Industries Commission - Vineet Kumar.

✓ Marketing Ambassador for New Delhi - Dr Deepa Malik.
✓ President of ICAI (The Institute of Cost Accountants of India) - Vijendra Sharma.
✓ Marketing ambassador of India Tech - Virat Kohli.
✓ Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh - Sukhwinder Singh sukhu.
✓ Chief Minister of Gujarat - Bhupendra Rajinikanth Patel.
✓ President of Table Tennis Federation of India - Meghna Ahulabad.
✓ Uttarakhand State Marketing Ambassador - Prasoon Joshi.
✓ President of Indian Olympic Association - P.T. Usha.
✓ Chairman of NABARD - K.V. Shaji.
✓ President of AAAI (Advertising Agencies Association of India) - Prashant Kumar.
✓ Chairman of B20 India - N. Chandrasekharan.
✓ PT Usha was included in the Rajya Sabha Vice-Chairman Panel as the first
nominated MP.
✓ Anil Kumar Lahti is being appointed as the new Chairman and CEO of the Railway
Board.
✓ President of cardiological Society of India - Dr P.C. Rath.
✓ Acting Central Vigilance Commissioner - Praveen Kumar Srivastava.
✓ CEO of food safety and Standards Authority of India - Ganji Kamal V. Rao.
✓ Chairman of national highway Authority of India - Santosh Kumar.
✓ Anushka Sharma is the new brand ambassador of Puma India.
Important International recruitments -
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✓ Prime Minister of Nepal - Sher Bahadur Deuba.
✓ Global Marketing Ambassador for Diabetes - Sheikh Hasina.
✓ Claudine Gay became the first black president of Harvard University.
✓ Chief scientist of the World Health Organisation - Jeremy Farrar.
Important Deaths -
✓ Famous Oriya actress Jharna Das passed away recently at the age of 77.
✓ An Indian professional basketball player Gulam Abbas Muntasir passed away
recently at the age of 80.
✓ Eminent economist Yoginder K Alagh passed away recently at the age of 86.
✓ Julia Richard, a prominent Oscar-winning filmmaker from the United States, died
✓ Rathi Labani singer Sulochana Chavan passed away recently at the age of 92.
✓ Brazilian footballer Pele died recently at the age of 82.
✓ A legendary French writer Dominique Lapierre died recently at the age of 91.
Sports -
✓ England's Joe Root is the third cricketer to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket
history.
✓ Vijay Hazare Trophy Champion Saurashtra.
✓ Ishan Kishan's fastest double century in ODIs.
✓ India beat Spain to win the “FIH Women's Nations Cup 2022”.
✓ India won the T20 World Cup 2022 for the Blind by defeating Bangladesh.
✓ Spain's Rafael Nadal and Poland's Iga Swiatek win ITF World Championship 2022
titles.
✓ Rehan Ahmed is England's youngest player to debut in Test cricket.
✓ Tata Steel Company is the official partner of the FIH Men's World Cup 2023 to be
held in Odisha.
✓ 2022 Esquire Man of the year for impressive campaign - Rafael Nadal from France.
✓ Divya T.S wins gold medal in women's air pistol event at National Shooting
Championship 2022.
✓ Australia has renamed the Men's Test Player of the Year Award after the late
Shane Warne.
✓ Seven-year-old Geeto Sora from Arunachal Pradesh won the International
Badminton Championship.
✓ Forbes highest paid female athletes annual list - Naomi Osaka (1st), P.V Sindhu
(12th).
✓ Harmanpreet Singh to captain Indian hockey team at FIH Men's World Cup 2023
to be held in Odisha.
✓ Latest FIFA rankings - Brazil (1st) Argentina (2nd) India (106).
✓ 2022 IWF World Championship - Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won the silver
medal.
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✓ Goa will host the World Table Tennis Series event for the first time in India.
✓ Pakistan's Sidra Ameen is the ICC Women's Player of the Month for November
2022.
✓ England's Jos Buttler is the ICC Player of the Year for November 2022 in the men's
category.
✓ Aditya Mittal recently became India's 77th chess grandmaster.
✓ Rishikesh Kanitkar has been appointed as the batting coach of the Indian
women's cricket team.
✓ Deepika Padukone unveils the 2022 FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar.
✓ Haryana's Sarabjot Singh wins double gold in 65th National Shooting
Championship.
✓ The third T20 World Cup for the Blind will be held in India.
FIFA World Cup 2022 -
✓ The final match venue is Lusail Iconic Stadium.

✓ Total team - 32.
✓ The Qatar World Cup ball is called “Al Rihla”.
✓ 22nd World Cup.
✓ Winning country Argentina (Third win).
✓ Runners up - France.
✓ Golden boot - Kylian Mbappé.
✓ Golden ball - Lionel Messi.
✓ Best young footballer - Enzo Fernandez (Argentina).
✓ Golden gloves - Emiliano Martínez (Argentina).
✓ Fair play trophy - England.
✓ Motto of FIFA World Cup - “Now is all”.
✓ Official mascot of the World Cup - “La’eeb”.
✓ Official song of the world cup - “Dreamers”.
✓ Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player in world football to score five World Cup
goals.
✓ Lionel Messi is the first two-time Golden Ball winner.
✓ Lionel Messi has been the player of the match many times in the World Cup.
✓ For the first time in this World Cup, there was a female referee - Stephanie
Frappart.
✓ Morocco became the first African team to enter the semi-finals of the World Cup.
✓ Messi is the captain of the most number of World Cup matches.
✓ Messi has a record number of fair play of the match in a World Cup (5 times).
Awards and honors -
Goa International film festival -
• ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Medal - Nargesi.
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• Indian film personality of the Year award 2022 - Chiranjeevi.
• Golden Peacock Award for Best Film - “I have electric dreams”
• Silver Peacock Award for Best Actor - Vahid Mobasheri.
• Special Jury award - Lav Diaz.
✓ South Korean model “Mina Sue Choi” won the Miss Earth 2022 title.
✓ Rajendra Singh Pawar won the Fiki LifeTime Achievement Award.
✓ JCB price for literature 2022 - Khalid Javed (For the book The Paradise of food).
✓ Cambridge dictionary word of the Year 2022 - Homer.
✓ Mariam Webster word of the Year 2022 - Gaslighting.
✓ Oxford dictionary word of the Year 2022 - Goblin mode.
✓ Dr Abdul Kalam Seva award - Ravi Kumar Sagar.
✓ Guard of Honor awarded by the Government of France - Awarded to Indian Army
Chief General Manoj Pandey.
✓ World athletics award 2022 Male - Mondo Duplantis
✓ World athletics award 2022 female - Sydney mclaughlin.
✓ SS Rajamouli wins Best Director Award at New York Film Critics Circle 2022 for
the RRR movie.
✓ PETA India's 2022 person of the Year - Sonakshi Sinha.
✓ Most written about athletes in 2022 - Neeraj Chopra.
✓ SIES Award for public leadership - Ex vice president Venkaiah Naidu.
✓ Meghalaya wins award for tuberculosis prevention programme.
✓ Indian-origin teacher Bina Nair wins Australia's 2022 Prime Minister's Prize for
Excellence.
✓ Atal Sanman award - Prabhu Chandra Mishra.
✓ Cyclist Swasti Singh won the 30th Eklavya Award 2022.
✓ Rabindranath Tagore literary prize 2021-22: Sudip Sen and Sovona Kumar.
✓ BBC sports personality of the Year 2022 award - Beth Mead (Female footballer of
England).
✓ Oscar 2023 best song category - Natu Natu from RRR.
✓ Mrs World 2022 title - Sargam Kaushal from India.
✓ Time Magazine person of the Year 2022 - Vladimir Jelenski.
Others -
✓ The world's first Buddhist heritage theme park was built in Telangana.
✓ The country's first private agricultural market is being set up in Nashik,
Maharashtra.
✓ Himalayan Yak has been declared as a food animal.
✓ Monkeypox was renamed M pox.
✓ India's first drone flight and Asia's first drone delivery hub inaugurated in
Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
✓ Maruti Suzuki India is building the country's first public flex fuel prototype car.
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✓ India's largest international yoga center has been built at Udhampur in Jammu
and Kashmir.
✓ Assam towels (Gamcha) recently got GI tag.
✓ Maharashtra became the first state in India to pass the Lokayukta Bill.
✓ Recently a star was named after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
✓ India's first female Muslim fighter pilot is Sania Mirza from Uttar Pradesh.
✓ Indian Railways launched India's longest escape tunnel in Kashmir.
January 2023
Important Apps and Portals -

→ On the occasion of National Consumer Day on December 24, Union Consumer
Protection Minister Piyush Goyal launched the "Right to Repair" portal.
→ On December 29, Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched the ‘Prahari’ mobile
app. With the help of this, Indian soldiers will get personal information,
accommodation and leave related information on mobile.
→ India has launched the fastest payment app called ‘PayRup’.
→ Tamil Nadu Education Minister Anbil Mahesh launched the ‘Friends of Libraries’
project.
Important days -
→ 18 December - International migrant day.
→ 18 December - Minority right day.
→ 22 December - Good governance week.
→ 24 December - National consumer day (Theme: Effective disposal of cases in
consumer Commission).
→ 25 December - National good governance day.
→ 26 December - Veer Bal Divas.
→ 4 January - World braille day.
→ 6 January - World day of War orphan (Theme: standing up for war affected
children).
→ 9 January - Expatriate Indian Day.
→ 10 January - World Hindi Day (Theme: Hindi - traditional knowledge to artificial
intelligence).
→ 11 January - National human trafficking awareness day.
→ 12 January - National Youth Day (On the occasion of Swami Vivekananda's birth
anniversary, Theme: Viksit Yuva viksit Bharat).
→ 15 January - Indian army Day.
→ 16 January - National startup day.
→ 23 January - Victory Day.
→ 24 January - National Girl Child Day.
→ 25 January - National Voter's Day.
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→ NASA discovers a second Earth-sized planet - Toi700e.
→ World's first Agri Focus Satellite - AgniSAT-1.
→ India's second longest cable-stayed bridge (Zuari Bridge) with eight lanes opened
in Goa.
→ India's first Sun mission named Aditya L1 will be launched in June-July 2023.
→ India has launched the country's first nasal vaccine for Covid-19 called
‘iNCOVACC’.
→ IIT Madras has launched India's native mobile operating system called ‘BharOS’.
→ Jammu and Kashmir is the first union territory of India to shift to e-governance
mode completely.
→ IG-Drones company has developed India's first 5G enabled drone.
→ India's first Center of Excellence for Online Gaming to be set up in ‘Shillong’.
→ India's 7th Bande Bharat Express train launched from Howrah to New Jalpaiguri.
→ Madras High Court bans mobile phones in every temple in Tamil Nadu.
Important Summits/Meetings/Sessions/Festivals/Conventions -
→ The 53rd World Economic Forum 2023 Annual Meeting was held in Davos,
Switzerland from 16th to 20th January.
→ Nausera Folk Festival was held in Jammu and Kashmir.
→ Gaan Ngai Festival celebrated in Manipur.
→ Lohri festival is celebrated across the country on 13th January which is primarily
a North Indian festival.
→ Pongal is one of the biggest agricultural festivals celebrated in Tamil Nadu.
→ The International Kite Festival was inaugurated on the banks of Sabarmati river in
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Important Books and Authors -

→ Forks in the road: My days at RBI and beyond - C. Rangarajan.
→ The world: a family history - Simon Sebag Montefiore.
→ Ambedkar: A life - Shashi Tharoor.
→ Spare - Prince Harry.
→ Come let's Run - M.A Subramanian.
→ Roller coaster: An affair with banking - Tomar Bandopadhyay.
→ Njan Sakshi - K.K Abdul Gaffar.
→ Revolutionaries - Sanjeev sanyal.
→ Chief minister's diary 1 - Hemant Vishwakarma (chief minister of Assam).
→ Irfan Khan: a life of movies - Subhra Gupta.
→ Braving a viral Storm: India Covid 19 - Ashish Chandrakar.
Important MoU -
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→ MoU signed between NHIDCL and NIT Manipur for innovation in highway
construction.
→ An MoU was signed between India and Moscow to allow Russian companies to join
India's e-trade platform.
→ MoU signed between Bandhan Bank and Controller General of Defense Accounts
to join SPARSH Programme, to provide a one stop solution for all pension related
matters to defense pensioners.
→ Cognizant and Garuda Aerospace Sign Agreement to Empower Drones with
Advanced Digital Tools.
→ MoU signed between NTPC and GE Power to reduce carbon intensity of coal-fired
power plants.
→ Hyperloop technology signed between Tata Steel and TuTr Hyperloop for joint
construction.
→ MoU signed between Hindustan Copper Limited and IIT Dhanbad for cooperation
in copper ore production.
→ MoU signed between BSE and Government of Goa for development of Small and
Medium Enterprises in Goa.
→ MoU has been signed between Garuda Aerospace and Rylais India Ltd. to
accelerate agriculture.
→ Agreement signed between India and UAE for production and investment in green
hydrogen and development of undersea cable communication systems.
→ MoU signed between India and Japan for cooperation in deep space exploration.
Index/ report/ study/ ranking -

→ UI GreenMetric world university rankings 2022 - India ranks 121.
→ 2022 social progress index - Norway (1st) India (110th).
→ Shah Rukh Khan is the only Indian among Empire Magazine's 50 Greatest Actors
of All Time.
→ Forbes world highest paid female athlete 2022 - Naomi Osaka (1st) PV Sindhu
(12th).
→ India is the world's third largest auto market in terms of car sales. China is in first
place.
→ Chennai is the top city for employment of women.
→ Henley passport index 2023 - Japan (1st) India (85th).
→ Delhi is the most polluted city in India in 2022 according to recent reports.
→ Amazon tops the World's Most Valuable Brands list followed by Apple at second
and Google at third.
→ India is ranked fourth in the 2020 Military Strength Ranking.
→ Uttar Pradesh ranks first in mobile gaming destinations in India. West Bengal
ranks fifth.
→ Mukesh Ambani ranked second in the world and first in India in Brand
Guardianship Index 2023.
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Defence -
→ Military exercise SURYAKIRAN-XVI - A joint military exercise between the armies
of India and Nepal was held in Nepal.
→ The US Air Force's hypersonic missile AGM-183A was successfully test-fired.
→ Indian Navy's first anti-submarine warfare ship is INS Arnala.
→ Bharat Stealth guided missile Destroyer INS Mormugao.
→ The 21st Naval Exercise Varuna 2023 was held between the Indian Navy and the
French Navy.
→ Military exercise Cyclone-1 was held between Indian and Egyptian armies in
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
→ The Veer Guardian 2023 between the Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self
Defense Force was held at an air base in Japan.
→ ‘AMPHEX 2023’ exercise started by the Indian Navy in Andhra Pradesh.
Awards and Honours -

→ Ambassador of change award 2022 - Vishal Mittal.
→ Cricket Australia has decided to name the 'Men's Test Player of the Year Award'
after Australian legend Shane Warne.
→ Rabindranath Tagore literature award 2021-22 - Sudip Sen and Shobana Kumar.
→ Atal Sanman award 2022 - Prabhu Chandra Mishra.
→ Eklavya award 2022 - Swasti Singh.
BCCI best player of the year 2022 -

• Best Performance in Test: Rishabh Pant (Batsman) and Jasprit Bumrah
(Bowler).
• Best performance in T20 - Surya Kumar Yadav (batsman) Bhubaneswar
Kumar (bowler).
→ Gauri Amma award 2023 - Aleida guevara.

→ Jaipur Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award - Aparna Sen.
Sahitya Academy Award 2022 -

• English - Anuradha Roy
• Hindi - Badri Narayan
• Nepali - K.B Nepali
• Sanskrit - Janardan Prasad Pandey
• Santhal - Kajali Soren
• Urdu - Anish Ashfak
→ Miss Universe 2022 - R'Bonney Gabriel.
Sahitya Academy Yuva award 2022 -

• Bengali - Suman Patari
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• English - Mihir Vatsa
• Hindi - Bhagwant Anmol.
• Nepali - Roshan Rai Chhath.
• Odia - Dilip Behera.
• Sanskrit - Shruti Kanitkar.
• Santhal - Salge Hansda.
• Urdu - Maqsood afaq.
Bal Sahitya award 2022 -

• Bengali - Diganta Ojha.
• English - Arshiya Sattar.
• Hindi - Khasma Sharma.
• Nepali - Meena Subba.
• Odia - Narendra Prasad Das.
• Sanskrit - Kuldeep Sharma.
• Urdu - Jafar Kamali.
Sahitya Academy Translation Award 2022 -

• English - N Kalyan Raman.
• Sanskrit - Gopabandhu Mishra.
80th Golden Globe awards 2023 -

• Best motion picture drama - ‘The fable man’.
• Best actor - Austin Butler.
• Best actress - Kate Blanchett.
• Best director - Steven Spielberg.
• Best original song - Natu natu (RRR movie).
28th Critics choice film Award 2023 -

• Best film - Everything everywhere all at once.
• Best actor - Brendan Fraser.
• Best actress - Kate Blanchett.
• Best song - Natu natu (RRR).
Padma award 2023 -

→ Padma Vibhushan - 6 Persons (Sri Dilip Mahalanobis from West Bengal).
→ Padma Bhushan - 9 Persons.
→ Padmashree - 26 persons
• Shrimati Preetikona Goswami from West Bengal for Art.
• Shri Dhaniram Toto from West Bengal for Literature and education.
• Shri Mangal Kanti Roy from West Bengal for art.
→ The 50th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, D.Y Chandrachud, is honored with
the 'Award for Global Leadership' by the Harvard Law School Center.
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→ S.S. Rajamouli won the best director award at the ‘New York Film Critics Circle’.
→ The most distinguished scientist of the year 2022 - R. Vishnu Prasad.
→ Short-listed for Oscars 2023 is Vivek Agnihotri's Indian film ‘The Kashmir Files’.

→ Member of the Board of Directors of SEBI - Manoj Govil.
→ CEO of food safety and standard Authority of India - G. Kamlabardhan Rao.
→ Brand ambassador of Puma India - Anushka Sharma.
→ Central Vigilance Commissioner - Praveen Kumar Srivastav.
→ CEO and MD of Equitas small finance Bank - P.N. Vasudevan.
→ Chairman and CEO of Railway Board - Anil Kumar Lahoti.
→ Brand ambassador of Herbalife International India Private Limited - Smriti
mandhana.
→ Head of Global Business Affairs at META in India - Vikas Purohit.
→ CEO of Paytm payments bank - Surendra Chawla.
→ CEO of Cognizant - S Ravi Kumar.
→ Deputy governor of RBI - Michael Debabrata Patra.
→ Director of National Health authority - Pravin Sharma.
→ Women officers assigned to Project Dantake in Bhutan - Surabhi Jakhmola.
→ Deputy Security Adviser of India - Pankaj Kumar Singh.
→ Surabhi Jakhmola has been appointed as the first woman officer of the Border
Road Organization.
→ Naresh Lalbani has been appointed as the new General Manager of Central
Railway.

→ Prime Minister of Nepal - Pushp Kamal Dahal.
→ Secretary general of Asia Pacific Postal Union - Vinay Prakash Singh.
→ Chief Technologies of NASA - A.C Charniya.
→ Executive director of the United Nations environment program - Inger Anderson.
→ Indian-origin Raja Chari has been appointed as US Air Force Brigadier General.
→ Qin Gang has been appointed as China's new and youngest foreign minister.
→ Manpreet Monika Singh of Indian origin was sworn in as America's first female
Sikh judge.
Recent deaths -
→ Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother ‘Heeraben’ passed away recently at the age
of 100.
→ Gyanpith award winning Assamese writer Neelmani Phukon passed away recently
at the age of 89.
→ Kashmir's first Gyannpith awardee Rehman Rahi passed away recently at the age
of 98.
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→ Lisa Marie Presley, the famous American music artist, died recently at the age of
54.
→ Former Indian footballer Shyamal Ghosh died recently at the age of 71.
→ Eminent writer and translator Janki Ballabh, who died recently at the age of 94.
→ Former Pope Benedict XVI died recently at the age of 95.
→ Constantine II, the last emperor of Greece, died recently at the age of 83.
→ Recently renowned Indian social worker Prabhan Shah passed away at the age of
92.
→ World-winning footballer Pele died recently at the age of 82.
Sports -
→ FIFA ranking 2022 - Brazil (1st) India (106th).
ICC Player of the month December -

• Male - Harry Brook from England
• Female - Ashley Gardner from Australia.
→ Portugal footballer Cristiano Ronaldo will play for AL Nasar club in Saudi Arabia.
→ Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic wins the men's singles title at 2023 Australian
Open.
→ Yuzvendra Chahal took the most wickets for India in the history of T20 cricket.
→ India beat England to win the Women's Under-19 Twenty20 World Cup.
→ New Zealand will give Debbiie Hockley medals to honor female cricketers.
→ ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Year 2020 2 is England cricketer Ben Stokes.
→ Justice A.K. Sikri is appointed as administrator of Shooting World Cup 2023.
→ An Seyoung of South Korea won the India Open badminton singles title in the
women's category.
→ Thailand's Kulnavut Vitidsarn won the India Open Badminton title.
→ Rohit Sharma broke Mahendra Singh Dhoni's record for most sixes in Indian ODI
cricket.
Others -
→ The country's first and the world's second infantry museum was inaugurated in
Indore district of Madhya Pradesh.
→ Dharmadam in Kerala got the status of first complete library constituency in the
country.
→ Defense Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Siam Bridge in Arunachal
Pradesh on January 3.
→ The country's largest hockey stadium was inaugurated in Rourkela, Odisha.
→ Asia's first semi-high-speed hydrogen train was inaugurated by China.
→ Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the 120-feet tall polo statue in
Manipur's Imphal.
→ Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh is the first Indian district to use state-of-the-art 5G.
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→ Kerala is the state with full digital banking services.
→ Uttarakhand approves Women's Reservation Bill.
→ Neelakurinji plant in the list of protected plants.
→ Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated a Mega Dairy in Mandya in
Karnataka.
→ President Draupadi Murmu inaugurated Constitution Garden in Jaipur.
→ The Army Day parade was held in Bangalore for the first time outside Delhi.
→ Food Safety and Standards Authority of India sets Basmati rice standards for the
first time to prevent adulteration.
→ The Delhi government organized a virtual book fair for students.
→ Avni Chaturvedi will fly Sukhoi fighter jet as India's first woman pilot.
→ Narendra Modi launched the world's longest river cruise called Ganga Vilas
between Varanasi and Dibrugarh.
→ The Bihar government started ‘a caste survey’ in the state.
→ The theme country of the 46th International Calcutta Book Fair is Spain.
→ Delhi's Mughal Garden has been renamed Amrit Udyan.
→ Luminous Company to build a solar panel factory on India's first day.
→ Narendra Modi names 21 islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands after Param Vir
Chakra winners.
→ India to chair 13th session of International Renewable Energy Agency.
February 2023
Important Apps, Portal and services -

✓ India's indigenous operating system was developed by Operation 'Jandk' Pvt Ltd, a
subsidiary of IIT Madras Technology Foundation.
✓ Uttar Pradesh launched ‘One Family One ID’ portal.
✓ Mamata Banerjee launched ‘Apan Bangla’ portal for Bengalis living abroad.
✓ Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal
inaugurated NLP (National Logistic portal) Marine in New Delhi.
✓ ‘mPassport Police app’ has been launched by the Ministry of External Affairs to
simplify the management of passport issuance.
✓ On February 2, Sikkim Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang launched ‘the Mero
Rukh Mero Santati’ initiative.
✓ The Union Ministry of Coal launched 'Khanan Parhari' mobile app to stop illegal
mining.
✓ ‘Sensor based Smart Agriculture Projector’ has been launched by the Jammu and
Kashmir administration.
✓ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the ‘Ladli Behna’
scheme.
✓ Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Minister Purushottam Rupala
launched Phase 3 of Sagar Parikrama from Hazira port in Gujarat.
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Important days -
✓ 24 January - National girl child day
✓ 24 January - International Day of education.
✓ 25 January - National tourism day.
✓ 28 January - Data privacy day.
✓ 29 January - World Leprosy day (Theme - Act now: end leprosy).
✓ 30 January - Shahid Diwas or Martyrs Day.
✓ 2 February - World wetland day (Theme: It's time for wetlands restoration).
✓ 4 February - International Day of Human Fraternity.
✓ 4 February - World cancer day (Theme - Close the care gap).
✓ 7 February - Safer internet day.
✓ 10 February - World pulses day.
✓ 11 February - World Unani day (Unani medicine for public health).
✓ 13 February - World radio day.
✓ 13 February - National Women's Day.
✓ 15 February - International childhood cancer day.
✓ 18 February - World Pangolin day.
✓ 21 February - International mother language day.
✓ 22 February - World thinking day.
✓ 27 February - World NGO day.
✓ 28 February - National Science Day.
Important Summit / Conferences / festivals -

✓ On January 1, the Himalayan Culture Heritage Foundation and Ladakh Tourism
Department organized the annual Ethnic Mamani Festival.
✓ On February 1, Madhya Pradesh Minister for Tourism, Culture and Religious
Trusts, Usha Thakur inaugurated the ‘Gandhi Sagar Floating Festival-2023’ in
Mandsaur city of Madhya Pradesh.
✓ The third annual Orange festival-2023 was held at Rushma village near Kohima,
Nagaland.
✓ The third Interpol ‘Young Global Police Leaders Program’ was held in New Delhi
with this year's theme ‘Trust’.
✓ The 12th Hindi Conference was held in Nadi, Fiji.
✓ 14th ‘Aero India 2023’ held at Yelahanka Air Force Station, Bangalore.
✓ Union Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnab inaugurated a national stamp
collection exhibition titled ‘AMRITPEX 2023’ at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
National and international MOU / Agreement -

• An MoU was signed between IIT Madras and ISRO for cooperation on extended
reality and other technologies in the Indian human space flight program.
• A MoU was signed between India Health Link and Uttar Pradesh Government for
setting up a Health ATM.
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• An agreement was signed between UNDP and The Ocean Cleanup to eliminate
plastic pollution in the oceans.
• A MoU was signed between Tata Steel and CBRI for cooperation on Mining
Research Academy and Sustainable Solutions.
• MoU signed between Govt of Bihar and FSI for 'Tree Outside Forest' field survey for
promotion of agroforestry.
• A MoU was signed between the Nagaland Government and Patanjali Food Limited
for palm oil production.
Science and Technology –

✓ IG Drones has built the country's first 5G enabled drone 'Skyhawk'.
✓ India's fifth non-urea plant will be set up at Jasidihat in Deoghar district of
Jharkhand.
✓ World's first Intranasal vaccine - incovacc.
✓ Aditya L1 first mission of the country is going to be launched towards the Sun by
ISRO.
✓ The country's first drone traffic management system, named Sky UTM, has been
launched by Sky Air Mobility Pvt. Ltd.
✓ ‘Lexi’ is India's first artificial intelligence chatbot powered by Chat GPT.
✓ Google launched an AI chatbot called ‘Bard’ to compete with Chat GPT.
✓ Chinese search engine Baidu has launched an AI chatbot called ‘Ernie’.
✓ Israeli scientists have developed a sniffing robot to test various diseases.
✓ India's first waste-to-hydrogen plant to be built in Pune.
✓ India's first agricultural chatbot ‘Ama Krush AI’ launched in Odisha.
✓ Indian Railways has completed electrification of all railway lines in Uttar Pradesh.
Index and ranking -

✓ India will be the most populous country in the world in 2023.
✓ Mukesh Ambani overtakes Gautam Adani as India's richest man.
✓ Brand finance brand guardianship index 2023 - Nvidia (first), Microsoft (third).
✓ Asian Waterbird Census 2023 was held in the Union Territory of Ladakh.
World's most admired companies of Fortune Magazine -

1. Apple (first)
2. Amazon (second)
3. Microsoft (third)
There is an Indian company TCS.
✓ According to the Global Minority Report, India is at the top.
✓ Indian-American student Natasha Periyanayagam tops 'World Brightest' Student
List.
✓ India is the top producer of milk in the world.
✓ India ranks 136 in Global Happiness Ranking 2023. Finland ranks first.
✓ Lionel Messi tops the Highest Paid Athletic 2021-2022 list.
✓ Mumbai tops the list of most polluted cities in India.
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✓ Bangalore is the second slowest city to drive in the world. London is in first place.
✓ India ranks 42 in the 2023 International IP Index. America is at the top of the list.
✓ GQII (Global quality infrastructure index) 2021 -
1. Germany
2. Chin
10. India
Defence -
✓ Six ‘AH-64E Apace Combat helicopters’ have been supplied to the Indian Army by
Tata Boeing Aerospace Limited.
✓ The Indian Army conducted an exercise named 'Trishakri Prahar' in North Bengal.
✓ India launched ‘Operation Dost’ to help people affected by the earthquake in
Turkey and Syria.
✓ Tri-shakti military exercise ‘AMPHEX-2023’ was held at Kankinara in Andhra
Pradesh.
✓ The annual military exercise ‘TROPEX-2023’ was conducted by the Indian Navy in
the Indian Ocean region.
✓ ‘Purvi Akash’ is an annual military exercise held in the North Eastern region.
✓ ‘Operation Sadbhavana’ was launched by the Indian Army in the Union Territory
of Ladakh.
✓ Japan conducted a joint training exercise called ‘Dharma Guardian 2023’ with
India.
✓ India is holding an Exercise ‘Tarkash’ with America.
✓ India started a joint military exercise called 'Dastlik' with Uzbekistan in
Uttarakhand.
✓ The Indian airport is participating in the ‘Cobra Warrior’ exercise held in the UK.
Important books and authors –

✓ The poverty of political economy: How economics abundant the poor - Meghnath
Desai.
✓ A chronicle of Central command Savdhaan - Lieutenant General V.K. Kashyap and
Vikram D'Souza.
✓ Victory City - Salman Rushdi
✓ Modi: shaping a global order in flux - J.P. Nadda.
Awards and honors -

✓ Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar National contribution award 2023 - Sunil Krishnan.
✓ Green Railway certification 2023 - Visakhapatnam Railway Station of East Coast
Railway.
✓ Manmohan Singh has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the
United Kingdom.
✓ Raja Rammohan Rai National Award for excellence in journalism 2020 - Dr Annie
Bhawani Koteshwar Prasad.
✓ Mamata Banerjee recently received the ‘title of D'Litt’ from St. Xavier's University.
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✓ Social activist Appasaheb Dharmadhikari will be awarded the 2023 Maharashtra
Bhushan.
✓ Model Akshta Raksha won the Taj Miss India 2023 title.
✓ Haryana State Police recently received the President's Color Award.
✓ Kerala's Kollam district won the Swaraj Trophy as the best district panchayat.
✓ National geographics picture of the year - Karthik Subramaniam.
✓ Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 - Sajjan Jindal of JSW company.
✓ UNESCO Peace award 2023 - Angela Morkel.
ICC Award 2022 -

✓ ICC Men's T20 cricketer of the year - Surya Kumar Yadav (India).
✓ ICC women's T20 cricketer of the year - Tahlia Mcgrath (Australia).
✓ ICC umpire of the Year - Richard Illingworth (England).
✓ ICC men’s one day cricketer of the year - Babar Azam (Pakistan).
✓ ICC Women's one day cricketer of the year - Nat Sciver (England).
✓ ICC Men’s Test cricketer of the year - Ben Stroke (England).
Golden book award 2023 -

✓ Fantastic beast: the secrets of Dumbledore - J.K. Rowling.
✓ Energize your mind: a monk’s guide to mindful living - Gaur Gopaldas.
✓ How to leave your life - Ruskin Bond.
✓ Network marketing in 60 minutes - Deepak Bajaj.
✓ An Enticing career - Subhadra Elan.
✓ Always be unique - Aadya Dube.
✓ Superstar of my life: Sai Baba - Gauri Venkat.
✓ A Vedic guide to buy the right property - Ashish Patidar.
✓ Travel and thoughts - Osama Rega.
65th Grammy Award 2023 -

✓ Record of the Year: About damn time - Liso.
✓ Album of the Year: Harry’s house - Harry Styles.
✓ Best new artist: Samara Jai.
✓ Best rock song - Broken Horses - Brandy Carlile.
Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Award 2023 -

✓ Best film - The Kashmir files
✓ Best actor - Ranbir Kapoor
✓ Best actress - Alia Bhatt
✓ Best director - R. Balki.
✓ Television series of the Year - Anupama.
✓ Outstanding contribution to the film industry - Rekha.
✓ Film of the year - RRR
National recruitments -
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✓ CEO of Tata trust - Aparna Uppaldi.
✓ Drugs controller general of India - Rajiv Singh Raghuvanshi.
✓ Brand ambassador of Puma India - Harampreet Kaur.
✓ General Manager of Central Railway - Naresh Lalwani.
✓ Chief Judge of Jharkhand High Court - Sanjay Kumar Mishra.
✓ CMD of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited - C.B. Anand Krishnan.
✓ Brand ambassador of UNICEF India - Aayushman Khurana.
✓ New vice chief of Indian Air Force - A.P. Singh.
✓ CEO of Gujarat Maritime cluster - Madhavindra Singh.
✓ Shamika Ravi joined as a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory
Council.
✓ Chief Information Commissioner of West Bengal - DGP Virendra.
✓ Chairman and managing director of ITI (Indian Telephone Industries) Limited -
Rajesh Rai.
✓ CEO of Niti Aayog - B.V.R Subramanyam.
International recruitments -
✓ Prime Minister of New Zealand - Chris Hopkins.
✓ Head coach of Nepal national cricket team - Monty Desai.
✓ Brand ambassador of Ferroro - Ranveer Singh.
✓ President of Bangladesh - Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu.
✓ CEO of YouTube - Nihal Mohan.
✓ CEO of Unilever - Hein Schumacher.
Important deaths -
✓ Pakistan's former army chief Pervez Musharraf died recently at the age of 79.
✓ Padma Bhushan award winning music artist Bani Jayaram passed away recently
at the age of 78.
✓ Telugu filmmaker K. Vishwanath passed away recently at the age of 92.
✓ Recently Bithal Das Doshi a prominent architect of India passed away at the age of
95.
✓ Famous painter Lalita Lajmi passed away recently at the age of 90.
✓ Classical music artist Vijay Kumar Kichlu passed away recently at the age of 93.
✓ Mohiniattam dance artist Dr. Kanak Rele passed away recently at the age of 85.
✓ Recently Parimal Dey was an Indian footballer who passed away at the age of 81.
✓ Recently Tulsidas Balaram a legendary footballer of India passed away at the age
of 86.
✓ Recently Balipa Narayan Bhagwat who was a popular playback singer passed
away at the age of 85.
Sports -
✓ Saurashtra are champions in the 2022-23 Ranji Trophy.
✓ FIFA Club World Cup Champions Real Madrid.
✓ Women's Under-19 ICC T20 World Cup champions India.
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✓ Men's Hockey World Cup champions Germany.
✓ National Ice Hockey championship 2023 - Champion ITBP.
✓ Khelo India winter games 2023 - It was held in Gulmarg, Jammu and Kashmir.
Australian Open Tennis Tournament 2023 -

1. Men's Singles - Novak Djokovic.
2. Women's Singles - Aryna sabalenka.
Australian Open Tennis Tournament 2023 junior -

1. Boys singles - Alexander Blockx.
2. Girl’s single - Alina Carniva.
✓ Sai Sanjay wins India National Car Racing Championship 2023.
✓ Indian tennis player Prajnesh Gunneswaran won the ITF Men's Tennis
Tournament held in Kuwait.
✓ Football 2027 Asian Cup will be hosted by Saudi Arabia.
✓ South Asian under Twenty Women's Football Championship 2023 was held in
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
✓ Indian golfer Aditi Ashok won the Ladies European Tour title.
✓ Ravichandran Ashwin is the fastest Indian cricketer to 450 Test cricket.
✓ Rohit Sharma is the first Indian captain to score a century in all three formats of
cricket.
✓ Shubman Gill was named the ICC Player of the month for January 2023 in the
men's category.
✓ England's Grace Scrivens is the ICC Women's Player of the Month for January
2023.
✓ French driver Jean Eric Vergne won the Hyderabad E Formula race Championship
held in India for the first time.
✓ Cricketer Smriti Mandhana sold for the highest amount in the women's IPL
auction.
✓ India's 80th Chess Grand Master is Tamil Nadu's Vignesh N.R.
✓ Tata Group is the title sponsor of Women's Premier League till 2027.
✓ Deepti Sharma is the first Indian woman bowler to take 100 wickets in
international T20 cricket.
Others -
✓ On January 23, Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Banharilal
Purohit inaugurated North India's largest floating solar project at the Chandigarh
Water Works.
✓ Suzuki Motor Corporation used ‘dung’ in their CNG gas powered vehicles.
✓ Visakhapatnam will be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh as announced by Chief
Minister Jaganmohan Reddy.
✓ State anthem of Maharashtra - Jai Jai Maharashtra Mata.
✓ The theme country of the Madrid International Book Fair is India.
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✓ Meghalaya Governor B.D. Mishra announced that space 20 will be held in
Shillong, Meghalaya as part of the G20 programme.
✓ Drone technology to be used in coal mining launched by Mahanadi Coal Field Ltd.
✓ Lithium reserves were discovered for the first time in Jeriasi district of Jammu and
Kashmir, India.
✓ Pune Municipal Corporation to set up India's first hydrogen production plant from
solid waste.
✓ The country's first electric AC double decker bus was inaugurated in Mumbai,
Maharashtra.
✓ The highest weather station in the world has been reconstructed on Mount Everest
by the National Geographic Society.
✓ India's first National Metrorail Knowledge Center is going to be built in Delhi.
✓ Kerala High Court publishes judgment in India's first vernacular
language.Recently, leopards were brought from South Africa to India and kept in
Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
March 2023
Important apps and Portals -

✓ Odisha Governor Ganesh Lal launched India's first Agri Chatbot Ama KrushAI.
✓ The Income-tax department has launched an AIS app for taxpayers.
✓ Central Govt Launches Digi Claim Platform For Farmers.
✓ President Daupradi Murmu launched Jal Shakti Abhiyan Catch the rain 2023.
✓ On the occasion of International Women's Day, Telangana Health Minister
launched Women's Health Program Arogya Mahila in Karimnagar, Telangana.
✓ Jharkhand launched the ‘Jhar Niyojan’ portal for employment registration.
Important summits/meetings/sessions/festivals/conventions -
✓ Major National Tribal Festival 'Adi Mahotsav' was held at Delhi's Major Dhyan
Chand National Stadium.
✓ The seven-day International Khajuraho Dance Festival was held from Khajuraho
in Madhya Pradesh.
✓ Narendra Modi inaugurated the cultural festival ‘Barisu Kannada Dim Dimva’ at
Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi.
✓ Ellora Ajanta International Festival-2023 was held at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar
in Maharashtra.
✓ Anurag Singh Tagore from IIT Ropar, Punjab inaugurated the Yuva Utsava-
India@2047.
✓ A five-day long ‘Yaoshang’ festival was celebrated in Manipur.
Important days and weeks -

✓ 27 February - World NGO day.
✓ 28 February - National Science Day (Theme: globe science for global wellbeing).
✓ 28 February - Rare disease day (Theme: share your colours).
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✓ 1 March - Zero discrimination day (Theme: save lives - decriminalize).
✓ 3 March - World Wildlife day.
✓ 4 March - National security day.
✓ 7 March - Jan aushadhi Divas.
✓ 8 March - International Women's Day.
✓ 9 March - World kidney day.
✓ 14 March - International Day of mathematics (Theme: mathematics for everyone).
✓ 15 March - World Consumer Rights Day.
✓ 16 March - National vaccination Day.
✓ 17 March - World sleep day.
✓ 18 March - Ordnance Factory day.
✓ 20 March - International Day of happiness (Theme: be mindful, be grateful, be
kind).
✓ 20 March - French language day.
✓ 20 March - World's Sparrow day (Theme: I love sparrows).
✓ 21 March - World poetry day (Theme: always be a poet, even in prose).
✓ 21 March - International Day of forest (Theme: Forest and health).
✓ 22 March - World Water Day.
✓ 23 March - India's Martyrs' Day.
✓ 24 March - World TB day (Theme: yes we can end TB).
✓ 27 March - World theatre day (Theme: theater and culture of peace).
✓ 30 March - International Day of Zero Waste.
✓ 1-7 March - Jan aushadhi Week.
Important books and authors -

✓ The book of Bihari literature - Abhay Kumar
✓ Mundaka upanishad: the bridge to immortality - Dr Karan Singh.
✓ As good as my word: a memoir - K.M Chandrasekhar.
✓ India's vaccine growth story - from cow pox to vaccine maitri - Sajjan Singh
Yadav.
✓ Bipin: the man behind the uniform - Rachana Rawat.
✓ Dindayal Upadhyay: dispersions of thought - B. Dharmalingam.
✓ War and women - Dr M.A Hassan.
✓ Vasu Chatterji: and middle of the road cinema - Anirudh Bhattacharya.
✓ Snakes in the Ganga: breaking India 2.0 - Rajiv Malhotra and Vijay Viswanathan.
Important National and international MOU and agreements -

✓ The MoU was signed between Paytm and the Government of Andhra Pradesh for
mutual cooperation and financial inclusion in the areas of industrial development,
public health, cyber security, and financial fraud.
✓ An agreement was signed between the Ministry of Defense and HAL for the
deployment of Dornier-228 aircraft for the Indian Air Force at a cost of Rs 667
crore.
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✓ MoU was signed between India and Brazil on food security contribution and IVR
AF
✓ A MoU was signed between IPGA and IBRAFE to cooperate in contributing to food
security in India and Brazil.
✓ A MoU was signed between IFCIOR and RCOC to develop cooperation on maritime
safety and security.
✓ An agreement was signed between ISA and the Bangladesh government for the
purpose of using solar energy in Bangladesh.
✓ An MoU was signed between NADA and NCERT to strengthen the value of sports
education among school students and teachers.
✓ An agreement was signed between LMT and Tata Group for the purpose of
building warship wings in India.
✓ A MoU was signed between India Post, Ship rocket and Pickrr to support MSMEs
and extend e-commerce delivery services to remote areas.

✓ HCL has tied up with Microsoft to bring quantum computing to consumers
✓ ISRO's NISAR satellite was developed by NASA.
✓ Hindustan Aeronautics Limited has been granted Indian Technical Standard Order
or ITSO certificate to manufacture black boxes indigenously.
✓ India's first electric pilgrimage corridor is under construction in Uttarakhand.
✓ NASA has developed a new generation of space suits to send people to the moon.
✓ Bill against online gambling passed again in the Tamil Nadu assembly.
✓ The fifth new layer of the world is named 'Innermost Inner Care'.
✓ The first super magnet to be used for fusion power plant testing was built by the
United States.
✓ Asia's largest 4 meter liquid mirror telescope inaugurated in Uttarakhand.
✓ Recently a bus service was started in Bangalore using Mithanal.
✓ IIT Madras developed a pocket friendly device to detect adulteration in milk.
✓ ISRO launched the LVM3 rocket with 36 satellites.
✓ The first robotic elephant to be incorporated into a temple for ritual observance
was the Irinjadappilly Sree Krishna Temple in Kerala.
Defence -
✓ Exercise Chetak Chaukas - The exercise was organized by the X (Chetak) Corps of
the Indian Army on March 11.
✓ TROPEX 2023 - Held by the Indian Navy in the Arabian Sea.
✓ Exercise Sea Dragon 23 - The third anti-submarine warfare exercise was held in
the waters of Guam, USA.
✓ VAYULINK - This system is going to be built by the Indian Air Force on the North
Eastern border.
✓ FRINJEX-23 - India exercises with French Army.
✓ Freedom Shield exercise - Organised by South Korea with America.
✓ Maritime partnership exercise - The Indian Navy with France in the Arabian Sea.
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✓ Bold Kurukshetra - India with the Singapore Army.
✓ AFINDEX-23 - India is holding a field training session with Africa in Pune.
✓ KONKAN 2023 - India is conducting a naval exercise with the UK Navy in the
Arabian Sea.
✓ Exercise Shinyuu Maitri - Japan organised with India.
✓ NAVDEX 23 & IDEX 23 - Indian Naval Ship INS Sumedha participated on India's
behalf in the important naval and defense exhibition held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
✓ National Board of World Life approves installation of mountain radar at Indian Air
Force's new base in Ladakh.
Index / report / ranking / study -

✓ The second strongest Telegram brand in the world is Reliance Jio.
✓ The UK has become the sixth largest equity market in the world.
✓ Karnataka and Gujarat are at the top in clean energy adoption.
✓ India is the world's third largest fish producer in 2021-22.
✓ In the 2023 Passport Index Points, India is ranked 144 and the UAE ranks first.
✓ India has the highest number of female pilots in the world as per DGCA report.
✓ Mukesh Ambani is the only Indian to make it to the ‘Top Ten Hurun Global Rich
List-2023’.
✓ In the World Happiness Index 2023, India ranks 125 and Finland ranks first.
✓ Delhi Indira Gandhi Airport named the best airport in South Asia.
✓ India's Most Valuable Celebrity in 2022 is Ranveer Singh.
✓ In the Global Terrorism Index 2023, India ranks 13 and Afghanistan ranks first.
✓ India to be world's top arms importer in 2022.
✓ Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic is in first place in the latest ATP rankings.
✓ According to recent reports Bihar has the lowest education rate.
✓ International Intellectual Property Rights index 2023 - India ranks 42 and USA
ranks first.
✓ Rudraprayag in Uttarakhand is the most landslide prone district in India
according to the Landslide Atlas of India.
✓ V-Dem’s democracy report 2023 - India ranks 108 and Denmark ranks first.
✓ City index 2023 - India ranks fifth and USA ranks first.
✓ World Air quality report 2022 - Biyadi of India ranks third and Lahore ranks first.
✓ Time magazine's list of the World's Greatest Places of 2023 has released a list of
50 places in the world, and Mayurbhanj district of Odisha and the Union Territory
of Ladakh have made it to the list from India.
Awards and honours -

✓ Markoni price 2023 - Computer Scientist Hari Balakrishnan.
✓ Business standards bankers of the Year 2022 - Shashidhar Jagdishan (MD and
CEO of HDFC Bank Limited).
✓ Pritzker architecture prize 2023 - British architect Sir david alan chipperfield.
✓ The University of Texas honored Naveen Jindal with a Lifetime Achievement
Award.
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✓ Isha Ambani won the Best Entrepreneur of the Next Generation Award.
✓ Canadian musician The Weeknd has been named the best artist worldwide by
Guinness World Records.
✓ The Apple Prize was won by Argentinian mathematician Luis Caffarelli, who is
known as the Messi of mathematics.
✓ Nepalese cricketer Asif Sheikh won the 2022 CMJ Spirit of Cricket Award.
✓ Novelist Vinod Kumar Shukla has been awarded the PEN / Nobokov Award 2023.
✓ Ratan Tata has been appointed as an Honorary Officer of the General Division of
the Order of Australia.
✓ RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das won the Governor of the Year Award at Central
Banking Award 2023.
✓ Bengaluru wins Partnership for Healthy Cities for anti-smoking legislation.
✓ Tamil writer Sivasankari to receive Saraswati Samman 2022.
✓ Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi receiving 32nd Vyas honor 2022 for a novel titled
'Pagalkhana'.
✓ Shipra Das was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the National
Photography Festival.
✓ Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu wins 2022 BBC Indian SportsWoman of the Year
Award.
✓ Indian chess player D Gukesh wins Player of the Year Award by Asian Chess
Federation.
FIFA football awards 2022 -

✓ Best FIFA mains player - Lionel Messi.
✓ Best FIFA women's player - Alexia Putellas.
✓ Best FIFA mains goalkeeper - Emiliano martinage.
✓ Best FIFA women's goalkeeper - Mary Earps.
✓ Best FIFA fair play award - Luka Lochoshvili.
95thAcademy Oscar Award -

✓ Best film - Everything everywhere all at once.
✓ Best director - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
✓ Best actor - Brendon freezer.
✓ Best actress - Michelle Yeoh.
✓ Best documentary - The Elephant Whisperers, directed by Kartiki Gonsalves and
produced by Guneet Monga.
✓ Best original song - M.M keeravani for Natu Natu.
76 Bafta Award -
✓ Best film - All quiet on the Western front.
✓ Best director - Edward burger.
✓ Best actor - Austin Butler.
✓ Best actress - Kate blanched.
✓ Best short film - Tom Barclay, Ross white for ‘an Iris goodbye’.
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✓ CMD of Indian Telephone Industries Limited - Rajesh Rai.
✓ Chief Minister of Meghalaya - Conrad Sangma.
✓ Controller general of accounts of India - S.S. Dubey.
✓ Secretary general of FICCI - Shailesh Pathak.
✓ Brand ambassador of Pepsico - Ranveer Singh.
✓ Chief minister of Nagaland - Neiphiu Rio.
✓ Chairman of LIC - Siddharth Mohanty.
✓ Brand ambassador of Viacom 18 - Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
✓ Chief Minister of Tripura - Manik Shah.
✓ Group captain of the Frontline combat unit of the Indian Air Force - Salija Dhami.
✓ Brand ambassador of luxor International Private Limited - Virat Kohli.
✓ Managing director of LIC - Tablesh Pandey.
✓ MD and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Limited - Rohit Java.
✓ CMD of cotton Corporation of India - Lalit Kumar Gupta.
✓ Brand Ambassador of West Bengal Tourism Industry - Deepak Adhikari (Dev).
✓ Chairperson of Central electricity regulatory Commission - Jishnu Barua.
✓ Kerala's first transgender lawyer - Padma Lakshmi.
✓ Chairman and managing director of BPCL - G Krishna Kumar.

✓ President of China - Xi jinping.
✓ President of Nepal - Ramchandra Poudel.
✓ PM of Qatar - Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani.
✓ President of FIFA - Gianni infantino.
✓ President of FIBA Asia - Govindraj Kempareddy.
Recent deaths -
✓ Dr. Kanak Jatindra Rayle, an Indian Dancer, Choreographer and Educationist
passed away recently at the age of 85.
✓ Shasthipad Chatterjee, the creator of Pandab Goenda, passed away recently at the
age of 82.
✓ Actor Satish Kaushik passed away recently at the age of 66.
✓ Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore passed away recently at the age of 94.
✓ Veteran Malayalam actor Vareed Thekkethala passed away recently at the age of
75.
✓ British academic, author and historian Patrick French died recently at the age of
57.
✓ Recently, at the age of eighty-eight, famous Japanese literary writer Kenzaburo Oi
died.
✓ Former Chief Justice of India Aziz Musabbir Ahmadi passed away recently at the
age of 90.
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Sports -
✓ 2022-23 Santosh Trophy champions Karnataka.
✓ 2022-23 ISL Champions ATK Mohan Bagan.
✓ India's 81st Chess Grand Master is Sayantan Das of West Bengal.
✓ Shabneem Ismail of South Africa is the highest wicket-taker in the Women's
T20 World Cup.
✓ Asia's longest cycle race has started in Jammu and Kashmir.
✓ The first Women's Premier League started in Navi Mumbai.
✓ 2023 ICC Player of the Month in Women's category at Ashleigh Gardner,
Australia in February.
✓ England's Harry Brook is ICC Player of the Month for February 2023 in the
men's category.
✓ Women's ICC T20 World Cup champions Australia.
✓ Indian cricketer Akshar Patel became the fastest bowler to complete 50 wickets
in Test cricket.
✓ The 4th Asian Kho Kho Championship begins in Baksa district of Assam.
✓ Bahrain Grand Prix 2003 title won by Belgian racing car driver Max
Verstappen.
✓ India won the 2023 Junior World Kabaddi Championship.
✓ The Union Ministry of Tourism organized the first snow marathon in Jammu.
✓ Mexican racing car driver Sergio Parrage wins Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2023.
✓ Argentina Open Tennis Tournament 2023 -
• Men's singles - Carlos Alcatraz (Spain).
Others -
✓ On the occasion of International Mother Language Day on February 21, the Kerala
High Court recently released two judgments in regional languages.
✓ Recently six digit HUID (Hallmark Unique Identification) was introduced for gold
jewellery.
✓ The second habitat of the Asiatic lion is the Baroda Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat.
✓ The Uttarakhand government is going to set up the country's first public breast
milk bank.
✓ World's first 200m long bamboo crush barrier installed in Maharashtra.
✓ The name of Aurangabad city has been changed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar.
✓ The name of the city of Osmanabad in Maharashtra has been changed to
Dharashiv.
April 2023
Important Apps and Portals

✓ Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Tourism Minister G. Kishan Reddy launched
the Vedic Heritage Portal at the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts.
✓ Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal launched
‘Sagar Manthan’ Dashboard.
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✓ Phonepay has launched an e-commerce app called ‘Pincode’.
✓ Toyota launched an online platform called ‘Wheels on Web’.
✓ Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupendra Yadav launched the Aravalli
Green Wall Project.
✓ Recently RBI announced the launch of a portal named ‘PRAVAAH’.
✓ Government of Kerala launched ‘One Panchayat One Playground’ Project.
✓ Dr. Jitendra Singh launched the ‘YUVA Portal’ to identify and connect with the
youth entrepreneurs of the country.
Important Meetings, festivals and conferences -

✓ ‘Gaj Utsav 2023’ was recently celebrated at Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
✓ Recently ‘Hun-Thadou’ cultural festival was held in Manipur.
✓ ‘Global Buddhist Summit’ held on 20 April 2023 in New Delhi.
✓ ‘The UN 2023 Water Conference’ was held in New York, USA from 22 to 24 April,
2023.
✓ ‘The World TB Summit 2023’ organized by the Union Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare was held in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
✓ The first International Quantum Communication Conclave was held at Vigyan
Bhavan, New Delhi on 27-28 March.

✓ 23 March - Martyr's Day.
✓ 24 March - World Tuberculosis day.
✓ 27 March - World theater day.
✓ 30 March - International Day of zero waste.
✓ 2 April - World Autism awareness day.
✓ 5 April - National Maritime day.
✓ 7 April - World Health Day (Theme: health for all).
✓ 10 April - World homeopathy day (Theme: one health, one family).
✓ 11 April - National safe Motherhood day.
✓ 12 April - International Day for street children.
✓ 13 April - Siachen day.
✓ 13 April - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Day.
✓ 14 April - National Fire Service day.
✓ 14 April - Ambedkar Jayanti of India.
✓ 15 April - World art day.
✓ 16 April - World voice day.
✓ 17 April - World Haemophilia day.
✓ 18 April - International Day for monuments and sites.
✓ 19 April - World liver day.
✓ 21 April - World civil service day.
✓ 22 April - International Mother Earth Day (Invest in our planet).
✓ 23 April - World Book and Copyright Day (Theme: indigenous languages).
✓ 24 April - National Panchayati Raj day.
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✓ 27 April - World Design Day.
✓ 29 April - World dance day.
Defense -
✓ Joint military exercise ‘Konkan 2023’ was held between the Indian Navy and
British Navy on March 20-22, 2020 in the Arabian Sea. INS Trishul participated
on behalf of India in this exercise.
✓ The Indian Army and the Indian Air Force jointly organized a 96-hour multi-
domain air-land military exercise at the Line of Actual Control.
✓ Exercise Cobra Warrior was held on 24th March at Royal Air Force Base
Wadingtong, British United Kingdom. The Indian Air Force participated in the
military exercise for the first time.
✓ Sri Lanka begins naval exercise ‘Slinex-2023’ with India.
✓ The first submarine base was built in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh and named BNS
Sheikh Hasina after the Prime Minister of that country, Sheikh Hasina.
✓ All Indian defense forces conducted a joint military exercise called ‘Exercise
Kavach’ in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
✓ The ‘Iniohos-23’ military exercise was held between the Indian Air Force and the
Greek Air Force in the Mediterranean Sea.
✓ India is conducting a fighter training exercise called 'Cope India' with the
American Air Force. Which will be hosted by West Bengal
✓ The US started military exercises called ‘Balikatan 2023’ with the Philippines.
✓ The Indian Air Force participated in the international air force event called 'Orion'
held in France.
✓ NATO is hosting a cyber defense exercise called 'Locked Shields' in Estonia
✓ The United Kingdom has started a joint military exercise called ‘Ajeya Warrior
2023’ with India.
Important MoU / Agreement -

✓ NTPC REL and Indian Army have signed MoU for implementation of Army
Establishment Green Hydrogen Project.
✓ An MoU was signed between the Central Government and the Government of
Tamil Nadu for setting up the country's first PM Mitra Park in Virudhunagar
district of Tamil Nadu.
✓ An agreement was signed between India and Romania to develop defense
cooperation.
✓ MoU signed between RRI and Indian Navy to develop a secure maritime
communication system through use of quantum technology.
✓ MoU signed between the Ministry of External Affairs and the UN World Food
Program to supply 10,000 metric tons of wheat to Afghanistan.
✓ The MoU has been signed between the Ministry of Defense and BEL to enhance
the country's defense capabilities through procurement of various equipment
between the Indian Navy and Air Force.
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✓ 817 crore MoU signed between Himachal Pradesh government and AFD of France
for improvement of drinking water and sanitation services in five cities of the state
✓ A MoU has been signed between the Indian Army and Tezpur University to impart
Chinese language training to the Indian Army.
✓ India has signed a deal with a Russian firm to manufacture 120 Vande Bharat
trains

✓ World's first liquid hydrogen powered dock (MF hydra) launched by Norwegian
company 'Norled'
✓ Turkey's largest warship is the world's first drone carrier 'TCG Anadolu'.
✓ A team of researchers from India and Britain launched ‘SMART’, an early flood
warning system.
✓ The liquid fueled rocket 'Tilanglong 2' was launched by China.
✓ Bharat Dynamics Limited successfully test-fired indigenous third-generation man-
portable anti-tank guided missile ‘Amogha-3’.
✓ Israel successfully launched a new intelligence satellite ‘Ofek 13’.
✓ The first heavy rainfall monitoring satellite Fengyun-3G was launched by China.
✓ India's first 3D printed post office is being built in Bangalore.
✓ India's first solar powered tourist boat launched in Kerala.
✓ North Korea tests an underwater nuclear attack drone named ‘Hali 2’.
✓ India's first semi-high speed regional rail service is named ‘Rapidx’.
✓ Himachal Pradesh became the first state in India to create a DNA database of
unidentified dead bodies.
✓ Odisha launched India's first heavy-duty logistics drone named ‘BonV’.
✓ Uttar Pradesh is set to become the first state to make 100% electric vehicles
mandatory for all government offices.
✓ Maharashtra installs AI machine to check the quality of school food.
Important Index / report / study / ranking -

✓ Mumbai has been ranked second in the World Tree City list.
✓ Ranbir Singh tops the 'Celebrity Brand Valuation Report 2022: Mainstream' report
published by Kroll’s.
✓ QS world university rankings by subject 2023 - Massachusetts Institute Of
Technology Of USA in first position. Indian educational institutions include IIT
Bombay with a global rank of 47 and IIT Delhi with a global rank of 48.
✓ Kerala has received the highest number of GI tags in FY 2022-23.
✓ Delhi Airport is the ninth busiest airport in the world according to a recently
published report.
✓ Mumbai ranks 19 in the Best Public Transport in the World 2023 list.
✓ 2023M3M Hurun Global rich list - Bernard Arnold (First) Alan mask (Second)
Mukesh Ambani (Ninth).
✓ Global terrorism index 2023 - Afghanistan (First) India (13th).
✓ Andhra Pradesh tops the Energy Efficiency Index 2022.
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✓ World's most criminal countries ranking - Venezuela (First) India (77th).
✓ The world happiness report 2023 - Finland (First) India (126th).
✓ 37th annual world billionaire list 2023 - Bernard Arnold (First) Alan mask
(Second) Mukesh Ambani (Ninth).
✓ India Digital payments in 2022 - Phonepe (First).
✓ World's wealthiest Cities report 2023 - New York (First) Mumbai (21st).
✓ Global Unicorn index 2023 - USA has the most unicorns in the world and India's
top union organization is Byjus.
✓ Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2023 list includes Shah Rukh
Khan and SS Rajamouli as Indians.
✓ India's largest supplier of mineral oil is Russia.
✓ India ranks fourth in 2022 list of world's largest military spenders, America in first
position.
✓ According to the latest tiger census, the number of tigers in India in 2022 was
3167.
✓ India justice report 2022 - Karnataka (First).

✓ War and women - Dr M.A Hassan.
✓ Azaad - Gulam Nabi Azaad.
✓ Gandhi: Siyasat our Sampradayikta - Piyush Babel.
✓ Courting: England, Mughal India and the origins of Empire - Nandini Das.
✓ The banker to every Indian - SBI.
✓ Sachin@50 celebrating a Maestro - Boriya Majumdar.
✓ Smoke and Ashes - Amitabh Ghosh.
Awards and honors -

✓ FOSWAL literature award - Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, prominent
literary figure of Bangladesh.
✓ Dhanya Rajendran received the ‘Chameli Devi Jain Award 2022’ for Outstanding
Woman Journalist.
✓ Abel prize 2023 - American mathematician Luis angel Caffarelli.
✓ Wildlife conservation award 2023 - Alia Mir.
✓ Texas University lifetime achievement award 2023 - Navin Jindal.
✓ Femina Miss India 2023 - Nandini Gupta.
✓ Expatriate Indian award 2023 - Raj Subramaniam.
✓ Wisden cricketer of the year award 2023 - Harmanpreet Kaur from India, Darrel
Mitchell from England Tom Blendel from New Zealand.
✓ Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, received Poland's highest honor, the Order
of the White Eagle.
✓ AIMA’s Business leader of the decade’s award - Kumar Mangalam Birla.
✓ Music artist Asha Bhosle receiving Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar Award.
✓ Deepika Mishra became the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force to receive
the Gallantry Award.
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✓ Colombian singer Shakira is receiving the Latin Woman of the Year Award.
✓ Chennai Metro wins Green Worlds Award 2023.

✓ Brand ambassador of Star Sports - Ranveer Singh.
✓ CEO of Hero MotoCorp - Niranjan Gupta.
✓ President of FICCI ladies organization - Sudha Shiv Kumar.
✓ Vice chief of Indian Navy - Vice Admiral Sanjay jasjeet Singh.
✓ Executive director of RBI - Neeraj Nigam.
✓ Chief investment officer of LIC - Ratnakar Patnaik.
✓ Chief Justice of Tripura High Court - Aparesh kumar Singh.
✓ MD and CEO of Tata electronics - Dr Randhir Thakur.
✓ Brand ambassador of jiocinema - Rohit Sharma.
✓ Brand ambassador of Star Sports network - Rishabh pant.
✓ CEO and MD of Tata Consultancy Services - K. Krithivasan.
✓ Chief technical officer of Air India - Shishir kanth Das.
✓ President of the Cycling Federation of India - Pankaj Singh.
✓ Chairman of NASSCOM - Anant Maheshwari.
✓ Military advisor of national security council secretariat - Sandeep Singh.

✓ Warrant officer of Britain Royal Air Force - Murugeshvaran Subramaniam.
✓ New President of Bangladesh - Mohammed Shahabuddin.
✓ Directed general of IAEA - Rafael Marino grossi.
✓ Yuvraj of Abu Dhabi - Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohammed Bin jayad Al nihaan.
✓ Head of NASA’s Moon to Mars program - Amit khatriya.
Recent deaths -
✓ Former cricketer Salim Durrani passed away recently at the age of 88.
✓ Famous actress Uttara Bowkar passed away recently at the age of 79.
✓ Renowned Padma Shri awardee boxer Kaur Singh died recently at the age of 74.
✓ Eminent journalist and editor of popular Hindi daily Abhay Chhajlani died recently
at the age of 88.
✓ Jagannath, an experienced politician at the Jharkhand and All India level, passed
away recently at the age of 56.
✓ Prominent politician and veteran leader of Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab, Prakash
Singh Badal passed away recently at the age of 95.
Sports -
✓ Women's Tata Premier League champions Mumbai Indians and Most Valuable
Player Haley Mathews.
✓ Recently the Women's World Boxing Championship 2023 was held in New Delhi,
India. India is on the top spot with four gold wins.
✓ Arvind Chidambaram won the 20th Delhi International Open Chess Tournament.
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✓ Belgian Racing Car Driver Max Verstappen Wins Australian Grand Prix 2023.
✓ India's second largest cricket stadium is being built in Jaipur named after Anil
Agarwal.
✓ New Zealand's Kim Cotton will be the first female umpire to officiate men's T20I
matches.
✓ Chennai to host Street Child Cricket World Cup 2023.
✓ India's 25th woman chess grandmaster is Savita Sri of Tamil Nadu.
✓ Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan won the ICC Player of the Month Award for
the month of March 2023 in the men's category.
✓ Harmanpreet Kaur becomes first woman cricketer to win Wisden Cricketer of the
Year Award 2022.
Miscellaneous -
✓ Rampura Agucha Mine and Jawaar Group of Mines of Hindustan Limited became
the first Greenco certified mines in the world.
✓ Rajasthan became the first state in the country to guarantee the right to health.
✓ Tripura government unveiled the statue of Maharaja Veer Vikram.
✓ Jindal Steel & Power Limited has achieved India's first Bureau of Indian Standards
certification.
✓ Thanthai Periyar has been declared a wildlife sanctuary by the Government of
Tamil Nadu.
✓ Kangra tea got the European GI tag.
✓ A 70-feet tall statue of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the Statue of Knowledge, was
unveiled in Latur, Maharashtra.
✓ Georgia became the first North American country to pass a resolution condemning
Hinduphobia.
✓ Recently Italy plans to ban the English language.
✓ Chhatrishgarh's fragrant rice Nagri Durbaj rice has got the GI tag.
✓ Solar Powered Tourist Vessel Sooryamsu Launched by Kerala Shipping and Inland
Navigation Corporation.
✓ Finland is the 31st member country of NATO.
✓ Space Sector Design Lab launched in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
✓ The country's first semi-high speed regional rail service is named Rapidx.
✓ Bhavanapadu port has been renamed as Mulapeta Greenfield Port.
✓ Recently Tamil Nadu grapes got GI tag.
✓ BonV is India's first heavy lift logistics drone.
✓ Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated Tulip Garden in Jammu.
✓ The Kerala government has decided to present a water budget as the first state in
the country.
✓ Recently the ‘Dogri version’ of the Constitution of India has been published.
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Important Apps and Portals -
✓ Actor Sunil Shetty launched a food delivery app called “Waayu”.
✓ Uttarakhand government launched ‘Patch Reporting App’ to report pothole related
complaints.
✓ Ashwini Vaishnav launched 'Sanchar Sathi' portal to track and block lost mobiles.
Index -
✓ ‘Tamil Nadu’ tops the list of states with the highest number of GI tagged products
followed by ‘Uttar Pradesh’.
✓ ‘China’ is the world's largest car exporter.
✓ ‘Kerala’ tops the NITI Aayog Health Index for 2020-21.
✓ ‘Hyderabad’ Airport has earned the title of ‘World Most Punctual Airport’.
✓ India's AI supercomputer ‘Airavat’ is ranked ‘75th’ in the 500 Global
Supercomputers list across the world.
✓ ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’ tops World Ten Highest Paid Athletes 2023 list published by
Forbes.
✓ In 2022, 52% of India's total population is using the Internet.
✓ India is Europe's largest supplier of refined fuels.
✓ India ranks ‘161’ in Press freedom index 2023 with Norway at first.
✓ India is the top country contributing to Sri Lanka's tourism sector.

✓ 1 May - International Labor Day.
✓ 3 May - World Press Freedom Day (Theme: Shaping a future of rights - freedom of
expression as a driver for all other human rights).
✓ 4 May - International Firefighters Day (Theme: Honoring the heroes who protect
us).
✓ 7 May - World athletics day (Theme: Athletics for all - a new beginning).
✓ 8 May - World Thalassemia day (Theme: Be aware, share, care).
✓ 11 May - National Technology day.
✓ 12 May - International Nurse day (Theme: our nurses - our future).
✓ 15 May - International Family day (Theme: Demographic Trends and families).
✓ 16 May - National Dengue day.
✓ 18 May - International Museum day.
✓ 21 May - National Counter Terrorism Day (In commemoration of former Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi's death anniversary).
✓ 31 May - World No Tobacco Day (Theme: we need food not tobacco).

✓ Director of CSIR (Central Electrochemical Research Institute) - K. Ramesh.
✓ Chief Justice of Kolkata High Court - T.S. Shivanagam.
✓ Chairman and managing director of Coal India - P. Mallikarjun Prasad.
✓ Chief secretary of Manipur - Vineet Joshi.
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✓ Director of CBI - Pravin Sood.
✓ MD and CEO of National Investment and Infrastructure Fund - Rajiv Dhar.
✓ Brand ambassador of Tripura tourism - Sourav Ganguly
✓ Chairman of UPSC - Manoj Soni.
✓ Brand ambassador of duroflex - Virat Kohli.
✓ Deputy Chief of your staff - Air Marshal Ashutosh Dikshit.
✓ Chairperson of Competition Commission of India - Anil Kumar Jain.
✓ President of Paytm - Bhavesh Gupta.
✓ Chairman of Internet and mobile Association of India - R. Dinesh.
✓ First female Chairman and managing director of power Finance Corporation
Limited - Parminder Chopra.
✓ Central Vigilance Commissioner - Praveen Kumar Srivastava.
✓ Administrator of Basketball Federation of India - P Krishna Bhatt.
✓ Chairman of Kolkata port - Rathendra Rahman.
✓ President of the swimming Federation of India - Namdev Shirgaonkar.

✓ CEO of Qantas airways Limited - Vanessa Hudson.
✓ Next president of Marylebone cricket club - Mark Nicholas.
✓ Global brand ambassador of Gucci - Alia Bhatt.
✓ CEO of Twitter - Linda Yaccarino.
✓ Brand ambassador of realme - Shahrukh Khan.
Sports -
✓ 13th Hockey India Sub junior Men national championship 2023 wins Uttar
Pradesh.
✓ Monaco Grand pics 2023 wins - Belgium Dutch racing car driver Max Verstappen.
✓ Tata IPL 2023 wins Chennai Super Kings.
✓ Subman Gill became the first Indian cricketer to score a century in Test, ODI, T20
and IPL in the same year.
✓ India's Neeraj Chopra is number one in the world men's javelin ranking.
✓ Indian long jumper Shaili Singh wins a bronze medal at Seiko Grand Prix 2023,
Japan.
✓ Rohit Sharma is the second Indian player to complete 11000 runs in T20 cricket.
✓ ‘Adidas’ is the new ‘kit sponsor’ of the Indian cricket team.
✓ India won 16 gold medals at the South Asian Youth Table Tennis Championship
2023 held in Itanagar.
✓ 27th La Liga title wins - Barcelona Football Club.
✓ Qatar will host the Basketball World Cup 2027.
✓ Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 will be held in ‘South Korea’.
✓ ‘Ayushmann Khorana’ is the ambassador of the Indian team in the Special
Olympics held in Berlin.
✓ ICC Men's player of the month April 2023 - Fakr Zaman (Pakistan).
✓ ICC Women's player of the month April 2023 - Naruemol Chaiwai (Thailand).
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✓ Miami F1 Grand prix wins - Dutch Belgium racing car driver ‘Max Verstappen’.
✓ Spain's tennis player ‘Carlos Alcaraz’ wins ‘Madrid Open 2023 title.
✓ Pakistan cricketer ‘Babar Azam’ became the fastest cricketer to complete 5000
runs in ODI cricket.
✓ First Global Chase League hosted by Dubai.
✓ Bontika Agarwal became the 11th Indian woman chess player to win the
International Masters title.
✓ ACC Men premier Cup owned by Nepal.
✓ World's snooker Championship owned by Luka Brecel (Belgium).
✓ Avilas Tomy became the first Indian to win the second prize at the Golden Globes.
Important deaths -
✓ The famous philanthropist and industrialist ‘Karumuttu T. Kannam’ died at the
age of 70.
✓ Former Australian tennis player Wayne Davidson died recently at the age of 79.
✓ Noted Bengali writer Samaresh Majumdar died recently at the age of 81.
✓ Renowned historian Ranjit Guha died recently at the age of 100 years.
✓ Renowned scientist Dr N. Gopalakrishnan passed away recently at the age of 68.
✓ South Indian actor Sarath Babu died recently at the age of 71.

✓ ISRO launched a new navigation satellite named NVS-01.
✓ Microsoft launched an AI chat bot called ‘Jugalbandi’ for rural Indians.
✓ Google launched an AI chat board called ‘Bard’ in 180 countries including India.
✓ India's largest skywalk bridge spanning 570 meters was inaugurated in Tamil
Nadu.
✓ India partners with Israel to establish a water technology center at IIT Madras.
✓ London Stock Exchange Group is building a technology center in Hyderabad.
✓ Kerala is the first state in India to have drone surveillance in every police area.
✓ Telangana is the first state in India to launch State Robotic Framework.
✓ ‘Vistara’ is the first Indian airline to use sustainable aviation fuel.
✓ ‘Project Sanjay’ was launched to modernize the Indian Army.
✓ NASA released oxygen from the soil brought from the moon.
✓ Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited to develop a 500 crore ethanol plant in
Himachal Pradesh's Una district.

✓ Supreme Court on Commercial Arbitration - Dr Manoj Kumar.
✓ My life in design - Gauri Khan.
Made in India: 75 years of Business and Enterprise - Amitabh Kant.
✓ Reflections - Narayan Bhagul.
✓ My life as a comrade - K.K. Sailaja.
✓ Draupadi Murmu: from tribal Hinterlands to Raisina Hills - Kasturi Roy.
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Defence -
✓ Saudi Arabia started a naval exercise named ‘Al Mohed -Al Hindi’ with India.
✓ India started a naval exercise called ‘Samudra Shakti 23’ with Indonesia.
✓ Bangladesh has started a naval exercise named ‘Tiger Shark 40’ with America.
✓ The Indian Army conducted Exercise 'Jalrahat’ in Assam.
✓ Indian Army held ‘Buland Bharat’ exercise in Arunachal Pradesh.
Awards and honors -
✓ Damodar Mouja received the 57th Gyanpith Award.

✓ ‘Chandigarh’ won first place in ‘National Water Award 2022’.
✓ ‘Narendra Modi’ was recently awarded ‘the Companion of the Order of Fiji’, Fiji's
highest civilian honor for global leadership.
✓ ‘Pandit Ramkishan’ was honored as ‘Man of the Century’.
✓ Actress Meera Sal is getting BAFTA Fellowship.
✓ West Bengal's Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya wins first prize in 24th National Youth
Parliament Competition.
✓ Argentina Footballer ‘Lionel Messi’ Wins ‘Laureus Sportsman of the Year 2023’
Award.
✓ Recently Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was honored with the
Bharat Ratna Dr. Ambedkar Award.
✓ Cochin Port got “Sagar Srestha’ honor 2023.
✓ Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran has been awarded France's
highest civilian honor.
✓ Leipzig Book prize 2023 - Russian writer Maria Stepanova.
Miscellaneous -
✓ Uttar Pradesh is the first state to roll out digital health cards for children.
✓ An online education program called ‘PAHAL’ for rural children has been launched
in ‘Uttar Pradesh’.
✓ Recently IIT Kanpur launched Cyber Security Skills Program.
✓ Draupadi Murmu launches Addiction Free Orissa campaign in Mayurbhanj
district.
✓ ‘Uttarakhand government’ launched ‘Operation Mariyada’ to maintain cleanliness
in pilgrimage and tourism.
✓ Telangana launches “SAHAS” initiative to create a safe workplace for women.
✓ Madhya Pradesh approves ‘Mukhymantri Shiko Kamao Yojana’ for the
unemployed of the state.
✓ Recently after Bihar, the Odisha government has started a survey of backward
classes.
✓ Punjab is the first state in India to implement Right Tour Walk.
✓ Santiniketan has been included in the potential list of UNESCO World Heritage.
✓ India's first international multi-modal logistics park is being built in Assam.
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✓ Uttar Pradesh is planning to build a ‘Rama Land’ theme park similar to
DisneyLand.
✓ Recently the Assam government plans to ban polygamy.
✓ Recently ‘Tung Nath Temple in Uttarakhand’ is going to be declared as a National
Monument.
✓ Uttar Pradesh's first pharma park is being built in Lalitpur district.
✓ The permanent name of All India Radio is Akashvani.
✓ India's new parliament building was designed by Dr. Bimal Patel.
✓ The first airport in India to have a ‘free reading lounge’ is Lal Bahadur Shastri
International Airport in Barana, Uttar Pradesh.
✓ 25-year-old Yasi Jain became the youngest Indian woman to climb Mount Everest.
✓ Maharashtra became the first state in India to approve ‘Good Governance
Regulations’.
✓ Kerala became India's first fully e-governance state.
✓ On the occasion of the inauguration of the new Parliament building, the Center is
launching a new 75-rupee coin.
✓ Patna is the first municipality in India to use Central Bank digital currency.
✓ India signed a MoU with Israel for cooperation in industrial research and
development.
✓ Cyclone ‘Mocha’ formed in the Bay of Bengal was named ‘Yemen’.
✓ Recently, Narendra Modi inaugurated the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in
Hiroshima, Japan.
✓ Australia's Harris Park has been renamed Little India.
✓ Hari Budha Magar of Nepal was the first disabled person to climb Mount Everest
with both artificial legs.
✓ Indian Railways recently provided twenty broad gauge locomotives to Bangladesh.
✓ Uganda recently passed a law against homosexuality.
✓ Chile has the world's oldest tree called the Great Grandfather.
✓ Recently the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka recognized homosexuality as legal.
✓ mPox has been removed from the global health emergency list by WHO.
✓ Pashan Dawa Sherpa of Nepal is the second person to climb Mount Everest 26
times.
June 2023
Important Apps, Portal & Services -
✓ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the ‘Mukhy
mantri Tirtha Darshan’ Yojana.
✓ Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh launched
‘SAMARTH’ Abhiyan in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow.
✓ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched ‘Mo Ghara’ Project.
✓ Union Minister Hardwip Singh Puri launched ‘PM SVANidhi’ app for street
vendors.
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✓ Union Minister Mahendranath Pandey launched ‘Dugdh Sanakalam Sathi’ app in
Uttarakhand.
✓ Union Minister Purushottam Rupala launched the portal ‘NANDI’.
✓ Bangalore Airport has launched ‘BLR Pulse app’ for passengers.
✓ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched the ‘Nanda Baba Milk
Mission’.
✓ Chief Minister Prema khandu launched ‘Arunpol’ App of Arunachal Pradesh
Police.
✓ The Champions 2.0 portal was launched by Union Minister, Narayan Rane.
✓ The Uttar Pradesh Government launched ‘Polytechnic Chalo Abhiyan’.
Important Summits/Meetings/Sessions/Festivals/Conferences -
✓ ‘Lavender Festival’ has started in Badreya Valley of Jammu and Kashmir.
✓ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated ‘the first National Training Conclave’
for Civil Servants at the International Exhibition and Convention Center at Pragati
Maidan, New Delhi.
✓ The ‘Raja Parba’ festival was celebrated in odisha.
✓ The 76th annual meeting of the World Assembly was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
✓ The ‘Global DPI Summit 2023’ was held in Pune, Maharashtra.
✓ The ‘Wihu Kuh’ festival is celebrated by the Thangsa tribal group of Arunachal
Pradesh.

✓ 24 May - World's schizophrenia awareness day.
✓ 24 May - Indian Commonwealth Day.
✓ 28 May - World hunger day (Theme: Celebrating sustainable solutions to hunger
and poverty).
✓ 28 May - International Day of action for women's health.
✓ 29 May - International Day of United Nation peacekeepers (Theme: peace begins
with me).
✓ 29 May - International Everest day.
✓ 31 may - World no Tobacco Day.
✓ 1 June - World milk day.
✓ 3 June - World bicycle day (Theme: riding together for a sustainable future).
✓ 5 June - World Environment Day (Theme: solutions to plastic pollution)
✓ 7 June - World food safety day (Theme: food standard saves lives).
✓ 8 June - World Oceans day (Theme: Planet Ocean - Tides are changing).
✓ 12 June - World day against child labour.
✓ 14 June - World blood donor day.
✓ 15 June - World elder abuse awareness day.
✓ 18 June - International picnic day.
✓ 18 June - International Day for countering head speech.
✓ 19 June - National reading day.
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✓ 20 June - World Refugee day.
✓ 21 June - International yoga day.
✓ 21 June - World hydrographic day.
✓ 21 June - World music day.
✓ 23 June - International Olympic day (Theme: Let's move).
✓ 29 June - National Statistics Day (on the occasion of the birth anniversary of
Prashant Chandra Mahalbis).
✓ 30 June - World Planet Day.
Index, Report, Study, Ranking -

✓ Real Madrid tops the Forbes most valuable club in the world for 2022.
✓ Most innovation companies 2023: reaching new Heights in uncertain Times -
(Apple first), (Tata Group 20th).
✓ 61st Top 500 Global supercomputing list - (First position - Frontier of USA) and
(75th position - Airabat of India).
✓ Tata Group Named India's Most Valuable Brand.
✓ Fifth the impact ranking 2023 - The top educational institution is Western Sydney
Australia, India's top institution in this ranking is ‘Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham’ in
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
✓ 8th India ranking 2023 - IIT Madras in first position.
✓ ‘Kerala’ tops the fifth state food safety index.
✓ Gujarat ranks first in installing wind power capacity.
✓ Global slavery index 2023 - North Korea in first position, India is at the top among
the G20 nations.
✓ ‘Tata Power Company’ named India's Most Attractive Employer Brand.
✓ Global competitiveness index 2023 - Denmark in first position. India in 40th.
✓ Global gender gap index 2023 - Iceland in first position, India is in 127th.
Important MOUs and agreements -

✓ Puducherry and L&T engineering - This MoU has been signed for the purpose of
developing the infrastructure of tourist places.
✓ Navy and IMU - For technical cooperation purposes.
✓ Govt of Odisha Department of Higher Education and Infosys and Net Com - This
MoU has been signed to enhance the skills and employment opportunities among
students studying in higher educational institutions of Odisha.
✓ Goa and Uttarakhand - The MoU was signed to enhance the tourism landscape of
both the states.
✓ Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak - ‘The Atlantic Declaration’ was signed to promote
economic cooperation between the United Kingdom and the United States.
✓ SMS group of Germany and Tata Steel - This MoU was signed to reduce the
amount of carbon emissions in the steel production process.
✓ United Nation and Niti Aayog - This MoU was signed for the purpose of
‘Government of India United Nation sustainable development cooperation
framework 2023 to 2027’.
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✓ India, Nepal and Bangladesh - This tripartite agreement was signed to create
greater Power connectivity.
✓ India and Philippines - This MoU was signed for fintech cooperation.

✓ Iran's new generation of ballistic missile ‘Kheibar’.
✓ Alstom, a French company, will make 100 Vande Bharat trains.
✓ The world's first 3D printed Hindu temple is being built in Telangana.
✓ Israel tests autonomous flying taxis to reduce traffic congestion.
✓ The world's first multi-center Earth observation satellite ‘Drishti’ was built by IIT
Madras' Galaxeye Space.
✓ South Korea's first commercial grade satellite ‘NEXTsat2 or Next Generation Small
Satellite 2’.
✓ DRDO successfully test-fired ‘Agni Prime’ missile off Odisha coast.
✓ Google ‘Indian launches program’ launched in India to support local news
publishers.
✓ India's first hydrogen-powered train will run from Haryana's Jind district to
Sanipat.
Defense -
✓ ‘Ekatha’ Naval exercise - The sixth naval exercise between Indian and Maldivian
navies was held in Maldives.
✓ 6th Arctic challenge exercise 2023 - The event was held in Finland, Norway and
Sweden.
✓ ‘Ex - Ekuverin’ - The exercise was held between the Indian Army and the Maldives
National Defense Force.
✓ ‘Air defender 23’ - NATO Air Drill exercise ‘Air Defender 23’ organized by Germany
in Europe.
✓ GRSE's new two warships are ‘INS Anjadip’ & ‘INS Sanshodhak’.
✓ ‘Exercise Agneyastra 1’ - Held by the Northern Command of the Indian Army.
✓ Indian Airport recently conducted an exercise called 'Ranvijay'.

✓ NTR: A political biography - Ramachandra Murthy Kondubhatla.
✓ A life well spent-four decades in the Indian Foreign Service - Satish Chandra.
✓ The power of one thought : Master your mind - K.K. Gopalakrishnan.
✓ India's Finance Minister - Ashok Kumar Bhattacharya.
✓ Symphony to jazz - Ankit Khemka.
✓ RAW Hitman - Is Hussain Zaidi.
✓ The Yoga Sutra for children - Rupa Pai.
Important Deaths -
✓ Noted Sanskrit scholar ‘Ved Kumari Ghai’ passed away recently at the age of 91.
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✓ ‘Govindara H Naik’, an Indian writer and educationist, died recently at the age of
89.
✓ Ghanaian writer and feminist ‘Ama Ata Aidoo’ died recently at the age of 81.
✓ An eminent writer and educationist ‘V. Arjunan’ passed away recently at the age of
90.
✓ Popular Hindi and Marathi film actress ‘Sulochana Latkar’ passed away recently at
the age of 94.
✓ Doordarshan's first female English news anchor ‘Gitanjali Iyer’ passed away
✓ Noted American writer ‘Cormac McCarthy’ died recently at the age of 89.

✓ Chairman of Paytm payments Bank Limited - Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
✓ Ambassador of Sony Sports network - Sania Mirza.
✓ Smile ambassador of Maharashtra government - Sachin Tendulkar.
✓ Chairman and managing director of Steel Authority of India Limited - Amarendu
Prakash.
✓ Chairman of intermediary advisory of SEBI - S. Rabindran.
✓ External auditor of WHO - Girish Chandra Murmu.
✓ CEO and MD of TCS - K. Kritibhashan.
✓ Brand ambassador of Hyundai Motors - Hardik Pandya.
✓ DG of BSF - Nitin Agarwal.
✓ CEO of UIDAI - Amit Agarwal.
✓ Deputy governor of RBI - Swaminathan Janki Raman.
✓ Election commissioner of West Bengal - Rajiv Sinha.
✓ Brand ambassador of Epson India - Rashmika Mandhana.
✓ Power Secretary of India - Pankaj Agrawal.
✓ Aviation Secretary of India - Chanchal Kumar.

✓ Brand ambassador of realme - Shahrukh Khan.
✓ Chairman of Hinduja group - Gopichand Hinduja.
✓ CEO of Alibaba - Eddie Wu.
✓ Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization - Celeste Saulo.
✓ 14th president of the World Bank - Ajay Banga.
Important Award and Honours -

✓ Blue Plaque honour - Princess Sofia Dalip Singh.
✓ International Booker prize 2023 - Georgi Gospodinov.
✓ 57th Gyanpith Puraskar - Damodar Maujo.
✓ Order of the British Empire - Cricketer Moin Ali.
✓ German book trade peace prize: 2023 - Writer Salman Rushdi.
✓ European essay price 2023 - Writer Arundhati Roy.
✓ RSL Christopher blood price 2023 - Writer Peterson Joseph.
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✓ Professor Jayashankar award - Acharya Gopi.
✓ Most valuable private company in India - Reliance.
✓ Olympic order - Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus.
✓ Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar 2023 - Writer Priya A.S.
✓ Governor of the Year 2023 - Shaktikanta Das.
✓ Spinoza prize 2023 - Joyita Gupta.
✓ Environmental airline of 2023 - Etihad Airways.
76th Kan film festival -

✓ Grand Prix - The Zone of interest.
✓ Best director - T.A hung.
23rd IIFA awards -

✓ Best film - Drishyam 2.
✓ Best director - R. Madhavan.
✓ Best actor - Hrithik Roshan.
✓ Best actress - Alia Bhatt.
✓ Best songwriter - Amitabh Bhattacharya.
✓ Best singer male - Arijit Singh.
✓ Best female singer - Shreya Ghoshal.
➢ Best music director - Pritam.
➢ Best cinematography - Sudip Chatterjee.
Sports -
✓ ICC World test Championship - Australia.
✓ Hero Intercontinental cup Football - India.
✓ Men's Junior Asia Cup Hockey Tournament 2023 - India.
✓ CAVA women's volleyball challenge cup 2023 - India.
✓ Spanish Grand Prix 2023 - Belgium dutch racing car driver Max Verstappen.
✓ Khelo India University games 2022 - Punjab University.
✓ World Boxing championship 2023 - India won three bronze medals.
✓ IPL 2023 - Chennai Super Kings (Fifth time).
✓ May 2023, ICC Player of the month Male - Harry Tector.
✓ May 2023, ICC Player of the month female - Thipatcha Putthapong.
✓ FIFA U20 World Cup - Uruguay.
✓ Under 17 Asian Wrestling Championship - Iran tops the medal tally.
✓ Women's junior Asia Cup 2023 - India won.
✓ Nations League 2023 - Spain won.
✓ Women emerging Asia Cup 2023 - India won.
✓ Ladies European title - Indian women golfer Diksha Dogar.
✓ Saudi Arabia will host the FIFA Club World Cup 2023.
✓ Indonesia will host the FIFA U-17 World Cup.
✓ The mascot of the 37th National Games is ‘Moga’.
✓ Goa will host the 37th National Games.
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✓ Dubai is hosting the first Women's Kabaddi League.
Malaysia Masters badminton tournament 2023 -

✓ Male singles - H.S. Pranay (India)
✓ Female singles - Yamaguchi Akane (Japan)
France Open tennis tournament 2023 -

✓ Male singles - Novak Djokovic (Serbia)
✓ Female singles - Iga swiatek (Poland)
World table tennis Championship 2023 -

✓ Male singles - Fan Zhendong (China)
✓ Female singles - Sun Yingsha (China)
Indonesia open badminton tournament 2023 -

✓ Male singles - Victor Excellence (Denmark)
✓ Female singles - Chen Yufei.
Miscellaneous -
✓ North India's first Skin Bank inaugurated at Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi.
✓ Asia's largest cluster development project launched in Thane, Maharashtra.
✓ The name of Ahmed Nagar has been changed to Ahlyadevi Nagar.
✓ Union Minister for Ports and Waterways Sarbananda Soneyal launched MB
Empress, India's first international Cruise.
✓ Kerala is the first E-Govern State of the country.
✓ Bajaj Allianz Company launched India's first insurance service for diabetic
patients.
✓ Blue pansy has been declared as the official butterfly of Jammu and Kashmir.
✓ India is the highest source of international travelers to Asia in 2022.
✓ India's largest private rail coach factory inaugurated in Hyderabad.
✓ Prisons in Uttar Pradesh will be known as ‘Reforms Homes’.
✓ Yogi Adityanath became the first Chief Minister of India to complete 25 million
followers on Twitter.
✓ National Food Safety and Standards Training Center inaugurated in Ghaziabad.
July 2023
Important Summits/Meetings/Sessions/Festivals/Conventions -
✓ The two-day ‘U-20 Mayoral Summit’ 2023 was held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat in
July 2023.
✓ The Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications and MyGov
jointly launched the ‘Bharat internet Utsav’.
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✓ The two-day long ‘Hemis Tsechu Festival’ was held in Ladakh.
✓ Global Food Regulators Summit 2023 was held as part of G20 at Manekshaw
Center in New Delhi from 20 to 21 July.
✓ The ‘7th India Mobile Congress 2023’ was held on July 12 at Pragati Maidan in
Delhi.
Important Apps / Portals and Services -

✓ Meta company is launching a microblogging app called ‘Threads’.
✓ Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Minister ‘Purushottam Rupala’
launched ‘Nandi’ (NOC approval for new drug and inoculation system) Portal.
✓ Union Fisheries Animal Husbandry and Commodities Minister Purushottam
Ruplar launched the ‘Report Fish Diseases’ app.
✓ ‘Mobile Dost’ app launched in Jammu and Kashmir.
✓ Jammu and Kashmir Lt. Governor Manoj Sinha Launches India's First Tele-
MANAS (Mental health assistance and networking across states) Chatbot.
✓ The Odisha Government launched ‘Mo Jangal Jami Yojana’.
✓ Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways and Minister for Ayush
Sarbananda Sonowal launched the Differential Global Navigation Satellite System
'Sagar Sampark'
✓ Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Saha launched the Central Register of
Cooperative Societies ‘Sahara Refund Portal’ on July 17.
✓ The Rajasthan government released the ‘Minimum Guaranteed Income Bill 2023’.
✓ Defense Minister Rajnath Singh launched the ‘National Cadet Corps Integrated
Software or NIS’ Software in New Delhi.
✓ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the ‘Ama Pokhari’ project through
which 2,000 large reservoirs of local bodies in 115 towns of Bhubaneswar will be
revived.
Important Days -
✓ 23 June - Union Nations Public Service day.
✓ 23 June - International Olympic day (Theme: Let's move).
✓ 23 June - International widows’ day.
✓ 24 June - International Day of women in diplomacy.
✓ 28 June - National Insurance awareness day.
✓ 29 June - National statistics day.
✓ 30 June - International Day of Parliamentarism (Theme: Parliaments for the
planet).
✓ 1 July - National doctors day (Theme: Celebrating resilience and healing hand).
✓ 1 July - Goods and service tax day.
✓ 2 July - World Sports Journalist day.
✓ 2 July - World UFO day.
✓ 3 July - International plastic bag free day.
✓ 11 July - World Population Day
✓ 12 July - NABARD's day (Theme: NABARD 42 years of rural transformation).
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✓ 15 July - World Youth skill day.
✓ 16 July - World snake day.
✓ 17 July - Day of international criminal justice.
✓ 18 July - Nelson Mandela International Day.
✓ 20 July - International chess day.
✓ 20 July - International moon day.
✓ 22 July - National flag adoption day.
✓ 22 July - Pi approximation day.
✓ 22 July - World brain day (Theme: Brain health and disability - leave no one
behind).
✓ 24 July - Income Tax Day of India.
✓ 26 July - Kargil Vijay Divas.
✓ 28 July - World Hepatitis Day.
✓ 29 July - International Tiger day.

✓ ‘Raman 2’ engine was successfully tested by Skyroot Aerospace in Hyderabad,
Telangana. It is designed for use in the Vikram 1 rocket.
✓ ‘Virgin Galactic’ Company recently launched the first commercial space flight.’
✓ The world's largest commercial communication satellite called ‘Jupiter 3’ was
launched by Spacex.
✓ Recently social media company Twitter changed its logo.
✓ Gujarat is getting India's first satellite network Portal site.
✓ IIT Kanpur developed India's first fully ‘DME fueled tractor capable of running on
Dimethyl.
✓ On June 21, a test flight of artificial rain was successfully completed by IIT
Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
✓ China launched a computer operating system called ‘OpenKyline’.
✓ China has launched the world's first methane-powered rocket named ZhuQue 2
into space.
✓ Odisha launches India's first AI generated news anchor named Liza.
✓ Elon Musk launched an artificial intelligence company called xAI.
✓ India's first indigenously built 700 MW nuclear power plant to be commissioned in
Gujarat.
✓ Space X company to get license to provide high-speed internet service in Mongolia.
Chandrayaan 3 -
• Launched by ISRO on 14th July.
• Chandrayaan 3 was launched by launch vehicle Mark-3 Mission 4 (LVM3 M4)
rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Center in SrihariKota, Andhra Pradesh.
• The chairman of this mission is S. Somnath.
• The lander module has been named Vikram (Named after Dr. Vikram Sarabhai,
the first chairman of ISRO).
• The rover has been named Pragyan.
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• August 23, the day the Chandrayaan-3 lander touched down on the lunar surface.
• India became the first country to land on the South Pole of the Moon.
Defence -
✓ India plans to host a Mega Air Force drill called ‘Tarang Shakti’.
✓ Mahindra Defense Systems hands over the first Armado - Armoured Light
Specialist Vehicle to the Indian Army.
✓ The 'Ranvijay' exercise was held by the Indian Air Force in Prayagraj, Uttar
Pradesh.
✓ Joint military exercise ‘Maritime Partnership Exercise’ of ‘Indian and French’
navies was held off Visakhapatnam coast of Andhra Pradesh.
✓ A bilateral military exercise called 'Japan-India Maritime Exercise 2023' or ‘JIMEX’
was held between the Indian Navy and the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force in
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
✓ The 7th ‘Salvage and Exclusive Ordinance Disposal Exercise’ or ‘SALVEX’ between
the Indian Navy and the United States Navy was held in Kochi, Kerala.
✓ The fifteenth bilateral military exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant 23’ was held in
Mongolia between the armies of India and Mongolia.
✓ Operation ‘Trinetra II’ was launched in Jammu and Kashmir to neutralize the
hidden terrorists.
Important index / report / study / ranking -

✓ HDFC Bank was named the second most valuable company.
✓ THE Asia university rankings 2023 - Tsinghua University of China (1st), India's
top educational institution is the Bangalore Indian Institute of Science with a
global rank of 48.
✓ Global liveability index 2023 - Vienna (first), According to this list, the most livable
cities in India are New Delhi and Mumbai.
✓ QS best student cities 2024 ranking - London is in first position.
✓ Export preparedness index 2022 of Niti Ayog - Tamil nadu is in first position.
✓ Global peace index 2023 - Iceland is the most peaceful country in the world. India
ranks 126th in this list and Afghanistan is the most troubled country in the world.
✓ Henley passport index 2023 - Singapore is in first position and India ranks 80.
✓ Global competitiveness index 2023 - Denmark is in first position and India ranks
40.
✓ Energy transition index 2023 - Sweden is in first position and India ranks 67.
✓ Madhya Pradesh has the highest crime rate against Dalits.
Important MoU and agreement -

✓ MoU signed between ‘PNB and Amul’ for cooperation in Finance Dealership
Network under the MUDRA Project.
✓ An MoU was signed between India and Singapore for cooperation in public
administration till 2028.
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✓ Agreement signed between India Post and Canada Bank to facilitate e-commerce
exports.
✓ MoU signed between ‘NHPC and GRIDCO’ for construction of Solar Power Project
in Odisha.
✓ A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between India and Belgium for
investigation cooperation.
✓ Contract signed between L&T and Spain's Nebentia for construction of six diesel
electric submarines for the Indian Navy.
✓ A MoU signed between ‘Ministry of Defense and FSSAI’ to promote consumption of
millets and healthy food among armed forces and supply of safe and nutritious
food.
✓ A Masters Ship Repair Agreement was signed between LNT and the United States
Navy for ship repair.
✓ Agreement signed between India and Japan for the supply of semiconductors.
✓ An agreement was signed between the ‘Ministry of Culture and the Indian Navy’ to
restore the ancient method of sewing shipbuilding.
✓ Agreement signed between Indian Army and Tata Advanced Systems Limited for
deployment of tactical access switches.

✓ Maya Modi Azad: dalit politics in the time of hindutva - Sajjan Kumar and Sudha
Pai.
✓ India's finance ministers: from independent to emergency - A.K Bhattacharya.
✓ Draupadi Murmu: from tribal internet to Raisina Hills - Kasturi Ray.
✓ Through The Broken Glass: An autobiography - T.N. Seshan.
✓ As the Wheels turns - Ranjeet Pratap.
✓ Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Memories Never Die - Dr. Nazema Maraikayar and Dr.
Y.S. Rajan.
✓ Prism: The Ancestral abode of Rainbow - Vinod Mankara.
✓ Colours of devotion - Anita Bharath Shah.
Honors and Awards -

✓ Great Immigrants award 2023 - Ajay Banga president of World Bank.
✓ UNESCO Asia Pacific cultural heritage award - Byculla railway station of
Maharashtra.
✓ UK points of lights award - Rajendra Singh Dutta.
✓ Pen printer price 2023 - British children's writer and poet Michael Rosen.
✓ Global incredible ink leadership award 2023 - Union Minister for Tourism, Culture
and North Eastern Region Development Kishan Reddy.
✓ The rising star award - Coal India Limited.
✓ Golden Peacock environment management award 2023 - Adani Transmission
Limited.
✓ Miles Franklin literary award 2023 - Shankari Chandran.
✓ Gujarat will host 69th Filmfare Awards 2024.
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✓ Chevalier award of France - Musician Aruna Sairam and Shashank Subramaniam.
✓ France’s highest honour ‘Grand cross of the legion of honour’ - Narendra Modi.
✓ Lokmanya Tilak National Award 2023 - Narendra Modi.
✓ Global Indian icon of the Year award - Mary Kom.
✓ Rikkie Kolle became the first transgender woman to win the Miss Netherlands title.
Sahitya akadami Yuva Puraskar 2023 -

✓ Language Name of writer
✓ Bengali Hamiruddin Midda
✓ Nepali Naina Adhikari
✓ English Aniruddh KaniShetty
✓ Hindi Atul Kumar Rai
✓ Dogri Dhiraj Bismil
✓ Santhali Bapi Tudu
✓ Tamil P. Kali Muthu
✓ Telugu Janni Takkedashila

✓ Managing director of LIC - Satpal Bhanu.
✓ DG of Railway Protection Force - Manoj Yadav.
✓ Election commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir - B.R. Sharma.
✓ Managing director of Microsoft India - Irina Ghosh.
✓ Coordinator of national Cyber security - Lieutenant General M.U. Nair.
✓ CMD of Coal India Limited - P.M Prasad
✓ Chairman of India Men's Cricket Selection Committee - Ajit Agarkar.
✓ Chairperson of National green tribunal - A.K. Singh.
✓ Director General of Indian Coast Guard - Rakesh Paul.
✓ Solicitor General of India - Tushar Mehta.
✓ Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra - Ajit Pawar.
✓ Special director of CBI - Ajit Bhatnagar.
✓ MD and CEO of Hindustan Unilever Limited - Rohit Jawa.
✓ President of Basketball Federation of India - Adhab Arjun.
✓ CEO of Quick Heal - Vishal Salvi.
✓ Chairman of Bharat dynamic Limited - A. Madhav Rao
✓ President of Tata Motors - Rajesh Kannan.

✓ President of Uzbekistan - Shavkat Mirziyoyev
✓ CEO of Jaguar Land Rover - Adrian Mardell.
✓ CEO of Audi - Gernot Dollner.
✓ President of Olympic Council of Asia - Sheikh Talal Fahad Al Ahmad Al Sabah.
✓ Secretary general of NATO - Jens Stoltenberg.
✓ Chairman of International Financial Service Centre authority (IFSCA) - K.
Rajaraman.
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✓ ‘Admiral Lisa Franchetti’ becomes first woman to lead US Navy.
Recent deaths -
✓ Oommen Chandy who was the former Chief Minister of Kerala passed away
✓ American Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin died recently at the age of 89.
✓ Renowned painter Nambuthiri died recently at the age of 97.
✓ Mangala Narlikar, a prominent Indian mathematician, died recently at the age of
80.
✓ Spanish footballer ‘Luis Suarez’ died recently at the age of 88.
✓ Former Australian wicket keeper ‘Brain Taber’ passed away recently at the age of
83.
✓ Nobel Prize winning lithium ion battery inventor ‘John Goodenough’ died recently
at the age of 100.
✓ Marathi writer Shirish Kanekar passed away recently at the age of 80.
Sports -
✓ India's ‘Neeraj Chopra’ wins Diamond League javelin throw competition in
Switzerland from 29 to 30 June 2023.
✓ Duleep Trophy 2023 champions South zone.
✓ Aditya Samant is the 83rd Chess Grandmaster of India.
✓ Indian women's cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur was recently suspended by the ICC
Code of Conduct for long fines.
✓ Tripura's ‘Asmita Dey’ won gold at the Junior Asian Judo Championship 2023.
✓ Hungarian Grand Prix 2023 won by Belgian Dutch racing car driver Max
Verstappen.
✓ India's FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 TV broadcast rights goes to DD Sports.
✓ Shahrukh Khan has been appointed as the brand ambassador of ICC World Cup
2023.
✓ Super GM chess tournament 2023 own by R Pragyanand.
✓ The youngest person in the world to cross the North Channel is Anshuman
jingrang.
✓ Virat Kohli is the tenth cricketer to play 500 international matches.
✓ V.V.S. Laxman has been appointed as the head coach of the Indian cricket team
for the Asian Games.
✓ India won a total of 6 medals including 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze in the 64th
International Mathematical Olympiad.
✓ At the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships, India won a total of 27 medals,
including 6 gold, 12 silver and 9 bronze.
✓ Ravichandran Ashwin is the second highest wicket taker for India in international
cricket.
✓ England beat Spain to win the UEFA Under-21 Championship.
✓ The CSK team was named the Most Valuable IPL Franchise.
✓ India won the 34th International Biology Olympiad.
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✓ Sri Lankan cricketer Wanindu Hasranga wins ICC Men's Player of the Month
Award for June 2023.
✓ In June 2023, the ICC Women's Player of the Month Award was won by Australia's
Ashleigh Gardner.
✓ Austrian grand prix 2023 title won by Belgian car racing driver Max Verstappen.
✓ Haryana won the 6th Youth Women's National Boxing Championship.
✓ West Indies failed to qualify for the World Cup 2023 for the first time.
✓ The 132nd Durand Cup Tournament is being organized in Kolkata.
✓ The Netherlands men's hockey team won the FIH hockey Pro league title.
✓ Belgian Dutch racing driver Max Varstappen wins British Grand Tricks 2023.
✓ India won the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 by defeating Iran.
✓ The main jersey sponsor of the Indian cricket team is the Dream 11 Company.
✓ Dubai Women's Kabaddi Final won by Kolkata team.
Wimbledon Tennis Tournament 2023 -

✓ Men singles - Carlos Alcaraz from Spain
✓ Women singles - Markéta Vondroušová from Czech Republic
Yonex Canada open badminton tournament 2023 -

✓ Men singles - Lakshya Sen from India
✓ Women singles - Akani Emma Gucci from Japan
US Open badminton tournament 2023 -

✓ Men singles - Li Shifeng from China
✓ Women singles - Supanida Katethong for Thailand
Host -
✓ India Mobile Congress 2023 - New Delhi.
✓ 6th India Arab partnership conference - New Delhi
✓ 4th space economy leaders meeting - Mumbai
✓ UAE India economic Summit - Abu Dhabi.
✓ Banking on the world heritage exhibition - New Delhi.
✓ 17th Indian Cooperative Congress - New Delhi.
✓ 3rd world Hindu conference - Bangkok in Thailand.
✓ Global Summit of food safety regulators - India
Miscellaneous -
✓ National Railways is going to start the country's first hydrogen powered train that
will run in Haryana district.
✓ Arunachal Pradesh's first woman IPS officer is Tenzing Yangki.
✓ The retirement age of doctors has been increased from 62 to 65 years in Uttar
Pradesh.
✓ Noor Shekawat got Rajasthan's first transformative fail certificate.
✓ Ladakh's first women's police station opened in Kargil.
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✓ The ‘Police Drone Unit’ has been launched by the Greater Chennai Police
Department of the Tamil Nadu Police.
✓ Akshar river cruise was launched in Gujarat.
✓ The first airport in India to have four runways is the Indira Gandhi International
Airport in Delhi.
✓ Recently, Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of the 108 feet tall statue of Lord
Ram in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.
✓ India has banned the export of all rice except Basmati rice to keep the price of rice
in the country stable.
✓ India's first ‘Construction Innovation Hub’ was created in Kochi, Kerala.
✓ Odisha's Naveen Patnaik is the second longest-serving chief minister in Indian
history, breaking Jyoti Bose's record.
✓ Assam decided to ban water bottles of less than one liter and single-use plastic.
✓ Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated the ‘GST Bhavan’ in
Agartala, Tripura.
✓ Adani Group launched India's first international power project in Jharkhand.
✓ Tamil Nadu's Athur Pan leaves get GI Tag.
✓ India's 36th Flying Training School is set up in Tamil Nadu.
✓ Assam will give scooters to meritorious students of higher secondary pass.
✓ India's first Vedic theme park was inaugurated in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
✓ The National Maritime Heritage Complex is being built at Lothal in Gujarat.
✓ The Uttar Pradesh government is planning to make a forest only for monkeys.
✓ Hotbari railway station in Maharashtra will be named after Subhash Chandra
Bose.
✓ India's largest natural arch was discovered in Odisha.
✓ India handed over the warship ‘INS Kirpan’ to Vietnam.
✓ Russia bans gender reassignment and transgender marriage.
✓ India's ‘Surat Diamond Bourse’ surpassed America's Pentagon as the world's
largest office.
✓ Nigeria recently declared a food security emergency.
✓ IIT Delhi to open a campus in Abu Dhabi.
✓ New Zealand will be the first country to ban thin plastic bags.
August 2023
Important apps / projects / services / schemes -

✓ On 10 August 2023, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot launched the Indira
Gandhi Smartphone Scheme.
✓ ‘Amrit Vriksha Andolan’ App Launched by Assam Govt.
✓ ‘The Jharkhand government’ launched a mobile app to track the movement of
elephants.
✓ ‘Kerala’ launches ‘Athidhi’ portal for registration of migrant workers.
✓ The central government has launched the ‘Flood Watch app’ to provide accurate
flood information.
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✓ Recently Telangana Information and Broadcasting Minister inaugurated India's
first ‘Agricultural Data Exchange Platform’.
✓ Supreme Court Chief Justice DY Chandrachud launched the welcome portal.
Through this portal, all the interviewees coming to the Supreme Court including
advocates, inspectors will be registered online.
✓ Gujarat launched ‘Sinh Suchna’ app to track lions.
✓ Gujarat forms ‘One District One Product’ scheme.
✓ ‘My Land My Country’ has been launched in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
✓ Chip Minister’s Solar Mission launched in Meghalaya.
✓ ‘Read the constitution and live’ campaign was launched in Rajasthan.
✓ President Draupadi Murmu launches ‘My Bengal Addiction Free Bengal’ Campaign
in Kolkata.
✓ Madhya Pradesh increased reservation for women in government jobs to 35%.
Important days -
✓ 28 July - World nature Conservation Day (Theme: Forests and livelihoods -
Sustaining people and Planet).
✓ 1 August - World lung cancer day.
✓ 1 August - World wide web day.
✓ 6 August - Hiroshima Day.
✓ 9 August - World Indigenous Peoples Day (Theme: Indigenous youth as agents of
change for self determination).
✓ 10 August - World lion day.
✓ 12 August - World Youth Day.
✓ 13 August - World organ donation day.
✓ 15 August - 77th Independence Day of India.
✓ 19 August - World Photography Day (Theme: LANDSCAPES).
✓ 21 August - World senior citizen day.
✓ 23 August - National space day.
✓ 29 August - National Sports Day commemorating the birth anniversary of famous
hockey player Major Dhyan Chand.
✓ 20 to 24 August - World Water week.
Defense -
✓ Exercise ‘Nomadic Elephant 2023’ - The 15th Military Exercise between the Indian
Army and the Mongolian Army was held in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.
✓ Malabar Exercise 2023 - ‘Exercise Malabar 2023’ was organized with India,
America, Japan and Australia from 11 to 21 August in Sydney, Australia.
✓ ‘Zayed Talwar 2023 Naval Exercise’ - India and UAE navies held the event in
Dubai from August 8 to 11.
✓ ‘PASSEX 2023’ naval exercise - A bilateral naval exercise was organized between
the navies of India and Saudi Arabia’ from 3 to 5 August.
✓ BRIGHT STAR 23 - The Indian Air Force is taking part for the first time in an air
force exercise called Bright Star 23 in Egypt.
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✓ Naval warship ‘Vindhyagiri’ - It was inaugurated by President Daupradi Murmu on
17th August 2023.
✓ Revolver ‘Prabal’ - Kanpur-based company Advanced Weapons and Equipment
India has developed the latest revolver ‘Prabal’ using indigenous technology.
Important MoUs and agreements -

✓ India and Moldova - The main objective of this agreement is to increase the
bilateral relations between the two countries regarding agriculture and food
industry.
✓ India and Bangladesh - This MoU has been signed for introducing computer based
interlocking signaling systems on Dhaka, Tongi, Joydebpur railway line.
✓ India AI and META - The MoU was signed to enhance bilateral relations in the field
of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
✓ PNB and Amul - The agreement was signed to provide financial loans to Amul
retailers across the country through ‘MUDRA’.
✓ TRAI and C-DoT - This MoU was signed to establish a technical mechanism to
enhance institutional cooperation in the field of telecommunications.

✓ How Prime Ministers decide - Neerja Chaudhary.
✓ Kargil: Ek Yatri ki jubani - Rishi Raj.
✓ Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Memories Never Die - Nazema Maraikayar and Dr. Y.S.
Rajan.
✓ Monsoon - Abhay Kumar.
✓ Pitchside: My life in Indian cricket - Amrit Mathur.
✓ Drunk on love: The life, vision and songs of Kabir - Vipul Rikhi.
Important Summits / Meetings / Sessions / Festivals / Conferences -

✓ Semicon India conference 2023 - The 2nd Semicon India Conference 2023 was
organized for three days from 28th to 30th July in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
✓ BRICS Industry Conference - The 7th BRICS Industry Summit is being held in
South Africa.
✓ Youth 20 Conference - ‘The Youth 20’ Conference 2023 was organized from August
17 to 20 in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh under the supervision of the Union Ministry of
Sports and Youth Welfare.

✓ Nitin Gadkari launched the world's first 100% ethanol powered car.
✓ The place where Chandrayaan 2's lander crashed is named ‘Tiranga point’
✓ ‘Spike Non Line of Sight Anti-Tank Guided Missile’ made by Israel has been added
to the Indian Army.
✓ ISRO launched a solar mission named Aditya L1 on 2nd September.
✓ Kolkata is the third city in India to get ‘Air Quality Early Warning System’.
✓ Kerala's first ‘AI school’ launched in Thiruvananthapuram.
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✓ ‘Chandran 3’ is the world's most viewed live stream on YouTube.
✓ The touch down point of Chandrayaan 3 is named ‘Shiva Shakti Point’.
✓ The Border Roads Organization is building the world's highest road in eastern
Ladakh.
✓ Reliance Jio connects Maldives with high speed optical fiber.
✓ Central Ministry of Tourism to launch ‘Travelers Map’ in association with ‘Make
My Trip company’.
✓ New spaceport to launch small satellites to be built in Tamil Nadu.
✓ Uttar Pradesh government to build India's largest ‘IT hub in Lucknow’.
✓ The Korean-made airplane-flying robot is called ‘Pibot’.
✓ Jitendra Singh launched India's first domestic MRI scanner machine.
✓ On August 15, Kanpur Jail launched a radio station for the jail inmates.
✓ Nagaland's first Naga Traditional Food Laboratory was launched at Kohima.
✓ Uttar Pradesh to set up ‘Animal Birth Control Centers’ in all Municipal
Corporations.
Luna 25 -
✓ The Russian spacecraft ‘Luna 25’ launched its journey to the moon on August 10,
2023 after almost 50 years.
✓ On August 19, 2023, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that the
mission had failed.
Chandrayaan 3 -
✓ ‘Chandrayaan 3’ was launched from the ‘Satish Dhawan Space Center in
Sriharikota’ on 18 July 2023 at 2:35 PM.
✓ The rocket was GSLV Mark 3 named ‘Fat Boy or Baahubali’.
✓ Spacecraft attached to the rocket include the
1. Propulsion Module
2. the Lander Module (Name - Vikram, Power - 738 W, Payload - 3)
3. Rover (Name - Pragyan, Power - 50 W, Weight - 25 kg, Wheels - 6)
✓ The spot where Chandrayaan 3 landed has been named ‘Shiva Shakti Point’ by the
Prime Minister.
✓ At 6:30 p.m., it landed softly from a height of 10 meters on the lunar surface's
south-pole position.
✓ The mission life of the lander and rover is one lunar day, which is equal to 14
Earth days.
✓ 615 crore has been earmarked for this mission.
Index and ranking -

✓ Indonesia's Jakarta has been named the world's most polluted city.
✓ India is the top source market for Sri Lanka tourism.
✓ Karnataka tops the Most billionaire MLA's list.
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✓ According to a recent study by the State Bank of India, India will be included in
the category of developed country from developing country by 2047.
✓ ‘Srinagar’ is in first position in ‘Jal Jeevan Survekshan 2023’ ranking.
✓ Tamil Nadu bagged the best state award for organ and tissue transplantation.
✓ Waldmark Company tops Fortune Global Five Hundred List 2023.
✓ China has overtaken South Korea as India's largest steel exporter.
✓ Punjab isn't first position in ‘Nutrition awareness index 2023’.
Important awards and Honours -

✓ Prem Prakash, Chairman of Asian News International, was recently awarded the
‘2023 Global Education Mentor Lifetime Achievement Award’.
✓ HDFC Bank Chief Executive Officer Sashidhar Jagadishan is the highest earning
bank CEO in FY 22-23.
✓ Industrialist Shri Ratan Tata has been honored with the Maharashtra Industry
Award (Udyog Ratna) 2023.
✓ Eminent philanthropist and author Myra Grover has been honored with the
Empower Woman Icon Award.
✓ India's oldest Byculla railway station has been honored with the UNESCO Asia
Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation.
✓ Narendra Modi has been honored with the ‘Grand Cross of the Order of Honour,
Greece's highest civilian honour’.
✓ Indore recently won the Best Smart City Award.
✓ Actress Mrunal Thakur receiving the Diversity in Cinema Award.
✓ Deepak Shenoy receiving the Global visionary Entrepreneur award.
✓ Rajasthan's Priyan Sain won the Miss Earth India 2023 title.
✓ Miss World 2023 will be held in Kashmir.
✓ Narendra Modi recently received the Lokmanya Tilak National Award.
69th National Film awards 2023 -

✓ Best feature film - Rocketry: the Nambi effect.
✓ Best Popular Movie - RRR Telugu.
✓ Indira Gandhi Award for Best debut film of a director - Meppadian.
✓ Best director - Nikhil Mahajan.
✓ Best actor - Allu Arjun.
✓ Best actress - Alia Bhatt.
✓ Best male singer - Kala Bhairav.
✓ Best female singer - Shreya Ghoshal.
✓ Best edit - Sanjay Leela Bhansali for Gangubai Kathiyawadi.
✓ Best audiography - Anish Basu for Jhilli (Bengali).
✓ Best choreography - Prem Rakshit for RRR.
✓ Best Bengali movie - KALKOKKHO: House of time
✓ Best Hindi film - Sardar Udham.
✓ Best non feature film - Ek Tha Gaon.
✓ Best art film - T.N. Krishnan Bow string to divine.
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✓ Director of NAAC (National assessment and accreditation Council) - Ganesan
Kannabiran
✓ Chief Justice of Bombay High Court - Devendra Upadhyay.
✓ Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh high court - Dhiraj Singh Thakur.
✓ Head of Microsoft's India - Punit Chandok.
✓ Cabinet Secretary of India - Rajiv Gauba
✓ Chairperson of microfinance industry network - Uday Kumar Hebbar.
✓ CEO of national rainfed Area authority - Sh. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai.
✓ Chairman of Indian Oil Corporation Limited - Srikanth Madhav Vaidya.
✓ Head of Monitoring Committee on Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Manipur -
Geeta Mittal.
✓ Brand ambassador of BPCL - Rahul Dravid.
✓ Whole time members of SEBI - Kamlesh Barsani and Amarjeet Singh.
✓ National Icon of Election Commission of India - Sachin Tendulkar.
✓ Union Home Secretary - Ajay Kumar Bhalla.
✓ Managing director of NHIDCL - Mahmood Ahmed.
✓ Chairperson of National Green Tribunal - Prakash Shrivastava.
✓ Brand ambassador of Infosys - Rafael Nadal.
✓ Chairman of Central Board of indirect taxes and Customs - Sanjay Kumar
Agarwal.
✓ Additional director general of Indian Coast Guard - S. Parmesh.
✓ Managing Director and CEO of SBI Life Insurance - Amit Jhingran.
✓ Managing director of LIC - R Doraiswamy.
✓ Chairman of Finance industry Development Council - Umesh Revankar.

✓ Chief Justice of Nepal - Vishambhar Shrestha.
✓ Caretaker Prime Minister of Spain - Pedro Sanchase.
✓ Chairman of the 62nd Session of the United Nations Commission for Social
Development - Ruchira Kamboj.
✓ Prime Minister of Thailand - Srettha Thavisin
Important Recent Deaths -

✓ English writer ‘Jayant Mohapatra’ died recently at the age of 95.
✓ Former DRDO Director General ‘V.R. Arunachalam’ passed away recently at the
age of 87.
✓ Recently, nuclear physicist ‘Vikas Sinha’ passed away at the age of 78.
✓ Noted Malalam filmmaker ‘Siddiqui’ passed away recently at the age of 63.
✓ Former Indian footballer ‘Mohammad Habib’ died recently at the age of 74.
✓ Marathi poet Namdeo Dhondo Mahanor, died recently at the age of 81.
✓ Eminent statistician and mathematician ‘C.R. Rao’ passed away recently at the
age of 103.
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✓ Eminent Marathi writer and journalist ‘Shirish Kanekar’ passed away recently at
the age of 80.
✓ Milan Kundera, a prominent French novelist and writer, died recently at the age of
94.
✓ India's eminent philanthropist Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak passed away recently at the
age of 80.
✓ Legendary Australian sprinter and freestyle swimmer John Thomas David died
Sports -
✓ ‘Stuart Broad’ (England) retired from all forms of cricket.
✓ The Indian men's hockey team defeated Malaysia to win the Asian Champions
Trophy hockey competition 2023.
✓ BCCI's title sponsor for three years is ‘IDFC First Bank’.
✓ Javelin thrower ‘Neeraj Chopra’ wins gold medal at World Athletics Championship
2023.
✓ Dutch Grand Prix 2023 title won by Belgian car driver Max Verstappen.
✓ ‘Indian women's hockey’ team defeated Thailand to win the first women's hockey
5s Asia Cup final.
✓ Global sponsor for ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 is ‘MasterCard Company’.
✓ Maharashtra's 17-year-old Chess player ‘Aditya S. Samanta wins India's 83rd
Grand Master title.
✓ India's chess player ‘R. Pragyananda’ is the runner-up in the FIDE World Cup
Final.
✓ India's Anahat Singh wins gold medal in Asian Junior Squash Championship.
✓ ‘Antim Panghal’ is the first Indian woman wrestler to win back-to-back U20 world
titles.
✓ Spain won the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 by defeating England.
✓ Brazilian football player Neymar Jr. is going to join Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal club.
✓ India's first Night Street Racing Circuit was built in Chennai.
✓ The 3rd India Junior’s Women's Hockey League has started in New Delhi.
✓ Women's British Open 2023 title was won by American golfer Laila Vu.
✓ World Badminton Championship 2023 starts in Denmark.
✓ The 69th Nehru Trophy Boat Race was held in Kerala.
✓ England's Chris Woakes won the ICC Player of the Month Award in July 2023 in
the men's category.
✓ Australia's Ashleigh Gardner won the ICC Player of the Month Award in July 2023
in the women's category.
✓ Sangram Singh has been appointed as the brand ambassador of World
Professional Wrestling Hub.
✓ 2023 Deodhar Trophy won by South Zone.
✓ India's Manoj Tiwari recently announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
✓ Assam to build the National Center of Excellence for Badminton.
✓ 132nd Durand Cup football tournament started in Kolkata.
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✓ India's Top Chess Player in Live World Rankings is D. Gukesh.
✓ British MotoGP 2023 won by Spain's Alex Espargaro.
✓ India's Aditi Swamy is the youngest archery world champion.
✓ Rolando is the highest goal scorer with a head in football history.
Host -
✓ India's first beauty and lifestyle festival ‘Nykaaland’ will be held in Mumbai.
✓ Fifth Bangladesh India Annual Defense Dialogue was held in Dhaka.
✓ 26th National Conference on e-Governance is being organized in Indore.
✓ India's SC-ST Hub Mega Conclave was held in Jharkhand.
✓ Saudi Arabia recently hosted Ukraine Peace Talks.
✓ 3rd T20 Anti-Corruption Working Group Meeting and T20 Anti-Corruption
Ministerial Meeting held in Kolkata.
✓ B20 Summit India 2023 started in New Delhi.
✓ Hungary is hosting the World Athletics Championships 2023.
✓ Global Maritime India Summit 2023 will be held in New Delhi.
✓ 9th Malabar River Festival begins in Kerala.
✓ India will host the World Coffee Conference in Bangalore.
Banking and economy -

✓ GST Council has decided to levy 28% text on online gaming.
✓ Total GST collection in July 2023 is Rs 1.65 lakh crore.
✓ Airtel Payments Bank has launched India's first eco-friendly debit card.
✓ National Payments Corporation of India launched ‘UPI Chalaga 3.0’ campaign.
✓ RBI increased UPI Lite transaction limit from Rs 200 to Rs 500.
Miscellaneous -
✓ Murmu, the President of Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal, inaugurated the festival of
Unmesh and Utkarsh.
✓ CBI became the tenth member of Interpol Global Academy Network.
✓ Asam has banned plastic bottles.
✓ It was proposed to change the name of the state of Kerala to Keralam.
✓ New Amravati Railway Station in Maharashtra gets the title of Pink Station.
✓ Kanyakumari Matti banana got GI tag.
✓ Recently, Rajasthan's Dholpur Karauli Forest Division has been included in the
Tiger Reserve Forest as the 54th in the country and the fifth in the state.
✓ India's first 3D printed post office has been launched in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
✓ Amazon India to open a floating store in Srinagar's Dal Lake.
✓ Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi renamed as Prime Minister's
Museum and Library Society.
✓ Srinagar's Tulip Garden has entered the World Book of Records as Asia's largest.
✓ India to open Climate Change and Health Hub in New Delhi with the help of Asian
Development Bank.
✓ Recently Chakua rice in Assam got GI tag.
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✓ Panchayats, Municipalities and Civic Corporations to provide 27% reservation for
OBC communities in Gujarat.
✓ West Bengal has made Bengali compulsory as a second language in private
English medium schools.
✓ Scientists recently found ancient fossils of herbivorous dinosaurs in Jaisalmer,
Rajasthan.
✓ Nabi Mumbai is set to become India's first septic tank-free city.
✓ The Jharkhand Assembly passed a bill to prevent cheating in job exams.
✓ Recently the Indian Army inaugurated Amrita Sarovar in Arunachal Pradesh.
✓ Indian Buddhist Culture and Heritage Center is being built in Nepal.
✓ Recently, Indonesia is planning to emulate India's Jan Aushadhi model.
✓ Iraq bans media from using the word homosexuality.
September - October 2023
Important App / Portal / Project / Services -

✓ Delhi Environment and Forest Minister Gopal Roy launched the Forest and
Wildlife Conservation Portal - ‘evanlekh.eforest.delhi.gov.in’
✓ National Payments Corporation of India has launched the third version of UPI
Security Campaign called ‘UPI Chalega 3.0’.
✓ Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel launched ‘PRAISA’ or Panchayati Raj
Accounting Information System Automation.
✓ Union Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghbal launched the Tele-Law 2.0
initiative.
✓ Recently the Uttar Pradesh Government launched a Human Resource Portal.
✓ Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud launched the National Judicial Data Grid Portal.
It will be used as a database of filing and dismissal of various court cases.
✓ Union Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy Minister Purushottam Rupala
launched the Shrimp Crop insurance scheme.
✓ Haryana Government has recently launched E-Bhumi Portal.
✓ Priceless.com is a joint venture between Mastercard, the Ministry of Tourism and
Invest India. Initiated to explore the history and culture of India.
✓ Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami launched the ‘Rozgar Prayag
portal’ at the Uttarakhand Youth Festival 2023 program held in Dehradun,
Uttarakhand recently.
✓ Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu launched the
‘Mukhymantri Sukh Asharya Yojana’ in Shimla.
✓ Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched ‘Apna Chandrayaan’
web portal to provide information on Chandrayaan-3 Mission.
✓ Union Minister for Strategic Development and Entrepreneurship Dharmendra
Pradhan launched the ‘Skills on Wheels’ initiative.
✓ The Union Ministry of Geology launched ‘Android Earthquake Alert System’ to
provide timely earthquake warning and safety information.
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✓ Uttar Pradesh Govt launches ‘Maa Navjaat Tracking’ App to provide instant birth
registration certificates to newborns.
Important sessions, festivals, conferences, summits and meetings -

✓ ‘Dahi Handi Festival’ was celebrated in Maharashtra on the occasion of Krishna
Janmashtami.
✓ WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit 2023 was held in Gandhinagar,
Gujarat.
✓ Kanthi Bihu festival was recently held in Assam.
✓ Recently Union Tribal Development Minister Arjun Munda inaugurated the
National Tribal Festival 'Adi Mahotsav' in Jharkhand's Jamshedpur.
✓ Recently, a two-day ‘Aarogya Manthan 2023’ program was held at Vigyan Bhavan
in Delhi.
✓ Recently, the ‘Global Maritime India Summit’ was held at Mumbai's MMRDA
ground.
✓ Indian Space Conclave 2023 was recently held in New Delhi.
✓ The 45th session of the World Heritage Committee was held in Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia.
G20 Summit / Conference 2023 -

✓ The G20 summit was held at the Bharat Mandapam International Convention
Center at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, India from 9 to 10 September.
✓ It was the 18th G20 conference.
✓ It was the first G20 conference held by India.
✓ The African Union has become the new permanent member of G20 on the
initiative of India.
✓ The presiding country is India.
✓ The host country is India.
✓ Theme -Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth · One Family · One Future”.
✓ Agenda - Global economic crypto currency and other similar issues.
✓ Upcoming G20 Summits -
✓ G20 2024 - Brazil
✓ G20 2025 - South Africa
✓ G20 2026 - USA
Important Days -
✓ 29 August - National Sports day.
✓ 31 August - World Sanskrit day.
✓ 5 September - National Teachers Day.
✓ 5 September - International Day of Charity.
✓ 7 September - International Day of clean air for blue skies.
✓ 8 September - International Literacy Day.
✓ 9 September - Himalayan day.
✓ 9 September - World first aid day.
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✓ 10 September - World suicide prevention day (Theme: creating hope through
action).
✓ 11 September - National Forest martyr day.
✓ 14 September - Hindi Day.
✓ 16 September - International Red Panda day.
✓ 18 September - International equal pay day.
✓ 21 September - International Day of peace.
✓ 23 September - International Day of Sign Languages.
✓ 24 September - World river day.
✓ 25 September - Antyodaya Diwas.
✓ 26 September - International Day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons.
✓ 27 September - World Environmental Health Day.
✓ 27 September - World Tourism day (Theme: Tourism and green investment).
✓ 28 September - World Maritime day.
✓ 28 September - World rabies day (Theme: Rabies - all for 1, One health for all).
✓ 28 September - International Day for Universal access to information.
✓ 29 September - World heart day (Theme: Use heart, Know heart).
✓ 30 September - International translation day.
✓ 1 October - International Vegetarian day.
✓ 2 October - International Day of non violence.
✓ 4 October - World animal day (Theme: great or small love them all).
✓ 5 October - World Teachers Day.
✓ 8 October - World Air Force Day.
✓ 9 October - World Post Day.
✓ 11 October - International Day of the Girl child.
✓ 12 October - World sight day (Theme: love your eyes at work).
✓ 14 October - World migratory bird day.
✓ 15 October - International day of rural women (Theme: rural women women with
rights).
✓ 15 October - World student day.
✓ 16 October - World food day.
✓ 17 October - International Day for the eradication of poverty.
✓ 20 October - National solidarity Day.
✓ 1-7 September - National nutrition week.
✓ 1-8 September - Literacy week.
✓ 1-31 October - Breast cancer awareness month.
✓ 2-8 October - Wildlife week.
✓ 4-10 October - World's space week.
✓ 9-13 October - National postal week.
✓ 22-28 October - International Lead poisoning prevention week.
Important report / study / index -

✓ Digital quality of life index 2023 - France is in first position. India's rank is 52.
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✓ 16th Global Innovation Index 2023 - Switzerland is in first position and India's
rank is 40.
✓ 2023 Global crypto adoption index - India is in first position.
✓ The world university rankings 2024 - University of Oxford (1st), Stanford
University (2nd), University of Massachusetts (3rd). Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore is ranked at the top among Indian universities.
✓ Ookla’s speed test Global index - United Arab Emirates (1st), India (47th).
✓ Forbes India's 100 richest 2023 List - Mukesh Ambani (1st).
✓ Global hunger index 2023 - India’s rank 111.
✓ 360 One wealth Hurun India rich list 2023 - Mukesh Ambani is in first position.
✓ 15th Global pension index 2023 - India's rank 45.

✓ People’s G20 - Press Information Bureau.
National International MoUs and Agreements -

✓ Telangana Government and UNESCO - The agreement was signed to implement
UNESCO's recommendations on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
✓ New Zealand and India - This MoU was signed for cooperation in civil aviation.
✓ NTPC and OIL - This MoU was signed for the purpose of cooperation in renewable
energy and decarbonization.
✓ BEL & IAI - This MoU was signed for cooperation in the use of India's short range
air defense system.
✓ India Post and Amazon - This MoU was signed to facilitate logistics facilities for
cross-border exports of small and medium enterprises.
✓ India and Bangladesh - For the purpose of increasing bilateral cooperation.
✓ Indian Navy and Uber - This MoU is signed to facilitate the travel of Naval
personnel and their families.
✓ Union Ministry of Education and Adobe - This MoU was signed to support the
study of artificial intelligence in children.
Defense -
✓ PASSEX Naval exercise - held off the coast of Colombo between the Indian and Sri
Lankan navies.
✓ BRIGHT STAR 23 exercise - It was the first time that India participated in this
military exercise held in Egypt.
✓ IN-SLN DIVEX 23 - Held between India and Sri Lanka.
✓ Iran's new attack drone ‘Mohajer-10’.
✓ SIMBEX 2023 - A bilateral military naval exercise was held between the Indian
and Singapore navies.
✓ CHAKRAVAT 2023 - Annual Joint ‘Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Exercise’ conducted by Indian Navy in Goa.
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✓ SAMPRITI-XI 2023 - A joint military exercise between the Indian and Bangladeshi
armies was held in Meghalaya.
✓ Trilateral naval exercise of India, Indonesia and Australia was held in the Indo-
Pacific for the first time.
✓ Yuddh Abhyas 23 - It was held between the Indian Army and the United States
Army in Alaska, USA.
✓ Military security exercise PRASTHAN - This military security exercise was held at
the Eastern Naval Command of the Navy in Kankinara, Andhra Pradesh.
✓ Israel's fifth generation MBT OR Main battle tank is the ‘MERKAVA IV’.
✓ ‘Hai-kun’ is Taiwan's first indigenously built submarine.
✓ Iran's military imaging satellite ‘Noor 3’.
✓ BSNL Base Transceiver Station Installed In Ladakh's Siachen Glacier, World's
Highest Battlefield.

✓ ‘Indrajal’ is India's first artificial intelligence counter drone.
✓ The indigenous e-tractor is named ‘CSIR Prima ET-11’.
✓ Recently the Government launched a high speed passenger ferry on the east coast
of Tamil Nadu.
✓ Europe's first private rocket was named MURA1 SN1.
✓ The country's first hydrogen fuel powered bus was launched by Tata Motors.
Recent National recruitments -

✓ CEO and Chairperson of Railway Board - Jaya Verma Sinha.
✓ President of Film and Television Institute of India - R. Madhavan.
✓ Chairman of One Nation One Election Committee - Ramnath Kovind.
✓ Chief of PIB (Press Information Bureau) - Manish Desai.
✓ Principal director general of Akashvani - Vasudha Gupta.
✓ Chairman of DIPA (Digital infrastructure providers Association) - Dhananjay Joshi.
✓ Chairperson of NASSCOM - Rajesh Nambiar.
✓ Marketing Ambassador of Swaraj Tractors - Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
✓ DG of border roads organization - Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan.
✓ President of Intel India - Gokul Subramaniam.
✓ Brand ambassador of PUMA India - Mohammed Shami.
✓ Governor of Odisha - Raghuvar Das.
✓ Chairman of SBI - Dinesh Khera.
✓ Chairman of Press Trust of India - K.N Shant Kumar.
✓ Executive Director of RBI - Muneesh Kapoor.
✓ Deputy Chief of Indian Navy - Vice Admiral Tarun Sobti.
✓ National Icon of Election Commission - Rajkumar Rao.
✓ CEO of UIDAI - Amit Agarwal.
✓ Head coach of Indian women cricket team - Amol Majumdar.
✓ Governor of Tripura - Indrasena Reddy Nallu.
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Recent International recruitments -

✓ President of Singapore - Tharman Shanmugaratnam.
✓ President of Zimbabwe - Emmerson Mnangagwa.
✓ Global Ambassador of ICC World Cup - Sachin Tendulkar.
✓ Prime Minister of New Zealand - Christopher Luxon.
✓ Chairman of MCC World Cricket committee - Kumar Sangakkara.
✓ Vice president of Asian Development Bank - Bhargav Dasgupta.
✓ President of Maldives - Mohamed Muizzu.
✓ Brand ambassador of Henry harvin education - Chetan Bhagat.
Honors and awards -

✓ Miss Earth India 2023 - Priyan Sain.
✓ Mis International India 2023 - Praveena Anjana.
✓ Knight of the order of arts and letters 2023 - Rahul Mishra.
✓ Mother Teresa Memorial Award 2023 - Nargis Mohammadi.
✓ ISAR honor 2023 - Institute of Chartered Accounts of India.
✓ Shastra Ramanujan prize 2023 - Ruixiang Zhang.
✓ 53rd Dada Saheb Phalke prize - Wahida Rahman.
✓ Best tourist village - Bishwanath Ghat in Assam.
✓ The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 - Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier, Pierre Agostini.
✓ The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 - Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus, Aleksey I.
Yekimov.
✓ The Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 - Jon Fosse.
✓ The Nobel Peace Prize 2023 - Narges Mohammadi.
Recent Deaths -
✓ Noted Tamil film actor R.S. Shivaji passed away recently at the age of 66.
✓ Ajit Ninan, a prominent political cartoonist of India, died recently at the age of 68.
✓ A prominent Bollywood film actor Akhil Mishra passed away recently at the age of
67.
✓ Prominent Indo-American filmmaker and writer Geeta Mehta passed away recently
at the age of 80.
✓ Jayanta Mohapatra, an eminent English poet and writer, passed away recently at
the age of 94.
✓ Anandan, a prominent left-wing ideological party leader, died recently at the age of
86.
✓ Malayalam film actor-producer P.B. Gangadharan passed away recently at the age
of 80.
✓ Eminent educationist and linguist Birendranath Dutta passed away recently at the
age of 88.
✓ India's legendary cricketer Bishan Singh Bedi passed away recently at the age of
77.
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✓ Bharatnatyam dancer and dance instructor Saroja Baidyanath passed away
Sports -
✓ 132nd Durand Cup champions Mohun Bagan SuperGiants.
✓ 5s Women Asia Cup hockey 2023 - India beat Thailand to win.
✓ 5s Men Asia Cup hockey 2023 - India defeated Pakistan to win.
✓ India is the champion of Asia Cup 2023.
US Open Tennis Tournament 2023 -

✓ Male singles - Novak Djokovic.
✓ Female singles - Koko Gauff.
World Athletics championship 2023 -

✓ Javelin thrower Neera Chopra won the only gold from India.
✓ Moto - Witness the Wonder.
Others -
✓ The state aquatic animal of Uttar Pradesh is the Gangetic dolphin.
✓ Country's first solar roof cycling track inaugurated in Hyderabad, Telangana.
✓ ‘Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve’ is the seventh tiger reserve in Madhya
Pradesh.
✓ The first Gandhi Museum in North America is the ‘Internal Gandhi Museum
Houston’.
✓ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee referred to the use of the term
‘Uttaran instead of Basti’.
✓ Recently, the image of Chandrajan Abhiyan has been placed on tokens in Kolkata
Metrorail.
✓ Dhupguri of Jalpaiguri in West Bengal state was recently declared as a new
subdivision.
✓ Sanchi is the first solar city in the country.
✓ Shanti Giri Vidya Bhavan in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala is the first artificial
intelligence school in the country.
✓ Goa Chief Minister Pramath Saban released the country's first Biodiversity Rural
Atlas.
✓ Karnataka's sacred Hoysala architecture gets India's 42nd UNESCO World
Heritage Site status.
✓ Udhampur Railway Station has been renamed as Captain Tushar Mahajan
Railway Station.
✓ Santiniketan became the 41st UNESCO World Heritage Site in India.
✓ The state anthem of West Bengal is ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jol’ song.
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Important Books and Authors -

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Index and rankings -

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Important National recruitments -

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Important International recruitments -

FIFA World Cup 2022 -

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Awards and honors -

Goa International film festival -

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Important Apps and Portals -

Important Books and Authors -

Index/ report/ study/ ranking -

Awards and Honours -

BCCI best player of the year 2022 -

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Sahitya Academy Award 2022 -

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Sahitya Academy Yuva award 2022 -

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80th Golden Globe awards 2023 -

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Padma award 2023 -

Important National recruitments -

Important International recruitments -

ICC Player of the month December -

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Important Summit / Conferences / festivals -

National and international MOU / Agreement -

Science and Technology –

Index and ranking -

World's most admired companies of Fortune Magazine -

Important books and authors –

Awards and honors -

ICC Award 2022 -

Golden book award 2023 -

65th Grammy Award 2023 -

Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Award 2023 -

Australian Open Tennis Tournament 2023 -

Australian Open Tennis Tournament 2023 junior -

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Important National and international MOU and agreements -

Science and Technology -