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⭐ 37th NATIONAL GAMES: GET SET GOA 2023 🌟 ASIAN GAMES:2022

• 25oct- 9 Nov
- 23 Sep- 8 Oct, 2023
• Location Goa
- Hangzhou, China
• Mascot (Indian Bison)
- Mascot: Congcong, Lianhian, Chenchen [Memoirs of Jiangnan]
• Sponsor Paytm
- Motto: Heart to Heart @ future
• 38th Uttarakhand
- 2026 Asian games: Anchi& Nagoya, Japan
• Motto- Get set Goa
- 2030: Doha,Qatar
• Medal tally:
Medal tally:
- 1st with Raja bhalinder Singh trophy -
- 1st China ( Gold 201, total 383)
MAHARASTHRA (total 228 medals, 80 Gold)
- 2nd Japan ( Gold 52, total 198)
- 2nd : SERVICES (total 126 medals ,66 Gold)
- 3rd Republic of Korea ( Gold 42’ total 190)
- 3rd : HARYANA : (Total 192, 62 Gold)
- 4th India (Gold 28, total 107)
IMPORTANT NAMES:
ASIAN PARA GAMES:2022 • Tajinder Pal Toor: 4th Indian to win 2 gold medals in consecutive
Asian games.
• Annu Rani : 1st female javelin thrower from India to win Gold.
- Hangzhou, China( Gold 214) • Avinash Samble: 3000m steeple chase Gold,
- Mascot FeiFei • Jyoti Surekha Verman: Gold in Archery
- Motto: Heart Meet, Dreams Shine. • Aishwarya pratap Singh Tomar: Gold in shooting, (also Gold in
- 1st China shooting championship, South Korea)
- 2nd Iran
- 5th INDIA (29 Gold, total 111 )
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• Project Nilgiri tahr- Launched by Tamil Nadu with IUCN which also releases Red list, Hq Gland, Switzerland .
• Qatar sentenced 8 former navy officers to death but release later.
• 2023, Syed Mushtaq Ali trophy : Win- Punjab, Runner up: Baroda.
• Irani Trohy: winner Rest of India, runner up Saurashtra
• Duleep trophy: Winner South zone
• Deodhar trophy: Winner South zone, runner up east zone
• Uttarakhand launched Hunger programme, which supported by Norway.

• 1st female DG of CISF-Nina Singh

• DG of CRPF- Anish Dayal Singh
• of ITBP- Rahul Rasgotra
• of Indian Coast Guard - Rakesh Pal( passed away 19 aug)

• ASEAN’s India Millet Festival 2023 held in INDONESIA( Hq. Jakarta)

- 22-26 Nov
- 2023 year of millets
- 2024- year of camelid
- 2025 international year of Q-bits

• SAARC (India, Srilanka, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Pakistan, Bangladesh)

• Hq. Kathmandu, Nepal

• M S Swaminathan: Father of Green Revolution, also got Bharat Ratna feb 9.

• Yuva Bharat platform, a phygital platform to tap the energy of youth(15-29 yrs),
• launched by PM Modi on 31st Oct.(Unity Day)
• Asian Shooting Championship, Changwon, S. Korea
• India’s Rank 3rd, (Gold 6)
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• A new variety of rice; IISR CHANDRA developed by Indian Institute of spices research, Kozhikode.
• Kozhikode as city of literature & Gwalior as city of Music joined the UNESCO CREATIVE CITITES NETWORK.
• Siddharth Mridul - chief justice of Manipur high court.
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• ⭐ IIT MADRAS established international campus at Zanzibar island, Tanzania
• IIT DELHI ‘ first overseas centre , Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Major Dhyan Chand khel ratna Award, 2023 - Chirag Shetty & Satwik Sai raj
• ⭐ World Day for the Prevention of and Healing from child Sexual exploitation,Abuse And violence- 18 November
by UN
• ⭐ India’s first lighthouse festival - Panjim, Goa, inaugurated by Ministry of ports Sarbanand Soonowal
• MD of SBI - Vinay kr. Tonse
• MS Dhoni New ambassador of SBI.
• Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar was awarded the Maulana Abul Kalam Award, 2023 (25th time winner)

• ENCORE SOFTWARE launched by ECI

• 1st Women Aide de Camp in IAF- Manisha Padhi

• Hamas initiated “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” against Israel.

• 2+2 Dialogues between India & QUAD countries- India, USA, Australia, Japan.( external affairs & defence
ministry)
• Khelo India Para games, New Delhi , 10-17 dec 2023, winner Haryana.
• Russia withdraws from Treaty on the prohibition of Nuclear weapons, TPNW
• ⭐ India’s first Cartography Museum- Mussoorie

• ASTRA- A beyond visual range(BVR) air to air missile developed by DRDO & Bharat dynamics ltd.
• INS Imphal, Latest Stealth Guided Missile Destroyer commissioned by Indian Navy on Dec 26,2023
Developed under project 15 B ( Vishakapatnam class).
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• NO NON-VEG DAY IN UP- 25th November
• GYANYODAYA EXPRESS- flagged off at J&K by LG Manoj Sinha.
• “Do Pal Ki Chhanv Me” written by Prasoon Joshi.
• Gujarat’s Dhordo village has been awarded UNWTO’s Best Tourism Village 2023
Biswanath Ghat, Assam - Best tourism award by Ministry of Tourism.

• The Mister Global pageant- Jason Dylan Bretfelean

• 2023 Men’s FIH Hockey Junior WC
• - held at Malaysia National Hockey Stadium, Kuala Lumpur.(5-6 dec 2023)
• Winner Germany , Runner up France; India 4th position
• Sultan Johar Cup winner Germany ; Runner up Australia.
• PM visited Ulihatu Village, birthplace of Birsa Munda on his birth anniversary 15 Nov ( first PM to do so) Munda
revolt- 1899
• Tripura becomes 4th state to implement E- Cabinet system ( Bru riang tribe voted 1st time)
- 1st UP, 2nd UK, 3rd Arunachal Pr.
• Virat Kohli the 1st cricketer to hit 50 centuries in ODI’s ( against New Zealand)
• Surat Diamond Bourse ( Khajod, Gujarat) becomes worlds largest office bulding. (beats USA’s Pentagon)
• 26 sportsperson received Arjuna sports Award.
- Divyakirti Singh- 1st female Equistrian
- Anahat Singh related to Squash.
• COP28 aims to limiting Global Warming to 1.5 degree Celsius & Net zero emissions by 2050
- COP 28 (Dubai’UAE)
- COP 29 : Azerbaijan, Baku

• Vidit Gujrathi & R Vaishali related to Chess

• Jharkhand Becomes the first state to ensure minimum wages to workers.
• Pankaj Advani win the IBSF World Billiards Championship 2024, defeating Saurav Kothari in Doha.
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• 🌟 Global partnership on Artificial Intelligence Summit held in dec 2023, in New Delhi.
- Inaugurated by PM Modi
- GPAI headquarters- France & Canada
• Meg Lanning & David Warner , Australian cricketers retires from international cricket
• ⭐ Indian Army installed first ever mobile tower at the Siachen Glacier
• Angelo Mathews (SL) become first cricketer to get timed out in international cricket
• New CM of Rajasthan - Bhajan lal Sharma
• CM of MP- Mohan Yadav
• CM of Chhattisgarh - Vishnu Dev Sai
• 2024, women’s Asian championship trophy (Hockey)winner INDIA, defeating JAPAN in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
• 🌟 The New BRO chief- Raghu Srinivasan
• Italy won the Davis Cup 2023, defeated Australia
• ⭐ Parliament passed J&K Reservation and Reorganisation (Amendment) Bills -
- J&K Reorganisation Bill modifies the 2019 Act, increasing total legislative assembly seats from 83 to 50
- 2 members will be nominated from Kashmir migrant community
- The bill reserves 7 seats for SC, 9 for STs
• ⭐ Post office bill 2023 replaced Indian Post Office Act 1898
• India conducted exercise Harimau Shakti 2023 with Malaysia in Umroi, Meghalaya, winner Germany
• Also India conducts ‘Sampriti’ with Bangladesh in Umroi, Meghalaya.
• Garba from Gujarat included in the UNESCO list of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of Humanity in dec 2023
• ⭐ Global Hunger Index 2023: (released by concern worldwide wealth hunger life )
- India ranks 111, with score 28.7
- ( Nepal 69, Pak 102, Bangladesh 81, Sri Lanka 60)
• Diana Edulji, Virendra Sehwag, Aravinda de Silva- inducted in ICC hall of fame.
• 🌟 Cyclone MICHAUNG - Southwest Bay of Bengal, dec 2023 (named by Myanmar)
• 🌟 Cyclone MIDHILILI - Bay of Bengal, (named by Maldives)
• 🌟 Cyclone HAMOON- named by Iran
• Recently 12 GST SEVA KENDRA were launched in Vapi, Gujarat by FM- Nirmala Sitaraman
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• India’s 1st green hydrogen run bus that emits just water- unveiled by Indian Oil, driven by Hardeep Singh puri
• Intention to implement UCC - Uttarakhand.
• 🌟 World’s Largest Meditation centre - Swarved Mahamandir in Umaraha, Varanasi
• 🌟 SHRESHTA Scheme launched by Ministry of social justice and empowerment.
- Its a residential education scheme for students in high school belonging to SC community.
• IIT Kanpur established a centre of excellence named ATMAN ( Advanced technology for monitoring Air Quality)
• Most expensive player of IPL : Mitchell starc - 24.75 cr - KKR
• 2nd most expensive, Pat Cummins - 24.5 cr- SRH
• 🌟 World’s first humanoid robot CEO - Mika, company- Dictador
• 🌟 India launched ‘Operation Ajay’ to evacuate Indian from ISRAEL;
- Operation GANGA - Ukraine,
- Operation INDRAVATI - Haiti
• Word of the year by Cambridge Dictionary- Hallucinate
- Oxford dictionary- Rizz
- Merriam Webster - Authentic
• Pushpa Bharti, Hindi writer to receive 33rd Vyas Samman for “Yaadein, Yaadein and Yaadein”
• Javier Milei- New President of Argentina
• Donald tusk- President of Poland
• Luc Friedman- President of Lexumberg.
• Sweden’s SAAB has been granted 100% Foreign Direct Investment in Defence sector in India.
• World’s 2nd largest Hindu temple outside India- Akshardham mandir, USA.
1st largest Hindu temple Angkor vat ( 8th WOW) - Cambodia.
( now a Buddhist monastery, built by Suryavarman 2nd)
• The book ‘Breaking the Mould’ - Raghuram Rajan& Rohit lamba.
• Lied Erickson Lunar Prize, Iceland - ISRO’s Chandrayaan 3 Moon mission
Lander- Vikram, rover-pragyan

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• The RISE PROGRAMME Launched by NITI AAYOG + AIM.
(Rapid innovation and startup expansion) India+ Australia partnership,.
• France’s Sakharov Prize 2023 to Mahsa Amini of Iran, posthumously.
• The Silkyara Tunnel collapsed in Uttarakhand. ( Operation zindagi)
• Indira Gandhi Peace prize - Ali Abu Awwad( Palestine) & Daniel Barenboim .
• The Fast track special courts scheme scheduled to continue until March, 2026, launched in 2019 for POCSO(2012)
• Pramila Malik became 1st woman speaker of Odisha.
• National rural employment guarantee scheme To provide drones to 15000 women in SHGs.
Total funding- 1261 Cr., target from 2024-25 to 2025-26.
• 53rd Dadasaheb Phalke Lifetime Achievement Award, 2021 : Waheeda Rehman
• 🌟 Booker prize 2023- Paul lynch for prophet song.
• 1st case of swine flu (H1N2) in human confirmed in USA
• Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award : Michael Douglas.
Best Actor: Pouria Rahimi Sam
Best Actress: Melanie Thierry
Best director : Stephen Komandarev
Golden Peacock Award: endless borders
Special jury award: Rishabh Shetty, Kantara
Best web series: Panchayat season 2
• Perumal Murugan won JCB prize 2023, for ‘Fire Bird.’
• 🌟 Sahitya Akademi Award 2023: Hindi- Sanjeev for ‘Mujhe pehchano “
English- Neelam Saran Guar for “Requim in Raga Janki”
Urdu- Sadiq Nawab Sahar for Rajdev ki amraai
• Bal sahitya puraskar: Manipuri author Dilip Nongmaitham. For Ibemma.
• Dahan Prize 2023: Deepti Babuta for ‘ Bhookh eun seh lendi’ ( bhookh aise hi seh lenge)
• British Academy Book prize, 2023: Nandini Das ( Courting India)
• 🌟 Highest literary award in India - Gyanpeeth award: awarded to Gulzar and Rambhadracharya

• MitraShakti exercise btw. India & Srilanka, in Aundh, Pune

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• Bongosagar-India & Bangladesh
• Surya Kiran - India & Nepal
• Vajraprahar- India& US
• 🌟 5 sports added to 2028 olympics, LA ( cricket, baseball softball, lacrosse, squash, flag football)
• 4th Anti- Submarine Warfare Craft launched at Tamil Nadu - AMINI
• RBI won the Businessline change maker of the year Award, 2023, received by Shakti Kant Das.
• Chanakya Raksha Samvad conducted by Indian Army.
• J&K Achieved 100% ODF plus model status.
• The Igla-S missile ( very short range)’ is procured by India from Russia.
• The Wildlife photographer of the year, 2023: Vihaan Talya Vikas
• ‘Music Frog’ : Arunachal Pr.
• Raghubar Das- governor of Odisha. Indrasen Nallu- Tripura.
• Best Actor award at Stars Asian International Film Festival: Ishwak singh
• Gangetic Dolphin as state aquatic animal: UP
• 72nd Miss Universe pageant, 2023 : Sheynnis Palacio( Nicaragua)
• SAFF U-19 Championship, Kathmandu: winner India, runner up Pakistan
• Suresh Ishwar Wadkar (Marathi singer) : Lata Mangeshkar Award, 2023
• Noor 3 satellite: Iran
• International Emmy Awards,2023:
- Best actor : Martin Freeman
- Best Director : Ekta Kapoor
- Best Drama series: The Empress
- Best unique comedy category: Veer Das
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• ‘The book of Life: My dance with Buddha for success’ : Vivek Agnihotri.
• Painting ‘Women with a Watch’ : artist Pablo Picasso, 139 million dollars.
• SASTRA Ramanujan Prize 2023 : Ruixiang Zhang ( China) | 2022: Yunqing Tang
• Pankaj Tripathi - UPI Safety Ambassador by the NPCI.
• 10% reservation for EWS in judicial services announced by Bihar.
• 🌟 🌟 Shri Heeralal Samariya, 2024: Chief Information commissioner
• Largest statue of Dr BR Ambedkar- Maryland, USA 🇺🇸 ( highest in Vishakapatnam, AP)
• Lifetime Disturbing the peace Award: Salman Rushdie ( midnight’s children, satanic verses, moor’s last sigh, Grimus, Knife:
meditation after attempting murders)
• The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation: Ashok Tandon
• Pen Pinter prize: Michael Rozen for fearless
• 🌟 New maximum deposit increased from 15L to 30L in the Senior Citizens Savings Scheme, launched in 2004, dept. of eco
affairs- MoF
• 🌟 Veerangna Durgavati Tiger reserve- MP
• State fish of Gujarat: Ghol
• 🌟 Jamrani Dam Project( gola river) : Uttarakhand
• UP imposed ban on Halal certified products
• Rajnath Singh has Launched ‘Udbhav’ to promote Indianisation.( associated with Indian Army)
• World’s first 3D printed temple- Begumpet, Telangana
• 🌟 Saraswati samman, 2022: Sivasankari for suryavansam.
• Rare metal, Tantalum(Z=73) has been discovered in Satluj river, Punjab.
• 🌟 India’s first wetland city : Udaipur
• 🌟 🌟 Statue of Oneness ( Adi Shankaracharya) : inaugurated at Mandhata Mt of Khandwa MP, 108 ft.
• Hoysala temples, , karnataka : 42nd UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE,
• 41st site : Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
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Salma Javed ( sheikh haseena’s daughter

Female- Atana bonmati ( Spain)

12 digit ID, launched by MoE, One student,one ID card

Namo Bharat express, Rapid X programme

28 aug, 2014 by MoF

Ministry of
Health & family welfare,
Ajay Jadeja 25 dec 2014

Kempegowda,Bangalore

Fastest 2000 run in ODI - Shubhman gill

Kenya

Chris Gayle Rohit sharma

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