JANUARY

1. PayRup, India's Fastest Payment app

2. Tamilnad Mercantile Bank Limited Awarded with the Best Bank Award

3. RBI imposes '26 lakh penalty on Nutan Nagarik Sahakari Bank

4. Bank Of Baroda Introduces Vikram Credit Card Dedicated To Soldiers

5. Asian Paints to invest Rs 2,000 crore to set up water-based paint manufacturing facility

6. Varanasi Cantonment Railway Station Wins 5-Star 'Eat Right Station' Award

7. India to be a US$ 5.4 trillion economy by 2027, fourth largest by 2025, says RBI

8. India's first underwater metro worth over Rs 8000 crores to be operational by 2023 – Kolkata

9. Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee National Institute of Water and Sanitation in Kolkata

10. National Genome Editing & Training Centre (NGETC) at Mohali, Punjab

11. PM Modi to flag off World's Longest River Cruise-MV Ganga Vilas at Varanasi

12. Over 13 lakh people to do yoga in Karnataka to create new Guinness Book of World Records

13. North India's largest floating Solar project of 2000kWp at Water Works in Chandigarh

14. Assam's CharaideoMaidam nominated for UNESCO world heritage tag

15. Rashtrapati Bhavan's Mughal Gardens renamed Amrit Udyan

16. Leprosy Mukt Bharat by 2027

17. China launches Asia's first semi-high-speed hydrogen train with a range of 600 km -- Germany
became the first country

18. Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

19. Anahat Singh clinches Girls U-15 squash title at British Junior Open tournament

20. The mascots of Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG)-2022, Asha and Mowgli, and its smart torch
'Amarkantak' were released along with the theme song by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj
Singh Chouhan.

21. FIH Men's Hockey World Cup commences in Cuttack

22. PM Modi inaugurates 26th National Youth Festival in Karnataka

23. Viacom 18 Bags Women's IPL Media Rights At Rs 951 Crore

24. Shooting World Cup 2023: Ex-SC judge AK Sikri appointed Administrator

25. Google to partner with Indian Institute of Science for Project Vaani – AI

26. ADB, India sign $350 million loan to improve Connectivity in Maharashtra

27. Right to Sight: Rajasthan first state to implement blindness control policy

28. Mastercard has announced plans to expand its Girls4Tech STEM education program in India
29. PadhoPardesh scheme discontinued by MoMA ((discont. Scheme for subsidies education loan
abroad)

30. Paytm bank gets RBI nod for Surinder Chawla as new CEO

31. Shamalbhai B Patel re-elected as chairman of Amul

32. New Goa Manohar International Airport wins best sustainable greenfield airport award

33. R Vishnu Prasad receives award for being the most outstanding scientist of 2022.

34. India beats Japan, becomes world's third largest auto market

35. World Hindi Diwas | 10 January  National Youth Day | 12 January  National Startup Day | 16
January  January 24 2023 International Day of Education to Afghan girls and women

36. G20: Bengaluru to host first environment meeting

37. Airtel-backed OneWeb launches 40 satellites with SpaceX, to start global services this year

38. India has announced a donation of 12,500 doses of pentavalent vaccines to Cuba.

39. Startup firm IG Drones develops India's first 5G-enabled drone (Skyhawk)

40. India's first woman pilot Avani Chaturvedi to fly Indian Sukhoi fighter jet in aerial wargames in
Japan - Veer Guardian 2023 will be held in Japan at the Hyakuri Air Base

41. India deploys a women-only platoon of peacekeepers to the UN Mission in Abyei – Sudan

42. Indian Navy To Get Autonomous Armed Swarm Boats Under The SPRINT Scheme

43. Captain Surbhi Jakhmola, 1st woman officer posted on foreign assignment at BRO – PROJECT
DANTAK

44. 21st edition of Naval Exercise VARUNA between India and France begins

45. Inaugural Edition of Indo-Egypt Joint Training Exercise Cyclone - I Commences in Rajasthan

46. Captain Shiva Chouhan becomes first woman officer operationally deployed at Siachen

47. Manpreet Monica Singh makes history, sworn in as first female Sikh judge in US

48. Miss Universe 2022: R'Bonney Gabriel of United States crowned 71st Miss Universe

49. India Extends USD 40 Million For Bolstering Maldives' Sports Infrastructure

50. Canara Bank To Sell Its Stake In Russian Joint Venture To SBI For Rs 114 Crore

51. India's First Festival of Inclusion, Purple Fest to begin in Goa

52. International Kite Festival 2023 inaugurated with G20 Theme - 'One Earth, One Family, One
Future'.

53. World's first palm-leaf manuscript museum comes up in T'puram

54. Kerala becomes country's first fully digital banking state

55. Kerala's Wayanad becomes first district in country to provide basic documents to all tribal people

56. India's first online gaming Centre of Excellence to come in Shillong

57. Election Commission's 'Mission-929' to take voter turnout in Tripura to over 90%

58. J&K becomes first Indian UT to completely shift to e-governance mode

59. Croatia adopts euro, enters borderless Europe club - It will also be the 27th nation in the
passport-free Schengen zone - Kuna was the old currency

60. India crowned first-ever ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World champions

61. South Africa to host 15th BRICS summit at Durban in late August 2023

62. Visakhapatnam railway station receives 'Green Railway Station Certification' with highest
Platinum rating

63. Chris Hipkins becomes the 41st Prime Minister of New Zealand

64. Vidisha (MP) becomes the first ever district in India for on ground deployment of innovative 5G
use cases offered by startups

65. Japan tops world's strongest passport list in 2023

66. It will be India's first and largest coal gasification-based urea plant – Talcher fertilizer plant odisha

FEBRUARY

67. HDFC Bank goes live on 'Rupay Credit on UPI' feature for customers – (Inda’s largest credit card
issuer)

68. Indian Overseas Bank launches electronic bank guarantee scheme

69. Azad Engineering is India's first supplier of parts for nuclear turbines

70. India to be 2025 Madrid International Book Fair's theme country

71. EC's song 'Main Bharat Hoon'

72. PM unveils India's biggest helicopter manufacturing facility in Tumakuru (Karnataka)

73. PM Modi inaugurates new campus of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah Arabic Academy in Mumbai

74. DGCA Imposes Rs 20 Lakh Penalty On AirAsia India

75. Bhutanese Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck becomes country's first digital citizen

76. Meta to introduce AI large language model called 'Llama'

77. Saudi Arabia to host football's 2027 Asian Cup

78. Khelo India Winter Games to begin in Gulmarg (JK)

79. Tata Group bags Women's Premier League title sponsorship rights till 2027

80. Australia lift ICC Women's T20 World Cup Trophy beating South Africa by 19 runs in Cape Town

81. Adani takes over Haifa Port for $1.2 bn, promises to invest more in Israel

82. Kerala inks pact with UN Women to empower women in tourism

83. Indian music composer Ricky Kej creates history by winning third Grammy Award
84. Germany's Angela Merkel receives UNESCO peace prize in Ivory Coast

85. Kollam district won Swaraj Trophy 2021-22 for Best District Panchayat

86. TCS Named to World's Most Admired Companies List by FORTUNE(R) Magazine

87. India 7th biggest nation ready to adopt crypto in 2023, US second, Aussies 1 st

88. World Wetlands Day | 2 February – theme "It's Time for Wetlands Restoration”

89. Google Releases ChatGPT Rival AI 'Bard'

90. Skye Air (Skye UTM) launches India's first traffic management system for drones

91. Jupiter Reclaims Title of Planet With the Most Moons (92)

92. ISRO launches new rocket SSLV-D2 from Sriharikota (ISRO's EOS-07, US-based firm Antaris' Janus-
1, and Chennai-based space startup SpaceKidz's AzaadiSAT-2 - into a 450km orbit)

93. 'Lexi': India's first AI assistant powered by ChatGPT

94. World's First Cloud-Built Demonstration Satellite Launched JANUS-1 Successfully

95. India's lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 -> EMI-EMC (Electro-Magnetic Interference)

96. Indian Army Gets 'World's First' Fully Operational SWARM Drone System; Capable Of Hitting
Targets 50 Km Away

97. IAF develops 'Vayulink' platform for steady jammer-proof communication

98. Indian Air Force contingent reaches in UAE to participate in Exercise Desert Flag VIII

99. Indian Air Force to participate in Exercise Cobra Warrior at Waddington in UK

100. INS Sumedha reaches Abu Dhabi to participate in IDEX and NAVDEX

101. Natasha Perianayagam, an Indian-American student, was nominated to the Johns Hopkins
Center For Talented Youth's list of the "world's brightest" students for the second year in a row

102. Jean-Eric Vergne wins action-packed Hyderabad E-Prix; Mahindra in top 10

103. International Seabed Authority with headquarters in Jamaica has officially designated India as a
"Pioneer Investor"

104. India, US and Brazil to establish a global biofuel alliance

105. India-Japan joint military exercise 'Dharma Guardian'

106. Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India and Pay Now of Singapore have made a tie-up to
facilitate these transactions.

107. Air Services Agreement between India and Guyana

108. Sri Lanka Approves Adani Green's $442 Million Wind Power Project

109. Indian Railways Introduces 'Zoop' ' A WhatsApp-based Food Delivery Facility

110. Vistara Brand To Be Discontinued With Air India Merger

111. PhonePe Launches UPI International Service In Five Countries (UAE, Singapore, Mauritius, Nepal
and Bhutan)

112. Term of 22nd Law Commission extended till August, 2024

113. Visakhapatnam to be the new capital of Andhra Pradesh: AP Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy

114. North India's first nuclear plant set up in Haryana's Gorakhpur

115. Asian Development Bank (ADB) approves USD 130 million loan for horticulture sector in
Himachal Pradesh

116. Kerala becomes first state to use robotic scavengers to clean manholes

117. Mumbai's Churchgate railway station to be renamed after first Indian RBI governor CD
Deshmukh

118. Maharashtra: Centre approves renaming of Aurangabad as Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and

Osmanabad as Dharashiv

119. Uttar Pradesh government launches portal for 'One Family, One ID

120. India's first glass igloo restaurant in J-K's Gulmarg

121. Yaya Tso to become Ladakh's first biodiversity heritage site

122. Cabinet approves construction of Shinku La Tunnel – Ladakh

123. Pangong Tso lake marathon in Ladakh registered as world's highest Frozen Lake Marathon in the
Guinness Book

124. 16-member panel set up to draft Digital Competition Act within 3 months

125. Turkey earthquake: Historical ''Gaziantep Castle'' in southeastern Turkey collapsed

126. Salman Rushdie releases new novel 'Victory City

127. UNESCO to soon declare Visva-Bharati world's first living heritage university

128. India's sixth flight under Operation Dost reaches earthquake-hit Turkey

129. India's First Waste-To-Hydrogen Plant To Be Set Up In Pune by TheGreenBillions Ltd (TGBL)

130. Marburg disease outbreak – equatorial Guinea

131. new ceo of youtube – Neal mohan

132. BVR Subrahmanyam Named NITI Aayog CEO As Parameswaran lyer Shifts To World Bank
executive director

132. US nominates former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga for World Bank president

133. Paradip Port (Odisha), Deendayal Port (Gujarat), &V O Chidambaranar Port (Tamil Nadu) – 3
hydrogen indian port

134. IDFC MF set to launch India's first international debt fund

135. CAG Girish Chandra Murmu selected as External Auditor of ILO in Geneva to Philippines
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