18_April_2024

1. Taliban Suspended two TV channels

a. Iran based TV channels NOOR TV and BARYA TV.
2. Nigeria becomes first country to roll out new Meningitis vaccine
a. Brain and spinal cord tissue inflammation.
b. Men5c vaccine
c. Nigeria targets to eliminate meningitis by 2030
3. Sweden to help India achieve 2070 NetZero emission target
a. Carbon credit concepts
4. Time magazine 100 most influential people of 2024
a. Sakshi mallik and Alila bhat
b. Dev patel
c. Alia bhats heart of stone
d. Sathya nadella and ajay banga
5. SPACE , a premier testing and evaluation hub for sonar systems set up by DRDO laboratory
6. World bank plans to provide $1 billion for SBI
a. To support the battery infrastructure in India
7. Apple forms solar JV to power India operations
a. Collaboration with Mumbai based Clean Max to provide six solar roof top projects
b. Comblined out put of 14.7 gw
8. SBI Life insurance launched IdeationX.
a. 1st edition of this initiative
b. To revolutionise insurance in india
c. Students from B- schools will be invkolved
d. Insurance for All by 2047.
9. Indian economy projected t grow 6.7% in 2023
a. By UNCTAD 1964 Geneva Swiss
10. Adani raises stake in Ambuja cement to 70.3 %
a. Investment of 20000 cr
11. Duvvuri subbarao garu book called as Just a Mercenary?
a. Former RBI governor before raghu ram rajan
12. World heritage day April 18th
13. Amitha bachhan ji awarded Latha mngeskar award
a. Additionally master deenanath mangeskar award
14. Sourabh garg 1991 batch ias officer appoionted as the secretary of MoSJP
15. Telegram app hits 900 million users
a. Developed by the Russian co
b. Headquarters in Dubai
19_April_2024

1. West African country Burkina Faso expels French diplomats for subversive activities
a. Location of the country – surrounding countries and their produces
b. Three diplomats
2. Volcano Mount Ruang Crater of Indonesia erupts
a. Mantel , Crust , magma, lava, etc
b. Indonesia and Pacific ring of fire
3. World future energy summit in UAE
a. Held in Abudabi National Exhibition Centre
b. Largest renewable energy exhiblition
c. Organised by Masdar – state owned energy company of the country like ONGC of india
4. High tech IT lab in Uzbekistan
a. Army chief Monoj pande inaugurated the IT lab at the Usbek academy of armed forces
b. Under exercise DUSTALIK
5. Dinesh kumar tripati appointed as the Chief of the navy after Hari kumar
a. From april 30 2024
6. World craft city from india
a. Srinagar likely to be tagged as the World craft city from India
b. World craft council –
7. Nestle baby food sold in India has higher sugar content
a. Report by Swiss NGO – The public eye and also International baby food organisation.
b. All cerelac products has 2.7 gm sugar content
c. As per WHO children under 2 years should not be given sugar and salt in their diet.
8. Instamart, Swiggi mall to be merged
a. To grow the network for consumers looking for products other than the grocceries
9. India’s exports to china.
a. According to ministry data exports increased by 8.4 % from $15.33 bn to $16.67 bn
b. Imports from china rose 3.92% to $101.75 bn to $98.58 bn
10. Renew and JERA of japan tie up for Odisha Paradip project for green ammonia
a. To produce 1 lakh tonne of green ammonia by 2030
11. Ashok leyland and South indian bank tie up for delear finance
12. NBBL , SBI, enable NCMC recharge on Bharat Bill pay
a. NPCI Bharat billpay ltd, and SBI NCMC platform for the convenience of the travellers
13. India FY 24 Pulses imports hit 6 year high
14. TATA said to plan using new $1bn plant to make JLR cars in India.
a. To be set up in Tamil Nadu
b. Acquired by TATA in 2008
15. IREDA unveils GIFT city office for green energy finance
a. About IREDA
16. WHO new AI powered chat bot giving wrong answers
a. SARAH is giving wrong answers ability to speak in 8 languages
17. WHO defines pathogens
a. Pathogens that transmit through air will be describe as by the term – Infectious respiratory particles.
18. BrahMos missiles to Phillipines
a. For $375 mn dollar.
19. Best airport staff in India and the South asia 2024
a. By skytrax given to rajiv gandhi airport in hyderabad
20. 13th European girls ‘ Mathmatical olympliad 2024 in georgia
21. World Liver day 2024 – April 2012
22. Cricketer Raman subba rao passed away

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20_April_2024

1. Poorvi Leher
a. Indian navy carried out exercise under eastern naval command for maritime security
2. Fossils of huge prehistoric snake found in Gujarat’s Panandro lignilte mine in Kutch region
a. IIT roorkee researchers
b. Likely lived in 47 millilon years ago- i e middle eocene
c. Named vasukhi indicus
d. 10 to 15 meters
3. Shompen tribe of Andaman and Nicobar is set to vote for the first time.
a. They belong to PVTG – Particularly vulnerable tribal tribal group.
b. Estimated population was 229 as of 2011 census
4. Amar raja group bags 700 mwp solar balance of systems from greenko
a. Uyyalawada - Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh
5. IRDAI removes age bar for purchasing health insurance.
a. With effect from 1st April 2024.
b. Previously age limit of 65 years.
c. Aimed at providing health insurance to senior citizens
6. JSW Jindal south west energy bags 700 MV solar project.
a. Letter of award from NTPC.
7. Meta launches its new AI assistant - Llama 3
a. For social media apps
8. NASA’s 2011 JUNO mission captures views of jupiters volcanic moon - LO
a. To understand the origin and evolution of Jupiter.
9. Dragon fly mission anounced by NASA to study satrun.
a. To be launched by 2028 to reach by 2034.
b. To study largest moon in solar system – titan
c. Help investigating titan’s habitabillity.
d. Titan is the only moon with dense atmosphere.
10. Euvichol – S
a. New oral vaccine for cholera
11. Koushik Rajasekhara – prof- at University of houston cullen unversity – hounered him as Fellow of the
prestigious engineering academy of japan.
a. For his countributions in energy conversion engineering
12. Santhosh viswanathan – MD as Intel India.
13. Hockey india Asuntha Lakra award for deepika hockey forward player
14. Dalip singh majitha - Indian air force oldest pilot passed away.
15. National civil services day.
a. April 21st – Sardar vallabhai patel is father of the Indian civil services.

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21-22_April_2024

1. World press photo of the year award.

a. Reuters photographer and Palestinian Mohammed salem won the 2024 World press photo award under story of
the year.
b. Awarded by Amsterdam based World press photo foundation.
2. Super large warhead
a. North korea govt
b. North korea govt tested strategic cruise missile.
c. Hwasal-1 Ra 3 The super large warhead
d. Another anti air
e. Another anti aircraft missile – Pyojii1-2 in the west sea of korea
3. Interglobe archer aviation plan electric air taxi in india from delhi and gurugram in 2026
a. Interglobe enterprises of India and archer aviation of America based co collaboration
4. 50 years of chipko movement
a. First women led environment protection non violent movement in India.
b. Protect trees by hugging.
5. Centre releases curriculum framework for three to six year old
a. Ministry of women and child development releases – National curriculum for early childhood care and education
2024. – Aadharashila.
b. 48 week curriculum for 3-6 year old children in anganwadis across India.
6. Three banks in top 50 lenders in Asia- pacific by assets. Report by – S&P Global.
a. SBI- HDFC – ICICI
b. ICICI added in this year recently
c. HDFC value is increasing.
7. Direct tax collection surge 17.7% in FY 24
a. By CBDT
b. Includes income tax and corporate tax.
c. Total of 19.45 trillion.
8. Hero motor corp opens assembly unit in nepal.
a. Capacity of 75000 units.
9. Aryabhatta award for contribution to astronautics. To P subba rao – founder of Ananth technologies
a. Ananth also presented with Distinguished fellow.
b. For providing and sharing in astronautic info with isro
10. 17 year old Gukesh makes history by becoming youngest ever World championship.
11. International mother earth day – April 22nd
12. World creataivity and innovation day
13. Nallin prabtah – appointed NSG – director general
a. Sapna tiwari – IB
14. Ajit kumar K K – MD and CEO of Dhanalakshmi bank by RBI

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23_April_2024

1. Malaysia is set to build a massive semiconductor design park

a. Officially announced by PM anwar ibrahim
b. Malaysia has 13% share in semi conductors
c. South east Asia’s largest park
2. India became the 4th largest military spender in 2023 with a spending of $83.6 billion.
a. Report by Stockholm International Peace research institute – SIPRI
b. India spending Increase percent of 4.2 %
c. Global spending also increased by 7%
d. US , China , Russia are top 3.
3. Rainbow tourism conference held in Nepal Kathmandu
a. Organised by Mayako pahichan nepal
b. To position Nepal as a LGBT friendly tourism
4. Kolkata HC terminates 25,753 persons appointed in west Bengal govt schools in 2016.
a. Exam held without transparency
b. CBI probe ordered.
5. Two women Navy officers return after historic transoceanic expedition
a. INS TARANI returned to hr base in GOA
b. LT. CO. DILNA and LT.CO. RUPA
c. Returned from Mauritius port Louis
6. Govt to finalise geothermal policy soon
a. MNRE ministry came up with this policy in 2016 but not implemented
b. To revive the policy the pilot project of 1mw is being set up by ONGC in Ladakh Puga valley
c. Volcanic barren island in Aadaman, Etc are potential sites.
7. Thrissur puram largest temple festivals in kerala
8. Seng khihlang festival in meghalaya
9. 1st BJP candidate from surat becomes 1st person to win LS poll unopposed.
a. Mukesh dalal – Surat
b. Surat – Diamond city – 90% diamonds polished here .
10. NCLT orders IBC proceedings against Subhash chandra
a. ZEE network chair person
b. NCLT- 2016 – for corporate frauds like vijay malya
c. Filed by India housing bulls against loan to vivek infracon backed by subhash chandra
11. HP- Indo MIM Metal injecting moulding tie up for 3d printed high precision metal parts.
a. Indo mim acquird 3 hp 3d printers.
b. For auto motive parts
12. International agencies finds cancer causing chemicals in popular indian spice brands.
a. Hong kong and singapore recently banned the MDH and Everest.
13. 2024 ocean decade conference held on barcelona
a. Indian deligation led by earth sciences minister M Ravichandra in Spain
b. Organised by govt of spain with UNESCO
c. SDG 14 – Conserve and sustainable use of the oceans
14. Kalinga intitute of social sciences Humanitarian award – KIS humanitarian award
a. Since 2008 for humanitarians
15. Pragya mishra – OpenAI india unit
16. Naima khatoon first women to hold alighar universityl vice chancellor
17. World book and copyright day
18. World table tennis day

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24_April_2024

1. 1st ASEAN future forum - S Jayashankar speaks virtually

a. India is a partner country
b. Totally 10 ASEAN counties
c. Indian look east policy
d. ASEAN proposed by Vietnam Prime minister
2. Papua New Guinea appoints first defence advisor to India
a. In may 2023 PM Modi visited this country
3. Bhutan and tiger conservation coalition commit to catalysing US $1 billion for tigers
a. In India tigers are Endangered species
b. As of now we have 55 tiger reserves
4. Nidhi S Jain IA AS appointed as the Chief Vigilance officer of Cotton corporation of India limited.
a. CCI 1970 estd
b. Cotton is kharif crop -June to September
5. Heavenly islands of Goa
a. Penned by P.S. Sreeddharan Pillai Governor of Goa
6. Sudhir kakar Indian foremost psychoanalyst passed away
7. National panchayat raj day
a. April 24th
b. Rajasthan implemented first panchayat raj act and Andhra is the second state to enact this panchayat raj
c. Panchayat 5 member group
8. Barcelona Open – Tennis clay court
a. Casper ruud of Norway defeated stefanos of Greece
9. Chahal becomes 1st bowler to take 200 wickets in IPL.
10. 2024 ACC Para canoe Asian championship
a. Venue – Tokyo Japan
11. T20 world cup to be played in US and West Indies
a. Karnataka based Nandhini dairy to sponsor Scotland and Ireland teams in T20
12. Laureus World Sports Awards 2024
a. Ceremony Held in Madrid
b. List of awards
13. Indian bank ties up with Tata power
a. To boost solar energy adoption by providing financial support to support residential consumers for installation
b. Loans up to 2 lakh at an annual interest rate of @ 7% for residential usage
c. Loans up to 6 lakh @ 8.4% to 10.8% for commercial users.
14. Climate strategy 2030 to mobilise green financing to achieve the renewable energy target.
a. India requires approximately around $170 billion annually to reach the target
15. Air India and All Nippon Airways of Japan
16. Scheme of the day
a. PM Surya Ghar muft Bijli Yojana
b. 13 February 2024
c. 300 units per month to 1 crore houses
d. Investing worth 75000 crore rupees
e. Under Ministry of New and renewable energy

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1. Passport affordability Rankings

a. An Australian co reported that India is second cheapest passport to obtain worldwide after the UAE.
b. Indian passport incurs a cost of $18.07
c. Indian passport can travel to 62 nations
2. US sent ATACMS – missiles to Ukraine
a. Army tactical missile system
b. 300 km range
3. Prabovo Subianto declared Indonesian president elect
a. To succeed Joko widodo
b. Vice president is Gibran
4. IIT Gauhathi Unveils 3D Printed Dummy Ballot unit
a. The SVEEP – Systematic Voters education and electoral participation cell ( SVEEP ). Partnered with the IIT
gauhathi.
b. To promote voter awareness
5. 6th Edition of International conference on disaster resilient infrastructure.
a. Has begun in Delhi under the theme - Investing today for a more resilient tomorrow
b. Coalition for disaster resilient infrastructure launched by the PM at UN security council in 2019.
6. Haryana launches app to check queue at poll booths
a. Set a target to achieve 75% voting in the upcoming elections.
7. DRDO Kanpur develops country’s lightest bullet proof jacket
a. Tested in Chandigarh
8. World malaria day – April 25th
9. World penguin day – 25th April
10. World immunisation day – April 24th
11. T20 world cup – 2024
a. ICC have announced Usain bolt as the ambassador for the upcoming ICC men’s T20 world Cup
12. Indian govt partners with SBI cards
a. Telecom operators to combat OTP frauds
b. As cyber frauds and phishing attacks targeting the banking sector are increasing.
13. RBI tells Kotak bank not to board new customers
a. Under the concerns raising that IT infrastructure is week
14. RBI deputy governor Rabi shankar gets 1- year extension
15. Goldman sach hired two senior bankers from India
a. Sunil khaltan and Kamna sahni
16. Scheme of the day – National Clean Air programme
a. Launched in January 2019 by Ministry of Environment and Climate change.
b. Target – to cut the concentration of the atmospheric particulate matter PM- to 20-30 % by 2024 from 2017 later
revised to 40% by 2026.

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1. DR Congo accuses Apple of using Blood Minerals

2. CSIR- NGRI , KABIL ink pact for minerals exploration.
a. Elements total – 118
b. Two or more elements combined is called Minerals
c. For the 30 critical minerals announced by govt of India.
d. Critical minerals are essential for the economic development of the national security
3. India’s biggest climate clock activated at CSIR as part of the Earth day Near CSIR headquarters - Delhi
a. Signifies CSIR aim to create awareness about the climate change
4. Indian Historical record commission adopts a new logo
5. Coromandel international Co names Alagappan as Chairman
6. Axis bank re appointed Amitabh chaudary as MD and CEO for three years
a. Awaiting the RBI approval
7. Clarivate South asia innovation award 2024
a. MATTER – pioneering force in the india’s electric mobility and energy landscape won this award under
automotive category
b. Indian oil also won under PSU category
8. World intelectual property day
a. April 26th
b. Under the ministry of commerce
c. Theme- IP and SDG
9. International Chernobyl disaster remembrance day 26th April 2024
10. IndiGo orders 30 airbus aircraft for the long-haul flights
a. IndiGo – India’s largest domestic airline has entered the long-haul market by ordering 30 Airbus A-350
b. Powered by Rolls’Royce Trent XWB engine
11. Razorpay launches UPI Switch in collaboration with Airtel payments
a. To ensure faster and smoother transactions
12. India’s first multi- purpose green hydrogen pilot project launched in Himachal Pradesh.
a. SJVN ltd, launched 1500 MV Nagpa- Jhakri Hydro station.
13. Scheme of the day – Nilgiri tahr – Tamil Nadu has launched Project Nilgiri tahr
a. Aims to protect the endangered species of Neligiri Tahr native to the western ghats.

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1. World energy congress – 2024

a. IREDA Chairperson Pradip kumar das participated in a panel discussion on “The New Interdependence; at the 26th
edition of the world energy congress in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
b. Net Zero by 2070
c. 500 GW of non fossil fuels by 2030
2. Adopt zero tolerance towards terrorism – India at SCO meet.
a. SCO defence ministries meeting held in Kazakhstan
b. Defence secretary- giridhar armanae led the Indian delegation.
c. SCO members – 9 members – Asthana, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and
Uzbekistan.
3. GETEX – Global Education and training exhibition 2024 an education exhibition held in Dubai.
a. Dubai’s Services export promotion council
b. NEP – 2020 promoted
c. Showcase India as a education hub for foreigners
4. First ever Hindi Radio broadcast starts in Kuwait
5. West African country Burkina faso suspends BBC, Voice of America for 2 weeks
6. MoU signed to conserve and digitize paper artefacts
a. Department of Heritage of the Telangana government signed agreement with Noor international microfilm
centre
b. To secure the documents of historical importance.
7. Chennai Trade Centre to host Automation Expo roadshow
a. To discus the impact of the AI and robotics in the process and the factory automation.
8. INCOIS scientists map Indian ocean floor to study currents
a. Indian National centre for ocean information services – INCOIS
9. Scientists develop sodium battery that can be charged in seconds
a. Korea advanced Institute of sciences and technology – KAIST students
b. Sodium energy storage
10. Subramaniam dhareswara – Yakshagna folk artist passed away in Karnataka
11. Wrestling federation of India appointed Narsingh yadav as chairman.
12. Gulf youth games UAE 2024
a. First gulf youth games 24 sporting events
13. World veterinary day – April 27th 2024
14. India sees 83000 patents being filled marking 25% growth in the last two decades
a. NAASCOM reported that India patent filing increased in its report – PATENTING TRENDS REPORT.
15. India’s nuclear titans book received by S. Jaishankaar.

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28-29_April_2024

1. Sri Lanka leases white elephant airport

a. Disinvestment exploration
b. 30 year lease to joint venture of India’s Shaurya Aeronatics and Russia’s Airports of regions Management
company.
c. Opened in 2013
d. Hambantota
2. Pichai chunhavajira appionted as finance minister
a. Thai king Maha appointed him.
b. Thai prime minister – Sretha
3. Pakistan’s foreign minister Ishaq dar appointed as Deputy prime minister
a. Pakistan Muslim league nawaz
4. Indian Navy comes to tanker’s aid after Houthi missile attack
a. INS kochi responded after the attack
b. Merchant vessel MV Andromeda
5. RGIA fourth busiest Indian airport in FY 2024
a. According to Airports authority of India
b. Delhi – Indira gandhi , Mumbai’s – Chhatrapati sivaji , Bengaluru’s – Kempegouda are ranked 1st 2nd and 3rd
respectively
6. Warangal artist sculpts Lord Nataraja in needle eye
a. Measuring 700 microns( 0.7 mm) height and 550 microns (0.55)
b. International Micro sculptor – Ajay Kumar.
c. Cholas Bronze Nataraja.
7. University of Hyderabad granted Patent
a. For Molecular single-crystal photonic micro resonators and method of fabricating thereof.
b. By Rajadurai Chandrasekhar
8. Centre releases disaster relief fund for Karnataka and Tamil Nadu
a. According to Article 131- The SC has exclusive and original jurisdiction over legal issues between states or
between states and the union. – they moved supreme court as centre has not released these funds
b. For cyclone Michaung
c. For the floods and drought form the national disaster relief fund.
d. SDRF – centre 75% contribution and states 25% contribution.
9. 2024 Cambridge dedicated teacher award
a. Gina justus a teacher at our own English high school has been named for this award
10. Sunil kumar yadav has been appointed as the director of Mo Housing and urban affairs
11. International dance day
12. Shane Watson compiled book – The winners mind-set.
13. Indian women claims 4x400m crown in 21st Asian under 20 athletics held in Dubai.
14. IREDA gets Navaratna status
a. By department of public affairs
b. Under the Mo New and Renewable energy
c. 17th company to receive this status
d. Authorised to take up investments up to 1000 cr
e. Can invest up to 30% of their net worth in the year
f. First it should be Miniratna
15. Upgradable ATM machine launched by HITACHI payment services
a. Can be updated to cash recycling machines.
16. Scheme of the day - PM Kusum – Pradhan mantri kisan urja suraksha evam uttam mahabhian.
a. Launched by MNRE 2019, for installation of off- grid solar pumps in rural areas and reduce dependence on grid.
b. 34.8 GW by 2026 is the target
c. Overall budget of 34,422 cr
d. First installed in Rajasthan.

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1. G-7 meeting
a. Energy ministers agreed to end the use of coal in power generation
b. G-7 meeting in Turin
c. 50th G-7 Summit in Italy
2. United nations appoints panel on critical energy transition minerals
a. Secretary general of United nations Antonio Gutierrez announced that a new panel was being launched on
Critical energy transition minerals
3. Sacred water from Sarayu river in Ayodhya to be sent to Sri Lanka
a. For the consecration ceremony of a temple dedicated to Sita being constructed there.
b. Ayodhya ram mandir trust has pledged to provide the holy water
4. ISHAN initiative
a. The Airports authority of India(AAI) has called for expression of interest to prepare a detailed project report for
the Indian Sky Harmonised Air Traffic Management initiative, conferred in Nagpur
b. Currently there are 4 FIR’s i.e Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai. And a sub FIR in Gawahati
5. Microsoft unveils Phi-3 mini AI
a. Microsoft launched the next version of the first three small modes
b. Measures 3.8 billion parameters.
6. Honeywell bags supply order for the Lililum jet propulsion sensors
a. First all electric virtical take off and landing
b. Lilium is developing the worlds first eVTOL
7. Israel’s Rampage missiles in Indian fighter aircraft fleet
a. The Indian Air Force has inducted Rampage supersonic air-to-ground missiles which can hit long distance targets
up to around 250 km used by Israel.
8. Miss universe buenos aires
a. 60 year old Alejandra marisa rodriguez won the miss univeerse title
9. 2024 goldman environmental prize
a. Given to Alok shukla
b. Also known as green nobel
c. For his work to protect Hasedeo Arand one of the largest contagious stretches of very dense forest in central
India.
10. Power lifter Gaurav Sharma receives honarary doctorate degree form the American university
11. World day for safety & health at work - 28th April
12. Krishna ella appointed as President of Indian vaccine manufacturing Association.
13. Vinay vir Journalist and editor of the daily hindi milap passed away
14. Vizhinjam port gets nod to run as India’s first transhipment hub
a. The centre has government sanction to adani’s port in Kerala for the first time in India
15. India’s gem and jewellery sector gets AEO status from Finance ministry
a. Authorised Economic Operator
16. Tata group and South Indian bank to tie up to finance for CV’s
a. With the Tata dealers to provide commercial finance to the customers
17. Coco cola bottler SLGM beverages sets up 700 cr plant
a. Coco cola’s independent bottler in south Asia commissioned its biggest ever bottling plant located in trishundi, in
UP
18. Deloitte revises India’s FY24 growth forecast to 7.6 to 7.8%
19. Scheme of the day – Vibrant villages programme
a. Centrally sponsored scheme announced in 2022- 23
b. Improving the quality of people living in identified border areas.
c. Mo Home Affairs

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1. Archaelogists unearth 90 million year old Fast runing herbivore dinosaur in Argentina
a. This herbivore dinosaur Named Chakisarus nekul
b. Paleoantologists – study of fossils
c. Location is Rio negoro region - Rich in fossil deposits
2. India to sign 6G co-Operation agreement with European body –
a. Bharat 6G alliance and European telecom industry signed the agreement
3. Government cuts windfall tax on crude petroleum
a. From 9600 to 8400
b. Levied in the form of special additional exercise duty
c. Windfall tax is Imposed by the government when an industry unexpectedly generates substantial profits.
d. Digboi in Assam is the birth place of petroleum-1867
e. India imports 80% of the petroleum
f. Study of rocks is called petrology that is why petrol is called so
g. Petrol is extracted from sedimentary rocks
4. Patanjali Products
a. Uttarakhand government suspended the licence of 14 products manufactured by Patanjali
5. TTS – Astra zenica admitted rare side effects including TTS
6. SMART - Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo
a. DRDO – SMART successfully flight – tested at from APJ Abdul kalam islands if the coast of odisha.
b. Anti submarine warfare capability
7. Dinesh K tripati 26th chief of navy assumes command
8. Justice P S Dinesh kumar – Chief justice of High court of Karnataka has been appointed as the presiding officer of a new
technical member of Securities Appellate Tribunal
a. Replaces Justice Tarun Agarwala
b. SAT hears appeals against orders passed by the SEBI PFRDA IRDAI etc
c. Dheeraj patnakar appointed as Technical member for 4 years
9. International labour day -1860 Chicago
a. Indian labour day 1st may 1923
10. Pandit lachu maharaj adward
a. Issued to 10 members
11. Asian carrom championship
a. Indian players captured both men and women doubles at male in maldives
12. PCB has appointed new coaches
a. Gary kristen as coach for ODI
b. Jason gillespie as coach for TEST
13. NHPC signed MoU with Norwegian company Ocean Sun
a. For floating solar industry based of PVC pannels
14. Scheme – PM Vishvakarma Scheme
a. For traditional artists and craftspeople on occasion of vishwakarma jayanthi
b. Skill upgradation for 18 traditional trades
c. Supported by Centre –--- A central sector scheme – FY23-24 – FY27-28.
d. Ministry of Skill development and MSME
e. Collateral free credit upto 1 lakh in the first year and 2 lakh in second year – 5% interest
f. 500 rs stay fund per day
g. 15000 grant at the end for the purchase of modern tools.

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1. IQ Air – World Air Quality Index – Ranking

a. Katmundu was found to be the most polluted cities in the world
b. Delhi second –
c. Top 5 cities
2. Fujian aircraft carrier – the china’s third aircraft carrier began the maiden sea trials from the Shanghai shipyard
3. US newspapers sue Open AI and Microsoft over AI Chabot – for using their technology to train the Chat GPT and Co-pilot
Chatbots.
4. India set to host the prestigious 46th Antarctic treaty in the Consultative meeting
a. Antarctic treaty signed by 12 countries
b. In kerala kochi
c. Ministry of earth sciences
5. Maushimi Chakravarthy appointed director general of Akashavani – replaces vasudha guptha
a. 1936 - AIR – All India Radio _ Moto- Bahujana hitaya bahujana sukhaya
b. Rabindranath thagore given the name akashavani
6. Vice admiral Krishna Swaminathan is now the vice chief of navy
7. Mexico Taam Ja Blue hole identified
a. Usually formed in oceans
b. Cast hole – formed with llimestone
c. Blue hole is a vertical caves carved over thousands of years by glacial runoff
d. Deepest blue hole in the history
e. 1380 feet deep
8. ISRO study finds evidence of enhanced possibility of water ice in the polar crates of Moon.
9. Global plastic treaty concluded in canada ottava
10. Peucetia chhaparajnirvin – a new species of green lynx spider was found in Rajasthan’s chappar wildlife sanctuary
11. BWF World junior badminton championship in 2025
a. To be held in Assam – Gawahathi
b. To be hosted by India in 2025 after 2008 in Maharashtra
12. World tuna fish day – May 2nd
13. Paul Auster American novelist passed away
14. E – commerce market to hit $325 bn by 2030 – Invest India
a. Currently at $70 bn
15. Concept of the day – Montreal protocol
a. 1987 -

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1. John swinney to become PM of scotland

a. Succeed humza yousaf
b. Peninsula country –capital - Edinburg
c. Under king charles 3
2. Jermiah manele – a china friendly former foreign minister t as PM of the – Solomon islands fgloplkio---0y
a. North east of Australia – seperated by coral sea
b. Worlds largest coral reefs – Australia
c. Pacific ocean – crucial for the geo politics
3. Air India launches Airbus A350 - 900 on delhi dubai route
a. Becomes first carrier to operate the airbus A 350 heavy carrier
4. NGO – launches centres to promoter breast feeding
a. The Helping hand foundation – a hyderabad based NGO
b. Lactating management centres
5. Removing exotic plants will ensure food fort the wild animals
a. A study by Kerala forest department
6. 6th International newspaper design competition – Hindu explainer got the best designer category for three category about
the neeraj chopra javaline throw
7. China launches Chang’e -6 –
a. China launched lunar probe
b. Samples from the far side of the moon
8. Pratima singh- selecrted for the appointment as director -DPIIT for a period of 5 years – IRS batch 2009
9. World press freedom day – May 3rd
10. T20 world cup – Amul to sponcer the USA cricket team in t20 world cup June
11. Devon tomas – ICC imposed a ban for 5 years
12. NIPL to develop UPI lite system in Namibia
a. NPCI International payment ltd- NIPL
b. MoU with the bank of Namibia
c. To support the development of the UPI like system in Namibia
d. NPCI – Initiative of the RBI and the Indian Banks Associaltion
e. Under the Payment and settlement act 2007
f. 2016 – from the 2016 the NPCI sstarted full fledged operations
g. Promoted by 10 major banks
13. Adani green energy secures $400 million finance.
a. From a consortium of 5 international banks
b. 500 GW by 2030
c. rajasthan 500 mw and gujarath 250 mw - total 750 mw
d. Wind and solar hybrid
14. Micron set to launch india – manufactured semi- conductor chips in 2025
a. Sansad unit of the Micron
15. Concept of the day – GIG ECONOMY
a. Gig economy – Free market system different form the traditional jobs and independent workers for short term
engagements.
b. Economy – Organised and Unorganised
c. India 90% are in unorganised sector
d. 2015 – 2016 – Gig economy introduced
e. Gig economy is the unorganised sector operating in the organised way
f. Eg- delivery boys etc –Zomato, Swiggi, Rapido , Uber etc
g. Gig economy is the solution for the unemployement
h. NITI Aayog report – 2.35 cr by 2030
i. G20 labour and employment ministries meeting an outcome document – “ Sustainable social protection for Gig
and Platform workers”
j. Rajasthan state govt has pioneered in the welfare bill for the gig workforce.

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1. Chloropicrin – US accuses russia of deploying the banned choking gas against Ukranian troops
a. Also known as nitro chloroform
b. Used in the 1st world war and banned later
c. Organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons – responsible for the implementation of chemical weapons
convention established in 1997
d. OPCW gives the list of chemicals to be banned in the warfare
2. World press freedom index
a. Reporters without borders – released the list since 2002
b. India ranked 169th in 2024
c. Top 3 are – Norway, Denmark, and Sweden
d. Covers five categories – Political, Legal, Economic, Socio-cultural, and Security.
3. India’s first constitution park – at Pune
a. Indian constitution prepared by constitution assembly – primarily drafting committee.
b. 2 years 11 months and 18 days
c. 64 lakh cost of preparing the constitution
d. 26th November 1949 – Constitution day
4. Action against oxytocin use on cattle
a. Delhi high court has ordered State authorities to take action against the spurious use of oxytocin on cattle.
b. Under the prevention of cruelty to Animals Act 1960
c. Under section 26 of drugs and cosmetics act of 1940.
5. Batillipes Chandrayaani
a. New species of marine tardigrade discovered from the southeast coast of Tamil Nadu by researchers at the Cochin
University of Science and Technology (Cusat).
b. Tardigrades are microscopic marvels commonly known as ‘water bears,’
6. Green Oscar Whitely Gold Award 2024
a. Dr Purnima Devi, A wildlife biologist from Assam honoured with the Award for her conservation effors for the
endangered species of the – Greater adjunct stork and its wetland habitat.
b. Received the trophy from prince Anne, sister of the king Charles iii –
c. Whitely fund for nature is a charity established in 1993
d. This charity instituted the Whitely gold awards in 2007
7. 2024 UNSCO / Gulilermo Cano World press freedom prize
8. International firefighters day – May 4th
9. International Leopard day – 2024 – May 3rd
10. Coal miners day – May 4th
11. Hitesh Kumar Sethia – appointed as the MD and CEO of Jio financial services
12. Sanjay Kumar Mishra appointed as the GST Appellate tribunal President
13. Concept of the Day – Stem cells

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1. India, Ghana reach an MoU agreement on UPI

a. African nation – Western African country
b. UPI- and Ghana Interbank payment and settlement system
c. Ghana – capital – Accra, Currency= Ghanaian Cedi
2. DD ropes in noted faces for the awareness drive
a. Prominent personalities from various fields have been appointed to encourage people to vote in the Lok Sabha
elections
3. India’s flagship biennial motor show – Auto Expo
a. Will be organised next year under the Bharat Mobility Umbrella in New Delhi after 10 years in Pragati Maidan
b. Under the Ministry of Commerce‘s
4. Heatstroke
a. The National centre for disease control (NCDC) created a platform to record cases and deaths from heatstroke
b. In heatstroke – the body temperature can rise to 106 F or more within 10 to 15 minutes.
5. India’s first university to offer Harvard University collaboration program
a. The Chandigarh University becomes India’s first university to offer Harvard University collaborative program in
Business Management.
b. Harvard faculty will teach the students of the Indian university
6. 77th Cannes film festival
a.
7. Nakshathra Sabha – Uttarakhand government
a. Uttarakand tourism announces India’s first astro tourism campaign
b. The state government has joined hands with the astro-tourism company – Starscapes – aims to bring together
astronomy enthusiasts and travellers
8. Kelath Aravindakshan Marar
a. Percussion ensembles of the Thrissur pooram of Kerala
9. Bernard Hill – titanic captian passed away
a. British actor – Titanic, Lord of the Rings
10. ITF – Tennis Masters World championship held in Mexico
11. Madrid open – spain – women tennis – poland’s Iga won
12. Costantini returns to Indian table tennis team as foriegn coach
a. For 2 years
13. Challenger tennis tournament in Italy concludes
a. India’s Balaji wins in Doubles with germany’s Begemann
14. USA Track and field festival
a. India’s tejaswini shankar clinched victory in High Jump
b. He won the gold in Tucson Arizona USA
15. Indian super league – Football
16. Doxycycline capsules
a. Dr.Reddy’s Laboratories has launched this capsules in USA
17. Tata power renewable energy sings MoU with SJVN
a. To set up a 460 MW firm and Dispatchable renewable energy project
18. Sadiq Khan – Labour party won a record third term as London mayor
19. UNICEF India announced Kareena kapoor khan as the new National Ambassador
20. Concept of the day – Electric mobility promotion Scheme
a. 2070 – Net Zero emissions
b. Budget Rs.5 billion
c. Launched in 2024 to promote purchase of electric 2w and 3w – not 4w
d. Effective from April to July 2024
e. To replace FAME scheme

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1. Nepal to introduce new Rs.100 currency note featuring Indian territories

a. Indian Territories of Lipulekh, Limpiyadura, and Kalapani of Uttarakhand.
b. Background- East India Co and Nepal after the Anglo Nepalese war both signed a treaty called “ Sugauli Treaty” in
1816.
c. 1950 – Treaty of Peace between the India and Nepal considering the territories under the India.
2. Localizing the SDG’s ; Women in Local Governance in India Lead the Way.
a. Organised by – Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations and the Ministry of Panchayat Raj in
collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
b. During the 57th Session of the Commission on Population and development, United nations HQ, New York
c. Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations inaugurated the event.
3. 19th Interpol conference of Heads of National Central Bureaux.
a. India said online radicalisation continues to pose a significant threat to global security.
b. In the Interpol HQ at France’s Lyon
c. CBI director Praveen Sood attended the conference
d. As CBI is the National Central Bureau of India.
4. Railways Plans Vande Bharat Metro trains
a. This metro trains will roll out from kapurthala rail coach factory later this year.
b. About Vande bharat – No engine but uses Distributed traction controll technology
c. Kavach and Trinetra
d. Director of Integral coach factory – Sudhanshu Mani is the brain child of the Vande bharath express
e. 15th February 2019 – Gawahathi to New Jalpaipuri
5. IIT – Hyderabad develops wireless pneumonia detector.
a. Chip based devices which can detect respiratory diseases in children.
b. Name of the device is – GoldAid.
c. Test was conducted at Ramagundam Thermal power plant for the worker saftey device.
6. Coral bleaching in Lakshadweep
a. Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
b. Coral Reefs – Skeletons of stony coral polyps cemented together
c. Made of calcium carbonite – limestone – Known of underwater tropical forests.
d. Not too Shallow not too deep water with good sunlight –usually grow in not too cold and not too hot areas
e. Coral bleaching- when ocean water becomes too warm.
7. School on Wheels initiative
a. To promote education to Scheduled students in relief camps in the state
b. School bus equipped with the Books and teacher will visit the camps
8. Tirthahalli areca emerges best variety among the areca nuts grown in Karnataka -
a. 80% of nations produce is from the Karnataka rest from kerala and assam
b. The nuts are graded – Nuli, Hasa, Rashi, Bette and Gorabalu
9. BRO – Border Road Organisation Day May 7th 1960.
a. 65th foundation day in 2024
b. Under Ministry of defence
c. SELA Tunnel is by BRO
d. 18 projects in 11 states and 3 UTs
10. Worlds Athelets day
11. World Asthama day
12. Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra –
a. Nirmala sitaraman administered the oath of integrity and secrecy to Justice as the First President of GST
Appalliate Tribunal
13. BSNL to launch 4G services across India in August.
a. For the 1st time using indigenous technology.
b. Under the governments Aatmanirbhar policy
c. Rolled out in punjab using the tech from the IT company TCS
14. Worlds first CNG motorcycle by Bajaj
a. CNG is 80 to 90 % Methane
15. India Ratings raises FY25 GDP from 6.5 to 7.1%.
16. Concept of the Day – Micro Finance.
a. Micro Finance – Unreachable and Unbanked sections of the society
b. SHG’s are the best example of the Micro Finance.
c. SHG – 1992 launched by NABARD
d. Needs
e. Issues
f. Reports – NPA’s decreased in Micro Finance

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1. India and Nigeria currency settlement to enhance economic ties

a. In the areas such as crude oil, natural gas, UPI, etc
2. Jose Raul Mulino as panama’s president.
a. Outgoing president Laurentono Cortizol
b. Panama is a latin country
3. Vladimir Putin swore the oath of allegiance to the Russian constitution for a record 5th term
a. Russia is a example of Semi presidential as there is PM also in russia
b. Japan is also known as peace constitution
4. John Swinney as Scotland First Minister PM
a. Scottish Nationalist party
b. Currency – Pound, Capital- Edinburgh
c. Monarchy – Charles iii
5. GI Tag - Gujarat based Kutch Ajrakh – is a textile craft
a. Hand block printing on the textiles
6. Operational Deployment of the Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet to the South China Sea.
a. INS Delhi, INS Shakti, INS Kiltan reached Singapore
7. Tiger translocation – Sahyadri tiger reserve has no tigers
a. Maharastra government has geared up for the translocation of the tigers in a bid to revive numbers
b. One of only 5 tiger reserves which has no tiger reserves
c. List of the 5 tiger reserves
d. Out of 54 or 55 tiger reserves
e. According to tiger census – 2018 – 3167 tigers and since then 200 increased
8. Sanjeev Nautial appointed MD and CEO of Ujjivan SFB
a. Former Deputy managing Director of the SBI
b. Ujjivan Small finance bank – 2017
9. Yuzvendra Chahal as brand ambassador of Haryana to boost voter turnout
10. Amit pathiyankar as CEO of Waaree energies – a solar pv manufactures
11. Leafhopper Bug – Argentina corn farmers face new enemy
a. Yellow insect of 4mm disturbs the harvest of the crop.
12. Remembrance and reconciliation day for those who lost their lives in world war 2
13. World red cross day
14. World Thalassaemia day
15. EMotorad giga factory in Pune
a. Electric cycles manufacturer – in Pune
16. Wabag bags repeat order from ONAS for 36 MLD water treatment plant in Tunisia
a. Chennai based co WABAG – baged the order to treat water
b. 34 million euros
17. Sri Lanka firms up power purchase deal with Adani Group
a. For a period of 20 years
b. 480 mW wind power station
c. In the region of Mannar and Pooneyrn
18. Concept of the day - Global Biofuel alliance.
a. Bio fuels – extracted from the crop waste
b. G20 – Global bio fuel alliance launched in India.
c. Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Italy, South Africa, USA.

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1. EU adopts first law tackling violence against women

2. India is now third largest producer of solar power
a. According to report by International energy analytics agency EMBER in 2023 India becomes 3rd largest producer
of solar energy overtaking Japan.
b. China, US and India are 1st 2nd and 3rd respectively.
c. India 113 bn Units with Japan 110 bn units
d. China 51% of the solar energy produce
e. World’s largest solar park is in Rajasthan – Bhadka Solar Park
3. China and Serbia signs an agreement to build a “ Shared future”
a. The EU member became the first country among the EU
b. China is ready to invest billions of dollars in Serbia.
4. Fire in Uttarakhand Forests
a. Forest fires and wild fires
b. Indian Air force used MI 17 v5 Helicopter was deployed using the “Bambi Bucket” - from the Bhimtal lake in
Nainital
c. Causes of forest fire – Fuel, Heat source,
5. Army, and IAF conducts GAGAN STRIKE – ii at multiple locations in Punjab
a. Aims to refine processes and validate employment of attack helicopters
6. Glyptothorax punyabratai
a. ICAR- NBFGR discovered a new catfish in Arunachal pradesh
b. Tissa river
7. Candle wax-powered rocket
a. German company Hyimpulse successfully launched a candle wax powered rocket capable of carrying commercial
satilites
b. 12 meter 2.5 tonne test Rocket dubbed as - SR75 launched from South Australia.
8. Asian Open Pickleball Championship – Concludes in Vietnam
a. India won 3 Gold and 2 bronze
9. Vargeese Koshy Chess master and trainer passed away in kerala
10. Sujal Raina
a. VISA card network appointed sujal raina as the India su continent manager
b. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives
11. HDFC Life’s Keki Mistry’s appointment approved by IRDAI after Deepak parekh’s Resignment
12. ICICI bank Introduces UPI for NRI’s
a. Non resident Indian van now register their international mobile number and use UPI
b. Non resident NRE and NRO accounts
c. USA, UK, UAE, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
13. JSW to develop Li-Ion cells with Chinese firm
a. JSW set to finalise a technology transfer partnership with a Chinese counterpart
b. 50 GW cell factory in Odisha’s Paradip.
c. India will pump in about Rs.200 crore to explore and develop five lithium mines in Argentina
d. Khanij Bidesh India also preparing to set up a branch in Argentina
e. For the first time Lithium reserves have been discovered in J&K – 6 million tonnes
14. Concepts of the Day – IUCN – International union for conservation of Nature
a. Releases the list of the Global resources for assessing the risk of extinction among animals, fungi, and plant
species.

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1. Fujian -3rd Aircraft carrier of China

a. Existing Liaoning and Shadong
b. With electromagnetic catapult technology – china becomes 2nd country after the US to use this technology
2. “Amplifying the Global value of Earth observation” – Highlights the Earth observation technologies across various sectors
a. By World Economic Forum
3. World Migration Report 2024
a. By International Organisation for Migration
b. Major reasons for Migration – Conflict and Climate change
c. In India the climate impact on internal migration from Rajasthan, UP, and Madhya Pradesh
4. West Nile fever – Kerala news
a. A mosquito borne viral infection – First identified in Uganda – Spread by the Culex species of the Mosquito
b. Causes severe neurological diseases and death.
c. Kerala – Nearest to equator – water is the most dangerous.
d. Geography decides our food habits, diseases, dressing habits, and also culture
5. FLIRT – New Covid variant from omicron
6. Global pride of Sindhi Award
a. Pawan Sindhi is the winner
b. To promote the values of humanity
7. Pullitzer prizes for 2024
a. In the field of Journalism and Arts
b. Copy PDF from cce channel
8. Pirul lao – Paise pao campaign in Uttarakhand.
a. Pine tree species – called as pirul
b. CM puskhar singh dhami – launched this campaign
c. Pirul collection centres with 50 cr budget – people who collect and depostit a kG of this leaves will get 50 rs pr KG
d. These leaves are the cause for the forest fires
9. Seasame – Indian Fintech company – Setu a pine lab group
a. SETHU – launches “Sesame“India’s first LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL specifically for BFSI sector.
b. CHAT GPT of financial services.
c. Going to be a revolutionary in the banking sector.
10. UK girl’s hearing restored after ground breaking gene therapy
a. An 18 month old girl got her hearing capacity after the gene therapy
b. Replacing defective genes with new gene
11. Concept of virtual touch
a. Social media online behaviour.
b. Parents also need to teach their kids in the virtual touch other than good touch and bad touch.
12. Shankar Raman appointed as president of L&T
13. Neeraj Chopra – appointed as ambassador of Omega watch group.
a. Omega watches is the official time keeper of the 2024 Paris Olympics
14. International day of Argania
a. Argan tree, an ancient species
15. Bajarang Punia
a. Suspended by the United world wrestling after the National anti doping agency
16. G- SECs huge securities of 40000 cr from RBI
a. Government securities -
b. RBI – On behalf of government it issues the G sec and borrows form the public to meet its fiscal deficit
c. G secs are issued by auctions conducted by the RBI
d. E Kuber is a core banking sollultion of the RBI
17. Parivarthan start-up grants programme for the FY2024
a. HDFC bank in collaboration with ATAL innivation launched this parivarthan programme
b. HDFC bank announced the winners of the Programme
c. 41 start up working across specific focus areas
d. 19.6 crore
18. Honda commissions New electric R&D centre in Bengaluru
19. Concept of the day – PM Swanidhi scheme
a. Extended till December 2024
b. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
c. Launched in 2020 to assist street vendors impacted by COVID.
d. Target over 50 lakh street vendors
e. Micro credit in the form of Collateral free working capital loan to the street vendors – 10k to max 50k.
f. Quality Council of India is the Implementing agency

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1. “Recipe for a Livable Planet: Achieving Net Zero Emissions in the Agriculture System.
a. Published by World Bank.
b. Emphasis on significant potential for reducing greenhouse gases emissions for the agriculture and food sector
c. Enhance food security and improve the food systems resilience on the climate change.
d. Enteric fermentation – digestive process in animals have rumen – a specialized stomach department where
microbes break down complex plant materials such as cellulose
2. World’s wealthiest cities – report 2024
a. Henley and partners and New world wealth together released the report
b. India has Mumbai- 24 and Delhi- 37
c. New York leads
d. Bengaluru – cities to watch category for future growth
3. India’s Majority Population decline
a. PM Economic advisory committee released this report
4. India received $ 111 billion in remittances in 2022
a. According to UN latest World Migration Report, India was the highest recipient of remittances from abroad at
$ 111 billion in 2022
b. India became the first to reach and even surpass the $100 remittance
c. Mexico, China, Philippines, and France.
5. Flash floods in Afghanistan
a. World food programme announced 300 dead in Afghanistan flash floods
6. Parivartan Chintan
a. Chief of Defence Staff – General Anil Chauhan will chair a two day conference – Parivartan chinatan 2 where
heads of all tri-services aims of generating innovative initiatives
7. Army looks at creating new unit – OPFOR to play
a. New unit – “Opposing forces”
b. Will give more power to combat and war game
8. Mikhail Mishustin – appinted as PM of the Russian Parliament Duma
9. Vice Admiral Sanjay Bhalla – Assumes charge as the chief of Personnel of the Indian Navy
10. Xun Feihong – After 18 months of china not having an ambassador to India as 17th Ambassador of India
a. He will succeed Sun Weidong
11. Alpha Fold – Google Deepmind has Unveiled the 3rd major version of the AI - AplhaFold for Bio Technology
a. To help in drug delivery and target diseases effectively
12. World Lupus Day – Auto Immune disease
13. National technology day – May 11th
a. Smiling Buddha 1st Nuclear test under Indira Gandhi
b. Operation Shakthi 2nd test on 1998 May 11th
c. Theme – From Schools to start ups ignite minds
14. Women’s T20 World Cup Schedule
a. October 2024 – Bangladesh
b. Amul appinted official sponsor of the Sri Lanka
15. Oxford Bookstore book cover prize 2024
a. Designer Bhavi Mehta for _ “ Beautiful” by pradip
16. Sahithya Akademy fellowship award to Ruskin Bond
a. Born in HP
b. Books
17. Salam Bin Razzaq – Urdu literature – Passed away
18. Surjit patar – Panjabhi poet – passed away
19. IndusInd International Holdings ltd gets IRDAI’s nod for acquisition of Reliance Capital. – a Mauritius based firm
20. Concept of the day – Cervical cancer
a. Human papillomavirus (HPV).
b. Union Budget 2024 announced the vaccination for girls in the age group 9 – 14 years
c. CERVAVAC – India’s first indigenous quadrivalent HPV virus developed by SII.

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1. India, Iran, signs Chabahar port operation pact for 10 years

a. Against China’s gwadar port in Pakisthan
b. MoU signed between Indian Global Ports ltd and Port and Maritime Organisation of Iran in May 2015
c. Deep water port located in Sisthan- Baluchisthan province of Iran
d. In 2016 a Trilateral agreement to establish the Corridor for Central Asian countries
e. Gujarat’s Kandla port is the strategic location with this port
2. Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupts again
a. Vulcan – God of fire
b. Volcano eruption – molten material, magna, lava.
c. Last month Mount Ruang in North province erupted
d. India’s only active volcano is in Andaman Islands
3. Mahamat deby declared winner of chad – presidential elections defeating Succes Masra.
a. First military rule conducted the democratic elections
b. A central African country
4. Government to spend Rs.2 crore per KM in roads along China Border in Uttarakhand and Sikkim under Vibrant Village
programme.
a. Union cabinet – Vibrant village in 46 border blocks
5. 7th edition of Military exercise Shakti between India-France
a. Joint Military exercise at Meghalaya
6. Dust storm envelops New Delhi
a. Factors including western disturbances, high temperatures
b. Winds are named after points of origin(Directions-eg; Above western disturbances).
7. Roger Corman American director passed away
8. Sushil kumar Modi passed away – former deputy CM of Bihar
9. International day of Plant health – May 12th
10. World Migratory Birds Day – 11 May and 12 October
11. International Nurses day – 12th May
12. Kami Rita Sherpa climbs Everest for record 29th time
a. Nepali Mountainer Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record
13. IBF light weight World title – Boxing
a. Ukrainian Boxing great - Won
14. 2024 Superbet Rapid & Blitz
a. Pragnanaanda claimed 4th place in Poland
15. P Shyaamiikhil becomes India’s 85th Grandmaster
a. 2500 points for men and 2300 points for women
b. FIDE gives GM title
c. Previous GM’s of India.
16. Sovenia deaf tennis open tournament - India’s prithvi sekhar wins this tournament
17. United nations proclaimed may 25 as world football day – as first international football took place on 25th may 1924 during
the summer Olympics games held in Paris
18. Deeksha breaks 1500m
a. Deeksha from Madhya Pradesh ran the distance in 4:04:78 bettering th previous national record set by Harmalin
in 2021.
19. SBI becomes first trading and clearing bank at IIBX -INDIA INTERNSTIONAL BULLION EXCHANGE – In Gujarat
20. Ministry of Skill development signs MoU with M&M ltd
a. To conduct two pilot projects under the “Drone DIDI Yojana:
b. Aims to train 15000 women to operate drones for agricultural purpose such as fertilising the crop etc thereby
creating new livelihood opportunities for women
21. One Liners
a. Idashisha Nongrang has been appointed the first women director general police of Meghalaya
b. S Jayshankar inaugurates Arbitration Bar of India in Delhi – an alternative dispute resolution outside of the courts
c. Former parliamentarian Dileep Sanghania reelected as the chairman of Indian farmers fertilisers cooperative
IFFCO
d. Neeraj chopra finishes 2nd in Doha diamond league 2024
22. Concept of the day – PM – JANMAN
a. Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan Scheme
b. Ministry of Tribal Affairs – Uplifting the PVTGs
c. To address the unique challenges and provide essential infrastructure- water, roads ,electricity ,schools.
d. Union budget of 24104 crore for the next 3 years – center 15336 states 8768 crores
e. Highest number of PVTGs are found in Odisha(15), Andhra Pradesh (12), Bihar and Jharkhand(9), Madhya pradesh
and Chhattisgarh(7).

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1. 3rd World Wildlife Crime Report 2024 – By United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime(UNODC) Vienna, Austria
a. Focuses on the trends in illegal trade in wild life species listed in the convention on International trade in
endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
b. Rhino horn market largest at - 29%, Pangolin Scales market 2nd largest– 28%, Elephant Ivory 3rd largest – 15%
c. Cedars and Other Sapindales were the most effected plant species with 47% and rosewood 2nd largest at 35%
d. ABOUT – CITES look for previous covered concept
2. India to host Bharat Parv
a. The 77th Cannes film festival started at Cannes in France, India is participating in the 12 day event for the first
time.
b. The Official poster and the trailer of the 55th International film festival of India 2024 will be launched at Bharat
Parv
c. 2024 IFFI will be held in Goa from November
3. World Hydrogen summit 2024 – being held in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
a. For the first time India has set up its own pavilion
b. Set up by Ministry of the New and Renewable energy
c. Green hydrogen is produced through the process of electrolysis
d. India launched National Green Hydrogen Mission in January 2023 – with an outlay of Rs.19,744 crores with a
target to achieve production of 5 million metric tonnes by the end of the year 2030.
4. UNESCO adds three Indian Literary Masterpieces.
a. Three Indian literary masterpieces have been added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Asia- Pacific Regional
Register.
b. 2024 UNESCO summit is going to be held in India
c. Ramacharithamanas – Tulasidas and Panchatantra- vishnusharma and Sahrdayaloka- Acharya Anandvardhan
were added to UNESCO
d. Tulasidas is a contemporary of Akbar regiem
e. Adopted during the 10th meeting of the memory of the Committee for Asia and the Pacific ( MOWCAO ) held in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
5. Disaster led to displacement of half million persons in India in 2023 – “Global Report on Internal Displacement”
a. By Geneva based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre.
b. Floods, Cyclone and Earthquakes led to this displacement.
c. Sharp decline in number of displaced people in India in 2023 compared to 2022.
6. International day of families – May 15th 1994
7. Vinay Firake appointed as Wipro CEO of Asia Pacific
8. Sulthan Azlan Shah Hockey trophy - Held in Malaysia – India did not participate
a. Japan defeated Pakistan 4-1
9. Alice Munro – 2013 Noble price winning Canadian author passed away – Known for Mastery of the short story
10. HDFC Bank unveiled PIXEL range -End to end mobile app based customisable digital card range
a. PIXEL play and PIXEL go
11. Nayara energy to invest Rs.600 crores to set up 2 ethanol production plants
a. 200 KLPD each in Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh
b. The company runs the largest private fuel network in the country
c. Indian government 20% blending target by the end of the year 2025-2026.
12. One Liners
a. Melinda French Gates step down as co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
b. Georgia parliament has passed a controversial foreign agents bill
c. Russian president appointed Nikolai Patrushev for ship building
d. Kykian Mbappe was named French player of the year in Paris ceremony
e. Moody’s Ratings the Indian GDP growth @ 6.6% FY25.
f. US warns against any links with IRAN.
13. Concept of the Day – NISAR Satellite.
a. NISAR Satellite – can monitor tectonic movements accurately
b. NISAR – NASA and ISRO aperture Satellite under the agreement signed in 2014.
c. Low earth orbit – 180 -2000 km
d. Will operate for a minimum of 3 years
e. Entire globe in 12 days
f. SAR is capable of penetrating clouds regardless of the weather conditions
g. Useful for natural disasters, crop growth, soil moisture, earth surface monitoring, Oil spills, Urbanisation,
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1. China overtakes US as India’s top trading partner in FY24

a. According to data form the Indian Commerce Ministry, China overtook US with a total trade worth $ 118.4 billion
followed by US with $ 118.29 billion.
b. China, US, UAE, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore.
c. Trade deficit is increasing between India and China
2. Global Internet Report – By Access Now
a. India Leads in Global internet shutdowns for the 6th year in a row.
b. India logged 116 instances of internet shutdowns in 2023 accounting for 41% of the 283 globally
c. After India Myanmar followed India, Iran later.
3. IndiaSkills Competition 2024
a. A K Tiwari, Secretary, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship inaugurated the IndiaSkills competition
2024 – the countries biggest skill competition designed to demonstrate the highest standards of skilling in New
Delhi.
b. It is also the first time that the IndiaSkills has incorporated competition information system called “Qrencia”.
4. Union Government issues first set of citizenship certificates under CAA – Check CAA sreedhas cce video
a. Union home Secretary Ajay Kumar Balla issued the first set of citizenship certificates under the law to 14 persons.
b. To grant Indian Citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsi’s, Christians – but not Muslims – who migrated
to India before 31st December 2014 owing to religious persecutions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.
5. Google Arts and Culture launched digital exhibition on millets- “Millets: Seeds of Change”
a. In collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture
b. India, Nigeria and China are the largest producers of millets
c. India – Rajasthan, Karnataka and Maharashtra are leading producers of Millets
6. Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders – celebrated 250th Anniversary.
a. Chief guest – Defence Secretary Shri Giridhar Armane
b. He inaugurated a midget submarine prototype – “Arowana” and also a solar electric hybrid boat and fuel cell
electric ferry – “SUCHI”.
c. RBI released a Rs.250 coin on the 250th Anniversary.
7. IAF successfully airdrops portable hospital BHISHM.
a. The Indian Air Force Successfully tested portable hospital cubes “Bharat Health Initiative for Sahyog, Hita and
Maitri” (BHISHM), for the first time in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra.
b. Weighing 720 KG with 72 components with waterproof and lightweight.
c. World’s first portable hospital “ Arogya Maitri Aid cube unveiled in Gurugram, Haryana.
8. Global Disruptors 2024 – By Deadline Hollywood magazine – Celebreties defining the future of the entertainment industry
globally
a. DEEPIKA PADUKONE only Indian star to feature in the list.
b. She also was the first Indian to Unveil the FIFA World Cup Trophy in Qatar.
9. Apurva Sahijwani ex Axis banker – Avendus Group – a wealth management company appointed him a CEO.
10. International day of Light - May 16th
11. National dengue day – viral infection- May 16th
a. Also known as Break-bone fever
b. Targets – Malaria 2030, Lymphatic Filariasis 2030, TB – 2030.
12. India agrees with Australia to share key import data
a. Data on preferential imports under the interim trade pact that came into force in December 2022
13. NHAI says Rs.3000 crore insurance surety bonds issued so far
a. Insurance bonds – Agreement to guarantee compliance, payment or performance of an act.
b. As a security arrangement for the infrastructure projects.
14. One Liners -
a. Photographer from Telangana wins International award – Hari k Patibanda in wild life category
b. Bengaluru – Mysuru highway to get 60 AI powered cameras
c. Army set to receive next batch of Shoulder-fired IGLA-S air defence system from Russia. – VSHORAD – very short
range air defence system.
15. Concept of the Day – Periodic Labour Force Survey
a. Launched by National Sample Survey Organisation in 2017.
b. Key objective of the PLFS is to estimate the key employment and unemployment indicators annually.
c. Recently Government released Q4 FY24 report.
d. Labour force participation rate - % of persons in the labour force in the population
e. Worker population ratio -
f. Unemployed rate –
g. Taken Screenshots.

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1. Lawrence Wong appointed Singapore prime minister.

a. 1st new prime minister in 20 years and 4th PM only and 1st PM born in the independent Singapore.
b. To replace Lee Loong who has been for last 20 years
c. President Tarman Shanmugaratnam – Indian origin
2. India – US dialogue on Africa.
a. Held in Washington and this is the 2nd round of the dialogue
b. Africa is rich in minerals and also a strategic partner
c. To discuss and share ideas and perspectives to develop Africa in areas of education, energy, Agriculture and
Health.
d. Feed the future India Africa Innovation Transfer Platform, which partners with Technoserve to share Indian soil
and water management techniques in Kenya and Malawi.
3. Indian army sets up one of the world’s highest tank repair facilities in the China border in Ladakh
a. The two repair facilities in eastern Ladakh at an altitude of over 14500 feet, to ensure operational readiness of
armoured vehicles in extreme conditions of minus 40 degrees.
b. Located in Nyoma and DBO sector of Ladakh.
4. Centre for World university rankings - 2024 Global 2000 list.
a. IIM Ahmedabad secured the 1st in India at 410 globally, and 64 other universities from the India made it to the list.
Take Screenshot.
b. Harvard, MIT, Stanford are ranked 1st 2nd and 3rd respectively
5. Uniyala multibracteata
a. Researchers rediscover a rare tree species in western Ghats after 140 years.
b. It is a critically endangered tree species under the IUCN.
6. Hindustan Shipyard awarded the “PSU Samarpan Award” by Government of India’s Gov Connect.
a. Significant contributions of the PSU to the countries Progress.
7. NASA captures divine yin-yang symbol
a. Unusual crater or caldera created on the Mount Nemrut volcano in Turkey.
8. India’s first research test-bed to study Nor’westers
a. Nor’westers are local winds
b. Nor’westers occur in east India usually in March and April in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.
c. They support the Jute production in India.
9. LUPEX Mission India and Japan combined mission to study Moon and search for subsurface water.
a. It will not only confirm the presence of water but will also investigate its quantity, Distribution on the lunar
surface and below ground.
10. National day of endangered species – May 17th 2006
11. World hypertension day – 120/80 hg– Since 2006
12. World Telecommunication Day – May 17th 1969
13. 2018 Padma Sri awardee Malthi Joshi author and story teller passed away
14. Kamala Beniwal 1st women minister of Rajasthan and also former governor of Gujarat passed away
15. TCS to set up human centric AI Centre of Excellence in Paris France
a. To focus on how AI can be designed to address business efficiencies and societal priorities
b. The centre will focus on brain-computer interface, building empathy in machines and unleashing the power of AI
in Arts and Culture
16. Neeraj Chopra – 82.27 gold in Bhubaneswar
17. French moto grand prix
18. Fatah II – Pakistan rocket system 400 km Range
19. NASA appointed David Salvagnini as chief of AI.
20. Kapil Sibal elected as the president of the supreme court bar association – Former congress MP.
21. Highest time zones in France
22. Sunil Chhetri to Retire from Internationals after WC qualifier against Kuwait.
a. He played his first match in 2005.
b. 4th highest goals across world with 94 goals
c. Ronaldo – 128, Daei – 108, Messi – 106.
d. Only footballer to win Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award.
23. Concept of the day - SEBI
a. Established in 1988 however it got the statutory body status in 1992 after the Harshad Mehta scam
b. Strength is 9 members - Chairman and 4 full time members and 4 part time members
c. Madabhi Puri Butch - Mumbai
d. Promoting investor awareness and regulation of Stock Market.
e. Recent News – IRRA launched by SEBI
f. SCORES 2.0 – for investor compliant Redressing system – Take Screen shot.

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