Current Affairs 🇮🇳

♦Jio & Airtel partners with SpaceX's Starlink to enhance internet services in India

♦NASA launches Spectro Photometer for the history of the universe, epoch of reionization and ices explorer (SPHEREx) & Polarimeter to unify the corona and heliosphere (PUNCH) missions to explore universe's origin and solar wind

♦Airport Service Quality Award : Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport wins 8th consecutive award for best airport in Asia Pacific region

♦Dr Jayashree Venkatesan becomes 1st Indian to receive Ramsar award for wetland conservation

♦Andrew Barto & Richard Sutton won 2024 ACM A.M Turing Award

♦India emerged as top source country for FDI into Dubai with USD 3 billion investment

♦Kuhoo finance secures NBFC license from RBI to expand education loan offerings

♦Switzerland based company IQAir released World Air Quality Report 2024: India ranks 5th in world air quality index with most polluted cities ;Chad tops the list.

♦Madhav National Park in MP becomes India's 58th Tiger Reserve. #MadhavTigerReserve

♦Union Minister JP Nadda announces Mukhyamantri Balika Samriddhi Yojana & Mukhyamantri Kanya Aatmanirbhar Yojana for girl child welfare in Tripura

♦BCCI appoints Rajeev Shukla & Ashish Shelar for ACC leadership roles #BCCI

♦ SEBI tightened rules for SME IPOs with profitability mandate. It has introduced a profitability requirement and capped 20% limit of the total size on offer-for-sale component. Also,selling share holders are not allowed to offload more than 50% of their existing holdings.

♦India's top life insurers in 2025 : HDFC, Max Life & LIC lead in terms of claims settlement

♦India chairs 68th session of UN commission on Narcotic Drugs for the 1st time

♦FAO released reports on global grain production and food situation : Wheat production likely to rise in 2025 to record 796 million tonnes ; rice 543MT

♦India & Bangladesh begin 6th CORPAT & 4th BONGOSAGAR exercise in Bay of Bengal

♦India & Kyrgyzstan military exercise 'Khanjar-XII commences in Kyrgyzstan

♦SIPRI report 2024: Ukraine tops as World's largest arms importer ; India ranks 2nd.

♦India & Cambodia held 3rd Foreign office consultation to strengthen bilateral cooperation in health and digital tech

♦India & Armenia sign MoU for cooperation in medical product regulation