DAILY GK 24-25 JAN
1.
PM
MODI UNVEILED RAMLALLA IDOL AT RAM JANMBHOOMI MANDIR IN AYODHYA
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On 22nd January 2024,
The Prime Minister(PM) Narendra Modi participated in the Pran Pratishtha (consecration /Establishing the Life Force)
ceremony of Shri Ramlalla idol
in the newly built Shri Ram JanmbhoomiMandir(temple) in Ayodhya, Uttar
Pradesh(UP).
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The consecration
ceremony officiated by a team of priests led by Varanasi, UP Priest Lakshmikant Dixit.
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The 51-inch (4.25-ft) Ramlalla Idol placed in the sanctum sanctorum of temple was
sculpted by Musuru (Karnataka) based Arun Yogiraj.
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The statue portraying
Lord Ram as a five-year-old i.e. Ram Lalla because this age is considered as
the age of innocence.
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The Ram Janmbhoomi Mandir was designed by
celebrated architect Chandrakant B Sompura in the Māru-Gurjara architecture of Nagara style, a type of Hindu
temple architecture found primarily in northern India.
2.
INDIA-KYRGYZSTAN
JOINT SPECIAL FORCES EXERCISE
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“Exercise Khanjar 2024”, the 11th edition of
India-Kyrgyzstan Joint Special
Forces Exercise, commenced at Special Forces Training School in Bakloh,
Himachal Pradesh(HP).
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Kyrgyzstan:
President – Sadyr Japarov
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Capital–
Bishkek
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Currency–
Kyrgyzstani Som
3.
‘PRADHAN MANTRI SURYODAYA YOJANA’
LAUNCHED
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Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi launched “Pradhanmantri Suryodaya Yojana”,
a government scheme to provide Rooftop Solar (RTS) power systems to 1
crore households.
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The scheme will support
India to achieve the target of 40
Gigawatt (GW) rooftop solar capacity.
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The programme targeted
to achieve a cumulative
installed capacity of 40,000 megawatts (MW) or 40 GW by 2022. The deadline to
achieve the taget was extended from 2022 to 2026.
4.
INDIA’S
FIRST AIRBUS A350-900 FLIGHT
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Air India Limited has
launched India’s and Air India’s first Airbus A350-900 model aircraft ‘AI 589’.
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The flight made its
inaugural fly from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (Karnataka) to
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai
(Maharashtra).
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It is a part of the
agreement made by Air India with Airbus
and Boeing in June 2023 for the supply of 470 aircraft.
5.
INDIA
BECAME FOURTH-LARGEST STOCK MARKET
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India
has become the world’s fourth-largest
stock market by market capitalization with the combined value of shares
listed on Indian exchanges reaching USD 4.33 trillion.
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India has thereby surpassed Hong Kong whose combined value of shares is USD 4.29 trillion.
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The
top three stock markets are the United States of America (USA), China, and
Japan respectively.
6.
NASA
UNVEILS X-59 QUIET SUPERSONIC JET KNOWN AS ‘SON OF CONCORDE’
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The National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
and Lockheed Martin, a global
aerospace and defence company unveiled the X-59
quiet Supersonic Jet, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft known as
the ‘Son of Concorde’.
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The X-59 is at the
center of NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) mission that aims to demonstrate the ability to fly
supersonic while generating a gentle
“sonic thump” without making loud sonic booms.
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The X-59 is expected to fly at speeds of 925 miles per hour (mph) or 1,489
kilometer/h(kmph), or 1.4 times the speed of sound (about 768 miles per hour
(1,236 kmph) at sea level).
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The X-59 will be used to collect community response data
on the acceptability of a quiet sonic boom generated by the unique design of
the aircraft.
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NASA
Headquarters– Washington, D.C., USA
7.
INDIA’S
FIRST INDIGENOUS GENAI ‘BHARATGPT‘
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CoRover Private
Limited(CoRover.ai) launched India’s
1st indigenous Generative AI (GenAI)
Large Language Model (LLM) called BharatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformers).
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This is the only Indian
Indigenous GenAI platform available across channels in 14+ Indian languages, with generative Video, Voice & Text.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka
based CoRover is the world’s first and
the highest Return on Investment (ROI) delivering human-centric Conversational
and Generative AI platform.
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Bharat
GPT is integrated for voice modality in more than
14 Indian languages and 22 languages for text modality, in partnership
with BHASHINI (BHASHa INterface
for India), a National Language Translation Mission (NLTM) under the Ministry
of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
8.
INDIA
OPEN BADMINTON 2024
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Indian badminton pair Satwik sai raj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty
won the silver medal (Runners-up) in the men’s
doubles of Yonex-Sunrise India
Open 2024 held in K. D. Jadhav Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, Delhi.
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In the finals of the
men’s doubles, the Indian pair lost to South
Korean pair Kang Min Hyuk and SeoSeung Jae (Gold medallists).
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Men’s singles:
Shi Yu Qi (China)
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Women’s singles: Tai
Tzu Ying (Chinese Taipei)
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Badminton
World Federation(BWF):Headquarters –
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
9.
PARAKRAM DIWAS 2024
– JANUARY 23
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Parakram Diwas,
is annually observed across India on 23
January to commemorate the birth
anniversary of one of the prominent independence fighters of
India, Subhash Chandra Bose,
popularly called Netaji.
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In 2021, the Government of India (GoI)
decided to commemorate 23 January, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose as Parakram Diwas
to honour the contributions of Subhash Chandra Bose to the Indian independence
movement.
10.
9TH
INDIA INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE FESTIVAL
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The 9th edition of India
International Science Festival (IISF
2023) was held at Faridabad, Haryana.
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IISF 2023 is held under
the central theme – ‘Science and Technology Public Outreach in
AmritKaal’.
11.
44TH
ALL INDIA CRIMINOLOGY CONFERENCE OF NFSU
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Union Minister Amit
Shah, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) inaugurated and addressed the 5th International and 44th All India
Criminology Conference at National Forensic Science University (NFSU) at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
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The conference on “Behavioural Forensics: Reintegrating
expanding contours of Criminology and Criminalistics” was organised by
NFSU and Indian Society of Criminology (ISC),
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NFSU is a institute of
national importance and it is the world’s first and only university dedicated
to forensic, behavioral, cyber security, digital forensics and allied sciences.
12.
EX
CYCLONE II: INDIA-EGYPT JOINT SPECIAL FORCES EXERCISE
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“Exercise Cyclone II”, the 2nd
edition of the India-Egypt Joint Special Forces Exercise, commenced in
Anshas, Egypt.
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Cyclone
II Exercise:will involve the planning and
execution of special operations in the sub-conventional domain. and rehearsal
of tactical military drills thereby achieving shared security objectives.
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Egypt:
President – Abdel Fattah El-Sisi
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Capital
– Cairo
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Currency
– Egyptian Pound
13.
19TH
NAM SUMMIT HELD IN KAMPALA
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Union Minister Dr.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) led the Indian
delegation at the 19th Non-Aligned
Movement (NAM) Heads of State and Government Summit held in Speke
Resort Convention Center, Munyonyo in Kampala,
Uganda
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During the
summit, Uganda assumed
the NAM chairmanship for
2024-2027 from Azerbaijan (2019-2023).
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President of
Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was
elected as the chair of
the 19th NAM Summit and
took over from H.E IlhamAliyev, the President of Azerbaijan.
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The NAM summit usually
takes place once every three years.
The 18th NAM summit was held in Baku, Azerbaijan in 2019
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The idea of
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) originated during the 1st large-scale Asian–African
or Afro–Asian Conference (popularly known as the Bandung Conference), held in
1955 in Bandung, Indonesia.
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Members: 120 Member
States (Africa (53); Americas and
Caribbean (26); Asia and Pacific (39); and Europe (2); 18 Observer countries; and 10 Observer Organisations.
14.
BCCI
AWARDS 2024: FOR BEST INTERNATIONAL CRICKETERS
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Shubman Gill won
the best men’s international cricketer
(Polly Umrigar Award) of 2022-23 in the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) Awards(Naman Awards)
2024 held in Hyderabad, Telangana.
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Deepti
Sharma won the best women’s international
cricketer of 2022-23.
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Former India
all-rounder and coach Ravi Shastri and
former Indian wicket-keeper batsman Farokh
Engineer were awarded the Col.
C. K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Kashvee
Gautam won the Jagmohan Dalmiya Trophy for the Best Women Cricketer (Jr Domestic)
of 2019-20 .
15.
CAMEROON
FIRST COUNTRY TO ROLL OUT MALARIA VACCINE
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The
Republic of Cameroon, a Central African country, has become
the first country in the
world to incorporate a malaria vaccine into its routine national immunization
program.
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Cameroon uses a RTS,S/AS01(Mosquirix) vaccine, the
only vaccine that has demonstrated it can significantly reduce malaria in young
children
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Cameroon
will offer the vaccine free of charge to infants up to six months old,
requiring a total of four doses.
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World
Health Organization (WHO) has recommended two
malaria vaccines – the RTS,S/AS01
vaccine in 2021 and the R21/Matrix-MTM
vaccine in 2023, to prevent malaria in children.
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Republic
of Cameroon: President – Paul Biya
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Capital
– Yaounde
16.
ASIAN
SHOTGUN CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024
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The Indian contingent
won 8 medals(1 Gold, 3 Silver,
and 4 Bronze) in the Asian Shotgun
Championships 2024 held at the Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Olympic
Shooting Complex in Kuwait City, Kuwait
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India
ranked fifth in the medal tally with 8 medals while China secured first position with 13 medals(5 Gold, 6 Silver, and
2 Bronze).
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Two Indian
shooters Anantjeet Singh
Naruka and Raiza
Dhillon qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics from this tournament.
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India’s
only gold medal at the Asian Shotgun Championships 2024
won by the women’s skeet team comprising
GanematSekhon, Maheshwari Chauhan, and Raiza Dhillon.
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The
Asian Championships for rifle and pistol shooters 2024
were held in Jakarta(Indonesia) in
January 2024.
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Indian
shooters won 26 medals (14 gold, 7 silver, and 5 bronze)
and obtained four Olympic
quotas.
17.
NATIONAL
GIRL CHILD DAY 2024 – JANUARY 24
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National Girl Child
Day (NGCD) is annually
observed across India on 24th
January to promote awareness about the rights of a girl child and to
promote the importance of their education, health, and nutrition.
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24th
January 2024 marks the observance of 17th NGCD.
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NGCD was established in
2008 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MoWCD).
32.
INTERNATIONAL
DAY OF EDUCATION 2024- JANUARY 24
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The United Nations (UN) International Day of Education (IDE) is annually observed
across the globe on 24 January to
celebrate the role of education in peace and development.
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The 2024 theme of IDE is, “Learning for Lasting Peace.”
