DAILY GK 23 MAY 2025
1. FIDE WGP 2024-25
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Grandmaster (GM) Zhu Jiner (China) topped the
overall leaderboard of the International Chess Federation (FIDE)
Women’s Grand Prix (WGP) Series 2024–25 with
a total of 352.5 points.
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This achievement came after the conclusion
of the sixth and final event of the
series, the 2025 Grosslobming FIDE
WGP, held in Grosslobming, Austria.
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GM Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia)
has secured the 2nd place in the leaderboard by
scoring 308.34 points.
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Koneru Humpy secured 4th position.
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FIDE
WGP series 2024–2025 comprised six WGP
tournaments conducted over two years (2024–2025) across six international venues.
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The
event featured a total of 20 players,
who participated in three out of six WGP tournaments.
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Top
two players qualified for the 2026 FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament.
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FIDE Headquarters – Lausanne, Switzerland.
2.
DOHA DIAMOND LEAGUE 2025
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India’s Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra secured second
place with a personal best and national record throw of 90.23 metres (m)
in the Doha Diamond League 2025 held at the Qatar
Sports Club in Doha, Qatar.
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Germany’s Julian Weber clinched
the first position in the men’s javelin throw event
with a personal best of 91.06 m, while Anderson
Peters of Grenada, a two-time World Champion, secured the third position with an 85.34 m throw.
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Parul Chaudhary of India secured sixth place
in the women’s 3000m steeplechase with 9:13.39, improving from
her previous mark of 9:15.31 set at the 2023 World
Championships.
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With this she broke her national
record and qualified for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
3.
SUPERBET CHESS CLASSIC ROMANIA 2025
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Indian Grandmaster (GM) Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa secured
his maiden Grand Chess Tour (GCT) title by
winning the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2025,
held in Bucharest (Romania)
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Praggnanandhaa clinched the title via
a three-way blitz playoff against GMs Alireza Firouzja (France)
and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France),
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The
tournament featured 10 elite GMs from across the globe and followed a single
round-robin classical format
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In
January 2025, Praggnanandhaa became the first Indian chess player to
win the 2025 Tata Steel Chess Masters title (the
Netherlands), since Vishwanathan Anand won it in 2006.
4.
SAFF U-19 CHAMPIONSHIP
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The Indian men’s under-19
football team clinched their 4th South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) U-19
Championship(2025) title by defeating Bangladesh in
the final was held in Yupia, Arunachal Pradesh (AR), India.
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The Indian U-19 football team, popularly
known as the ‘Blue Colts’ and led by
captain Singamayum Shami, defeated Bangladesh 4–3 in a penalty shootout following a 1–1
draw in regulation time to win the title.
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SAFF Headquarters – Dhaka, Bangladesh.
5.
F1 EMILIA ROMAGNA GRAND PRIX
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Max Verstappen, a Belgian-Dutch
driver of Red Bull, won the Formula 1 (F1)
Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (GP) 2025 held in Imola, Italy.
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Lando
Norris secured 2nd
position.
6. ITALIAN OPEN TENNIS 2025
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In Men’s singles,Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz (World
No.2) secured his maiden Italian Open title by defeating Italy’s Jannik Sinner
(World No.1)
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Italy’s Jasmine Paolini(World
No. 5) achieved a historic feat by winning both the women’s singles and doubles
titles at the 2025 Italian Open.
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The
Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) serves
as the governing body for men’s professional tennis and oversees both the ATP
Tour and the ATP Challenger Tour.
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Headquarters – London.
7. CCI BILLIARDS CLASSIC TITLE 2025
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Indian cue sports legend Pankaj
Advani secured his third consecutive 2025 CCI
Billiards Classic title by defeating Dhruv Sitwala in the final
held at the Wilson Jones Billiards Hall in Mumbai
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The Government of India (GoI) has honoured
Pankaj Advani with several prestigious awards, including the Arjuna Award (2004),
the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award (2006),
the Padma Shri in the Sports category (2009), and
the Padma Bhushan in the Sports category
(2018).
8. SEBI MANDATED EBP FOR ALL PRIVATE
DEBT ISSUES ABOVE RS 20 CRORE
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SEBI mandated the use of Electronic Book Platform (EBP) for
all private placement debt issues of 20 crore or above.
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Previously,
electronic book mechanism was compulsory for all private placements of debt
securities with an issue size of Rs 50
crore or above.
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As per SEBI’s new framework, the
requirement to use EBP platform now covers private placements of debt
securities, non-convertible redeemable preference shares (NCRPS), and
municipal bonds, including single, shelf, and follow-on issues within a
financial year.
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SEBI was first established in 1988 as a
non-statutory body for regulating the securities market. Later it acquired
regulating authority status for the Indian securities market in 1992.
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Headquarters – Mumbai.
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Chairman – Tuhin Kanta Pandey.
9.
DOT INTRODUCES “FINANCIAL FRAUD RISK INDICATOR”
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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Ministry
of Communications (MoC) has announced sharing of
“Financial Fraud Risk Indicators (FRI)” with
stakeholders, marking a major step towards combating cyber fraud and financial
crimes.
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FRI,
a multi-dimensional analytical tool is developed
as part of the Digital Intelligence Platform (DIP), DoT,
to empower financial institutions with advance actionable intelligence for
cyber fraud prevention.
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FRI,
a risk-based metric that classifies a mobile number to have been associated
with Medium, High, or Very High risk of financial fraud.
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This
classification is the result of the
inputs obtained from various stakeholders including reporting on Indian
Cybercrime Coordination Cengtre (I4C’s), National Cybercrime Reporting Portal
(NCRP), DoT’s Chakshu platform, and Intelligence shared by banks and financial
institutions.
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It
empowers stakeholders, especially banks,
Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Unified Payment Interface (UPI)
service providers, to prioritize
enforcement and take additional measures when a mobile number has high risk.
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The Digital Intelligence Unit (DIU), DoT,
regularly shares the list of mobile
numbers that were disconnected (Mobile Number Revocation List, MNRL) with
stakeholders along with the reasons for disconnections such as cyber-crime,
failed re-verification, exceeding prescribed limits.
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As soon as a suspected mobile number is flagged by a stakeholder, it
undergoes multi-dimensional analysis and is classified according to the risk.
10.
NATIONAL DENGUE DAY 2025 – MAY 16
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National Dengue Day is
observed every year on May 16 across India to
raise awareness about dengue fever, a mosquito-borne
viral disease, and to promote its prevention and control measures.
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The
2025 theme for National Dengue Day is “Act Early,
Prevent Dengue: Clean Surroundings, Healthy Living.”
11.
WORLD HYPERTENSION DAY 2025 – MAY 17
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The World Health Organisation (WHO)
annually observes World Hypertension Day (WHD) on 17 May to
raise awareness about hypertension (high Blood Pressure, BP), a leading cause of preventable deaths
globally.
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The
theme for WHD 2025 is “Measure Your Blood Pressure
Accurately, Control It, Live Longer”.
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WHO Director General (DG) –
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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Headquarters – Geneva, Switzerland.
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Established – 1948.
12.
INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM DAY 2025 – MAY 18
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The
theme for IMD 2025 is “The Future of Museums
in Rapidly Changing Communities.”
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IMD
was officially established in 1977 through a resolution adopted
during the ICOM General Assembly in Moscow, Russia.
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International Council of Museums (ICOM) Headquarters –
Paris, France.
13.
GOI DECLARES SEPTEMBER 23 AS AYURVEDA DAY
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Government
of India (GoI) has designated September
23 as the date for celebrating Ayurveda Day every
year.
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September 23, coincides with the autumnal
equinox, a day when night and day are equal.
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AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy,
Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy) .
14. WORLD BEE DAY 2025 – MAY 20
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The 2025 World Bee Day theme, “Bee inspired by nature to nourish us all”,
underscores the indispensable role of bees and other pollinators in sustaining
agrifood systems and ecosystem health.
15. WORLD METROLOGY DAY 2025 – MAY 20
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To raise awareness about the importance of
metrology, the science of measurement,
and its impact on daily life, science, trade, innovation, and environmental
sustainability.
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The
theme of WMD 2025 is “Measurements for all times,
for all people.
16. NATIONAL ANTI-TERRORISM DAY 2025 –
MAY 21
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National Anti-Terrorism Day is
annually observed across India on 21 May to mark
the death anniversary of former Prime Minister
(PM) Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1991 by a suicide bomber associated with the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
in Sriperumbudur, a village near Chennai.
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GTI
2025
was released by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney
(Australia)-based think tank.
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India has been placed at
the 14th rank with a score of 6.41,
indicating a moderate but persistent impact of terrorism.
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Burkina Faso (a country in West
Africa) has been ranked 1st with a score of 8.581, emerging as the most
impacted country by terrorism in 2025.
