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Padma Awards 2025: 139 awards including 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri

The Ministry of Home Affairs announced the Padma Awards 2025 on 25 January 2025: 139 awards comprising 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri.

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💹 GDP, Inflation & Economic Data 📍 India Must know

NITI Aayog's first Fiscal Health Index 2025 ranks Odisha top among 18 major states

The inaugural Fiscal Health Index 2025 of NITI Aayog, launched in New Delhi on 24 January 2025, ranked Odisha first among 18 major states with a score of 67.8.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet fixes MSP of raw jute at ₹5,650 per quintal for 2025-26

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 22 January 2025 fixed the MSP of raw jute (TD-3 grade) for the 2025-26 season at ₹5,650 per quintal, ₹315 more than last season.

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🎓 Women & Child 📍 India Must know

Beti Bachao Beti Padhao completes 10 years; Mission Vatsalya and Mission Shakti portals launched

The 10th anniversary of the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme was celebrated at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 22 January 2025, where the Mission Vatsalya Portal and the Mission Shakti Portal and app were launched.

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💹 Economy 📍 India Must know

MeitY report puts India's digital economy at 11.74% of national income in 2022-23

A MeitY report, 'Estimation and Measurement of India's Digital Economy', released on 22 January 2025, estimated India's digital economy at 11.74% of national income in 2022-23, or ₹31.64 lakh crore.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 India Must know

Department of Commerce introduces Diamond Imprest Authorization Scheme

The Department of Commerce introduced the Diamond Imprest Authorization (DIA) Scheme on 21 January 2025, allowing duty-free import of natural cut and polished diamonds below ¼ carat, effective 1 April 2025.

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🌐 International Relations 📍 United States Must know

Donald Trump sworn in as the 47th President of the United States

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on 20 January 2025 in the Great Rotunda, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administering the oath.

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🌐 International Relations 📍 Palestine Must know

Gaza ceasefire takes effect; first hostages and detainees released and aid surges in

A ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian armed groups took effect in Gaza at 11:15 on 19 January 2025, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States, with a first phase of 42 days.

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📋 Central Schemes 📍 India Must know

PM Modi distributes over 65 lakh SVAMITVA property cards; total reaches 2.25 crore

Prime Minister Narendra Modi distributed over 65 lakh property cards under the SVAMITVA scheme on 18 January 2025 via video conference, covering more than 50,000 villages in 10 states and 2 Union Territories.

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🔬 IT, AI & Digital 📍 India Must know

Scindia launches Sanchar Saathi mobile app and National Broadband Mission 2.0

Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia launched the Sanchar Saathi mobile app and National Broadband Mission (NBM) 2.0 on 17 January 2025, and inaugurated Intra Circle Roaming at DBN-funded 4G sites.

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🔬 Space 📍 India Must know

ISRO completes SpaDeX docking; India becomes fourth country to dock spacecraft in orbit

ISRO docked the two SpaDeX satellites, SDX01 and SDX02, in the early hours of 16 January 2025, making India the fourth country after the USA, Russia and China to achieve space docking.

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💹 Trade & Industry 📍 India Must know

India's April–December 2024 exports estimated at $602.64 billion

Merchandise plus services exports grew 6.03% over April–December 2023.

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🔬 Science & Technology 📍 India Must know

PM launches 'Mission Mausam' to make India weather-ready and climate-smart

Mission focuses on next-generation radars and satellites, high-resolution observations and high-performance computing.

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🌐 Bilateral Relations 📍 Afghanistan Must know

Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri meets Afghanistan's Acting Foreign Minister Muttaqi in Dubai

India will consider development projects in Afghanistan and give more material support for health and refugee rehabilitation.

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💹 GDP, Inflation & Economic Data 📍 India Must know

NSO's First Advance Estimates put 2024-25 real GDP growth at 6.4%

Growth is down from 8.2% in 2023-24; nominal GDP is estimated to grow 9.7%.

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👤 Appointments & Resignations 📍 India Must know

V. Narayanan appointed Secretary, Department of Space and ISRO Chairman

The ACC appointed the LPSC Director for two years from 14 January 2025, succeeding S. Somanath.

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🔬 IT, AI & Digital 📍 India Must know

MeitY releases draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 for consultation

The draft rules to operationalise the DPDP Act, 2023 are open for comments on MyGov until 18 February 2025.

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🚄 Railways, Roads & Aviation 📍 India Must know

LEADS 2024 report released; Sustainable Logistics added as a fourth pillar

Piyush Goyal released the sixth edition of the Logistics Ease Across Different States report and felicitated LEAPS 2024 winners.

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🏆 Sports Awards 📍 India Must know

National Sports Awards 2024: Khel Ratna for Gukesh D, Harmanpreet Singh, Praveen Kumar and Manu Bhaker

The Sports Ministry also named 32 Arjuna Award winners; the President will present the awards on 17 January 2025.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet continues PMFBY and RWBCIS till 2025-26; creates ₹824.77 crore technology fund

The overall outlay is ₹69,515.71 crore for 2021-22 to 2025-26.

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🎓 Education 📍 India Must know

One Nation One Subscription Phase I begins, giving access to over 13,000 journals

About 1.8 crore students, faculty and researchers in over 6,300 government institutions get access to journals of 30 publishers.

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🌾 Agriculture & Rural 📍 India Must know

Cabinet extends one-time special package on DAP at ₹3,500 per tonne beyond NBS subsidy

The extension from 1 January 2025 till further orders will cost up to about ₹3,850 crore.

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🌿 Environment & Ecology 📍 India Must know

Ground water assessment 2024: stage of extraction at 60.47%, 73.4% of units safe

Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Patil released the Dynamic Ground Water Resource Assessment Report 2024 on 31 December 2024.

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💹 Banking & RBI 📍 India Must know

NPCI lifts WhatsApp Pay's UPI user limit and extends the 30% UPI volume-cap deadline to 31 December 2026

Both decisions were announced by the National Payments Corporation of India on 31 December 2024.

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🔬 Space 📍 India Must know

PSLV-C60 launches SpaDeX; POEM-4 flies 24 experimental payloads

ISRO's PSLV-C60 lifted off from Sriharikota at 10 p.m. on 30 December 2024 with the two SpaDeX satellites and 24 POEM-4 payloads.

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💹 Banking & RBI 📍 India Must know

RBI Financial Stability Report, December 2024: banks' GNPA ratio at 12-year low of 2.6%

The Reserve Bank of India released the December 2024 issue of its Financial Stability Report on 30 December 2024.

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🌿 Climate Change 📍 India Must know

India submits fourth Biennial Update Report to UNFCCC: 2020 emissions down 7.93% from 2019

India's BUR-4, submitted to the UNFCCC on 30 December 2024, contains the national GHG inventory for 2020.

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💹 GDP, Inflation & Economic Data 📍 India Must know

HCES 2023-24 factsheet: urban MPCE ₹6,996, rural ₹4,122; Sikkim highest, Meghalaya has widest rural-urban gap

MoSPI released the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24 factsheet on 27 December 2024, putting average urban MPCE at ₹6,996 and rural MPCE at ₹4,122.

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🕯️ Obituaries 📍 India Must know

Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh dies at AIIMS, New Delhi

Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014 and Finance Minister from 1991 to 1996, died at AIIMS, New Delhi, on 26 December 2024.

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👤 Appointments & Resignations 📍 India Must know

President accepts Raghubar Das's resignation; Ajay Kumar Bhalla named Manipur Governor, Gen V.K. Singh Mizoram Governor

The President of India accepted the resignation of Odisha Governor Raghubar Das and reshuffled or appointed Governors of five States on 24 December 2024.

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