✨Today's Vocab Word✨

💕Undergo

☑️to experience something that is unpleasant or something that involves a change

📌 I had to undergo a medical examination when I started my pension scheme.
📌 The website underwent a complete remodeling.

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Padma Vibhushan 2023

• Art - Shri Zakir Hussain (Maharashtra)
• Public Affairs - Shri S M Krishna (Karnataka)
• Public Affairs - Shri Mulayam Singh Yadav (Posthumous) (UP)
• Medicine - Shri Dilip Mahalanabis (Posthumous)  West Bengal
• Science & Engineering - Shri Srinivas Varadhan (USA)
• Architecture - Shri Balkrishna Doshi  (Posthumous) (Gujarat)


Padma Vibhushan 2024

• ART - Ms. Vyjayantimala Bali (Tamil Nadu)
• ART - Shri Konidela Chiranjeevi (Andhra Pradesh)
• ART - Ms. Padma Subrahmanyam (Tamil Nadu)
• Social Work - Shri Bindeshwar Pathak (Posthumous) Andhra Pradesh  (Bihar)
• Public Affairs - Shri M Venkaiah Naidu (Andhra Pradesh)


Bharat Ratna 2024
• Karpoori Thakur Ji
• Shri Lal Krishna Advani
• Chaudhary Charan Singh
• PV Narasimha Rao
• Scientist MS Swaminathan

Today's Vocab Word

Word - HOSTILE (adj.)

Meaning - unfriendly

Sentence - We were happy to move away from our hostile neighbor.

Today's Idiom

Idiom - "Make a mountain out of a molehill"

Meaning - To overexpress and magnify a small issue or problem

Sentence - The media is quite habitual of making a mountain out of a molehill.

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India’s Rank In Various Reports/Indexes

2023

• Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 - Denmark (1st) & India (85th)
• Global Hunger Index 2023 - India (111th)
• World Happiness Report 2023 - Finland (1st) & India (126th)
• IEP's Global Peace Index 2023 - Iceland (1st) & India (126th)
• Global Gender Gap Index 2023 - Iceland (1st) & India (127th)
• Human Development Report 2021/2022 - Switzerland (1st) & India (132nd)
• World Press Freedom Index 2023 - Norway (1st) & India (161st)

2024

• Global Intellectual Property Index 2024 - US (1st) & India (42nd)
• Corruption Perceptions Index 2023 - Denmark (1st) & India (93rd)
• Gender Inequality Index 2023/2024 - India (108th)
• 18th IEP's Global Peace Index 2024 - Iceland (1st) & India (116th)
• UN World Happiness Index 2024 - Finland (1st) & India (126th)
• WEF's Global Gender Gap Index 2024 - Iceland (1st) & India (129th)
• Human Development Index 2023/2024 - Switzerland (1st) & India (134th)
• World Press Freedom Index 2024 - Norway (1st) &  India (159th)

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Important Summits

• 15th BRICS Summit - South Africa
Theme - “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism”.  

• 16th BRICS Summit - Kazan (Russia) 
Theme :- "Strengthening of multilateralism for the purposes of just global development and security”     

• 18th G20 Summit 2023 - New Delhi 
Theme of India’s G20 Presidency - “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam” or “One Earth , One Family , One Future”  

• G20 Summit 2024 – Brazil 

• 42nd ASEAN Summit - Indonesia 
Theme - "ASEAN Affairs: Epicenter of Growth"  

• 78th UN General Assembly - New York City, USA 
Theme - “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: Accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all".

• 53rd Annual World Economic Forum Summit 2023 - Davos, Switzerland 
Theme - "Cooperation in a fragmented world"  

• 54th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum(WEF), also known as “Davos Summit 2024” - Swiss Alpine School, Davos in Switzerland
Theme - “Rebuilding Trust".

• 9th India International Science Festival (IISF) 2023 - Faridabad 
Theme :- "Science and Technology Public Outreach in Amrit Kaal"

• 3rd World Hindu Congress 2023 - Thailand 
Theme :- Jayasya Aayatnam Dharmah, which translates to "Dharma, the Abode of Victory 

• 26th World Energy Congress - Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Theme - "Redesigning energy for people and planet".

• 1st Nuclear Energy Summit 2024 - Belgium