✅ Important Appointment

1. Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) – Girish Chandra Murmu (14th)

2. Controller General of Accounts (CGA) of India – Shri S.S. Dubey (24th)

3. Attorney General of India- R Veketaramani

4. Solicitor General of India – Tushar Mehta

5. Chief of Defense (CDS) – Anil Chauhan

6. ISRO Chairman- S Somnath (10th)

7. Navy President Admiral R. • Hari Kumar (25th)

8. Air Force Chief – Vivek Ram Chaudhary (27th)

9. Chief of Army Staff – Manoj Pandey (21st)

10. Chairman of Reserve Bank of India – Shaktikanta Das (25th)

11. Chief Justice of Supreme Court D.Y. Chandrachud (50th)

12. Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission – N. Of. Lion

13. Chief Election Commissioner of India – Rajiv Kumar (25th)

14. CEO of NITI Aayog – B•V•R Subramaniam

15. National Commission for Women Chairperson – Rekha Sharma

16. 22nd Chairman of the Law Commission – Ritu Raj Awasthi

17. Vice President of NITI Aayog – Dr. Suman K Berry

18. Lok Sabha Speaker – Om Birla (17th)

19. CEO/Women Chairperson of Railway Board – Jai Verma Sinha

20. FTII Indian Film and Television Institute – R Madhavan

21. 25th Director General of Indian Coast Guard – Rakesh Pal

✅Newly Appointed Prime Minister & President

-PM of Palestinian – Mohammad Mustafa
-President of Pakistan – Asif Ali Zardari (14th)
-Prime Minister of Pakistan – Shehbaz Sharif (2nd term)
-President of Finland – Alexander Stubb
-Prime Minister of Kazakhstan – Olzhas Bektenov


✅Telangana

-Established – 2 June 2014
-Capital – Hyderabad
-Chief Minister – Revanth Reddy (replace K. Chandrashekar Rao)
-Deputy CM – Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka
-Governor – P. Radhakrishnan (replace Tamilisai Soundararajan)
-Speaker of Telangana Assembly – Gaddam Prasad Kumar
-Legislative Assembly Seats – 119



✅NEW NAME CHANGE
- Rajpath - Kartavya Path
-Turkey - Turkiye
- Kerala - Keralam
-Ayodhya Railway Station - Ayodhya Dham Junction
- Old Parliament - Samvidhan Bhavas
- Harris Park - little India
-Go Air - Go First
-Afghanistan - Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

🟢Khelo India University Games 2023
▪️ Edition - 4th
▪️ Host - Guwahati, Northeast India
▪️ Moscot - Asthlaxmi
▪️ Winner - Chandigarh

🔶 Khelo India Para Games 2023 (1st)
▪️Host - Delhi
▪️Moscot - Ujjawala
▪️ Winner - Haryana

🔷 Khelo India Youth Games 2024 (6th)
▪️ Host - Tamilnadu
▪️ Moscot - Veer Manghai
▪️ Winner - Maharashtra

🔶 Khelo India Beach Games (1st)
▪️Host- Diu | Winner - Haryana

✅NEW GI TAGS MARCH 2024:-

⚡️ In March 2024, India's Geographical Indication (GI) registry expanded with 22 new products from Assam, Uttar Pradesh, Tripura, and Meghalaya.

🏷️ Assam - 12 Products:
1. Asharikandi terracotta craft
2. Pani Meteka craft
3. Sarthebari metal craft
4. Jaapi (bamboo headgear)
5. Mishing handloom products
6. Bihu dhol
7. Bodo Dokhona (traditional attire of Bodo women)
8. Bodo Gamsa (traditional dress of Bodo men)
9. Bodo Eri silk
10. Bodo Jwmgra (a traditional scarf)
11. Bodo Thorkha (a musical instrument)
12. Bodo Sifung (a long flute)

🏷️ Uttar Pradesh - 5 Products:
1. Banaras Thandai, a milk-based drink
2. Banaras Tabla
3. Banaras Shehnai
4. Banaras Lal Bharwamirch
5. Banaras Lal Peda

🏷️ Tripura - 2 Products:
1. Pachra-Rignai (traditional dress)
2. Matabari Peda (sweet preparation)

🏷️ Meghalaya - 3 Products:
1. Meghalaya Garo Textile weaving
2. Meghalaya Lyrnai Pottery
3. Meghalaya Chubitchi (alcoholic beverage)

✅CIVILIAN AWARDS IN INDIA IN ORDER

▪️Introduced/ 🔹Established / 🔸Field

▪️Bharat Ratna
🔸Arts, literature, science, and public services
🔹1954

▪️Padma Vibhushan
🔸Exceptional And Distinguished Service
🔹1954

▪️Padma Bhushan
🔸Distinguished Service Of a Higher Order
🔹1954

▪️Padma Shri
🔸Distinguished Service
🔹1954

✅GST COLLECTION OF PREVIOUS MONTHS IN 2024 :-

#UPDATED_30th_April


♦️JANUARY : 1,74,106CR.

♦️FEBRUARY : 1,68,337CR.

♦️MARCH. : 1,78,484CR.

♦️APRIL. : 2,10,267CR.

✅Don't Confused

🟢Khelo India University Games 2023
▪️ Edition - 4th
▪️ Host - Guwahati, Northeast India
▪️ Moscot - Asthlaxmi
▪️ Winner - Chandigarh

🔶 Khelo India Para Games 2023 (1st)
▪️Host - Delhi
▪️Moscot - Ujjawala
▪️ Winner - Haryana

🔷 Khelo India Youth Games 2024 (6th)
▪️ Host - Tamilnadu
▪️ Moscot - Veer Manghai
▪️ Winner - Maharashtra

🔶 Khelo India Beach Games (1st)
▪️Host- Diu | Winner - Haryana

✅AWARDS AND HONOURS IN NEWS 2023- 24 :-

➢ Renowned economist Utsa Patnaik receives the 2023 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award, an honor granted annually by the Malcolm & Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust.
➢ Nishant, a young poet and critic, is awarded the 29th Devi Shankar Awasthi Award in 2023 for his book ‘Kavita Pathak Aalochna’.
➢ Narendra Modi receives Bhutan's Order of the Druk Gyalpo Award.
➢ Amitav Ghosh has been awarded the ‘Erasmus Prize’ 2024 for highlighting the climate change crisis
➢ Bharti Enterprises founder and chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has become the first Indian to be awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain's King Charles III
➢ Shashi Tharoor, a prolific author and a diplomat-turned-politician, was conferred France’s highest civilian honour ‘Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur’.
➢ PV Narasimha Rao, Chaudhary Charan Singh, and MS Swaminathan are set to receive India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
➢ Karpoori Thakur, a renowned socialist leader and former Chief Minister of Bihar, is set to be posthumously conferred with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.
➢ Another recipient of the Bharat Ratna Award for the year 2024 is Lal Krishna Advani.
➢ Dr. Bina Modi, the esteemed Chairperson of Modi Enterprises, has been honored with the prestigious ‘Outstanding Business Woman of the Year’ Award.
➢ REC Secures Best Green Bond – Corporate Award At The Asset Triple A Awards 2024.
➢ PT Usha Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by SJFI and DSJA
➢ Priest Ishwari Prasad Namboodiri Honored with the Shankar Smriti Award
➢ The 69th edition of the Filmfare Awards 2024 took place in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
➢ Best Film 12th Fail
➢ Best Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra (12th Fail)
➢ Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) Ranbir Kapoor (Animal)
➢ Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) Alia Bhatt (Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani)
➢ Australia skipper Pat Cummins was announced as the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for the ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year 2023.
➢ Veteran Indian batter Virat Kohli was crowned the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2023.
➢ Skyways Air Services wins Best Cargo Services Award at Wings India Awards.
➢ REC Limited Wins ICAI Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting FY 2022-23.
➢ US Air Force Officer Madison Marsh Becomes First Active-Duty Winner Of Miss America 2024
➢ Savita Kanswal Posthumously Honored With Tenzing Norgay Award
➢ Singapore’s Changi Airport Earns The Title Of World’s Best Airport For 2023
➢ Hero MotoCorp’s facility wins CII National Award for water management
➢ Prof B R Kamboj Honoured With M S Swaminathan Award.
➢ Poet Sukrita Paul Kumar Wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for ‘Salt & Pepper’
➢ Bengaluru's Kempegowda International Airport Terminal 2 Recognized Among UNESCO’s ‘Most Beautiful Airports’
➢ IREDA’s Pradip Kumar Das Wins ‘CMD Of The Year’ For The Second Straight Year.
➢ Poonam Khetrapal Singh Honored with Bhutan’s National Order of Merit.
➢ Indira Gandhi Peace Prize Awarded to Daniel Barenboim and Ali Abu Awwad”
➢ Noted Hindi Writer Pushpa Bharati to Receive 33rd Vyas Samman for her 2016 memoir, "Yaadein, Yaadein aur Yaadein."
➢ Federal Bank Titled “Bank of the Year 2023” in India : The Banker
➢ Argentina’s football icon, Lionel Messi, has been named Time magazine’s Athlete of the Year for 2023
➢ Abdullahi Mire, a Somali refugee, has been named the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award
➢ Paul Lynch who is an Irish author won the 2023 Booker prize for his fifth novel ‘Prophet Song’
➢ Tamil writer Perumal Murugan’s ‘Fire Bird’ Wins 2023 JCB Prize for Literature.

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