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1.)  Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat has been named India's first Chief of Defence Staff. 2.)  Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, JMM leader Hemant Soren has taken oath as the 11th Chief Minister of Jharkhand. 3.)  Prime Minister Narendra Modi named Rohtang passageway in Himachal Pradesh as Atal Tunnel to mark the 95th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 4.)  Portugal Prime Minister Antonio Costa has announced the Gandhi Citizenship Education Award each year inspired by his different thoughts and quotes. 5.)  Australian Pacer Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas buy as he was sold to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for a 15.50 crore rupees. 6.)  Sahitya Akademi announced its annual Award- 2019 in 23 languages. In Hindi, Nand Kishore has been awarded for his Poetry ‘Chilte Hue Apne Ko’ and in English Dr. Shashi Tharoor has been awarded for his Non-Fiction ‘An Era of Darkness’. 7.)  Climate change activist Greta Thunb...

1.) 2nd December was observed as National Pollution Control Day. 2.)  The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB, which seeks to make it easier for non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to become citizens of India. 3.) 14th December 2019 was observed in India as  National Energy Conservation Day. 4.)  The nation celebrates Vijay Diwas on 16th December to commemorate India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war. 5.)  National Mathematics Day was celebrated on 22nd December to commemorate the birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan. 6.) Virat Kohli has secured the first position in the Forbes India Celebrity 100 List. 7.)  National Tribal Dance Festival was celebrated in Raipur, the capital of Chhattisgarh this year. 8.) NASA Astronaut Christina Koch creates a record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, surpassing the earlier record of 288 days in space. 9.) Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan conferred with Dada...

1.) Pacer Abhimanyu Mithun creates records after he takes five wickets including a hat-trick in one over for Karnataka in the semifinals of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy against Haryana. Mithun became the first bowler to have a hat-trick in all three formats in Indian domestic cricket. 2.)  Indian archers Deepika Kumari and Ankita Bhakat won the gold and silver medals in the women's individual recurve event of the 21st Asian Championships in Bangkok. 3.)  ISRO(Indian Space Research Organisation) has successfully launched India’s latest earth observation satellite Cartosat-3. 4.) Lieutenant Shivangi becomes first woman pilot of Indian Navy will join Naval operations. 5.)This year 550th birth anniversary of the first Sikh guru and founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev was celebrated as Prakash Parv. 6.)  Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award. 7.)  26th November observed as National Milk Day in India to commemorate the birthday of ...

1.) This year 550th birth anniversary of the first Sikh guru and founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev was celebrated as Prakash Parv. 2.)  Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham has been chosen for the 55th Jnanpith Award. 3.)  26th November observed as National Milk Day in India to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Verghese Kurien, the father of India’s White Revolution. 4.)  Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray took oath as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. 5.) Virat Kohli became the fastest to reach 5000 runs in Test cricket as captain.

1.) National Unity day, also known as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was celebrated in India on 31st October in the honours of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 2.)  Radha Krishna Mathur was formally sworn in as first-ever Lieutenant Governor of newly carved Union Territory of Ladakh. 3.) Indian Administrative Service officers Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Jammu-Kashmir and R K Mathur as Lt. Governor of Ladakh. Mr P.S. Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed the new Governor of Mizoram. The incumbent Governor of the Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik has been moved to Goa. 4.) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde appointed as the 47th Chief Justice of India. 5.) Former Indian Cricket captain Sourav Ganguly elected the new President of Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI.  6.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the most-followed world leader on Instagram with over 30 million followers.  7.) India women T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the most ca...

1.)  India women T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the most capped Indian in the shortest format of the game with 100th T20I match. 2.)  This year we celebrated Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary on 2nd October. 3.) This year we celebrated  Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's 115th birth anniversary on 2nd October also. 4.)  Businessman Mukesh Ambani continues to be the richest person in India according to business magazine Forbes. 5.)  MC Mary Kom settled for a bronze medal in the World Women's Boxing Championships after losing to Turkey's Busenaz Cakiroglu in the semifinal bout at Ulan Ude in Russia. 6.)  The BJP's Manoharlal Khattar took oath as the Chief Minister of Haryana for a second term. 7.)  Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the highest bridge in India named after the “Lion of Ladakh” Col Chewang Rinchen. It stands at 14,650 feet across the Shyok river.

1. Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshyari has been appointed as the new Governor of Maharashtra while former Union Minister Arif Mohammed Khan will take the responsibility of Kerala governor. Former Union Minister and BJP leader, Bandaru Dattatraya will be the new Governor of Himachal Pradesh in place of Kalraj Mishra who has been given the charge of Governor of Rajasthan. Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief, Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan is the new Governor of Telangana. 2. Jasprit Bumrah became third Indian after Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan to claim a hat-trick in Test cricket. Bumrah takes the hat-trick wickets in the second test against West Indies. 3. Indian Air Force has been formally inducted the AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopter into its inventory at Air Force Station Pathankot. 4. The HRD Ministry awarded the Institution of Eminence (IoE) status to the Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University, University of Hyderabad, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur. 5. Vice Pres...