Current Affairs- January 2025

The most important current affairs of January 2025 for SSC, Railways and other competitive exams.

National News :

1. Chhattisgarh Becomes First Indian State to Take Green GDP Initiative
2. India Revised Base Year for Calculation of GDP from 2011-12 to 2022-23
3. Jammu Becomes 69th Division Under the Northern Railway Zone
4. Odisha Govt. Announces Rs 20,000/- Pension for People Who Went to Jail During Emergency Period 1975-77.
5. India’s First Organic Fisheries Cluster Launched in Sikkim

Appointments and Recognitions :

1. Faiz Ahmed Kidwai Appointed as Director General (DG) of Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
2. Delhi Waqf Board CEO- Azimul Haque
3. Dr. V Narayanan is Now ISRO’s Chief and Space Secretary.
4. MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank- Ashok Chandra 10. MD and CEO of Indian Bank- Binod Kumar.
5. President of Athletics Federation of India- Bahadur Singh Sagoo and Anju Bobby George is the Chairperson.
6. New Ombudsman of BCCI- Justice Arun Mishra.
7. DG of CRPF- Gyanendra Pratap Singh.
8. Secretary of Indian Ocean Rim Association- Sanjiv Ranjan
9. CEO of Angel One- Ambarish Kenghe.
10. India’s Ambassador to Israel – Jitender Pal Singh.

International News :

1.  President of Lebanon- Joseph Aoun.
2.  Nicolas Maduro Sworn in as the President of Venezuela.
3.  Donald Trump Becomes 47th President of the United States.
4.  Michael Martin Re-elected as the Prime Minister of Ireland.
5.  Gulf of Mexico is Now Officially Named as Gulf of America by US Administration.
6.  Recently Thailand Was in News for Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage.
7. Yala glacier in Nepal is predicted to vanish by the 2040s.

Sports News :

1. West Bengal Wins 33rd Santosh Trophy Title (Football) Defeated Kerala
2. India will host the Para Athletics World Championships in New Delhi.
3. India Will Host FIDE Chess World Cup 2025. 25. India’s Leading Wicket Taker in T20 Format- Arshdeep Singh.
4. First Women’s Hockey India league won by Odisha Warriers.
5. 38th National Games inaugurated in- Dehradun (Uttarkhand) with a theme of  ‘Green Games“
6. ICC women’s Championship Trophy won by Australia.
7. ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year – Azmatullah Omarzai of Afghanistan (Men) and Smriti Mandhana (Women).
8.  ICC Men Test Cricketer of the Year – Jasprit Bumrah.
9. Australian Open 2025 Women’s Championship Won by Madison Keys (American Tennis Player).
10. ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year – Amelia Kerr (NZ)
11. Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Amelia Kerr (NZ)
12. Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year – Jasprit Bumrah

Books and Literature :

1. Book- “The World After Gaza” by Pankaj Mishra.
2. Biography, Soumitra Chatterjee and His World (Vintage), by Sanghamitra Chakraborty.

Science and Technology :

1. Indian Meteorological Department Completed its 150 Years, Estd. in 1875, PM Modi Launched VISION 2047.
2.  India’s Micro-Missile System for Destroying Drone Attack- ‘Bhargavastra’
3. Reliance to Build the World’s Largest Data Centre in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
4. Recently Launched Battle Surveillance System of Indian Army- ‘SANJAY’
5. Ministry of Science and Technology Inaugurated the First Astronomical Observatory in Eastern India on Panchet Hill of Purulia District of West Bengal, It is the Sixth One in India.
6. India’s First Astronaut to Pilot Axiom-4  mission to International Space Station- Shubhanshu Shukla

Festivals and Cultural Events :

1. Hatti Tribes of Trans-Giri Region of Himachal Pradesh Celebrated Boda Tyohar.
2. Gaan-Ngai 2025 Festival- Post Harvest Festival of Manipur.
3. Kanuma Paduga is a South Indian Festival Dedicated to Cattle, Observed After Makar Sankranti in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu.
4. Flamingo Festival 2025- Andhra Pradesh, Pulicat Lake.
5. The Phangsau Pass International Festival 2025- Arunachal Pradesh.
6. International Saraswati Mahotsav to be held in Haryana.

Infrastructure and Development :

1. The Z-Morh Tunnel Inaugurated by PM Modi Joining Kashmir & Ladakh Built Under Thajiwas Glacier.
2. Archaeological Experimental Museum Launched in Gujarat’s Vadnagar.
3. INROAD Project Launched – Indian Natural Rubber Operations for Assisted Development.
4. All India Radio Launched FM Channel for Maha Kumbh Named ‘Kumbhavani’.

Awards and Honors :

1. T.V. Gopalakrishnan (Mridangist) Gets RK Srikantan Trust Award.
2. Subhash Chandra Bose Apada Prabandhan Puruskar 2025 Awarded to the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS).
3. Aparna Sen Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award by West Bengal Film Journalist Association (WBFJA).
4. India Ranked 4th in Global Firepower Index 2025.
5. Brand Ambassador for FICCI Frames 25th Anniversary Edition.- Ayushmann Khurrana.
6. Indore and Udaipur Become First Two Accredited Wetland Cities of India to Join the Global List of Ramsar Convention.
7. India Ranks 85 in Henley Passport Index.
8. India-Spain Declare the Year 2026 as ‘Dual Year’ Focusing on Culture, Tourism, and Artificial Intelligence.
9. More current Affairs will be updated soon.

Obituaries:

1. Latika Katt- Sculptor
2. Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram- A nuclear scientist
3. David Lynch – Film maker
4. Denis Law – Footballer (Scotland)
5. Greg Bell – Olympic long jump champion.

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