06th-07th December, 2022

1. Supreme Court has floated the idea of launching a “Project GIB (Great Indian Bustard)” for protecting this endangered bird.
2. IIT-Madras and the Deakin University in Australia have launched Australia-India Centre for Energy (AICE) to achieve the 2030 SDGs.
3. NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission has launched a Community Innovator Fellowship programme to help aspiring community innovators establish the knowledge and infrastructure needed for their entrepreneurial journey.
4. IIT-Madras has developed and deployed Sindhuja-I, a system that could generate electricity using energy from seawaves, about six kilometres from the coast of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
5. Central government has approved the Print and Digital Media Association (PADMA) as a self-regulatory body for publishers of news and current affairs across the country.
6. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has launched a nationwide campaign for promotion of Digital Life Certificate for Central Government pensioners.
7. Ministry of Minority Affairs has announced that pre-matric scholarship to students of minority communities studying in classes 1 to 8 is being discontinued, and only those in Classes 9 and 10 will now be eligible for this scholarship from 2022-2023 onwards.
8. Intellectual Property charges have been increased under the Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) scheme.
9. Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued guidelines for the implementation of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme to support the indigenous drone industry.
10. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), under the Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, will attend the ‘Millets-Smart Nutritive Food’ Conclave in New Delhi.
11. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has launched the “Agriculture Investment Portal” aka Krishi Nivesh Portal to facilitate investment in agriculture.
12. Swar Dharohar music, art, and literature festival was inaugurated by the Culture Ministry under Kalanjali.
13. West Bengal government has launched its ‘Graded Response Action Plan’ (GRAP) to tackle the problem of air pollution in Kolkata and other non-attainment cities like Howrah, Barrackpore, Durgapur, Haldia and Asansol.
14. President of India Droupadi Murmu launched “Open Loop Ticketing System” for the Haryana State Transport Corporation on the occasion of Gita Mahotsav 2022 in Kurukshetra.
15. Tamil Nadu Police Department has issued ‘Soulbound Tokens’ – Non-Fungible Tokens on Blockchain platform – as rewards to its outstanding team members.
16. Adani Group has bagged 259-hectare Dharavi Redevelopment Project with a ₹5,069 crores bid.
17. Assam is celebrated the first-ever Silchar-Sylhet Festival to cherish the linguistic and cultural ties between the Barak Valley region of Assam and the Sylhet segment of Bangladesh.
18. The 3rd edition of Odisha’s flagship investment summit named “Make in Odisha Conclave 2022”.
19. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has become the first state in India to set up a separate Divyang department for the welfare of differently-abled people with a fund allocation of Rs 1,143 crore.
20. Indian Coast Guard has commissioned Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mk-III squadron, 840 Sqn (CG), was commissioned by DG Shri VS Pathania at ICG Air Station, Chennai.
21. India and Germany have signed an agreement on comprehensive migration and mobility.
22. India will assume the chairmanship of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a multilateral technology control agreement, on 1 January 2023, for a period of one year.
23. Saudi Arabia has extended its term for a USD 3 billion deposit to support the Pakistan’s cash-strapped economy.
24. 1st Sherpa Meeting of India’s G20 Presidency was held in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
25. World Bank has approved USD 250 million financing to help Bangladesh strengthen environment management and promote private sector participation in green investment.
26. Isaac Herzog has become the first Israeli President to visit Bahrain.
27. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its first State of Global Water Resources report to assess the impact of climate change on the world’s water resources.
28. World Health Organization has released the first-ever “Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities”.
29. International Labour Organization has released the “Global Wage Report 2022-23”.
30. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has released the “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions” report.
31. The Economist Intelligence Unit has released the Worldwide Cost of Living 2022
32. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released the “The Future of Food and Agriculture — Drivers and triggers for transformation”.
33. 2022 New Energy Outlook report has been released by BloombergNEF to keep the temperature increase to 77 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2050.
34. RBI has launched the pilot project for operationalising the Central Bank Digital Currency (e₹-R) in retail mode, after its successful implementation at the wholesale level.
35. San Francisco-based OpenAI has launched ChatGPT chatbot for free public testing. A chatbot is a software application designed to mimic human-like conversations based on user prompts.
36. Bharti Airtel and Meta Platforms Inc. have announced to jointly invest in extending the Facebook parent’s subsea cable infrastructure to India.
37. Central Government is planning to allow businesses to use their Permanent Account Number (PAN) as a unique identifier for accessing the National Single Window System (NSWS) to receive different clearances and approvals from central and state governments.
38. Edelweiss Mutual Fund has announced the launch of the fourth tranche of BHARAT Bond ETF – India’s first corporate bond ETF (exchange-traded fund).
39. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently extended the deadline by two years for existing third-party apps to comply with its market share guidelines for the UPI network.
40. State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender, has raised ₹10,000 crore through its maiden infrastructure bond issuance at coupon rate of 7.51%.
41. Economic Advisory Council member Sanjeev Sanyal has mentioned that India is capable of sustaining an economic growth of 9% for many years.
42. RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹5 lakh on The Bharat Co-operative Bank Limited, Bengaluru, Karnataka for non-adherence / violation of directions issued under Exposure Norms and Statutory / Other Restrictions – UCBs.
43. Life Insurance Corporation has also started its services on WhatsApp and the registered policyholders can avail the services for better communication with the insurance company.
44. Goldsikka ATM – India’s first Gold ATM and World’s first real-time gold ATM – has been launched in Begumpet, Hyderabad.
45. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar has been appointed as the chairperson of the National Statistical Commission.
46. December 4 – Indian Navy Day
47. December 4 – International Cheetah Day
48. December 5 – Parakram Diwas (51st anniversary of India’s victory in the Longewala battle during the 1971 war)
49. December 6 – Mahaparinirvan Diwas (67th death anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar)
50. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has received the Padma Bhushan – India’s third-highest civilian award – for 2022 in Trade and Industry category.
51. President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, presented the National Awards for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities for the year 2021 and 2022 in New Delhi.
52. Indian boxer Urvashi Singh has won the WBC International Super Bantamweight title as well as the WBC Asia Silver crown in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
53. Saurashtra cricket team has won the 2022-23 Vijay Hazare Trophy by defeating Maharashtra.
54. Indian shuttler Unnati Hooda created history at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2022 by becoming the first Indian to enter the Under-17 singles final.
55. In Shooting, Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won the 10 metre air pistol mixed team title at the 65th National Shooting Championship Competitions at the MP Shooting Academy range in Bhopal.
56. The Trophy Tour of the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 was officially launched in Bhubaneswar.
57. Six Indian para-shuttlers have won gold medals at Peru Para Badminton International in Lima.
58. Semeru Volcano has erupted in Java Island, Indonesia.

National News

1. Supreme Court has floated the idea of launching a “Project GIB (Great Indian Bustard)” for protecting this endangered bird.
   • This large bird, found mainly in Rajasthan and Gujarat, has been categorised as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
   • According to the Wildlife Institute of India (WII), in Rajasthan, 18 GIBs die every year after colliding with overhead power lines.

2. IIT-Madras and the Deakin University in Australia have launched Australia-India Centre for Energy (AICE) to achieve the 2030 SDGs.
   • The Australia-India Centre for Energy (AICE) is a virtual centre that will promote collaboration among universities, research institutes and industry from India and Australia in the energy domain.
   • It will be launched during the 3-day Energy Summit 2022, hosted by IIT Madras in December 2022.

3. NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission has launched a Community Innovator Fellowship programme to help aspiring community innovators establish the knowledge and infrastructure needed for their entrepreneurial journey.
   • It will be a one-year Community Innovator Fellowship Program.
   • Each fellow would work on their concept while staying at an Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) and learning about the SDGs, developing their entrepreneurial abilities, and developing life skills.
   • Eligibility criteria for this program –
     • Candidates should be between the ages of 18 and 35.
     • They must have a bachelor’s, diploma, or degree in any field from an accredited institution.
     • Additionally, applicants must have intermediate English skills and their residence address must be 30 kilometres or less from ACIC.
     • The Atal Community Innovation Centre is incubating 22 Community Innovator fellows

4. IIT-Madras has developed and deployed Sindhuja-I, a system that could generate electricity using energy from seawaves, about six kilometres from the coast of Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
   • Sindhuja-I can currently produce 100 watts of energy. It will be scaled up to produce one megawatt of energy in the next three years.

5. Central government has approved the Print and Digital Media Association (PADMA) as a self-regulatory body for publishers of news and current affairs across the country.
   • The organisation — with 47 digital news publishers on board — will look at grievances related to digital media news content on their platforms.
   • The organisation will be headed by former HC Judge Mool Chand Garg.

6. Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare has launched a nationwide campaign for promotion of Digital Life Certificate for Central Government pensioners.
   • The objective of this nationwide campaign is to promote the use of Face Authentication technology and Digital Life Certificate (DLC) to ensure transparency and ease of usage.
7. Ministry of Minority Affairs has announced that pre-matric scholarship to students of minority communities studying in classes 1 to 8 is being discontinued, and only those in Classes 9 and 10 will now be eligible for this scholarship from 2022-2023 onwards.
   • A notice posted on the National Scholarship Portal stated that this is being done in line with the pre-matric scholarship scheme of the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment and Ministry of Tribal Affairs.
   • The Ministry had allocated Rs 1,425 crore for pre-matric scholarships for 2022-23 to minority students.
8. Intellectual Property charges have been increased under the Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) scheme.
   • In addition to above scheme, IP filling by startups are also encouraged by providing with fee rebates under respective IP legislations.
   • Startups are provided 80% fee rebate in filing patent applications and 50% fee rebate in filling trademark application. In addition, there are also provisions for fast-track examination of patent applications.

9. Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued guidelines for the implementation of the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme to support the indigenous drone industry.
   • For the implementation of this scheme during 2022-23 to 2024-25, a corpus of Rs 120 crore has also been allocated.
10. Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA), under the Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal, will attend the ‘Millets-Smart Nutritive Food’ Conclave in New Delhi.
    • At the first-of-its-kind Millets Conclave, the government will release an e-catalogue on 30 potential importing countries and 21 millet-producing states of India.
    • Also, a knowledge book on millets is prepared in association with ‘Yes Bank’.
    • The Government has created the Nutri Cereals Export Promotion Forum to give promote millets exports and production.
    • 2023 – International Year of Millets

11. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has launched the “Agriculture Investment Portal” aka Krishi Nivesh Portal to facilitate investment in agriculture.
12. Swar Dharohar music, art, and literature festival was inaugurated by the Culture Ministry under Kalanjali.
    • Ministry of Culture organizes “Daakroom”, the letter writing carnival in association with Department of Post.
    • The one-of-a-kind letter writing event, supported by India Post, Ministry of Culture and Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, is aimed to give a digital detox.

State News

1. West Bengal government has launched its ‘Graded Response Action Plan’ (GRAP) to tackle the problem of air pollution in Kolkata and other non-attainment cities like Howrah, Barrackpore, Durgapur, Haldia and Asansol.
   • The GRAP (Graded Response Action Plan) is an emergency response action plan invoked with a view to curb the further deterioration of adverse air quality scenarios. It is also under implementation in Delhi and NCR.

2. President of India Droupadi Murmu launched “Open Loop Ticketing System” for the Haryana State Transport Corporation on the occasion of Gita Mahotsav 2022 in Kurukshetra.
   • Now, Haryana has become the first state to introduce the open-loop ticketing system for roadways buses.
   • Purpose – to help commuters to do away with buying physical tickets for roadways buses
   • AU Small Finance Bank has partnered with the Haryana govt to operationalise this system by providing National Common Mobility Card and other facilities.
3. Tamil Nadu Police Department has issued ‘Soulbound Tokens’ – Non-Fungible Tokens on Blockchain platform – as rewards to its outstanding team members.
   • The Idol Wing of the Tamil Nadu Police Department partnered with GuardianLink (a non-fungible token (NFT) start-up which has offices in Singapore and Chennai) to issue soulbound tokens to its outstanding team members.
   • These virtual assets cannot be taken or given away.
4. Adani Group has bagged 259-hectare Dharavi Redevelopment Project with a ₹5,069 crores bid.
5. Assam is celebrated the first-ever Silchar-Sylhet Festival to cherish the linguistic and cultural ties between the Barak Valley region of Assam and the Sylhet segment of Bangladesh.
   • Southern Assam’s Silchar town is hosting the two-day Silchar-Sylhet Festival that coincides with the 75th year of India’s independence and the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
6. The 3^rd edition of Odisha’s flagship investment summit named “Make in Odisha Conclave 2022”.
   • Altogether 741 proposals worth around Rs 10.5 lakh crore spanning across minerals, metals, renewable and green energy, aerospace and defence sectors were received in the past three days.
7. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has become the first state in India to set up a separate Divyang department for the welfare of differently-abled people with a fund allocation of Rs 1,143 crore.

Defence News

1. Indian Coast Guard has commissioned Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Mk-III squadron, 840 Sqn (CG), was commissioned by DG Shri VS Pathania at ICG Air Station, Chennai.
   • The ALH Mk-III helicopters are indigenously manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

Memorandum of Understanding

1. India and Germany have signed an agreement on comprehensive migration and mobility.

International News

1. India will assume the chairmanship of the Wassenaar Arrangement, a multilateral technology control agreement, on 1 January 2023, for a period of one year.

2. Saudi Arabia has extended its term for a USD 3 billion deposit to support the Pakistan’s cash-strapped economy.

3. 1st Sherpa Meeting of India’s G20 Presidency was held in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
   • The Jal Sanjhi art form is an incredible 300-year-old Rajasthani rare art form where the canvas is the surface of water. Rajesh Vaishnav, a Jal Sanjhi Artist, created a beautiful piece of art for all the guests to view and appreciate.

4. World Bank has approved USD 250 million financing to help Bangladesh strengthen environment management and promote private sector participation in green investment.
   • The country has launched the Bangladesh Environmental Sustainability and Transformation (BEST) Project to tackle key pollution issues.
5. Isaac Herzog has become the first Israeli President to visit Bahrain.

Reports and Indices

1. World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its first State of Global Water Resources report to assess the impact of climate change on the world’s water resources.
   • The volume of water available in the Ganga river and the groundwater in the river-basin have both seen a significant fall between 2002 and 2021.
   • Apart from this, the report has presented general observations about the deterioration of the freshwater resources of the world.

2. World Health Organization has released the first-ever “Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities”.
   • December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities; Theme – “Transformative solutions for inclusive development: the role of innovation in fuelling an accessible and equitable world”
   • As per the report, an estimated 1.3 billion people – or 16% of global population worldwide – experience a significant disability
   • Due to systematic and persistent health inequalities, they are at higher risk of dying up to 20 years earlier than people without disabilities.
   • The report recommends 40 steps the governments can implement to make healthcare sector more inclusive.

3. International Labour Organization has released the “Global Wage Report 2022-23”.
   • Subtitle – The impact of inflation and COVID-19 on wages and purchasing power
   • The report estimates that global monthly wages fell in real terms to 0.9% in the first half of 2022.
   • This is the first negative global wage growth recorded since the first edition of the Global Wage Report in 2008.
   • Among the G20 countries, which account for some 60% of the world’s wage employees, real wages in the first half of 2022 are estimated to have declined to –2.2% in advanced economies, while wage growth in emerging economies slowed but remained positive at 0.8%.
   • The average wages of advanced G20 countries is $4,000 per month and for emerging G20 countries, it is $1,800 per month.
   • 17th International Labour Organization Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting was recently organized in Singapore.

4. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has released the “Turning the tide on internal displacement: A development approach to solutions” report.
   • According to the report, for the first time ever, more than 100 million people were forcibly displaced in 2022, most of them within their own countries.
   • At the end of 2021, there were over 59 million people forcibly displaced within their own countries due to conflict, violence, disasters and climate change.
   • According to the World Bank, climate change could force more than an estimated 216 million people to move within their own countries by 2050.

5. The Economist Intelligence Unit has released the Worldwide Cost of Living 2022
   • Total – 172 cities
   • Top 10 most expensive cities in 2022 –
   1. New York and Singapore (tie)
   2. Tel Aviv, Israel
   3. Hong Kong and Los Angeles (tie)
   4. Zurich, Switzerland
   5. Geneva, Switzerland
   6. San Francisco, California
   7. Paris, France
   8. Copenhagen, Denmark

6. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released the “The Future of Food and Agriculture — Drivers and triggers for transformation”.
   • If the necessary changes are not made in the agri-food system, the world will witness persistent food insecurity, degradation of resources, and unsustainable economic growth in the future.
   • The report has suggested four different scenarios for agri-food systems, which are –
     • ‘More of the same’ scenario – the continuation of the present scenario
     • ‘Adjusted future’ scenario – some steps are taken to ensure sustainable agrifood systems at a slow pace
     • ‘Race to the bottom’ scenario – the world is in the worst version of itself
     • ‘Trading off for sustainability’ – short-term GPD growth is sacrificed to make agri-food, socioeconomic and environmental systems more inclusive, resilient and sustainable

7. 2022 New Energy Outlook report has been released by BloombergNEF to keep the temperature increase to 77 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by 2050.
   • The report has provided certain recommendations for limiting the temperature increase to 1.77 degrees Celsius –
     • Emissions need to fall by 30% by 2030 and by 6% a year to 2040.
     • Investments in the clean energy sector must triple to reach Net Zero by 2050.
     • About 25% of total emissions can be reduced using low-carbon electricity in the transport sector and industrial processes.
     • The rest of the emissions can be reduced by hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS).
       • CCS is the process of using technology to capture carbon emissions from industrial processes or power generation, from where it is transported and stored underground for posterity.

Banking and Economy

1. RBI has launched the pilot project for operationalising the Central Bank Digital Currency (e₹-R) in retail mode, after its successful implementation at the wholesale level.
   • In the first phase, the retail e-rupee pilot project has been launched in four cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, and Bhubaneswar on December 1.
   • Four banks are controlling the launch of the retail e-rupee – SBI, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First Bank.
   • Future launch – Ahmedabad, Gangtok, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Kochi, Lucknow, Patna, and Shimla, in collaboration with Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, HDFC Bank, and Kotak Mahindra Bank
   • The e₹-R will be issued in the same denominators as paper currency and coins and distributed via banks.

2. San Francisco-based OpenAI has launched ChatGPT chatbot for free public testing. A chatbot is a software application designed to mimic human-like conversations based on user prompts.
   • The chatbot is based on GPT-3.5 – a deep-learning language model that produces human-like text.
3. Bharti Airtel and Meta Platforms Inc. have announced to jointly invest in extending the Facebook parent’s subsea cable infrastructure to India
   • Both organizations will also work to integrate WhatsApp as a communications platform as a service (CPaaS).
   • Airtel will partner with Meta and Saudi Telecom to extend 2Africa Pearls, the subsea cable set up by Meta that connects Africa, Europe and Asia, to India.
   • 2Africa is the world’s longest subsea cable system and is expected to provide faster internet connectivity to almost 3 billion people globally.
4. Central Government is planning to allow businesses to use their Permanent Account Number (PAN) as a unique identifier for accessing the National Single Window System (NSWS) to receive different clearances and approvals from central and state governments.
   • The National Single Window System (NSWS) is being developed by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) as a one-stop shop for investors to apply for various approvals from central and state governments.
5. Edelweiss Mutual Fund has announced the launch of the fourth tranche of BHARAT Bond ETF – India’s first corporate bond ETF (exchange-traded fund).
   • A central government initiative, Bharat Bond ETF invests only in ‘AAA’-rated bonds of public sector companies.
   • Edelweiss Asset Management is the fund manager of the scheme.
   • This latest tranche of the ETF and BHARAT Bond Fund of Fund (FoF) series will mature in April 2033.
   • Through the launch of this new series, Edelweiss Mutual Fund proposes to raise an initial amount of ₹1,000 crore with a green shoe option of another ₹4,000 crore.

6. The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) recently extended the deadline by two years for existing third-party apps to comply with its market share guidelines for the UPI network.
   • The NPCI mandate requires payment apps to hold not more than 30% market share in terms of payment volumes.
   • The new deadline to comply with the rule is December 31, 2024.
7. State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest lender, has raised ₹10,000 crore through its maiden infrastructure bond issuance at coupon rate of 7.51%.
   • It is the largest single infrastructure bond issued by any Bank in the country.
   • The tenor of these bonds is 10 years.
8. Economic Advisory Council member Sanjeev Sanyal has mentioned that India is capable of sustaining an economic growth of 9% for many years.
9. RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹5 lakh on The Bharat Co-operative Bank Limited, Bengaluru, Karnataka for non-adherence / violation of directions issued under Exposure Norms and Statutory / Other Restrictions – UCBs.
10. Life Insurance Corporation has also started its services on WhatsApp and the registered policyholders can avail the services for better communication with the insurance company.
    • The official WhatsApp Number of LIC is 8976862090.

11. Goldsikka ATM – India’s first Gold ATM and World’s first real-time gold ATM – has been launched in Begumpet, Hyderabad.
    • The ATM allow people to withdraw gold coins just like cash from this gold ATM using their debit or credit cards.
    • Goldsikka Pvt Ltd, a gold distributor company, has installed this first gold ATM in collaboration with M/s OpenCube Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Appointments

1. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar has been appointed as the chairperson of the National Statistical Commission.

Important Days

1. December 4 – Indian Navy Day
   • The day commemorates the commencement of Operation Trident against Pakistan during the Indo-Pak War in 1971.
2. December 4 – International Cheetah Day
3. December 5 – Parakram Diwas (51st anniversary of India’s victory in the Longewala battle during the 1971 war)
   • The celebrations will take place at the Sagat Singh Stadium, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

4. December 6 – Mahaparinirvan Diwas (67th death anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar)

Awards

1. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has received the Padma Bhushan – India’s third-highest civilian award – for 2022 in Trade and Industry category.
   • The Padma Awards for 2022 have been announced in January 2022. This is the list of awardees – https://www.thehindu.com/news/resources/full-list-of-padma-awards-2022/article38325003.ece
2. President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu, presented the National Awards for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities for the year 2021 and 2022 in New Delhi.
   • National Awards for 2021 were given to 25 Individuals, Institutions and Organizations.
   • National Awards for 2022 were given to 29 Individuals, Institutions and Organisations.
   • Categories of the awards –
     • Sarvshresth Divyangjan,
     • Shresth Divyangjan,
     • Shresth Divyang Bal and Balika,
     • Sarvshrestha Vyakti (working towards the empowerment of Divyangjan)
     • Sarvshrestha Rehabilitation Professional worker

Sports

1. Indian boxer Urvashi Singh has won the WBC International Super Bantamweight title as well as the WBC Asia Silver crown in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
2. Saurashtra cricket team has won the 2022-23 Vijay Hazare Trophy by defeating Maharashtra.
3. Indian shuttler Unnati Hooda created history at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2022 by becoming the first Indian to enter the Under-17 singles final.
4. In Shooting, Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won the 10 metre air pistol mixed team title at the 65th National Shooting Championship Competitions at the MP Shooting Academy range in Bhopal.
5. The Trophy Tour of the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 was officially launched in Bhubaneswar.
6. Six Indian para-shuttlers have won gold medals at Peru Para Badminton International in Lima.

Miscellaneous

1. Semeru Volcano has erupted in Java Island, Indonesia.

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