DECEMBER - JANUARY APPOINTMENTS IN 2025/2026

DECEMBER 2025 - 

*  2012 IDAS Prasanth Dubey Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Secretary in The Department Of Consumer Affairs Under Central Staffing Scheme.

* Telengana First State To Appointed Transgender As Traffic Marshal.

* Veteran BJP Leader Prem Kumar Elected As The Speaker Of Bihar Assembly.

*  Indian Railway Promotes Women's World Cup Stars Pratika Rawal, Sneh Rana And Renuka Singh Thakur Has To Prestigious GROUP B OFFICE Grade - Post Of OFFICER On Special Duty ( OSD) 

*  The Council Member Of States Of International IDEA Has Elected India To Chair For 2026 

- CEC Gyanesh Kumar Assumed The Post 

- HQ - STOCKHOLM, Sweden 

* 2000 BATCH IAS OFFICER of UTTAR PRADESH Cadre Deepak Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Managing Director Of Small Farmer's Agri Business Consortium ( SFAC)

*  1987 BATCH Indian Railway Accounts Service ( IRAS) APARNA GARG Has Been Appointed As The Member ( Finance,) Of Railway Board.

* Sadanand Date Has Assumed As The New DGP Of Maharashtra.

* Professor Dhruba K Bhattacharya Has Been Appointed As The Vice Chancellor OF Tezpur University.

* Professor Anindaya Datta Appointed As The Director Of The Institute Of Nano Science & Technology ( INST) MOHALI.

* Renuka Iyer Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Medical Officer Of National Comprehensive Cancer Network ( NCCN) 

*  Milind Sathe Appointed As The Advocate General Of Maharshtra.

* Runjhun Sharma Has Been Appointed As The Head Of News RT India 

* * UDAYA NAGARAJU, A NATIVE OF SHANIGARAM VILLAGE IN KARIM NAGAR DISTRICT IN TELENGANA HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO HOUSE OF LORDS AT BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

* Ashok Bagriya Has Been Appointed As The CEO Of RT India'.

* IRS Vatsa Sehra Has Been Appointed As The Joint Director At Economic Advisory Council To Prime Minister 

* * SENIOR JOURNALIST SANGEETA BAROOAH PISHAROTY ELECTED AS FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT OF PRESS CLUB OF INDIA 

* VICE PRESIDENT - JATIN GANDHI 

* BJP Parliamentary Board Has Appointed Senior Party LEADER Nitin Nabin As National Working President 

* Raj Kumar Goyal Took Oath As The Chief Information Commissioner By President Droupadi MURMU 

* Baijayant Panda Has Been Appointed As BJP Election In Charge For Upcoming Assam Election.

* Union Minister Piyush Goyal Has Been Appointed As The BJP Election In Charge For Tamilnadu.

* Sanjay Saraogi Has Been Appointed As BJP State President Of Bihar.

* 2012 Batch IPS OFFICER Richa Sharma Has Been Appointed As The Director Of The Department Of Higher Education, Government of India'.

* India Elected To Chair At The UN Backed Kimberly Process From 1st January 2026. 

* Shri M S Patiyal Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Timor leste 

*  Shri Nagesh Singh Has Been Appointed As Indian High Commissioner To Australia 

* Shri Abhishek Singh Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Benin.

* FORMER Uttar Pradesh DGP Prashant Kumar Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of Uttar Pradesh Education Service Selection Commission.

*  Er.  Ashok Kumar Basa, Became The First Indian To Be Appointed As The Internal Auditor Of The World Federation Of Engineering Organisation ( WFEO) 

( He Served President Of NIT ROURKELA) 

* 1991 Batch IAS OFFICER Anu Garg Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Secretary Of Odisha.

( She Became The First Female Chief Secretary Of Odisha) 

* Senior BJP Leader V V RAJESH Becoming The BJP's First Mayor Of Thiruvananthapuram City Corporation.

JUDICIAL - 

* Justice B R Gavai, Former CJI APPOINTED As Dr B R AMBEDKAR Chair Professor On Constitutional Law At NALSAR, Hyderabad.

* West Bengal Governor C V Anand Bose Has Appointed Retired JUSTICE Rabindranath Samantha As The Lokayukta For WEST BENGAL.

* Center Appoints Senior Advocate DP Singh And K Ravinder Kumar As Additional Solicitor General.

RESIGNED - 

* Prasar BHARATI Chairman Navneet Sahgal Has Been Resigned From HIS Post 

PRIME MINISTER - 

* * CZECH REPUBLIC PRESIDENT PETR PAVEL APPOINTS ANDREJ BABIS AS NEW PRIME MINISTER.

* CAPITAL - PRAGUE 

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PRESIDENT - 

* CHIE HAS ELECTED FAR RIGHT LEADER JOSE ANTONIO KAST AS ITS NEXT PRESIDENT. 

* CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE NASRY ASFURA DECLARED AS THE WINNER OF PRESIDENT ELECTION IN HONDURAS 

* CAPITAL OF HONDURAS - TEGUCIGALPA 

* CURRENCY - HONDURAN LEMPIRA 

BRAND AMBASSADOR - 

* Actress Sobhita Dhulipala Has Appointed As Brand Ambassador Of Aditya Birla Group Aadyam Handwoven 

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JANUARY 2026 - 

* * 1994 BATCH IAS OFFICER MRS NANDINI CHAKRABORTY HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE CHIEF SECRETARY TO WEST BENGAL.

* SHE BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE CHIEF SECRETARY OF WEST BENGAL.

* Ajay Singhal Has Been Appointed As The New DGP Of Haryana.

* * 1991 Batch EX IAS OFFICER Manoj Pant Appointed As The Principal Secretary To West Bengal Chief Minister 

* Former National Investigation Agency (NIA) Director General Sadanand Date Has Been Appointed As Maharashtra's New DGP For Next Two Years. 

* 2004 West Bengal IAS Officer Jagdish Prasad Meena Appointed As New Home Secretary Of West Bengal. 

* Tenure Of Sonal V Mishra IPS, IG CRPF Extended For a Period Of One Year. 

* Mamta Verma Appointed As The ADG Of DD News.

* * IAS OFFICER RAVINDRA KUMAR AGRAWAL HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE NEW CHAIRMAN AND MANAGING DIRECTOR OF FCI.

* Sreekumar G Pillai Has Been Appointed As The New Director Of Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research I GCAR).

* Professor Shekhar C Mande Has Taken Charge As The President Of The Indian National Science Academy (INSA) 

* SDS Jamwal Has Been Appointed As The New DGP Of Arunachal Pradesh.

* Dr Chalumuri Ravi Sekhar Has Been Appointed As The New Director Central Road Research Institute ( CSIR - CRRI)

* A K Balasubramanian Has Been Appointed As The New Chairman Of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board ( AERB) For Next 3 Years.

( AERB HQ - MUMBAI) ESTD -1983 

* * 1994 BATCH IPS OFFICER RAKESH AGARWAL HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY (NIA) 

* 1993 BATCH IPS OFFICER OF WEST BENGAL CADRE SHRI PRAVEEN KUMAR HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF BORDER SECURITY FORCE ( BSF) ..

* HE PRESENTLY SERVING DG OOF ITBP. 

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* 1990 BATCH IPS OFFICER OF HARYANA CADRE SHATRUJEET SINGH KAPOOR HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS THE NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL OF INDO TIBETAN BORDER POLICE (ITBP)

* Professor Shubha Tole Has Been Elected President Of The International Brain Research Organisation - 

* PRAVEEN VASISTHA HAS BEEN APPOINTED AS NEW VIGILANCE COMMISSIONER OF CHIEF VIGILANCE COMMISSION ( CVC) 

 * 1992 Batch UP Cadre IPS OFFICER Anand Swaroop Has Been Appointed As The Special Secretary ( Internal Security) In The Ministry Of Home Affairs.

* Shri Hari S Bhatia Has Been Appointed As The Interim Chairperson Of IISER Tirupati 

* Mr Arun T Ramachandani Has Been Elected As The President Of The Society Of Indian Defence Manufacturers ( SIDM) For 2025 - 2027 

*  Professor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar, Former Chairperson Of University Grants Commission (UGC) Has Been Selected As One Of The Two Experts From ASPAC GROUP ( GIV) To UNESCO' s Group Of Experts On Preventive Action Plan For The Protection Of Education From Attack.

*  Professor Kanchan K Mallik Has Been Appointed As UNESCO Chair On Community Media At University Of Hyderabad.

* Gujarat Deputy CM Harsh Sanghavi Takes Charge As Vice Chairman Of Mahatma Gandhi Sabarmati Ashram Memorial Trust.

*  Ms Aruna Nayar, Currently Serving As Secretary To Railway Board, Has Been Appointed As The Director General ( Human Resources) To Railway Board.

LONGEST SERVING CM OF KARNATAKA - 

*  Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaih Has Now Longest Chief Minister Of State ( Equals To Former CM D Devaraj) 

JUDICIAL - 

*  Justice Sangam Kumar Sahoo Of Odisha High Court Has Been Appointed As The Chief Justice Of Patna High Court.

* Justice Soumen Sen Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Justice Of Kerala High Court.

* Justice Revati Mohite Dere Has Been Appointed As The Chief Justice Of Meghalaya High Court.

* Ms Sonak Appointed As Chief Justice Of Jharkhand. 

*  Justice A Muhamed Mustaque Sworn In As Chief Justice Of Sikkim High Court.

 * Justice Manoj Gupta Has Been Appointed As Chief Justice Of Uttarakhand High Court. 

*  JUSTICE G R Swaminathan, Madras High Court Has Take A Historic Decision To allowed A Memorial Stupa For 1755 Natham Kanavai War Heroes.

*  Former Rajya Sabha Shri Ravindra Kumar Appointed As The Additional Solicitor General ( ASG) In The Supreme Court. 

* Sujoy Paul Has Been Appointed As The New Chief Justice Of Calcutta High court.

RETIRES - 

* Maharashtra's First WOMAN Director General Of Police ( DGP) Rashmi SHUKLA Retired. ( CAREER SPAN OF 37 YEARS) 

PRESIDENT - 

* * GUINEA COUP LEADER GENERAL MAMADY DOUMBOUYA ELECTED AS NEW PRESIDENT OF COUNTRY.

* * YOWERI MUSEVENI HAS WINS THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR 7TH TERM OF UGANDA.

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PRIME MINISTER - 

* Yemen Appoints Foreign Minister Ahmed Bin Mubarak As New Prime Minister Of Country.

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AMBASSADOR - 

* 2001 Batch IFS Anshuman Gaur Has Been Appointed As INDIAN AMBASSADOR To Bosnia.

* Ms Muanpuli Saiawi Has Been Appointed As Indian High commissioner To New Zealand.

*  Amit Kumar Mishra Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Georgia.

BRAND AMBASADOR - 

* Actor Amitabh Bachchan Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador Of CAMPA SURE 

* Former Indian Cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni Has Been Appointed As The Goodwill Ambassador For Pune Grand Tour.

* Thyrocare Onboards Appoints Actress Madhuri Dixit As It's Brand Ambassador.

A NEW SPECIES OF SQUAT LOBSTER DISCOVERED IN LAKSHADWEEP

* A NEW BRIGHT ORANGE SQUAT LOBSTER SPECIES DISCOVERD IN LAKSHADWEEP.

* SPECIES NAME - LEIOGALATHEA SAMUDRAGIRI 

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FIRST WOMAN TTE TO LEAD TOUR DUTY OF DARJEELING HIMALAYAN RAILWAY

* THE DARJEELING HIMALAYAN RAILWAY (DHR) PART OF NORTH EAST FRONTIER RAILWAY (NFR) APPOINTED FIRST FEMALE TRAVELLING TICKET EXAMINERS (TTE) TO LEAD UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE TOUR.

* SARITA YOLMO APPOINTED AS FIRST FEMALE TTE 

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DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 12TH FEBRUARY 2026

International Day Of Women's & Girls in Science - 11th February 

THEME 2026  - Synergizing AI, Social Science, STEM And Finance : Building Inclusive Futures For Womens And Girls 

1) ICMR Has Launched The AI- Powered Predictive Tool Under The One Health Mission To Track Zoonotic Diseases.

2) Sumit Antil Won Gold At The Dubai World Para Athletics Grand Prix 2026 

* Navdeep Wins Gold In Hurdle 

* Rinku Hooda Wins Gold In Javelin In F46 EVENT 

* Bhagyashree Jadav Wins Gold in Javelin F33/F34 

* Dilip Gavit Wins Gold In 100 m T46 Event ( Completed in 10.94 Seconds) 

* Preethi Pal Wins Gold In Women's 100m ( T35/36 Event) 

3) Nagpur based Solar Defence has Unveiled The MALE UAV called - VIJAYASTRA 

4) Government Of India Has Amend The Ex - Serviceman ( Re - Employment In Central Civil Services And Posts) Rules 1979 

5) Kerala Launched The RAKSHAKAVACHAM Accidental Insurance Scheme For Private SECTOR Workers.

6) Former Indian Cricketer Shikhar Dhawan Has Been Appointed As The Brand Ambassador For DELHI Khel Mahakumbh.

7) India Ranked 91st In The Corruption Perception Index 2025 ( 

8) Pankaj Chaturvedi Has Been Appointed As The CFO Of Shoppers Stop.

9) Indian Air Force Is Conducting A Joint In Situ Air Exercise With The Royal Thai Airforce At Malacca Strait.

10) D Gukesh Has CONFERRED The Titan Of The Year 2026 Award.

11) Magnus Carlsen Wins The Naroditsky Cup 

12) Actress Tamanna Bhatia Has Appointed As Brand Ambassador Of Karnataka Soaps And Detergent ( KSDL,)

13) Indian - American Maritime Executive Dr S V Anchan Received The ACE GLOBAL Bridges 2026 Global Maritime Personality For Performance And Leadership Award From UN agency And Baharain s Chamber Of COMMERCE.

14) Aditya Panda Became The Youngest Indian ( 17) To Analog Astronaut. (Conducted By AAKA space Studio Held At Dholavira, Kutch Gujarat) 

15) ICAR - CICFR DISCOVERD A New Mahseer Species (TOR  SATTALENSIS) in Uttarkhand.

16) Anish Bhanwala Wins Bronze In Men's 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol Event At ASIAN Shooting Championships.

17) UP Budget For Women's Empowerment 2026/27 

18) Aksha Air Co - Founder Praveen Iyer Has Resigned.

19) Delhi Government Has Launched The LAKHPATI BITIYA YOJANA, Under This Scheme Girls To Get 1 Lakh From Birth To Graduation.

20) Dr Rakesh Kalapala, Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist And Director Of Endoscopy And Centre For AI & Innovation ( Has Been Awarded The Fellowship Of The European Society Of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

21) IIT MADRAS has Launched The PARAM SHAKTI.

22) Vaishanavi Ugadekar Became The Goa First Female National Weightlifting Referee.

23) Union Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya Has Introduced The Industrial Relations Code ( Amendment) Bill 2026 

24) RAMSAR Listed Nala Sarovar Recorded 6 .42 Lakh Birds Of 270 Species.

25) State Bank Of India (SBI) Has Overtakes TCS Become India's 4th Largest Listed Company By Market Value 

a) Reliance Industries (19.87 Lakh Crores) 

b) HDFC Bank (14.16 Lakh Crores) 

c) Bharti Airtel (11.47 LAKH CRORES) 

d) SBI (10.92 Lakh Crores) 

e) TCS ( 10.52 Lakhs Crores) 

26) NATO Launched The ARCTIC SENTRY Mission 

27) Janki Kirloskar Appointed As CEO of Kirloskar electric.

UTTAR PRADESH STATE BUDGET 2026/27

* UTTAR PRADESH STATE GOVERNMENT ANNOUCED THE STATE BUDGET FOR FY 2026/2027 

* UTTAR PRADESH CHIEF MINISTER YOGI ADITYANATH Rs 9,12,696.35 Crores Allocated For FY 2026/27 

* Rs 20,012 Crores For Railway BUDGET 

* Rs 14,997 Crores For Medical Education 

* 12.4% Of Total Budget In ( Education) 

* 6% Of Total Budget In Health Care 

* 9% Of Total Budget In Agriculture & Development 

* UP Budget For Women's Empowerment 2026/27 

* IRRIGATION ( AREA) - 2.16 Crores Hectares in 2016/17 

* Irrigation ( Area) - 60 Lakh Hectares in FY - 2024/25 

* SDG RANKING - 29TH IN (2018/19) 

* 18th Ranking In 2023/24 

* 5,578 MW THERMAL POWER IN (2016-17) to 9,120 MW IN (2025/26) 

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* PER CAPITA INCOME OF UTTAR PRADESH ---- 

* 66,854 In FY 2017/18 

* 1,26,304 in FY 2024/25 

* Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Has PRESENTED His 10th BUDGET.

* Uttar Pradesh State Government Has PRESENTED It's First Ever Economic Survey in Vidhan Sabha On 10th February 2026 

* GSDP Growth Rate Of UP 

2017-2018 - 14.76 Lakh Crores 

2024-2025 - 30.25 Lakh Crores 

2025-2026 - 36 Lakh Crores 

* CD - RATIO. ---; 

* EXPORTS REPORTS OF UP ( SINCE 2017-18) 

Rs 0.89 lakh Crores - 2017-2018 

Rs 1.86 lakh Crores - 2024-2025 

Rs 1.31 Lakh Crores - 2025 ( November) 

* CAPITAL EXPENDITURES ( 2017-18 TO 2024/25) 

39.09 Thousand Crores in 2017-2018 

165.24 Crores in 2024/25 

* MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIALIZATION 

( 2017-18 TO 2024-25) 

* UTTAR PRADESH BUDGET ( FY 2008-09 TO 2026/27 ) (4.87 lakh Crores From 2016-17) 

* SHARES OF CENTRAL TAXES FY 2017-18 to 2024/25) 

* GST COLLECTION IN LAST 9 YEARS 

* SOTR ( STATE'S OWN TAX REVENUE) 

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DECEMBER - JANUARY AWARDS IN 2025/26

DECEMBER 2025 - 

* * VIOLIN MASTERO A KANYAKUMARI HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH THE MUDHRA AWARD 2025 

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* Aishwarya Verma From Bihar Wins The Miss India Washington 2025 

* Maharshtra State Government Has Received The Guinness Book World Record For Successful Instalment Of 45,911 Solar Agriculture Water Pump.

WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 - 

* * HANNAH DURKIN WINS THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2025 

* FOR BOOK - SURVIVORS, The Lost Stories Of The Last Captives Of The Atlantic Slave Trade 

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CROSS WORD BOOK AWARDS 2025 - 

* * POPULAR CHOICE AWARD FOR BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT - Dr. Thomas Mathew ( For Book - Ratan Tata) 

* FICTION - Ruchir Joshi ( For Book - The Great Eastern Hotel) 

* NON - FICTION - Manu S Pillai ( Book - Gods, Guns And Missionaries) 

* CHILDREN'S BOOK - Varsha Seshan & Denise Antao ( For Book - The Wall Friend's Club) 

* TRANSLATION - Manoj Kuroor & J Devika ( For Book - The Day The Earth Bloomed) 

* POPULAR CHOICE AWARD ( FICTION) - Prajakta Koli ( For The Book - Too Good To Be True) 

* POPULAR CHOICE AWARD ( NON - FICTION) - Mohar Basu ( For The Book - SHAH RUK KHAN)

* POPULAR CHOICE AWARD ( CHILDREN'S CATEGORY) - Sudha Murthy ( For Grandpa' s Bag Of Stories) 

* POPULAR CHOICE AWARD FOR MIND, BODY & SPIRIT - SADHGURU ( For The Book - ENLIGHTENMENT) 

* BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT - Subbarao Duvvuri ( JUST A MERCERNRRY) 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Shanta Gokhale 

* Surabhi Ranganathan ( Cambridge University), Prerana Singh ( Brown University) , Jamie Kreiner ( UCLA) Received The 2025 Max PLANCK - Humboldt Award 

1ST FIFA PEACE PRIZE 2025 - 

* * FIFA PRESIDENT GIANNI  INFANTINO PRESENTED THE FIFA PEACE PRIZE ( FIRST) TO US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP 

* Swedish Activist Greata Thunberg Received Prestigious 2025 Right Livelihood Award 

* India's FIRST Blind Active Duty Army Officer Lt Col C Dwarkesh Wins National Award 

* PRESIDENT DROUPADI MURMU Has CONFERRED The NATIONAL Handicrafts Awards 2025.

* IIT MADRAS Has Received The CII Industry Academia Partnership Award.

2025 TURNER PRIZE - 

* * SCOTLAND'S NNENA KALU WINS 2025 TURNER PRIZE FOR BOLD HANGING SCULPTURE 

*  THE THINKING MACHINE: Book Wins The FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2025 

* The Ministry Of Earth Sciences Wins The Best Pavilion At IISF 2025

* ) Dr. Jaitheeth R Joshi, Director - General Of BRAHMOS - Has Been Conferred The HONORARY Fellowship Of Indian Society For Non - Destructive Testing ( ISNT)

* Jammu And Kashmir LG Manoj Sinha Presented The International IMPACT Award 2025.

* Shubhada Deshmukh Received The 5th Anjani Mashelkar Inspiration Award 2025 

*  The Green Journalist Awards Honours Nagaland's Yimkongangba & Sohan From Bangladesh For Environmental Reporting From South Asia 

* Maitreyi Pushpa Has Win The IFFCO Sahitya Samman 

* * SINGER, MUSICIAN A R RAHMAN HAS BEEN CONFERRED WITH THE LAKSHMINARAYANAN INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2025 

*  President Droupadi MURMU Presented The National Energy Conservation Award 2025 To Miyana Railway Station Guna, Madhya Pradesh.

- This Station Recognised As The Best Performing Unit in Transport Category 

* * EMINENT HINDUSTANI CLASSICAL VOCALIST PANDIT RAJA KALE (MUMBAI) HONOURED WITH THE NATIONAL TANSEN HONOUR 2024 

* India's HOMEBOUND Has Been Shortlisted For Oscar 2026 

* Centre Of Development Of Telematics ( C-DOT) Received Two Award From institute Of Electrical And ELECTRONICS Engineers (IEEE) At New Jersey, USA 

* * MAJOR ANANTHU S KUMAR, FROM INDIAN ARMY HAS AWARDED THE GOLDEN OWL AWARD FOR BEST FOREIGN ARMY OFFICER AND COMMANDANT HONOURS FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE.

* SRILANKA PRIME MINISTER DR HARINI PRESENTED THIS AWARD 

* The Chennai Based Team Photonics Odyssey Emerged As Global WINNER Of NASA's 2025 International Space App Challenge 

* Cyprus Poonawalla & DLF  Kushal Pal Singh Honoured With Lifetime achievement Awards At ET AWARDS For Corporate Excellence 

*  G Madhavi Latha, Subhranshu Shukla Have Received The NDTV's Science Icon Of The Year Award 2025 

*  Indian Wildlife Photographer Baiju Patil Has Ranked World Number One At The Refocus Awards 2025.

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* Professor G Madhavi Latha Names As The Science Icon Of The Year On NDTV's Indian Of The Year 2025 ( For Her Contribution In Chenab Bridge) 

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* Nritacharya Goswami Dangoriya Has CONFERRED With Doctorate At Krishna Guru Adhyatmik Vishwavidyalaya.

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* Ravi Deece, Publisher And Managing Director Of DC Books Has Awarded The INSIGNIA Of CHEVALIER de I 'Ordre des arts et des lettres.

* Former Union Minister Suresh Prabhu Has Been Honoured With Lifetime achievement Awards At Sustainability Crusader Awards 2025.

* President Droupadi MURMU Has Presented To 18 Children From States And UT The Rashtriya Bal PURASHKAR.

* Mitalee Agarwal Honoured With Mrs India 2025 - Global Ambassador And Mrs India Congeniality 2025 

* Bitan Chakraborty Wins The Rabindra Nath Tagore Literary PRIZE 2025 (For The Blight And Seven Short Stories ( Translated By Malti Mukherjee) 

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* Anant Goenka Has Received The JAMSETJI TATA AWARD FROM Indian Society Of Quality 

*  SCROLL's Vaishnavi Rathore Wins IPI Award In Excellence In JOURNALISM.

* Sonata Gold Collection Wins 2025 Good Design Award.

* Professor Ajay Sood Has CONFERRED With HONORARY DOCTORATE OF Science By Governor Of Uttar Pradesh.

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* ) Filmmaker Rima Das Has Been Honoured With The New York WOMEN in Film And Television ( NYWFT) Award For Excellence in Directing 2025 

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* The Three Times Women's Euro Winning Coach Sarina Wiegman Has Been Awarded An HONORARY Damehood in KING Charles III's 

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JANUARY 2026 - 

* Nayanima Basu ( Book - The Fall Of Kabul) Has Win The Best Debut Author At Aut Her Award 2025 

* Sashi Tharoor Has Received The MALAYALI Of The Year Award Of CNN News 18 From Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan. 

* Violinist R K Shriram Kumar Conferred With Sangita Kalanidhi Award.

RAMNATH GOENKA AWARDS 2026 - 

* * BEST DEBUT - Neha Dixit ( For The Many Lives Of Syeda X) 

* BEST NON - FICTION - Sudeep Chakraborty ( For Fallen City)

* BEST FICTION - Subi Taba ( For Tales From The Dawn - Lit Mountains) 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Dr CHANDRASEKHARA KAMBARA ( KANNADA WRITER) 

*  URMILA SATYANARAYAN Presented With NRITYA KALANIDHI Award.

*  Marathi Film Dashavatar Enters 2026 Oscar Contention List.

31ST CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS 2025 - 

* * BEST PICTURE - One Battle After Another 

* BEST ACTOR - Timothee Chalamet ( For Marty Supreme) 

* BEST COSTUME DESIGN - Kate Hawley ( For Frankenstein)

* BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERIES - Squid Game 

* BEST COMEDY - The Naked Gun 

* BEST ACTRESS - Jessie Buckley ( For Hamnet)

* BEST DIRECTOR - Paul Thomas Anderson ( For One Battle After Another).

* BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ( One Battle After Another) 

* BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY ( Sinners)

* BEST VARIETY SERIES - Last Week Tonight 

* BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION - Mad About The Boy 

* BEST STUNT DESIGN - The Final Recoknig 

* BEST SCORE - Sinner 

* BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - K POP (Demon Hunter 

* BEST SONG - GOLDEN ( K POP Demon Hunter)

* BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN - Frankenstein 

* BEST DRAMA SERIES - THE PITT 

* BEST ACTOR - Noah Wyle ( The Pitt 

* BEST ACTRESS ( DRAMA) - Rhea Seahorn ( For Pluribus)

* BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - Avtar: Fire & Ash 

* BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ( Comedy) - The Studio 

* BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ( DRAMA) - Tramell Tillman ( FOR Severance)

* BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS ( DRAMA)- Katherine Lanasa ( For The Pitt)

* BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Ammy Madigan ( Weapons)

* BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Jacob Elrodi ( Frankenstein)

* BEST SOUND - F1 

* BEST HAIR & MAKE-UP - Frankenstein 

* BEST COMEDY SPECIAL - SNL 50 

* BEST EDITING - F1 

* BEST COMEDY SERIES' - The Studio 

* BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - The Secret Agent 

* BEST ACTRESS IN COMEDY SERIES - Jean Smart ( Hacks)

* BEST ACTOR IN Comedy series ( The Studio) + Seth Rogen 

* BEST COMEDY SERIES - Abbott Elementary 

* BEST TALK SHOW - Jimmy Kimmel Live 

* BEST LIMITED SERIES - Adolescence 

* BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Train Dreams 

* BEST ANIMATED SERIES - South Park 

* BEST LIMITED SERIES FOR TV - Sarah Snook ( All Her Fault).

* BEST YOUNG ACTOR - SINNER,( Miles Caton)

*  Meera Syal, An Author Has Been Awarded With Damehood By UK 

* ) Rickey Kej Honoured With The Prestigious Chittara Music Award For Golden Icon 2025

* National Highway Authority Of India' ( NHAI) Achieved Two Guinness Book World Record For ACHIEVING For Laying Bituminous Concrete On Vanavolu - Vankarakunta Section Of 6 Lane Bengaluru - Kadapa - Vijayawada Economic Corridor.

* ) Rickey Kej Has Been Honoured With Lifetime achievement Awards At The Rotary International Sadbhavna Award.

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35TH G D BIRLA AWARDS 2025 - 

* * PROFESSOR BUSHRA ATEEQ, DEAN OF INTERNATIONAL RELATION AT IIT KANPUR HAS BEEN HONOURED WITH G D BIRLA AWARD 2025 FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 

* HIS WORK ON MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY 

*  M S Sathyhu Honoured With Puttanna Kanagal Award By Karnataka State Film Award.

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* 7 Years Old Sabya Bhujel, From Sikkim Wins The JUNIOR Miss India 2025/26 Title.

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS - 

* * NVIDIA CEO JENSEN HUANG CONFERRED WITH IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR 2026 

JOHN F RICHARDS AWARD 2026 - 

* * INDIAN AUTHOR TITHI BHATTACHARYA HAS BEEN CONFERRED WITH THE JOHN F RICHARDS PRIZE 2025 

* FOR HER BOOK GHOSTLY PAST 

* Union Railway Minister Ashwin Vaishnav Has CONFERRED The 70th Ati Visisth Rail Seva PURASHKAR To 100 Persons.

* Professor Srinivas Kulkarni Wins The Gold Medal At 2026 Royal Astronomical Society Awards.

* Shri Gnana Kumarswamy Batta, DGM ( Geophysics), Kakinada, Oil India Limited Has Honoured With The Global Near Surface Geophysics Award 2025.

* Nara Bhubaneshwari, Wife Of Andhra Pradesh CM Has Bestowed With The Outstanding Dairy Professional Award From INDIAN Dairy Association, SOUTH zone 

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SILVER ELEPHANT AWARD 2025 - 

* SHRI NARESH KAUSHAL, EDITOR OF DAINIK TRIBUNE & SENIOR JOURNALIST HAS BEEN CONFERRED WITH THE HIGHEST NATIONAL HONOUR OF THE BHARAT SCOUTS AND GUIDES - THE SILVER ELEPHANT AWARD 

* THE AWARD GIVEN BY CHATTISGARH GOVERNOR SHRI RAMESH DEKA 

* SHRI NARESH PART OF BHARAT SCOUTS SINCE 1964 

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83RD GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS 2025 ( FILM) - 

* BEST PICTURE - HAMNET 

* BEST PICTURE ( COMEDY/ MUSICAL) - One Battle After Another 

* BEST MALE ACTOR - WAGNER MOURA ( For Secret Agent)

* BEST FEMALE ACTOR - Jessie Buckley ( 

* BEST PODCAST - Amy Poehler 

* BEST MOTION PICTURE ( NON - ENGLISH) - Secret Agente

* BEST ANIMATED MOTION PICTURE - K POP Demon Hunters 

* BEST MUSICAL/ COMEDY - THEE STUDIO 

* BEST DIRECTOR -  PALE THOMAS  

* BEST SUPPORTING Female ACTOR - Teyana Taylor 

* BEST DRAMA SERIES - The Pitt 

* STAND UP COMEDY - RICKY 

*  India's Industrialist ( Goa Based ) Srinivas Dempo Has Been Honoured With ITALY's Highest Civilian Award ( THE CAVAALIERE dell" Ordine della stella d'italia 

TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENT 2026  - 

* * AMERICAN MYCOLOGIST TOBY KIERS WINS THE 2026 TYLER PRIZE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT.

* HER WORK ON MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI 

* Dr Chitra Rajagopal PSA Fellow Has Been Awarded With Robert Zalosh Hydrogen Safety Excellence Award 

JC DANIEL AWARDS 2024 - 

* * VETERAN ACTRESS SARDA HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR THE 2024 J C DANIEL AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION IN CINEMA BY KERALA GOVERNMENT.

* Author Amish Tripathi Honoured With Doctor Of The University Honoris Causa From University Of York, UK 

* Veteran Music Composer Ilaiyaraaja Will Receive Prestigious PADMAPANI Awards At 11th Ajanta - Ellora International Film Festival 

INDIRA GANDHI PEACE PRIZE 2025 - 

* * MOZAMBICAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST GRACA MACHEL SET TO RECEIVE THE INDIRA GANDHI PEACE PRIZE FOR 2025

* Chandana Singh Received The Ati Visisth Rail Seva PURASHKAR - Highest Honour Of INDIAN Railways ( Who Led The Nanhe Farishte Operation) 

* * AUTHOR, WRITER SMT NAMITA GOKHLE HAS RECEIVED THE BHARATENDU HARISHCHANDRA LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 2026 AT BANARS LITERATURE FESTIVAL.

42ND JAPAN AWARDS 2026 - 

* * ZHIJIAN JAMES CHEN HAS WON THE 2026 JAPAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE (42ND EDITION) 

* FOR THE DISCOVERY OF THE NUCLEIC ACID SENSING MECHANISM BY THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM 

* * SIKKIM STATE DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY, IN INSTITUTIONAL CATEGORY AND LT COLONEL SEETA ASHOK SHELKE HAS BEEN SELECTED FOR 2026 SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE APADA PRABANDHAN PURASHKAR.

* The Translation Of Shri Hanuman Chalisa By Abhay K Wins The Sarojini Naidu Award 2026 For Poetry at Banars Literature Festival.

* James C Schnable Wins The 2026 NAS Prize in Food And Agriculture Science For Breakthrough In Plant Genomics And Quantitive.

* UTTAR PRADESH GAURAV SAMMAN - 

* SHUBHANSHU SHUKLA - Wing Commander And GAGANYATRI 

* ALAKH PANDEY - FOUNDER OF PHYSICS WALLAH ( EDUCATION) 

* DR SUDHANSHU SINGH - Agricultural Scientist & IRRI SOUTH ASIA DIRECTOR 

* HARIOM PAWAR - POET & ACADEMIC ( HINDI) 

PADMA AWARDS 2026 - 

PADMA VIBHUSHAN 2026 ( 5) 

1) Shri DHARMENDRA DEOL (ART) - Maharshtra ( Posthumously) 

2) Shri K T THOMAS ( Public Affairs) - KERALA 

3) Ms N Rajam ( Art) - Uttar Pradesh 

4) Shri P Narayanan ( Literature & Education) - Kerala 

5) Shri V S Achutanandhan ( Public Affairs) - Kerala ( Posthumously) 

* PADMA BHUSHAN (13) 

1) Alka Yagnik ( Artist) 

2) Mr Bhagat Singh Koshyari ( Public Affairs) - Uttarkhand 

3) Shri K Ramasamy Palaniswami ( Medicine) - Tamilnadu 

4) Shri Mamooty ( Art) - KERALA 

5) Dr Nori Dattattreyudu - ( Medicine) - USA 

6) Shri Piyush Pandey (Art) Posthumously 

7) Shri S K M Manikandan ( Social Work) - Tamilnadu 

8) Shri Shatavadhani R Ganesh (Art) - Karnataka 

,9) Shri Shibu Soren ( Public Affairs) - Jharkhand ( Posthumously) 

10) Shri Uday Kotak ( Trade & INDUSTRY) -Maharastra v

11) Shri V K Malhotra ( Public Affairs) - Delhi 

12) Shri Vellaappally Natesan ( Public Affairs) - Kerala 

13) Shri Vijay Amritraj ( SPORTS) - US

PADMA SHRI (113) - 

* Shri A E Muthuanayagam ( Science & Engineering) - Kerala 

* Shri Anil Kumar Rastogi ( Art) - UTTAR PRADESH 

* Shri Anke Gowda M - ( Social Work) - Karnataka 

* Ms Armida Fernandes ( Medicine) - Maharashtra 

* Shri Arvind Vaidya ( Art) - Gujarat 

* Shri Ashok Khade ( Trade & industry) - MAHARSHTRA 

* Shri Ashok Kumar Singh ( Science & Engineering) Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Ashok Kumar Haldar ( LITERATURE & Education) - West Bengal 

* Shri Baldev Singh ( Sports) - Punjab 

* Shri Bhagwandas Raikwar ( Sports) - Madhya Pradesh 

* Shri Bharat Singh Bharthi ( Art) - Bihar 

* Shri Bhiklya Ladakya Dhinda ( Art) - MAHARSHTRA 

* Shri Biswa Bandhu ( Art) - Bihar ( Posthumously (

* Shri Brij Lal Bhat ( SOCIAL Work) - Jammu and Kashmir 

* Shri Buddha Rashmi Mani ( ARCHAEOLOGY) - Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Bidhri Tati ( Social Work) - Chhattisgarh 

* Shri C Gaddamanugu ( Science & Engineering) - Telengana 

* Shri Charan Hembram ( LITERATURE & Education) - Odisha 

* Shri chiranji Lal Yadav ( Art) - Uttar Pradesh 

* Ms Deepika Reddy ( Art) - Telengana 

* Shri D  C pandya (Art) - Gujarat 

* Shri G B Rajendra Prasad (Art) - Andhra Pradesh 

* Shri G M Yogi - (Art) - Rajasthan 

* Shri Gambhir Singh ( Literature & Education)- West Bengal 

* Shri G Balakrishna Prasad ( Art) - Andhra Pradesh ( Posthumously) 

* Ms Gayatri Balasubramaniam & Ms Rajani Balasubramaniam ( Art) - Tamilnadu 

* Shri Gopal G Trivedi ( Science & Education) - Bihar 

* Shri Guduru Venkat Rao ( Medicine)- Telengana 

* Shri H V Mande ( Medicine) - Tamilnadu 

* Shri Hally War ( Social Work) - MEGHALAYA 

* Shri Hari Madhav Mukhopadhyay ( Art) - West Bengal ( Posthumously ) 

*Shri Hari Charan Saikia  ( Art) - Assam 

* Shri Harmanpreet kaur ( Sports) - Punjab 

* Shri Inderjit Singh Sindhu ( Social Work) - Chandigarh 

* Shri Janardan Bapurao Bothe ( Social Work ( - MAHARASHTRA 

* Shri Jogesh Deuri ( Agriculture) - Assam 

* Shri Juzer Vasi ( Science & Engineering) - Maharashtra 

* Shri Jyotish Debnath ( Art West Bengal)

* Shri K pajanivel ( Sports) - Puducherry 

* Shri K Ramasamy ( Science & Engineering ) Tamilnadu 

* Shri K Vijay Kumar ( Civil Service) - Tamil Nadu 

* Shri Kabindra Purkayastha ( Public Affairs) - Assam ( Posthumously ) 

* Shri Kailash Chandra Pant ( LITERATURE Education) - Madhya Pradesh 

* Ms K Vimala Menon ( Art) - Kerala 

* Shri Kewal Krishna Thakral ( Medicine) - Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Khem Raj Sundriyal ( Art) - Haryana 

* Ms Devki M ( Social Work) - Kerala 

* Shri Krishnamurthy Balasubramaniam ( Science & Engineering) - Telengana 

* Shri Kumar Bose ( Art) - West Bengal 

* Shri Kumarswamy Thangaraj ( Science & Engineering) Telengana 

* PROFESSOR L Christan Koch - Art ( Germany) 

* Ms Liudmila khokhlava ( LITERATURE & Education) - Russia v

* Shri Madhvan Ranganathan ( Art) - MAHARASHTRA 

* Shri M Murali Mohan ( Art) - Andhra Pradesh 

* Shri Mahendra Kumar Mishra ( LITERATURE Education) - Odisha 

* Shri Mahendra Nath Roy ( LITERATURE Education ) - West Bengal 

* Shri Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar ( LITERATURE Education) - Delhi 

* Ms Mangala Kapoor ( LITERATURE Education) - Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Hajjibhai Ksambhai ( Art) - Gujarat 

* Shri Mohan Nagar ( Social Work) - Madhya Pradesh 

* Shri Narayan Vyas ( Archaeology) - Madhya Pradesh 

* Shri Naresh Chandra Verma ( LITERATURE Education) - Tripura 

* Shri Nilesh Chandra - Social Work ( Gujarat)

* Shri Nuruddin Ahmed ( Art) - Assam 

* Shri O T Swaminathan ( Art) - Tamilnadu 

* Shri PADMA Gurmet ( Medicine) - LADAKH 

* Shri P Vijay Anand ( Medicine) - Telengana 

* Ms Pokhila lekthpei ( Art) - Assam 

* Prabhakar Kore ( LITERATURE Education) - Karnataka 

* Shri Prateek Sharma ( Medicine) - USA 

* Shri Praveen Kumar ( Sports ( - Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Prem Lal Gautam ( Science Engineering ( - Himachal Pradesh 

* Shri Prosenjit Chatterjee ( Art ( - WEST BENGAL 

* Dr Punniamurthy Natesan ( Medicine) - TAMILNADU 

* Shri R Krishnan ( Art) ( Tamilnadu) Posthumously 

* Shri R V S Mani ( CIVIL Service) - Delhi 

* Shri Rabilal Tudu ( LITERATURE Education) -West Bengal 

* Shri Raghuput Singh ( agriculture) - Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Raghuveer Khedekar ( Art) - Maharashtra 

* Shri R Kaliappa (Art) - Tamilnadu 

* Shri Rajendra Prasad ( Medicine) - Uttar Pradesh 

* Shri Ramma Reddy ( ANIMAL Husbandry ( - Tamilnadu ( Posthumously)

* Shri Rammurthy Sreedhar ( Radio Broadcasting) - Delhi 

* Shri Ramchandra Godbole _ & Sunita Godbole ( Medicine) - CHATTISGARH 

* Shri Ratilal Boriasagar ( LITERATURE Education) - Gujarat 

* Rohit Sharma ( Sports) 

* Shri S G Susheelamma ( Social Work) - Karnataka.

* Shri Sangyusang ( Art ( - Nagaland 

* Shri Niranjan Dass ( Spiritualism) - Punjab 

* Shri Sarat Kumar Patra ( Art) - Odisha 

* Shri Saroj Mandal ( Medicine) - West Bengal 

* Shri Satish Shah ( Art) Posthumously 

* Shri Satya Narayan Nuwal ( Trade Industry) - MAHARASHTRA 

* Ms Savita Punia ( Sports) Haryana 

* PROFESSOR Shafi Shauq ( LITERATURE Education) - Jammu and Kashmir 

GANIT RATNA AWARDS 2026 - 

* PROFESSOR VAMSI PRITHAM PINGALI SET TO RECEIVED THE GANIT RATNA AWARD 2026 

* * DR CHANDRAKANT LOHARIYA HAS RECEIVED THE WILEY RESEARCH HERO AWARD FOR HEALTH 

REPUBLIC DAY TABLEUX AWARDS 2026 - 

* * JURY AWARDS --- 

* BEST MARCHING CONTINGENT (SERVICES) - Indian Navy 

* BEST MARCHING CONTINGENT ( CAPFs) - DELHI POLICE 

* TOP TABLEAUX ( STATE/UT) 

- STATE ( MAHARASHTRA ) 

- UT ( JAMMU AND KASHMIR ) 

* BEST CENTRAL MINISTRY TABLEAU - 

Ministry Of Culture 

* SPECIAL PRIZES - 

( CPWD GOV) 

* Vande Mataram ( The Eternal Resonance Of India Dance Group) 

* BEST MARCHING CONTINGENT ( Services) - Assam Regiment ( Popular Choice).

* BEST MARCHING CONTINGENT ( CAPFs) - CRPF India 

* TOP TABLEAUX - 

- STATE ( GUJARAT)

- UTTAR PRADESH, & RAJASTHAN 

* BEST CENTRAL MINISTRY TABLEAU - Department Of School Education & Literacy 

* Andaman And Nicobar Islands Bagged Best UT/ State Award For AB- PMJAY Beneficiary Treatment.

* Soumya Swaminathan Received The DEVI Awards 2026 At Chennai.