Obituaries 2025
=>Pritish Nandy: Veteran journalist, filmmaker, poet Pritish Nandy dies at 73.
Organizations 2025
=>IMD completes its 150 years: Established in 1875, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is completing 150 years of service on 15th January 2025. IMD is one of the earliest government departments created for systematic observation, regular reporting, and scientific forecasting of weather in the Indian subcontinent..
Persons in the news 2025
=>Wah Wah Zen Beta Baby:
In a significant event marking the dawn of 2025, India welcomed its first baby of the ‘Generation Beta’ on New Year's Day, January 1, in Aizawl, Mizoram. According to reports from All India Radio News, a baby boy, named Frankie Remruatdika Zadeng, was born at 12:03 am at the Synod hospital in Durtlang, making him the first child of this new generation
Celebrations 2025
=>18th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated once in every two years to strengthen the engagement of the overseas Indian community with the Government of India and reconnect them with their cultural roots. The 18th PBD Convention was held from
8th-10th January, 2025 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Space & Technology 2025
=>India successfully conducts historic space-docking test: Indian space agency Isro has for the first time successfully conducted space docking by joining together two small craft in space.
The mission called SpaDeX blasted off from Sriharikota launch pad in southern India on 30 December. The two spacecraft, launched on a single rocket, separated in space. The docking process, initially scheduled for 7 January, was rescheduled a number of times.
On Thursday morning, the space agency announced that it had created history by becoming only the fourth country in the world with such technology after United States, Russia and China
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=>In A First, Life Sprouts On ISRO's Space Lab: Cowpea seeds sent on the PS4-Orbital Experiment Module as part of the SpaDeX mission have germinated. Cowpea seeds sent on the PS4-Orbital Experiment Module (POEM), or the Bharatiya Space Lab, have germinated in the near zero-gravity and enclosed surroundings of space - and leaves are also expected to grow soon.
This experiment was part of the SpaDeX or space docking experiment launched on December 30, 2024, using the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV).
Appointments 2025
=>ISRO gets new chairman: V Narayanan, The new chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dr V Narayanan, is one of the key people behind India’s self-reliance in cryogenic technology, which powers all the modern-day heavy-lift rockets being used for high-profile space missions.
He also diagnosed the problems that led to Chandrayaan-2's failure and recommended the corrections needed for the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3.
Games 2025
=>British Junior (U 17) title: India's rising squash star Anahat Singh won the U-17 title in the British Junior Open with a fighting win over Egypt's Malika El Karaksy here. The 16-year-old Indian, seeded first,
Awards 2025
=>Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratan Awards '25:
Rashtrapati Bhavan on January 17th, 2025 (Friday) at 1100 hours.
| SR NO | ATHLETE NAME | SPORT | AWARD NAME |
| 1 | Gukesh D | Chess | Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna |
| 2 | Manu Bhaker | Shooting | Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna |
| 3 | Harmanpreet Singh | Hockey | Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna |
| 4 | Praveen Kumar | Para-Athletics | Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna |
| 5 | Jyothi Yarraji | Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 6 | Annu Rani | Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 7 | Nitu | Boxing | Arjuna Award |
| 8 | Saweety | Boxing | Arjuna Award |
| 9 | Vantika Agrawal | Chess | Arjuna Award |
| 10 | Salima Tete | Hockey | Arjuna Award |
| 11 | Abhishek | Hockey | Arjuna Award |
| 12 | Sanjay | Hockey | Arjuna Award |
| 13 | Jarmanpreet Singh | Hockey | Arjuna Award |
| 14 | Sukhjeet Singh | Hockey | Arjuna Award |
| 15 | Rakesh Kumar | Para-Archery | Arjuna Award |
| 16 | Preeti Pal | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 17 | Jeevanji Deepthi | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 18 | Ajeet Singh | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 19 | Sachin Sarjerao Khilari | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 20 | Dharambir | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 21 | Pranav Soorma | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 22 | H Hokato Sema | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 23 | Simran | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 24 | Navdeep | Para-Athletics | Arjuna Award |
| 25 | Nitesh Kumar | Para-Badminton | Arjuna Award |
| 26 | Thulasimathi Murugesan | Para-Badminton | Arjuna Award |
| 27 | Nithya Sre Sumathy Sivan | Para-Badminton | Arjuna Award |
| 28 | Manisha Ramadass | Para-Badminton | Arjuna Award |
| 29 | Kapil Parmar | Para-Judo | Arjuna Award |
| 30 | Mona Agarwal | Para-Shooting | Arjuna Award |
| 31 | Rubina Francis | Para-Shooting | Arjuna Award |
| 32 | Swapnil Suresh Kusale | Shooting | Arjuna Award |
| 33 | Sarabjot Singh | Shooting | Arjuna Award |
| 34 | Abhay Singh | Squash | Arjuna Award |
| 35 | Sajan Prakash | Swimming | Arjuna Award |
| 36 | Aman | Wrestling | Arjuna Award |
| 37 | Sucha Singh | Athletics | Arjuna Award (Lifetime) |
| 38 | Murlikant Rajaram Petkar | Para-Swimming | Arjuna Award (Lifetime) |
| 39 | Subhash Rana | Para-Shooting | Dronacharya Award |
| 40 | Deepali Deshpande | Shooting | Dronacharya Award |
| 41 | Sandeep Sangwan | Hockey | Dronacharya Award |
| 42 | S Muralidharan | Badminton | Dronacharya Award (Lifetime) |
| 43 | Armando Agnelo Colaco | Football | Dronacharya Award (Lifetime) |
Based on the recommendations of the Committee and after due scrutiny, the Government has decided to confer awards upon the following sportspersons, coaches, university and entity
Obituaries 2025 => Pritish Nandy: Veteran journalist, filmmaker, poet Pritish Nandy dies at 73. Born in Bihar’s Bhagalpur in 1951, Nan...
