On 08th May 2023, the UK observe a bank holiday for the coronation of King Charles III.

India, Pakistan, New Zealand and England are the four teams qualified for T20 World Cup Semi-Finals.

In Uttarakhand, the Lakhpati Didi Yojna has been inaugurated.

India is participating in the three-day World Travel Mart starting Monday in London to showcase itself as a preferred destination for tourism, the government has said. The theme of this year’s exhibition is The Future of Travel Starts Now which will be held from 07th to 09th November 2022.

Guyana President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali will be the chief guest for the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, which will be held in 2023.

China has plans to expand the global reach of its home-grown Beidou satellite navigation system. It is named the country’s alternative to America’s Global Positioning System (GPS). Beidou set up the first of three Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) for its Thailand network in 2013.

‘Permacrisis’, a term that describes ‘an extended period of instability and insecurity, has been named Word of the Year 2022 by the Collins dictionary. The word relates to the challenges posed by climate change, the war in Europe, a cost-of-living crisis and political chaos. It was first used in academic contexts in the 1970s. In 2020, Collins picked “lockdown” as its word of the year and last year, it opted for “NFT- Non-fungible token”.

The Central Government has set up a high-level panel to strengthen the assessment and accreditation of higher educational institutions. The committee has been formed under the chairmanship of K Radhakrishnan, Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIT Kanpur. He is also the chairperson of the IIT Council Standing Committee.

SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, sending several U.S. military satellites into orbit. This is the most powerful launched ever from the Earth. This was SpaceX’s 50th launch of 2022 as SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket has launched 49 missions so far this year. The present pace of the space company is a launch every 6.10 days.

Switzerland has launched the world’s longest passenger train with 100 coaches, and 4,550 seats, measuring 1910 metres. Rhaetian Railway, a Swiss transport company, has set a world record for the longest passenger train, to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Switzerland’s first railway. The record-breaking train was formed of 25 new ‘Capricorn’ electric trains, which passed through the landscape in the Swiss Alps.

Ministry of Jal Shakti is organizing Ganga Utsav – The River Festivals 2022 on 4th November 2022 at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi in two separate sessions. The Ganga Utsav- The River Festivals 2022 is being organized by the collaboration of The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, and the Ministry of Jal Shakti. NMGC will make Ganga Utsav- The River Festivals 2022 more colourful with the active and inspirational participation of multiple stakeholders. One of the main objectives of Ganga Utsav 2022 is to celebrate rives and spread awareness of the significance of river rejuvenation across river basins in India.

In Kochi, the Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference and Expo 2022 be held from the 4th to the 6th of November 2022 will be held.

Bengaluru Airport becomes the first airport to get 5G network connectivity in India.

Ranveer Singh will represent India at the FIFA World Cup Finale on 18th December in Qatar.

India’s 1st Floating Financial Literacy Camp held by IPPB at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir

The University Grants Commission has written to vice-chancellors and principals of all universities and colleges in this regard following recommendations of a committee constituted last year by the education ministry to promote Indian languages. All higher education institutions in India must observe a ‘Bharatiya Bhasha Divas’ on December 11 every year to create “language harmony” and develop a conducive environment for learning Indian languages.

Seema Dhundia and Annie Abraham, two women officers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), have been promoted to the rank of Inspector General for the first time after their induction into the force in 1987. Notably, the Central Reserve Police Force was also the first Central Armed Police Force to induct women in combat in 1986.

China launched the third and final module ‘Mengtian’ to complete its permanent space station. Mengtian or Celestial Dream joins Wentian as the second laboratory module for the station which is collectively known as ‘Tiangong’ or ‘Celestial Palace’. Mengtian will provide space for science experiments with zero gravity, an airlock for exposure to the vacuum of space, and a small robotic arm to support the extravehicular payloads.

Operation Vigilant Storm is a Defence Exercise that is held between the United States and South Korea. The exercise includes hundreds of warplanes from both sides staging mock attacks 24 hours a day. The Defence Exercise featured 240 warplanes and included variants of the F-35 stealth fighter from both the United States and South Korea.

Suryakumar Yadav has become the world’s number-one batter in T20 Internationals, rising to the top on the back of his incredible form in recent times. Suryakumar Yadav has overtaken Pakistan opener Mohammed Rizwan to become just the second Indian player to hold the top T20I batter ranking. Yadav is now at 863 points while Mohammed Rizwan is at 842 points.

1 TB will be the new storage limit Google Workspace will provide for individual accounts soon.

The Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated India Chem 2022 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ‘Vision 2030: Chemicals and Petrochemicals Build India’. India Chem 2022 will showcase the government’s policy for sustainable growth in the sector.

The United States has launched a demining training project in Ukraine amid the Russia-Ukraine war. The project has been launched to provide urgent humanitarian demining assistance to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s brutal war of aggression.

The prestigious Karnataka Ratna Award was posthumously conferred on late actor Puneeth Rajkumar by the Chief Minister of the state Basavaraj Bommai. Later Actor Puneeth Rajkumar was conferred with Karnataka Ratna Award on the 67th Kannada Rajyotsava. Karnataka Ratna Award, the highest civilian award of the state, has been conferred only nine times earlier.

The new boss Elon Musk has announced that Twitter Inc. will charge $8 for its Blue Service, which includes its sought-after verified badge. He further added that the price of the blue tick mark on Twitter will be adjusted by country proportionate to purchasing power parity.

Prime Minister Modi has declared Mangarh Dham a National Monument in the Banswara district of Rajasthan. Mangarh is a hill station in the Banswara district in Rajasthan. Here 1500 Bhils sacrificed their lives under the leadership of the great saint Govind Guru.

The former MD of Tata Steel Jamshed J Irani who was also famously known as the ‘Steel Man of India’ passed away on October 31, 2022. He joined TATA Steel as an assistant to the director (R&D). Jamshed J Irani became the Managing Director of TATA Steel in 1992 and he served in the position till 2001.

The Government of India has given its approval for the establishment of India’s first-ever Aqua Park in Arunachal Pradesh at Tarin (Ziro) in the lower Subansiri District. The approval for India’s first Aqua Park in Arunachal Pradesh came after due examination by the concerned authorities.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will commence pilot launches of the digital rupee from November 1. It has identified nine banks for participation in the pilot launch. They are the State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Yes Bank, IDFC First Bank, and HSBC. A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) or Digital Rupee is a digital form of currency notes issued by a central bank. Digital currency or rupee is an electronic form of money, that can be used in contactless transactions. Presenting Union Budget 2022, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would be rolling out its digital currency soon.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has inaugurated North India’s first hyper-scale data centre Yotta Yotta D1 built at the cost of Rs 5,000 crore and spread over an area of 3,00,000 square feet at the upcoming Data Centre Park in Greater Noida. Memorandums of Understanding worth Rs 39,000 crore were also signed between the Yogi Government and Hiranandani Group to be spent on projects in the next five years on the occasion. The data centre will increase the data storage capacity of the country, which until now stood at two percent only even though 1.5 billion mobile phones and 650 million internet users in the world are from India using 20 per cent of data. Yet for the storage of data, we had to look for centres abroad.