- indian chess grandmaster koneru humpy won her second women’s rapid chess championship title ,beating irene sukandar of Indonesia
- her first title is 2019 at georgia.
- the top ranked india is only the second player after china’s ju wenjun to clinch the title more than once.
- humpy is india’s first female grandmaster in 2002.
- ISRO will launch the space docking experiment
- The mission will use PLSV-C60 , lifting off at 21:58 IST from sriharikota.
- spaDEX will deploy two identical satellites,SDX01 and SDX02
- each satellite weighs around 220 kilograms and will orbit 470km above earth.
- The indian army contingent comprising departed for nepal today to participate in 18th edition of battalion level joint military exercise surya kiran.
- the exercise will be conducted in saljhandi ,Nepal from 31st dec 2024 to 13th jan 2025
- it is an annual training event conducted alternatively in the two countries.
- The indian army has installed a statue of maratha warrior chhatrapati shivaji on the bank of pangong lake at an altitude of 14,300 feet, a region that is close to the line of actual control with china in the eastern ladakh sector.
- national accreditation board for testing and calibration laboratories(NAML) is a constituent board of the quality council of india (QCI)
- NABL works to improve the quality of testing and calibration services ,ensuring trust in the products and services used by consumers ,businesses and regulators.
- Punjab has recently achieved milestone by providing 100% piped water supply to all rural households ,falls under the central government’s “har ghar jal” scheme.
- the scheme was announced by the prime minister on august 15,2019 as part of the jal jeevan mission . the scheme aims to provide 55 liters of tap water per person per day to every rural household by 2024.
- from January 10 to 16,2025.
- the third eye Asian film festival ,initiated by the Asian film foundation in 2002.
- The chinese government has given its green singal to the construction of the world’s largest dam on the river yarlung zangbo / tsangpo on the eastern rim of the tibetan plateau.
- The project has raised concerns among environmentalists as it will lead to the displacement of millions of people and the destruction of the natural ecosystem in tibet.
- world boxing has added asia as its newest member.