- union home minister and minister of cooperation , shri amit shah launched BHARATPOL portal developed by central bureau of investigation in new delhi on 7 th january , 2025 in bharat mandapam in delhi .
- BHARATPOL portal will significantly facilitate real time information sharing for faster access to international police of red notices and other colour coded INTERPOL notices.
- devajit saikaia , a formar assam cricketer , is set to become the new secretary of the board of contral for cricket in india , while prabhtej singh bhatia from chhattisgarh state cricket sangh will take over as the new treasurer.
- former asian games champ bahadur singh sagoo elected as new athletics federation of india.
- he replaced adille sumariwalla , who was the president for three consecutive terms.
- sagoo is a one-time asian games gold medallist and a two-time olympian in short put . he clinched gold at the 2002 asiad in busan.
- spanning over 1000 km across 11 state and 23 cities , india now has the third-largest metro network in the world, surpassed japan.
- the initiative for a metro system started in 1969 with the metropolitan transport project.
- the london underground rail system popularly known as “tube” , was the first modern metro rail n etwork in the world.
- currently , there are 17 railway zones and 68 divisions in india
- this will be the 18th zone konkan railway is an administrative zone but is not considered as an operational zone of the indian railways.
- january 8 is recognized as earth ratation day every year.
- marks the anniversary of french physicist leon foucault’s 1851 proof that the earth revolves on its axis.