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Sahitya Akademi Award to Gagan Gill
Sahitya Akademi has announced its annual Sahitya Akademi Awards-2024 in 21 languages. This year this award for Hindi literature will be given to poetess Gagan Gill. Gagan Gill will be given this award for his work ‘Main Jab Tak Aayi Bahar’.
Sahitya Akademi Award for Maithili language to Mahendra Malangiya
Playwright Mahendra Malangiya, resident of Madhubani, will be given the Sahitya Akademi’s National Award for Maithili language for the year 2024. This award has been announced for his work ‘Prabandh Sangrah’ in the literature category of Maithili language.
Payal Kapadia’s film nominated for 82nd Golden Globe Awards
Film director Payal Kapadia has been nominated at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards for her first fiction feature film. She has received a nomination in the Best Director in the Motion Picture category for ‘All We Imagine as Light’. His film has also been nominated for Best Motion Picture in the Non-English Language category. Payal Kapadia is the first Indian film director to be nominated for the Best Director Award. Along with Payal Kapadia, Jacques Audiard, Sean Baker, Edward Berger, Brady Corbett and Coralie Farzette have also received nominations in the motion picture category for Best Director. At the same time, along with ‘All We Imagine as Light’, five other films have also been nominated in the non-English language category for Best Motion Picture. These include the films Emilia Perez, The Girl with the Needle, I’m Still Here, The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Viramilio.
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India becomes the world’s third largest smartphone exporter
India has become the third largest smartphone exporting country in the world. In the year 2019 it was at 23rd place. According to the data presented by the companies and collected from industry associations, smartphone exports from the country have crossed the figure of Rs 20 thousand crore in just one month in November 2024. According to the data of industry associations, the country’s smartphone export was recorded at Rs 20 thousand 395 crore last month. This shows an astonishing increase of 92 percent as compared to the exports in the same month last year. Last year this figure was Rs 10 thousand 634 crore.
D Gukesh becomes world chess champion
D Gukesh of India created history at the age of 18 by defeating Ding Liren of China and won the title of World Chess Championship 2024. With this victory, he has become the youngest World Chess Champion in the world, breaking the record of Garry Kasparov, who became World Champion at the age of 22. Gukesh achieved the title of Grandmaster in January 2019 at the age of 12 years and 7 months and became the youngest Grandmaster after Sergei Karjakin.
Indians will be able to travel visa free to Sri Lanka from January 2025
Indian citizens will be able to travel visa free to Sri Lanka from January 2025. India is among the 39 countries for which Sri Lanka has made arrangements for visa-free travel. During her visit to India, Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath made this announcement in a dialogue organized by India Foundation in New Delhi. He said that a parliamentary gazette notification for this will be issued in January.
Britain joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Britain has become the first European country to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), an Indo-Pacific trade bloc. Earlier, in 2023, the CPTPP parties and the UK signed the Accession Protocol to allow the UK to join the CPTPP. The CPTPP is a free trade agreement in the Pacific region, which was originally signed in March 2018 in Santiago, It was signed by 11 countries in Chile and took effect on December 30, following the US withdrawal from the original Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2017. Came into force in 2018. It includes 12 member countries including the UK, while the other members are Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. The group contributes about 15 percent of global GDP and provides trade access to a market of more than 500 million people.
Mumbai won the title of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
Mumbai team has won the title of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In the final match played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Mumbai defeated Madhya Pradesh by five wickets. Batting first, Madhya Pradesh scored 174 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. After this, Mumbai won the match by scoring 180 runs for five wickets in the 18th over. Surya Kumar Yadav scored the highest score of 48 runs. Mumbai team has won this title for the second time. In 2022, it won this title by defeating Himachal Pradesh.
India won the Women’s Junior Asia Cup Hockey Championship
India won the Women’s Junior Asia Cup Hockey Championship by defeating China 3-2 in the final played in Muscat, the capital of Oman. Sakshi Rana, Ishika and Sunelita Toppo scored goals in the shootout, while Indian goalkeeper Nidhi saved three goals in the penalty shootout. Earlier, Jinzhuang scored the first goal of the match for China. India’s Kanika Siwach leveled the match by scoring a goal in the third quarter. After a 1-1 draw in regular time, the match had to be decided by a shootout. Last year, India had won the first Women’s Junior Asia Cup by defeating Korea Republic.
Saudi Arabia will host the Men’s Football World Cup in 2034
The International Football Federation-FIFA has announced that Saudi Arabia will host the Men’s Football World Cup in the year 2034, while Spain, Portugal and Morocco will jointly host the World Cup in the year 2030. After voting in the FIFA meeting, both the world The host countries for the cup were confirmed. Representatives of all 211 FIFA member countries participated in the meeting held through video link. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the World Cup, three matches of the 2030 World Cup will also be held in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The decision for both the World Cups as well as the 2030 centenary celebrations was taken through two separate votes. In the first round of voting, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina were selected to host the centenary celebrations, while in the second round Spain, Portugal and Morocco were confirmed as hosts of the 2030 World Cup and Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 World Cup. Selected for.
Khelo India Winter Games dates announced
The dates of Khelo India Winter Games have been announced. The Union Territory of Ladakh will host ice hockey and ice-skating from 23 to 27 January next year. This will be the second year that the Union Territory of Ladakh will host a portion of the Khelo India Winter Games. Earlier, the 2024 edition was hosted by Jammu and Kashmir.
Ashwin retired from international cricket
Ravichandran Ashwin has retired from international cricket. He announced his retirement just after the third test match between India and Australia. Ashwin’s Test career in particular was very successful. 38-year-old Ashwin played 106 Test matches in his career and took 537 wickets. He is the Indian with the highest number of Test wickets after Anil Kumble.
Riya Thatte won gold in women’s 25 meter pistol competition
Riya Shirish Thatte has won the gold medal in the final of the women’s 25 meter pistol competition in the 67th National Shooting Championship held in New Delhi. She defeated Simranpreet Kaur Brar of Punjab 7-2. This is Riya’s first title in the senior national competition. In this competition, Olympic player and former Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat stood third.
Uttarakhand will host the 38th National Games
Uttarakhand is going to get a big gift in the first month of 2025. The state has got the opportunity to host the 38th National Games from 28 January to 14 February. This time 36 competitions will be included in the National Games. Yoga asanas have also been included in these.
