Weekly Current Affairs 2025: Read weekly current affairs from January 30 to February 5

Weekly Current Affairs 2025: Students preparing for competitive examinations are given special advice to pay attention to questions focused on current affairs. If you are preparing for a competitive exam, then you can get information about some important contemporary developments that occur in this week here.

Indian American musician Chandrika Tandon gets Grammy Award

Indian-American singer Chandrika Tandon has won the Grammy Award at Best New Age, Chant Album category for the album ‘Triveni’. Chandrika has won the award with South African flute player Vautar Kelman, Japanese cellist Iru Matsumoto. The award was presented to him at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony held at Los Angeles. At the same time, this year, the maximum number of 11 nomination singers have been the names of Beyonce. With this, this time she became the first black woman to win Grammy in the native music category in 50 years. Beyoncé won the Grammy Award for Best Country Doo/Group Performance for collaboration with Miley Cyrus on II Most Wanted song. The Grammy Award held at Los Angeles, USA, is a well -known award for the music industry.

Truthtel Hacathan Challenge announced

The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has announced the Truthtel Hacaton Challenge in collaboration with the India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA). Hackathon, World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) is part of Season 1 of the 2025 Create in India Challenge (CIC). This challenge is a leading initiative aimed at developing an AI-operated solution to deal with misinformation in live broadcasting.

International Big Cat Alliance applied

International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) has officially come into existence as a fully developed, treaty -based, government international organization and an international legal unit. , To conserve Cheetah, Jaguar and Puma. Five countries – Nicaragua, Iswatini, India, Somalia and Liberia have signed a framework agreement to become members of IBCA. India has been unanimously selected as the IBCA headquarters. According to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Framework Agreement on the establishment of IBCA in a major development has officially come into force. Till now 27 countries including India have agreed to join IBCA and in the field of wildlife conservation Many international/national organizations working have also participated with IBCA.

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White tiger breeding center will open in Madhya Pradesh

The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) has approved the proposal to set up a white tiger breeding center in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh. The proposal of the white tiger breeding center at Govindgarh has been approved by CZA as part of the revised Master (Layout) scheme for Maharaja Martand Singh Judeo White Tiger Safari and Zoo at Mukundpur, Satna.

National Critical Mineral Mission gets approval

The Union Cabinet has approved the establishment of the National Critical Mineral Mission. Its purpose is to make India self -sufficient in the field of important minerals. It aims to operate 1,200 domestic significant mineral search projects by 2030-31 and auction more than 100 important mineral blocks. The government has kept a budgetary outlay of 16,300 crore in seven years for this mission and from central public sector undertakings An additional investment of 18,000 crores is expected.

India won the Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup title

India has won this title for the second time in the final match of the Under-19 T20 World Cup played between the women’s teams of India and South Africa. South African captain Kayla Renke won the toss and decided to bat first. Nikki Prasad took over the command of the Indian team. South Africa’s innings was reduced to 82 runs and India achieved the target by losing one wicket in 11.2 overs. The Indian women’s under-19 cricket team has won the T20 World Cup title for the second consecutive time. The tournament started in 2023 and the Indian team won in the first edition. Then Team India’s captain was Shefali Verma.

India’s number one para-athlete Srimanta Jha won silver medal

India’s number one para-athlete Shrimant Jha has won the silver medal in the +85 kg category in the World Para-Arme Wrestling Cup 2025 held in Uzbekistan. Shrimant dedicated his silver medal to Indian martyred soldiers. The tournament was held from 30 January to 6 February 2025. Shrimant Jha has won a silver medal by defeating Alnoor of Kazakhstan. After winning the silver medal, Srimanta Jha qualified for the European Para Arm Wrestling Championship in Norway. Jha, who has won 50 international medals so far, is World No. 3 and Asia’s number 1 para-arrow wrestler.

Pragyanananda won 2025 Tata Steel Masters Chess tournament

Grandmaster R Pragyanand has won a spectacular victory in Tata Steel Masters Chess Tournament 2025. He won his first title by defeating current world champion D Gukesh. This was Gukesh’s first tournament after becoming a world champion. Both Pragyananand and Gukesh topped the Masters Leaderboard with 8.5/13 points. A tiebreaker was played to break this equal, in which Pragyanananda won.

Tejas Shise set a new national record in 60 meter hurdles race

Tejas Shirsa broke his own national record in the men’s 60 meter hurdles of the Elite Indoor Track Competition in Miramas, France and finished second. The Shirse 22 years took a time of 7.64 seconds in the World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver Level competition, which was better than his earlier national record of 7.65 seconds in the CMCM indoor competition in Luxembourg on 19 January. This was the third race of the shirse of this session.

Bart de Waver became the new Prime Minister of Belgium

After the long -running political deadlock in Belgium, the new Prime Minister has been appointed. Bart de Waver, who intends to give more autonomy to Northern Funders, has got the responsibility of PM post. This is the first time a flemish nationalist in Belgium is leading the federal government. The prominent leader of the Flemish alliance NVA will replace D Weever caretaker PM Alexander D Cruce. Apart from this, the Summit to be held at D Wever Brussels will attend the European Union leaders.

Australia’s Goldfields nominated to include UNESCO’s World Heritage

The Australian government has nominated the historic Goldfields (Gold mines) of the state of Victoria to include in the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is located in the central part of Goldfields Victoria which is also known as ‘Golden Triangle’. Thousands of people came in search of gold during the years 1850 and 1860s during the Gold Rush (the boom due to gold discovery), including local tribals and migrants.

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