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Renowned art director Thota Tharaniawarded Chevalier (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by French Government (2025).
He is the 6th Indian film personalityto receive the Chevalier honour.
Other Indian Chevalier awardees: Sivaji Ganesan, Balamuralikrishna, Kamal Haasan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kalki Koechlin.
Ranks in the order: Commandeur (1st), Officier (2nd), Chevalier (3rd).
Indian Commandeurholders: Mrinal Sen, Sharmila Tagore, Soumitra Chatterjee.
Only Indian Officierawardee: Shah Rukh Khan.
Thota Tharani: veteran of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam & Hindi cinema; Padma Shri (2001).
Award recognises contributions to arts, cinema, literature & culture.

Sagar Defencewins “Accelerating the Autonomous Robotics Revolution”
Event: VISTA Track, Dubai Airshow 2025.
Prize: USD 5,000for their autonomous “boat-in-a-box” system GENESIS.
GENESIS: AI-driven, platform-agnostic module; can make any vessel semi/fully autonomous or remote-operable.
Sagar Defence is an iDEX startup(initiative launched by PM Modi in 2018).
15 iDEX startupsparticipated in Dubai Airshow 2025.

Signed on 19 November 2025between Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) and IIIT Delhi.
Purpose: joint research, India-specific standards, testing frameworks in advanced telecom & ICT.
Focus areas: 6G, optical communication, NTNs, contributions to ITU-T, 3GPP.
Supports Atmanirbhar Bharat, domestic R&D, secure communication systems.

Organised by: NeGD (MeitY)+ NHA + WHO-SEARO + UNICEF.
Objective: Promote open, interoperable digital health systemsacross Global South.
Builds on: 1st Summit held in Nairobi (2024).
Focus: digital public infrastructure, UHC, WHO Digital Health Strategy.
India highlighted its progress via governance, open standards & emerging tech.

Date: 20 November 2025, administered by Governor Arif Mohammad Khan.
Chosen unanimously as NDA Legislature Party leader (19 Nov).
NDA victory: 202 / 243 seats.
BJP Legislature Party: Samrat Choudhary (leader), Vijay Kumar Sinha (deputy leader).
Nitish Kumar first became CM in 2000 (7-day tenure).

New uniform introduced: January 2025.
Designed by NIFT Delhiunder Army Design Bureau.
Three-layered: digital camouflage outer coat + insulated mid-layer + thermal base layer.
Registered under Design Application No. 449667-001(27 Feb 2025).
Published: 7 October 2025, provides legal protection under Designs Act & Patents Act.
Supports Army’s Decade of Transformation (2023–2032); improves comfort, mobility, efficiency.

Signed: Joint Statement of Intent, New Delhi.
Purpose: strengthen financial literacy, ethics, governancein India’s innovation ecosystem.
Beneficiaries: Atal Tinkering Labs, AICs, Community Innovation Centres, startups.
Includes structured training, global best-practice frameworks.
CFA Institute: global, not-for-profit, HQ: Virginia, USA.

Launched by: Jitendra Singh.
For Sickle Cell Disease, mainly affecting tribal populations.
Name honours Birsa Munda’s 150th birth anniversary.
Cost is far cheaper than international therapies (which cost ₹20–25 crore).
Collaboration includes government agencies + Serum Institute of India.
CRISPR: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.
SCD: genetic disorder where RBCs become crescent-shaped, lowering haemoglobin.

Hosted by India’s NSA Ajit Doval.
Participants: Maldives, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh.
Seychelles: observer; Malaysia: special invitee.
Discussed progress in:
- maritime security
- counter-terrorism
- anti-radicalization
- transnational crime
- cybersecurity
- critical infrastructure security
- disaster relief
2026 roadmap evaluated.
Conclave members: India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Mauritius.
Earlier known as Trilateral for Maritime Security Cooperation; Secretariat in Colombo.

Released by PM Modi in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Amount: ₹18,000 crore→ for 9 crore farmers.
PM inaugurated the South India Natural Farming Summit 2025.
Highlighted:
- agriculture exports doubled
- ₹10 lakh croredisbursed through Kisan Credit Cards
- GST cut on bio-fertilisers
- farmers encouraged to adopt natural farming
Tamil Nadu: 22 lakh farmersbenefited under PM-KISAN.
Scheme details:
- Launched 24 Feb 2019
- 100% centrally funded