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Top Headlines 25 October 2023
- Skyroot unveils Vikram-1 rocket, set to launch satellites early 2024
- Amit Shah inaugurates Country’s first Nano DAP plant in Gandhinagar
- Air Marshal Sadhna Saxena Nair takes charge as DG Hospital Services
- Indians top the list of those seeking citizenship in wealthy OECD
- 5 teachers of IIT Palakkad feature among world’s top 2% scientists
Today’s History: 25 October 2023
- 1415: British army, led by Henry V, defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1936: Germany and Italy established the Rome-Berlin Axis.
- 1940: American military officer Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., became the first African American general in the U.S. Army when he was promoted to brigadier general.
- 1955: The first domestic microwave ovens went on sale.
1) Lalitpur pharma park: U.P. eyes one lakh crore investment
- A pharma park in Lalitpur, UP will accommodate 70 manufacturing units, attract an investment of ₹1 lakh crore, and create over 1.5 lakh job opportunities.
- A pharma park spanning over 2,000 acres is to come up in Lalitpur, which will accommodate up to 70 manufacturing units.
- The state government will provide 94 plots in the park, in which plots will range from five acres to 50 acres.
2) Indians top the list of those seeking citizenship in wealthy OECD
- India maintained its top position as the country of origin of new immigrants to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations in 2021.
- According to OECD’s International Migration Outlook: 2023 report.
- OECD is a group of 38 countries, most of which are high-income and ranked very high on the Human Development Index (HDI).
3) A new book on business operations Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini
- A new book by business and digital technology experts Tony Saldanha and Filippo Passerini.
- The focus of the book “Revolutionizing Business Operations: How to Build Dynamic Processes for Enduring Competitive Advantage” is creating winning operations that get the product to the customer.
4) India to surpass Japan to become 2nd largest eco in Asia by 2030: S&P
- India, the world’s fifth largest economy in the world, is likely to overtake Japan to become the world’s third-largest economy with a GDP of USD 7.3 trillion by 2030, as per S&P Global Market Intelligence.
- After two years of rapid economic growth in 2021 and 2022, the Indian economy has continued to show sustained strong growth during the 2023 calendar year.
5) Amit Shah inaugurates Country’s first Nano DAP plant in Gandhinagar
- Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah inaugurated IFFCO’s nano DAP (liquid) plant at Kalol in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
- Nano urea is sprayed not on the ground but on the plants and due to this, there is zero possibility of destruction of natural elements or the earthworms present in the soil.
- It may also help in natural farming.
6) Kangana Ranaut becomes first woman to perform Ravan Dahan
- Actor Kangana Ranaut performed the Ravan Dahan at New Delhi’s famed Lav Kush Ramleela on the occasion of Dussehra.
- In the 50-year history of the event, held annually at the Red Fort, this was the first time a woman set the effigy of the demon king ablaze by shooting an arrow.
7) Air Marshal Sadhna Saxena Nair takes charge as DG Hospital Services
- Air Marshal Sadhna Saxena Nair took over as the Director General Hospital Services (Armed Forces) on promotion to the rank of Air Marshal.
- Becomes 1st lady officer to hold the position
- She is effectively only the second woman officer who has served throughout in the IAF to be promoted to the rank of Air Marshal; the first woman officer to achieve this was Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay.
8) 5 teachers of IIT Palakkad feature among world’s top 2% scientists
- Five faculty members of IIT Palakkad have been included on the latest list of the “world’s top two per cent scientists” released by Stanford University, California, US.
- The list features two distinctive categories: entire career until 2022 and for the single year 2022.
- They are: A. Seshadri Sekhar,Jagadeesh Bayry,Yugender Goud Kotagiri,Abdul Rasheed P. and M. Sabarimalai Manikandan.
9) 67th Dhammachakra Pravartan Day being celebrated in Nagpur
- In Nagpur, on the occasion of 67th Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Day various events are being organised.
- Babasaheb Ambedkar, embraced Buddhism with millions of his followers on the day of Vijaydashmi at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur at October 1956.
- Monk Dhammaratna Thero of Sri Lanka is the chief guest on the occasion of 67th Dhamma Chakra Pravartan Day.
10) Moon may be 40 million years older than thought: Study
- The Moon may be at least 4.46 billion years old, according to a study that pushes back the age of the lunar body by 40 million years.
- Over four billion years ago, when the Solar System was still young and the Earth was still growing, a giant object of the size of Mars crashed into our planet.
- The biggest piece that broke off of the early Earth formed the Moon, the researchers said.
11) Skyroot unveils Vikram-1 rocket, set to launch satellites early 2024
- Space start-up Skyroot Aerospace unveiled its indigenously built Vikram-1 rocket.
- Planned to be launched in early 2024, Vikram-I will be Skyroot’s second rocket, after the successful launch of the Vikram-S rocket.
- Vikram-1 is a multi-stage launch vehicle with a capacity to place around 300 kg payloads in Low Earth Orbit.
12) Asian Para Games: India sweeps podium in men’s discus throw F54/55/56
- India’s Neeraj Yadav, Yogesh Kathuniya and Muthuraja swept the men’s discus throw-F54/55/56 podium in the Hangzhou Asian Para Games.
- Earlier, Canoeist Prachi Yadav and quartermiler Deepthi Jeevanji clinched a gold each.
- Prachi, who had won a silver in canoe VL2 category, bagged her second medal of the Games as she picked up a gold in KL2 event.
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