january Current Affairs 2025

th of India) as a part of the development of the connectivity and infrastructure of Jammu and Kashmir.

All India council of Technical Education (AICTE) has declared 2025, as the year of Artificial intelligence to make India one of the leaders in AI.

Uttarakhand will be hosting the 38 th National Games, since the very first time.

Home Minister of India presided over the meeting of 7 th of Island Development Agency (IDA), held in Delhi.

At the Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, the Prime Minister has launched Grameen Bharat Mahotsav 2025.

The 18 th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is being organized in Bhubaneswar, Odisha under the theme of Diaspora contribution towards a Viksit Bharat.

The 82 nd Annual Golden Globes Awards was hosted in Beverley hills in Beverley Hilton in California USA.

The model code of conduct is also becoming effective immediately in the Erode (East) Assembly constituency where polling will be done on the 5 th February.

Tamil Nadu government has announced the annual Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Award winner as Congress leader K.V. Thangkabalu, in 2024.

The state of Tamil Nadu had the first floating restaurant, also opened in the backwaters of Muttukadu, on the outskirts of Chennai.

The Centre had nominated V Narayanan as a new Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Secretary of Department of Space.

The Atreya Innovations startup of Pune has released an AI pulse diagnostic instrument - Nadi Tarangini to the Ayurveda practitioners which can check the health of patients in 22 parameters and report the condition in 10 Indian languages.

The recent opening of India first organic fisheries cluster under the PMMSY in Soreng District, Sikkim.

Brazil which is the current presiding state in BRICS has announced officially that Indonesia is becoming a full member of the Bloc.

India has already introduced two special category visas to international students who wish to study in India namely: the e-student visa and e-student-x visa. o The former is designated to accommodate international students who wish to educate themselves in India and the latter to the dependants of the former students.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is already putting in place the steel rail, at the identified 13 black spots along Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 44) including Ranipet, Vellore and Tirupattur districts to ensure the prevention of accidents.

Titagarh rail systems have delivered their first Made-in-India driverless train-set to the yellow line in the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL).

Recently, two Coast Guard fast patrol vessels (FPVs) called Amulya and Akshay were launched indigenously designed and built.

President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto will be the chief guest in the Republic Day of India in 2025.

Central Government has given permission to set-up a memorial to former President Pranab Mukherjee in the Rashtriya Smriti complex of new Delhi.

Indian Railways manages to execute a trial of tower wagon on the Anji Khad Bridge, first cable-stayed rail bridge in the country, which is located in the district of Reasi in Jammu and Kashmir.

The first round of Security Dialogue was hosted in New Delhi between India and Malaysia co-chaired by NSA Ajit Doval and the Raja Nushirwan of Malaysia.

Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly unanimously passed a public resolution moved to urge the Union government to withdraw, immediately, the Draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of the Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education) Regulations, 2025.

In Coimbatore, the Tamil Nadu government will establish a 2 million-square-foot artificial intelligence (AI) complex via a public-private partnership (PPP). 17

To prevent poaching, illicit tree-felling, unauthorized access into forest regions, and forest encroachments, the Karnataka Forest Department introduced the "Garudakshi" online FIR system.

Near Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, the Prime Minister lay the groundwork for the NTPC Green Energy Limited Project, India's first green hydrogen center.

The Indian Foreign Secretary met with the acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in the first high-level bilateral interaction with the Taliban administration.

The Tamil Nadu government released the "Tamilnilam Geo-Info App" app so that people could use their phones to see the contents of their land-related paperwork.

The Tamil Nadu government introduced the MinMathi 2.0 app to make it easier for SHG women to communicate with one another and to link them with mentors, other SHGs nationwide, and possible customers for their goods.

H Lakshmanan (92), a prominent member of the TVS family for over 70 years and the former Executive Director of Sundaram-Clayton, died away.

In Jammu and Kashmir, the prime minister will open the 13.14-kilometer Z Morh Tunnel, a crucial piece of infrastructure.

With support for all 22 Scheduled Languages, the Union Ministry of Labor & Employment introduced multilingual capability on the e-Shram site.

The Gaddi dog is the first breed from the Himalayan area and the fourth native breed to be recognized in India.

 

 

• The Pravasi Bharatiya Express, a cutting-edge tourist train reserved for Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), was launched by the prime minister.
• The newly established Advisory Board of Equal, an ID verification and data sharing platform, will be chaired by retired Supreme Court Justice B. N. Srikrishna.
• The 28th Commonwealth Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of Parliaments (CSPOC) will take place in India in 2026.
• The first Infectious Disease Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (IRDL) in South India will be established at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI).
• The second day of the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue was successfully launched in New Delhi by the Union's Department of Youth Affairs.
• The internationally recognized Airports Council International (ACI) has awarded Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) the coveted Level 5 certification, making it the first airport in India to do so.
• Indian people are now permitted to enter Malaysia for up to 30 days without a visa, as the country has formally extended its visa exemption for them until December 31, 2026. 18
• To educate Tamil and traditional arts to youngsters from the Tamil diaspora, the Tamil Nadu government has launched a 10 crore program. o As part of this initiative, 100 Tamil artists and educators will be sent to different nations to collaborate with Tamil Sangams (associations).
• In the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of the Hollongapar Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, exploratory drilling for oil and gas has been authorized by the National Board for Wildlife's Standing Committee (NBWL).
• The CSIR-Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (CSIR-CIMFR) has successfully conducted the first trial blast for the