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India’s newest warship INS Tushil completed her first port visit. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh met his Maldives counterpart. Trump released a map showing Canada as part of the USA. Women’s ODI match will be played for the first time in Rajkot between India and Ireland.
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NATIONAL
1. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh meets Defense Minister of Maldives: A bilateral meeting was held between Maldives Defense Minister Mohammed Ghassan Maumoon and Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, who was on a 3-day visit to India from 8 to 10 January.
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh welcoming Maldives Defense Minister Mohammed Ghassan Maumoon (left)
- During this, issues like providing arms and other defense equipment to the Maldivian Army, joint military exercises and defense projects were discussed between the two Defense Ministers. During his stay in India, Ghassan will also visit Goa and Mumbai.
- Muhammad Muizzu, considered pro-China, became the President of Maldives in November 2023. A year after becoming President, Muizzu visited India and said that relations with India were important for Maldives.
2. Indian warship INS Tushil makes first port visit: INS Tushil, the newest guided missile warship of the Indian Navy, completed her first port visit on 7 January.
INS Tusheel, docked at Dakar port, is India’s latest guided missile warship.
- INS Tusheel reached Dakar port in West African country Senegal and stayed in Dakar for 3 days.
- When the ship reached Dakar, it was welcomed by the 150 Indians present there. A joint yoga session was also organised.
- During this period, the ship also conducted a passage exercise with Senegalese Navy ship PHM Niani.
3. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav released the Government of India’s calendar of 2025: Union Information and Broadcasting and Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has released the Government of India’s calendar with the theme ‘Public Welfare through Public Participation’ on January 7.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav (centre) releases the government’s calendar 2025 at Railway Bhawan, Delhi.
- The motto at the beginning of the calendar is ‘Sarvesham Mangalam Bhuyat’, meaning ‘Welfare of all’
- Published in 13 languages, this calendar tells about the programs, schemes and achievements of the Central Government throughout the year.
- In this calendar from January to December, themes like cleanliness, exercise etc. have been given for every month.
- Days like Tribal Pride Day and Unity Day have been specially mentioned in the calendar.
- Every year the government distributes its annual calendar up to the level of Gram Panchayat.
4. Green Mahakumbh will be held in Prayagraj on 31st January: Green Mahakumbh will be organized on January 31 during the Kumbh festival in Prayagraj.
Swachhta Rath Yatra was taken out in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh to keep the Kumbh city established for Kumbh clean.
- More than 1000 environment and water conservation workers will be involved in this.
- It will be organized by Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Trust.
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be its chief patron.
- In the Green Mahakumbh, there will be a national level meeting on issues of nature, environment, water and cleanliness.
International
5. Trump offers to merge Canada with US: On January 6, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau resigned. After this Trump released a map showing Canada as part of the USA.
Donald Trump released this map of USA on American social media platform ‘Truth’, in which Canada is shown as part of USA.
- The tenure of Canadian PM Trudeau’s government from 2015 was till October 2024. He said that he was not a good choice for the next elections.
- Meanwhile, future US President Donald Trump offered to merge Canada with America.
- For this, he had talked about imposing economic sanctions on Canada instead of military action. Trudeau had opposed his statement.
- Now Trump has released a new map of USA on social media. It shows Canada as the 51st state of the USA.
STATE
6. CAT Jammu disposed of record 15,537 cases in 4 years: The Jammu branch of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) has disposed of a record 15,537 cases.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh (left) gave statistics related to CAT after meeting CAT Chairman Justice Ranjit More.
- Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Jitendra Singh revealed these figures after a meeting with CAT Chairman Justice Ranjit More.
- On June 8, 2020, CAT was started with a division bench in Jammu during Corona. The Central Government increased its bench by one more on January 10, 2023. Both these benches have two judicial members and two administrative members.
- 11,792 cases pending in Jammu and Kashmir High Court were transferred to CAT. Of these, 9,275 cases and 6,262 of the new 8,745 cases initiated in CAT have been disposed of.
SPORTS
7. India Open Badminton Tournament from January 14: The India Open Super 750 badminton tournament will be played at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall of Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi from January 14.
Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu will lead the team of Indian players.
- This time India will field a team of 20 players in the tournament. Last season, 14 players from India participated in this tournament.
- Lakshya Sen and PV Sindhu will lead the Indian contingent. Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will lead the Indian team in men’s doubles.
- Players like Olympic champion Victor Axelsen, Ann Se Young and world number 1 Shi Yuqi will also play in this tournament.
- This is the first event of PV Sindhu, who has won two Olympic medals, after marriage. She married Venkat Dutta Sai of Hyderabad on December 22, 2024.
8. Women’s ODI will be held for the first time in Rajkot: The 3-match ODI series between India and Ireland will be played at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot.
The teams of India and Ireland reached Rajkot on January 7 and started playing practice matches.
- The first ODI will be played on 10 January. The remaining 2 matches will be played on 12 and 15 January.
- Smriti Mandhana will captain in place of Harmanpreet Kaur in the matches against Ireland.
- Ireland women’s cricket team will be captained by Gabby Lewis.
- India had recently defeated West Indies in the ODI and T-20 series.
9. Women’s Premier League will be held in Lucknow and Baroda: BCCI has finalized 2 venues for the third season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL).
Captains of all 5 teams with the WPL trophy. Royal Challengers Bangalore is the champion of WPL Season-2.
- All matches will be played between 5 teams in Baroda and Lucknow. The tournament may start from 6th or 7th February.
- Second phase matches will be held in Baroda, which also includes qualifiers and finals.
- BCCI has informed Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) and Baroda Cricket Association (BCA) about holding the matches on their grounds.
TODAY’S HISTORY
History of January 8th
- In 1026, Mahmud Ghaznavi looted and destroyed the Somnath temple.
- The last death penalty for blasphemy was carried out in Britain in 1697.
- In 1790, America’s first President George Washington addressed the nation for the first time.
- Scientist Stephen Hawking was born in 1942.
- Jordan’s own constitution came into force in 1952.
- In 1996, former French President François Mitterrand died in Paris at the age of 79.
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