♟️🌍 Chess World Cup 2025 – Logo & Anthem Launched in Goa
📌 Key Highlights:
📍 Venue: Arpora, Goa
🎯 Format: Knock-out chess tournament
🌐 Players: 200+ international and Indian players
🎶 World Cup Anthem: Sung by Daler Mehndi
🚀 Logo Launched by: Goa CM Pramod Sawant
🏆 Prize Money: ₹17.58 crore
🏆 Two Jailed Journalists Win Sakharov Prize 2024
📌 Key Highlights:
✍️ Two journalists have won the EU’s top human rights award — the Sakharov Prize
🚨 One is jailed in Belarus and the other in Georgia
📰 Andrzej Poczobut (Belarus) – Journalist from Gazeta Wyborcza, sentenced to 8 years for allegedly harming “national security”
📰 Mzia Amaghlobeli (Georgia) – A well-known independent journalist and founder of major media outlets
📰 AI Synthetic Content Labelling – New Proposal by IT Ministry
📌 Key Highlights:
🏛️ Electronics & IT Ministry has proposed new rules for AI-generated content in India
🧠 The draft seeks mandatory disclosure and labelling of AI-generated “synthetic content” on social media platforms
📌 This comes as an amendment to the IT Rules, 2021 (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code)
🚀 Renowned Space Scientist E.V. Chitnis Passes Away
📌 Key Highlights:
🛰️ Famous space scientist Eknath Vasant Chitnis has passed away at the age of 100
🏡 He died at his residence in Pune after suffering a heart attack
🌌 He played a key role in the early years of India’s space journey
🛰️ Chitnis contributed to the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOSPAR)
🚀 INCOSPAR later evolved into ISRO, where his work laid a strong foundation
🧑🚀 Father of Indian Space Programme: Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
🏛️ Article 371 of the Indian Constitution
📌 Key Highlights:
🗺️ Special provisions for specific states in India
🛡️ Protects local culture, traditions & laws
🗣️ Gives special powers to Governors of those states
🌱 Focus on development, peace & progress
🏞️ Mostly for North-East states + Maharashtra & Gujarat
🪖 Neeraj Chopra Conferred Honorary Lt. Col. Rank
📌 Key Highlights:
🏅 Neeraj Chopra, India’s star javelin thrower and two-time Olympic medallist, has been honoured with a military rank
🪖 He has been formally conferred the rank of Lt. Col. (Honorary) in the Territorial Army
🎖️ The honour was presented by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief Gen. Upendra Dwivedi
🪖 Territorial Army Motto: “Savdhani Va Shoorta” (Vigilance and Valour)
📈💰 India’s Net FDI Falls in August 2025 — Outflows Higher than Inflows
📌 Key Highlights:
📈 Net FDI fell 159% in August 2025, showing more money left India than entered.
📈 Gross inflow: $6,049 million (lowest in FY so far; 30.6% lower YoY and 45.5% lower than July).
💵 Money taken out by foreign firms: $4,928 million.
🏛️ FDI Full Form: Foreign Direct Investment
📍 FDI Data Source: Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
📌 States Covered under Article 371 (A-J)
📌 Key Highlights:
🐅 Maharashtra & Gujarat — Development of specific regions
🛕 Nagaland — Protection of local religious & social practices
🌿 Assam — Safeguards tribal areas
🎭 Manipur — Cultural and administrative safeguards
💎 Sikkim — Preserves old laws and traditions
🌲 Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh — Safeguards tribal lifestyle
🐚 Goa — Special cultural protection
🌾 Andhra Pradesh & Karnataka — Regional development and equality
🏛️ Kerala Declared Free from Extreme Poverty
📌 Key Highlights:
✅ Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan will announce the State as extreme-poverty-free on November 1, at Central Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram
🎬 Mohanlal, Mammootty, Kamal Haasan will attend as special guests
🗳️ NITI Aayog (2021) report shows Kerala had the lowest poverty rate — 0.7%
🏅 Kerala ranked 1st in lowest poverty
🥈 Goa (2nd) and 🥉 Sikkim (3rd) have the next lowest poverty levels
😭🎭✨ Veteran Actor Asrani Passes Away
📌 Key Highlights:
🕊️ Govardhan Asrani passed away in Mumbai at the age of 84
😊 Known for comic timing, expressions & unforgettable funny roles
🎬 Acted in many classic Bollywood films as a legendary comedian
🌃 Born in Jaipur on Jan 1, 1941
🎓 Trained at FTII, Pune, choosing acting over family business
International Snow Leopard Day
Key Highlights:
- Observed globally every year on October 23
- Purpose: Raise awareness about snow leopard conservation
- Habitat: High-altitude mountains of Central and South Asia
Static CA:
- Scientific Name: Panthera uncia
- Range Countries: India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
- Established by: Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP)
