Current Affairs Summary

Sports

• Santosh Trophy (Football) 2025: 78th edition, won by West Bengal, Kerala was runner-up, final held in Hyderabad.
• Major Dhyanchand Khel Ratna Award 2024: Awarded to D. Gukesh (chess), Manu Bhaker (shooting), Harmanpreet Singh (hockey), Praveen Kumar (para-athletics).
• Arjun Award: Established in 1961 with a prize of ₹15 lakh.
• Kho Kho World Cup 2025: India won both men's and women's titles, defeating Nepal in finals held at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Delhi. Priyanka Ingle was the women's captain.
• Col. C.K. Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award: Presented to Sachin Tendulkar.
• Polly Umrigar Award (Best Male Player): Jasprit Bumrah.
• Best Female Player Award: Smriti Mandhana.
• U19 Women's Cricket World Cup 2025: India won for the second consecutive time, defeating South Africa in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Gongadi Trisha was Player of the Tournament. Shafali Verma was captain.
• U19 Women's T20 World Cup: India won the inaugural edition, defeating England, captained by Shafali Verma.
• Australian Open 2025: Men's Singles winner: Jannik Sinner (Italy). Women's Singles winner: Madison Keys (USA).
• Ranji Trophy 2025: Winner: Vidarbha, defeated Kerala in the final held in Nagpur.
• Champions Trophy 2025 (Cricket): India won, defeating New Zealand in the final held in UAE (originally Pakistan was host). Rohit Sharma was captain. Mithun Manhas is the head of BCCI.
• Kabaddi World Cup 2025: India won both men's and women's titles, defeating England. The tournament was held in England.
• Women's Premier League 2025: Mumbai Indians won, defeating Delhi Capitals (who were runner-up in every edition). Harmanpreet Kaur was Mumbai's captain. Nat Sciver-Brunt won the Orange Cap, and Amelia Kerr won the Purple Cap.
• Khelo India Winter Games 2025: Held in Leh-Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir. Services Sports Control Board was overall champion, with Himachal Pradesh placing second among states.
• Khelo India Para Games 2025: Held in Delhi. Haryana topped the medal table (104 medals), followed by Tamil Nadu. Mascot: Ujjwala (sparrow).
• Khelo India Youth Games 2025: 7th edition, hosted by Bihar, featured 27 sports. Mascot: Gaj Singh. Maharashtra topped the medal table (58 gold), followed by Haryana (38 gold).
• French Open 2025 (Roland Garros): Played on clay court. Men's Singles winner: Carlos Alcaraz (Spain). Women's Singles winner: Coco Gauff (USA).
• Wimbledon 2025: 138th edition, played on grass court (oldest Grand Slam). Men's Singles winner: Jannik Sinner. Women's Singles winner: Iga Świątek (Poland).
• US Open 2025: Last Grand Slam of the year. Men's Singles winner: Carlos Alcaraz (Spain). Women's Singles winner: Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus).
• ICC Hall of Fame: M.S. Dhoni is the 11th Indian cricketer inducted.
• IPL 2025: 18th edition, won by RCB (first time win), captained by Rajat Patidar, defeating Punjab Kings 11. Fastest century by Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Rajasthan Royals). Orange Cap: Sai Sudharsan. Purple Cap: Prasidh Krishna. Final Man of the Match: Krunal Pandya.
• Youngest IPL Centurion: Vaibhav Suryavanshi (Bihar, Samastipur) scored a century in 35 balls against Gujarat.
• World Test Championship 2025: South Africa won their first ICC title, defeating Australia. Temba Bavuma was captain.
• First Khelo India Beach Games: Hosted by Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu. Manipur topped the medal table. Mascot: Pearl (dolphin).
• Asia Cup Hockey 2025 (Men's): India won, defeating South Korea in Rajgir, Bihar.
• Asia Cup Hockey 2025 (Women's): China won, India was runner-up. Held in China.
• ISSF Junior World Cup 2025: Held in New Delhi. India topped the medal table (26 medals, 8 gold).
• Def Olympics 2025: 25th edition, held in Tokyo. India secured 6th place with 20 medals.
• Khelo India University Games 2025 (5th edition): Held in 7 cities of Rajasthan (starting Jaipur). Mascot: Khambhagani. Chandigarh University topped the medal table. Most medals won by Srihari Nataraj (swimming).
• Durand Cup Trophy 2025: 134th edition, Asia's oldest football tournament, won by North East United FC, defeating Diamond Harbour in Kolkata.
• Davis Cup 2025 (Tennis): Italy won, defeating Spain.
• ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026: Rohit Sharma appointed Tournament Ambassador.
• Chess Grandmasters (India):
  • 91st: Rahul V.S. (Tamil Nadu)
  • 90th: Ilam Parithi (Tamil Nadu)
  • 89th: S. Rohit Krishna (Tamil Nadu)
  • 88th: Divya Deshmukh (Maharashtra) - also won FIDE Women's World Cup, defeating Koneru Humpy.

Awards & Recognitions

• Padma Vibhushan 2025: Awarded to Kumudini Lakhia, Lakshmi Narayan Subramaniam, Sharda Sinha, Justice Khehar, Nageswara Reddy, T. Vasudevan Nair, and Osamu Suzuki (Japan).
• Padma Bhushan 2025: Awarded to Jatin Goswami, Vivek Debroy, Pankaj Udhas, Shekhar Kapur, among others.
• Grammy Award (Chant Album category): Chandrika Tandon for "Triveni." Beyoncé's "Cowboy Carter" won Album of the Year. Tanvi Shah was the first Indian woman to win a Grammy.
• John Cassavetes Award (USA): "Girls Will Be Girls" (first Indian film to win), directed by Suchi Talati.
• 97th Academy Awards (Oscars): Best Picture: "Anora" (directed by Sean Baker). Best Director: Sean Baker. Best Actress: Mikey Madison ("Anora"). Best Actor: Adrien Brody ("The Brutalist").
• IIFA Awards 2025 (Jaipur): Best Film: "Laapataa Ladies" (Kiran Rao). Best Actor: Kartik Aaryan ("Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3"). Best Actress: Nitanshi Goel ("Laapataa Ladies").
• World Food Prize 2025: Awarded to Marengala Hungaria (Brazil).
• Jnanpith Award:
  • 59th: Vinod Kumar Shukla (Chhattisgarh, for Hindi literature).
  • 58th: Rambhadracharya (for Sanskrit) and Gulzar (for Urdu).
• International Booker Prize 2025: Banu Mustaq for "Heart Lamp" (Kannada novel), translated by Deepa Bisht. Geetanjali Shree won in 2022 for "Tomb of Sand."
• Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival, France): Jafar Panahi (Iran).
• Miss World 2025 (72nd edition): Opal Suchata (Thailand), competition held in Hyderabad. India's representative: Nandini Gupta. Kristina Piskova was Miss World 2024.
• Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2025: Kumar Mangalam Birla. (First recipient: PM Narendra Modi).
• Dadasaheb Phalke Award: Mohanlal (Malayalam actor).
• Pen Pinter Prize 2025: Leila Aboulela. Arundhati Roy was a previous recipient.
• P.V. Narasimha Rao Award for Economics: Dr. Manmohan Singh for 1991 economic reforms.
• Nobel Prizes 2025:
  • Medicine: Mary Brunncob, Fred Ramesdell, Simon Sakaguchi.
  • Physics: Deverrot, John Clarke, Martines.
  • Chemistry: Kitagawa, Richard Robson, Omar Yaghi.
  • Literature: Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungary).
  • Peace: María Corina Machado (Venezuela).
  • Economic Sciences: Joël, Philip, Peter.
• Abel Prize 2025 (Mathematics): Masaki Kashiwara (Japan).
• Filmfare Awards 2025 (Ahmedabad): Best Film: "Laapataa Ladies" (Kiran Rao). Best Director: Kiran Rao. Best Actor: Abhishek Bachchan. Best Actress: Alia Bhatt.
• British Academy Book Prize: Sunil Amrit for "The Burning Earth."
• World Peace and Security Leadership Award 2025 (Boston Global Forum of AI World Society): Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.
• Miss Universe 2025 (74th edition): Fatima Baaz (Mexico). India's representative: Manika Vishwakarma. Previous Indian winners: Sushmita Sen, Lara Dutta, Harnaaz Sandhu.
• Miss Universe India 2025: Manika Vishwakarma (Rajasthan).
• 71st National Film Awards: Best Feature Film: "12th Fail." Best Director: Sudipto Sen ("The Kerala Story"). Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan ("Jawan") and Vikrant Massey ("12th Fail"). Best Actress: Rani Mukerji ("Mrs. Chatterjee vs. Norway"). Best Hindi Film: "Kathal."
• Dadasaheb Phalke Awards 2025: Best Actor: Kartik Aaryan. Best Film: "Stree 2." Best Actress: Kriti Sanon.
• Grand Collar of the Southern Cross (Brazil): Awarded to PM Narendra Modi. (PM Modi also received high awards from Ghana and Trinidad and Tobago).

Science & Technology

• ISRO's 100th Mission: Launched navigation satellite NVS 02 with GSLV F15 rocket.
• NISAR: NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, launched with GSLV F16, for Earth imaging, involving India and USA.
• NavIC: India's indigenous navigation system.
• ISRO Chairman: V. Narayanan appointed as 11th Chairman. ISRO founded Aug 15, 1969. First Chairman: Vikram Sarabhai. S. Somanath (10th Chairman) wrote "Sher Jisne Chandni Pee Li." Headquarters: Bengaluru. Longest tenure by Satish Dhawan.
• Majorana 1st Quantum Processor: Launched by Microsoft.
• Ocelot: Launched by Amazon.
• ChatGPT: Launched by OpenAI.
• Gemini & WillowChip: Launched by Google.
• Vikram 3201 & Kalpana 3201: ISRO-developed microprocessors. Vikram 32 is India's first indigenous microprocessor.
• DRDO:
  • Unveiled hypersonic short-range ballistic missile BM04.
  • Hypersonic cruise missile: Dhwani.
  • Vasarodh, Samar, Sudarshan Chakra: Air defense systems.
  • Gandiva: Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile.
• Namo Bharat (RRTS): Delhi-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System, India's fastest train (160 km/hr).
• Super Earth Discovery: GJ 251c, discovered 18 light-years away in the "Goldilocks Zone."
• CMS-03: ISRO launched India's heaviest communication satellite (over 4000 kg) using LVM3 rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.

Politics & Governance

• Republic Day 2025 Chief Guest: Prabowo Subianto (President of Indonesia).
• Republic Day 2024 Chief Guest: Emmanuel Macron (President of France).
• US President: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th US President. J.D. Vance as 50th Vice President.
• Chief Minister of Delhi: Rekha Gupta (BJP) sworn in as 4th woman CM.
• Chief Minister of Odisha: Mohan Charan Manjhi.
• Chief Minister of Rajasthan: Bhajanlal Sharma.
• Chief Minister of Haryana: Nayab Singh Saini.
• 26th Chief Election Commissioner of India: Gyanesh Kumar, succeeding Rajiv Kumar (25th CEC).
• CAG of India: K. Sanjai Murthy.
• National Commission for Women Head: Vijay Rahatkar.
• RBI Governor: Sanjay Malhotra.
• First woman Chief Election Commissioner: Rama Devi.
• Law Commission: Dinesh Maheshwari appointed Chairman of 23rd Law Commission.
• Centre-State Relations: Tamil Nadu formed Kurian Joseph Committee. Previous commissions: Rajamannar, Sarkaria, Punchhi.
• PM Mudra Yojana: Launched April 8, 2015. Introduced new "Tarun Plus" category (₹10 lakh-₹20 lakh loans).
• 8th Pay Commission: Ranjana Desai appointed Chairman. (7th Pay Commission by Ashok Mathur).
• Vice President of India: C.P. Radhakrishnan elected as 15th VP, succeeding Jagdeep Dhankhar.
• Bihar CM: Nitish Kumar (JDU) sworn in for the 10th time.
• Namo Van: Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav laid foundation stone in Manesar, Haryana.
• Air India Dreamliner Crash: A Boeing Dreamliner crashed in Ahmedabad (May 2025) carrying 242 passengers, with one survivor. An investigation committee was formed under then Home Secretary Govind Mohan.
• GST Council (56th meeting): Approved new GST rate structure (5%, 18%, 40%) implemented from Sept 22, 2025. GST (Article 279A) implemented July 1, 2017, via 101st Amendment. Finance Minister heads GST Council.
• Indian Cabinet Ministers 3.0 (As of June 2024):
  • Narendra Modi: Prime Minister; Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space.
  • Rajnath Singh: Minister of Defence.
  • Amit Shah: Minister of Home Affairs.
  • Nitin Gadkari: Minister of Road Transport & Highways.
  • J.P. Nadda: Minister of Health & Family Welfare; Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers.
  • Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Minister of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development.
  • Nirmala Sitharaman: Minister of Finance; Minister of Corporate Affairs.
  • S. Jaishankar: Minister of External Affairs.
  • Manohar Lal Khattar: Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs; Minister of Power.
  • H.D. Kumaraswamy: Minister of Heavy Industries; Minister of Steel.
  • Piyush Goyal: Minister of Commerce & Industry.
  • Dharmendra Pradhan: Minister of Education.
  • Jitan Ram Manjhi: Minister of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises.
  • Lalan Singh: Minister of Panchayati Raj; Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
  • Sarbananda Sonowal: Minister of Ports, Shipping & Waterways.
  • Virendra Kumar: Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment.
  • Rammohan Naidu: Minister of Civil Aviation.
  • Pralhad Joshi: Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution; Minister of New & Renewable Energy.
  • Juel Oram: Minister of Tribal Affairs.
  • Giriraj Singh: Minister of Textiles.
  • Ashwini Vaishnaw: Minister of Railways; Minister of Information & Broadcasting; Minister of Electronics & Information Technology.
  • Jyotiraditya Scindia: Minister of Communications; Minister of Development of North Eastern Region.
  • Bhupender Yadav: Minister of Environment, Forest & Climate Change.
  • Gajendra Singh Shekhawat: Minister of Culture; Minister of Tourism.
  • Annapurna Devi: Minister of Women & Child Development.
  • Kiren Rijiju: Minister of Minority Affairs; Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.
  • Hardeep Singh Puri: Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas.
  • Mansukh Mandaviya: Minister of Labour & Employment; Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports.
  • G. Kishan Reddy: Minister of Coal; Minister of Mines.
  • Chirag Paswan: Minister of Food Processing Industries.
  • C.R. Patil: Minister of Jal Shakti.

International Relations & Summits

• BRICS: Indonesia is the 10th full member. Original concept by Jim O'Neill. 2025 summit in Brazil. India will host 18th BRICS Summit in 2026.
• NATO: Sweden is the 32nd member.
• SCO: Belarus is the 10th member (Iran was 9th). 25th Summit held in Tianjin, China.
• Joint Military Exercises:
  • Ekuberin & Ekta: India & Maldives (Chaubatia, Uttarakhand).
  • Varuna, Shakti, Garuda: India & France.
  • Bongosagar, Sampriti: India & Bangladesh.
  • Khanjar: India & Kyrgyzstan.
  • Dustlik: India & Uzbekistan (Aundh, Pune).
  • Nomadic Elephant: India & Mongolia.
  • Kazind: India & Kazakhstan.
  • Malabar: India, Japan, Australia, USA.
  • Cyclone: India & Egypt (Mahajan Field, Bikaner, Rajasthan).
  • Tiger Kill, Tiger Triumph, Vajra Prahar, TARKAS: India & USA.
• Aero India Show: Asia's largest, inaugurated by Rajnath Singh in Bengaluru at Yelahanka Air Force Station.
• 12th Regional 3R and Circular Economy Forum: Launched in Jaipur, India.
• UN International Hope Day: Declared July 12 (proposed by Bahrain and Kiribati).
• BIMSTEC Summit 2025 (6th edition): Hosted by Thailand. Theme: "Prosperous, Resilient, Open." Next summit in Bangladesh.
• First BIMSTEC Traditional Music Festival: Held in Delhi, inaugurated by S. Jaishankar.
• 150th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Summit: Held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, led by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
• UN General Assembly President (80th session): Annalena Baerbock (Germany), succeeding Philemon Yang (Cameroon, 79th session).
• UN ECOSOC: India elected as a member for 2026-28.
• G7 Summit 2025: Hosted by Canada.
• G20 Summit 2025: Held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Theme: "Solidarity, Equality, and Sustainability." 2026 summit will be in USA.
• COP30: Held in Belem, Brazil (Nov 10-21). COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan; COP28 in Dubai; COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
• New Development Bank (NDB): Colombia and Uzbekistan are new official members. Headed by Dilma Rousseff.
• Global Fintech Summit: Held in Mumbai.
• First foreign Atal Innovation Centre: Launched in Abu Dhabi.
• IUCN Meeting: Held in Abu Dhabi.

Environment & Climate

• Ramsar Award for Wetland Conservation: Jayashree Venkatesan (first Indian environmentalist).
• Ramsar Convention COP15: Held in Zimbabwe.
• Ramsar Sites in India: 96 sites. Latest (96th): Silised Lake in Alwar, Rajasthan. Latest previous additions: Gogabil (Bihar), Udaipur Lake (Bihar), Menar, Khichan (Rajasthan).
• National Space Day: August 23 (Chandrayaan-3 landing on Moon's South Pole; landing site named Shiv Shakti Point).
• International Hope Day: July 12.
• Meditation Day: December 21.
• Glacier Conservation Day: March 21.
• Operation Brahma: Indian government aid for earthquake-affected people in Myanmar.
• Operation Ganga: Evacuation of Indians from Ukraine.
• Operation Ajay: Evacuation of Indians from Israel.
• Operation Dost: Aid for Turkey and Syria.
• Operation Sindhu: Evacuation of Indians from Iran.
• Operation Sagar Bandhu: Launched by India (likely for assistance to Cyclone Ditwah affected Sri Lanka).
• Cyclones:
  • Shakti: Named by Sri Lanka.
  • Montha: Named by Thailand (meaning "beautiful flower").
  • Ditwah: Named by Yemen.
• Yala Glacier (Nepal): Asia's first dead glacier.
• Global Climate Change Performance Index: India 23rd (previously 13th).
• "Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam" campaign: Launched on June 5, 2024.

Culture & Heritage

• Vijay Durg Command: Indian Army's Fort William Command (Kolkata) renamed.
• Varun Sagar: Foy Sagar Lake (Ajmer, Rajasthan) renamed.
• Shri Vijayapuram: Port Blair renamed.
• National Tribhuvan Cooperative University: India's first cooperative university, started in Anand, Gujarat.
• India's first underwater museum: Established in Maharashtra using INS Guldar.
• UNESCO Creative Cities Network (Indian cities): Lucknow included for Gastronomy (9th city). Other cities: Gwalior (Music), Kozhikode (Literature), Mumbai (Film), Jaipur (Crafts), Chennai (Music), Srinagar (Crafts), Hyderabad (Gastronomy), Varanasi (Music).
• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Deepavali (Diwali) included (16th item, Dec 10). Previous additions: Garba (15th), Durga Puja (14th).
• Simlipal National Park (Odisha): Designated as 107th National Park.
• Keibul Lamjao National Park (Manipur): Only floating national park.
• Hemis National Park: Largest.
• South Button National Park (Andaman & Nicobar): Smallest.
• Jim Corbett National Park: Oldest (formerly Hailey, now Ramganga).
• K. Kasturirangan: Former ISRO head, associated with Western Ghats and New Education Policy 2020.
• New Pamban Bridge: India's first vertical lift sea bridge (2.08 km long), inaugurated in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu by PM Modi.
• World's highest railway arch bridge: Inaugurated in J&K, part of Srinagar-Baramulla-Udhampur railway link, 10,315m long, 359m high, over Chenab River.
• Maratha Military Landscapes: 12 forts (11 in Maharashtra, 1 in Tamil Nadu: Gingee Fort) inscribed as India's 44th UNESCO World Heritage Site at 47th session in Paris, France. Previous sites: 43rd: Charaideo Maidams (Ahom Kingdom, Assam); 42nd: Hoysala Temples (Karnataka); 41st: Santiniketan (West Bengal); 40th: Dholavira (Gujarat).
• International Gita Mahotsav 2025: Held in Kurukshetra, Haryana, with Madhya Pradesh as partner state.
• Zubeen Garg Island: Singapore renamed St. George Island in tribute to the Assamese singer.

Economy & Development

• India's first Bio Bank: Started at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park, Darjeeling, West Bengal.
• India's first semiconductor innovation museum: Inaugurated in Hyderabad.
• India's second green hydrogen plant: Inaugurated in Gorakhpur. First one in Kandla.
• India's first indigenous tempered glass manufacturing facility: Launched in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
• Aerospace Grade Titanium unit & BrahMos unit: India's largest, inaugurated in Lucknow.
• H125 Helicopter & C295 Aircraft Production: Tata Airbus to establish H125 helicopter final assembly line in Bemagal, Karnataka. C295 military transport aircraft production line in Vadodara, Gujarat.
• India's Coastal Line: Revised length is 11,198.81 km. Gujarat has the longest among states; Andaman & Nicobar among UTs.
• Ethanol Blending: India achieved 20% ethanol blending in petrol by 2025, five years ahead of target.
• Rudrast: Asia's longest freight train (4.5 km long) successfully trialed by Indian Railways.
• PM Modi's MP Flats Inauguration: Multi-storey flats for MPs in New Delhi named Krishna, Godavari, Kosi, Hooghly.
• Rajpath: Renamed Kartavya Path.

Social & Others

• Generation Beta: New generation of children born from 2025 to 2039. First child in India born in Mizoram.
• Uniform Civil Code (UCC): Uttarakhand is the first state to enact a law for UCC (Article 44). UCC was already applicable in Goa without a specific state law.
• Nepal PM: Sushila Karki sworn in as Nepal's first woman Prime Minister, replacing K.P. Sharma Oli.
• Functionally Literate District (4th): Himachal Pradesh (99.3% literacy). First was Mizoram.
• World's first ceramic waste park: Built in Khurja, Uttar Pradesh.
• Pope Leo XIV: Robert Prevost from USA appointed as new Pope.

Books & Authors

• "A Cricketer's Wife's Diary" by Cheteshwar Pujara's wife.
• "How India Scaled MTG20" by Amitabh Kant.
• "The World After Gaza" by Pankaj Mishra.
• "Diyaslai" (autobiography) by Kailash Satyarthi.
• "The Great Conciliator" (about Lal Bahadur Shastri) by Sanjeev Chopra.
• "The Chief Minister and the Spy" by Amarjeet Singh Dulat.
• "Beyond the Courtroom" by Fali S. Nariman.
• "Sanghatit Manavi Vyavasthapan" by Nitin Gadkari.
• "The Stars Light the Way" by Sucheta Raj Khanna.
• "Wings to Our Hopes Volume 2" (Draupadi Murmu's speeches collection).
• "The One" by Shikhar Dhawan.
• "The Rise of the Hitman" by R. Kaushik (about Rohit Sharma).
• "Why the Constitution Matters" by D.Y. Chandrachud.
• "Justice Denied, Justice Last" by Kanchan Chakravarty.
• "Operation Sindoor" by KGS Dhillon.
• "Different But Knowledge" by Anupam Kher.
• "Believers Dilemma" (biography of Atal Bihari Vajpayee) by Abhishek Chaudhary.
• "Demography Representation Delimitation" by Ravi K. Mishra.
• "Democracy's Heartland: Inside the Battle for Power in South Asia" by S.Y. Quraishi.
• "I Am Georgia" (autobiography of Italian PM, foreword by PM Modi).
• "The Will Shoot You, Madam" by Harinder Baweja (on Indira Gandhi's death).
• "Above and Beyond" by Shiv Kumar Mohan.
• "The Burning Earth" by Sunil Amrit.

Indexes & Reports (2025 unless specified)

• Corruption Perception Index 2024: India 96th.
• SDG Index: India 99th.
• Global Hunger Index: India 102nd (previously 105th), categorized as 'serious'.
• Global Gender Gap Index (by WEF): India 131st.
• Human Development Index (by UNDP): India 130th.
• Press Freedom Index: India 151st.
• Asia Power Index: USA 1st, China 2nd, India 3rd.
• Global Peace Index: India 115th.
• Happiness Index: India 118th.
• Global Innovation Index (WIPO): India 38th.
• Global Competitiveness Index: India 41st.
• Henley Passport Index: India 85th.
• Economic Freedom Index: India 128th.
• Global Climate Change Performance Index: India 23rd (previously 13th).