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28 April, 2025
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Sun 04 May, 2025
NATIONAL NEWS
Banquet for Angola’s President Lourenço
- President Droupadi Murmu met President of Angola João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço at Rashtrapati Bhavan and hosted a banquet in his honour.
WAVES 2025
- The first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) 2025 with the tagline ‘Connecting Creators, Connecting Countries’ concluded in Mumbai.
1st National Mediation Conference 2025
- 1st National Mediation Conference 2025 was inaugurated by President Droupadi Murmu at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi.
STATE SPECIAL NEWS
First "Transmedia Entertainment City”
- The Andhra Pradesh State government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with leading company Creativeland Asia Private Limited to develop the first “Transmedia Entertainment City” in the state.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
INDIA-ANGOLA
- India has announced a defence credit line of 200 million dollars (in Indian Rupees) to support the modernisation of Angola’s armed forces.
- The announcement came following delegation-level talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the President of Angola, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, in New Delhi.
Angola
| Capital: Luanda | Currency: Angolan Kwanza | Official language: Portuguese |
India Bans Pakistani Ships
- India has banned the entry of Pakistani ships at Indian ports and also prohibited Indian ships from visiting Pakistani ports.
- As per Directorate General of Foreign Trade notification, direct or indirect import or transit of all goods originating in or exported from Pakistan shall be prohibited with immediate effect.
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Moscow Victory Day Parade
- Minister of State for Defence Sanjay Seth will represent India at the Moscow Victory Day Parade to be held on the 9th of May.
Elections in Singapore
- Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) secured another landslide victory in the general elections, extending its 66-year rule.
Singapore
| Capital: Singapore | President: Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Official languages: Malay, Tamil, English, Singaporean Mandarin |
DEFENCE NEWS
HawkEye 360 technology
- The United States has approved the sale of HawkEye 360 technology to India to boost the country’s surveillance capabilities and enhance India’s maritime domain awareness in the Indo-Pacific region.
- HawkEye 360 collects and analyses radio frequency (RF) signal location with a constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit.
Stratospheric Airship Platform
- Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out maiden flight-trials of Stratospheric Airship Platform from Sheopur Trial site in Madhya Pradesh.
- The airship has been developed by Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment, Agra in Uttar Pradesh.
DRDO
| Founded: 1958 | Chairman: Dr. Sameer V Kamat | Headquarters: New Delhi |
IMPORTANT DAYS
International Firefighter’s Day
- International Firefighters' Day is observed on May 4, in order to honour firefighters for their service internationally, remember firefighters who lost their lives during service.
PERSON IN NEWS
Baba Shivanand
- Renowned spiritual guru and yoga practitioner Baba Shivanand, a Padma Shri awardee, passed away at the age of 128 in Varanasi.
ART & CULTURE
Bharat Gaurav Deluxe Train
- Indian Railways has introduced a Bharat Gaurav Deluxe Train for Char Dham Yatra which will cover religious places like Badrinath, Joshimath, Rishikesh, Puri, Konark, Rameshwaram, and Dwarka, alongside other religious places like Kashi Vishwanath, Bhimshankar, and Trimbakeshwar.
Indian Railways
| Fact | Details |
| First Train in India |
Date: 16 April 1853 Route: Mumbai (Bori Bunder) to Thane (34 km) |
| Then Governor General | Lord Dalhousie – Considered the "Father of Indian Railways" |
| Current Railway Minister | Ashwini Vaishnaw (As of 2024) |
| Chairman & CEO, Railway Board | Jaya Varma Sinha – First woman to hold this post (appointed in 2023) |
| Total Railway Zones in India | 19 Zones (including the latest – South Coast Railway Zone created in 2019) |
6th International Saiva Siddhantha Conference
- The 6th International Saiva Siddhanta Conference, jointly organized by the venerable Dharmapuram Adheenam and the Tamil Perayam of SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST), was inaugurated at SRMIST, Kattankulathur near Chennai.
Saiva Siddhanta
| Fact | Details |
| Core Philosophy | Based on three eternal realities: Pati (Shiva), Pasu (soul), and Pasa (bondage). Liberation occurs when the soul is freed from bondage. |
| Sacred Texts | Rooted in 28 Shaiva Agamas and Tirumurai, a Tamil devotional corpus by saints like Appar, Sundarar, and Manikkavacakar. |
ENVIRONMENT + SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT)
- Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in collaboration with FICCI and CII, launched the Indian Institute of Creative Technology (IICT) to revolutionize AVGC-XR sector with global industry partnerships.
APPOINTMENTS
Anthony Albanese
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has become the first Australian Prime Minister to win a second consecutive three-year term in 21 years.
SPORTS
Khelo India Youth Games 2025
- Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and Union Sports Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated Khelo India Youth Games 2025 at Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar.
- Total 28 sports will be played at six different cities including Patna, Rajgir, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Begusarai. Three kind of events of cycling, shooting and athletics will be held in New Delhi.
All India Football Federation Awards 2025
- All India Football Federation (AIFF) Awards 2025 were presented at Bhubaneswar.
Major Winners
| Award | Awardee |
| Men’s Player of the Year | Subhasish Bose |
| Women’s Player of the Year | Soumya Guguloth |
| Most Promising Players of the Year. | Brison Fernandes and Toijam Thoibisana Chanu |