TNPSC Thervupettagam

TNPSC BITS

December 30 , 2025 16 hrs 0 min 18 0
  • PV Sindhu, India’s two-time Olympic medallist, has been elected to the Chair of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Athletes’ Commission for the term 2026–2029.
  • Anu Garg, IAS officer of Odisha cadre, will become Odisha’s first woman Chief Secretary from January 1, 2026.
  • Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA), a new greenfield airport developed by Adani Airports, has commenced commercial flight operations.
  • VoxelGrids, a Zoho-backed start-up, has developed India’s first Indigenous Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner.
  • The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted the Regional Level Pollution Response Exercise (RPREX-2025) to test oil spill preparedness held off the Mumbai coast.
  • China opened the 22.13-km-long Tianshan Shengli Tunnel in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, making it the world’s longest expressway tunnel.
    • It passes through the Tianshan Mountain range, which separates northern and southern Xinjiang.
  • The Param Rudra supercomputer was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna.
    • It is the first supercomputer facility in Bihar, under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).
  • Aishi Prisha Borah, from Jorhat, Assam, received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025 for her work in the science and technology promoting sustainability and waste reduction.
    • She has earlier won the INSPIRE MANAK (Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research – Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge) State Award in 2022.

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