• This Network can handle → AI and 5G ervices at Same time
• This process known as an → Artificial intelligence radio access network (AI-RAN)
• Used → For Autonomous vehicle remote support and robotics control

Varadarao Kamalakara Rao: Carnatic Musician
• Instrument → Mridangam

Pandit Ram Narayan: First internationally successful SARANGI Player
• Award: Padma Vibhushan (2005)

FICCI: Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
• Founded: 1927
• HQ: New Delhi

QS Asia Rankings 2025 –

• Top INDIAN Universities –
1. IIT Delhi – 44th Rank (Asia)
2. IIT Bombay – Rank 48
3. IIT Madras – Rank 56

• Top Universities In ASIA –
1. Peking University – China
2. The University of Hong Kong

PM-Vidyalaxmi Scheme → For Higher Education
• Provide: Collateral-free, guarantor-free education loans to meritorious students
• Recently Approved by: Union Cabinet
• Total Outlay → ₹3,600 cr.

DONALD TRUMP: President-elect of the United States
• Assuming office: January 20, 2025
• Political party: Republican

According to the National Family Health Survey-5
• 25.4% women aged between 20-24 years in Rajasthan → Married before age of 18 years

The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
• Came into force on → 1 Nov 2007
• Objective: To prohibit child marriages, and protects and provides assistance to the victims of child marriages.

DEEPAM 2.0 Scheme
• Launched by: Andhra Pradesh CM → Chandrababu Naidu
• Aim: To provide free Gas cylinders to eligible families

PROBA-3: Solar Observation Mission of European Space Agency
• Rocket: PSLV-XL C-59
• Launch site: Satish Dhawan Space Centre

Theme: Role of Buddha Dhamma in Strengthening Asia
• Organized by: Ministry of Culture and the International Buddhist Confederation (IBC)
• Held at → New Delhi

IREL (Indian Rare Earths Limited) Under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) & Kazakhstan have signed an agreement
• To establish → Indo-Kazakh joint venture company (JVC): IREUK Titanium Limited
• For production of Ti Slag in India

• TITANIUM SLAG: Byproduct of the titanium dioxide (TiO₂) production process
• Mfg through → Smelting of ilmenite (FeTiO₃)
• Uses → Aerospace, automotive industries

Released by: IMF – International Monetary Fund
• IND’s Rank: 72
• Top Countries
1. SINGAPORE
2. DENMARK
3. USA

Exercise Garud Shakti 2024: Joint Special Forces Exercise
• Edition: 9th
• Location: Jakarta, Indonesia

Vajra Prahar 2024: Joint Special Forces Exercise
• Edition: 15th
• Between: IND & USA
• Location: Orchard Combat Training Centre, Idaho, (USA)

Defence Secretary: Administrative head of the → Ministry of Defence.

Why In News: This Park Achieved India’s 1st IGBC (Indian Green Building Council) Certification
5 National Parks in HP –
1. Great Himalayan National Park
2. Simbalbara National Park
3. Khirganga National Park
4. Pin Valley National Park
5. Inderkilla National Park

National Unity Day: On The birth anniversary of → Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Sardar Patel: India’s 1st Home Minister
• Known As → Iron Man of India

STATUE OF UNITY: Of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel → World’s Tallest Statue
• Location → Kevadia, Gujarat

KS Puttaswamy: Was Judge of the Karnataka High Court
• Why In News: Recently Passed Away at 98
• He played a key role in the landmark Right to Privacy case
• Supreme Court Declared → Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right Under Article 21
• When declared → 2017

India’s 1st Writer’s Village (Lekhak Gaon)
• Inaugurated In: Thano Village, Dehradun (Uttrakhand)

Ballon d’Or 2024 (Football)
• Men’s: Rodri (Spain)
• Women’s → Aitana Bonmatí (Spain)

Appointed by: Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC)
• National Agriculture Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED)
• Est.: 1958
• Under: Ministry of Agriculture

ACES 2024
• Held: Singapore
• Aims → To bring together global leaders to shape a sustainable future for the Asia-Pacific region.

Urmila Chaudhary: A prominent social campaigner from Nepal
• Award Presented by U.S. Secretary of State