📖 Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 11 August 2025

  Exam Related Current Affairs with Static Gk : 11 August 2025

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1) Shri V. Vualnam, Secretary of the Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, led the Foundation Day celebrations of the Indian Cost Accounts Service in New Delhi, held under the theme “ICoAS in SAM@₹TH भारत”, highlighting the crucial role of ICoAS officers in advancing the vision of Viksit Bharat.

2) Abdulla Aboobacker clinched the gold medal in men’s triple jump at the Qosanov Memorial 2025 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with a best jump of 16.08 m, narrowly edging past South Korea’s Yoo Gumin and Kim Jung-woo.

3) On its 9th Foundation Day, the Government e Marketplace (GeM) announced a record ₹5.4 lakh crore GMV in FY 2024–25, reinforcing its role as India’s leading digital platform for transparent and inclusive public procurement since its launch in 2016.

4) Veteran tribal leader and three-time Jharkhand Chief Minister Shibu Soren passed away at the age of 81 after a prolonged illness. He was the founder of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and a key figure in tribal rights movements.
Jharkhand :-
CM - Hemant Soren
Governor - Santosh Gangwar
Baidyanath Temple
Parasnath wildlife sanctuary  
Dalma wildlife sanctuary
Palamau wildlife sanctuary
Koderma wildlife sanctuary  
Udhwa Lake Bird sanctuary  
Palkot wildlife sanctuary  
Mahuadanr wildlife sanctuary

5) Vedika Bhansali from India won the Girls 9-year category title at the US Kids World Championship in Pinehurst Village with a bogey-free 4-under 32 in her final round, finishing at 10-under overall.

6) INS Tamal, the Indian Navy’s newest stealth frigate, has completed a port call at Casablanca, Morocco, from 6-9 Aug 2025 during her return voyage to India.
➨Commissioned in Russia on 1 Jul 2025, INS Tamal is transiting back to her home base via multiple European and Asian ports, advancing India’s maritime diplomacy and reinforcing bilateral ties.
➨ INS Tamal is the third Indian Naval Ship in the last two years to visit Casablanca.

7) Indian women wrestlers secured two gold medals at the 2025 U17 World Wrestling Championships in Athens. Gold winners were Rachana (43 kg) and Ashwini Bishnoi (65 kg). The team also won 3 silver and 1 bronze medal.

8) India partnered with the UN World Food Programme to launch a rice fortification and supply chain project in Nepal under the India-UN Global Capacity Building Initiative, to be implemented in three phases over 12 months.

9) In an important step to break language barriers in India’s innovation space, the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) under NITI Aayog and Bhashini, a division of the Ministry of Electronics and IT, signed an agreement in Delhi.
➨ This partnership will help make innovation more inclusive by supporting ideas and entrepreneurship in different Indian languages.

10) The ‘Agnishodh’ research cell was launched at IIT Madras by Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi to develop mission-ready indigenous defence solutions.

10) NITI Aayog, in its report “Unlocking a $200 Billion Opportunity: Electric Vehicles in India”, reaffirmed the target of 30% EV share by 2030, noting sales growth from 50,000 in 2016 to over 2 million in 2024.
NITI Aayog :- National Institution for Transforming India
➨Formed - 1 January 2015
➨Preceding - Planning Commission
➨Headquarters -New Delhi
➨Chairperson:- Narendra Modi,
➨Vice Chairperson - Suman Bery
➨CEO - Shri B.V.R. Subrahmanyam

11) Union Minister of Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy announced that Telangana is rapidly emerging as a handloom hub, with the upcoming Kakatiya Mega Textile Park in Warangal set to attract ₹10,000 crore in investments and generate around two lakh jobs.

12) PM Narendra Modi's pioneering initiative Pariksha Pe Charcha (PPC) 2025 has set a new Guinness World Record for "most people registered on a citizen engagement platform in one month", with 3.53 crore valid registrations on MyGov.

13) Indian Railways has successfully trialled ‘Rudrastra’, Asia’s longest freight train at 4.5 km, running 209 km from Ganjkhwaja (UP) to Garhwa (Jharkhand) in 5 hours 10 minutes, aiming to boost freight efficiency and cut turnaround time.

14) The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) reported a record 19.36 crore Aadhaar face authentication transactions in July 2025, up from 5.77 crore a year ago, showing rapid adoption across public and private sectors for service delivery.

15) The first static test of the KALAM 1200 motor, which serves as the first stage of the Vikram-1 launch vehicle developed by Skyroot Aerospace Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, was successfully conducted at the Static Test Complex of the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, marking a significant milestone in the design and development of Vikram-1 systems.
➢ISRO :-
Full Form - Indian Space Research Organisation
Established - 15 August 1969
Founder - Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
Headquarters- Bengaluru, Karnataka
Chairman - V. Narayanan
Parent Department - Department of Space, Government of India

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