PACE-Beyond Preparation

1. Kolkata International Film Festival 🎬📽️2025

➡️ Edition: 31st
➡️ Theme: " Where Cinema Connects the World"
➡️ Date: Nov 6 to Nov 13, 2025
➡️ Opening film: " Saptapadi"
➡️ Focus country: Poland
➡️ Centenary tribute: Ritwik Ghatak
➡️ Best Director Award: Pradip Kurbah for Ha Lyngkha Bneng (The Elysian Field).

2. Shilp Guru Award🏆 2023 for WB

➡️ Ajit Kumar Das - Hand painted textile
➡️ Smt. Dolon Kundu Mandal - Terracotta

3. First - ever National assessment, state of India's Bats🦇 2024-25

➡️ By National Conservation Foundation & Bat Conservation International
➡️ Highest bat diversity in India: West Bengal ( 68 species), then Meghalaya ( 66 species)

4. GI tag 🏷️2025

➡️ 7 items
➡️ Nolan gurer sandesh, kamarpukur's white Bode
Murshidabad's Chhanabora, Bishnupur motichur laddu, Radhunipangal rice, malda's Nistari silk yarn, Baruipur's Guava

5. India's first vande Bharat sleeper train

➡️ Kolkata to Guwahati

WBCS কেমন হল সবার?

1. Department of Posts releases 8 commemorative postage stamps on Puppets of India. Two are from West Bengal. 🧍

🔸DAANGER PUTUL
🔸BENIR PUTUL

2. GANGASAGAR SETU 🌉

🔸5 KM long bridge
🔸Constructor- L&T

3. HALDIA BULK TERMINAL 🌉

🔸India's first fully automatic dry bulk facility on Hooghly river.
🔸Developed by APSEZ (ADANI GROUP)
🔸at Haldia Dock complex of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee port, Kolkata.
🔸Annual handling capacity- 4 million metric tonnes (MMTPA)

4. BASCULE BRIDGE 🌉

🔸At Shyama Prasad Mookerjee port
🔸Total outlay- 117.54 Cr 💰💴

5. Lifetime achievement award🏆 in Kolkata book fair

🔸Swapnamoy Chakraborty
🔸Also achieved Sahitya Akademi award 2023 for "Jaler Upor Paani" ✍️

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1) International Day of Yoga 🧘‍♀️ 2026

✍️Held in Kolkata on 21st June.
✍️Theme: "Yoga for Healthy Ageing"

2) Matua Dharma Mela 🎊 2026

✍️Commemorating the 215th birth anniversary of Sri Sri Harichand Thakur
✍️Held in North 24 Parganas in March 2026

3) 49th International Kolkata Book Fair 📚 2026

✍️Scheduled from January 22 to February 3, 2026
✍️Theme Country: Argentina
✍️China participated after a 15-year hiatus.
✍️The USA and Bangladesh did not participate this year.
✍️Ukraine made its debut participation this year.

4) Sujoy Paul Appointed as 44th Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court 👨‍⚖️ Replacing T.S. Sivagnanam

5) A.K. Ramanujan Prize🏆

✍️Conferred upon Shipra Mukherjee and Mrinmoy Pramanik.
✍️For translating the works of Dalit poet Kalyani Thakur Charal, titled "I Belong to Nowhere" into English
✍️First Bengalis to receive this honor
✍️The poems were translated from Bengali to English.
✍️Presented by The Association for Asian Studies

হুমায়ূন: আমি তো একটু আফগানিস্তান ট্যুর এ গেছিলাম🥱

Siraj be like: তোমাদের মতলব আমি বুঝি না ভাবছো? 😏"

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#পলাশীরযুদ্ধ #ইস্টইন্ডিয়াকোম্পানি `

👉 100th Ramsar Site of India 🇮🇳
👉This wetland (the world’s 2,595th Ramsar site 🌍) is a freshwater wetland in the middle stretch of the Ganga River basin 🌊.

🗝️ ✍️KEY FACTS:-

✅ Convention Signed: 1971
✅ Place: Ramsar, Iran
✅ India Joined: 1 February 1982
✅ World Wetlands Day: 2 February ✅ Total Ramsar Sites in India (2026): 100
✅State with Highest Ramsar Sites: Tamil Nadu (20 sites)
✅Largest Ramsar Site in India: Sundarban Wetland
✅Smallest Ramsar Site: Renuka Lake

❤️Grandmaster R. Praggananandhaa has achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first Indian to secure the Norway Chess Title in Oslo, following a decisive victory over Germany's Vincent Keymer in the final round.

♟️The 20-year-old from Chennai accomplished what had previously eluded Indian Chess legend Vishwanathan Anand and reigning world champion D. Gukesh since the tournament's inception in 2013. 🎉🏆👏💥