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UGC-NET December 2025

Application Deadline: 7th November 2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks”.

7th October : World Cotton Day

Points to remember:

1.Cotton is one of the most common fabrics in our wardrobes.

2.Worldwide, it sustains 24 million growers (almost half of them women) and benefits over 100 million families across 80 countries in 5 continents.

3. United Nations wants to raise visibility of the cotton sector and awareness of the critical role that it plays in economic development, international trade and poverty alleviation.

4.The initiative of World Cotton Day was started in 2019.

Happy Gandhi Jayanti 🇮🇳

Some facts about Gandhiji:

1. Gandhiji was born on 2nd October, 1869 at Porbandar, Gujarat.
2. He is the father of nation.
3. The honorific title Mahatma, or "Great Soul," was given to him in 1914.
4. He studied law in London and was lawyer by profession.
5. United Nations has marked this day as “International Day of Non-Violence”.
6. He was a significant member and the President of Indian National Congress.
7. He launched Non Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920 due to the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
8. He opposed Communal Award and later signed Poona Pact.
9. He launched Dandi March or Salt March in 1930.
10. He sailed for England in 1931 for the second Round Table Conference to discuss constitutional reforms.
11. He had four children.
12. He was assassinated on January 30, 1948.