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The day recognizes the contributions of Louis Braille in helping blind and visually impaired people to read and write.

The first World Braille Day was celebrated on January 4, 2019

5th edition of World Braille Day was celebrated on 4 January, 2023.

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In May 2024, the world’s first jet charter company exclusively for dogs, BARK Air, officially took flight in the USA

Created by the dog toy company BARK in partnership with a jet charter service

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Global Electricity Review Report 2024, published by UK based global think tank Ember 

Edition: 5th 

Topper: China

Second: USA

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Know about the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2024

Released by Transparency International

Total countries: 180

Least Corrupt: Denmark

Top Currupt: South Sudan

Pakistan Ranking: 135

Note: Denmark also topped the least country in 2023 & 2025

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Global Livability Index 2024

Published by: The Economist Intelligence Unit 

Total cities: 173

Least Ranking: Damascus, Syria

Karachi: 169th 

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About Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

Co-winners: John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

Award given by: Royal Swedish Academy

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist

Geoffrey Hinton is called the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI)

John Hopfield is an American scientist

Additional Information:

They are awarded Nobel Prize for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks

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Russell Cook, also known as Hardest Geezer, is an English endurance athlete.

Russell Cook holds the record for being the only person to have run the entire length of Africa.

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• Global Firepower Index 2024
• Total countries: 145
• Topper: USA
• Pakistan: 9th 
• Bottom: Bhutan 

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• • Six new countries Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Argentina, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates were invited to become members of BRICS.
  • Five countries became full members of BRICS on Jan 1, 2024.
  • However, Argentina declined to join BRICS.

• Know everything about BRICS: 
• BRICS founded: June 2009
  
• BRICS Member countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates
  
• BRICS total members: 10 
• South Africa joined BRICS: 2010
• BRICS headquarters: Shanghai, China
• BRICS first conference hosted by: Russia (2009) 

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First in the world, a man suffering from severe liver cancer got his liver transplanted by a pig's liver.

Pig's liver has been transplanted into a living cancer for the first time in China.

A 71-year-old Chinese man has become the first living person to undergo a liver transplant from a gametically modified pig.

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