Updated 31 December 2023
| The former Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog who has been appointed the Chairman of the newly constituted 16th Finance Commission | Dr Arvind Panagariya |
| The African nation which has announced its decision to quit the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries | Angola |
| The United Nations Organisation has declared 2024 as the International Year of | Camelids |
| The Indian politician and actor, recipient of highest award of Tamil Nadu, Kalaimani and founder of political party DMDK who passed away on 28 December 2023 | Vijayakanth (Narayanan Vijayaraj Alagarswami) |
| The country with which India has signed the Migration and Mobility Agreement under which seasonal and non-seasonal workers from India would get a reserved quota | Italy |
| The Project 15B stealth guided missile destroyer which was commissioned into the Indian Navy by the Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai is named | INS Imphal |
| The Indian poet and critic who has been awarded the Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize for her book Salt and Pepper: Selected Poems | Sukrita Paul Kumar |
| The severe gangrenous disease of the mouth and face which has been added by the World Health Organization (WHO) to its official list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) | noma (cancrum oris) |
| The venue of International Gita Mahotsav held from 07 Dec to 24 December 2023 | Kurukshetra, Haryana |
| The team which has won the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2023 defeating Rajasthan in the finals played in Rajkot | Haryana |
| The new subvariant of COVID-19 which has been detected in the state of Kerala | JN.1 |
| The airport in Gujarat which has been declared by the Union Cabinet to be an international airport | Surat |
| The Indian tennis players who have been inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame | Vijay Amritraj and Leander Paes |
| The state in which Samakka Saralakka Central Tribal University has been approved to be set up by the Parliament | Telangana |
| The well-known Palestine activist and music conductor who have been awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2023 | Ali Abu Awwad and Daniel Barenboim |
| The leader of Bhartiya Janata Party who has been chosen to the new Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh | Shri Mohan Yadav |
| The leader of Bhartiya Janata Party who has been chosen to the new Chief Minister of Rajasthan | Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma |
| The noted Hindi writer who has been chosen to be awarded the 33rd Vyas Samman 2023 by KK Birla Foundation for her memoir Yadein, Yadein aur Yadein | Ms Pushpa Bharti |
| The leader of Bhartiya Janata Party who has been chosen to be the 4th Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh | Shri Vishnu Deo Sai |
| The 4th edition of joint military exercise conducted by India and Vietnam at Hanoi from 11 December to 21 December 2023 is named | VINBAX-2023 |
| The Argentinian footballer who has been chosen as the Athlete of the Year 2023 by Time magazine | Lionel Messi |
| The American singer and song-writer who has been chosen as the Time Person of the Year 2023 | Taylor Swift |
| The multimodal large language AI model developed by Google DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google is named | Gemini |
| The leader of Zoram's Peoples Movement who has been sworn as the new Chief Minister of Mizoram | Shri Lalduhoma |
| The leader of Indian National Congress who has been sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Telangana | Shri Revanth Reddy |
| The Bay of Bengal cyclone which hit the eastern coast of India causing heavy rainfall and destruction in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh was named | Cyclone Michaung |
| The folk dance form from Gujarat which has been included in the UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritage | Garba |
| The place in Jharkhand where the 10,000th Jan Ausadhi kendra was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi | Deoghar |
| The scientist from Indian Space Research Organisation who has been conferred with the Legion d'Honneur of France for promoting Indo-French space cooperation | Ms. V R Lalithambika |
| The venue of the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC held from 30 November to 12 December 2023 (COP-28) | Dubai, UAE |
| # | Language | Work | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Assamese | Dr. Pranavjyoti Dekar Srestha Galpa (Short stories) | Pranavjyoti Deka |
| 2. | Bengali | Jaler Upar Pani (Novel) | Swapnamay Chakrabarti |
| 3. | Bodo | Jiu-Safarni Dakhwn (Short Stories) | Nandeswar Daimari |
| 4. | Dogri | Daun Sadiyan Ek Seer (Poetry-Ghazal) | Vijay Verma |
| 5. | English | Requiem in Raga Janki (Novel) | Neelum Saran Gour |
| 6. | Gujarati | Sairandhree (Epic Poetry) | Vinod Joshi |
| 7. | Hindi | Mujhe Pahachaano (Novel) | Sanjeev |
| 8. | Kannada | Mahabharatha Anusandhanada Bharathayatre (Essays) | Lakshmisha Tolpadi |
| 9. | Kashmiri | Yeth Waweh Halay Tsong Kous Zalay (Poetry) | Manshoor Banihali |
| 10. | Konkani | Varsal (Short Stories) | Prakash S. Parienkar |
| 11. | Maithili | Bodha Sanketan (Essays) | Basukinath Jha |
| 12. | Malayalam | Malayala Novelinte Deshakalangal (Literary Study) | E.V. Ramakrishnan |
| 13. | Manipuri | Yachangba Nang Hallo (Poetry) | Sorokkhaibam Gambhini |
| 14. | Marathi | Ringan (Novel) | Krishnat Khot |
| 15. | Nepali | Nepali Loksahitya Ra Loksanskritiko Parichaya (Essays) | Judhabir Rana |
| 16. | Odia | Aprastuta Mrutyu (Poetry) | Ashutosh Parida |
| 17. | Punjabi | Mann Di Chip (Poetry) | Swarnjit Savi |
| 18. | Rajasthani | Palakati Preet (Poetry) | Gaje Singh Rajpurohit |
| 19. | Sanskrit | Shunye Meghganam (Poetry) | Arun Ranjan Mishra |
| 20. | Santhali | Jaba Baha (Short Stories) | Taraceen Baskey |
| 21. | Sindhi | Hathu Pakidijain (Poetry-Ghazal) | Vinod Asudani |
| 22. | Tamil | Neeervazhi Paduvum (Novel) | Rajasekaran (Dvibharathi) |
| 23. | Telugu | Rameshwaram Kaakulu Marikonni Kathalu (Short Stories) | T. Patanjali Sastry |
| 24. | Urdu | Rajdev Ki Amrai (Novel) | Sadiqua Nawab Saher |
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The following players have been awarded by the International Hockey Federation for the year 2023.
Player of the Year (Female): Xan de Waard (Netherlands)
Player of the Year (Male): Hardik Singh (India)
Goalkeeper of the Year (Female): Savita (India)
Goalkeeper of the Year (Male): Pirmin Blaak (Netherlands)
Venue: Delhi
Held from 10 December to 17 December 2023
Medals Tally
| # | State | G | S | B | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Haryana | 40 | 39 | 26 | 105 |
| 2. | Uttar Pradesh | 25 | 23 | 14 | 62 |
| 3. | Tamil Nadu | 20 | 08 | 14 | 42 |
| 4. | Gujarat | 15 | 22 | 20 | 57 |
| 5. | Maharashtra | 12 | 07 | 16 | 35 |