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Current Affairs
(JANUARY, 2022)

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IMPORTANT DAYS AND THEMES :

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 6th January – World Day of War Orphans
Theme – Caring for children in awful conditions is a duty
 10th January – World Hindi Day
Theme – To make Hindi a part of public opinion.

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 12th January – National Youth Day
Theme – It's all in the mind

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 15th January – Indian Army Day
Theme – In Stride with the Future
 24th January – International Day of Education
Theme – Changing Course, Transforming Education
 24th January – National Girl Child Day
Theme – Empower girls for a brighter tomorrow
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 25th January – National Voters’ Day
Theme – Making Elections Inclusive, Accessible and Participative
 25th January – National Tourism Day
Theme – Rural and Community Centric Tourism
 26th January – Republic Day of India
Theme – Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav
 28th January – Data Privacy Day
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Theme – Privacy Matters

 30th January – World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
Theme – Achieving health equity to end the neglect of poverty-related diseases
 30th January – World Leprosy Day
Theme – United for Dignity
APPOINTMENTS
Urjit Patel has been appointed as the Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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 Pierre Olivier Gourinchas has been appointed as Chief economist of International Monetary Fund.
 S Somnath has been appointed as the Chairman of ISRO and Secretary,Department of Space, Govt. of India.
 Ittira Davis has been appointed as MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank.
 Raghuvendra Tanwar has been appointed as Chairman of Indian Council of Historical Research.
 Shersingh B Khyalia has been appointed as CEO of Adani Power.
 Narendra Kumar Goenka has been appointed as Chairman of Apparel Export Promotion Council, AEPC.
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 Vinodanand Jha has been appointed as Chairperson to Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) Adjudicating
Authority.
 V Anantha Nageswaran has been appointed as the new Chief Economic Advisor to the Govt. of India.
 Pushp Kumar Joshi has been appointed as the new Chairman and MD of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
(HPCL).
 Vinay Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as Chairman and CEO of Railway Board of India.
 Baldev Prakash has been appointed as MD and CEO of J&K Bank.
 V.S.Pathania has been appointed as the DG of Indian Coast Guard.
 Vinod Kannan has been appointed as CEO of Vistara Airline.
 Alka Mittal has been appointed as Chairman and MD of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
 Ajay Kumar Choudhary and Deepak Kumar has been appointed as Executive Directors of RBI.
 Atul Keshap has been appointed as President of US-India Business Council.
 G Asok Kumar has been appointed as DG of National Mission for Clean Ganga.
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 Vijay Paul Sharma has been reappointed as Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs & Prices (CACP).
 Karl Nehammer has been appointed as the Chancellor of Austria.
 Atul Dinkar Rane has been appointed as the MD and CEO of BrahMos Aerospace Limited.
 Kamlesh Gandhi has been appointed as the Co-Chairman of Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC).
OBITUARIES
 David Sassoli, who was the ex President of European Parliament.
 Chandrashekhar Patil, who was a prominent Kannada writer.
 Shanti Devi, who was a social worker and Padma Shri awardee.

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 Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who was the ex-president of Mali.
 Toshiki Kaifu, who was the ex Prime Minister of Japan.
 Major Hari Pal Singh Ahluwalia, who was a professional mountaineer.

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 Iqbal Singh Kingra, who was an Indian socio-spiritual leader of Sikh community.
 Viktor Saneyev, who was an Olympic gold medalist athlete.
 Subhas Bhowmick, who was an ex-Indian footballer.
 R. Nagaswamy, who was a noted Indian historian, archaeologist and epigraphist.

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 R.L. Jalappa, who was a former Union Minister.
Richard Roger’s, who was a Pritzker Prize winning architect.

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 Karolos Papoulias, who was a former President of Greece.
 E.O.Wilson who was a biologist.
 Mahendra Prasad, who was a former Rajya Sabha MP and industrialist.
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
NAME OF THE BOOK NAME OF THE AUTHOR
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Ratan N. Tata : The Authorized Biography Ratan Tata
Indomitable : A Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work and Leadership Arundhati Bhattacharya
Bose : The Untold Story of An Incovenient Nationalist Chandrachur Ghose
The Legend of Birsa Munda Tuhin A Sinha and Ankita Verma
Bachelor Dad Tushar Kapoor
The 10 Trillion Dollar Dream Subhash Garg
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A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years of Independence Ruskin Bond

Fearless Governance Kiran Bedi
Mamata : Beyond 2021 Jayanta Ghosal
Gandhi's Assassin : The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India Dhirendra Jha
AWARDS AND HONORS
 The International Craft Award for 2021 was awarded to Kerala Arts and Crafts Village Organization (KACV).
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 Golden Globe Awards 2022

CATEGORY WINNERS
Best Film (Drama) The Power of the Dog
Best Film (Musical or Comedy) West Side Story
Best Actor (Drama) Will Smith for King Richard as Richard Williams
Best Actress (Drama) Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricardos as Lucille Ball
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Best Actor (Musical or Comedy) Andrew Garfield for tick,tick.....BOOM! as Jonathon Larson
Best Actress (Musical or Comedy) Rachel Zegler for West Side Story as Maria Vasquez
Best Supporting Actor Kodi Smit-McPhee for The Power of the Dog as Peter Gordon
Best Supporting Actress Ariana DeBose for West Side Story as Anita
Best Director Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog
Best Screenplay Kenneth Branagh for Belfast
Best Original Score Hans Zimmer for Dune
Best Original Song No Time to Die (Billie Eilish and Finneas O' Connell) – No Time to Die
Best Animated Feature Encanto
Best Non-English Film Drive My Car (Japan)
 HDFC Bank was named as the ‘Best Private Bank’ in India at the ‘Global Private Banking Awards 2021’ which was
organized by Professional Wealth Management in a virtual ceremony.
 NIRMAI Health Analytix Pvt Ltd, and InnAccel Technologies Pvt Ltd have received World Bank Group and Consumer
Technology Association's Global Women's Health Awards.
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 India's Navdeep Kaur has won the award for the Best National Costume at the prestigious Mrs World 2022 pageant in
Nevada.
 Shaylyn Ford was crowned as the winner of Mrs World 2022.
 Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded as the
‘Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club. CJI N V Ramana presented the annual Rednik Awards for
Excellence in Journalism.
 Zishaan A Latif won Ramnath Goenka Award in the Photo Journalism category. He won the award for his photo essay,
The arduous struggle for inclusion in the NRC, which was published in The Caravan in October 2019.
 South Indian Bank won the UiPath Automation Excellence Awards 2021 for Best Automation under ‘Crisis for Business

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Continuity'.
 A professor in the clinical embryology department at Kasturba Medical College under Manipal Academy of Higher
Education, Dr. Satish Adiga has been selected by the ICMR for its national award.

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 Axis Bank & CRMNEXT Solution won the IBS Intelligence (IBSi) Global FinTech Innovation Awards 2021 for the
“Best CRM (Customer Relationship Management) System Implementation”. It is one of the most prominent awards
for global bankers and IT consultants across the world.
 The global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc's Chairman and Chief Executive, Albert Bourla, has been awarded with the

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prestigious Genesis Prize 2022. He has been awarded for his efforts in leading the development of a COVID 19 vaccine.
 P S Vinothraj directed film Koozhangal won the best film award in the Asian Film Competition section at the 20th Dhaka

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International Film Festival.
 The government of Assam has conferred its highest civilian award ‘Assam Baibhav' on industrialist Ratan Tata. Assam
governor Jagdish Mukhi conferred the award to former chairman of Tata Sons.
 Olympian Neeraj Chopra will be honoured with Param Vishisht Seva Medal on the eve of Republic Day by President
Ram Nath Kovind.
 Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve has been given the prestigious TX2 award after its tiger numbers doubled to 80 since
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2010. Apart from the STR, the Bardia National Park in Nepal has won this year's TX2 award for doubling the population
of wild tigers.
 Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar for the year 2022 has been conferred to 29 children by the Govt. of India.
 Educationist Dr. Anil Prakash Joshi has been awarded with the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice 2021.
 The Sahitya Akademi Award 2021 was given in 20 languages. The winner of Gujarati, Maithili, Manipuri and Urdu
languages will be announced later.
Prominent Winners
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Bratya Basu (Bengali); Namita Gokhale (English) and Daya Prakash Sinha (Hindi)
 Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau on his
125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
 Bollywood actress Sushmita Sen has been conferred with the International Association of Working Women Award at
the Washington DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) 2021. The former Miss Universe has been felicitated for
outstanding performance by a female actor in a TV series for her show ‘Aarya 2.
 The 2015 film Bajrangi Bhaijaan fame actress, Harshaali Malhotra has been awarded the 12th Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar
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Award 2022
 Zishan-e-Latif has been awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award 2021 in the category of Photo Journalism.He received
the award for his photo essay, The arduous struggle for NRC inclusion, which appeared in the Caravan in October 2019
 List of ICC Awards for 2021
Pakistani skipper Babar Azam has been named as the captain of the ICC Men’s T20I team of the year for 2021. 
ICC Women’s T20I Cricketer of the Year – Tammy Beaumont (England)
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ICC Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year – Lizelle Lee (South Africa)
ICC Emerging Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Fatima Sana (Pakistan)
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year – Smriti Mandhana (India)
ICC Men’s T20I Cricketer of the Year – Mohammad Rizwan (Pakistan)
ICC Emerging Men’s Cricketer of the Year – Janneman Malan (South Africa)
ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year – Babar Azam (Pakistan)
ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year – Joe Root (England)
Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year – Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan)
 The best FIFA football awards 2021 held on 17th January,2022
Best FIFA Men’s Player for 2021-Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich, Poland ,2nd Time after 2020)
Best FIFA Women’s Player-Alexia Putellas (Barcelona, Spain)
Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper-Edouard Mendy (Chelsea, Senegal)
FIFA Fair Play Award-Denmark national football team and medical staff
FIFA Special Award for an Outstanding Career Achievement-Christine Sinclair (Female) & Cristiano Ronaldo (Male)
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 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2022

For the year 2022, (i) Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management (in the Institutional category) and (ii) Professor Vinod
Sharma (in the Individual category) have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for
their excellent work in Disaster Management.
 The Golden Globe Awards 2022 ceremony was held to recognise excellence in film, both American and international,
and American television.
This was the 79th edition of the annual event, which honoured the best in American television, as well as film in 2021

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Best Film (Drama) -The Power of the Dog
Best Film (Musical or Comedy)-West Side Story
Best Director -Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog.

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 Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded as
the ‘Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club.
 Olympian Neeraj Chopra  has been honoured with Param Vishisht Seva Medal on the eve of 73rd Republic Day of

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2022 by President Ram Nath Kovind.
Padma Vibhushan

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Total Awardee - 4
Name Field
n Ms. Prabha Atre Art
n  Shri Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous) Literature and Education
n  General Bipin Rawat (Posthumous) Civil Service
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n  Shri Kalyan Singh (Posthumous) Public Affairs
Padma Bhushan
Total Awardee - 17
Name Field
n  Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad Public Affairs
n  Shri Victor Banerjee Art
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n  Ms. Gurmeet Bawa (Posthumous) Art

n  Shri Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (Declined) Public Affairs
n  Shri Natarajan Chandrasekaran Trade and Industry
n  Shri Krishna Ella and Smt. Suchitra Ella* (Duo) Trade and Industry
n  Ms. Madhur Jaffery Others-Culinary
n  Shri Devendra Jhajharia Sports
n  Shri Rashid Khan Art
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n  Shri Rajiv Mehrishi Civil Service

n  Shri Satya Narayana Nadella Trade and Industry
n  Shri Sundararajan Pichai Trade and Industry
n  Shri Cyrus Poonawalla Trade and Industry
n  Shri Sanjaya Rajaram (Posthumous) Science and Engineering
n  Ms. Pratibha Ray Literature and Education
n  Swami Sachidanand Literature and Education
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n  Shri Vashishth Tripathi Literature and Education

Padma Shri
Total Awardee - 107. Some important and Selected Names are—
Name Field
n  Shri Prahlad Rai Agarwala Trade and Industry
n  Shri Sumit Antil Sports
n  Shri J K Bajaj Literature and Education
n  Shri Sirpi Balasubramaniam Literature and Education
n Ms. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Science and Engineering
n Shri Pramod Bhagat Sports
n  Shri Khandu Wangchuk Bhutia Art
n Shri Neeraj Chopra Sports
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n Shri S Damodaran Social Work
n Ms. Basanti Devi Social Work
n Ms. Shyamamani Devi Art
n Shri Shaibal Gupta (Posthumous) Literature and Education
n  Ms. Sowcar Janaki Art
n Ms. Vandana Kataria Sports

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n Ms. Avani Lekhara Sports
n Dr. Narendra Prasad Misra (Posthumous) Medicine
n Shri Guruprasad Mohapatra (Posthumous) Civil Service
Shri Tsering Namgyal Art

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n Shri V L Nghaka Literature and Education
n Shri Sonu Nigam Art
n Ms. K V Rabiya Social Work

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n Dr. Sunkara Venkata Adinarayana Rao Medicine
n Ms. Padmaja Reddy Art

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n Shri Vidyanand Sarek Literature and Education
n Shri Kali Pada Saren(WB) Literature and Education
n Shri Dilip Shahani Literature and Education
n Shri Ram Dayal Sharma Art
n Shri Konsam Ibomcha Singh Art
n Baba Iqbal Singh Ji Social Work
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n Dr. Bhimsen Singhal Medicine
n Dr. Balaji Tambe (Posthumous) Medicine
n Dr. Kamlakar Tripathi Medicine
n Shri Jyantkumar Maganlal Vyas Science and Engineering
Former CM of West Bengal Bhudhadeb Bhattacharya declined Padma Bhushan award 2022
Famous vocalist Sandhya Mukherjee declined Padmashri Award 2022
Pandit Anindo Chatterjee is an Indian tabla player of the Farukhabad gharana declined Padmashri Award 2022
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SUMMITS AND CONFERENCES

NAME OF THE SUMMIT/CONFERENCE REPRESENTED BY/ATTENDED BY
1st BRICS Sherpas Meeting 2022 Sanjay Bhattacharya, India’s BRICS Sherpa
India-ASEAN Digital Work Plan 2022 Devusinh Chauhan, Minister of State for Communications,
Govt. of India
GST Council's 46th Meeting Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of Finance Govt. of India
19th Meeting of the National Tiger Conservation Authority Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Environment, Forest
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and Climate Change, Govt. of India

16th India Digital Summit Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry,
Govt. of India
World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda Summit 2022 Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
1st India-Central Asia Virtual Summit Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India
SPORTS UPDATES
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 The Olympic Gold medal winner Neeraj Chopra was honoured with the Param Vishisht Seva Medal.
 Smriti Mandhana of India has won the ICC Women's Cricketer of the year 2021. She is the second woman player to
win the award in the world.
 P.V.Sindhu has won the 2022 Syed Modi India International Badminton Championship.
 Best FIFA Football Awards
s Best Player in the world (men) – Robert Lewandowski
s Best Player in the world (women) – Alexia Putellas
s Special Best Men Award – Cristiano Ronaldo
s Best Goal Keeper (Men) – Edouard Mendy
s FIFA Puskas Award – Erik Lamela
s Best Coach (Men) – Thomas Tuchel
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 India's Lakshya Sen secured his maiden Super 500 title by winning “Yonex Sunrise India Open”.
 Fourteen year old Bharath Subramanyam became India's 73rd Chess Grandmaster.
 India's first para-badminton academy has been set up in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
 Goalkeeper Savita Punia has been appointed as captain of Indian women's hockey team.
 Virat Kohli has resigned from Indian Cricket team's test captaincy.
 South African All-Rounder Chris Morris has retired from International Cricket.
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 Quinton De Kock has announced retirement from Test Cricket.
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EVENT WINNER
Men's Singles Rafael Nadal
Women's Singles Ashleigh Barty
Men's Doubles Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios

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Women's Doubles Barbara Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova

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Mixed Doubles Kristina Mladenovic and Ivan Dodig
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 Union Education Minister Dharmedra Pardhan has launched a 100-day reading campaign ‘Padhe Bharat’.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut. The
University will be established at Salawa and Kaili villages of Sardhana town in Meerut at an estimated cost of about
700 crore rupees.
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 Shanghai has opened two new metro lines, upholding its rank as the city with the largest Metro network in the world.
With the new lines, the total length of Shanghai's metro network has extended to 831 km, continuing to be longest in
the world.
 The Government of Uttar Pradesh has renamed Jhansi Railway Station as Veerangana Laxmibai Railway Station after
Rani Laxmibai.
 Tech Mahindra has approved a proposal for the acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Allyis India and Green Investments
for a total consideration of up to USD 125 million.
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 IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has launched the India Semiconductor Mission (ISM) to attract large investments for
setting up semiconductor water fabrication facilities in India.
 France has assumed the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union with effect from January 1, 2022.
 Russia successfully test fired around 10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles from a frigate and other two
missiles from a submarine.
 State-owned power generation company NTPC Ltd. Is set to acquire a 5% equity stake in Power Exchange of India
Limited.
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 The parliamentary standing committee constituted to examine “The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill,
2021 comprise of a total of 31 members, including only one woman representative.
 The Carribean nation of Antigua and Barbuda joined the International Solar Alliance as the 102nd member by signing
the International Solar Alliance Framework Agreement, the India-led global green energy initiative.
 India and its partners in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad along with Canada and South Korea participated
in the multinational exercise Sea Dragon 2022 at Guam in the Western Pacific.
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 RBI has cancelled the Certificate of Authorisation (CoA) of two Payment System Operators (PSOs) : Muthoot Vehicle
and Asset Finance Limited and Eko India Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.
 Uttar Pradesh government has declared four villages located near the Nepal borders in the district as revenue villages.
The four villages are Bhavanipur, Tedhia, Dhakia and Laxmibai.
 RBL Bank and Google announced a strategic collaboration to fuel the Bank's customer experience strategy. Through
this, the bank will expand its value proposition to serve its rapidly growing customer base through the digital platform.
 Kerala Arts and Crafts Village Organization (KACV) from Kovalam was awarded the International Craft Award 2021
for the best craft village in the world by the World Crafts Council International.
 DRDO successfully test-fired an extended range sea-to-sea variant of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile for the
Indian Navy.
 The 9th edition of the North East Festival was concluded in Guwahati. The main purpose of the festival was to promote
and highlight the commercial and tourism potential of the North East region.
 Kochi in Kerala has become India's first city to have a Water Metro Project after the launch of its first boat in December
2021, namely Muziris among the 23 battery powered electric boats being manufactured by Cochin Shipyard Limited.
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 The Government of India is set to become the largest shareholder in Vodafone Idea. The company's board approved the
conversion of Rs 16000 crores in interest into equity.
 Retail inflation in December 2021 rose to a six month high of 5.59 % from 4.91 % in November 2021, mainly due to
a sharp rise in food prices as food inflation for the period under review also rose steeply to 4.05 % against 1.87 % in
November 2021.
 DRDO successfully flight tested the Man-Portable Anti Tank Guided Missile in its final deliverable configuration.
 On the occassion of National Youth Day 2022, PM Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated an MSME Technology Centre
which will function under the Union Ministry of MSME, in Puducherry.

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 The 18th edition of two days long Kachai Lemon festival was held in Manipur at Ukhrul district.
 Philippines has become the first foreign country to place an order for the purchase of BrahMos Shore-based cruises
missile system for its navy. This agreement will give a boost to India's defence manufacturing system.

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 The world's largest national flag, made of Khadi fabric was put to display to celebrate the Army Day on Januaryv15,
2022. It was displayed at Longewala, along the India-Pakistan Border in Jaisalmer.
 RBI has released the Annual Report of the Ombudsman Schemes for 2020-21, which has been prepared for the 9 month
period (July 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021) in alignment with the change in the Financial Year of RBI from July-June to

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April-March with effect from July 1, 2020.
 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has set up an online Raksha Pension Shikayat Nivaran Portal to resolve pension-related

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grievances of ex-servicemen and their dependents.
 Indian Navy and Russian Navy undertook PASSEX Exercise at the port of Cochin, in the Arabian Sea. The Indian Navy's
indigenously designed and built guided missile destroyer, INS Kochi took part in the exercise. Russian Federation Navy
was represented by RFS Admiral Tributs.
 The government of India has released a commemorative postal stamp on the Covid-19 vaccination on Sunday to mark
the first anniversary of the country's national immunization programme against the virus.
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 A Maritime Partnership Exercise was held between Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self Defence Force in the Bay of
Bengal in a non-contact mode amid COVID 19.
 India Ratings and Research has projected the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of the Indian economy to
grow at 7.6 per cent year on year in 2022-23. Ind-Ra is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Fitch Group.
 The government of India has merged the flame of the Amar Jawan Jyoti at Delhi's India Gate with the flame at the
adjoining National War Memorial ahead of Republic Day. The ceremony was led by the Integrated Defence Staff chief,
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Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna.

 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated ‘Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav se Swarnim Bharat Ki Ore' programme via
video conferencing. The national-level program includes seven yearlong initiatives dedicated to the celebration of Azadi
Ka Amrit Mahotsav by the Brahma Kumaris.
 Kokborok Day, also known as the Tripuri Language Dayi is annually celebrated across the Indian State of Tripura on
19th January with an aim to develop the Kokborok language. The day commemorates the initial recognition of Kokborok
as the official language in 1979.
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 In Jammu and Kashmir, the administration has declared Jerri settlement in Reasi district as the first ‘Milk Village' of
the Union Territory and sanctioned 57 more diary firms under the Integrated Dairy Development Scheme (IDDS) for
the hamlet.
 Swedish defence company ‘Saab’ has been selected by the Indian Armed Force through a competitive programme for
the supply of single-shot anti-armour weapon AT4. AT4 will be used by the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force.
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 The ISRO successfully test-fired the Vikas engine that would power India's first human-carry rocket (Gaganyaan human
space mission).
 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a multilateral development bank has committed USD 150 million to invest
in the development of data centres that mostly serve emerging Asia.
 The world's largest canal lock has been inaugurated at the Port of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. The sea lock was
inaugurated by Dutch King Willen – Alexander.
 The government of India has joined hands with the government of Israel to create 150 Villages of Excellence in 12
States of the country to help farmers to adopt the latest technology in the farm sector.
 Security Printing and Mint Corporation of India Limited has set up ‘new banknote printing lines’ at its Currency Note
Press, Nashik and Bank Note Press, Dewas.
 The government of Haryana has opened the new Integrated Command and Control Centre under the Karnal Smart City
Project.
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 The government of Nagaland has announced the creation of three new districts namely Tseminyu, Niuland and
Chumoukedima.
 Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited and GAIL India Limited has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
for setting up a bioethanol plant with a population capacity of 500-kilo litre per day in Gujarat.
 The Competition Commission of India has approved the acquisition of a shareholding in Air India by Talace Private
Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons.
 Jharkhand Assembly has passed the Prevention of Mov Violence and Mob Lynching Bill, 2021 which aims at providing

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effective protection of constitutional rights and the prevention of mob violence in the state.
 National Payments Corporation of India has signed a partnership agreement with Udemy Business, to encourage
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 NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission has unveiled Vernacular Innovation Programme which will enable innovators
and entrepreneurs in India to have access to the innovation ecosystem in 22 scheduled languages by the centre.
 Indian Air Force has deployed the first squadron of the S-400 air defence missile system in the western Punjab sector

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which will take care of aerial threats from Pakistan and China.
 In Madhya Pradesh, the 97th edition of World Sangeet Tansen festival was organized in Gwalior.

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 DRDO has successfully conducted a flight test of indigenously developed High speed Expendable Aerial target Abhyas
from Integrated Test Range of Chandipur in Odisha.
 The Government of India has decided to constitute a five member committee to look into the demand for withdrawl of
Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Nagaland.
 Egypt has been added as the newest member of BRICS New Development Bank.
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 Union Minister of State (I/C) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh has launched Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven
Start-Up by Indian Institute Technology (IIT) alumni for water purification through innovative technology with
financial support from Technology Development Board (TDB). The facility aims to provide clean drinking water at a
price much lesser than the market price. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was also signed between TDB, a
statutory body of the Department of S&T and Swajal Water Private Limited. The Gurugram based company’s patented
system, ‘Clairvoyant’ uses artificial intelligence to optimise purification systems and predict future breakdowns.
 The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou – the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-
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cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and activist, was the first black woman to write and perform a poem at
a presidential inauguration. In 2010, she was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian award by
President Barack Obama.
 Iconic ‘Infinity Bridge’ in Dubai, United Arab Emirates has been formally opened to traffic for the first time on 16th
January 2022. Its design resembles a mathematical sign for infinity (∞). It represents the limitless, infinite goals of
Dubai.
 Odisha and the United Nations World Food Programme has signed agreement to bolster food security of small farmers. In
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a participatory pilot initiative, climate advisories will be tailored to enable smallholder farmers to adapt to the impact
of climate change. Smallholder farmers, who constitute 90 percent of farming communities in Odisha, will be able to
select the right farming and livelihood options to improve their food security and incomes.
 SEBI launches Saa₹thi mobile app on investor education. The new app aims to empower investors with accurate
knowledge about the securities market. The app will cater largely to individual investors, who have recently entered
the markets and carry out trading via their mobile phones.
 The Oxford University Press (OUP) has picked up ‘Anxiety’ as the Children’s Word of the Year 2021, based on their
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recent research.
 Kerala Bird Atlas (KBA), the first-of-its-kind State-level bird atlas in India, has created solid baseline data about the
distribution and abundance of bird species across all major habitats, giving an impetus to futuristic studies. It is being
conducted as a citizen science-driven exercise with the participation of over 1,000 volunteers of the bird watching
community KBA has been prepared based on systematic surveys held twice over 60 days a year.
 India’s first innovation centre for graphene will be set up in Kerala by the Digital University Kerala (DUK), along with
the Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET) in Thrissur, for Rs 86.41 crore.
 Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has launched the official mobile application of the Parliament named ‘Digital Sansad App’ on
January 27, 2022, to allow citizens to access live proceedings of the House, including the Union Budget 2022 live.
 The world’s largest canal lock has been inaugurated at Ijmuiden, a small port city, in the Port of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. The sea lock was inaugurated by Dutch King Willen-Alexander. The Ijmuiden sea lock is 500-meter
(1,640-feet) long and 70-meter wide. Construction on the massive infrastructure project began in 2016 and was meant
to be done by 2019. It also went over the initially planned budget by around €300 million ($338 million).
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 India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station with a capacity of 100 charging points for 4 wheelers, was opened
at Delhi-Jaipur National Highway in Gurugram. Previously, India’s largest EV charging station was situated in Navi
Mumbai with 16 AC & 4 DC charging ports for EVs. The new EV charging station has been developed by tech-piloting
company Alektrify Private Limited.
 The Government of India has joined hands with the Government of Israel to create 150 ‘Villages of Excellence’ in 12
States of the country, to help farmers to adopt the latest technology in the farm sector. Israel would provide Technical
assistance and other expertise to make agriculture a more profitable business.
 Social media giant Meta has partnered with industry body the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry

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(FICCI) to support five lakh women-led small businesses across India. Meta will undertake this initiative under
its #SheMeansBusiness programme, in partnership with FICCI’s ‘Empowering the Greater 50%’ initiative. The initiative
will create a supportive ecosystem for women and inspire them to become contributors to the overall development of

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the country.
 The Railway Protection Force (RPF) of the Western Railways zone of Indian Railways has launched a new initiative
called “Mission Amanat” to make it easier for railway passengers to get back their lost luggage. Under Mission Amanat,
the details of lost luggage and belongings along with photos will be uploaded on the official website of the zonal railway.

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 Kochi, Kerala has become India’s first city to have a Water Metro Project after the launch of its first boat in December
2021, namely ‘Muziris,’ among the 23 battery-powered electric boats being manufactured by Cochin Shipyard Limited.

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This launch is a part of the Rs 747-crore project which is operated by Kochi Water Metro Ltd (KWML). The boats will
be called Water Metros. With a total outlay of Rs 819 crore, the project’s major part is financed under Indo-German
Financial Cooperation through a long-term loan agreement of 85 million Euros (Rs 579 crore) with the German funding
agency, KfW (Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau).
 The Supreme Court of India has constituted a five-member committee to probe the security breach during the recent
visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Punjab. The committee will be headed by former apex court judge Justice Indu
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Malhotra.
 Haryana Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala announced that Gurugram will get India’s 1st heli-hub with all aviation
facilities. The heli-hub will be the first of its kind in India to have all facilities at one place for helicopters. The heli-hub
is proposed to be built in Gurugram & would be near the metro facility along with easy connectivity to industrial areas
(Noida & Bhiwadi). 
 Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman, Vinai Kumar Saxena has launched the country’s first
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Mobile Honey Processing Van at Village Sirora in Ghaziabad. The Mobile Van has been designed in-house by KVIC at
its Multi-disciplinary Training Centre, Panjokehra, at a cost of Rs 15 lakh.This mobile honey processing unit can process
up to 300 KG of honey in 8 hours. The van is also equipped with a testing laboratory, that would instantly examine the
quality of honey.The Mobile Honey Processing Van comes as a major development under KVIC’s Honey Mission which
aims at training beekeepers, distributing Bee Boxes to farmers and helping rural, educated as well as unemployed youth
to earn extra income through beekeeping activities.
 Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched a 100-day reading campaign ‘PadheBharat.The launch of
the 100 Days Reading Campaign is in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 which lays emphasis
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on the promotion of joyful reading culture for children by ensuring the availability of age-appropriate reading books
for children in local/mother tongue/regional/tribal language.Padhe Bharat campaign will focus on children studying
in Balvatika to Grade 8. The reading campaign will be organized for 100 days (14 weeks) starting from January 1, 2022,
to April 10, 2022.The reading campaign aims to have the participation of all stakeholders at the national and state level
including children, teachers, parents, community, educational administrators etc.
 India has invited a total of 46 friendly foreign countries to participate in the multinational naval Exercise
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Milan in Visakhapatnam, scheduled from February 25, 2022.The theme of this 11th edition of exercise Milan
is camaraderie, cohesion and collaboration. This exercise was initiated in 1995 and held biennially and conducted with
friendly navies.The professional competitions and conferences planned during this phase shall build the operational
tempo for the Sea Phase planned from March 1-4. This Phase would be utilised to consolidate upon the lessons learnt
during harbour interactions and to build upon the experience of operating together at sea.The countries that have been
extended invitations for participation include Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Israel, Iran,
France, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, among others.As per an official, India
has increased its naval engagements with friendly nations at bilateral, trilateral and multilateral levels since 2018.
 India and its partners in the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad along with Canada and South Korea are participating
in the multinational exercise Sea Dragon 2022 at Guam in the Western Pacific.The six nations that are participating in
the exercise are the United States, Australia, Canada, India, Japan and South Korea.

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 Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired an extended range sea-to-sea variant
of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile for the Indian Navy on 11th January 2022. This advanced sea to sea variant
of BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile was launched from INS Visakhapatnam, a stealth guided-missile destroyer of
the Indian Navy. BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture, produces supersonic cruise missiles that can
be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or land platforms. The missile can be launched from submarines, ships,
aircraft, or land platforms. BrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound.
 Scientists and experts in France have reportedly identified a new variant of COVID-19 termed ‘IHU’. The new variant
is said to be a more mutated strain than Omicron.The B.1.640.2 or IHU variant was first identified by the academics at

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institute IHU Mediterranee Infection and contains 46 mutations, which is more than Omicron.
 Cyprus has detected a new variant dubbed as “Deltacron”, that has a similar genetic background to the Delta variant,
coupled with 10 mutations from Omicron. The variant has already affected 25 people in Cyprus.

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 The first 'geological' park of country will be built in Lamheta in Jabalpur. An announcement to this effect was made by
BJP MP from Jabalpur Rakesh Singh on Sunday. Approval for the park has been granted by Geological Survey of India,
under ministry of mining, Government of India for construction of the park with an investment of Rs 35 crores.

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