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January 2021

National News

• Government approved 19th Tranche of Electoral Bonds

• Jharkhand partnered with Indian School of Business to boost
forest economy
• Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami launched Free Mobile
Tablet scheme
• Union Education Minister Dharmendra
Pradhan launched ‘Padhe Bharat’, a 100-days reading campaign
• Information Technology Minister Ashwini
Vaishnaw launched “India Semiconductor Mission”
• Six Task Forces set up by Department of
Telecommunications to explore 6G development
• Energy Transition Advisory Committee set up by Ministry of
Petroleum and Natural Gas to Prepare Energy Transition
Roadmap for India; chaired by Tarun Kapoor
• Centre released 830 crores to Odisha for Jal Jeevan
Mission implementation
• PM Modi laid foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports
University in Meerut
• Ladakh celebrated traditional new year ‘Losar
Festival’ of Tibetan Buddhist
• Himachal Pradesh became 1st LPG enabled & smoke free
Indian state
• Telangana topped in highest number of open defecation-free
(ODF) villages
• Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched NEAT 3.0
ed-tech solutions
• Azure Power commissioned 600 MW soler
project by SECI in Bikaner, Rajasthan
• PM Modi inaugurated & laid foundation stone of developmental
projects worth over 4800 crores in Imphal, Manipur
• UJALA scheme completed 7 years; over 36 crores 70 lakh
LEDs distributed across the country so far

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• World Food Programme & The Akshaya Patra

Foundation partnered to enhance PM POSHAN Scheme
• Kerala High Court became India’s 1st paperless court
• Sarbananda Sonowal laid foundation stone of International
Yoga Academy in Hyderabad
• Himachal Pradesh CM launched UNNATI portal, website and
mobile app of HPSIDC; HPSIDC signed an MoU with SAIL for
the supply of steel
• Jitendra Singh launched theme of National Science Day 2022
• Sikkim celebrated Losoong (Namsoong) Festival
• Science & Technology minister inaugurated India’s first &
unique ‘Open Rock Museum’ in Hyderabad
• Gujarat Chief Minister launched Student Start-
ups and Innovation Policy (SSIP) 2.0
• Jitendra Singh inaugurated 24th Conference on e-Governance
2020-21 in Hyderabad
• Odisha government signed MoU with GAIL India for clean
energy projects
• A committee constituted to enquire security lapses during PM
Punjab visit; headed by Sudhir Kumar Saxena

International News

• India will chair Counter-Terrorism

Committee of UNSC in January 2022
• France took over European Union Presidency for six
months till June 30 2022
• Apple became world’s first company to touch $3 trillion M-Cap
• Antigua and Barbuda joined International Solar
Alliance as 102nd member
• Google acquired Israeli
cybersecurity startup Siemplify for $500 million
• Japan & Australia signed defence agreement to counter China

Banking and Financial

• LIC, GIC Re, and New India Assurance continue to be Domestic

Systemically Important Insurers

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• Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd acquired UK’s battery firm

Faradion
• SBI will acquire 95% stake in India International Clearing
Corporation (IFSC) Ltd
• SBI Card joined hands with Paytm for Card
Tokenization to protect cardholders’ data
• LIC inaugurated “Digi Zone” to enhance its Digital Footprint
• RBI extended deadline for Periodic KYC Update till March 31,
2022
• Federal Bank signed an MoU with Schwing Stetter
India to offer customised financial solutions
• SEBI reconstituted Market Data Advisory Committee; headed
by S Sahoo
• PM released 10th installment of financial benefit under
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme
• CCI approved the acquisition of42% Stake in Jindal Power
Limited by Worldone Pvt Ltd
• com partnered with Axis Bank to launch pre-qualified program
for unsecured loans
• Government collected Rs 1.29 Lakh crores as GST of December
2021
• RBI approved Fino Payments Bank for international remittance
business
• Tech Mahindra acquired 100% equity shares in Allyis India &
Green Investments LLC
• Nippon India MF launched India’s first Auto Exchange Traded
Fund
• Airtel Payments Bank got scheduled bank status from RBI
• SBI, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank continue to remain Domestic
Systemically Important Banks
• NBBL launched UPMS to simplify recurring bill payments
• RBI issued framework for facilitating small-value digital
payments in offline mode
• RBI cancelled authorisation certificates of Muthoot Vehicle &
Asset Finance, and Eko India Financial Services
• CryptoWire launched India’s 1st
Index of Cryptocurrencies named ‘IC15’
• NTPC set to acquire 5% equity stake in Power Exchange India
Limited

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• RIL launched India Inc’s biggest bond sale abroad

• SBI General
Insurance launched ‘#BahaneChhodoTaxBachao’ campaign
• RBI increased banks’ LCR maintenance on Funds received
from Non-Financial Small business customers to Rs 7.5 crores
• RBI laid down eligibility norms for entities tapping credit
bureau data
• Reliance Retail acquired 8% stake in Dunzo for USD 200
million
• Airtel Payments Bank collaborated with Park+ to offer FASTag-
based Parking Solutions
• National Statistical Office (NSO) estimated India’s GDP Growth
at 9.2% in FY22
• Ind-Ra projected India’s GDP growth forecast at 9.3% in FY22

Appointment and Resignation

• Vinay Kumar Tripathi appointed

as Chairman and CEO of Railway Board
• VS Pathania takes over as Director-General of Indian Coast
Guard
• Sanjay Arora will hold additional charge as DG of Sashastra
Seema Bal
• Amir Subhani appointed as new Chief Secretary of Bihar
• Somalia’s Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein
Roble suspended over allegations of corruption
• Vinod Kannan took over as CEO of Vistara airlines
• Sudan’s PM Abdalla
Hamdok announced resignation amid political deadlock
• Ajay Kumar Choudhary and Deepak Kumar appointed as new
Executive Directors of RBI
• G Asok Kumar appointed as Director-General of National
Mission for Clean Ganga
• Alka Mittal appointed as the 1st woman CMD of ONGC
• Shafali Verma appointed as Brand Endorser of Bank of Baroda
• TS Tirumurti assumed new chair of UN Counter-Terrorism
Committee

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• Vini Mahajan took charge as Secretary in the Ministry of Jal

Shakti
• Atul Keshap appointed president of U.S.-India Business
Council (USIBC)
• Zhang Ming took over as Secretary-General of Shanghai
Cooperation Organization
• Vijay Paul Sharma reappointed as Chairman of Commission for
Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP)
• Kuwait’s Haitham Al Ghais appointed as new secretary
general of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
(OPEC)
• RBI re-appointed Anup Bagchi as Executive Director of ICICI
Bank
• LLC appointed Jhulan Goswami as Ambassador of All Women
Match Official Team

Awards

• Zishaan A Latif won Ramnath Goenka Award in Photo

journalism category
• Harpreet Chandi became 1st woman of colour to make solo
unsupported trek to South Pole
• JC Chaudhry achieved first ever Guinness World
Record in Numerology
• South Indian Bank won UiPath Automation Excellence awards
2021
• Indian Express Group announced Ramnath Goenka
Excellence in Journalism Awards 2019
• UP ranked best state in water conservation efforts at 3rd
National Water Awards 2020; Rajasthan 2nd
• Satish Adiga received ICMR national award “Dr Subhas
Mukherjee Award”

Defence

• Defence Minister announced 27 Border Infrastructure Projects

• Russia test-fired Tsirkon hypersonic cruise
missiles from frigate and submarine
• India participated in ‘Sea Dragon’ 2022 exercise at Guam in
the Western Pacific

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Science

• Bharti Airtel partnered with HCIPL to offer satellite broadband

services

Sports

• India won U-19 Asia Cup 2021 title in Dubai by defeating Sri
Lanka
• South Africa’s Quinton de
Kock announced retirement from Test cricket
• Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad
Hafeez announced retirement from International Cricket
• Nodirbek Abdusattorov won World Rapid Chess Championship
2021

Book and Author

• A new book titled “Mamata: Beyond 2021” authored by Jayanta

Ghosal
• A new book titled “Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram
Godse and His Idea of India” authored by Dhirendra Jha

Important day

• 1 January: DRDO Foundation Day

• 4 January: World Braille Day
• 6 January: World Day of War Orphans
• DPIIT & Ministry of Commerce organized “Startup India
Innovation Week” from January 10-16, 2022
• 6 January: BIS Foundation Day

Obituary

• Bollywood film producer Vijay Galani passed away

• Three-time Olympic Gold winning Triple Jump Champion
Viktor Saneyev passed away
• 1971 Indo-Pak war veteran Vice Admiral Sree Harilal
Sarma passed away

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• Padma Shri awardee social worker Sindhutai Sapkal passed

away
• Shillong Chamber Choir founder Neil Nongkynrih passed away

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January 2021

National News

• Assam govt signed an MoU with NDDB to set up Joint

Venture worth 2000 Crore for dairy development
• Bhupender Yadav chaired 19th Meeting of National Tiger
Conservation Authority; 14 Tiger Reserves got CA|TS
Accreditation
• Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) selected TCS for 2nd
phase of Passport Seva Program
• Odisha’s Ganjam district was declared child marriage-free
• National Health Mission launched project ‘Niramay’ in Assam
• Kevadia railway station renamed as Ekta Nagar railway
station
• Khadi and Village Industries Commission
(KVIC) launched India’s 1st Mobile Honey Processing
Van at Ghaziabad
• Kochi became India’s first city to have a Water Metro Project
• Telangana govt launched 1st of its Kind Mobile App ‘Urban Forest
Park’
• J&K signed an MoU with Dubai’s Century Financial to receive
USD 100 million investment
• PM Modi inaugurated MSME Technology
Centre & Perunthalaivar Kamarajar
Manimandapam in Puducherry
• India’s oldest sloth bear ‘Gulabo’ died at Van Vihar National
Park, Bhopal
• SC appointed a high-level committee to investigate PM’s
security breach in Punjab; headed by Indu Malhotra
• India’s 1st Heli-Hub to be set up in Gurugram, Haryana

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• Indian Railway has launched “Mission Amanat” to help

passengers track their lost belongings
• 18th Kachai Lemon Festival began in Manipur
• India Skills 2021 national
competition concluded; Odisha finished first
• Adani Group signed MoU with South Korea’s
POSCO to develop steel mill in Gujarat
• Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav released India State
of Forest Report 2021
• Karnataka signed MoU with Singapore’s LNG Alliance to
setup state’s 1st LNG terminal in Mangaluru
• Jitendra Singh launched AI-driven Start-Up for Water
Purification by IIT alumni; MoU Signed Between TDB & Swajal
Water Private Limited
• World’s largest Khadi National Flag displayed
at Longewala in Jaisalmer

International News

• Alikhan Smailov appointed as Kazakhstan’s new Prime

Minister
• Henley Passport Index
2022: India ranked 83rd; Japan & Singapore topped
• Chennai International Airport ranked 8th in Global List for
‘On-Time Performance’
• Daniel Ortega sworn in as President of Nicaragua for 5th term
• POWERGRID signed Joint Development
Agreement with Africa50 to develop Africa’s 1st PPP
Transmission Project in Kenya
• India announced financial assistance of USD 900 million to Sri
Lanka to overcome forex crisis

Banking and Financial

• SBI Ecowrap report projected India’s GDP growth

at 5% for FY22
• NPCI introduced limits for cash withdrawals and mini
statements on AePS transactions
• RBL Bank collaborated with Google to advance next-gen
customer experience

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• Reliance acquired 37% stake in Mandarin Oriental New York

hotel
• ECI increased expenditure limit for candidates in polls
• Deposits in Jan Dhan accounts crossed Rs 1.5 lakh crores:
Finance Ministry
• RBI set up a separate department for “FinTech”; headed
by Ajay Kumar Choudhary
• GoI will hold 8% stakes of Vodafone Idea in the form of equity
• World Bank Projected Indian Economy to grow at 3% in FY22 in
its ‘Global Economic Prospects’ Report
• Axis Bank issued 1st letter of credit on Govt-backed
Platform Secured Logistics Document Exchange
• Global economy will shrink by 3% by 2024 as per WEF’s Global
Risks Report 2022
• UBS Securities projected India’s GDP growth at 1% in FY22
• LazyPay collaborated with SBM Bank India to Launch
LazyCard for Easy Credit
• Axis Bank partnered with MinkasuPay for biometric-based
banking payments
• NABARD signed pact with Arthimpact Digital Loans to support
SHGs
• Paytm Payments Bank became most preferred UPI beneficiary
bank in India
• Retail inflation rose 6-month high to 59% in December 2021
• UN projected India’s GDP growth at 5% in FY22 in its World
Economic Situation and Prospects 2022 report
• Forex reserves of India decline by USD 1.466 bn to USD
633.614 bn as per RBI data
• UCO Bank Launched RuPay Select Contactless Debit Card in
partnership with NPCI
• India recorded highest-ever monthly exports at $37.29
billion in December
• SEBI approved CDSL Venture to set up Accreditation
Agency for a period of 3 years
• RBI released Annual Report of Ombudsman Schemes, 2020-
21; complaints rose by 27% in 2021
• Google Pay has collaborated with Indifi to offer instant digital
credit to SMEs

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• Federal Bank launched instant loan approval Portal for MSMEs

• Snapdeal joined hands with BOB Financial & NPCI to
launch Rupay Credit Card
• WPI inflation declined to 56% in December 2021
• Yes Mutual Fund renamed as White Oak Capital Mutual Fund

Appointment and Resignation

• Urjit Patel appointed Vice President of Asian Infrastructure

Investment Bank
• Navrang Saini assigned additional
charge as Chairperson of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of
India (IBBI)
• Viresh Kumar Bhawra assumed charge as Director
General of Punjab Police
• Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas appointed as Chief Economist of IMF
• RajKummar Rao appointed as brand ambassador of RenewBuy
• S Somanath appointed as the new chairman of ISRO
• Raghuvendra Tanwar appointed chairman of Indian Council of
Historical Research
• Shersingh B Khyalia appointed as CEO of Adani Power

Awards

• ‘Kerala Arts and Crafts Village Organization’ won

‘International Craft Award for 2021
• Forensic Science Laboratory won 2021 Silver SKOCH
Award for Governance at 78th SKOCH Summit
• Golden Globe Awards 2022 announced: ‘The Power of the
Dog’ won the Best motion picture, drama; Will Smith won
the Best actor in a motion picture, drama and Nicole
Kidman won the Best actress in a motion picture, drama
• Harshaali Malhotra awarded Bharat Ratna Dr Ambedkar Award
2022
• HDFC Bank named as Best Private Bank in India at the Global
Private Banking Awards 2021
• NIRAMAI Health Analytix & InnAccel
Technologies received Global Women’s Health Tech Awards
• Former West Indies Cricketer Clive Lloyd Receives Knighthood

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Defence

• DRDO successfully test-fired naval

variant of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from INS
Visakhapatnam
• DRDO successfully test-fired MPATGM in its final “deliverable
configuration”
• Philippines became 1st country to buy BrahMos supersonic
cruise missile for $374.96 million

Science

• Defence Minister inaugurated Kalpana Chawla

Centre for Research in Space Science and
Technology at Chandigarh University
• ISRO successfully conducted qualification tests of Cryogenic
Engine for Gaganyaan

Sports

• Bharath Subramaniyam became India’s 73rd chess

Grandmaster
• 2022 Adelaide International 1: Gael Monfils won Men’s
Singles & Ashleigh Barty won Women’s Singles title
• Melbourne Summer Set 1 trophy 2022: Rafael
Nadal won Men’s Singles & Simona Halep won Women’s
Singles title
• Ajaz Patel declared ICC Player of the Month for December
2021
• Karnataka will host Khelo India Games in 2023
• Tata group replaced Vivo as the title sponsor of the IPL for
the 2022 & 2023 seasons
• Savita Punia named captain of Indian women hockey
team for Women’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022
• AISCD got approval from ICSD to hold 1st World Deaf T20
Cricket Championship at Kerala in 2023
• Tasnim Mir became the World No 1 in Badminton U-19 Girls
Singles

Book and Author

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• Thomas Matthew wrote Ratan Tata’s biography titled ‘Ratan N.

Tata: The Authorized Biography’
• Autobiography of Arundhati Bhattacharya “Indomitable: A
Working Woman’s Notes on Life, Work and
Leadership” released

Important day

• PM declared 26 December will be observed as ‘Veer Baal

Diwas’ every year from 2022
• 9 January: Non-Resident Indian (NRI) Day or Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas
• 10 January: World Hindi Day
• 11 January: National Human Trafficking Awareness Day
• 12 January: National Youth Day (Theme 2022: “It’s all in the
mind.”)
• 14 January: Indian Armed Forces Veterans Day
• 15 January: Indian Army Day
• 16 January: National Startup Day

Obituary

• Oscar-winning lyricist and composer Marilyn Bergman passed

away
• President of European Parliament David Sassoli passed away
• Renowned Kannada writer Professor Chandrashekhar
Patil passed away
• Olympic medal-winning Athlete Deon Lendore passed away

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January 2021

National News

• India’s first coal to methanol plant built by BHEL inaugurated

in Hyderabad

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• Chhattisgarh Government will launch Rojgar Mission to create

job opportunities
• 16th India Digital Summit 2022 organised by Internet And
Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)
• RIL signed MoU with Gujarat for investing Rs 5.95 lakh
crore in Green Projects
• MeitY organized 26th CISO Deep Dive Training
program under Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative
• Kerala’s Kumbalangi village became India’s 1st sanitary
napkin-free village
• Telangana govt launched Mana Ooru Mana Badi programme
• MSDE signed MoU with IGNOU to link vocational
education with higher education
• Odisha & WFP partnered to improve food security, farmers’
resilience
• SEBI launched ‘Saa₹thi’ mobile app for investor education &
awareness
• Cabinet approved infusion of 1,500 crores in Indian Renewable
Energy Development Agency Limited
• Amazon India signed an MoU with NIFientreC to empower
grassroot entrepreneurs
• Himachal Pradesh CM launched ‘Apna Kangra’ app to
promote local handicrafts through tourism
• Jerri hamlet in Reasi District declared as first Milk
Village of J&K
• Karnataka became India’s first state to launch AVGC Center of
Excellence in Bengaluru
• Haryana & Himachal Pradesh signed MoU to revive Saraswati
River
• Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) released ‘Climate of
India during 2021’ report
• India’s 1st para-badminton academy launched in Lucknow
• India’s First “District Good Governance Index” for 20
Districts released
• NITI Aayog & RMI India released a report ‘Banking on Electric
Vehicles in India’
• PM Modi will inaugurate 216-foot
statue of Ramanujacharya ‘Statue of Equality’ in Hyderabad

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International News

• PM will deliver ‘State of the World’ address at WEF’s Davos

Agenda
• Oxfam India released ‘Inequality Kills’ Report
• Dubai opens its Infinity Bridge for traffic for the first time
• Nusantara has been selected as the new capital of Indonesia
• First BRICS Sherpas meeting of 2022 held under Chinese
chairship
• ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook Trends
2022 projected global unemployment at 207 million in 2022
• India & Denmark signed an agreement for joint research &
development on green fuels
• UNCTAD’s Investment Trends Monitor: FDI flows to India
decreased by 26% in 2021
• 15th BRICS STI Steering Committee meeting
decided India will host 5 events in 2022
• NSE emerged as world’s largest derivatives market for 3rd
straight year
• Mia Amor Mottley sworn in as PM of Barbados for 2nd
consecutive term
• India & Sri Lanka extended existing Science & Technology
cooperation for 3 more years
• AIIB invested USD 150 million in development of data
centres serving Asia

Banking and Financial

• ICICI Prudential AMC signed agreement with First Trust

Advisors to launch Global FoF
• SIDBI sanctioned financial assistance of ₹650 crores to AU
Small Finance Bank & Jana SFB
• Canara Bank partnered with Lendingkart to offer loans
online for MSMEs
• MobiKwik partnered with NPCI Bharat BillPay to launch ClickPay
services for bill payments
• RIL acquired 54% stake in Addverb Technologies for $132
million

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• RBI’s Digital Payment Index: Digital payments rose

by 6% in Sept 2021
• Microsoft to buy video game company Activision
Blizzard for $68.7 billion
• Ind-Ra projected India’s GDP growth at 6% in FY23
• Indian Energy Exchange divested 93% equity
stake in IGX to IOC
• OneWeb & Hughes Network signed 6-year agreement to
provide satellite broadband services in India
• Kotak Mahindra Bank signed MoU with GIFT SEZ for
boosting financial services ecosystem at IFSC
• IIM Kozhikode’s LIVE has signed MoU with Indian
Bank to disburse loans up to Rs 50 Crore for Start-ups
• Ujjivan Small Finance Bank launched ‘Platina Fixed
Deposit’ Scheme

Appointment and Resignation

• Rakesh Anand & Bhupender Singh Bajwa appointed as Chef de

Mission for CWG & Asian Games 2022 respectively
• Narendra Goenka took charge as new Chairman of Apparel
Export Promotion Council
• Malta’s Roberta Metsola became youngest
President of European Union (EU) Parliament
• Shashank Goel appointed as Additional
Secretary in Employment Ministry
• Vijay Shekhar Sharma appointed as ambassador of Universal
Acceptance Steering Group
• Dileep Sanghani elected as the 17th Chairman of Indian
Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO)
• Chanchal Kumar appointed as new MD of NHIDCL
• Vikram Dev Dutt appointed as new CMD of Air India
• Manoj Pande appointed next Vice Chief of Army Staff
• Prajakta Koli became India’s 1st UNDP Youth Climate
Champion
• Vinod Rai appointed as Independent Chairman of Unity Small
Finance Bank
• Jahnavi Dangeti became 1st Indian to complete NASA’s
International Air and Space Program

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• Vinodanand Jha appointed new Chairperson to PMLA

(Prevention of Money Laundering Act) Adjudicating Authority

Awards

• Mon District Administration of Nagaland received National

Award for e-Governance (Silver) 2020-21
• GoI announced National Start-up Awards 2021 and
felicitated 46 start-ups for their contribution in their respective
sectors
• Lavni artist Sumit Bhale won gold medal at the International
Folk Art Festival in Dubai
• Axis Bank & CRMNEXT won IBSi Innovation Awards
2021 for “Best CRM System Implementation”
• Mrs America Shaylyn Ford won the crown of Mrs World 2022
• The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021: Robert
Lewandowski won Best FIFA Men’s Player 2021
• Pfizer Chairman & CEO Dr Albert Bourla won 2022 Genesis
Prize
• Sushmita Sen won International Association of Working
Women Award
• Oxford declared “Anxiety” as Children’s Word of the Year
2021
• Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2022
announced: Gujarat Institute of Disaster
Management and Professor Vinod Sharma have been selected
for their excellent work in Disaster Management for the year
2022
• Former PM of Japan Shinzo Abe honoured with Netaji Award
2022

Defence

• Indian Navy and Russian Navy conducted PASSEX

exercise in Arabian Sea
• Defence Ministry launched Raksha Pension Shikayat Nivaran
Portal
• India & Japan conducted Maritime Partnership Exercise in Bay
of Bengal

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• Indian Army signed 1st contract worth Rs 96

crore with Anadron Systems Pvt Ltd under Make-II
for Maneuverable Expendable Aerial Target
• Indian Armed Force selected ‘Saab’ for supply of Anti-Armour
weapon AT4
• Amar Jawan Jyoti eternal flame merged with National War
Memorial flame
• India successfully test-fired a new version of BrahMos
supersonic cruise missile

Science

• Jio signed a pact with Finland’s University of Oulu to accelerate

6G research
• ISRO successfully tested liquid propellant-based Vikas
engine for Gaganyaan mission

Sports

• Yonex-Sunrise India Open Badminton 2022: Lakshya

Sen & Busanan Ongbamrunghphan won men’s & women’s
singles titles resp.
• Sydney Tennis Classic 2022: Aslan Karatsev won men’s
single & Paula Badosa won women’s single title
• India will host AFC Women’s football Asian Cup 2022
• TCS became new Title Sponsor & Technology
Partner of ‘Toronto Waterfront Marathon’
• Indian-American golfer Akshay Bhatia won The Bahamas
Great Exuma Classic
• Smriti Mandhana named in 2021 ICC T20I women’s Team of
the Year
• Syed Modi International Badminton tournament 2022: PV
Sindhu won women’s singles title
• Ladakh women’s team won the 9th IHAI National Women’s
Ice Hockey Championship 2022

Book and Author

• A new Book titled “Bose: The Untold Story of An Inconvenient

Nationalist” authored by Chandrachur Ghose

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• Maharashtra Governor released a book ‘The Legend of Birsa

Munda’; authored by Tuhin A Sinha & Ankita Verma

Important day

• DPIIT organized first-ever Startup India Innovation

Week from 10 to 16 January
• 19 January: NDRF Raising Day
• 17-21 January 2022: Open Data Week
• 19 January 2022: Tripura celebrated 44th Kokborok Day
• 10-17 January 2022: DAY-NRLM celebrated Agri Nutri Garden
Week
• 21 January: Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura Statehood Day
• 23 January: Parakram Diwas
• 24 January: International Day of Education (Theme 2022:
Changing Course, Transforming Education.)
• 24 January: National Girl Child Day

Obituary

• Kathak maestro Pandit Birju Maharaj passed away

• Former PM of Japan Toshiki Kaifu passed away
• Padma Shri awardee social activist Shanti Devi passes away
• Noted environmentalist & ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner
M.K. Prasad passed away
• Legendary Bengali comics artist, writer & illustrator, Narayan
Debnath passed away
• Legendary Collarwali Tigress passed away in Pench Tiger
Reserve, MP
• Padma Shri awardee mountaineer Major Ahluwalia passed
away
• Former President of Mali Ibrahim Keïta passed away
• Padma Shri awardee theatre personality Saoli Mitra passed
away
• Saturnino de la Fuente, the world’s oldest man passed away at
the age of 112
• Renowned Footballer and Coach Subhas Bhowmick passed
away

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Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 25 to 31

January 2021

National News

• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grand hologram statue installed

at India Gate
• Kerala got its first-ever scientific bird atlas
• Mansukh Mandaviya launched revamped CGHS
website and mobile app
• Karnataka govt launched a technology-driven programme
‘Grama One’
• Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary set to be notified as 4th
tiger reserve of Rajasthan
• India’s first Graphene Innovation Centre will be established
at Thrissur, Kerala
• Karnataka launched 1st of its kind ‘Brain Health Initiative’ to
train doctors in mental healthcare
• South Maubuang became Mizoram’s first ODF plus village
• Andhra Pradesh govt approved creation of 13 more Districts
• India’s largest EV charging station inaugurated in Gurugram,
Haryana
• Lok Sabha secretariat launched Digital Sansad App to
make live proceedings accessible
• PM Narendra Modi hosted first India-Central Asia Summit
2022
• India will convert 150 villages into ‘Villages of
Excellence’ with technical help from Israel
• PM Modi addressed 30th Foundation Day of National
Commission for Women
• Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited
(SPMCIL) set up new bank note printing
lines at Nashik and Dewas

International News

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• President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian resigned

• India & Israel launched a commemorative logo to mark 30th
anniversary of diplomatic ties
• 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI): India ranked 85th
• India emerged as world’s largest
exporters of cucumber and gherkins
• India and France signed an MoU with scope for
cooperation in health research
• India & UAE set up $150-million worth of Venture
Capital to boost the start-up ecosystem
• Apple retained the title as world’s valuable brand in Brand
Finance 2022
• India’s electronic goods exports grew 49% in April-December
2021 at $11 billion
• Netherlands unveiled ‘world’s-largest’ canal lock
• World Gold Council report: Global gold demand rose 10% to
4,021 tonnes
• Xiomara Castro became first woman President of Honduras

Banking and Financial

• Centre announced 40-100% subsidy to popularize drone in

agriculture
• MNRE announced to infuse ₹1,000 crores in SECI for financing
renewable energy capacity
• World Bank approved USD 125 million loan to West
Bengal for social protection services
• Centre changed the spending norms for Contingency Fund of
India
• Govt approved draft scheme for amalgamation of PMC
Bank with Unity Small Finance Bank
• IMF cut India’s economic growth forecast to 9% for 2021-22 in
its World Economic Outlook
• Swiggy became decacorn with valuation of $10.7 billion
• Paytm partnered with Fullerton India to scale up digital
lending to MSMEs
• RBI offered overnight VRR auction of worth 75,000 crores

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• Lendingkart partnered with the Bank of Maharashtra to offer

MSME loans
• Max Life partnered Policybazaar to offer insurance
cover for homemakers
• TerraPay partnered with NPCI International to boost cashless
transactions
• SBI listed the maiden issue of $300 million Formosa
bonds on India INX
• Google will invest $1 billion in Bharti Airtel as part of India
Digitization Fund
• Paytm Money launched Intelligent Messenger
‘Pops’ to invest and track markets
• RBI imposed restrictions on Indian Mercantile Cooperative
Bank Ltd, Lucknow
• India’s Exports of marine products grew by 35% to $6.1
bn during April-Dec 2021
• Tata Steel will buy Neelachal Ispat Nigam for ₹12,100 crore
• Economic Survey pegged India’s GDP growth at 8-
8.5% for FY23
• Meta partnered with FICCI to support women-led SMBs across
India

Appointment and Resignation

• Neeraj Chopra appointed as the brand ambassador of GoodDot

• Pushp Kumar Joshi to be new chairman and managing
director of HPCL
• Badrinath Srinivasan appointed as MD of Wipro for Southeast
Asia
• V Anantha Nageswaran appointed as new Chief Economic
Advisor of India
• Arun Kumar Purwar appointed as the chairman of IIFL Finance
• Govt has extended tenure of LIC Chairman MR Kumar by one
more year

Awards

• PM conferred Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar

2022 on 29 Children

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• Koozhangal won the best film award at 20th Dhaka

International Film Festival
• International Cricket Council Awards 2021
announced: Babar Azam and Lizelle Lee won the ICC Men’s
& Women’s ODI Cricketer of the Year; Joe Root won the ICC
Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year
• Neeraj Chopra honoured with Param Vishisht Seva Medal
• Assam government conferred ‘Asom Baibhav Award’ to Ratan
Tata
• Padma Awards 2022 announced: Read the full list here
• J&K Police bagged 115 Police Medals for Gallantry (PMG)
• Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve got TX2 award

Defence

• NATO to hold 12-day maritime drills ‘Neptune Strike ’22’ in

the Mediterranean Sea
• Western Naval Command conducted Joint maritime
exercise Paschim Lehar (XPL-22)
• Iran, Russia, and China conducted joint naval drill CHIRU-
2Q22
• Decommissioned INS Khukri handed over to Diu
administration and will be developed as Museum
• Russia delivered all the contracted 70,000 AK203 assault
rifles to India

Science

• Meta built World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer “AI Research

Super Cluster (RSC)”

Sports

• Lucknow IPL team to be called Lucknow Super Giants

• Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian women’s singles
champion in the Australian Open 2022
• Women’s Hockey Asia Cup 2022: India beat China to bag
bronze medal in Muscat, Oman
• Australian Open 2022: Rafael Nadal & Ashleigh Barty won
the Men’s & Women’s Singles title

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• Odisha Open 2022: Unnati Hooda & Kiran

George won women’s and men’s singles title

Book and Author

• A Book titled “Last among Equals: Power, Caste, and Politics in

Bihar’s Villages” authored by MR Sharan
• A new book titled ‘A Little Book of India: Celebrating 75 years
of Independence’ authored by Ruskin Bond
• Meenakashi Lekhi released pictorial comic book “India’s
Women Unsung Heroes”
• Subhash Garg authored a book titled “The $10 Trillion Dream”
• A new book titled “Liberty After Freedom: A History of Article
21, Due Process and the Constitution of India” authored
by Rohan J. Alva
• A book titled ‘Operation Khatma’ authored by R C
Ganjoo & Ashwini Bhatnagar released

Important day

• 25 January: National Voters Day (Theme 2022: ‘Making Elections

Inclusive, Accessible and Participative’)
• 25 January: National Tourism Day (Theme 2022: “Rural and
Community Centric Tourism”)
• 25 January: Himachal Pradesh Statehood Day
• 26 January 2022: India celebrated 73rd Republic Day
• 26 January: International Customs Day (Theme 2022: ‘Scaling
up Customs Digital Transformation by Embracing a Data Culture and
Building a Data Ecosystem’)
• 27 January: International Holocaust Remembrance
Day (Theme 2022: “Memory, Dignity and Justice”)
• 28 January: Data Privacy Day
• 30 January: Martyrs’ Day or Shaheed Diwas
• 30 January: World Leprosy Day 2022 (Theme 2022: ‘United for
Dignity’)
• 30 January: World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day (Theme
2022: ‘Achieving health equity to end the neglect of poverty-related
diseases’.)

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Obituary

• Noted historian, archaeologist & epigraphist Thiru R.

Nagaswamy passed away
• Noted Kathakali dancer Milena Salvini passed away
• Legendary Hockey Player Padma Shri Charanjit Singh passed
away
• Renowned Marathi author & social activist Anil
Awachat passed away
• Akal Academies’ founder Baba Iqbal Singh passed away

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