Current Affairs

1. HDFC Life, a leading life insurance provider, proudly announced its achievement of a new
Guinness World Records title.
2. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated new factory of Dixon Technology in Noida.
3. Nitin Gadkari inaugurated ‘Classic Imperial’ Luxury Cruise in Kerala.
4. Kanchan Devi becomes the First Woman Director General of ICFRE (Indian Council of Forestry
Research and Education).
5. Olympian M. Sreeshankar won 35th Jimmy George Foundation Award.
6. Captain Geetika Koul became the First Woman Medical Officer deployed at Siachen.
7. Argentina’s football icon, Lionel Messi, has been named Time Magazine’s Athlete of the Year for
2023.
8. Vice Admiral Dinesh Tripathi to become India’s New Vice Chief of Navy Staff.
9. Government of India approved declaration of Surat Airport as International Airport.
10. China launched deepest Lab on Earth, more than 2000m below the surface.
11. National Sports Awards announced; Shuttlers Chirag Shetty and Satwik Sai Raj Rankireddy to get
Khel Ratna award.
12. International Gita Mahotsava began in Kurushetra (Haryana) with Gita aarti.
13. Sanjay Singh has been elected as the President of Wrestling Federation of India.
14. Mitchell Starc has been sold as the most expensive player in the IPL 2024 auction.
15. ISRO has been honoured with the Ericsson Lunar Award.
16. Government of India welcomed France President Emmanuel Macron as the Chief Guest for 75 th
Republic Day celebrations in Delhi.
17. Renowned sculptor Dr. Uttam Pacharne passed awah at 67 in Mumbai.
18. Terminal 2 of Bengaluru Airport has been awarded as one of the most beautiful airports in the
world.
19. Pramod Agarwal will be the new chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange.
20. Government of Uttar Pradesh has recently planned to build India’s First AI city in Lucknow.
21. Deepika Padukone stepped in as the brand ambassador for TECNO Smartphones.
22. M.M. Srivastava will be the new Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court.
23. Gujarat is going to start the country’s first submarine tourism.
24. Australian batter David Warner announced his retirement from One Day International Cricket.
25. January 4 has been declared as the World Braille Day to be celebrated globally.
26. Jammu and Kashmir became the first UT to implement PM Vishwakarma Yojana.
27. Pran Pratishtha ceremony of ‘Ram lala Virajman’ took place on 22nd January in Ayodhya.
28. Music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan passed away in Kolkata after prolonged illness.
29. PM Narendra Modi inaugurated country’s longest sea bridge Atal Setu in Mumbai.
30. Renowned Urdu Poet Munawwar Rana passed away at 71.