Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 1 January to 8 January 2023

January Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 1

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Our weekly one-liner current affairs is basically a summary of the week’s most important news in one line.

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National News

• Amit Shah inaugurated Mega Dairy at Mandya, Karnataka
• PM Modi flagged off West Bengal’s first Vande Bharata Express train
• India’s first underwater metro to become operation by December 2023
• Pralhad Joshi inaugurated Rs 300 crore Angul-Balram rail line in Odisha
• Ministry of Rural Development launched Prajjwala Challenge
• International Year of Millets (IYM) 2023 kick starts on 1 Jan 2023
• Amit Shah lays the foundation stone of the Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) in Karnataka
• India & Cyprus sign agreement on defence and military cooperation
• CRPF celebrated Jashn-e-Chillai-Kalan’ with students in Srinagar
• Tata Motors to complete acquisition of Ford India’s manufacturing Plant in Jan
• India’s second longest cable-stayed eight-lane Zuari Bridge opens in Goa
• Kerala CM inaugurated Indian Library Congress in Kannur, Kerala
• ‘SMART’ programme launched to boost R&D in Ayurveda
• India signed an agreement with Austria for migration and mobility 3
• Election Commission’s launched ‘Mission-929’ to take voter turnout in Tripura to over 90
• Coffee export increased by 1.66 % to 4 lakh tonne in 2022: Coffee Board of India
• India’s unemployment rate rises at 8.30% in Dec 2022
• PM Modi inaugurated 108th Indian Science Congress
• Jitendra Singh inaugurated Incubation Centre at National Research Development Corporation (NRDC)
• Shiva Chauhan becomes the first women officer to be operationally deployed in Siachen
• President Murmu inaugurated Samvidhan Udyan in Jaipur
• PM Modi to launch world’s longest river cruise from Varanasi to Assam
• Mamata Banerjee launched new campaign ‘Didir Suraksha Kavach’
• Rajnath Singh inaugurated steel arch Siyom Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh
• Manipur celebrated Imoinu Eratpa festival
• President Murmu inaugurated the 18th National Jamboree of the Bharat Scouts and Guides in Rajasthan
• Government approved National Green Hydrogen Mission
• 2nd Phase of Sari Festival “VIRAASAT” begins in New Delhi
• UP government signed MoU with UAE-based companies worth Rs 18,590 crore
• Gaan Ngai festival celebrated in Manipur
• Government formed Committee to protect Ladakh culture, language & employment
• Madhya Pradesh govt launched Chief Minister’s Residential Land Rights Scheme
• PM Modi presides over annual general meeting of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library society
• First G-20 meeting to take place in Puducherry on Jan 31
• Varanasi Cantt Railway Station awarded ‘Eat Right Station’ with a certification by FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
• India & France hold 36th Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi
• Dharmendra Pradhan chaired the 3rd meeting of the steering committee of National Skill Development Mission
• Health Minister chaired a high-level meeting to eliminate Kala-azar from the country by 2023
• Narendra Tomar inaugurated ‘North East Krishi Kumbha-2023’
• G20 Foreign ministers to meet in Delhi in March 2023
• Government approved BIND (Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development) Scheme
• India to host Voice of Global South Summit
• 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention organized in Madhya Pradesh
• World’s first Palm-leaf Manuscript Museum in Thiruvananthapuram
• Anurag Thakur launched the themes of the Y20 summit, logo, and website
• India’s first Inclusion Festival, Purple Fest begins in Goa
• Bihar Government begins caste survey in State
• Military Tattoo & Tribal Dance Festival to be held in New Delhi
• Purushottam Rupala inaugurated 29 mobile veterinary units in Kerala
• Odisha CM inaugurated the state-of-the-art hockey stadium in Rourkela

International News

• 1668 Journalists killed in the last 20 years: Reporters without Borders
• India assumes the charge of the Wassenaar Arrangement
• China becomes the first country in Asia to launch Hydrogen Powered Train
• India takes over leadership of the Asian Pacific Postal Union

Banking and Financial

• Asian Development Bank provides $100 million loans to Shriram Finance Limited
• RBI launched Utkarsh 2.0 for the period 2023-2025
• Tripura signed agreement with ADB to improve Power Distribution Network
• Gross GST collection in December goes up by 15% is ₹1.49 lakh.
• SBI Card partnered with Punjab & Sind Bank to launch co-brand credit cards
• Government signed agreement with ADB to boost infrastructure sector in India
• HDFC Bank partnered with Microsoft for digital transformation
• Niva Bupa and Sundaram Finance signed corporate agency agreement
• Bandhan Bank launched ‘Jahaan Bandhan, Wahaan Trust’ campaign
• Aegon Life Insurance launched iTerm Prime Insurance plan
• RBI lifted restrictions on Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services
• ICICI Bank launched digital solutions for exporters
• RBI to issue green bonds in two tranches of Rs 8,000 crore each
• India’s GDP to grow at 7.0 percent in FY23: NSO report
• Axis Bank partnered with OPEN to launch a fully digital current account

Appointment and Resignation

• Ajit Kumar Saxena appointed as Chairman & MD of MOIL (Manganese Ore (India) Limited)
• N Chandrasekaran appointed as head of Maharashtra government advisory council
• Sundararaman Ramamurthy appointed as MD & CEO of BSE
• Ajay Kumar Srivastava appointed as MD and CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank
• CRPF Director-General Sujoy Thaosen takes additional charge of BSF
• Dinesh Shukla appointed as Chairman of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
• Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha assumes command of the IAF Western Command
• Election Commission appointed Maithili Thakur as Bihar’s state icon
• Jason Moo appointed as CEO of Bank of Singapore
• Nalin Negi appointed as interim CEO of BharatPe
• Kevin McCarthy elected as new speaker of the US House of Representatives

Awards

• Odisha won World Habitat Award 2023
• Jalna and Nagpur Police won ‘Best Police Unit’ award
• Tapan Saikia received Assam highest civilian award ‘AssamBaibhav’

Defence

• Government starts process to buy 100 more K9-Vajras

Science

• IIT-M collaborated with DRDO to develop defence technology

Sports

• Koneru Humpy won Silver at the World Chess Blitz Championship
• Hockey Madhya Pradesh clinched Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Men’s U-18 title
• Hockey Haryana Women’s U-18 team won Khelo India Youth Games 2022
• Mandhana & Suryakumar nominated for the ICC T20 cricketer of the year award 2022
• Cristiano Ronaldo joined Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr
• Koustav Chatterjee becomes 78th Grandmaster of India
• Pranesh M became India’s 79th Grandmaster

Book and Author

• A book titled ‘Ambedkar: A Life’, authored by Shashi Tharoor

Important day

• 1 January – Global Family Day
• 1 January 2023 – 65th foundation day of DRDO
• 4 January – World Braille Day
• 5 January – National Birds Day
• 6 January – World Day of War Orphans

Obituary

• Former Pope Benedict XVI passed away
• Tata group veteran R Krishnakumar passes away
• Sangeet exponent Sumitra Sen passes away
• Gujarat’s first woman chief secretary Manjula Subramaniam passes away

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