Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 18 January to 25 January 2023

January Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 3

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

We have given weekly one-liner current affairs below to help you study for general awareness / current affairs section and remain up to date on current events.

National News

• Entire country to be covered by doppler weather radar network by 2025
• Indian Railway to run Bharat Gaurav train between Ayodhya and Janakpur
• Jitendra Singh launched “Geospatial Hackathon”
• India announced the donation of pentavalent vaccines to Cuba
• Rajasthan becomes first state to implement blindness control policy
• India’s richest 1% own more than 40% of total wealth: Oxfam
• B-20 inception meeting to be organized in Gandhinagar
• First G20 Health Working Group meet to be held in Kerala
• ‘Think 20’ meeting under G20 began in Bhopal
• NTPC REL signs MoU with Tripura for collaboration in Renewable Energy
• Maghi Mela festival being held in Punjab
• NCERT notified India’s first national assessment regulator ‘PARAKH’ (Performance Appraisal, Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development)
• Telangana CM launched second phase of ‘Kanti Velugu’
• Kerala Literature Festival concludes in Kozhikode
• ASI discovered two 1200-year-old miniature stupas at Nalanda, Bihar
• Punjab government to launch ‘Schools of Eminence’ project
• Kollam becomes first constitution-literate district in India
• Uttar Pradesh tops charts for mobile gaming destination in India
• PM Modi inaugurated the second phase of Saansad Khel Mahakumbh
• India announced 100 million Maldivian Rufiyaa for development projects
• Tourism Ministry to organize 1st Global Tourism Investors Summit
• Adani Enterprises signed agreement with Ashok Leyland to develop Asia’s first hydrogen-mining truck
• PM Modi launched several development projects in Karnataka, Maharashtra
• India and South Korea hold Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue in Seoul
• India’s 1st School of Logistics, Waterways, and Communication launched
• Hyderabad selected to host WEF Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• 41st session of the Network Planning Group (NPG) held in New Delhi
• Egypt president Abdel Fattah El Sisi to be chief guest at Republic Day celebrations
• India’s deepest metro station to be built at Pune Civil Court
• G20’s First Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group Meeting to be held in Bengaluru
• Odisha CM inaugurated ‘International Craft Summit’
• Wayanad becomes first district to provide basic documents to tribals
• Tourism Ministry participates in world’s largest Travel Exhibition
• 18th Annual Meeting of Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship (IIE) held in Guwahati
• J&K government to host its maiden SARAS Fair 2023
• ‘Vigyanika – Science Literature Festival’ event to be held in IISF, Bhopal
• Himachal Pradesh targets to be first ‘green energy state’ by 2025
• Indian Embassy organizes Intl seminar on knowledge sharing in Kathmandu
• PM Modi named 21 islands of Andaman and Nicobar after Paramveer Chakra awardees
• Himalayan Cultural Heritage Foundation (HCHF) and Ladakh Tourism Dept organized annual Ethnic Mamani Festival’
• ‘Moidams’ nominated for UNESCO World Heritage Site

International News

• World Economic Forum 2023 Summit begins in Davos
• Film ‘Toolsidas Junior’ to be screened at SCO Film Festival 2023
• China’s population drops for first time since 1961
• Shah Rukh Khan ranks third on world’s richest actors list
• Global Fire Power Index 2023: India ranked 4th; topped by US
• Pakistan is South Asia’s weakest economy: World Bank report
• Brand Guardianship Index 2023: Mukesh Ambani No1 among Indians’
• Jio is India’s strongest brand, ranked 9th globally: Brand Finance Report

Banking and Financial

• WPI inflation eased to 95 percent in December 2022
• Warehousing Development Regulatory Authority (WDRA) signed MoU with SBI to help farmers
• India’s exports decline by 12.2% to $34.48 billion in December 2022
• South Indian Bank partnered with Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) for financing dealers
• Tamilnad Mercantile Bank won Best Small Bank Award 2022
• LIC launched Jeevan Azad limited premium payment plan
• India to become $26 trillion economy by 2047: EY report
• SBI General Insurance partnered with HP Police and Doers NGO

Appointment and Resignation

• UK Treasury Adviser Clare Lombardelli appointed as Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Chief Economist
• Janani Ramachandran becomes first LGBTQ woman of colour city council
• Pankaj Kumar Singh appointed as Deputy National Security Adviser (NSA)
• Nick Walker appointed as CEO of Vedanta’s Cairn Oil & Gas
• Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc announced his resignation
• Jacinda Ardern resigns as Prime Minister of New Zealand
• Praveen Sharma appointed as Director of National Health Authority
• Aruna Miller becomes Maryland’s first Indian-American Lt. Governor
• Chris Hipkins elected as new prime minister of New Zealand
• Co-founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings steps down as CEO
• Vikram Dev Dutt appointed as director general of DGCA
• Justice AK Sikri appointed Administrator of Shooting World Cup 2023

Awards

• Miss USA R’Bonney Gabriel crowned the new Miss Universe
• Writer K Venu received Federal Bank Literary Award 2023
• ‘Naanera’ bagged ‘Golden Kailasha’ award in Ajanta-Ellora film festival
• Goa Manohar International Airport wins Best Sustainable Greenfield Airport Award
• RV Prassad awarded the most distinguished scientist of the year 2022
• Nepalese ophthalmologist Dr. Sanduk Ruit won Bahrain’s ISA Award
• Prabha Atre awarded Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award

Defence

• India, France joint naval exercise ‘Varuna 2023’ begins
• India, Egypt to hold first-ever exercises between Special Forces
• Army organized ‘Sainya Ranakshetram 2.0’ Seminar-cum-workshop
• India & Egypt Joint Training Exercise Cyclone – I begin in Rajasthan
• Indian Navy conducts ‘Exercise AMPHEX’ 2023 In Andhra Pradesh
• Fifth Kalvari class submarine INS Vagir inducted into Indian Navy

Science

• ISRO ‘Shukrayaan I’ mission to planet Venus reportedly shifted to 2031
• IIT Madras developed Indigenous Mobile Operating System ‘BharOS’

Sports

• Virat Kohli becomes 5th highest run scorer in ODI cricket
• Yuki Bhambri, Saketh Myneni won Bangkok Open tennis title 2023
• Viacom18 gets Women’s Indian Premier League (WIPL) media rights for Rs 951 crore
• Victor and Akane won the Malaysia Open Badminton title 2023
• Barcelona won the Spanish Super Cup for 14th time
• Rohit Sharma breaks MS Dhoni’s record of most sixes in ODIs in India
• Laxman Rawat clinched NSCI Snooker Open Crown
• Hashim Amla announced retirement from all forms of cricket
• An Seyoung won women’s singles final at India Open Badminton

Book and Author

• A book titled ‘Coaching Beyond’ by Kaushik & R Sridhar released

Important day

• 16 January – National Startup Day
• 15 January 2023 – 148th Foundation Day of India Meteorological Department (IMD)
• 21 January – Foundation Day of Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura
• 19 January – National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Day
• UNESCO to dedicate International Day of Education on the 24th of January 2023 to Afghan Girls
• 23 January 2023 – 126th Birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• 24 January – National Girl Child Day

Obituary

• World’s oldest person Lucile Randon dies at the age of 118
• Padma Shri awardee Prabhaben Sobhagchand Shah passed away

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