Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 9 January to 17 January 2023

January Weekly One Liner Current Affairs Part 2

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National News

• 1st meeting of Financial Inclusion Working Group begins in Kolkata
• BPCL launched low-smoke Superior Kerosene Oil (SKO) for Indian Army
• Maharashtra to set up 122 new sports complexes in rural areas
• Bangalore, Delhi one of the Top-Performing Global Airports of 2022
• Amit Shah inaugurated 120-feet-tall polo statue in Manipur
• India becomes 3rd largest auto market globally, surpasses Japan: Report
• Chhattisgarh celebrated traditional ‘Cherchera’ festival
• Gujarat CM inaugurated International Kite Festival 2023
• PM Modi launched Aspirational Block Programme
• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) launched portal for mapping of industrial units and laboratories
• Talcher Fertiliser plant in Odisha will be ready by October 2024
• Uttar Pradesh government launched UP Global City campaign
• MP Tourism Board signed MoUs with 8 countries of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
• Kerala becomes country’s first fully digital banking state
• India signed MoU with Panama to enhance cooperation in training of diplomats
• PM Modi inaugurated Global Investors Summit in Indore
• Assam CM launched Jio 5G services in Guwahati
• Sudarsan Pattnaik builds world’s largest hockey stick in Odisha
• Indian High Commission signed MoU to establish Hindi Chair at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka
• Centre renamed Integrated Food Security Scheme as Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana
• 14th edition of the World Spice Congress (WSC) to be held in Mumbai
• PM Modi inaugurated 26th National Youth Festival at Hubbali in Karnataka
• Axis Bank signed MoU with IISc Bengaluru to set up Centre for Mathematics and Computing
• 13th Ministerial-level meeting of the India-US Trade Policy Forum held in Washington
• Shillong to get India’s first centre of excellence for online gaming
• West Bengal organized ‘Ganga Sagar Mela’ on Makar Sankranti
• Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated School of Logistics in Agartala, Tripura
• Meghalaya CM launched agriculture response vehicle scheme
• Odisha’s steering committee approved Rs 1,086 crore action plan for 2023-24
• India’s largest student-run festival ‘Saarang’ conducts at IIT Madras
• PM Modi flagged off Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express train
• G20’s first Infrastructure Working Group meeting to be held in Pune
• ‘Soul of Steel’ challenge launched in Uttarakhand
• Piyush Goyal to launch MAARG (Mentorship, Advisory, Assistance, Resilience, and Growth) portal for startup mentorship
• Bhupender Yadav inaugurated Regional Office of EPFO at Alwar
• PM Modi announced ‘Aarogya Maitri’ project
• REC signed MoU with UP govt for multiple projects worth Rs 98,853 crore
• Delhi government organized virtual book fair for its schools
• Kerala enters Guinness Book of World Records for goals scored
• FSSAI issues regulatory standards for Basmati Rice for first time

International News

• Henley Passport Index 2023: India ranked 85; topped by Japan
• Punjabi will be taught in Australian schools
• UAE names ADNOC oil chief Sultan al-Jaber as President of COP28

Banking and Financial

• Hockey Wali Sarpanch signed an agreement with NABARD to strengthen farmers
• South Indian Bank launched MSME online portal
• World Bank projected India’s economic growth to slow to 6.9% in FY23
• India’s fastest payment app ‘PayRup’ launched
• Centre approved ₹2,600 crore as incentive for banks to promote digital payments
• SBI launched e-Bank Guarantee facility in association with National e-Governance Services Limited (NeSL)
• Alibaba sells Paytm stake worth $125 million via block deal

Appointment and Resignation

• Saiyam Mehra elected as Chairman of Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council
• Surinder Chawla appointed as new MD & CEO Paytm bank
• ICICI Prudential signed Suryakumar Yadav for a new campaign
• Chetan Sharma reappointed as Chairman of BCCI’s selection committee
• Manpreet Monica Singh sworn in as First female Sikh judge in US
• Govt extends RBI Deputy Governor Michael Patra tenure by one year
• Meta appoints Vikas Purohit as Director of Global Business Group India
• Justice N. Kotiswar Singh appointed as acting Chief Justice of Gauhati HC
• Indian origin A C Charania appointed new chief technologist of NASA
• Herbalife appointed Smriti Mandhana as a brand ambassador
• Ravi Kumar appointed as CEO of Cognizant
• Santhi Kumari appointed as first woman chief secretary of Telangana
• Captain Surbhi Jakhmola becomes first woman officer to be posted at BRO
• Brazil appoints Sonia Guajajara as 1st minister of indigenous people

Awards

• Aparna Sen received Lifetime Achievement Award at Jaipur Film Festival
• CJI Chandrachud to be conferred with ‘Award for Global Leadership’
• RRR won Best Original Song for Naatu Naatu at Golden Globes
• Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The KashmirFiles’ nominated for Oscars 2023
• Adar Poonawalla received Patangrao Kadam award
• 80th Annual Golden Globes Awards 2023; .Read More
• Thiru Nadesan awarded Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award 2023

Defence

• India and Japan to hold 1st bilateral air exercise ‘Veer Guardian-2023’
• India successfully carried out test launch of Prithvi-Il ballistic missile

Sports

• Sania Mirza announced her retirement from Professional Tennis
• Kerala University won ‘Overall Championship’ at youth festival
• Khelo India National Women Kho Kho leagues set to take place in Punjab
• Surya Kumar Yadav becomes fastest player to reach 1,500 runs in T20I
• Anahat Singh won Girls U-15 squash title at British Junior Open Tournament
• Novak Djokovic won men’s single Adelaide International 1 title 2023
• Dwaine Pretorius announces retirement from international cricket
• Virat Kohli equals Sachin Tendulkar’s record of most hundreds
• CM Shivraj Singh unveild mascot, torch of Khelo India Youth Games 2022
• Harry Brook & Ashleigh Gardner named ICC Players of the Month
• Footballer Gareth Bale announced his retirement from professional football
• 11-year-old Falak Mumtaz won gold medal at National Sqay Championship
• France captain Hugo Lloris retires from international football

Book and Author

• Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi released book titled ‘Diary No.1’
• Historian Sanjeev Sanyal released his new book ‘Revolutionaries’
• Dhoni released autobiography of Prof KK Abdul Gaffar
• AK Dwivedi’s book ‘Human Anatomy’ released by Governor of MP
• Mansukh Mandaviya released a book titled ‘Braving A Viral Storm’ co-authored by Aashish Chandorkar and Suraj Sudhir
• Prince Harry released his Memoir titled “Spare”
• A book titled Irrfan Khan: A Life in Movies author by Shubhra Gupta

Important day

• 10 January – World Hindi Day (Theme 2023 – Hindi: Traditional Knowledge to Artificial Intelligence.)
• Jitendra Singh released theme of National Science Day 2023 (Theme 2023 – Global Science for Global Wellbeing)
• Road Transport and Highways Ministry observed Road Safety Week
• 12 January – National Youth Day (Theme 2022 – Viksit Yuva-Viksit Bharat)
• 11 January – National Human Trafficking Day
• 14 January 2023 – 7th Armed Forces Veterans Day

Obituary

• Former governor of Bengal Keshari Nath Tripathi passed away
• Kashmir’s first Jnanpith awardee Rehman Rahi passed away
• Father of laparoscopic surgery Tehemton Udwadia passed away
• Former Union Minister Sharad Yadav passed away
• British linguist Ronald E Ashe passed away

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