WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 22ND TO 29TH JANUARY 2023

WEEKLY CA 23RD TO 29TH JANUARY 2023 

BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF SUBASH CHANDRA BOSE - 23RD JANUARY 

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1) Union Home Minister Awarded Aska (Ganjam) Police Station As Number 1 In The Country. 

2) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Names The 21 Largest Unnamed Islands Of Andaman & Nicobar Islands By Param Vir Chakra Awardee. 

3) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Unveiled The Model Of The National Memorial Dedicated To Netaji To Be Built On Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Dweep. 

4) Naor Gilon Indian Envoy To Israel Inaugurated 30th India-Israel Centre Of Excellence 

5) The Biennial Tri Service Amphibious Exercise AMPHEX 2023 Conducted Near Kakinada In Andhra Pradesh. 

6) Hindustani Vocalist Padma Vibhusan Dr. Prabha Atre Conferred With The Pandit Hariprashad Chaurasia Lifetime Achievement Award From CM Of Maharashtra. 

7) Carmel Sepuloni Has Been Appointed As The Deputy Prime Minister Of New Zealand. 

8) Korean An Seyoung Has Won The Women's Single Title At Indian Open Badminton 2023. 

9) Reliance Jio Has Been Ranked As The Strongest Brand In India. 

10) Telengana State Police Has Launched The CYBER CONGRESS Initiative. 

11) Former Supreme Court Judge Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri Has Been Appointed As The Administrator Of Shooting World Cup 2023. 

12) Punjab State Government Has Launched The School Of Eminence Project. 

13) Inger Anderson Has Been Elected As The Executive Director Of The UN Environment Program ( UNEP). 

14) The United States Government Has Launched The WELCOME CORPS Schemes To Offer Sanctuaries To Refugees. 

15) Indian Post Has Launched The TARANG MAIL Service  For Delivery Of Parcels. 

16) Sanjiv Chadha Has Been Reappointed As The MD & CEO Of Bank Of Baroda. 

17) International Trade Fair Millets & Organics 2023 Has Been Inaugurated In Bengaluru. 

NATIONAL GIRL CHILD DAY - 24TH January 

International Day Of Education - 24th January 

Theme 2023 - To Invest In People, Prioritize Education 

1) President Droupadi Murmu Conferred The Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Purashkar To 11 Childrens. 

2) Telengana Minister KT Rama Rao Launched Amazon India's AMAZON AIR 

3) Haroon Rasheed Appointed As The Chief Selector Of Pakistan Cricket Board. 

4) Shanghai Cooperation Organization Film Festival Is Organized In Mumbai From 27th To 31st January. 

5) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Renames Ross Island To Netaji Dweep. 

6) Indian Air Force Is Going To Host PRALAY In North East India From 1st To 5th February 2023. 

7) India's First STEM Innovation And Learning Centre Has Been Inaugurated In Chennai. 

8) Assam State's Moidams Has Been Nominated By CM Himanta Biswa Sarma For UNESCO World  Heritage Site. 

9) Odisha State  State Disaster Management Authority Has Been Selected For Subash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Purashkar 2023. 

10) Kunlavut Vitidsarn Has Been Won The Men's Single Title At India Open Badminton 2023. 

11) The Border Security Force ( BSF) Has Started OPS ALERT Exercise 

12) The 5th Kalvari Class Submarine INS VAGIR Has Been Inducted Into Indian Navy 

13) The 1ST Meeting Of The Youth 20 Group Will Be Held In Guwahati, Assam. 

14) ESAF Small Finance Bank Has Bagged The Inclusive Finance Award 2022. 

15) Jharkhand State Has Launched a Water Conservation Scheme With An Outlay Of 467.32 Crores. 

16) The First Business 20 Inception Meeting Has Been Inaugurated In Gandhinagar, Gujarat. 

17) India Has Urging Srilanka To Implement 13th Amendment To Its Constitution. 

National Voters Day- 25th January 

Theme 2023 - Nothing Like Voting, I Vote For Sure 

National Tourism Day - 24th January 

1) RRR Naatu Naatu Song Officially Nominated For Oscar 2023 In Original Song Category. 

2) Siddharth Sharma Has Been Appointed As The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) & Aparna Uppaluri As The Chief Operating Officer (COO) Of Tata Trust. 

3) Amazon Air Launched First Cargo Service In India From Hyderabad. 

4) BSF DG Launched a Mobile App BSF ATTARI For The Visitors Coming To Witness The Retreat Ceremony At JCP Attari, Amritsar. 

5) On The Occasion Of National Girl Child Day Serum Institute Of India Launched The First Made In India HPV Vaccine 

6) Smriti Mandhana, Renuka Singh Thakur & Harmanpreet Kaur Included By ICC In ICC Women's ODI Team Of The Year 2022. 

7) Eminent Architect And Padma Bhusan Recipient Balkrishna Doshi Passed Away. 

8) The Conference Of Birds Book Author - Mallika Sarabhai 

9) India's First Ever Military Tattoo And Tribal  Dance Festival Is Being Held From 23-24th January At Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Delhi. 

10) The First Tourism Working Group Meeting Under India's G20 Presidency Will Held In Kutch, Gujarat. 

11) Jammu & Kashmir Is Going To Host SARAS MELA 2023 For The First Time. 

12) North India's Largest Floating Solar Project Has Been Inaugurated In Chandigarh. 

13) The European Space Agency Will Launch Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer ( JUICE) From French Gulana In April 2023. 

14) Professor Bharat Bhasker Has Been Appointed As The New Director Of IIM Ahmedabad. 

15) INDIA'S KNOWLEDGE SUPREMACY: The New Dawn  Book Author - Dr. Ashwin Fernandes 

16) National AIDS Control Organization ( NACO) Has Made The Largest Human Red Ribbon Chain In Bhubaneswar.

17) Indian Shooter Manu Bhaker Wins Gold In European Championship. 

18) Anjum Moudgil Wins Gold In Women's 10m Air Rifle At Meyton Cup In Innsbruck, Austria. 

74TH Republic Day - 26th January 2023 

International Custom Day - 26th January 

Theme 2023 - Promoting a Culture Of Knowledge - Sharing And Professional Pride In Customs 

1) Ancient Yemini Kingdom  Of Saba ( 7 Major Landmarks) And a Lebanese Modernist Concrete Fair Park Were Added To UNESCO List Of World Heritage Sites. 

2) Chinar Corps Commander Lt General Amardeep Singh Aujala Has Been Awarded The Uttam Yudh Seva Medal ( UYSM) 

3) Indian Coast Guard Director General Varinder Singh Pathania Awarded The Param Vishisht Seva Medal. 

4) Indian Women Cricketer Renuka Singh Thakur Wins ICC Emerging Women's Cricketer Of The Year 2022. 

5) Surya Kumar Yadav Wins The ICC MEN's T2OI Cricketer Of The Year For 2022. 

6) 3rd Edition Of Two Days Of ORANGE Festival At Raiisoma Village Ground Organised By Nagaland. 

7) Indian Fast Bowler Mohammad Siraj Has Ranked Number One Position In ODI Bowling Rating. 

8) Five Teams Of Women IPL Teams Sold At Combined Value Of Rs. 4669.99 Crores. 

9) South Africa's Marco Jansen Crowned As ICC Men's Emerging Cricketer Of 2022

10) Australia's Tahila McGrath Wins ICC Women's T2OI Cricketer Of 2022. 

11) India And Egypt Signed MoU In Cyber Security And Broadcasting. 

12) 901 Police Personnel Have Been Awarded Police Medal On The Occasion Of Republic Day. 

13) UNESCO Designates Ukraine's Odesa  Heritage Sites In Danger Site. 

14) CJI DY Chandrachud On 25th January Launched a Supreme Court Service That Will Provide Apex Court Judgment In Various Indian Scheduled Languages. 

15) 14th Edition Of AERO India 2023 Will Held In Bengaluru. 

16) Prabdev Singh Has Been Appointed As The New CEO Of JP Morgan Chase And Co India. 

17) Gurpreet Kaur & Shashi Prabha Dwivedi Have Become The First Women DGP Of Punjab. 

18) The Elephant Whisperers Indian Documentary Has Been Nominated For OSCAR 2023. 

19) Union Health Ministry Has Launched The UWIN Platform To Keep a Digital Record Of Vaccination. 

20) Shamalbhai B Patel Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of Amul Brand. 

21) Bank Of Baroda Has Introduced Vikram Credit Card For Soldiers. 

22) Justice Sabina Has Been Appointed As The Acting Chief Justice Of Himachal Pradesh High Court. 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day - 27th JANUARY 

Theme 2023 - Home & Belonging 

1) Cervical Cancer Vaccine CERVAVAC Launched In India. 

2) World's First COVID Nasal Vaccine INTRANASAL INCOVACC  Vaccine By Bharat Biotech Launched. ( Launched By Union Health Minister Jitendra Singh) 

3) Actor Vidyut Jamwal, URI Film Director Aditya Dhar &  Cricketer Umran Malik Conferred With J& K Government Award 2023. 

4) Mumbai Airport Inducted First Batch Of 45 EVS, Become The Green Airport. 

5) Rafael Matos & Luisa Stefani Wins The Australian Open Mixed Doubles Titles ( By Defeating Indian Pair Sania Mirza & Rohan Bopanna) 

6) Sanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Foreign Ministers Meet To Be Held At Goa In May 2023. 

7) South Africa Signed MoU With India To Introduce Dozens Of African Cheetahs In India Over The Next Decade. 

8) Pakistan Cricketer Babar Azam Crowned As ICC Men's ODI  Cricketer Of The Year 2022. 

( Also Won Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy For ICC Men's Cricketer Of 2022) 

9) South Veteran Actress Jamuna Passed Away At 86. 

10) ISRO To Launch Aditya-L1 Mission By June Or July 2023 first Indian Mission To Observe Sun And Solar Corona. 

11) Japan Successfully Launched a Rocket Which Carried INTEL Satellite To Watch North Korea's Military Movement. 

12) England Test Captain Ben Stokes Has Won The ICC Test Captain Of The Year 2022. 

13) Naresh Lalwani Has Took The Charge As The New General Manager Of Central Railway. 

14) President Droupadi Murmu Has Approved 412 Gallantry Awards For Defense Personnel. 

15) Ministry Of Youth Affairs Has Organized Its First Mission Olympic Cell Meeting Outside Delhi In Bhubaneswar, Odisha. 

16) Sanghai Cooperation Organization ( SCO) Film Festival Has Been Organized In Mumbai. 

17) OPPO India With The Collaboration Of Government's Common Service Centre ( CSC) Will Train 1000 Indian Women As CYBER SANGINI 

18) Uganda Has Unveiled The First Commercial Oil Production Drilling Program. 

19) Ambedkar In London Book Author - William Gould, Santosh Dass & Christophe Jaffrelot 

Data Privacy Day - 28th January 

Theme 2023 - Think Privacy First 

1) 15TH Edition Of BRICS Summit Is Going To Held In South Africa's Durban. 

2) DRDO Successfully Tested The Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle ( HSTDV) From Odisha Coast. 

3) British Actor Sylvia Syms Passed AWAY at the age oF 89. 

4) Suzuki Signed MoU With National Dairy Development Board To Use Cow Dunks For Its CNDG Cars. 

5) US President Joe Biden Names Jeff Zients As New White House Chief of Staff. 

6) Indian-American Astronaut Raja Chari Nominated For The US Air Force Brigadier General. 

7) Indian Tennis Ace Sania Mirza Announced Retirement From International Tennis. 

8) P Venkata Jyothirmai And V Gopalkrishna Rao Were Sworn In As Additional Judges Of Andhra Pradesh High court. 

9) 30th Edition Of National Child Science Congress Has Been Organized At Ahmedabad. 

10) 25 Winners Of VEER GATHA 2.0 Competition Have Honoured By Defense Minister Rajnath Singh. 

11) New Zealand Has Announced To Introduce Debbie Hockley Medal To Honor Top Women Cricketer. 

12) Abhay K ( Indian Poet .) Has Been Elected As The Corresponding Member Of The Academy Of Letters Of Brazil. 

13) Sabir Ali, Known For Iron Man Of India Passed Away ( Who Won Gold In  1981 Asian Athletics Championship, Tokyo) 

14) Michelle Yeoh Became The First Asian Actress To Register An Oscar Nomination For Best Actress. 

15) Sangeeta Verma Has Been Reappointed As The Acting Chairperson Of The Competition Commission Of India ( CCI). 

 1) President Droupadi Murmu Inaugurate Amrit UDYAN ( Before It Called As Mughal Garden). 

2) Alexia Knierim And Brandon Frazier , US Pair Wins The Skating Title 

3) Aryna Sabalenka Wins The Australian Open Women's Single Title 2023 By Beating Elena Rybakina 

( She Won Her First Grand Slam Title) 

4) Two Indian Air Force Fighter Jets Sukhoi-30 & Mirage 2000 Crashed In Morena Of Madhya Pradesh. 

5) Former NATO General Petr Pavel Elected As New President Of Czech Republic. 

6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Released 75 Rupees Coins To Commemorating 75 Successful Years Of NCC. 

7) IPS Officer Gyanendra Pratap Singh Will Be The Next DGP Of Assam. 

8) Anisur Rahman New Urdu Book - Hazaar Rang Shaairi 

9) G20 StartUp Engagement Meeting Has Been Organised In Hyderabad. 

10) India's First Government Run Veterinary Ambulance Network Is Launched In Andhra Pradesh. 

11) 13th Century Hoysala Period Hero Stone Has Been Discovered In Karnataka. 

12) World's First Photonic Based Quantum Computer Will Built By Canada,. 

13) Centre Has Sanctioned 2600 Crores To Uttarakhand Under The Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme ( RDSS). 

14) Koji Sato Has Been Appointed As The New CEO Of Toyota Motor Corp. 

15) Vishakhapatnam Railway Station Has Been Awarded The Green Railway Station Certification. 

16) 3rd INTERPOL Young Global Police Leaders Programme Began In New Delhi. 

17) Pankaj Advani Won CCI Snooker Classic  Championship 2023.