National Current Affairs – January 2023

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• 1st meeting of the 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
• ESAF Finance Bank won Inclusive Finance India Awards 2022
• Indian Air Force (IAF) to conduct ‘PRALAY’ exercise in Northeast
• Govt announced Subhash Chandra Bose Disaster Management Award 2023
• President Murmu conferred Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
• Aska police station of Odisha becomes the country’s number 1 station

• Padma Awards 2023 Winners List Announced; .
• President Murmu approved 412 Gallantry Awards to Armed Forces personnel
• New Zealand to introduce Debbie H. Medal to honour women cricketers
• M Yeoh becomes first Asian to bag Oscar nomination for Best Actress
• Bangalore, Delhi one of the Top-Performing Global Airports of 2022
• Amit Shah inaugurated a 120-feet-tall polo statue in Manipur
• India becomes 3rd largest auto market globally, surpasses Japan: Report
• Chhattisgarh celebrated the traditional ‘Cherchera’ festival
• Gujarat CM inaugurated International Kite Festival 2023
• PM Modi launched Aspirational Block Programme
• The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) launched a portal for mapping industrial units and laboratories
• Talcher Fertiliser plant in Odisha will be ready by October 2024
• The Uttar Pradesh government launched the UP Global City campaign
• MP Tourism Board signed MoUs with 8 countries of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO)
• Kerala becomes the country’s first fully digital banking state
• India signed MoU with Panama to enhance cooperation in the training of diplomats
• PM Modi inaugurated Global Investors Summit in Indore
• Assam CM launched Jio 5G services in Guwahati
• Sudarsan Pattnaik builds the 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 the 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 the School of Logistics in Agartala, Tripura
• Meghalaya CM launched an agriculture response vehicle scheme
• Odisha’s steering committee approved a Rs 1,086 crore action plan for 2023-24
• India’s largest student-run festival ‘Saarang’ conducts at IIT Madras
• PM Modi flagged off the 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 the Regional Office of EPFO at Alwar
• PM Modi announced the ‘Aarogya Maitri’ project
• REC signed MoU with UP govt for multiple projects worth Rs 98,853 crore
• Delhi government organized a virtual book fair for its schools
• Kerala enters the Guinness Book of World Records for goals scored
• FSSAI issues regulatory standards for Basmati Rice for the first time
• Saiyam Mehra elected as Chairman of the Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council
• India and Japan to hold 1st bilateral air exercise ‘Veer Guardian-2023’
• India successfully carried out a test launch of the Prithvi-Il ballistic missile
• Surinder Chawla appointed as new MD & CEO Paytm bank
• ICICI Prudential signed Suryakumar Yadav for a new campaign
• Chetan Sharma reappointed as Chairman of B CCI’s selection committee
• Manpreet Monica Singh was sworn in as the First female Sikh judge in the US
• Govt extends RBI Deputy Governor Michael Patra’s tenure by one year
• Meta appoints Vikas Purohit as Director of Global Business Group India
• Justice N. Kotiswar Singh was appointed as acting Chief Justice of Gauhati HC
• Indian-origin AcCharania appointed new chief technologist of NASA
• Herbalife appointed Smriti Mandhana as a brand ambassador
• Ravi Kumar appointed as CEO of Cognizant
• Santhi Kumari was appointed as the first woman chief secretary of Telangana
• Captain Surbhi Jakhmola becomes the first woman officer to be posted at BRO
• Brazil appoints Sonia Guajajara as 1st minister of indigenous people

• 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 the 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 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 to 8.30% in Dec 2022
• PM Modi inaugurated the 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 the world’s longest river cruise from Varanasi to Assam
• Mamata Banerjee launched a new campaign ‘Didir Suraksha Kavach’

• Rajnath Singh inaugurated the steel arch Siyom Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh
• Manipur celebrated the 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 the Sathe ri 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
• GoThe government formed Committee to protect Ladakh culture, language & Employment
• Madhya Pradesh govt launched Chief Minister’s Residential Land Rights Scheme
• PM Modi presides over the annual general meeting of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library society
• The First G-20 meeting to take place in Puducherry on Jan 31
• Varanasi Cantt Railway Station was 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 the 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
• go government-approved IND (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

• 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 was pointed as MD and CEO of the Indian Overseas Bank
• CRPF Director-General Sujoy Thaosen takes additional charge of BSF
• Dinesh Shukla was pointed as Chairman of Atthe omic 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 was elected as the new speaker of the US House of Representatives

• Odisha won World Habitat Award 2023
• Jalna and Nagpur Police won ‘Bthe est Police Unit’ award
• Tapan Saikia received AsAssam’sighest civilian award ‘AssamBaibhav’
• FiThe first meeting of the Youth 20 Group will be held in Guwahati
• International Trade Fair on Millets organized in Bengaluru
• Sports Ministry forms oversight committee to probe allegations in Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)
• MSME Ministry organized National SC-ST Hub Conclave in Mumbai
• Lt Governor R K Mathur launched Unique Land Parcel Identification Number (ULPIN) in Ladakh
• Jharkhand government launched a water conservation scheme for farmers
• American India Foundation (AIF) inaugurated India’s first STEM innovation centre in Chennai
• Visakhapatnam Railway Station awarded ‘Green Railway Station Certificate’
• Indian Railways launches ‘Ideal Train Profile’
• North India’s largest floating Solar project was inaugurated in Chandigarh
• Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Film Festival to be organized in Mumbai
• Ayush Ministry signed MoU with India Tourism Development Corporation
• Hardeep S Puri flagged off low carbon cruise on Mahabahu Brahmaputra

• ECI hosted the 2nd International Conference in New Delhi
• Delhi host first-ever India Stack Developer Conference
• The Annual Orange festival 2023 celebrated in Nagaland
• Nitin Gadkari chaired the 10th meeting of the Group of Infrastructure Committee
• Andhra Pradesh CM launched 165 veterinary ambulances
• G20 group to hold Startup20 Engagement meet in Hyderabad
• Ministry of Tourism organized the 6-day mega event “Bharat Parv” at Red Fort lawns
• Government renamed Delhi’s Mughal Gardens as ‘Amrit Udyan’
• Luminous to build India’s first green solar panel factory in Uttarakhand
• PM Modi addressed the 1111th Avataran Mahotsav of Bhagwan Devnarayan
• Woxsen University launched Project Aspiration in Telangana for girls
• Sonowal inaugurated NLP-Marine, a portal to reduce logistics cost
• Government to hand over 1,000 sites to private sector under Monument Scheme
• Khadi Fest-23 inaugurated in Mumbai
• India & Egypt signed an MoU on Cultural Cooperation
• Third Interpol Young Global Police Leaders Program begins
• Jharkhand launched first survey of migrants
• India & South Africa signed MoU to introduce 12 African Cheetahs
• Amit Shah laid the foundation stone for National Forensic Sciences University in Karnataka
• G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group begins in Chandigarh
• First Employment Working Group Meeting will be held in Jodhpur
• India’s G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant inaugurated India’s first Model G-20 Summit
• PM Modi released special Rs 75 coin to mark 75 successful years of NCC
• UP government launched the ‘Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan’ campaign
• ‘Jeevan Vidya Shivir’ organized for Delhi govt school teachers
• National Child Science Congress organized in Ahmedabad