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Current Affairs One-Liner: 10th January 2023

Published on January 10, 2023
  • The Pradhan Mantri National Apprenticeship Mela, or PMNAM, took place in 242 districts across the country on January 9, 2023. Through apprenticeship training, PMNAM gives local youth a special chance to develop their lives.
  • The G20's 'Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion' summit began on January 9, 2023, in Kolkata.
  • With the help of SIIRD (Society of Indian Institute of Rural Development), Neeru Yadav, also known as "Hockey Wali Sarpanch," has signed an agreement with NABARD to launch the Farmers Producers Organization (FPO).
  • Chhattisgarh CM, Bhupesh Baghel has celebrated the traditional Cherchera festival at Dudhadhari Math in Raipur.
Current Affairs One-Liner: 10th January 2023
  • Purushottam Rupala, the Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry, and Dairy, officially launched a call center and 29 Mobile Veterinary Units (MVUs) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
  • The International Kite Festival 2023 began on 8 January in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The festival is being organized by Gujarat Tourism on the G20 theme of 'One Earth, One Family, One Future'.
  • In Moirang, Manipur, Union Minister Amit Shah of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) officially opened and laid the cornerstone for 21 development projects totaling Rs 1,311 crore.
  • As part of the flagship initiative, the National Health Authority (NHA) is developing a new method to evaluate hospital performance. Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat AB PMJAY (Jan Arogya Yojana)
  • The Office Depot, ODP Business Solutions, and Veyer business units of ODP Corporation have chosen HCL Tech as their major IT partner to support their end-to-end IT operations and enterprise-wide digital transformation.
  • An unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an untethered multi-copter payload created by the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), is intended to conduct logistical missions in the Himalayan region.
  • International News:
    • India has handed 75 passenger buses to Sri Lanka as part of its assistance towards strengthening public transport infrastructure in the cash-strapped country.
  • Sporting accomplishments:
    • The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has partnered with the JSW Group for the upcoming FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar.
    • Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated American Sebastian Korda in the Men's Single at the 2023 Adelaide International 1. The score was 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3), and 6-4.
    • Tennis player Tallon Griekspoor (World No. 95) defeated Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi (World No. 60) in the men's singles finals of the Tata Open Maharashtra 2023, which were played in Pune, Maharashtra's Balewadi Stadium. This is also his first ATP Tour (Association of Tennis Professionals) championship.
  • Appointments
    • Manpreet Monica Singh, who is of Indian descent, has been sworn in as a Harris County judge, making history as the first female Sikh judge in the US.
    • Chetan Sharma was reappointed as the chairman of the senior selection committee exactly two months after the BCCI disbanded his entire panel for the Indian team’s semi-final exit in the T20 World Cup. Salil Ankola, Shiv Sunar Das, Subroto Banerjee and Sridharan Sharath are new members of the selection committee.
  • Awards and accomplishments:
    • CEO of the vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, Adar Poonawalla, has been conferred with the Patangrao Kadam award.
    • In honour of his lifelong contributions to the legal profession in India and around the world, the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession (HLS CLP) has named Dr. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, Chief Justice of India, as the 2022 winner of its "Award for Global Leadership."
  • Obituary:
    • At the age of 88, Keshari Nath Tripathi, a three-time speaker of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly and a former governor of West Bengal (July 2014–July 2019), passed away in Prayagraj (Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh (UP).
    • Padma Prize Recipient The 'father of laparoscopic surgery in India,' Dr. Tehemton Erach Udwadia, an Indian surgeon and gastroenterologist, passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra, at the age of 88.
  • Books:
    • At a lavish event held in Kasaragod, Kerala, former Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni published Professor K.K. Abdul Gaffar's autobiography, "Njaan Sakshi" (myself as the witness).
  • Important Days:
    • Every year on January 10th, people worldwide observe World Hindi Day or Vishwa Hindi Diwas to honour and promote the rich cultural and linguistic history of the Hindi language and its speakers. The main theme of the World Hindi Conference 2023 is “Hindi – Traditional Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence”.
    • Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry is organizing Startup India Innovation Week from 10th January 2023 to 16th January 2023 to celebrate the Indian Startup Ecosystem as well as National Startup Day (16th January 2023).
  • Kerela becomes the first state to be fully digital in banking service
  • India’s largest and first coal gasification-based Talcher Fertiliser Project
  • Global Tamil Angels platform launched in Tamil Nadu for startups
  • India has become the world’s third-largest Auto Market
  • 5th Khelo India Youth Games 2022
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