Sports
1. Lakshya sen clinches men's singles title of India Open 2022
- India’s Lakshya Sen has won his maiden Super 500 title by winning Yonex-Sunrise India Open.
- He defeated World Champion Loh Kean Yew (Singapore) in Men's single event.
- Earlier in the day, India's top-ranked Men's Doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won double title
- They defeated top seeded Indonesian pair of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan in the final.
- Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrunghphan bagged the Women’s Singles title
Obituaries
2. Kathak Maestro Pandit Birju Maharaj passes away
- Kathak legend Pandit Birju Maharaj (Brij Mohan Nath Mishra) passed away at his home in Delhi after suffering a heart attack.
- A recipient of the country’s second-highest civilian award, Padma Vibhushan was born in a well-known family of Kathak dancers.
- Pandit Birju Maharaj donned several hats during his lifetime.
- While he was best known as a Kathak dancer, he was an equally prolific singer, poet and painter.
Obituaries
3. ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner M.K. Prasad passes away
- Noted environmentalist Prof M K Prasad passed away on 17th January 2022.
- He was a prominent figure in the historic grassroot level movement to save the evergreen tropical rain forests in Kerala's Silent Valley from destruction.
- He had also led the popular science movement, ‘Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishath’.
- That had undertaken campaigns for popularisation of science in everyday life.
State Affairs
4. Tamil Nadu govt to install statue of British officer in UK
- The Tamil Nadu government will install a statue of Colonel John Pennycuick in the United Kingdom.
- Colonel John Pennycuick was a British engineer who built the Mullaperiyar dam in 1895 in Kerala's Idukki.
- The dam is currently operated by the Tamil Nadu government.
- Pennycuick is highly respected by the people of the five districts in Tamil Nadu and is even worshipped by many.
Defense
5. Navies of India, Russia Conduct Passing Exercise In Arabian Sea
- The navies of India and Russia conducted a passing exercise in the Arabian Sea.
- Indian Navy's guided missile destroyer INS Kochi exercised with Russian Navy's destroyer Admiral Tributs.
- The exercise showcased cohesiveness and interoperability between the two navies.
- A passing exercise is done to ensure that two navies participating in it are able to smoothly coordinate and communicate in times of any disaster or war.
National Affairs
6. MEIL completes 5-km tunnelling work as part of Zojila project
- Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Limited (MEIL) has completed 5-km-long tunnelling work as part of the 18-km-long all-weather Zojila Tunnel.
- The project of the NHIDCL, being executed by the MEIL, is envisaged to ensure connectivity between Srinagar and Ladakh throughout the year.
- Zojila project, Asia's longest bi-directional tunnel, is a challenging development project in India for strategic reasons too.
National Affairs
7. Arvind Kejriwal to flag off Delhi's first DTC electric bus
- Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal flagged off Delhi Transport Corporation’s (DTC’s) first electric bus.
- The electric buses will cover a minimum distance of 120 km and arrangements of charging points are underway.
- 300 such E-buses will start till April, the target is 2000.
- These buses were manufactured by the JBM Auto Limited.
- These buses were acquired under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and electric Vehicles in India (FAME – II) initiatives.
International Affairs
8. China builds 'artificial moon' for gravity experiment
- China built an "artificial moon" research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism.
- The gravity of this place can be controlled using powerful magnets by scientists to such low levels that it could successfully simulate the moon’s gravity.
- The artificial moon research facility is scheduled for official launch in the year 2022.
- It is first of its kind research facility in the world.
State Affairs
9. Chhattisgarh govt to set up employment mission to create 15 lakh job
- Chhattisgarh govt decided to set up an employment mission to create around 15 lakh job opportunities in the state in the next 5 years.
- The mission will be headed by CM Bhupesh Baghel.
- Under the mission, the State government will also leverage expertise of premiere institutions such as the IIT, IIIT, IIM and NIT, in the State to generate employment opportunities.
- In the last 3 years, several innovative programmes were introduced to create employment opportunities.
National Affairs
10. Govt inaugurates India's first coal to methanol plant built by BHEL
- Union govt has dedicated India's first BHEL-built 'coal to methanol' (CTM) pilot plant to the nation in Hyderabad.
- The 0.25 TPD capacity CTM pilot plant is currently producing methanol with purity of more than 99% from high-ash coal.
- This conversion of high-ash Indian coal to methanol through the gasification route is the first-of-its-kind technology demonstration in India.
- An exhibition on Products Developed under Aatmanirbhar Bharat' has also been inaugurated.
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