Daily GK Update: 10th January 2022

Sports

Fourteen-year-old Bharath Subramaniyam has become the 73rd Grandmaster of India.
The Chennai-based teenager completed his final GM Norm and crossed the requisite 2500 rating at Vergani Cup Open in Italy.
Subramaniyam finished seventh overall in the event held at Cattolica by scoring 6.5 points from nine rounds.
To achieve the Grandmaster (GM) title, a player has to secure three GM norms and cross the live rating of 2,500 Elo points.

National Affairs

DPIIT is organizing the first-ever Startup India Innovation Week from 10^th to 16^thJanuary 2022.
This virtual week-long innovation celebration aims to commemorate the 75th year of India’s independence ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’.
This is designed to showcase the spread and depth of entrepreneurship across India.
India is emerging as a global innovation hub, boasting the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem.
DPIIT has recognised more than 61 thousand startups as on date.

National Affairs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing and inaugurating the five-day National Youth Festival on Jan 12, 2022
National Youth Festival will be held to celebrate the 159th birth anniversary of spiritual leader Swami Vivekananda.
The five-day festival will be held in the Union Territory of Puducherry.
The festival aims to ignite, unit, motivate and activate the youth of India towards nation building.
CM of Puducherry: N. Rangaswamy

Sports

20-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal won the Men’s Singles title in the Melbourne Summer Set ATP 250 event.
He defeated Maxime Cressy of US in final.
It was Nadal’s 89th tour-level crown.
Nadal playing his first competitive tournament since Aug, was largely untroubled as he wrapped up the win in an hour 48 minutes.
In women category, former world number one Simona Halep defeated Veronika Kudermetova at the Melbourne Summer Set 1 final to claim her 23rd career title.

Defense

India's 1st indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant began another set of sea trials.
It is planned to be inducted in Aug 22.
The 40,000-tonne aircraft carrier is the largest and most complex warship to be built in India
It successfully completed a five-day maiden sea voyage in Aug and underwent 10-day sea trials in Oct 2021.
IAC-1 will operate the MiG-29K, Kamov-31 helicopters; Advanced Light Helicopters and the soon-to-be-inducted MH-60R multirole helicopters.

Important Dates

Center has announced that Dec 26 will be observed as 'Veer Baal Diwas' as a tribute to guru Gobind Singh's four sons who were executed by the Mughals.
This was announced by PM Modi on the occasion of the 365th birth anniversary of the 10th Sikh guru.
Veer Baal Diwas will be on the same day Sahibzada Zorawar Singh Ji and Sahibzada Fateh Singh Ji attained martyrdom after being sealed alive in a wall.
Children’s Day in India is observed on November 14.

Important Dates

World Hindi Day is celebrated every year on January 10 to mark the first World Hindi Conference that was held in 1975.
It is celebrated across the world to promote the use of the Hindi language.
The first World Hindi Conference was held in Nagpur on January 10 in 1975.
1st World Hindi Day was celebrated in the year 2006.
The theme of this day is to make Hindi a part of public opinion, although it doesn’t necessarily mean that one has to leave their mother tongue.

Obituaries

Oscar-winning lyricist and composer, Marilyn Bergman (93) passed away in Los Angeles.
Bergman and her collaborator husband Alan, was nominated for 16 Academy Awards over the course of her career, winning three.
The song “The Way We Were” from the Barbara Streisand movie of the same name was one of those Oscar wins, which also won two Grammys.
The collaborating team of the Bergmans also won two other Oscars for their songs.

Sports

Felix Auger-Aliassime won the ATP Cup title for Canada with a victory over Roberto Bautista Agut to give his country an insurmountable 2-0 lead against Spain.
Denis Shapovalov opened the match for Canada with a 6-4, 6-3 win over Pablo Carreno Busta.
Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov won a deciding doubles against Russia in the semifinals to knock out the defending champions.
And with the title on the line, they played their best tennis to defeat 2-time finalists of Spain

Sports

India's Rohan Bopanna and Ramkumar Ramanathan won the men's doubles title at the Adelaide International ATP 250 event.
The unseeded pair beat top seeds Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in the final to mark a victorious debut on the ATP Tour.
This is Ramkumar's first ATP Tour title while Bopanna won his 20th.
The Adelaide tournament is a warm-up for the Australian Open, the season's first Grand Slam.

Banking & Finance

RBL Bank and Google announced a strategic collaboration to fuel the Bank’s customer experience strategy.
Through this the bank will expand its value proposition to serve its rapidly growing customer base through the digital platform, Abacus 2.0.
It will enable better customer data management, and analytics, enabling effective cross-selling within the Bank’s large customer base.
The Bank aims to provide a holistic one-stop solution to its existing and new customers.

National Affairs

Rajnath Singh flagged-in India’s 1st multi-dimensional Adventure Sports Expedition
It was conducted by National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports in France.
The expedition was conducted in Nov 21.
The team comprising 12 people - eight Army personnel and four youths of Arunachal Pradesh.
The expedition team carried out over 250 Km of winter trekking in the Alps Mountain Ranges.
The expedition was organised as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.