TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Vice President Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar and PM Modi yesterday evening attended the prayer meeting organised at Gandhi Smriti in New Delhi on death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
2. PM Modi to Address Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024 in New Delhi
A three day Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024 will be held at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 1st to 3rd of February.
3. Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav released the first-ever Snow Leopard Population Assessment in India (SPAI) during the meeting of National Board for Wildlife in New Delhi. India has 718 snow leopard’s 🐆 in the country.
4. Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smriti Irani and Union Minister of Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav jointly released an advisory for employees to promote women workforce participation.
5. Minister of State for Defence and Tourism, Ajay Bhatt said that India of 2047 will be a Vishwa Guru in technology advancement and its usage.
6. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah launched the computerization project of Agriculture and Rural Development Banks (ARDBs) and Registrar of Cooperative Societies of all States and Union Territories in New Delhi.
7. Dr. Jayanti Ravi, Secretary, Auroville Foundation inaugurates the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat program at Bharat Nivas Campus, Auroville. 100 students of Higher Education Institutes across the country participated in the week long program.
8. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma released the first edition of ‘Political History of Assam (1947-1971)’- Volume 1, marking a significant step in documenting the state’s political journey.
9. The second edition of India Energy Week (IEW) is scheduled to take place in Goa from the 6th to the 9th February.
10. BJP’s Manoj Kumar Sonkar Wins Chandigarh Mayoral Election; AAP Challenges Result in High Court.
11. Helicopter Services Connecting Vaishno Devi to Shiv Khori in Jammu Soon, Reveals J&K Deputy Commissioner Vishesh Mahajan. Shiv Khori is the only religious place, after Vaishno Devi, which has been attracting devotees from all over the country.
12. A 26 years old Yongan Konyak is considered as one of the tallest man in Nagaland(6 feet 10 inches) who hails from Mon district’s Longwa Wasa village bordering India and Myanmar.
13. Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Monday revoked the suspension of 14 Opposition MPs, allowing them to attend House proceedings, before the start of the Budget session.
President Smt. Droupadi Murmu nominated Satnam Singh Sandhu to Rajya Sabha. Mr. Sandhu is an edupreneur, philanthropist, and the founder and chancellor of Chandigarh University.
14. Sharat Chauhan, has been appointed as Puducherry’s new Chief Secretary.
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LEGAL REPORT
#Chief Justice of India:
Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal
#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Joan Donoghue
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1. Enforcement Directorate questioned Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and former Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar in relation to the money laundering case for alleged irregularities in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s purchase of body bags at inflated rates for COVID-19 victims.
2. ED on Tuesday interrogated former deputy chief minister of Bihar Tejashwi Prasad Yadav for nearly nine hours in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the alleged land-for-jobs scam.
3. Two people were killed, and three others sustained bullet injuries after fresh violence rocked Manipur on Tuesday. The incident took place near Kadangband village in the Lamshang area on the border of Imphal West when some unknown armed miscreants opened fire at a camp.
4. Five associations under Mizoram University denounce PhD programme for allegedly fundraising for bullets targeting Manipur.
5. Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila on Monday dismissed allegations that her husband Anil had met then President Pranab Mukherjee after her father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s death, with the twin goals of making her (Ms. Sharmila) the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and imprisoning her brother Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy over embezzlement charges.
6. The Archaeological Survey of India’s epigraphy wing in Mysuru found three Telugu inscriptions on the walls of Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi.
A team of experts led by ASI director (epigraphy) K Muniratnam Reddy deciphered 34 inscriptions, including the three in Telugu, and submitted a report on the existence of Kashi Vishwanath temple.
7. The Muslim girl students of a government senior secondary school staged a protest outside the Subhash Chowk police station demanding action against BJP MLA Balmukund Acharya for objecting to the girls wearing hijab during a school event.
8. Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Tuesday reached his official residence in Ranchi and chaired a meeting of his alliance MLAs, a day ahead of the Enforcement Directorate is to question him in a money laundering case. ED to quiz him on Wednesday.
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Congress leader Manvendra Singh’s wife was killed and the former MP and his son were injured when their SUV met with an accident in Alwar on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway. Manvendra Singh, who is son of the late Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart and former Union minister Jaswant Singh.
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FINANCE
#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.
#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal
#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das
#President of the World Bank : Ajay Banga
#IMF MD: Kristalina Georgieva
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💰 USD ₹ 83.12
💷 GBP ₹ 105.51
€ Euro : ₹ 90.12
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GDP rate (2023 ) : 6.5% ( $3.75 trillion)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : Retail Inflation 5.69% in Dec 2023
Population : 141.81 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 7.8%
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BSE SENSEX
71,139.90 −801.67 (1.11%)🔻
NIFTY
21,522.10 −215.50 (0.99%) 🔻
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 63,270/10gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 76,500/KG
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⛽ FUEL in DELHI
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PETROL : ₹ 97/Ltr
DIESEL : ₹ 90/Ltr
CNG : ₹ 76/Ltr
LPG : ₹ 903/14.2 Kg
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⛽ FUEL in MUMBAI
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PETROL : ₹ 106/Ltr
DIESEL : 95/Ltr
Auto Gas : ₹ 60/Ltr
CNG : 76/Kg
LPG : ₹ 903/14.2 Kg
1. The Budget Session of Parliament will commence today. The session will start with an address by President Droupadi Murmu to the joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament.
2. Ahead of the interim Budget Session of the Parliament, the government convened an all-party meeting to ensure the smooth functioning of both the Houses.
3. The International Monetary Fund has revised upward India’s growth forecast for FY24 to 6.7% (from 6.3%) on account of the robust Q2 GDP outturn. In Q2 FY24, India’s GDP growth came in at 7.6%, much higher than market expectations.
4. The budget session of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha will commence on 20 February 2024.
5. Jharkhand Assembly’s Budget Session Starts from 09 Feb 2024. Annual Budget Presentation on 16 Feb.
6. Toyota, the renowned Japanese automaker, has once again secured its position as the world’s top-selling automaker in 2023.
7. GAIL, India’s leading gas company, has made significant strides in enhancing its liquefied natural gas (LNG) portfolio through a recent partnership with the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) ADNOC Gas. Under this deal, GAIL is set to procure 0.5 million tonnes of LNG annually for a decade.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
#Information and Broadcasting Minister: Shri Anurag Singh Thakur
#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) :
R Madhavan
#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi
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1. Siddharth Anand’s latest film, ‘Fighter,’ has seen success at the box office, grossing Rs 225 crore worldwide.
2. JAGADANANDA KARAKA 🎵: The 177th edition of the Sri Thyagaraja Aradhana music festival is taking place in Thiruvaiyaru, Tamil Nadu.
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DEFENCE
#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President
#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh
#Def Minister of State :
Ajay Bhatt
#Union Home : Amit Shah
#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval
#Chief of Defence Staff:
Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM
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1. The Navy along with naval forces from Sri Lanka and Seychelles, rescued a fishing vessel with six crew members after it was hijacked in the sea lanes east of the capital, Mogadishu.
2. INDIAN NAVY RESCUED AN IRANIAN-FLAGGED FISHING VESSEL WITH 19 PAKISTANI CREW MEMBERS: Indian Naval Ship Sumitra, having thwarted the Piracy attempt on FV Iman, has carried out yet another successful anti-piracy operation off the East Coast of Somalia, rescuing Fishing Vessel Al Naeemi and her Crew (19 Pakistani Nationals) from 11 Somali Pirates.
3. The inaugural India-Saudi Arabia joint military exercise ‘SADA TANSEEQ’ commenced on January 29th in Rajasthan. The aim is to develop interoperability, camaraderie and friendship between the troops.
4. A new entrance gate was unveiled at the Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw Parade Ground, Bengaluru Karnataka on Monday. It is a venue of national events and annual parades.
At 66-foot-wide and 20-foot-high, the grand entrance gate comes with a seven-foot iron frame statue of the legendary Field Marshal SHFJ Manekshaw.
5. In Jammu & Kashmir: A contingent of 17 Local Youth from mountainous district Kishtwar commenced their Bharat Darshan Tour, organized by 52nd Battalion of CRPF under the Civic Action Programme. 10 days tour spanning from January 30 to 8 February.
6. Three personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), two of them commandos of the elite jungle warfare unit CoBRA, were killed and 15 injured in an encounter with Maoists along the boundary of Sukma and Bijapur districts in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. Six Maoists were killed in the retaliatory fire.
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MANIPUR : IMPHAL
Before was
Manipur Kingdom
Admission to union
15 Oct 1949
As union territory: 1956
As state: 1972
District : 16
Governor : Anusuiya Uikey
CM : N. Biren Singh (BJP)
STATE SYMBOLS
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Bird : Nongin
Fish : Pengba
Flower : Shirul Lily
Tree : Unigthou
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In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.
Population of Bharat:
142 cr (2023)
President of Bharat ,
Smt Droupadi Murmu
Vice President
Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar
Prime Minister : Shri Narendra Modi
Speaker Lok Sabha :
Shri Om Birla (BJP)
Rajyasabha Seats : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)
Loksabha : 550 members (530 States + 20 Union Territories)
Chief Election Commissioner:
Shri Rajiv Kumar
31 Jan (Wednesday)
Vedic Ritu/ Hemant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Shishir Ritu
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945
Month : Pausa 20 (Amanta)
Magha 06, (Purnimanta) Nakshatr:Hasta/Chitra
Tithi : Panchami (up to 11:36 am)Shashthi
Rahu 12:40 PM – 02:02 PM
Yamaganda 08:33 AM – 09:55 AM
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