1. Covid-19 vaccination reaches 145.44 crore doses in India. National recovery rate stands at 98.27%.
2. A total of 1,525 cases of Omicron variant of Covid-19 have been reported so far in the country. Omicron cases have been reported from 23 States and Union Territories. Out of these, 560 patients have already recovered. Maximum of 460 cases have been reported from Maharashtra followed by Delhi with 351 cases.
3. COVID-19 vaccination of children in the age group of 15 to 18 years will begin from today. The vaccine option for children will be only Covaxin.
4. PM Modi will visit Manipur and Tripura on Tuesday at around 11 AM. He will inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of 22 Developmental Projects worth over four thousand 800 crore rupees in Imphal. In Manipur, PM will inaugurate 13 Projects worth around 4,850 crore rupees and lay the foundation stone of nine projects worth around 2,950 crore rupees.
5. Civil Aviation Ministry has released draft National Air Sports Policy for public feedback. The draft policy is available on the website of the Ministry. The policy covers sports like aerobatics, ballooning, drones, gliding and paragliding, microlighting and paramotoring, skydiving and vintage aircraft.
6. The Supreme Court has suspended physical hearings for two weeks from 03 Jan and will switch to virtual hearings amid surging COVID-19 cases.
7. ASSAM : CM Himanta Biswa Sarma distributes 5000 cheques Under Assam Micro-finance Incentive and Relief Scheme for category 1 to the women beneficiaries to incentivize them to maintain good credit discipline at Dhemaji.
8. Two days leave for Assam government employees to spend quality time with their parents/in-laws on January 6 & 7, 2022 designated as special leave.” The leaves are followed by two more leaves being the second Saturday and Sunday. In November 2021, Assam took the decision to allow the special two-day leave.
9. BIHAR: Patna District Magistrate announces that all government and private schools up to class 8 will be closed till January 8 in view of the severe cold wave in the state.
10. HARYANA : Rescue operation continued at Dadam mining site for the second day on Sunday, where four people were killed in a landslide.
11. MAHARASHTRA : Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Dr Bharati Pawar will inaugurate Central Govt Health Scheme, CGHS Wellness Centre in Nashik in Maharashtra today. Nashik will be fourth city in Maharashtra after Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur to have CGHS Wellness Centre.
12. UTTAR PRADESH : A five-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) has been constituted to probe the case of alleged hate speech delivered during ‘Dharma Sansad’ held in Haridwar.
13.West Bengal: state govt on Sunday announced several Covid curbs in order to limit the rapidly spreading coronavirus infection in the state. Flights from Delhi, Mumbai restricted to Kolkata from Jan 5.
NEW APPOINTMENT : Vistara has announced that Vinod Kannan took over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the airline on Saturday. Kannan replaced Leslie Thng who was the CEO from July 2017 to December 2021.
14. Economically Weaker Section Quota Rules Will Change Next Year: The govt said changing norms at this time – when admissions and allocation of colleges for NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) students are ongoing – will lead to complications. EWS norm revisions can be applied from the next academic year. The revised EWS criteria retains the contentious Rs 8 lakh annual income ceiling but excludes families with agricultural land of five acres or more, irrespective of income.
15. Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collected in December 2021 was over 1.29 lakh crore. The revenues for the month of December 2021 are 13% higher than the GST revenues in the same month in 2020 and 26% higher than the GST revenues in December 2019.
16. Finance Ministry says over 5 crore 89 lakh ITRs filed on new e-filing portal till Dec 31.
17. Prices of aviation turbine fuel (ATF), or jet fuel, have increased by ₹2,039.63, or 2.75%, to ₹76,062.04 per kilolitre in New Delhi, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.
18. ₹10cr advance booking to be refunded as ‘RRR’ gets postponed: SS Rajamouli’s ‘RRR’, tickets from advance bookings from around the world worth ₹10 crore will reportedly be refunded. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh stated that ‘RRR’ can be released only after COVID-19 cases come down and cinema-going audience is ready.
19. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu visited the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier INS Vikrant being constructed at the Cochin Shipyard on 02 Jan.
20. 64th foundation day of “Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)” was celebrated on January 1, 2022. DRDO is the premier agency, working under the Department of Defence Research & Development in Ministry of Defence. It is charged with the military’s research and development. The organisation is headquartered in Delhi.
21. Defence minister Rajnath Singh will likely visit Vietnam in the second week of January to celebrate the golden jubilee of the establishment of diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Ho Chi Minh City.
22. Defence exports and joint collaboration including training and maintenance of defence equipment (both India and Vietnam use Soviet- and Russian-made defence equipment) could top the agenda of the three-day visit. Vietnam is also interested in purchasing the Brahmos missile jointly produced by India and Russia.
23. The India-Bangladesh border in Tripura will be completely fenced by next year to ensure fool-proof security. Border Security Force Inspector General (Tripura Frontier), Sushanta Kumar Nath, said that 80-85% of the 856-km-long India-Bangladesh international border in the northeastern state has already been fenced.
24. Recently S P Shukla has been elected as the president of the Society of Indian Defence Manufacturers (SIDM), which has been playing an active role in boosting indigenous production of military hardware.
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Hemant Ritu Shukla पक्ष:
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Vikram Samvat – 2078
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