TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. Today is World Hindi Diwas Day, also known as Vishwa Hindi Diwas, is celebrated with great enthusiasm around the world and by people in the country on January 10 every year. This observance commemorates the historic moment when Hindi was first spoken in the United Nations General Assembly in 1949.
2. President Smt. Droupadi Murmu presented the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2023 at a function in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
3. Former President Shri Ram Nath Kovind will confer Post Graduate Diploma degrees at the 55th Convocation ceremony of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication’s (IIMC) in New Delhi
4. Yesterday, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Singh Thakur extended the greetings of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to all the Indians living around the globe.
5. Union Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh stressed on women’s empowerment to check the incidents of violence against them.
6. Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated National Kala Utsav at National Bal Bhawan in New Delhi.
7. Global Textile Expo- Bharat Tex 2024 to begin on 26th Feb.
8. Bengaluru’s Lalbagh gears up for Republic-Day flower show: This year’s theme is dedicated to the life and works of Basavanna, the 12th century poet who spearheaded the Bhakti movement in Kannada literature. An estimated 11 lakh people are expected to visit this year’s Republic Day flower show in Lalbagh from January 18 to 28.
9. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has recently introduced a comprehensive social welfare scheme named “Yogyasree.” The initiative aims to provide free training modules for Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students in West Bengal.
10. The Election Commission of India announced by-elections for three legislative assembly seats in Telangana and Uttar Pradesh on January 29. The notification for elections will be issued on 11 January. The last date to file nominations is 18 January.
11. The Karnataka government has approached the Supreme Court asking for the modification of its January 3, 2024, direction for keeping in abeyance 11,494 appointment orders issued by the state authorities for the post of Graduate Primary Teacher, in the recruitment process conducted after a notification issued on March 21, 2022.
12. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has kept its stand on contesting in an alliance with the Congress in five states, including Punjab.
13. To promote the Lakshadweep islands for tourism, India plans to develop a new airfield at Minicoy Island that would be capable of operating commercial and military aircraft, including fighter jets.
14. The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday moved the Supreme Court (SC) taking objection to Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar meeting Chief Minister Eknath Shinde ahead of the Shiv Sena MLAs disqualification.
15. Why has 22 January been chosen as the date for the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony?
Lord Ram was born at the time of a confluence of Abhijit Muhurat, Mrigashirsha Nakshatra, Amrit Siddhi Yoga and Sarvartha Siddhi Yoga. All these auspicious periods will align on 22 January 2024, making it the ideal date for pran pratishtha or the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
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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. The Central Consumer Protection Authority, CCPA has issued notices to 31 coaching institutes for misleading advertisements. It has also imposed fine on nine coaching institutes for misleading advertisement.
2. CBI has conducted searches at around twelve locations in a case related to paper leakage of General Departmental Competitive Examination conducted by Railway Recruitment Centre. The raids were conducted at Surat, Amreli, Navsari in Gujarat, Mumbai in Maharashtra and Buxar in Bihar.
3. National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the Telangana Government over the reported suicide of a female student at an Engineering college in the Rangareddy district of Telangana.
4. In Madhya Pradesh: Section 144 imposed in parts of Shajapur after stone pelting on religious procession. According to reports, some fringe elements allegedly pelted stones at a rally of young people, who were distributing Akshat (rice) for the Ram Temple.
5. Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday filed its first charge sheet in the ongoing probe into the Railways land-for-jobs scam against RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s wife, former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, their daughter Misa Bharti and others under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
6. Bengaluru AI Start-Up CEO Suchana Seth kills 4-year-old son in Goa, tries to flee with body in bag. Preliminary investigations revealed that Suchana Seth’s estranged relationship with her husband Venkat Raman led to the gory killing.
7. Two suspected drug smugglers were killed and another was injured in an encounter with police at the Old Talwandi Bhai Road near Punjab’s Zira on Tuesday.
8. The Madras High Court on Tuesday refused to declare as null and void the election of four MPs and eight MLAs, who had contested on reserved symbols belonging to other political parties in the 2019 general election and the 2021 Assembly election, respectively.
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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 ₹ 105.64
€ Euro : ₹ 90.86
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GDP rate (2023 ) : 6.5% ( $3.75 trillion)
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
Inflation rate : 4.7%
Population : 141.81 cr
(17.7% of the total world population).
Unemployment : 7.8%
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1. Walmart-owned fintech firm PhonePe has appointed Ritesh Pai as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its international payments business.
2. Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI) released a report on ‘Engendering Land Ports in India’ in New Delhi. The main objective of the report is to develop a framework for gender inclusive cross border trade and tourism through land Ports in the country.
3. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), one of India’s leading energy exploration and production companies, achieved a significant milestone on January 7 by commencing the first oil production from the deep-water KG-DWN 98/2 Block. Located in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin off the Bay of Bengal on the Kakinada coast.
4. The Indian government’s First Advance Estimates (FAE) for 2023-24 released on January 6th project the economy will expand 7.3% – faster than the 7.2% growth achieved in 2022-23 on the back of robust domestic demand.
5. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on January 8 said it has imposed monetary penalty on four co-operative banks for rule violations.
These banks are The Halol Urban Co-operative Bank, The Mehsana Jilla Panchayat Karmachari Co-operative Bank, Navsarjan Industrial Co-operative Bank and The Stambhadri Co-operative Urban Bank.
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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. Prabhas-starrer SALAAR movie is heading towards the Rs 600 crore mark at the box office. After running strongly at the box office for 18 days, the movie managed to collect 395.65 crore.
It has outcompeted Shah Rukh Khan’s Dunki, released a day before Salaar. Dunki currently stands at Rs 218 crore net in India.
2. Eminent Indian music maestro Ustad Rashid Khan passed away in Kolkata on Tuesday. He was 55.
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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. Defence Minister Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh met UK Defence Minister Grant Shapps and reviewed the full range of India-UK defence relations.
2 Indian Navy’s P8I aircraft landed at Guam, a US island territory in Western Pacific, to participate in Exercise Sea Dragon – 24. The Indian Navy and the navies of Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the US are set to forge closer bonds and improve their ability to work together during this multinational maritime exercise.
3 Innovations for Defence Excellence-Defence Innovation Organisation (iDEX-DIO) under India’s Ministry of Defence is participating at the 10th edition of prestigious Vibrant Gujarat Summit being held from January 10-12, 2024 at Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
4. Eastern Army Commander Lt Gen RC Tiwari met Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh and Governor Anusiya Uikey on Tuesday.
5. PLANS AFOOT TO OPEN UP KARGIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS FOR TOURISM : The administration is taking steps to establish tourism infrastructure at places that witnessed the 1999 India-Pakistan war in the Kargil region.
In 1999, the Indian Army defeated and chased away Pakistani forces that had crossed the Line of Control (LOC) and taken up positions in Kargil. These areas include the Mushkoh valley, Kaksar, Chulichan and Gargardo.
GUJARAT : GANDHI NAGAR
Before wasbifurcation Bombay State
Formation : 01 May 1960
(by bifurcation)
Districts : 33
Governor : Acharya Devvrat
Chief minister: Bhupendrabhai Patel (BJP)
STATE SYMBOLS
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Bird: 🦩flamingo
Flower: Marigold 🌻
Fruit: 🥭Mango
Mammal: Asiatic 🦁lion
Tree: Banyan 🌳
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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
10 Jan (Wednesday)
Vedic Ritu/ Hemant Ritu
Drik Ritu : Shishir Ritu
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
Vikram Samvat – 2080
Shaka Samvat – 1945
Month : Agrahayana 29 (Amanta)
Pausa 15, (Purnimanta)
Nakshatr : Moola (up to 7:40 pm) Purva Ashadha
Tithi : Chaturdashi (up to 8:11 pm) Amavasya
Rahu 12:34 PM – 01:54 PM
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