1. The Makar Sankranti festival is being observed across the country today. This day is dedicated to Lord Surya. It is the day when Sun travels from Sagittarius to Capricorn.
Makar Sankranti is also known as Uttarayan which means that the Sun moves towards the north.
2. PM Modi will flag off Vande Bharat Express train connecting Secunderabad with Visakhapatnam at 10:30 AM on Sunday through video conferencing.
3. Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and his wife Dr. Sudesh Dhankhar arrived in Mumbai on Saturday. This was the Vice President’s maiden visit to Maharashtra after assuming office of the Vice President
4. During the ongoing National Youth Festival in Hubballi-Dharwad in Karnataka, Over 13 lakh people to do yoga to create new Guinness Book of World Records on Sunday.
5. PM Modi announced a new ‘Aarogya Maitri’ project under which India will provide essential medical supplies to any developing country affected by natural disasters or humanitarian crisis and proposed to set up a ‘centre of excellence’ to facilitate development solutions to these countries.
6. The ‘Saharsh’ was launched in 40 schools of the state on a pilot basis in August last year. This year, it will be extended to all government and aided schools in Tripura from the second week of January.
7. Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said the transformation of Food Corporation of India should be done on a fast track mode so that the organization can continue to help people, poor and the farmers of the country.
8. Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurated a direct flight from Kolhapur to Bengaluru. Now, the route Kolhapur has been connected with Hyderabad, Tirupati, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Bengaluru.
9. Worlds longest River Cruise MV Ganga Vilas reaches at Bangla Ghat in Bihar
10. Union Minister for Science and Technology Dr. Jitendra Singh on Saturday launched Geospatial Hackathon to promote Innovation and Start-Ups in India’s Geospatial ecosystem.
12. CPI(M) and Congress have announced that they will fight the Tripura assembly elections together.
13. Congress MP from Jalandhar Santokh Singh Chaudhary passed away in Ludhiana after suffering a cardiac arrest while participating at the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Mr. Chaudhary was 76.
14. Veteran socialist leader and former Janata Dal-United president Sharad Yadav was cremated with full state honours on Saturday at his ancestral village in Madhya Pradesh’s Narmadapuram district.
15. Former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi has tested positive for coronavirus and is now on 24*7 oxygen support.
CRIME REPORT
1. A woman died and nine others were injured after a stampede occurred during Makar Sankranti Mela on the Badamba-Gopinathpur 3.2 Km long, T-bridge in Odisha’s Cuttack on Saturday.
2. Nationalist Congress Party MP from Lakshadweep P P Mohammed Faizal disqualified from Lok Sabha following his conviction in a case.
3. National Conference’s Omar Abdullah said, DMK leader Shivaji Krishnamoorthy’s “Kashmir” remark for Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi wasn’t a “threat” expected from DMK.
“If you…don’t read out the speech given by the government…go to Kashmir…we’ll send terrorists…they’ll gun you down,” Krishnamoorthy had said.
4. Manipur minister Leishangthem Susindro on Saturday said that ration cards of those involved in poppy plantations should be cancelled.
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1. India’s forex reserves declined by USD 1.268 billion to USD 561.583 billion for the week ended January 6, the Reserve Bank said. The overall reserves had increased by USD 44 million to USD 562.851 billion in the previous reporting week after two consecutive weeks of the slide.
2. India’s retail inflation rate based on Consumer Price Index is expected to remain below RBI’s comfort zone of 6% and will decline materially to 5% by March 2023
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DEFENCE
1. The 75th Army Day celebration will be held in Bengaluru on today (Sunday). This is for the first time that the event is being conducted out of the National capital.
2. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday launched the “Soul of Steel” Alpine Challenge, an initiative to promote tourism in the border areas. Along with this, Mr. Singh flagged off the 460-kilometer-long car rally “Road to the End”. The rally will reach its destination in the Garhwal Himalayas near Niti village in Chamoli district in the next three days.
3. The 7th Armed Forces Veterans Day observed across the country yesterday. Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Lieutenant General Anil Chauhan, three service chiefs paid tributes at National War Memorial in New Delhi.
4. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said that it is the duty of the government to ensure the welfare of ex-servicemen; they are the asset of the country.
5. Over 1,000 Indian peacekeepers serving with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have been honoured with the prestigious UN medals at an award ceremony where the parade was led for the first time by a woman officer of the Indian Army.
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