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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 3rd JANUARY, 2023

Editor1 Jan 7 2023 Current Affairs

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF  3rd JANUARY, 2023

  1. India will set up its first waste-to-hydrogen project in Pune.  
  2. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated Mega Dairy at Mandya in Karnataka. 
  3. Ajay Kumar Srivastava has been elevated as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from 1 January, 2023 from his posting as Executive Director.
  4. The Reserve Bank of India’s Medium-term Strategy Framework for the period 2023-2025 – ‘Utkarsh 2.0’ was launched by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, RBI. 
  5. Gujarat’s Amreli received India’s first In vitro fertilization (IVF) mobile device on 1 January, 2023. 
  6. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted a 17-member High Powered Committee (HPC) chaired by Minister of State (MoS) Nityanand Rai, MHA to discuss measures for the protection of Ladakh’s unique culture, language and employment. 
  7. Bombay Stock Exchange has appointed Sundararaman Ramamurthy as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer with effect from 4 January, 2023. 
  8. A team of astronomers led by scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and their international collaborators decided to study the most massive globular cluster system in our galaxy, Omega Centauri. 
  9. The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) announced that India’s first underwater metro service, the East-West Metro Corridor project, is expected to be completed by December 2023. 
  10. On 1 January 2023, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the veteran left-wing politician took office for a third term as Brazil’s President.
  11. Public sector bank Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) has partnered with SBI Card to launch co-brand credit cards for the bank’s customers. 
  12. Nineteen-year-old Kolkata-based chess player, Koustav Chatterjee became India’s 78th Grandmaster in MPL 59th National Senior Chess Championship in New Delhi.
  13. The Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM) has launched the Prajjwala Challenge.
  14. In Hockey, Madhya Pradesh defeated Odisha 6-5 to clinch Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Men’s Under-18 Qualifiers title in Bhubaneswar. 
  15. On 1 January 2023, Dr. Jitendra Singh, Union Minister for Science and Technology, announced that the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to launch India’s first Atmanirbhar human flight ‘Gaganyaan’ by the year 2024.
  16. On 1 January, 2023 Tata group veteran and former Director of Tata Sons, Padma Shri Awardee R K Krishnakumar, passed away in Mumbai, Maharashtra at the age of 84. 

 

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