CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 3rd JANUARY 2022
-
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of ‘Major Dhyan Chand Sports University’ at Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on 2 Jan 2022.
-
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has launched a 100-day reading campaign ‘Padhe Bharat’.
-
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space and Technology (KCCRSST) at Chandigarh University in Mohali, on January 3, 2022.
-
The GST Council’s 46th meeting was held in New Delhi under the Chairmanship of Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman.
-
1983 Batch of Indian Railway Service, Vinay Kumar Tripathi has been appointed as new Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Railway Board.
-
V.S. Pathania took over as the 24th Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard from Krishnaswamy Natarajan who retired from service.
-
Sanjoy Kumar Singh assumed charge as the Secretary of the Ministry of Steel in New Delhi.
-
Vinod Kannan took over as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Vistara airline on 2 January 2022.
-
In Kerala, the first battery-powered electric boat built for the Kochi Water Metro Project was handed over to the Kochi Metro Rail Limited.
-
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India has inaugurated “Digi Zone”, at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, as part of its effort to enhance its digital footprint. LIC’s Digi Zone can be used by the customers to purchase policies online, pay the premium and avail of other services.
-
France became the sixth country in the world to report over 10 million Covid infections since the outbreak of the pandemic. France joined the US, India, Brazil, Britain and Russia in having has more than 10 million cases.
-
German Researchers have discovered a trove of marine life hidden far beneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic.
-
China, in Shanghai, has opened two new driverless metro lines. With the two new lines, the total of the City’s metro network extends to 831 kilometres.
-
France took over the EU’s rotating presidency on 1 January 2022. France has taken over the Presidency for the first time in the last 14 years.
-
Researchers have discovered the first signs of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of solar system. The discovery was made by an international team of astronomers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.
-
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has announced his resignation in January 2022 amid political deadlock following a military coup.
-
Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Hafeez has announced his retirement from international cricket on 3 January 2022.
-
India has lifted the under-19 Asia cricket Cup by defeating Sri Lanka by nine wickets in a rain-interrupted One-Day International final in Dubai through the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method.