CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 5th JANUARY 2022
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The Ministry of Power has completed seven years of distributing and selling LED lights under its flagship ‘UJJALA Programme’ on 5 Jan, 2022.
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Union Minister of Education, Dharmendra Pradhan has launched National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT 3.0) and regional language textbooks prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).
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Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has launched the “Smart cities and Academia Towards Action and Research (SAAR)” programme.
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The Government of Jharkhand collaborated with the Indian School of Business (ISB) to empower the state’s forest economy.
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Odisha’s Ganjam has declared itself a ‘Child Marriage Free District’, the first in the State.
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G Asok Kumar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Jal Shakti has taken over as new Director General of ‘National Mission for Clean Ganga’, Ministry of Jal Shakti on January 04, 2022.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has appointed Deepak Kumar and Ajay Kumar Choudhary as new executive directors (ED) with effect from 03 January.
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Director HR in ONGC, Alka Mittal has been given the additional charge as the new interim chairman and managing director (CMD) of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), the largest oil and gas producer in India. She is the first woman to head the top post at the Maharatna company.
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Nippon Life India Asset Management Limited, asset manager of Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF), has announced the launch of India’s First Auto sector ETF – Nippon India Nifty Auto ETF.
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Airtel Payments Bank has been categorised as a scheduled bank by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the second schedule of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
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Zishaan A Latif won ‘Ramnath Goenka Award’ in the Photo Journalism category.
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On 1 January, Germany takes over the G7 Presidency. The 2022 G7 Summit will take place from 26 to 28 June 2022 in the Bavarian Alps.
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The Indian Navy’s 1971 Indo-Pak war veteran Vice Admiral S.H. Sarma died on January 3, 2022, at the age of 100.
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World-renowned Kenyan politician, conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey has passed away.
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Amy Bauernschmidt, Navy captain has become the first woman to command US nuclear carrier in US Navy history.
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T.S. Tirumurti, India’s permanent representative to the UN was named the new Chair of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) on 05 January 2022.
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The stock market value of Apple Inc. hit $3 trillion and became the world’s first company to do so.
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ nuclear fusion reactor has set a new world record after running at 126 millionº F (70 millionºF (70 millionºC) for 1056 seconds i.e. more than 17 minutes.