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CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 18th JANUARY 2022

Editor1 Jan 19 2022 Current Affairs

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 18th  JANUARY 2022

  1. Mahayana New Year is Celebrated by Buddhists across the world on 18th January.
  2. Minister of State for Education, Subhas Sarkar has launched the ‘Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) 2021 – 2022’ virtually.
  3. The government of India has released a Commemorative Postal Stamp on the Covid-19 vaccination on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the country’s national immunization programme against the virus.
  4. Budget session of Parliament is set to commence on January 31 and will conclude on April 8.
  5. India’s Navdeep Kaur has won the award for the Best National Costume at the prestigious Mrs World 2022 pageant in Nevada, Las Vegas.
  6. 37 Years old Shaylyn Ford was crowned as the winner of Mrs World 2022. She was crowned by the outgoing queen Kate Schneider from Ireland.
  7. Lavni artist from Maharashtra, Sumit Bhale of Fulbari taluka has won a gold medal at the International Folk Art Festival in Dubai.
  8. Eastern Army Commander Lieutenant General Manoj Pande has been appointed as the next Vice Chief of Army Staff.
  9. According to Oxfam India, “Inequality Kills” report, the wealth of India’s richest families reached to a record high in 2021. The number of Indian billionaires increased from 102 to 142, during 2021.
  10. Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, a Pune-based pharmaceutical company, has submitted phase 2 trial data of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine for approval. 
  11. Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of famous Bengali comic characters ‘Nonte Phonte’, ‘Bantul The Great’, ‘Handa Bhonda’, passed away in Kolkata on January 18, 2022, at the age of 97.
  12. The former Prime Minister of Japan, Toshiki Kaifu has passed away at the age of 91 years in Japan.
  13. According to the report from U.S. Mint the writer and poet Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to have her likeness depicted on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter.  
  14. South Africa has launched its first satellite constellation developed entirely in the continent of Africa.Three nanosatellites, which made up the country’s first Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite (MDASat) constellation, were launched from Cape Canaveral in the United States, as part of American aerospace company SpaceX’s Transporter-3 mission.
  15. In Himachal Pradesh, the 9th Women National Ice Hockey Championship-2022 was inaugurated at Ice Skating Rink, Kaza in Lahaul Spiti district.
  16. Top doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has become the first men’s team from India to win the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Badminton, on 16 January 2022.   
  17. Robert Lewandowski and Alexia Putellas have bagged the FIFA Best Player 2021 awards while Cristiano Ronaldo has won the FIFA Best Special Award 2021 for becoming the men’s international highest scorer with 115. 
  18. In tennis, Aslan Karatsev defeated Andy Murray by 6-3, 6-3, to win men’s single title at the Sydney Tennis Classic final, to claim his third ATP Tour title.

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