India celebrates Army Day with tremendous zeal on January 15. It commemorates Field Marshal Kodandera Madappa Cariappa (K. M. Cariappa), who’d been the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.
Every year, the day is marked by conducting a military parade and many other martial displays at Delhi Cantonment’s Cariappa Parade Ground.
We will mark the 74th Indian Army Day with almost the same pride, zeal & passion in 2022.
A person living in the south-west of England has caught bird flu.
Cases like this are extremely rare and the individual probably became infected from very close contact with a sick or dead bird.
Experts say there is no evidence of onward spread and all close contacts of the person are being monitored.
The individual is currently well and self-isolating.
Human to human transmission of bird flu is very rare.
Cyprus has detected a new variant dubbed as "Deltacron", that has a similar genetic background to the Delta variant, coupled with 10 mutations from Omicron.
The variant has already affected 25 people in Cyprus.
The new variant from the lineage named B.1.640.2 is believed to have infected people in the country.
Capital: Nicosia; Currency: Euro.
To speed up the border roads infrastructure works, especially strengthening the connectivity to Ladakh, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), an organisation working under Ministry of Defence, has constituted a new project "Yojak".
The main task of the project will be to build more tunnels like Atal Tunnel and maintain the connecting roads.
Current headquarter of the project is in Manali but is expected to be shifted to Lahaul.
Goalkeeper Savita will lead India at the upcoming women's Asia Cup in Muscat as Hockey India named a strong 18-member squad for the event, including 16 players that featured at the Tokyo Olympics.
Since regular skipper Rani Rampal is recovering from an injury in Bengaluru, Savita will lead the side in the tournament, which is scheduled to be held between January 21-28.
The names of YES Mutual Fund schemes have been changed to WhiteOak Capital schemes as YES AMC is now a WhiteOak group company.
The White Oak Capital group provides investment management and advisory services for Indian equity investors.
YES MF has three schemes – YES Overnight Fund, YES Liquid Fund and YES Ultra Short-term Fund.
Legendary West Indies captain Clive Lloyd was knighted by the British Royal Federation.
Lloyd the former two-time World Cup-winning captain was honoured with a CBEs (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for his services to the sport of cricket.
The Guyana-born batsman played for the English County cricket club of Lancashire between 1968 until 1986.
Nepal Power Exchange Limited and India’s Manikaran Power Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding on energy trading.
The deal ends the monopoly of the state-owned power utility—Nepal Electricity Authority—in energy trade.
The pact was signed during Nepal Power Market Summit 2022 held in Kathmandu.
Ministry of Tourism has allocated INR 500 crore to the state of Uttar Pradesh under its Swadesh Darshan’s scheme for strengthening tourism infrastructure through various spiritual circuits such as the Ramayana & Buddha circuits. Information was shared by Union Tourism & Culture Minister, G Kishan Reddy after he virtually inaugurated PRASAD scheme projects at Govardhan, UP.
Tasnim Mir, a junior category shuttler, has become the world’s number-1 badminton player in the women’s singles category of Under-19.
Tasnim has become the first junior female player from India to achieve this feat. When the junior world rankings started in 2011, Saina was not eligible, while Sindhu has been the world number-2 player.
16-year-old badminton star Tasnim Mir from Mehsana, Gujarat
The Monumental National Flag, which is the world’s largest national flag made of Khadi fabric, will be put to a grand public display along the India – Pakistan Border in Jaisalmer to celebrate “Army Day”.
The Monumental National Flag will be displayed at Longewala which was the center stage of the historic battle between India and Pakistan in 1971.
Ratings by Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) for the news channels will resume, after the organisation revised its procedures and protocols.
The ratings were suspended after the Mumbai police busted a racket involving a private channel’s efforts to tamper the ratings. BARC is the world's largest television measurement science industry body.
BARC :- Founded: 2010;
Headquarters: Mumbai.
State-owned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has inked a pact with pan-African infrastructure investment platform Africa50 to continue the development of the Kenya Transmission Project on a public-private partnership basis.
Once completed, the project will be the first independent power transmission in Kenya.