Martyrs' Day is observed every year on January 30 to mark the death anniversary of the father of the nation Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was assassinated on this day in 1948.
In India, Shaheed Diwas is mainly observed on two days -- 30th January and 23rd March. On both days people pay homage to the freedom fighters who have sacrificed their lives for their motherland.
World Leprosy Day takes place on the last Sunday of January worldwide to raise awareness about leprosy (Hansen’s disease) and teach people about it. In India, World Leprosy Day is celebrated on 30 January, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death.
The theme for World Leprosy Day 2022 is 'United for Dignity'.
India's biggest 'Drone Show' displaying 1,000 drones at the 'Beating the Retreat' ceremony was executed by Indian startUp 'Botlab' under Union Ministry of Science and Technology and led by IIT Delhi alumni.
‘Beating the Retreat’ is a centuries-old military tradition dating from the days when troops disengaged from battle at sunset.
India-ASEAN Digital Work Plan 2022 was approved in the 2nd ASEAN Digital Ministers meeting.
India and ASEAN nations have jointly approved a work plan under which they will develop a system to combat the use of stolen and counterfeit mobile handsets, among other things.
The meeting was co-chaired by ministers from India and Myanmar.
India is the third-largest pharmaceutical manufacturing country and to make the research more purposeful and meaningful in the sector, Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya has launched the Research Portal of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER).
Under the MoU, IREDA will assist GSL by providing its techno-financial expertise to set-up a rooftop solar power project at the headquarter of the company situated in Vasco da Gama, Goa.
The two companies are PSUs under the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy and the Ministry of Defence, respectively.
Chairman & Managing Director(CMD):
IREDA:Pradip Kumar Das;
GSL:Cmde.Bharat Bhushan Nagpal
Commerce and Industry Ministry said that electronic goods export has registered a tremendous growth of 49% between April to December 2021.
During the same period in 2020,7.4 billion US dollars worth of electronic goods were exported while in 2021, electronic items worth 11 billion were exported.
Maximum 18% of electronic goods items were exported to USA followed by UAE.
Australia unveiled a billion-australian dollar package to protect the climate-ravaged Great Barrier Reef hoping to prevent the vast network of corals from being removed from UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
The Great Barrier Reef has suffered three mass bleaching events during heatwaves in 2016, 2017 and 2020, leaving many affected corals struggling to survive.
Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start SPARSH, a public awareness campaign against leprosy under National Leprosy Eradication Programme.
The campaign will last up to 14th February. BMC will organize exhibitions in all its 24 administrative zones.
Slogan of SPARSH programme this year is Kushrog muktikade Vatchal (way ahead towards leprosy free).
Maharashtra tops India's list in the number of MSMEs owned by entrepreneurs from the Scheduled Castes with as many as 96,805 enterprises.
Tamil Nadu with 42,997 enterprises & Rajasthan with 38,517 units occupy the second and third slots,according to the data furnished by the Office of the Development Commissioner in the Union Ministry of MSME.
The fourth, fifth and sixth slots belong to Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Punjab.
SBI has issued $300 million Formosa bonds and listed the issuance on India INX GIFT IFSC. This is the first such issuance by any Indian Bank in the Formosa Bond market.
SBI through its London branch raised $300 million from Regulation S Formosa bonds at a coupon of 2.49 per cent.
Formosa bond is a bond issued in Taiwan.
SBI is the first Indian entity to raise money through Formosa Bond
The app will also allow citizens to check what their members of Parliament are doing, what debates they are participating in and what they are saying.
It will also contain members’ speeches and participation in all proceedings including budget sessions etcetera from 1947 onwards.
The archive will be from the 12th to the 17th Lok Sabha session.
Apart from a virtual tour of Parliament, the 2022 Budget Session can also be watched live
Dutch King Willen-Alexander opened what authorities say is the world’s largest canal lock.
The 500-meter (1,640-feet) long and 70-meter wide sluice replaces a smaller, nearly 100-year-old one at Ijmuiden, a small port city connecting the North Sea Canal to the port of Amsterdam.
The Ijmuiden lock was designed to allow large, modern cargo ships to reach the port of Amsterdam
Netherlands:
Capital: Amsterdam;
Currency: Euro;
Prime minister: Mark Rutte.
"The $10 Trillion Dream" claims to explore the critical policy issues that India faces today and suggests reforms for it to become a USD 10 trillion economy by the mid-2030s.
The book, scheduled to release towards the end of next month, is published by Penguin Random House India (PRHI).
Japan continued their impressive run at the 2022 Hockey Asia Cup as they thrashed the mighty South Koreans 4-2 at Muscat,Oman.
India won the bronze medal beating China 2-0 for third and fourth place play off .
Sharmila Devi in the 13th minute and Gurjit Kaur in the 19th minute scored goals for India.
Ash Barty ended Australia's 44-year wait for a home winner at the Australian Open when the world number one staved off a fightback from American Danielle Collins to complete a 6-3 7-6(2) win on January 29 and pick up her third Grand Slam title.
Barty became the first Australian to win the event since Chris O'Neil captured the women's title in 1978.