Wednesday 2 March 2022

Complete January Current Affairs Revision for all Upcoming Exams #English



1) In 2022, the President has approved conferment of 128 Padma Awards including 2 duo case (in a duo case, the Award is counted as one).
➨ 128 people have been honoured this year with the Awards in which 4 Padma Vibhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 107 Padma Shri Awards. 
➨ 34 of the awardees are women and 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.

2) Facebook parent company Meta has announced that its newly unveiled artificial intelligence supercomputer will be the fastest in the world by the middle of next year.
➨AI can currently perform tasks like translating text between languages and helping identify potentially harmful content, but developing the next generation of AI will require powerful supercomputers capable of quintillions of operations per second.

3) India and Israel have launched a commemorative logo to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries. 
➨The logo was unveiled virtually at an online event in the presence of Ambassador of Israel to India Naor Gilon and Indian envoy to Israel, Sanjeev Singla.

4) Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) 2022 has been awarded to 29 children, selected from across India for their achievements in different categories such as innovation, social service, scholastic, sports, art and culture, and bravery. 15 of the awardees were boys and 14 girls.

5) A new species of rainfrog, discovered in the Panama jungle, has been named after Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. 
➨The species has been named as Pristimantis gretathunbergae, or popularly known as the Greta Thunberg Rainfrog.

6) India's first Chief of Defence Staff, who died last month in a horrific chopper crash, has been honoured posthumously with Padma Vibhushan - the country's second-highest civilian award.
➨Singer Sonu Nigam and Olympic gold-medallist Neeraj Chopra have been honoured with a Padma Shri.

7) In a move aimed at making drones more accessible to the farmers, the Union Agriculture Ministry has decided to provide 40-100 per cent subsidy until March 2023 in purchasing drone by revising guidelines in the existing scheme on farm mechanization.

8) Vaccine makers - Cyrus Poonawalla of the Serum Institue and Krishna Ella and Suchitra Ella of Bharat Biotech - have been honoured with Padma Bhushan.
➨ The heads of tech giants Microsoft and Google Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai have been named for the Padma Bhushan honours.

9) Every year, Republic Day is celebrated in India on 26 January to commemorate the date on which the Constitution of India came into effect and the country became a republic.
➨This year India is celebrating 73rd Republic Day.
➨This year also on the Republic Day parade, India will not have a chief guest due to the global situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

10) The scientists at the Climate Research and Services (CRS) office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, launched India's first Climate and Vulnerability Atlas.
➨ The Atlas has framed the Sunderbans in West Bengal, neighbouring district of Odisha and Ramnathpuram, Pudukottai and Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu as the most vulnerable to high storms surges of as much as 8.5 to 13.7 metres that are induced by the cyclones.

11) Renowned archaeologist, art historian and Padma Bhushan awardee R Nagaswamy, who was the first director of Tamil Nadu government’s Department of Archaeology died. He was 91.
➨Nagaswamy was an expert witness in a London court in the famous Pathur Nataraja case and played a key role in bringing back the Chola-era bronze Nataraja to Tamil Nadu.

12) Former Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was conferred with the Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau.
➨ Consul General of Japan in Kolkata Nakamura Yutaka received the honour on behalf of Abe at a function at the Elgin Road residence of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 125th birth anniversary.
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