Person

1) VS Pathania -Chief of Indian Coast Guard

2) Vinay Kumar Tripathi - chairman, CEO of Railway Board
3) IMF - Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas - chief economist
4) Kazakhstan: Alikhan Smailov - Prime Minister
5) Bharath Subramaniyam (14) -s 73rd chess Grandmaster
6) Urjit Patel - Vice President of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
7) TS Tirumurti -Terrorism Committee
8) Atul Keshap -president of U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC)
9) Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz
10) Zhang Ming takes over as new Secretary-General of SCO
11) Sudhir Kumar Saxena to enquire into security lapses during PM’s visit to
Punjab on Jan 5
12) Kathak dancer Pandit Birju Maharaj
13) Bengali cartoonist Narayan Debnath
14) Dileep Sanghani - Chairman of IFFCO
15) Roberta Metsola - EU Parliament’s new president
16) Prajakta Koli becomes UNDP India’s first youth climate champion
17) Ayesha Malik becomes first woman judge of Supreme Court of Pakistan
18) Barbados: PM Mia Mottley
19) Vinodanand Jha - Chairperson to PMLA
20) Pushp Kumar Joshi to be new chairman and managing director of HPCL
21) Dr Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran appointed as Chief Economic Adviser
22) Subhash Chandra Garg authors book “The $10 Trillion Dream

Sonali Singh given charge of Controller General of Accounts

23) Lata Mangeshkar dies in Mumbai at 92; awarded Bharat Ratna in 2001
24) Santishree Pandit appointed 1st woman Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru
University
25) Chairman of Supreme Court panel on Char Dham project Ravi Chopra
26) Debashis Mitra elected ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India)
President
27) Germany: President Frank-Walter Steinmeier
28) Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
29) Chetan Ghate appointed new Director of Institute of Economic Growth, New
Delhi
30) Bill Gates conferred Hilal-e-Pakistan
31) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla leading Parliamentary delegation to UAE
32) Signature tune for “Vande Bharatam” composed by Ricky Kej and
Bickram Ghosh
 33) National Minorities Commission chairperson Syed Shahezadi

Amin Awad of Sudan to serve as UN Crisis Coordinator for Ukraine

34) Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, first Black woman, to US Supreme Court
35)
36)
Sports
37) Cricket: India beat Sri Lanka by 9 wickets to win U-19 Asia Cup title in Dubai
38) Yonex-Sunrise India Open Badminton in New Delhi: India’s Lakshya
Sen
39) ICC Test Team of the Year -s Kane Williamson captain; 3 Indians included:
Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant & Ravichandran Ashwin
40) CC’s ODI Team of the Year – Pakistan’s Babar Azam captain
41) Syed Modi International Badminton tournament held in Lucknow
42) Babar Azam named ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year
43) Root named ICC Men’s Test Cricketer of the Year
44) Smriti Mandhana named ICC women’s Cricketer of the Year
45) India hockey goalkeeper PR Srejeesh wins World Games Athlete of the Year
46) English club Chelsea defeats Brazilian club Palmeiras in final to win FIFA
Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi
47) National senior volleyball championships in Bhubaneswar: Kerala
(women’s), Haryana (men’s) win titles Asia’s largest tribal festival,
the Medaram Jathara, being celebrated in Telangana
48) Shakibul Gani of Bihar becomes first to score triple hundred on First-Class
debut in the Ranji Trophy match against Mizoram in Kolkata
49) Mumbai to host International Olympic Committee session in 2023
50) 2022 Winter Olympics-Norway tops medals tally followed by Germany and
China
51) 16-year-old Indian chess Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa defeats world No.
1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in 8th round of Airthings Masters rapid online
chess tournament
52) 34th Federation Cup volleyball championships in Bhubaneswar: Services
(men’), Kerala (women’s)win titles
53) 73rd Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria: India’s
Nikhat Zareen (52kg) and Nitu (48kg) win gold medals
54) Dabang Delhi defeat Patna Pirates 37-36 in final to clinch ProKabaddi
League title in Bengaluru
55) Pooja Jatyan wins silver in Para World Archery Championships in Dubai
 56) Rafael Nadal wins men’s singles title at Mexican Open tennis at
Acapulco
57)

Defence
58) Philippines becomes first country to buy India’s BrahMos supersonic cruise
missile system
59) Sea to Sea” variant of BrahMos missile from INS Visakhapatnam
60) Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM)
61) Vikrant begins another phase of sea trials; built by Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL)
62) Russia test-fires 10 new Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missiles
63) BSF to conduct ‘Operation Sard Hawa’
64) Indian Navy participates in multinational Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW)
Exercise Sea Dragon-22at Guam (US):
65) Paschim Lehar conducted by Indian Navy off the West Coast
66) 11th meeting of India-Oman Joint Military Cooperation Committee held in
Delhi

INS Vagir, the fifth Scorpene-class made-in-India submarine

67) NATO organising “Winter Camp” exercise in Estonia

68) Commander of the Royal Navy of Oman, Rear Admiral Saif Bin Nasser Bin
Mohsin Al Rahbi,
69) Commander of Royal Saudi Land Forces Lieutenant General Fahd Bin
Abdullah Mohammed Al Mutair calls on Army chief General M. M. Naravane
in New Delhi
70) Air forces of India, Oman to conduct Eastern Bridge-VI exercise
71) IAF to participate in multi-nation air exercise ‘Ex Cobra Warrior 22’ in
UK
72) Chief of Army Staff General M. M. Naravane presents Presidential Colours
to four parachute battalions at Parachute Regiment Training Centre in Bengaluru
73) Defence Ministry signs MoU to onboard pension services under SPARSH
across over 4 lakh Common Service Centres
74) Indian Navy’s multilateral exercise MILAN 2022 being held in
Visakhapatnam from Feb 25 to March 4; theme: ‘Camaraderie – Cohesion-
Collaboration’
75) India, Japan to conduct military exercise “Dharma Guardian 2022”
76) air exercise Cobra Warrior 2022 in UK
 National,scheme,rank
77) Raksha Pension Shikayat Nivaran Portal designed to speedily redress pension issues
78) 10th century idol discovered in England, returned to India; goat-headed Yogini
went missing from Lokhari (UP) in the 1980s
79) India State Of Forest Report 2021-80.9 million hectares in 2021 which is 24.6% of
total land
80) SMILE (Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise)
scheme for rehabilitation of persons engaged in begging: Social Justice
81) Education Minister -Padhe Bharat a 100-days reading campaign
82) Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut
83) CyberPravah - newsletter of Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre
84) Ayush Ministry makes available Ayush Aahaarat its canteen in New Delhi-
85) Education Minister-NEAT 3.0(National Educational Alliance for Technology 3.0)
86) Kalpana Chawla Centre for Research in Space Science & Technology at
Chandigarh University
87) Rani Velu Nachiyar, the Sivaganga queen in Tamil Nadu –freedom fighter
88) Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala
89) Special Postage Stamp commemorating 75th Platinum Jubilee year of CSIR-
National Physical Lab
90) Zoji-La pass opens for vehicles-ladakh
91) Parliamentary panel on marriage age raising bill from 18 to 21 years - Vinay
Sahasrabuddhe
92) Smart Cities Mission launches Smart cities and Academia Towards Action &
Research (SAAR)
93) Indias first Open Rock Museum in Hyderabad
94) Earthquake Risk Maps of Lucknow and Dehradun Cities
95) Water Atlas mapping all water bodies in the tiger bearing areas of India
96) Railway Protection Force deploys 244 Meri Saheli teams at major railway stations
across country
97) UP ranked best state in water conservation efforts by Jal Shakti Ministry;
98) PRASHAD (Pilgrimage Rejuvenation and Spiritual Heritage Augmentation Drive)
projects at Govardhan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh
99) 24th National Conference on e-Governance 2021 organised in Hyderabad; theme:
Indias Techade: Digital Governance in a Post Pandemic World
100) Agartala-Jiribam-Agartala Jan Shatabdi Express train connecting the states of
Manipur and Tripura via Assam
101) Indias first coal to methanol plant built by BHEL in Hyderabad
102) Design Linked Incentive (DLI) Scheme from domestic semiconductor chip
design firms
103) Chips to Startup (C2S) Programme from academia, R&D
104) 26th CISO Deep Dive Training program under Cyber Surakshit Bharat
initiative
 105) extension of tenure of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis for three
years
106) SEBI launches mobile App — Saa?thi– to create awareness among
investors about basic concepts of securities market
107) HAL signs contract with Mauritius for export of advanced light helicopter
(ALH)
108) Amar Jawan Jyoti to be merged with flame at National War Memorial in
New Delhi on Jan 21
109) 216-foot statue of Ramanujacharya in Hyderabad
110) NITI Aayog, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and RMI India release
‘Banking on Electric Vehicles in India’ report
111) Coal Ministry launches Koyla Darpan Portal
112) 1st District Good Governance Index in Jammu
113) Haryana and Himachal Pradesh governments plan to revive Saraswati River
114) india 85th most corrupt country in the world
115) pictorial comic book -India’s Women Unsung Heroes
116) PM launches Pandit Jasraj Cultural Foundation
117) India to convert 150 villages into ‘Villages of Excellence’ with
technical help from Israel
118) India (100.3 MT) is world’s 2nd largest steel producing nation in 2021
behind China
119) Competition organised by NHRC (National Human Rights Commission)
120) Minimum 6 airbags to be made mandatory in vehicles carrying up to 8
passengers
121) sale of PSU Neelachal Ispat Nigam Ltd (NINL) to Tata Steel
122) Railways: One Station One Product
123) Startups will be promoted to facilitate ‘Drone Shakti’ and for Drone-
As-A-Service (DrAAS)
124) One Class-One TV channel’ programme of PM eVIDYA
125) PM-DevINE (Development Initiative for North-East Region)
126) Vibrant Villages Programme for development of Border villages on the
northern border
127) Two new Ramsar sites (Wetlands of International Importance) in India —
Khijadia Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat and Bakhira Wildlife Sanctuary in U.P
128) supercomputer Param Pravega having supercomputing capacity of 3.3
petaflops
129) Swachhta Saarthi Fellowship 2022 announced by Office of the Principal
Scientific Adviser
130) continue the Scheme of Rashtriya Yuva Sashaktikaran Karyakram for
another 5 year
131) J&K becomes first UT to be integrated with national single window system
132) Railway Protection Force launches nationwide “Operation AAHT” to
curb human trafficking
133) AIM (Atal Innovation Mission), NITI Aayog, and USAID collaborates under
SAMRIDH (Sustainable Access to Markets and Resources for Innovative
Delivery of Healthcare) initiative
134) Atal Tunnel recognised as ‘Longest Highway Tunnel above 10,000
feet’
135) connects Manali to the Lahaul-Spiti Valley
136) India has about 21 judges per million people:
137) 257 police stations in the country don’t have vehicles; 638 without
phones: Parliamentary Committee Report
138) Darbar Hall at Raj Bhavan
139) first colour souvenir coin on ‘Panchtantra’ on the foundation day of
SPMCIL (Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited)
140) Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) organising Darkathon–2022 from
February 15 to April 22 to find solutions to unravel the anonymity of darknet
markets
141) “Reimagining Museums In India – A Global Summit” in Hyderabad
142) New India Literacy Programme, a new scheme of Adult Education for FYs
2022-27”; term Adult Education to be replaced with Education For All
143) Scheme for Economic Empowerment of DNTs (SEED); DNTs are De-
notified, Nomadic and Semi Nomadic Communities
144) Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link: Longest tunnel of Indian Railways
T-49 of 12.758 km
145) Maharashtra: India’s first water taxi service inaugurated connecting Navi
Mumbai to mainland Mumbai
146) Green Hydrogen/ Green Ammonia Policy to replace fossil fuels
147) 100 ‘kisan drones’ of Garuda Aerospace in different parts of the
country for spraying pesticides and other farm materials
148) municipal solid waste based “Gobar-Dhan (Bio-CNG) Plant” in Indore
(MP)
149) doorstep distribution drive ‘Meri Policy Mere Hath’ for PMFBY
(Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana) agriculture insurance scheme
150) Mumbai to host International Olympic Committee session in 2023
151) ‘Vigyan Sarvatra Pujyate’ commemoration from February 22 to 28 to
celebrate Science

and Technology achievements over past 75 years

 152) two new Departments and two new Research Centres at International
Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS in Deonar, Mumbai
153) Coal India Ltd wins ‘Most Dependable Public Sector in India’ award
from Assocham

Rural Connectivity GIS (Geographic Information System) Data in Public Domain;

will benefit entrepreneurs

154) Rural Development & Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh launches
Ombudsperson App for MNREGA
155) National Policy Guidelines on Bio-Medical Innovation and Entrepreneurship
156) Bhasha Certificate Selfie campaign to promote Bhasha Sangam mobile app
157) establishment of MSME-Technology Centre with an outlay of Rs. 200 crores
in SindhudurgMaharashtra
158) India is ranked 43 out of 55 countries in the International IP (Intellectual
Property) Index
159) 550 Indian biotechnologists returned to pursue careers in India under the
Ramalingaswami Re-entry Fellowship scheme
160)

International,un,other bodies
161) UNESCO agrees to publish Hindi descriptions of India’s World Heritage
Sites on its website;
162) First Colombo Security Conclave Virtual Workshop hosted by India’s
National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS)
163) European Parliament is headquartered in in Strasbourg, France
164) Chinas Chang 5 lunar probe finds first on-site evidence of water on moon’s
surface
165) Sri Lanka launches Jaffna-Colombo luxury train service
166) India, Pakistan exchange lists of civilian prisoners, fishermen in their custody
& nuclear installations and facilities
167) India appeals against WTO dispute panel ruling on sugar export subsidies
168) Pakistan: Pilgrims pray at renovated century-old temple of Maharaja
Paramhans Ji in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
169) US to start exports of Alfalfa hay and cherries
170) mango and pomegranate exports to US
171) Wolf Volcano (1701 m) erupts on Galapagos islands of Ecuador
172) MoU between India & Turkmenistan on Disaster Management
173) MoU - India and Nepal for construction of bridge over Mahakali River -
Dharchula (India) – Dharchula (Nepal)
174) Pakistani fishing trawler named ‘Yaseen’ caught by Indian Coast
Guard off Gujarat coast
175) Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai volcano erupts in Pacific Island nation Tonga
176) T.N. will install statue of Col. Pennycuick in UK for constructing
Mullaperiyar reservoir in 1895
177) PM Modi delivers State of the World special address at World Economic
Forum’s Davos Agenda
178) World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Davos Agenda 2022: PM Modi
introduces ‘P3 (Pro-Planet People)movement’ for climate change
commitments
179) PM Modi to host first India-Central Asia Summit virtually on January 27
180) Global unemployment to reach 207 million in 2022, says ILO
181) Peru declares ‘environmental emergency’ on coastal area hit by oil
spill
182) First India-Central Asia Summit hosted by PM Modi in virtual format;
attended by five presidents Kazakhstan’s Kassym-Jomart Tokayev,
Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Tajikistan’s Emomali Rahmon,
Turkmenistan’s Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and Kyrgyz Republic’s
Sadyr Japarov
183) Israel and India celebrate 30 years of diplomatic relations
184) China celebrates coming of Lunar new Year of the Tiger; end of Year of the
Ox
185) 50th Anniversary Celebrations of ICRISAT (International Crops Research
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
186) China, Pakistan ink new CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor)
agreement
187) Pablo Picasso’s painting ‘Guernica’ is back at the UN in New York
188) Madagascar battered by Cyclone Batsirai
189) ASEAN-India High Level Conference on Renewable Energy being held on
Feb 7-8; theme:Experience and Innovations for Integrated Renewables Market
190) One Ocean Summit being held at Brittany, France on Feb 9-11
191) 4th Quad Foreign Minister Meeting held in Melbourne; Australia, India and
Japan and US
192) NASA selects two missions the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) and
HelioSwarm
193) Norway tops 2021 Democracy Index of 167 countries released by Economist
Intelligence Unit (EIU); India 46th
194) India signs MoU to hand over wheat to United Nation’s World Food
Programme (WFP) in Kandahar, Afghanistan
195) Nepal to become first country to deploy Indias UPI
 196) First meeting of G20 Finance Ministers & Central Bank Governors under
G20 Presidency of Indonesia
197) World Bank sign loan agreement of $115 million for implementation of
Rejuvenating Watersheds for Agricultural Resilience through Innovative
Development” (REWARD)Project
198) India-UAE sign Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA)
199) Six African countries (Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and
Tunisia) to receive mRNA technology to set up vaccine production centres:
WHO
200) UNEP (UN Environment Programme) offers solutions for planetary crisis
like wildfires in its Frontiers Report
201) World Economic Forum and the National Institute of Urban Affairs sign a
MoU to collaborate on a jointly designed ‘Sustainable Cities India program
202) High Commission of India in Dhaka launches Suborno Jayanti Scholarship
website
203) Operation Ganga to evacuate Indian citizens stranded in Ukraine

International Judo Federation suspends Vladimir Putin as honorary president

204)

Other-(Science date theme,other award )

205) SBI raises $300 million via Formosa bonds
206) Golden Globe Awards: “The Power of the Dog” wins best drama film
award; “West Side Story” wins best musical/comedy film award
207) Startup India Innovation Week from Jan 10 to 16
208) Veer Baal Diwasâ to be observed on December 26 as tribute to Guru Gobind
Singh’s sons
209) Integrated Approach in Science and Technology for Sustainable Future-
theme-National Science Day 2022 to be celebrated on February 28
210) winners of the National Startup Awards 2021 along with 1 incubator and 1
accelerator
211) January 16 -National Start-up Day
212) Robert Lewandowski of Poland & Bayern Munich wins Best FIFA
Men’s Player Award
213) Eleven cities selected as the winners of the Streets for People Challenge
214) World Economic Forume theme: ‘Working Together, Restoring Trust

Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar; Gujarat Institute of Disaster

Management (GIDM) won in Institutional category & Vinod Sharma, Vice
Chairman of Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority, won in Individual
category

215) Shinzo Abe honoured with Netaji Award 2022 by Netaji Research Bureau
216) National Voters’ Day to be celebrated on Jan 25; theme: ‘Making
Elections Inclusive Accessible and Participative’
217) Tamil film Koozhangal (Pebbles) gets Best Film award at Dhaka
International Film Festival
218) International Day of Education observed on Jan 24; theme: “Changing
Course, Transforming Education

Syed Modi

219) President approves conferment of Jeevan Raksha Padak Series of Awards

220) Neeraj Chopra awarded Param Vishisht Seva Medal by 4 Rajputana Rifles
221) National Tourism Day celebrated on Jan 25; theme: ‘Rural and Community
Centric Tourism
222) 4 Padma Vibhushan awardees: Prabha Atre (Art, Maharashtra),
Radheyshyam Khemka (Posthumous; Literature & Education, UP), General
Bipin Rawat (Posthumous; Civil Service, Uttarakhand and Kalyan Singh
(Posthumous; Public Affairs, UP)
223) Bangladesh: Rural hospital wins prestigious RIBA (Royal Institute of British
Architects) prize for most transformative building of the world
224) International Customs Day celebrated on Jan 26; theme: Scaling up Customs
Digital
225) Telugu short film ‘Street Student’ by Akula Sandeep wins first prize in
the Short Film Award
226) World Wetlands Day observed on Feb 2; theme: “Wetlands Action for
People and Nature
227) World Cancer Day observed on Feb 4; theme-closing the care gap

Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989

228) World Interfaith Harmony Week observed by UN from Feb 1 to 7

229) World Pulses Day observed on Feb 10; theme: Pulses to empower youth in
achieving sustainable agrifood systems
230) World Day of Social Justice celebrated on Feb 20; theme: ‘Achieving
Social Justice through Formal Employment
231) Ranveer Singh (83) and Kriti Sanon (Mimi) win Dadasaheb Phalke
International Film Festival Award 2022 in the Best Actor and Best Actress
category
232) International Mother Language Day celebrated on Feb 21; theme: “Using
technology for multilingual learning: Challenges and opportunities
233)