January

Notebook: A-HPSC
Created: 6/13/2022 5:41 PM Updated: 6/15/2022 9:15 AM
Author: nitinkhari2008@gmail.com

=> MoS S&T Dr JS , inaugurated India's First 'Open Rock Museum' at CSIR-NGRI , Hyderabad, Telangana ; NGRI -
National Geophysical Research Institute 
=> MoU signed btw India and Nepal for construction of bridge over Mahakali River
 => Losoong (Namsoong) festival of Sikkim  celebrated by Bhutia and Lepchas
=> India and Sri Lanka signs deal to Redevelop Trincomalee Oil Tank Complex in Sri Lanka 

India -Sri Lanka Military Exercise - Mitra Shakti 2021

=> Japan and Australia signed a defence treaty named Reciprocal Access Agreement(RAA) to counter China's
expansionary military and economic policies.
=>Zhang Ming of China appointed as the new secretary general(SG) of SCO for 3 years 

India to assume presidency of SCO in 2022-23 after Uzbekistan Presidency. 

=> Legends League Cricket appoints Jhulan Goswami as Ambassador  ; LLC is the professional 
cricket league for retired cricketers.  ; ambassador LLC ki All Women Match Official team ka banaya hai
=> The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak(EAST) , which is known as the Chinese 'Artificial
Sun' has achieved continuous High-tem Plasma Operation for 1056 second at 70 Million deg C 
 
 
-> PM Modi laid foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut, UP

In Sept 21 , Union law minister Kiren Rijiju , inaugurated India's 1st 'Sports Arbitration Centre of India(SACI)' in
Gujarat. 

-> Losar Festival : traditional new year of Tibetan Buddhist in Ladakh

-> Union Education Minister , Dharmendra Pradhan launched 100-day Reading Campaign 'Padhe Bharat' to
encourage the reading habit among students studying in Balvatika to Grade 8. 
 -> Union Education Min , Dharmendra Pradhan , launched NEAT 3.0 (National Educational Alliance for Technology) -
a platform to provide ed-tech solutions to students.
-> Min of Culture partnered with Common Service Centre (MeitY) to launch India's 1st ever Cultural survey of
villages titled "Mera Gaon, Meri Dharohar"
-> Himachal Pradesh becomes 1st LPG enabled & smoke free Indian state with the help of PM Ujjwala Yojana &
Mukhya mantri Grihini Suvidha Yojana.
=>Azure Power commissions 600 MW , SECI project in Bikaner, Rajasthan ; This is India's largest single site Solar
Project 
=> Hansa New Generation(NG) aircraft - developed by CSIR- National Aerospace Laboratory(NAL), Bengaluru,
Karnataka ; successfully made its maiden flight. 
=> World Food Program(WFP) India partnered with the Akshaya Patra Foundation to enhance effectiveness of
PM-POSHAN scheme(earlier - NP for Mid-Day Meal in schools)

Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Nirman(PM Poshan Scheme) - for govt + govt aided schools for 5 years (2021-
22 to 2025-26)

=> UJALA LED scheme was launched in 2015 ; Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All ; 
 Union Min of Power , launched India's 1st Green Day Ahead Market(GDAM) for the Renewable Energy , to
enable the electricity generation and distribution companies (Discoms) to trade RE in the market

=> 19th meeting of NTCA (National Tiger Conservation Authority) was held under MoEFCC , Bhupender Yadav.   ;
currently 51 Tiger Reserves ; 

MoEFCC informed that 14 TR have got accreditation of global Conservation Assured Tiger Standards(CAITS) 

** under Action plan for reintroduction of Cheetah in India :  51 cheetah's will be reintroduced in the next 5 years in
various parks.
 => Theme of National Science Day (28th Feb)  2022 launched by MoS&T Dr Jitendra Singh  

theme - 'Integrated Approach in Science and Technology(S&T) for Sustainable Future'

=> Telangana tops in list of highest number of ODF Plus villages under SBM phase -II programme till 31st Dec
2021. 
** SBM-Gramin Phase-II : approved in Feb 20 ; to be implemented btw 2020-21 and 2024-25
 
-> Shanghai opened 2 driverless Metro Lines ; it again became Longest Metro line in world
-> Antigua & barbuda joined the ISA as 102nd member ; (not latest , as NEPAL is latest member -105th)

B..BANKING & FINANCE...

 -> RBI's framework for Small-value offline Digital Payments - using cards, wallets, mobile devices etc to push
digital transactions in rural and semi-urban areas.

upper limit of an offline payment transaction - Rs 200 , with total limit on a payment instrument be at Rs
2000
framework will enable the Authorised Payment System Operators (PSOs) and Payment System Participants
(PSPs), Acquirers and Issuers (banks and non-banks) to conduct small value offline digital payments.

 => Airtel Payments bank gets Scheduled Payment Bank status from RBI  after inclusion into the second
schedule to RBI Act  ; 4th payment bank to get this status - Paytm, India Post Payments Bank , Fino Payments Bank 
  
=> SBI, ICICI and HDFC continue to be DSIBs

...AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS..

=> Indian-origin British Sikh Army officer, captain Harpreet Chandi became the 1st woman of colour to make a
solo trip to the earth's South Pole

Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth situated in Antarctica 

India's bases at Antarctica - Dakshin Gangotri + Maitri + Bharati

=>JC Chaudhary an Indian Numerologist achieved 1st ever Guinness World Record in Numerology ; Also first
world record of 2022
 
...ECONOMY & BUSINESS..
-> 19th tranche of electoral bonds opened for sale from Jan 1 to 10, 2022
@ Electoral Bonds : Rs 1000 - Rs 1 crore ;  SBI only issue through its 29 specialized branches ; introduced in 2017
through Finance Bill 2017

can be purchased by a person who is citizen of India or entities incorporated or estd in India

Party registered under section 29A of RoP Act 1951+ secured 1% votes in recent General/Assembly elections
No limit on the number of bonds an individual or company can purchase
Validity : party to encash within 15 days ; SBI will deposit to Prime Minister's Relief Fund after that. 

@ Assembly seats in states having elections in Feb : UP(403) , UK(70) , Punjab(117),  Manipur(60), Goa(40)
=> CryptoWire launches India's 1st Index of Cryptocurrencies 'IC15' ; will monitor the crypto assets such as Bitcoin
> Ethereum> Binance coin>Solana> Cardano
=> Acc to M of C&I , India achieved maximum monthly merchandise export in December 2021 of USD 37.29
billion
=> Apple becomes First company to touch $3 trillion Market cap
 
-> Russia has tested new Hypersonic cruise missile Tsirkon(Zircon) 

-> Quinton De Kock , announced retirement from Test Cricket

-> Himachal Pradesh won its maiden , Vijay Hazare Trophy 21-22  by defeating Tamil Nadu at Sawai Mansingh
Stadium, Rajasthan 

  => In Jan 22 , India launched a special logo depicting Peacock and Green Pheasant to mark the celebration of
70th anniversary of the est of diplomatic relations btw India & Japan.
 => Shree Govindajee temple is in Imphal,Manipur; recently PM Modi visited here ; a vaishnavite site
=> HQ of World Food Programme - Rome, Italy
=> UJALA - launched in 2015 ; under Min of Power
=> Hokersar bird sanctuary - Jammu &Kashmir 

Kibber Wildlife Sanctuary - Himachal Pradesh 

=> Gandhi Sagar Dam is a masonry gravity dam on Chambal River in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh.
=> Turkmenistan - Ashgabat ; Turkmenistani Manat

Chile - Santiago ; Peso

=> Pangolakha WS - Sikkim 

 
 => KVIC has launched India's FIRST Mobile Honey Processing Van  in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
 
=> POWERGRID and Africa50 signed a Joint Development Agreement to develop Africa's 1st PPP
Transmission Project in Kenya
 => New ISRO Chairman - S Somanath (10th Chairman)
=> ISRO successfully conducts qualification tests of Cryogenic Engine for Gaganyaan programme for a
duration of 720 seconds.

Gaganyaan : India's 1st human space mission and will be launched in 2023

=> Tasnim Mir becomes World No 1 in Badminton U-19 Girls singles ; first Indian to be #1 in U-19
ranking.

=> PM Modi inaugurated 'MSME Technology Centre' and 'Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Manimandapam'
(a modern auditorium) in Puducherry
 => Indian Railways renamed Kevadiya Station in Vadodara, Gujarat as Ekta Nagar Railway Station
=> India's passport ranked #83 on Henley's Passport Index :Q1-2022 ranking ; Japan & Singapore
ranked first ; (Q2- Ranking of April - India -84)
=> National Stock Exchange(NSE) received nod of SEBI to launch derivatives on Nifty Midcap Select
Index

Nifty Midcap Select Index will track the performance of 25 stocks within the Nifty Midcap 150
index. 

 => World Bank released The Groundswell report 'Groundswell part 2 : Acting on Internal Climate
Migration' -  acc to report, Climate change could force more than 216 million people from across 6
regions , to migrate from their own countries by 2050
=> Acc to a report by Cirium - Chennai International Airport is ranked 8th globally under large airports
category  for "On-Time Performance"
=> DRDO successfully tested the final deliverable configuration of the Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided
Missile(MPATGM) ; missile has a maximum range of 5 km
=> Harpercollins to publish the authorized biography of Ratan N Tata titled - 'Ratan N. Tata : The
Authorized Biography' authored by Dr Thomas Mathew
=> 12 jan - National Youth Day 2022  ; anniversary of Swami Vivekananda 

theme - 'It's all in the mind'

*** Puducherry hosted the 25th National Youth Festival

tag-line : 'Shaksham Yuva Shashakth Yuva' 

=> Nepal Power Exchange Ltd (NPEL) signed an energy trading agreement with India's - Manikaran
Power Ltd to sell electricity produced by domestic private sector of Nepal to India.
=>  79th Annual Golden Globe Awards held in California 

Best Director :  Jane Campion (The Power of the Dog) + Best Movie 
Best Actor     : Will Smith
Best Actress    : Nicole Kidman 

 =>GoI to hold 35.8% stake of Vodafone Idea in the form of Equity

=> India successfully test-fires BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile  from INS  Visakhapatnam 

Brahmos - Brahmaputra + Maskov rivers (Russia's)

=> South Africa cricketer Chris Morris announced retirement

=> Karnataka will host Khelo India Games in 2023  

2021 Khelo India games to be held in Feb 2022 at Panchkula, Haryana

=> Harpercollins to publish Arundhati Bhattacharya's autobiography - 'Indomitable : A Working

Woman's Notes on Life,Work and Leadership' ; She is former chairperson of SBI
=> Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR) has selected Satish Adiga for Dr Subhas Mukherjee
Award for 2020
=>
=> Kochi becomes first city to have a Water Metro Project (boats hi hai actuallyy...)
=> 24th National Conference on e-Governance(NCeG) 2020-21 

organised by Dept of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances(DARPG) + MeitY + state of

Telangana 
theme - 'India's Techade : Digital Governance in a Post Pandemic World'
Hyderabad Declaration on e-Governance was adopted 

 => Urijit patel is appointed as Vice President of AIIB for 3-year term (one of the 5 ) 
** AIIB : HQ- Beijing  ; India is 2nd largest shareholder 
=> China's Chang'e 5 lunar probe finds 1st on-site Evidence of Water on Moon's Surface 
=> Bharath Subramaniyam becomes India's 73rd chess GM during Vergani Cup Open 2022 in
Cattolica, Italy
=>GoI proclaims 26th Dec as Veer Baal Diwas from 2022- to honour the sacrifice of Sahibzada Zorawar
Singh and Sahibzada Fateh Singh (3rd and 4th sons of 10th Sikh Guru "Guru Gobind Singh") to defend
dignity and honour of Sikhism
-> 10 Jan - World Hindi Day/Vishwa Hindi Diwas  (National Hindi Divas - 14 Sept)
=> National Health Mission  launched a project 'Niramay' in collaboration with Piramal Swasthya , to
digitise the public healthcare delivery in Assam 

NHM launched in 2013 ,combining NRHM(2005) and NUHM(2013)

9+10...
=> Rajnath Singh flags-in India's 1st Multidimensional Adventure Sports Expedition in France ; It was
conducted by National institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports(NIMAS) 
=> India's 1st Heli-Hub  to come up at Gurugram
=> P5 countries signed a Joint Statement  to Prevent spread of Nuclear Weapons 
 
=> First Advance Estimates of National Income for FY22 by NSO 

GDP for 2021-22  - 9.2%

 => 3rd National Water Awards by Union Jal Shakti Minstry 

Uttar Pradesh is awarded  first in Best State category

** Har Ghar Jal  - tap water to all rural households by 2024

=> Kerala Arts & Crafts Village from Kovalam is awarded with 'International Craft Award for 2021' for
best craft village in the world by World Crafts Council International
=> Int Committee of Sports for the Deaf(ICSD) has approved the  1st World Deaf T20
Cricket  championship to be hosted by Kerala in 2023
 
...Static GK............
=> Min of Jal Shakti formed in - 2019
=> UN GA  declared 2022 as Int Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture
=> HQ of OPEC - Vienna, Austria
 => Mukundra Hills Tiger Reserve : located in Rajasthan (South-east Rajasthan)

 
=> Haryana and Himachal Pradesh govt signs MoU for construction of Adi Badri Dam to revive
Saraswati River
=> UNDP has released the 'G20 People's Climate Vote 2021 report' :  report prepared by UNDP +
University of Oxford
-> UNDP India appointed Prajakta Koli as India's 1st Youth Climate Champion
=> PM Modi introduced 'P3(Pro-Planet People) movement' that underlines India's climate change
commitments at WEF's Davos Agenda 2022.
 => MoEFCC Bhupendra Yadav attended 4th Asia ministerial Conference on Tiger
Conservation organized by Govt of Malaysia  and coordinated by Global Tiger Forum
 => Jahnavi Dangeti from Andhra Pradesh , becomes 1st Indian to complete NASA's - International Air
and Space Program. 
 => ISRO successfully tested Liquid propellant-based Vikas Engine for Gaganyaan mission. 
=> Govt launched 'Koyla Darpan' portal to share the Key Performance Indicators(KPI) related to the Coal
sector
=> China builds an 'Artificial Moon' , that will enable them to stimulate low-gravity environments using
magnetism
=> Common Services Centres(CSC) under MeitY has launched the 'Yogyata' mobile application , to
provide Skill-based Vocational Education to Rural Youth 
=> Renowned Indian footballer and coach Subhas Bhowmick  passed away 
 => PM Modi inaugurated New Circuit House near Somnath Temple, Gujarat
=> Karnataka launches India's first AVGC CoE in Bengaluru  ; (AVGC - Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming
and Comics)
=> Indonesia replaces Jakarta  with Nusantara(East Kalimantan) as New Capital city 
=> China is the chair of BRICS 2022 ; India was host in 2021 

theme of BRICS 2022 : 'Foster High-Quality BRICS Partnership Usher in a New Era for Global
Development'

=> American poet Maya Angelou  becomes 1st Black Woman to appear on US coin. 
=> Smriti Mandhana - only Indian cricketer named in the 2021 ICC Women's T20I team of the year
=> Dr Albert Bourla, CEO and Chairman of Pfizer won the 2022 Genesis Prize for his efforts in the
development of the COVID-19 Vaccine  ; Genesis Prize is known as 'Jewish Nobel'
=> Chennai based Rhapsody Music Foundation won QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Award 2021 ,
under the Arts and Humanities. 
=> A new Rain Forest Species named Pristimantis gretathunbergae discovered  in Panama, named after
Greta Thunberg
=> Sania Mirza announced retirement
=> 'the Legend of Birsa Munda' book released by Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari   ;
authored by Tuhin A Sinha and co-authored by Ankita Verma.

=> IMD launched India's 1st Climate Hazard and Vulnerability Atlas  ; provides information on 9
types of climate hazards

to improve data reception and dissemination of weather forecasts, IMD has launched the Crowd
source mobile App 'Public Observation' 

=> HAL(Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd) has signed a contract with the Mauritius govt to export one
Advanced light Helicopter(ALH Mk-III) for the Mauritius police force.
** Talace Private Ltd(a subsidiary of Tata Sons) acquired the Air India for Rs 18000 cr (2700 cr cash +
takeover of rs 15300 cr of airline debt)
=> Shaylyn Ford of USA won Mrs World 2022
=> Roberta Metsola elected as the new President of EU Parliament ; She is from Malta 

EU has 27 members 

19 : 
 => Acc to ILO's WESO Trends 2032 - Global Unemployment to reach 207 million in 2022  ; WESO -
World Employment and Social Outlook Trends 2022. 
=> Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 

Best FIFA Men's Player 2021  - Robert Lewandowski of Poland 

Best FIFA Women's Player 2021 - Alexia Putellas of Spain
Cristiano Ronaldo  received FIFA's Special Best award 2021  for breaking record of maximum
international goal scored - 115 for Portugal 
Christine Sinclair - for breaking women's int goal scoring record.

=> Russia's newly built Tupolev Tu-160M strategic missile-carrying bomber nicknamed 'White Swan'

performed its debut flight ; It is world's heaviest supersonic military aircraft
=> noted Bengali cartoonist Narayan Debnath passed away ;  
=> Acc to Ministry of Commerce and Industry , India is set to achieve the targeted Export level of $650
Million by 2021-22 (400-merchandise + 250 -service )

18 : 
=> PM Modi declared that 16 Jan to be celebrated as National Start-up Day  ; Startup India scheme was
launched on 16 Jan 2016
=> India's first Coal-to-Methanol plant launched at BHEL, Hyderabad
=> Philippines is the 1st country to purchase $374.96 million BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile
system from India for its navy. Philippines will acquire 3 batteries of the Brahmos cruise missile. 

India's target of defence exports - $5 billion by 2024. 

=> 16th Jan 2022 - 1st anniversary of COVID-19 vaccination drive. Rs 5 commemorative postal stamp
released : featuring a health worker inoculating a senior citizen
=> Kumbalangi village of Kerala became India's 1st Sanitary Napkin-free village 
=> Badminton : India Open 2022 : 

Mens Singles : Lakshya Sen won against Loh Kean Yew (Singapore)

=> Birju Maharaj legendary Kathak dancer from UP  died ; Lucknow gharana
=> Chandrachur Ghose authors new book titled - 'Bose: The Untold Story of An Inconvenient
Nationalist'
=> MoEFCC(Bhupender Yadav) released Indian State of Forest Report 2021 prepared by FSI

Forest and tree cover in India rose by 2261 sq km

Andhra Pradesh shows maximum increase in forest cover - 647 km2 ; Arunachal Pradesh - max loss
India's total forest and tree cover - 24.62%  ; Mizoram - 84.53%  ; MP- Max in area 
Mangarove cover - 4992 km2 ; increase by 17 km2(Odisha -8 km2) (compared to 2019 report)

=> Indian Railways launched 'Operation Mission Amanat' for Passengers to track & get back lost
luggage
=> World Economic Forum released 17th edition of 'The Global Risks Report 2022'
=> United Nations Dept of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) released World Economic
Situation and Prospects (WESP) report 2022 

projections for global economic growth - 4% in 2022 , 3.5% in 2023. 

** World Bank growth projections - 4.1% and 3.2% in 2022 and 2023. 
=> United Kingdom  launched Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with India. 
 
Other news...
=> Harnaaz Sandhu  - 2021's Miss Universe 
 => Election expenditure limit changes : 

Parliamentary constituencies - 70 lakh to 95 lakh (bigger states)

Assembly constituencies  - 28 lakh to 40 lakh(bigger states)  ; 20 lakhs to 28 lakhs (smaller states)

=> British economist Jim O'Neil coined the term BRIC in 2001

=> Digital Payments Index released by RBI ; base period is March 2018 ; Index has 5 parameters
=> Bor Tiger Reserve is located in Maharashtra
=> Amit Shah released J&K's ' District Good Governance Index' ; prepared by (Dept of Adm reforms &
Public Grievances) DARPG + Govt of J&K ; J&K is the 1st Indian UT with a Good Governance Index
=> Ministry of Panchayati Raj released the revised "Rural Area Development Plan Formulation &
Implementation(RADPFI) Guidelines" (not Min of Rural Development)
=> Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022 report released by WEF(1971)
=> Netaji Research Bureau  has honoured Former PM of Japan Shinzo Abe with Netaji Award 2022 ; 23
Jan - Parakram Divas
=> Indian Movie Koozhangal(tamil) directed by P S Vinothraj has won the best film award in The Asian
Film Competition category at the 20th Dhaka Int Film Festival
=> Syed Modi Int Badminton Championship 2022 : held at Babu Banarsi Das Indoor Stadium, Lucknow 
 

Women's singles : P V Sindhu won Gold , beating Malvika Bansod

=> 23 jan - 2nd Parakram Diwas ; birth anniversary of Netaji

=> Subhas Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2022 : given by GoI via NDMA 

Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management - under institutional category 

Professor Vinod Sharma of Sikkim SDMA - under individual category

26+27 :
=>India and Israel launched a commemorative logo marking 30th anniversary of Diplomatic ties

logo features Ashoka Chakra and Star of David which represents National flags of both countries

 => India's 1st Graphene Innovation centre  to be estd at Thrissur, Kerala 

Tata Steel Ltd is the Industrial partner for this product 

Graphene is an allotrope of carbon
it is the strongest, thinnest material in the world 

 => Acc to Corruption Perceptions Index released by Transparency International , India ranks 85th on
the index (CPI score -40 (100- clean ; 0- highly corrupt)) Denmark+Finland + New Zealand (DFN) shared
the 1st rank  ; South Sudan - last 
=> Acc to 15th edition of Global Peace Index 2021 released by Institute of Economics and Peace , India
is ranked #135/163  ; Iceland topped 
=> India becomes World's largest Exporter of Cucumber & Gherkins ; Gherkins is also known as pickled
cucumber
=> ICC's 2021 Awards 

Smriti Mandhana - won Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year (Isko hi
yaad rakhna hai HPSC ke liye)
Pakistan's Md. Rizwan  named - ICC - T20 cricketer of the year 
England's Tammy Beaumont - T20 Women cricketer of the year 
Pakistan's Babar Azam - ODI
South Africa's Lizelle Lee - Women ODI player 
SA's Marais Erasmus - ICC Umpire of the year 

=> Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launches revamped version of Central Government health
Scheme(CGHS) website & Mobile App : "MyCGHS"
=> Meta built World's Fastest AI Supercomputer 'RSC' ; AI Research SuperCluster(RSC)
=> Jan 25 - National Tourism Day 2022   / World Tourism Day - 27th Sept
 theme - 'Rural and Community Centric Tourism' 

=> Jan 25 - 12th edition of  National Voters Day celebrated by ECI ; theme -'Making Elections Inclusive,
Accessible and Participative'
=> Decommissioned INS Khurki handed over to Diu Administration ; to be developed as Museum
 => India and UAE sets up $150 million  worth Venture Capital  to boost Start-up Ecosystem.
=> Nizamuddin Revival Project , Delhi won UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage
Conservation
=> A new Lizard/gecko species named Protoblepharus Apatani discovered at Talle Valley Wildlife
Sanctuary  in Arunachal Pradesh

Apatani tribe of AP's Ziro valley

=> Ruskin Bond authors new book titled - 'A Little Book of India : Celebrating 75 years of Independence'
=> Karnataka launches 'Brain Health Initiative' 1st of its kind in India to train Doctors in Mental
Healthcare

29 :
=> PM Modi hosted 1st virtual India-Central Asia Summit 2022 with 5 Central Asian nations ; Kazakhstan
is largest country among 5 

A India-Central Asia Secretariat will be set up in New Delhi  ; Summit to be organized every 2

years from now onwards

 => National Highway for Electric Vehicle(NHEV) inaugurated India's largest EV charging station in
Gurgaon, Haryana.
=> Malaysia's AirAsia Group Berhad  renamed its Listed Holding Company to Capital A Berhad ; matlab
Air Asia is subsidiary of AirAsia Group Berhad as Group's Airline business ; But now main company ka
name change ho gya ; lekin Air Asia continue rahega for airlines...
=> Justice Ayesha Malik sworn in as 1st female judge of Pakistan's SC 
=> India - South Africa test series - Freedom Trophy
=> MoS for Culture Meenakshi Lekhi has launched pictorial comic book titled 'India's Women Unsung
Heroes' in New Delhi

Book prepared by Min of Culture in collaboration with Amar Chitra Katha. 

=> 150 Indian Villages to convert into 'Villages of Excellence' with Technical help from Israel
=> India's Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve , Tamil Nadu and Nepal's  Bardiya National Park  jointly won
TX2 award 2022 for doubling their tiger population since 2010 ; under TX2 goal is to double tiger
population by 2022 from 2010
=> Anantha Nageswaran is the new Chief Economic Advisor  for the Ministry of Finance ; CEA is the
principal author of Economic Survey ; previous CEA - K V Subramanian
  => Hockey : Women's Asia Cup Muscat 2022 : Indian team won Bronze (by beating China) ; Japan-
Gold 
MISC + Static : 
=> UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has chosen Pochampally village as one of the Best Tourism
villages 2021 ; Pochampally village in Telangana is famous for hand woven Ikat saree 
=> Melghat Tiger Reserve - Maharashtra 
=> Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary - Sikkim
=> Padma Awards  : 

India instituted 2 civilian awards - Bharat Ratna & Padma Vibhushan in 1954
 Padma awards - Padma Vibhushan > Padma Bhushan > Padma Shri ; discontinued twice : 1978+79
and 1993-97
conferred every year on Republic Day ; on recom of Padma Awards Committee  headed by Cabinet
Secretary which is constituted by the PM annually. 
total awards (excluding posthumous awards + NRI/foreigners/OCIs) should not be more than 120. 
In 2022 : 4 +17 + 107  

 => Apatani tribe + Talley Valley Wildlife Sanctuary - which state ???
=> Kane Wildlife sanctuary - Arunachal Pradesh
 => Ramgarh vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary  is notified as Rajasthan's 4th Tiger Reserve