January to October Current Affairs 2022 for NPSC/NSSB

presented by Aspirants Circle

Banking and Financial Current Affairs

• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has included Airtel Payment Bank in

the ‘Second Schedule to the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934’ to
give it the status of ”Scheduled Commercial Bank”.
• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched a
new mobile app named Saa₹thi on investor education.
• Apple becomes world’s first company to hit $3 trillion market
value
• Tata Group Officially takes over Air India Operations
• JPMorgan - first bank to enter in the Metaverse(Facebook).
• HDFC Mutual Fund- #LaxmiForLaxmi for Women Investors
• HDFC Bank - “SmartHub Vyapar” and “Autofirst” app- For small
business loans
• Google and MeitY - Train 100 Indian startups under Appscale
Academy programme for making global apps & games
• India - 100th Unicorn -neobanking fintech portal, “Open”
• Whatsapp - SMBSaathi Utsav - to support small businesses by
helping them to adopt digital mediums like Whatsapp Business
App
• Acemoney launch UPI 123Pay for payment and wearable ATM
cards.
• State Bank of India (SBI) has introduced a unique term deposit
programme called “Utsav Deposit Scheme”.
• India surpassed Britain to become world’s fifth largest economy reported
by Bloomberg

International Current Affairs

• United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)- appoint Dr Ian

Fry -World’s first independent expert for Human Rights and
Climate Change.
• Pakistan new PM- Shehbaz Sharif (23rd Prime Minister)
• Guadalajara, Mexico - World Book Capital for the Year 2022
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) name Sir David
Attenborough- recipient of the Champions of the Earth Award
2021.
• South Korea - first Asian country join in North Atlantic Treaty
Organization Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.
• Australia New PM -Anthony Albanese
• World’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered passenger trains was
launched by Germany
• Britain’s King Charles has bestowed the titles of Prince and Princess of
Wales on his eldest son William and daughter-in-law Kate
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addressed Russia’s Eastern
Economic Forum 2022 held in Vladivostok
• President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former U.S.
intelligence contractor Edward Snowden
• China successfully tested its first fully solar powered unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) -Qimingxing-50
• Russia successfully test-fires 10 hypersonic Tsirkon missiles
• Israel Successfully Test-flights its Arrow 3 Advanced Air Defence
System
• Indonesia change its capital from Jakarta to Nusantara

National Current Affairs

• Union Education Minister Shri Dharmendra Pradhan launches

‘Padhe Bharat’, a 100 days (14 weeks) reading campaign
• Telangana declared top state for having highest number of ODF
plus villages
• Puducherry to host 25th National Youth Festival in 2022
• India’s first open rock museum in Hyderabad
• India’s first heli-hub to be set up in Gurugram, Haryana
• Kochi becomes country’s first city to get water metro project
• India’s first Graphene Innovation Centre to be set up in Kerala’s
Thrissur
• Prajakta Koli becomes India’s first UN Development Programme
(UNDP) Youth Climate Champion
• 216-foot statue of saint Ramanujacharya in sitting position, in
Hyderabad. The statue will be called as the “Statue of Equality”
• India’s first geological park - Lamheta village of Jabalpur district in
Madhya Pradesh
• India becomes first country to administer COVID-19 DNA vaccine.
ZyCoV-D developed by Zydus Cadila
• India’s first commercial-scale biomass-based hydrogen plant -
Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh.
• India launches mission named Operation Ganga to evacuate
Indian nationals from Ukraine.
• Delhi - India’s first e-waste eco-park - Narela
• India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station -
Gurugram, Haryana
• India’s largest reclining statue of Lord Buddha - Bodh Gaya,Bihar
• India’s first 100% women-owned industrial park - Hyderabad,
Telangana
• Kerala - First State To Introduce Carbon-Neutral Farming
• The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) &
Arbor Day Foundation - recognise Mumbai & Hyderabad -‘2021
Tree City of the World
• Niti Aayog’s Vice Chairperson- Suman K Bery
• Deepika Padukone - Cannes Film Festival - member of the jury
for 2022
• Tamil Nadu - ‘Kaaval Uthavi’ app- help citizens to seek police
assistance during any emergency.
• India’s first ‘Lavendar festival’ at Bhaderwah .Jammu &
Kashmir.
• Uttarakhand Government has announced the formation of
drafting committee to implement the much-debated Uniform Civil
Code (UCC) in the state
• India’s first-ever, ‘Balika Panchayat’, -Gujarat’s Kutch district. -
Aims to promote the social and political development of the
girls and ensure their active participation in politics.
• Draupadi Murmu- elected as the 15th President of India.
o The 64-year-old Droupadi Murmu was born in Odisha’s
Mayurbhanj district to a family belonging to the Santhal
tribe.
o Santhals are the third largest scheduled tribe community
in India after the Gonds and Bhils.
 o Their population is mostly distributed in Odisha, Jharkhand
and West Bengal.
o Murmu is the second person belonging to a scheduled
tribe, to be nominated as a candidate for the post of
President of India.
o She served as the ninth Governor of Jharkhand from 2015
to 2021.
• The Airports Authority of India, Leh Airport India’s first carbon-
neutral airport.
• CBSE -‘Pariksha Sangam’ to streamline board examination
results, sample papers, and other details in one single window
• Varanasi - First “Cultural and Tourism Capital” of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation for 2022- 23.
• Rajasthan Govt. to introduce- the Right to Health Bill, “the first
of its kind in India”, which aims to commit to quality and
affordable health care services through government and
private health care providers.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to the nation from the Red
Fort on August 15, 2022 on his “Panch Pran Targets” (Five
Resolves) to make India a developed country by the time it
celebrates its 100th Independence Day in 25 years.
• Veteran stock market investor, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala passed
away at the age of 62. Often referred to as ‘India’s Warren
Buffett’ and the Big Bull of Indian markets
• A 2,600-bed Amrita hospital, Asia’s biggest hospital officially
inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
• India’s first earthquake memorial, named Smruti Van at Bhuj in
Gujarat
• ‘Medicine from the sky’ pilot project drone service launched by
the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu
• Meghalaya tohost2nd edition of the North East Olympics from
30th October.
• UNDP’s human development index: India ranks 132 out of 191
countries and India’s latest HDI value of 0.633.Topped by
Switzerland.
• Global Innovation Index 2022: India has climbed to the 40th
rank in the Global Innovation Index of the World Intellectual
Property Organization.1st Position goes to Switzerland.
• Fortune India Rich List 2022: Gautam Adani India’s richest man
with a net worth of USD 129.16 billion (Rs. 10.29 trillion) topped
by Elon Musk.
• Veteran actress Asha Parekh has been declared the recipient of
the 2020 Dadasaheb Phalke award, making her the 52nd
awardee of the honour
• India to launch its first indigenously developed Quadrivalent Human
Papillomavirus Vaccine (qHPV) against Cervical cancer with the help of
the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the Department of Biotechnology
(DBT)
• Eight African cheetahs are all set to move from Namibia into their new
habitat at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh on September 17
(Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday)
• Govt. to change the name of Rajpath and Central Vista lawns into Kartavya
Path
• Tripura first state in India to have the first modified bio-village- Daspara
village
• Nagaland Prison Department goes digital by introducing the mobile
attendance application for Prison staff.
• Tamil Nadu has notified the country’s first ‘Dugong Conservation Reserve’
in Palk Bay

Appointments/Resignations (National & International)

• Alka Mittal Chairman - ONGC (first women head of ONGC).

• Urjit Patel Vice President- Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB)
• S Somanath Chairman and Secretary Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO)
• Anantha Nageshwaran- Chief Economic Advisor
• M Jagadesh Kumar- Chairman University Grants Commission
(UGC)
• S. Kishore- Chairman- Staff Selection Commission (SSC)
• Vineet Joshi- Chairman Central Board of Secondary Education
(CBSE)
• IFS Vinay Mohan Kwatra -Foreign Secretary of India.
• Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) new Chairman - Dr
Manoj Soni .
• Iqbal Singh Lalpura - Chairperson - National Commission for
Minorities.
• Lt. General Manoj Pande - Chief of Army Staff
• Ajay Kumar Sood - Principal Scientific Advisor to PM
• Pushp Kumar Joshi -Chairman and Managing Director
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL).
• New Chief Election Commissioner- Rajiv Kumar
• Vinai Kumar Saxena -Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.
• R Dinesh- President - Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII)
• President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Dr. Justice
Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud as the 50th Chief Justice of
India. Justice D.Y. Chandrachud will take over as CJI with effect
from 9th November 2022.
• Suresh N. Patel was appointed as the Central Vigilance
Commissioner
• Senior advocate R Venkataramani has been appointed as the
new Attorney General of India
• Lt General Anil Chauhan (Retired) appointed as the next Chief
of Defence Staff (CDS)
• Rajesh Kumar Srivastava -new Chairman and Managing Director
(CMD) Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC)

Sports Current Affairs

• India to host first World Deaf T20 Cricket championship in 2023

at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
• Winners of Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 Best FIFA Men’s
Player: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich, Poland) , Best
FIFA Women’s Player: Alexia Putellas (Barcelona, Spain)
• Australian Open 2022 winners: Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal
Women’s Singles - Ashleigh Barty (Aus)
• French Open 2022 - Rafael Nadal (Men’s Singles) Iga Świątek
(Women’s Singles)
• Wimbledon Open 2022 - Novak Djokovic (Men) & Elena
Rybakina(Women)
• US Open 2022 :- Carlos Alcaraz(Men) & Iga Świątek(Women)
• Diamond League 2022 winner Neeraj Chopra
• Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the
Year – Smriti Mandhana (India)
• Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Men’s Cricketer of the Year
– Shaheen Afridi (Pakistan)
• Indian Cricket team defeat England to win the 2022 ICC Under-
19 World Cup Championship
• China beat South Korea to win AFC Women’s Asian Cup India
2022 Football Tournament
• Neeraj Chopra and Mirabai Chanu wins ‘Sportstar of the Year’
award - 2022 Sportstar Aces Awards
• Australia beat England - Women’s Cricket World Cup- held at
New Zealand
• Meghalaya - 83rd National Table Tennis Championship 2022
• Khelo India University Games 2021- Bengaluru.
• F1 champion Max Verstappen - 2022 Laureus Sportsman of the
Year & Jamaican Olympic sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah has
been named Sportswoman of the Year.
• The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 won by Gujarat Titans
(GT) defeating Rajasthan Royals (RR) -Narendra Modi Stadium,
Ahmedabad
• Kerala -75th Santosh Trophy 2022
• 2022 Miami Open tennis tournament Men’s Single Carlos
Alcaraz Women’s Single Iga Świątek
• Fourth Khelo India Youth Games at Panchkula, Haryana &
mascot ‘Dhakad’
• Manchester City -Premier League champions 2021-22
• Tokyo (Japan) to host 2025 World Athletics Championships
• 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games to be hosted in
Los Angeles, United States.
• 2024 Paris Olympics unveiled “Games Wide Open” as their
official slogan
• Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt, 2-0 in the finals to win the
2022 UEFASuper Cup
• SAFF U-17 Championship Title, India beats Nepal
• SAFF Women’s Championship winner - Bangladesh
 • Sunil Chhetri and Manisha Kalyan have been named the 2021-
22 All India Football Federation (AIFF) Men’s Footballer of the
Year and the 2021-22 Women’s Footballer of the Year
• Mirabai Chanu -India’s first Gold Medal - Commonwealth
Games 2022 - Women’s 49Kg weightlifting category
• India won 22 Gold, 16 Silver, 23 Bronze at Common Wealth
2022 Games at Birmingham UK

• F1 Miami Grand Prix 2022 - Max Verstappen

• F1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix 2022 - Max Verstappen
• F1 Spanish Grand Prix 2022- Max Verstappen -
• F1 Miami Grand Prix 2022 - Max Verstappen
• F1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2022- Max Verstappen -
• F1 Hungarian Grand Prix 2022 Max Verstappen
• F1 Belgian Grand Prix 2022 - Max Verstappen
• F1 Italian Grand Prix.- Max Verstappen

• F1 Bahrain Grand Prix 2022- Charles Leclerc

• F1 Australian Grand Prix 2022 - Charles Leclerc
• F1 Austrian Grand Prix 2022. Charles Leclerc -
• F1 British Grand Prix 2022. Carlos Sainz

Awards & Recognition

• Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui wins RedInk Journalist of

the Year 2020

Golden Globe Awards 2022:

• Best Film (Drama) – The Power of the Dog
• Best Film (Musical or Comedy) – West Side Story
• Best Actor (Drama) – Will Smith for King Richard
• Best Actress (Drama) – Nicole Kidman.

Winners of Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival

Awards 2022
a. Film of the Year – Pushpa: The Rise
 b. Best Film – Shershaah
c. Best Actor – Ranveer Singh for 83
d. Best Actress – Kriti Sanon for Mimi

International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) held in Abu

Dhabi.
• Best Actor (Male): Vicky Kaushal (Sardar Udham)
• Best Actress (Female): Kriti Sanon (Mimi)
• Best Director: Vishnuvaradhan (Shershaah)
• Best Film: Shershaah

68th National Film Awards 2022:

• Best Feature Film: Soorarai Pottru

• Best Director: Sachidanandan KR
• Best Actor: Suriya for Soorarai Pottru and Ajay Devgn for
Tanhaji
• Best Actress: Aparna Balamurali

List of Winners of 94th Academy Awards (Oscars Awards)

• Best Picture-CODA
• Best Director- Jane Campion
• Best Actor- Will Smith
• Best Actress - Jessica Chastain

List of Winners of BAFTA Award 2022

• Best Film – The Power of the Dog
• Best Director – Jane Campion
• Best Actress in Leading Role – Joanna Scanlan
• Best Actor in Leading Role – Will Smith

• Shaylyn Ford, - ‘Mrs World 2022’

• Netaji Award 2022 -former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe
• Koozhangal wins Best Film Award at 20th Dhaka International
Film Festival 2022
• Indian Professor Neena Gupta- 2021 Ramanujan Prize for
Young Mathematicians
• 2021 Miss World - Poland’s Karolina Bielawska
• 2022 Abel Prize - American Mathematician Dennis P. Sullivan
• Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru - ‘Best Airport’
Cochin International Airport - ‘Covid champion’ award - Wings
India 2022
• Cynthia Rosenzweig -2022 World Food Prize
• Filmmaker Shaunak Sen’s documentary All That Breathes,
India’s only entry at Cannes Film Festival 2022, has won the 2022
L’Oeil d’Or
• Angela Merkel has been awarded the UNESCO Peace
Prize 2022 for “her efforts to welcome refugees”.
• Shashi Tharoor, set to be conferred with France’s highest
civilian award
• Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur
• Liberty Medal 2022 Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
• Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation (RMAF), which is widely
regarded as the “Nobel Peace Prize of Asia,” recently announced
this year’s awardees in a global announcement ceremony. The
2022 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees are Sotheara Chhim
(Cambodia), Bernadette Madrid (Philippines), Tadashi Hattori
(Japan) and Gary Bencheghib (Indonesia).
o Sotheara Chhim-He is a mental health advocate from
Cambodia. He is a leading voice in Cambodian trauma
syndrome
o Tadashi Hattori-He is a sight-saving humanitarian from
Japan
o Bernadette J. Madrid-She is a children’s rights crusader
from the Philippines
o Gary Bencheghib-He is an anti-plastic pollution warrior from
Indonesia
• 31st Vyas Samman -Hindi writer Dr Asghar Wajahat
• Gujarati film “Chhello Show”, a coming-of-age drama about a
young boy’s love affair with cinema in a village in Saurashtra, -
India’s official entry for the 95th Academy Awards or Oscar
awards
List of Important Days

• January 25- National Voters’ Day Theme 2022: Making

Elections Inclusive, Accessible and Participative
• January 30, 2022 World Leprosy Day Theme 2022: United for
Dignity”
• February 02 World Wetlands Day – “Wetlands Action for
People and Nature”
• February 04 - World Cancer Day ” Close the Care Gap”
• February 11 International Day of Women and Girls in Science
“Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Water Unites Us”
• February 28 National Science Day “Integrated Approach in S&T
for Sustainable Future”
• March 03 - World Wildlife Day - Recovering key species for
ecosystem restoration
• March 08 - International Women’s Day - Gender equality today
for a sustainable tomorrow
• March 14 - International Day of Mathematics - Mathematics
Unites!
• March 20 - International Day of Happiness - Build Back Happier
• March 22 - World Water Day Groundwater - Making the Invisible
Visible
• March 24 - World Tuberculosis Day - Invest to End TB. Save
Lives
• April 7 - World Health Day – Theme- ‘Our Planet, Our Health’.
• April 22 World Earth Day- - Theme “ Invest in our Planet”
• April 26 World Intellectual Property Day - - Theme –“IP and
Youth innovating for a Better Future”
• May 3 World Press Freedom Day- - Theme “Journalism under
digital siege”.
• May 11 National Technology Day- –Theme “Integrated
Approach in Science and technology for sustainable future”
• May 12th International Nurses’ Day --theme –“Nurses’ Day is
“Nurses: A Voice to Lead – Invest in Nursing and respect
rights to secure global health”.
• World Biodiversity Day 22nd May-Theme - “Building a shared
future for all life”.
 • World No Tobacco Day - 31st May- Theme “Threat to our
environment”.
• World Environment Day – June 5 - Theme-“ Only One Earth”
• World Day against Child Labour- 12 June under the theme
“Universal Social Protection to End Child Labour.”
• International Day of Yoga -21st June-theme ‘Yoga for Humanity’
• World Music Day -June 21.- theme “Music on the intersections
• International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking or
World Drug Day- June 26 –Theme-“Addressing drug challenges
in health and humanitarian crises
• International Tiger Day -29 July - theme “India launches Project
Tiger to revive the tiger population”.
• International Youth Day is celebrated on 12 August- theme for
2022’s edition of International Youth Day is “Intergenerational
solidarity: creating a world for all ages.”
• Women’s Equality Day 2022 is celebrated on 26th
August 2022&theme is “Gender Equality Today for a
Sustainable Tomorrow
• World Ozone Day or the International Day for the preservation
of the Ozone Layer -16th September & theme ‘Global
Cooperation ,Protecting Life on Earth’.
• International Day of Peace -September 21 & this year’s theme is
“End racism. Build peace.”
• World Alzheimer’s Day - September 21 & theme for World
Alzheimer’s Month is ‘Know Dementia, know Alzheimer’s’.
• World Tourism Day 2022 - 27 September & the theme of World
Tourism Day 2022 is ‘Rethinking Tourism’.

Nagaland Current Affairs

• Avor Theünuo - Gold at the Abu Dhabi Combat Club (ADCC)

India Open for Submission Wrestling/Grappling ( 77kg category0.
• Mon District - National Award for e-Governance(Silver) at 24th
National conference on e- Governance for use of ICT in the
management of COVID-19.
• Keneilelie Soriünuo- Silver Medal at Mr. India National
Bodybuilding Championships 2022

• The first DC of Tseminyu is Dr. Zasekuolie Chusi (IAS) & first

SP , Tseminyu, is Kanchan Kandpal Kumar (IPS)
• Shamator is the 16th district of Nagaland on 20th January 2022
carved out of Tuensang
• Nagaland Govt. recognizes Tikhir as a separate Naga Tribe as
per official notification from Chief Secretary, GoN on 20 January
2022.
• Journalist and Human Rights Activist Yibeni Humtsoe from
Nagaland - National Social Soldier Award 2022 - International
Women’s day on 8 March 2022
• Nagaland Assembly becomes the first in country to implement
National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) on 19 March 2022.
• Shri. T. Senka Ao from Nagaland received Padma Shri Award in
the field of in the field of literature and education. He is the
former Editor-in-Chief of the “Ao Milen” for 20 years – the first
newspaper in Ao language
• S Phangnon Konyak, the first woman Rajya Sabha MP from
Nagaland took oath on 5th April 2022. She succeeded K G
Kenye Before her, late Rano M Shaiza was elected to the Lok
Sabha in 1977. making her the first woman MP from Nagaland.
• Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Narendra
Singh Tomar- inaugurates Dimapur Honey Testing Laboratory,
Nagaland
• Abu Metha has been appointed as the Chairman of the ‘National
Mountain Running Committee’ of the Athletics Federation of
India.
• The Supreme Court issued directions to the Nagaland State
Election Commission to complete the Urban Local Bodies
(ULB) elections and declare results for the same by the end of
January 2023
• Nagaland Olympic & Paralympic Games 2022 from August 22 to the 27th August
2022 under the theme “Stronger Together”
• Khonoma Village - Silver Award for Best Offbeat Destination in India by
Outlook Traveller. Kohima goes to Khonoma, Nagaland
• Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio flagged off the ‘Donyi Polo
 Express‘ from Shokhuvi Station on 26 August 2022.
• This is the second railway station in Nagaland after Dimapur railway station.
With this Nagaland got its second railway station on the Dhansari-
Shokhuvi railway line after a gap of 119 years since Dimapur railway
station was opened in 1903
• The newly created district of Niuland in Nagaland, which was
earlier part of Dimapur district, has been brought under the inner
line permit (ILP) regime. Niuland is the 14th district among 16
districts of the state

OCTOBER 2022 CURRENT AFFAIRS

• 5G Launch: The nation’s 5G services were officially inaugurated by Prime

Minister Narendra Modi on October 1st, 2022
• Srishti Bakshi has won the ‘Changemaker‘ award at the UN SDG (United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals) Action Awards
• Indore bagged the title of India’s cleanest city
• CBI launched Operation ‘GARUDA’ to dismantle drug networks
• World Habitat Day – Oct 3 Theme is “Mind the Gap. Leave No One and Place
Behind”.
• Kerala’s Pullampara named first fully digital literate panchayat
• The United States defeated China (83-61) to win the International Basketball
Federation (FIBA) Women’s Basketball World Cup
• Formula-1 Racing: Sergio Perez won Singapore F1 GP 2022
• Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) has commissioned the world’s largest wind-solar
power plant of 600 MV capacity in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
• Saudi Arabia has won the bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games
• Actor Pankaj Tripathi declared ‘National Icon’ by Election Commission
of India
• Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wins UNHCR’s Nansen
Refugee Award
• India’s first Green Technology incubation facility opened at NIT
Srinagar
• Harmanpreet Singh (Men) & Felice Albers(Women) - FIH Player of the Year
• World Mental Health Day - October 10 Theme - “Make mental health & well-being
for all a global priority.”
• Goa to host the 37th edition of the National Games 2023
 Nobel Prize 2022 Winners List

Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize Winners Awarded For
Category

Nobel Prize Winner Ben Bernanke, Douglas

in Economic Diamond and Philip “for research on Banks and Financial crises”
Sciences Dybvig

For promoting the right to criticize power and

protect the fundamental rights of citizens.
Ales Bialiatski,
Nobel Peace Prize organisation Memorial
2022 Winner and organisation Center For showing outstanding efforts to
for Civil Liberties
document war crimes, human rights
abuses, and the abuse of power.

“for the courage and clinical acuity with which

Nobel Prize Winner
Annie Ernaux she uncovers the roots, estrangements and
in Literature
collective restraints of personal memory”.

Physiology or “concerning the genomes of extinct hominins

Svante Paabo
Medicine and human evolution”

Alain Aspect, John F “for experiments with entangled photons,

Physics Clauser and Anton establishing the violation of Bell inequalities,
Zeilinger and pioneering quantum information science”.

Nobel Prize Winner Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten

“click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”
in Chemistry Meldal & Barry Sharpless