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 World Leprosy day 2023 : 29 January

 Former NATO General Petr Pavel becomes new President of Czech Republic
 Air Marshal AP Singh will take over as the new Vice Chief of the Indian Air
Force.
 1st G20 Energy Transition Working Group meeting under the chairmanship of
India will be held in Bengaluru.
 1st meeting of Employment Working Group of the G20 Summit is scheduled to be
held in Jodhpur from 2 to 4 Feb.
 5th Khelo India Youth Games begin in Madhya Pradesh.
 Martyr’s Day (Shaheed Diwas) 2023 : 30th January Mahatma Gandhi death
Anniversary.
 ICC Women’s U19 T20 World Cup: India beat England to win the inaugural
Women’s U19 T20 World Cup.
 FIH Hockey World Cup 2023 : Germany beat Belgium in shootout to lift World
Cup trophy for the 3rd time.
 Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2023 title.
 The meeting of the G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group will
be held in Chandigarh.
 Best Marching Contingent Republic Day 2023
 Khadi Fest-23 inaugurated in Mumbai.
 UNGA President Csaba Korosi Visit in India from 29 to 31 January 2023
 Beating Retreat ceremony : at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on 29 January 2023
 Amrit Udyan: The Renamed Mughal Gardens Open to the Public up to 26 March
2023
 Egypt plans to allot land to Indian industries in Suez Canal Special Economic
Zone.
 England’s Ben Stokes and Nat Sciver win ICC annual awards 2022.
 RINL to organize its first National Vendor Interaction Program-2023 on 28th
January
 Inter-governmental agreement signed to reintroduce Cheetah from South Africa
to India.
 Data Privacy Day 2023 : 28 January
 Indian mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna lose in Australian
Open 2023 final
 30th National Child Science Congress begins in Gujarat, over 1400 delegates to
attend
 Defense Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated 25 winners of Veer Gatha 2.0.
 Union Health Minister unveils world’s first intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, Bharat
Biotech’s iNNCOVACC
 Bharat Parv Celebration Kicks Off at Red Fort in New Delhi
 Halwa Ceremony : Marks Beginning of Printing for Union Budget 2023-24

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 PM Modi named 21 Andaman islands after Param Vir Chakra awardees.

 President has approved 412 gallantry awards for defense personnel.
 Naresh Lalwani took charge as the new General Manager of Central Railway.
 Scientists at JNCASR Use Scandium Nitride to Develop Brain-Like Computing
for Industrial Use
 Padma Awards 2023 announced
 ChatGPT: The Powerful Language Model Developed by OpenAI
 Aero India 2023 to be held in Bengaluru from 13 to 17 Feb 2023.
 India has become the No. 1 ODI team in ICC rankings after 3-0 series win over
New Zealand.
 National Voters Day 2023 : 25 January
 The 2023 edition of TROPEX, the largest exercise of the Indian Navy is currently
underway in the Indian Ocean region.
 Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2023
 President of India presented the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, 2023.
 SCO Film Festival will be held in Mumbai from 27 to 31 January 2023.
 National Girl Child Day 2023 : 24th January
 International Day of Education 2023 : 24 January.
 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to be Chief Guest of Republic Day
celebration 2023.
 The first G20 Environment & Climate Sustainability Working Group meeting will
be held in Bengaluru from 9 to 11 February.
 The biennial exercise ‘AMPEX’ 2023 was conducted near Kakinada in Andhra
Pradesh.
 1st meeting of the Youth 20 group will be held in Guwahati from 6 to 8 February.
 Uttar Pradesh 74th Foundation Day : 24 January 2023.
 IIT Madras incubated firm developed BharOS – India’s indigenous mobile
operating system.
 India Open Badminton Championship 2023 : Kunlavut vitidsarn won the men’s
singles & An Seyoung won the women’s singles title.
 Parakram Diwas 2023 celebrates Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Birth
Anniversary on 23rd January.
 India’s deepest metro station to be built at Pune Civil Court.
 UNESCO dedicated In year 2023 International Day of Education to Afghan girls
and women.
 Chris Hipkins will replace Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
 India to become $26 trillion economy by 2047: EY report
 The inaugural edition of India-Egypt joint training exercise Cyclone-I began in
Rajasthan.
 NASA awarded Boeing Company $425 million for the agency’s Sustainable Flight
Demonstrator Project.
 World Bank said – Pakistan is the weakest economy in South Asia.
 NASA’s Geotel mission operations end after 30 years.

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 Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as the Prime Minister of New

Zealand.
 Vagir, the fifth submarine of the Kalvari class, will be commissioned on 23 Jan
2023.
 India announced 100 million Maldivian rufiyaa for community development
projects in Maldives.
 India’s first indigenously built destroyer, INS Delhi visited Trincomalee, Sri
Lanka.
 The Ministry of Tourism will organize the first Global Tourism Investors Summit
from 10 to 12 April 2023.
 Shubman Gill became the youngest cricketer to score a double century.
 Ministry of Environment included Neelakurinji in the list of protected plants.
 Republic Day celebrations 2023 will be week-long, starting on 23rd to 30th
January.
 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Day 2023 : 19th January
 French nun Lucille Randon, world’s oldest person, dies aged 118.
 K Venu honored with Federal Bank Literary Award 2022.
 India and South Korea held the 5th Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue in
Seoul.
 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovers new exoplanet named LHS
475b.
 Archaeological Survey of India is ready to dig once again in Purana Qila.
 Shahrukh Khan on the 4th position in the list of world’s richest actors.
 China’s population declined for the first time since 1961.
 Italian man Michele Centella sets Guinness World Record by creating ‘mirror
typing’ books in ancient languages.
 UN declares Pakistan-based Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist.
 B-20 inception meeting will be held in Gandhinagar.
 1st G20 Health Working Group meeting will begin in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
from 18-20 Jan.
 The 21st edition of Naval Exercise Varuna between India and France began.
 RRR won Best Foreign Language Film & Best Song at the Critics’ Choice
Awards.
 National Startup Day 2023 : 16th January
 India Sets New Record for Largest Margin of Victory in Cricket with 317-Run Win
Over Sri Lanka
 Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni won the Bangkok Open tennis title.
 Entire country will be covered by Doppler Weather Radar Network by 2025.
 The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is being held in Davos,
Switzerland.
 The first Infrastructure Working Group meeting of the G20 will be held in Pune.
 R’Bonnie Gabriel was crowned Miss Universe 2022.
 Indian Army Day 2023 : 15th January
 Road Safety Week from 11th to 17th January 2023.

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 India’s first Center of Excellence in Online Gaming to be set up in Shillong.

 Indian Railways will launch Bharat Gaurav tourist train on 17 February.
 Captain Surbhi Jakhmola became the first woman officer posted on foreign
assignment in the Border Roads Organisation.
 Shanti Kumari appointed first woman Chief Secretary of Telangana.
 Vidisha has become the first Indian district to implement state-of-the-art 5G
use cases proposed by startups.
 7th Armed Forces Veterans Day : 14 January 2023
 Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of UAE, has been appointed as the
President of COP 28.
 RBI Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra has re-appointed for an
additional one-year term
 Former Union Minister and RJD leader Sharad Yadav passed away at 75
 India to send three person to 6,000 metre below sea level In MATSYA 6000
under Samudrayaan Mission
 Vrinda Rathi, Janani Narayanan, and Gayathri Venugopalan become first female
umpires trio to officiate in the Ranji Trophy.
 ‘Sarang 2023’ India’s biggest student-run festival begins at IIT Madras.
 NASA appoints Indian-American space expert AC Charania as chief
technologist.
 Henley Passport Index 2023: Japan retains its top position.
 National Youth Day 2023 : 12 January
 Surinder Chawla appointed as MD & CEO of Paytm Payments Bank.
 National Human Trafficking Awareness Day 2023 : 11 January
 Indian tennis star Sania Mirza announced her retirement.
 Joshimath, Uttarakhand has been declared as landslide and subsidence affected
area.
 RRR’, ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’, ‘The Kashmir Files’, ‘Kantara’ join Oscars’ ‘reminder’
list.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inaugurating the Global Investors Summit in
Indore.
 DRDO successfully test-fired short-range ballistic missile Prithvi II off the
Odisha coast.
 ‘RRR’ won its first Golden Globe for Best Original Song with ‘Naatu Naatu’.
 World Hindi Day 2023 : 10th January
 Kevin McCarthy named as new speaker of the US House of Representation.
 Kerala became the first fully digital banking state in the country.
 India will exclusively host the ‘Voice of Global South Summit’ on 12 & 13 January.
 International Kite Festival 2023 began on 8 January in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
 First education group meeting of G-20 countries will be held in Chennai from 31
January to 2 February.
 Indian-origin Manpreet Monika Singh became the first female Sikh judge in
America.
 Former Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi has passed away at 88.

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 Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the three-day ‘North East
Krishi Kumbh-2023’ in Meghalaya
 India has overtaken Japan to become the third largest auto market globally.
 The first meeting of the Working Group on G20 GPFI will begin in Kolkata.
 17th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas on 9th January 2023.
 PM Modi to launch World longest river cruise MV Ganga Vilas at Varanasi.
 India, Japan to conduct joint exercise ‘Veer Guardian-2023’ to boost air defense
cooperation.
 India’s real GDP may grow 7% : First Advance Estimates of National Income,
2022-23
 Cadets from 19 friendly countries to participate in the NCC Republic Day Camp
2023
 World’s first museum of palm leaf manuscripts set up in Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala.
 Army Largest contingent of women peacekeepers deployed in United Nation
mission at Abyei, UNISFA
 Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the Birsa Munda Hockey
Stadium.
 M Pranesh became India’s 79th Chess Grandmaster.
 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Convention 2023 : 8 to 10 January.
 Senior Congress leader Kuldeep Singh Pathania elected as the 16th Speaker of
HP Legislative Assembly.
 World War Orphans Day 2023 : 6th January
 Ghaziabad-Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay section becomes longest fully
automatic block signaling section of Indian Railways.
 India assumed the leadership of the Asian Pacific Postal Union.
 Goa’s Mopa Airport will be named ‘Manohar International Airport’, Prime
Minister Modi approved.
 First G-20 meeting to take place in Puducherry on 31 Jan.
 Madhya Pradesh government launched the Mukhyamantri Awasiya Bhoomi
Adhikar Yojana.
 President Murmu inaugurated the 18th National Jamboree of Bharat Scouts and
Guides in Rajasthan.
 China Becomes First Country in Asia to Launch Hydrogen Powered Train.
 Government begins process to buy 100 more K9-Vajra.
 Cabinet has approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission worth Rs. 19
thousand 744 crore.
 50 electric buses were launched in Delhi under the FAME India Phase II scheme
of the Ministry of Heavy Industry.
 DRDO’s celebrated its 65th foundation day on 1st January.
 Indian Army deploys woman officer for the first time in battlefield Siachen.
 Nation remembers Savitri Bai Phule, the first woman teacher of modern India,
on her birth anniversary on 3rd January.
 UIDAI makes change in address on Aadhaar card easier.

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 World Braille Day 2023 : 4th January.

 RBI launches Utkarsh 2.0 for the period 2023-2025.
 India’s first underwater metro is scheduled to be operational by December 2023.
 Dhaka Literary Festival 10th edition to be on 5 to 8 January.
 Global Family Day 2023 : 1st January
 India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations and facilities.
 Koustav Chatterjee becomes 78th Grandmaster of India.
 Ajay Kumar Srivastava assumes charge as MD & CEO of Indian Overseas Bank
from 1st Jan 2023.
 International Year of millets (IYM) 2023.
 SpaceX Launched First 54 Starlink v2.0 satellites Into Low Earth orbit.
 India will assume the chairmanship of the Wassenaar Arrangement on 1st
January for one year.
 Anil Kumar Lahoti took over as the new Chairman and CEO of the Railway
Board.
 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as the 39th President of Brazil.

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