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Daily Current Affairs – 29 January 2022

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National

India joins ‘UN 2022 Honor Roll’ with payment of $29.9 million in regular budget assessments

India has paid its United Nations regular budget assessment for the year 2022 in full with a payment of USD 29.9 million on January 21, 2022.
With this India joins ‘2022 Honour Roll’ list of Member States that have paid their @UN Regular Budget Assessments in full.
So far 31 Member States out of 193 have paid their regular budget assessments in full as of 26 January 2022.
Honour Roll 2022 will recognise Member States that have paid their regular budget assessments in full within the 30 day due period specified in Financial Regulation 3.5 (i.e. by 9 February 2022).

India’s largest EV charging station inaugurated at Gurgaon

India’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station has been inaugurated in Sector 52 of Gurugram at Delhi-Jaipur National Highway, on January 28, 2022.
The charging station has been installed and operated by tech-piloting company Alektrify.
The new station has a capacity of 100 charging points for four-wheelers. This includes 72 units as AC slow chargers and 24 units as DC fast chargers.
Before this, the largest EV charging station in India was located in Navi Mumbai, comprising 16 AC and 4 DC chargers.

India’s first Graphene Innovation Centre to be set up in Kerala’s Thrissur

India’s first innovation centre for graphene is set to come up in Thrissur, Kerala.
This will be the first graphene Research and Development (R&D) incubation centre in India.
The project will be set up by the Digital University Kerala (DUK), jointly with Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET).
The estimated cost of the project is Rs 86.41 crore.
Tata Steel Limited will be the industrial partner of the centre.
The new centre will accelerate the growth of the state in the knowledge industry sector..

International

World’s-largest canal lock unveiled in Netherlands

The world’s largest canal lock has been inaugurated at Ijmuiden, a small port city, in the Port of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The sea lock was inaugurated by Dutch King Willen-Alexander on January 26, 2022.
The Ijmuiden sea lock is 500-meter (1,640-feet) long and 70-meter wide.
The overall cost of constructing the project is $338 million.

Banking & Economy

Global gold demand increases by 10% to 4,021 tonnes in 2021

The World Gold Council (WGC) in its ‘Gold Demand Trends 2021’ Report has informed that the global gold demand rose 10 percent in 2021 to 4,021.3 tonnes.
The overall gold demand during 2020 stood at 3,658.8 tonnes.
Meanwhile, India’s total gold demand surged by 78.6 percent to 797.3 tonnes in 2021 from 446.4 tonnes during 2020.

Business

Google to invest upto $1 Billion in Bharti Airtel to boost country’s digital ecosystem

Indian telecom company Bharti Airtel and Google have announced a long-term partnership agreement on January 28, 2022 to accelerate the growth of India’s digital ecosystem.
Under the deal, Google will invest USD 1 billion in Airtel.
From the total investment, Google will invest USD 700 million to acquire 1.28 percent stake in Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Remaining USD 300 million will go toward multi-year commercial agreements with Airtel, including devices built together by the two tech giants.
The USD 1 billion funding is part of Google’s USD 10 billion ‘Google for India Digitization Fund’, launched in 2020.

Apps/Portal

Om Birla launches ‘Digital Sansad App’ to make live proceedings accessible to citizens

The Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla launched the official mobile application of the Parliament named ‘Digital Sansad App’ on January 27, 2022, to allow citizens to access live proceedings of the House, including the Union Budget 2022 live.
The app will make the Parliament and Parliamentary proceedings accessible not only to the members but also to the public of the country.
Through the Digital Sansad App, citizens can check what their members of Parliament are doing, what debates they are participating in and what they are saying.
Using the app, parliamentarians can also digitally log their attendance.

Books & Author

Former finance secretary Subhash Garg pens book titled “The $10 Trillion Dream”

The former finance secretary of India, Subhash Chandra Garg has announced his debut book named “The $10 Trillion Dream”.
The book is scheduled to hit stands towards the end of February 2022.
The new book explores the critical policy issues that India faces today and suggests reforms for it to become a USD 10 trillion economy by the mid-2030s.
It is published by Penguin Random House India (PRHI).

Appointment

Anantha Nageshwaran appointed as chief economic advisor of Government of India

V Anantha Nageswaran has been appointed as the new chief economic advisor (CEA) to the Government of India. This post was lying vacant since December 17, 2021, when KV Subramanian left the office.
V Anantha Nageswaran is a former member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC).

Awards

Tamil Nadu’s Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve and Bardia National Park of Nepal jointly bags TX2 Award

The Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve in Erode district of Tamil Nadu and Bardia National Park in Nepal have jointly won the prestigious TX2 Award for 2022, for doubling their tiger populations since 2010.
Sathyamangalam was designated a Tiger Reserve in 2013. The population of tigers increased from only 25 tigers in 2011 to an estimated 80 individuals currently.
Similarly, the tiger population in Bardia National Park increased by almost five-fold from less than 20 tigers in 2009 to 87 in 2018.