DAILY GK 29-31 JAN

 DAILY GK 29-31 JAN 

1.       EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI VISIT TO INDIA

·         Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, visited India for 3 days from January 24 – 27, 2023 at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi to attend India’s 74th Republic Day celebrations as the Chief Guest.

·         India and Egypt have resolved to upgrade their ties to the “strategic partnership” level, covering a wide range of sectors such as politics, security, defence, energy, and economy, with the signing of various Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs).

·         Egypt Capital – Cairo,Currency – Egyptian Pound (EGP)

 

2.       EPFO LAUNCHES PROGRAM “NIDHI AAPKE NIKAT 2.0”

·         “Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0”  is a district outreach program in all the districts of the country by Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation’s (EPFO)

·         Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0 will be conducted on the 27th of every month at all district headquarters of EPFO (starting from January 2023) to reach out to all the districts of the country on the same day.

·         Under Nidhi Aapke Nikat, the EPFO stakeholders used to come to the EPFO field offices for grievance redressal, whereas under the Nidhi Aapke Nikat 2.0, EPFO will reach out to the stakeholders, for increasing accessibility and visibility of the organisation.

 

3.       INTERPOL YGPLP BEGINS IN NEW DELHI

·         The 3rd edition of the Interpol Young Global Police Leaders Programme (YGPLP) began in New Delhi, Delhi.

·         The theme of the 3rd Interpol YGPLP is “Trust”, which aims to build trust between public-police and also to build trust factors between international police forces in the era of technology.

·         Around 60 participants from 44 countries took part in the event, which is being organised by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

·         The YGPLP is a unique INTERPOL initiative, established in 2019, that guides selected officers on the path to international leadership.

 

4.       15TH BRICS SUMMIT AT DURBAN IN AUGUST 2023

·         Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, and Osman Saleh, the foreign minister of the State of Eritrea, jointly announced South Africa’s Durban as a host of the 15th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) Summit. The summit will be held in August 2023.

·         Previously, South Africa hosted the 5th BRICS Summit from 26 to 27 March 2013.

 

5.       ADITYA-L1: INDIA’S 1ST MISSION TO STUDY THE SUN

·         The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch the Aditya-L1 mission, 1st Indian space mission to observe the Sun and the solar corona, to the L1 orbit (which is the first Lagrangian point of the Sun-Earth system) by June or July 2023 since the launch window for the mission would close by August 2023.

·         L1 orbit allows Aditya-L1 to look at the Sun continuously.

·         The Aditya-1 Mission, originally known as Aditya-L1, was initially meant to put into an 800-kilometre (km) low-Earth orbit (LEO) as a 400-kg class satellite but it was later decided that the satellite would be launched into a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth system’s first Lagrangian Point (L1).

·         On 26th January 2023, the ISRO received the Visible Emission Line Coronagraph (VELC), the largest payload to be carried on board the Aditya-L1, from the IIA team for integration with other payloads on board the satellite.

 

6.       DATA PRIVACY DAY – 28TH JANUARY

·         It is an international initiative to raise awareness about the significance of protecting Data Privacy Day 2023, promoting trust, and respecting privacy.

·         Data Protection Day is now celebrated globally and is called “Privacy Day” outside Europe.

·         Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a not-for-profit, industry body on data protection in India, set up by the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), is running an awareness campaign on the theme of ‘Think Privacy First’.

 

7.       AISHE 2020-21: ENROLMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION SURVEY

·         AISHE 2020-21 was the 11th annual Survey and 1st Survey being conducted using an entirely online data collection platform through the Web Data Capture Format (Web DCF), which was Developed by the Department of Higher Education and the National Informatics Centre (NIC).

·         A total of 1,113 Universities, 43,796 Colleges and 11,296 Stand Alone Institutions were registered in AISHE 2020-21.

·         Total students’ enrolment in higher education in 2020-21 increased to around 4.13 crore (crossing the 4 crore mark for the 1st time) from 3.85 crore in 2019-20.

·         The number of Universities in 2020-21 increased by 70 to 1,113 from 1,043 in 2019-20.

·         Since 2014-15, there has been an increase of 353 Universities (46.4%).

·         The number of Colleges has increased by 1453, to 43,796 in 2020-21 from 42,343 in 2019-20.

·         The total number of teachers are 15,51,070 of which about 57.1% are male and 42.9% are female.

 

8.       IIRF MBA RANKING 2023

·         According to the latest Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF) ranking (2023), the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad (Gujarat), is the top government college in India for pursuing the Master of Business Administration (MBA) course.

·         IIM Bengaluru (Karnataka) and IIM Kolkata (West Bengal) are ranked second and third, respectively

·         The Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), came in first rank among private colleges, followed by the Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurugram (Haryana), and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune (Maharashtra).

 

9.       NSE RANKED WORLD’S LARGEST DERIVATIVES EXCHANGE IN 2022

·         According to the Futures Industry Association (FIA), a derivatives trade body, the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE India) has once again emerged as the world’s largest derivatives exchange in terms of the number of contracts traded in 2022.

·         The NSE India has retained its top spot for a record-breaking 4th year in a row.

·         Furthermore, according to World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) statistics, the NSE was named the 3rd largest exchange in the world in the equity segment by the number of trades (electronic order book) in 2022, up from 4th in 2021.

·         The benchmark equity index, the Nifty 50 (NIFTY), reached an all-time high of 18,887.60 in the calendar year (CY) 2022.

·         NSE India intends to launch the Social Stock Exchange as a segment in the near future, subject to regulatory approvals.

·         NSE India MD & CEO – Ashishkumar Chauhan,Incorporated in – 1992 (commenced operations as a stock exchange in 1994),Headquarters – Mumbai, Maharashtra

 

10.    NEW PRESIDENT OF CZECH REPUBLIC

·         Petr Pavel the former chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) military committee, won the runoff vote defeating former Prime Minister (PM) Andrej Babis, to become the 4th President of Czech Republic.

·         With the ballots from 97% of almost 15,000 polling stations, Petr Pavel won 58.3% of the votes by defeating the former Prime Minister (PM) of the Czech Republic, Andrej Babis scored 41.7%.

·         Czech Republic Prime Minister (PM)- Petr Fiala,Capital- Prague,Currency- Czech Koruna

 

11.    TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2023

·         Novak Djokovic of Serbia claimed the men’s singles title at the Australian Open (AO) 2023 defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece

·         Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus won the women’s singles title defeating Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan

 

12.    FIH ODISHA HOCKEY MEN’S WORLD CUP 2023

·         Germany won the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 by defeating Belgium by 5-4 in the Penalty shootout during the finals held in Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

·         This marks Germany’s 3rd hockey World Cup title, earlier they won the world cup in 2002 and 2006.

 

13.    MURALI VIJAY ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT FROM CRICKET

·         Veteran Indian Cricketer Murali Vijay, hailing from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, has announced his retirement from international cricket at the age of 38.

·         He was a member of the Indian Test Team till 2018 and plays for Tamil Nadu in Domestic first class cricket.

·         He has played 61 Tests, 17 One Day International (ODIs) and nine Twenty20 International (T20Is) since 2008.

·         He has scored 12 Test centuries and 15 half-centuries from 61 Tests. He has also scored 3982 runs at an average of 38.28.

 

14.    BOOK- “THE POVERTY OF POLITICAL ECONOMICS”

·         India-born naturalised British economist Meghnad Desai has authored a new book titled “The Poverty Of Political Economy: How Economics Abandoned the Poor”

·         Book highlights how the discipline of economics, since the time it evolved from the late 18th century, systematically kept the interests of the poor at the periphery.

 

15.    WORLD LEPROSY DAY – 29TH JANUARY 2023

·         The World Leprosy Day(WLD) is annually observed across the globe on the last Sunday of January to create awareness about the fact that Leprosy, otherwise known as Hansen’s disease

·         The theme for World Leprosy Day 2023 is ‘Act Now: End Leprosy’.