Complete January Current Affairs For all Upcoming Exams

1) Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on 20 Jan. 2021 on a cold, bright afternoon in the nation’s capital.

👉78-yr-old Joe Biden will be oldest US president to take oath.

👉President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris was sworn in at the West Front of the US capitol during the 59th Presidential Inauguration ceremony.

2) Iran and six other nations lost their right to vote in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) because they have not paid their dues.

👉Other Nations :- Niger, Libya, the Central African Republic, Congo Brazzaville, South Sudan and Zimbabwe.

3) Puducherry fast bowler Santa Murthy has made history in the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament. Santa is the oldest bowler to take five wickets in T20 cricket.

4) The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd has signed a MoU with NHPC Ltd. for providing technical expertise in developing renewable energyIR projects.

▪️IREDA :-

Formed :- 11 March 1987

👉Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) is a Mini Ratna (Category – I) Government of India Enterprise under the administrative control of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

5) The ministry of information and broadcasting launched a digital calendar and diary for 2021.

▪️Ministry Of Information And Broadcasting :-

👉Officeholder :-Prakash Javadekar (Minister)

👉Departments :- Films Division of India

👉Headquarters :- New Delhi

6) The United Kingdom has invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the G7 summit that is scheduled to be held in June. Apart from India, Australia and South Korea are also invited to participate in the proceedings of the summit as “guest countries”.

👉The Group of Seven (G7) is an intergovernmental organization consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The heads of government of the member states, as well as the representatives of the European Union, meet at the annual G7 Summit.Its First summit took place on 15–17 November 1975, in Rambouillet, France.

👉47th G7 summit :-

The 47th G7 summit is intended to be held during the summer of 2021 in the United Kingdom(Location: Carbis Bay, United Kingdom)

7) Government of India has decided to celebrate the 125th Birth Anniversary year of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as “PARAKRAM DIWAS” to inspire people of the country, especially the youth, to act with fortitude in the face of adversity as Netaji did, and to infuse in them a spirit of patriotic fervour.

▪️Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose :-

Born - 23 January 1897, Cuttack

Died - 18 August 1945, Taipei, Taiwan

👉Quote :- Give me blood and I will give you freedom!

👉Freedom is not given, it is taken.

8) The U.S. government has blacklisted Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. and China’s third-largest national oil company for alleged military links.

9) India has demonstrated an offensive swarm drone system that simulated taking down a range of targets, ranging from tanks, terror camps, helipads and fuel dumps at the annual Army Day parade in the capital.

10) Defence minister Rajnath Singh unveiled state-of-the-art ‘Driverless Metro Car’ for Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) which will be deployed on Metro corridors in Mumbai.

▪️Ministry of Defence :-

👉Headquarters - New Delhi

👉Founded - 15 August 1947

👉The Indian Armed Forces (including Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy) and Indian Coast Guard under the Ministry of Defence are primarily responsible for ensuring the territorial integrity of India.

11) India has supplied a consignment of two mobile harbour cranes to Iran's Chabahar port with a total contract value of over USD 25 million.

▪️Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways :-

👉Headquarters - Parivahan Bhavan, New Delhi

👉Minister - Mansukh L. Mandaviya, Minister of State (Independent Charge)

12) Flight lieutenant Bhawana Kanth will be a part of the Republic Day parade this year to become the first woman fighter pilot to take part in India's biggest ceremonial event on January 26.

👉Bhawana Kanth is also one of the first women fighter pilots in the IAF.

👉Bhawana Kanth, along with Avani Chaturvedi and Mohana Singh, was inducted into the IAF as the first women fighter pilots in 2016.

▪️Indian Air Force:-

👉Founded - 8 October 1932

👉Headquarters - New Delhi

👉Commander-in-Chief - President Ram Nath Kovind

👉Chief of the Air Staff - Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria

👉Vice Chief of the Air Staff - Air Marshal Harjit Singh

13) The Union Cabinet gave ex-post facto approval to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between India and Uzbekistanb for cooperation in the field of solar energy.

👉Uzbekistan is a Central Asian nation and former Soviet republic.

👉Capital- Tashkent

President - Shavkat Mirziyoyev

14) The Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force kickstarted the bilateral exercise Desert Knight-21 at Air Force Station Jodhpur.

▪️Indian Air Force:-

👉Founded - 8 October 1932

👉Headquarters - New Delhi

👉Commander-in-Chief - President Ram Nath Kovind

👉Chief of the Air Staff - Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria

👉Vice Chief of the Air Staff - Air Marshal Harjit Singh

15) The Union Cabinet gave its approval for ₹5,281.94-crore investment in the 850-MW Ratle Hydro Electric (HE) Project located on river Chenab, in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.

👉L. Governor of J&K - Manoj Sinha

👉Dachigam National Park

👉Salim Ali National Park

👉Dal Lake

16) Russia announced that it was leaving the Open Skies Treaty (OST), an accord between over 30 countries that allows participants to fly unarmed reconnaissance flights over any part of their fellow member states.

▪️Russia :-

👉President - Vladimir Putin

👉State Historical Museum in Moscow

👉Hermitage Museum

👉Russian Museum in St Petersburg

👉Kazan Kremlin in Kazan

17) Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defence signed a framework Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in New Delhi to strengthen collaboration in the field of technical exchange and co-operation on sustainable geo-hazard management.

👉The MoU was signed by Secretary MoRTH Shri Giridhar Aramane and Secretary DRDO Dr. Satieesh Reddy.

▪️Defence Research and Development Organisation( DRDO) :-

👉 Founded - 1958

👉 HeadQuarter - New Delhi

👉 Chairman - G. Satheesh Reddy

18) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar inaugurated the country's first small aircraft air taxi service.

▪️Haryana

👉Governor :- Satyadev Narayan Arya

👉Haryana Government has decided to develop Pipli in Kurukshetra as a world-class tourist hub.

19) Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan launched the "Clean Bindusagar" initiative in Odisha.

👉The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is a ministry of the Government of India. It is responsible for the exploration, production, refining, distribution, marketing, import, export, and conservation of petroleum, natural gas, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas in India.

20) Kiran mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson, Biocon, has been selected as one of the vice chairs of the US-India Business Council (USIBC), with immediate effect.

21) Former Arunanchal Pradesh Governor Mata Prasad died following multi-organ failure at Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS). He was 95 years old.

Arunachal Pradesh :-

👉CM :- Pema Khandu

👉Governor :- B. D. Mishra

👉Land of the Rising Sun

👉Orchid State of India or the 👉Paradise of the Botanists.

22) the Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju launched the first ever Khelo India Zanskar Winter Sports Festival at Padum in Zanskar of Kargil district in Ladakh .