16 January 2023 : Latest Current Affairs 16th January
Important Current Affairs 16th January 2023
In this article, we will discuss all the Current Affairs of 16th January including national, international, banking, finance, sports, awards, and many others. So if you are interested to know about the latest 16th January 2023 current affairs then read this article till the end.
Current Affairs of 16th January – National News
1. Kerala scores goals that are recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
◉ Kerala has received 4,500 penalty kicks in a 12-hour period, breaking a world record.
◉ In order to break the previous Guinness World Record for a Dream Goal penalty shootout held in ◉ Manjeri, Kerala, the Department of Sports and Youth Affairs arranged the competition.
◉ Students, instructors, and other passionate people eagerly lined up to take the penalty kicks. The ◉ State Department of Youth Affairs and Sports planned the event, and representatives from the Guinness Book of World Records were there.
◉ Germany’s previous mark of 2500 penalty kicks was shattered at the Malappuram event.
2. The “Aarogya Maitri” project was announced by PM Modi.
◉ The new “Aarogya Maitri” initiative, unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will see India donate vital medical supplies to any developing nation experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe or natural disaster.
◉ During the Voice of the Global South Summit, PM Modi announced the “Aarogya Maitri” project. ◉ He also suggested creating a “center of excellence” to help these nations with development.
3. Piyush Goyal will launch the MAARG startup mentoring platform.
◉ Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, will introduce the MAARG platform (Mentorship, Advisory, Assistance, Resilience, and Growth)
◉ Through the platform, mentorship programs for startups and business owners in all phases and functions will be made possible.
◉ It will make mentorship between entrepreneurs and start-ups across industries, stages, and functions easier. Start-ups will be able to communicate with mentors and discuss their mentoring requirements throughout the portal’s matchmaking phase.
◉ Goyal will also reveal the National Startup Awards 2022 winners.
4. In Uttarakhand, the “Soul of Steel” challenge was introduced.
◉ On the occasion of Armed Forces Veterans Day, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh introduced the “Soul of Steel” challenge in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
◉ The “Soul of steel” challenge is modeled after the European long-distance triathlon known as the “Ironman triathlon,” which challenges competitors’ physical prowess.
◉ An ex-para Special Forces officer named Major (ret.) Vivek Jacob founded CLAW Global in January 2019.
◉ The initiative aims to facilitate youth development and life skill training. Additionally, it should help promote Uttarakhand’s adventure tourism on a global scale.
◉ The expedition’s general location would be the Nanda Devi national park, which contains numerous peaks that rise above 7,000 feet.
5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually signaled the departure of the Vande Bharata Express train that runs between Secunderabad and Vishakhapatnam.
◉ The Vande Bharat Express will be the eighth one that Indian Railways introduces, and it will be the first to link the two Telugu-speaking States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
◉ In February 2019, the first Vande Bharat Express train between New Delhi and Varanasi was flagged off.
◉ Between Secunderabad and Visakhapatnam, the 700-kilometer Vande Bharat train journey will take almost eight hours.
6. At Alwar, Bhupender Yadav opened the EPFO Regional Office.
◉ Bhupender Yadav, Union Minister for Labor and Employment, Forestry, Environment, and Climate Change, has officially opened the EPFO Regional Office in Alwar, Rajasthan.
◉ More than 2 lakh employees, 12,000 businesses, and 8,500 retirees from Alwar and the nearby districts of Bharatpur and Dholpur would receive assistance from the Regional Office.
◉ Bhiwadi, Khushkhera, Tapukara, Karoli, Neemrana, Behror, Gheelot, and Khairthal are the principal industrial regions that the Regional Office serves.
7. Pune will host the G20’s inaugural Infrastructure Working Group meeting.
◉ From January 16–17, 2023, Pune will host the first G-20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) meeting under the G20 India Presidency.
◉ India has invited international organizations, IWG member nations, and guests to the event to discuss the 2023 Infrastructure Agenda while India has the G20 Presidency.
◉ Australia and Brazil will serve as co-chairs of the meeting, which will be hosted by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, and Government of India.
◉ One Earth, One Family, One Future, the theme of the Indian G20 Presidency, sets the tone for the 2023 Infrastructure Agenda under the Indian G-20 Presidency.
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International News
8. Sultan al-Jaber, the head of ADNOC Oil, is appointed by the UAE to lead COP28.
◉ This year’s COP28 climate meetings will be presided over by Sultan al-Jaber, the head of the national oil corporation of the United Arab Emirates.
◉ Jaber, who is also the climate ambassador for the UAE and the minister of industry and technology, will assist shape the COP28 agenda and take a leading part in intergovernmental negotiations to forge consensus.
◉ After Egypt held the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2022, the UAE, a significant OPEC oil exporter, will host the climate conference.
◉ The first CEO to assume the position at the UN summit will be the ADNOC CEO.
Banking
9. Alibaba sells a $125 million block deal stake in Paytm.
◉ Through a block agreement, China’s Alibaba Group sold a 3.1% share in Indian digital payments company Paytm for a total of $125 million.
◉ Alibaba sold its 6.26% ownership of Paytm at a price of 536.95 Indian rupees per share.
Paytm, formerly One97 Communications went public in 2021 following a massive $2.5 billion IPO (IPO).
◉ Since then, the stock has fallen almost 75% from its IPO offer price as investors began to doubt the company’s intentions for monetizing its services amid concerns about the exorbitant valuations of IT firms and anxieties about a possible global economic recession.
Appointment
10. Sonia Guajajara is appointed as the first indigenous peoples’ minister in Brazil.
◉ Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the next president of Brazil, named Sônia Guajajara as the inaugural minister of the new Ministry of Indigenous People.
◉ Sonia Guajajara, a member of the Amazon Guajajara tribe, is well-known for being the head of the largest group of Brazil’s indigenous tribes.
◉ She was also included in the 2022 edition of Time Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people on the planet.
Sports
11. Falak Mumtaz, 11, earned the gold medal at the national square championship.
◉ Falak Mumtaz, an 11-year-old Kashmiri girl from a remote location, took first place in the national Sqay competition in Jammu and received a gold medal.
◉ At the moment, she is a sixth-grader at Kulgam’s Aisha Ali Academy.
◉ Four females were recently chosen for the Square championship.
◉ Only Falak put up an outstanding display to win the gold medal.
◉ The SQAY Federation of India conducted the 23rd National Sqay Championship, which was held at Indoor Stadium Bhagwati Nagar in Jammu and hosted by Jammu and Kashmir SQAY Association.
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