January 2020 – Weekly Current Affairs (01-07)

January 2020 – Weekly Current Affairs For Competitive Exams (01 – 07)

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● India Is The Team With Most ODI Wins In 2019 ( 19 Wins )

● 11 Day Long ‘ Dhanu Jatra Begins At Bargarh In Western Odisha

● PAN-Aadhaar Linking Deadline Extended Till March 2020

● Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas Train To Be Flagged Off On Jan 17

● Total Tree , Forest Cover Increased By 5,188 Square Kilometres In 2 Years: Report

● General Bipin Rawat Named India’s 1st Chief Of Defence Staff

● General Manoj Mukund Naravane Takes Charge As New Army Chief

● Trevor Penney Appointed West Indies Cricket Team Assistant Coach

● Somesh Kumar Likely To Be Appointed Telangana Chief Secretary

● Anantha Mishra Appointed BJP Arunachal Secretary

● Anannya Literature Award 1426 Conferred On Nadira Majumdar

● Atul Karwal Takes Charge As Director Of National Police Academy

● 53rd Senior National Kho Kho Championships Held In Chhattisgarh

● Railways Won Men’s Title At 53rd Senior National Kho Kho Championships

● Airport Authority Of India Won Women’s Title At 53rd Senior National Kho Kho Championships

● Cristiano Ronaldo Crowned Men’s Player Of The Year At Dubai Globe Soccer Awards

● Govt Launched An Online a
Auction Platform Named ” eBkray ”

● Netherlands Scrapping Its Name Nickname ‘Holland’ From Jan 2020

● MEA Included Madagascar & Comoros In Indian Ocean Region Division

● Sanjay Gupta To Be Honoured With Lokmanya Tilak Journalism Award

● World No. 1 Kento Momota Named BWF Player Of The Year

● Hemant Soren Sworn In As 11th Chief Minister Of Jharkhand

● Abdelaziz Djerad Appointed New Prime Minister Of Algeria

● Music Director Ilaiyaraja Selected For 2019 Harivarasanam Award

● VSSC Successfully Launches Rohini (RH) 200 Sounding Rocket

● Mujeeb Ur Rahman Becomes Youngest Bowler To Take 100 T20 Wickets

● Haryana CM Inaugurates Atal Kisan Mazdoor Canteen In Karnal

● 80th Session Of Indian History Congress Held In Kannur , Kerala

● 27th National Children’s Science Congress Held In Thiruvananthapuram

● Nagaland Assembly Speaker Vikho-o Yhoshu Passed Away

● Govt Released ” India State Of Forest Report (ISFR) ” .

? Niti Aayog Released Sustainable Development Goal Index 2019

? Kerala Topped Sustainable Development Goal Index 2019

? Virat Kohli & Pat Cummins Finish 2019 At Top Of ICC Test Rankings

? Virat Kohli Included In Wisden’s T20 International Team Of The Decade

? Jasprit Bumrah Included In Wisden’s T20 International Team Of The Decade

? Manoj Mukund Naravane Takes Charge As India’s 28th Army Chief

? Robert Moreno Appointed As Monaco’s New Coach

? Railways Renames Railway Protection Force As Indian Railway Protection Service

? Indian Olympic Association Withdraws Boycott Of 2022 Commonwealth Games

? Swachh Survekshan 2020 To Commence From 4 Jan 2020 Across India

? Murali Madhavan Appointed As New ED Of BPCL-Kochi Refinery

? Somesh Kumar Appointed As Telangana’s Chief Secretary

? Alok Kumar Rai Appointed Vice -Chancellor Of Lucknow University

? UP Govt Launched Dedicated Women Helpline ” Damini “

? FM Nirmala Sitharaman Releases Report On NIP For 2019-2025

? Central Government Announced The cleanliness Survey Of India

? Indore Emerged As India’s Cleanest City For The 4th Time In A Row

? Cycling To Be Oart Of Next Khelo India Youth Games

? 3rd Khelo India Youth Games To Be Held In Guwahati

? MyGov Platform Reached 1 Crore Registered Users

? HDFC Life Joins Hands With Paytm To Expand Its Distribution

? Bipin Rawat Takes Charge As 1st Chief Of Defence Staff

? SPG Director IPS Arun Kumar Sinha Gets 1 Year Tenure Extension

? Director General Of CRPF Rajeev Rai Bhatnagar Retired

? ITBP Chief S S Deswal Given Additional Charge As CRPF DG

? 17% Of Babies To Be Born Globally On Jan 1 Will Be Indian : UNICEF

? H Kaur Joshi Appointed As 13th CMD Of Shipping Corporation Of India

? H Kaur Joshi Becomes 1st Woman CMD Of Shipping Corporation Of India

? Government Has Also Decided To Sell Its 63.75% Stake In SCI

? Odisha Govt Launched e-Certificate Portal And ePAUTI App

? Entire Nagaland Declared ‘ Disturbed Area ‘ For 6 Months Under AFSPA

? Pragati Maidan Metro station Renamed As Supreme Court Station

? Noted Social Activist Alajangi Viswanath Swamy Passed Away

? Yadav Retained Chairman Of Railway Board For A Period Of 1 Year

? Reliance Launches Its Online Food & Grocery Selling Venture ” JioMart “

? Cricketer Thisara Perera Joins Sri Lankan Army As Major

? MS Dhoni Named Captain Of ESPN’s ODI & T20 Teams Of Decade

? Virat Kohli Named Captain Of ESPN’s Test Team Of Decade.

? Bipin Rawat Appointed As India’s 1st Chief Of Defence Staff

? Ilyas Husain Appointed As Pro-Vice Chancellor Of Jamia University

? Sunil Puranik Appointed As Chairman Of Karnataka Film Academy

? Umaro Cissoko Embalo Elected New President Of Guinea-Bissau

? A K Shukla Takes Charge As CMD Of Hindustan Copper

? G Babita Rayudu Takes Charge As SEBI’s Executive Director

? Kumar Sanjay Krishna Takes Charge As Chief Secretary Of Assam

? Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg To Step Down From Post

? Boing Appointed David Calhoun As CEO Of Company

? Emirates Airline President Tim Clark To Step Down In June 2020

? Gates Foundation CEO Susan Desmond-Hellmann To Step Down

? Rohit Rupani Is India’s Brand Ambassador Of Aesthetic Body-Building

? India Records Highest Number Of New Born Babies On New Year’s Day : UNICEF

? ‘ One Nation , One Ration Card ‘ Facility To Be Implemented In 12 Atates From 1 Jan

? Shavendra Silva Appointed As New Acting Chief Of Defence Staff Of Sri Lanka

? No Extra Charge On digital Payments Via RuPay & UPI From 1st Jan 2020

? Rafael Nadal Announced As Brand Ambassador For Santander

? Dave Bautista To Be Inducted Into WWE Hall Of Fame

? Former NBA Commissioner David Stern Passed Away

? Kerala Becomes 1st State To Pass Anti-CAA Resolution

? Haryana Govt To Be Observed 2020 As Susashan Sankalp Varsh

? RBI Launches ‘MANI'( Mobile Aided Note Identifier ) App

? PM Modi To Dedicate 5 DRDO Young Scientists Labs To Nation

? China Imposes 10 Year Fishing Ban On Yangtze River

? TikTok Received Most Takedown Requests From India In 2019

? India’s 2nd Spaceport To Be In Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukdi : ISRO

? ISRO To Launch Communication Satellite On January 17 , 2020

? Allahabad University Vice Chancellor Ratan Lal Hangloo Resigned

? 4 IAF Pilots Selected For India’s Manned Space Mission

? DDCA Suspends Former India U-19 Batsman Manjot Kalra For 1 Year

? PM Modi To Release 3rd Installment Of PM-KISAN On Thursday

? Archery Association Of India (AAI) To Hold Elections On Jan 18

? ECI Launches ‘ PPRTMS ‘ To Track Party Registration Applications

? CBSE Mandates 75% Attendance For 10th , 12th Exams .

? 04 January : World Braille Day

?1b07th Session Of Indian Science Congress Held In Bengaluru

? Theme 2019 : ” Science & Technology : Rural Development “

? 28th New Delhi World Book Fair To Be Held In New Delhi

? PM Modi Dedicates 5 Young Scientists Laboratories To The Nation

? Hillary Clinton Appointed As Chancellor Of Queen’s University , Belfast

? Anil Kumar Khachi Appointed Chief Secretary Of Himachal Pradesh

? M S Rao Appointed As Next Chief Secretary Of Meghalaya

? S C Sharma Appointed Chairman Of National Medical Commission

? R K Vats Appointed Secretary Of National Medical Commission

? Li Tie Appointed As China National Football Team Coach

? Abdul Latif Al Zayani To Be Appointed Foreign Minister Of Bahrain

? Mirabai Chanu Ranked 8th In Olympic Qualification Rankings

? India’s Manav Thakkar Becomes World No. 1 In U-21 Category

? Qantas Airways Ltd Was Named Safest Airline In The world

? PT Garuda Indonesia Was Crowned 2019s Most Punctual Carrier

? SBI Has Introduced BHIM Aadhaar App Service For Its Customers

? Maharashtra Govt Launches ‘ Cyber Safe Women ‘ Initiative

? Alisson Has Become The 1st Goalkeeper To Win The Samba d’Or Award

? Govt Launches 3rd Defence India Startup Challenge To Promote Innovation

? Odisha Govt Launched ” e-Gazette ” Portal

? Telangana Govt Declared 2020 As Year Of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

? Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja National Award Conferred To Dr. Pratibha Ray

? Turkey Declares 2020 As Year Of Ancient City Of Patara

? Indian Railway Announces One Integrated Helpline Number ” 139 “

? Kerala Govt Launches K-RERA To Bring Transparency In Real Estate Sector

? 14 Scientists Awarded Swarna Jayanti Fellowships For 2018-19

? Senior Nationalist Congress Party Leader D. P. Tripathi Passed Away

? Emergency Declared In New South Wales State Because Of Forest Fires

? 14th Global Healthcare Summit 2021 To Be Held In Vishakhapattanam , AP

? Piyuus Jaiswal Wins Global Bihar Excellence Award 2019

? Malavath Poorna Scaled Antarctica’s Highest Peak Mt. Vinson Massif

? Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha Gets 1 Year Extension

? S Sundar Appointed As Interim MD & CEO Of Lakshmi Vilas Bank

? India’s Hockey Player Sunita Lakra Announces Her Retirement

? Natyasurya Awardee Dramatist Ratna Ojha Passed Away

? All India Inter-University Boxing Championship Held In UP

? Railways Renames RPF As Indian Railway Protection Force Service .

? Julahaa Sarees Ropes In Parineeti Chopra As Brand Ambassador

? Former Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker PH Pandian Passed Away

? Australian PM Scott Morrison Has Postponed His Visit To India

? 28th New Delhi World Book Fair-2020 Begins At Pragati Maidan

? General Bipin Rawat Proposes Creation Of Air Defence Command

? Maharashtra Govt Launches ” Cyber Safe Women ” Initiative

? KVIC Opened 1st Silk Processing Plant In Gujarat

? 107th Session Of Indian Science Congress Held In Bengaluru

? Theme 2019 : ” Science & Technology : Rural Development “

? 5th IHAI National Ice Hockey Championship 2020 Begins In Leh

? Delhi 1st Fully Automated Car Park Tower Unveiled In Green Park

? WHO Designated 2020 As The Year Of The Nurse & The Midwife

? India’s Foreign Exchange Touches All Time High Of 457.468 Billion USD

? 2636 EV Charging Stations Sanctioned Under Phase II FAME India

? 171 Hospitals De-Empanelled Under Ayushman Bharat Scheme

? 3rd Khelo India Youth Games To Be Held In Guwahati

? Palau 1st Country To Ban Sunscreen To Protect Coral Reefs

? Ritualistic Festival ” Lai Haraoba ” Begins In Tripura

? Bhubaneswar Civic Body Launches ” Go Green ” Campaign

? India To Host 36th International Geological Congress In March 2020

? Noted Assamese Theatre Personality Ratna Ojha Passed Away

? England Board Ban Football As Cricket Warm-Up Activity

? Ban On Posters , Banners During 1st T20I In Guwahati

? ISRO Sets Up Academic Center For Space In Karnataka

? 4th All India Police Judo Cluster Championship Held In New Delhi

? MEA Sets Up New Emerging And Strategic Technologies (NEST)

? Irfan Pathan Announces Retirement From All Forms Of Cricket

? Abhinav Kumar Gets Extension As BSF Inspector General (IG)

? Sri Lanka FM Dinesh Gunawardena To Visit India On Jan 9-10.

? Justice Sanju Panda Appointed As Acting CJ Of Orissa HC

? Sunil Vashisht Appointed As Director Of Haryana Punjabi Sahitya Academy

? NASSCOM & Zinnov Released National Startup Ranking For 2018 Report

? Gujrat Topped National Startup Ranking For 2018 Report

? Dubai Picked To Host International Roads Summit In 2021

? Singapore To Host 5th Asia Pacific Healthcare Summit 2020

? Adani To Buy 75% Stake In Krishnapatnam Port Co. Ltd (KPCL)

? UPI Raised 1.3 Billion Transactions In December 2019

? Iran’s Quds Force Chief General Qasem Soleimani Killed In US Airstrike

? India Extends A Line Of Credit Of USD 75 Million To Cuba

? 28th New Delhi World Book Fair 2020 Begins At Pragati Maindan

? Theme 2020 : ” Gandhi : Writers’ Writer “

? Freedom Fighter Bhim Chandra Jana Passed Away Recently

? Senior National Volleyball Championships Held In Bhubaneswar

? Tamil Nadu (Men’s) Won Senior National Volleyball C’ship

? Kerala (Women’s)Senior National Volleyball C’ship

? RevFin Partners With PNB MetLife To Provide Life Insurance

? CSC Signed Pact With Paytm Payments Bank For Sale Of FASTags

? Sucheta Satish Has Won The ‘ 100 Global Child Prodigy Award 2020 ‘

? North Macedonia PM Zoran Zaev Submitted His Resignation

? Andhra Pradesh Govt Launched ” YSR Aarogyasri Scheme “

? NADA Has Recorded 157 Doping Violations From Indian Athletes In 2019

? Irfan Pathan Announces Retirement From All Forms Of Cricket

? Anil Deshmukh Appointed As Home Minister Of Maharashtra

? Hyderabad To Host 3rd World Mithai Namkeen Convention

? FSSAI Launches ‘ Verified Milk Vendor Scheme ‘ In Gujarat

? Leo Carter Becomes 7th Cricketer To Hit Six 6s In An Over .

? S C Sharma Appointed Chairman Of National Medical Commission

? R K Vats Appointed Secretary Of National Medical Commission

? Kolkata Police Begins 3rd Edition Of ‘ Sukanya ‘ Project

? Neutral Pronoun ‘ They ‘ Has Been Voted Word Of The Decade

? 9th Women Science Congress Begins In Bengaluru , Karnataka

? 63rd National Shooting Championship Held In Bhopal , MP

? R R Bhatnagar Appointed 3rd Advisor To LG Jammu& Kashmir

? Zoran Milanovic Elected New President Of Croatia

? HAL Signs MoU With Wipro For 3D Printing In Aerospace

? Kuwait & Qatar Sign Long-Term Gas Supply Agreement

? India Forex Reserves Touch All Time High Of 457.468 Billion

? Conference Of Speakers & Presiding Officers Of The Commonwealth (CSPOC) To Be Held In Canada

? 28th Sub Junior Artistic Gymnastics National Championship 2019 Held In Rajasthan

? Andhra Pradesh Govt Launches YSR Aarogyasri Scheme

? Australia Win By 279 Runs Against New Zealand , Win Series 3-0

? Magesh Chandran Win Hastings International Chess Congress Title

? India Gives $75 Million LoC To Cuba For Solar Parks

? India Topped World Test Championship Points Table

? Australia Ranked 2nd In World Test Championship Points Table

? Ross Taylor Is Now New Zealand’s Top Test Run Scorer

? Delhi Assembly Election On February 8 , Counting On Feb 11.