Weekly current affairs January 2022 (January 1st - 7th). Important for UPPSC, SSC, UPSC, other PSC and state government exams
DRDO foundation day was observed on?
- 1st January 2022
- It was 64th foundation day of "Defense Research Development Organization". DRDO came into existence on January 1, 1958.
- With 52 laboratories and 5000+ scientist it one of the largest diverse research organization of the country. DRDO focuces on deveoping space and dedense products
- During pandemic DRDO played key role in strengthning health infrastructure of country by setting up around 850 oxygen plants and Covid hospitals with the help from PM CARES Fund
- Chairman of DRDO is Dr G Satheesh Reddy
- Headquarter - New Delhi
New and more mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus found in France.
- New variant of the coronavirus has been named IHU or the B.1.640.2 variant as it was discovered by the academics at institute IHU Mediterranee Infection
- It comprises of 46 mutations, more than Omicron, which means it is more infectious and resistant to vaccines
- First case with new variant was detected in December, 2021
- World Health Organisation (WHO) has not yet labelled it as a variant under investigation
Which district of Odisha declared "Child marriage free" district under Nirbhaya Kadhi (Fearless bud) scheme?
- Ganjam District
- Steps taken by administration to curb girl child marriage like Aadhar card manditory for marriage ceremont, 50000 cash prize for those who inform authority about child marriage and video survelliance of marriage
- More than 450 child marriage has been stopped in last 2 years
- As per UNICEF, 1.5 million child marriage takes place in India every year
Exercise Sea Dragon in conducted between ?
- India, Japan, USA, Australia and Canada
- It was held in Anderson base (Guam), USA
- Training was focused on anti-submarine warfare
- Objective - To counter Chinese dominance on Indian Ocean region
- China "Look West" policy is major concern for many south east asean countries and western nation
LOSAR festival was recently observed in?
- Laddakh
- It is also celebrated by Monpa tribe of Arunachal Pradesh (near Tawang region)
- Its history is from 17th century and is celebrated by Tibetan buddhist on occasion of Tibetan new year. They follow lunar calender
- Houses are cleaned, o;ld things are scrapped and thrown as per belief that doing so, old omens and devils go away and procession on street, market carry them away from city.
- Losar is also observed in Nepal
New Chairman of Railway board is?
- Vinay Kumar Tripathi
- He is 1998 batch Indian Railway Service officer
- Indian railway was founded on 8th May, 1845
- Indian railway is devided in 18 zones, 70 divisions
- Indian railway is 4th largest netwok in the world
Uttar Pradesh Jhansi railway station is renamed as?
- Veerangana Laxmibai railway station
- Earlier Mugal Sarai was renamed as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhaya railway station
"Plan Bee" is associated with?
- Protecting lives of elephant from train accident
- Special devices are kept along the track of trains which makes " buzzing sound of swarming bees". The sound irritates bees and they run away from track area.
- The initiative is taken by North frontier railways
- Indian railway has NFR with best innovation award
- 1st intallation was done near kamakhya station (Assam) and 56 done overall till day
- 950 lives have been saved till date
