Current Affairs Quiz - January 2022

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Delhi Assembly passed an amendment Bill to the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Act, 1971, to recognise Takht Damdama Sahib as the fifth Takht of Sikhs.
A Takht, or a throne, is a seat of temporal authority for Sikhs. There are five Sikh Takhts, three in Punjab and one each in Maharashtra and Bihar. The amendment also adds one more ex officio member in the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Managament Committee (DSGMC) house from the earlier 4.

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A new species of dwarf catfish named ‘Pseudolaguvia vespa’ was discovered in Milak River in the state of Nagaland.
Members of the genus Pseudolaguvia are small catfishes present in hill streams and rivers of the Ganges and Brahmaputra drainages in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, the Irrawaddy and Sittang drainages in Myanmar and Western Ghats, peninsular India. Vespa is derived from the Latin word vespa meaning wasp.

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Delhi’s Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia handed over the first caste certificate based on the mother’s credentials to a single mother.
Earlier, SC/ST caste certificates were issued only based on the fathers’ caste certificates or paternal side certificates. Hence, this is considered as a landmark move

 

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The Karnataka state government has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore-based LNG Alliance Company for setting up the State’s first LNG Terminal.
The first such terminal will be set up in Mangaluru, in association with New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) with an investment of ₹2,250 crore.

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Six ODOP (One District One Product) brands under the Pradhan Mantri Formalisation of Micro food processing Enterprises (PMFME) Scheme were launched recently.
It is a scheme implemented by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries. The Ministry has signed an agreement with NAFED for developing 10 brands of selected ODOPs. All products will be available at NAFED Bazaars, E-commerce platforms, and retail stores.

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The Jammu and Kashmir administration sanctioned to declare over 1000 kanals of land in Gulmarg and 354 kanals in Sonamarg areas of the Valley as “Strategic Areas”.
The Corps Commander had requested to utilise this land for training requirements of the armed forces. The previous circular which required no-objection certificate (NOC) from J&K home department for acquisition of land in favour of armed forces, was withdrawn in 2020.

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The Union Home Affairs Ministry constituted a three-member committee to probe into the lapses in the security arrangement during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Punjab’s Ferozepur.
The Committee will be led by Sudhir Kumar Saxena, secretary (security), Cabinet Secretariat. After his convoy was stuck on a flyover for 15-20 minutes, Prime Minister Modi’s scheduled visit to National Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala and a programme in Ferozepur were cancelled.

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The US Navy announced that the Sea Dragon 22 exercise began along with the navies of India, Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea.
It is a multi-lateral anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Pacific Ocean, participated by six Indo-Pacific nations.  India, Japan, Australia and America are also part of the ‘QUAD’ group, and also participate in the Malabar exercise.

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Every year on Makar Sankranti in the month of January, pilgrims visit Gangasagar village for a dip at the union of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal.
Nearly one million devotees are expected to gather on the banks of the Ganges River on this year’s event for the holy bathe. West Bengal recorded second highest number of COVID cases in the country.

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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan has nominated Alikhan Smailov as the Prime Minister. The President had sacked the government to ease dissent.
Tokayev had requested from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a military alliance of ex-Soviet states, to quell the protests. The lower house of parliament voted him as the Prime Minister.