Weekly Current affairs | Oneliner in english | 19 Jan – 26 Jan

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• After Maharashtra, the state government, which has made it mandatory for
schools to read the Preamble of the Constitution – Madhya
Pradesh



• President Ramnath Kovind honored the Bal Shakti Puraskar -2020 at a recent
function- 49



• Recently, the country which successfully test-fired nuclear-capable
surface-to-surface ballistic missile ‘Ghaznavi’ – Pakistan



According to the recent Airpocalypse Report released by Greenpeace India, as
many Indian cities have high levels of air pollution – 231



• Recently the virus has banned travel in Wuhan city of China- Corona
virus



National Girl Child Day is celebrated on 24th January


• The International Court has recently ordered the country to provide
security to Rohingya Muslims – Myanmar



• The state recently launched Chief Minister Farmer Accident Welfare Scheme –
Uttar Pradesh



• Recently the country which has announced that new restrictions have been
announced to ban pregnant women coming from other countries in the name of
‘birth tourism’ – America



• Recently the state in which 644 militants have surrendered to the Chief
Minister- Assam



• Foreign Minister S.K. The country in which Jaishankar inaugurated the
Mahatma Gandhi International Convention Center on 22 January 2020 –
Nigeria



• The country that recently phased out ozone-depleting chemicals Hydro
Chloro-Fluoro-Carbon (HCFC 141B) – India



• The country of South America which has recently been given the chairmanship
of the G-77 group – Guyana



• Recently, the organization which has published a report called ‘Time to
Care’ to focus on global poverty alleviation- Oxfam



• Recently, a new virus found in the mosquitoes of the country has been named
as Yada Yada Virus – Australia



• India ranked 72 in the recently released Global Talent
Competitiveness Index



• India’s position in the recently released Global Democracy Index –
51



• The day on which the birth anniversary of Subhash Chandra Bose is
celebrated every year – 23 January



• Recently the country which introduced e-passport facility for the first
time in South Asia region – Bangladesh



• The Union Cabinet has recently approved the extension of the tenure of the
Commission constituted to examine the sub-classification of castes within the
Other Backward Classes in the Central List – six months.



• The state government which has recently challenged the validity of the
National Investigation Agency Act, 2008 in the Supreme Court –
Chhattisgarh



The Global Investment Trend Monitor Report-2019 released by the global
organization says that India has been among the top-10 recipients of FDI in
2019- UNCTAD



• Child Welfare Council of India (ICCW) has selected the total number of
children from 12 states for the National Bravery Award-2019 –
22



• Indian shooter Divyansh Singh has won the medal in 10 meter air rifle event
in the Meton Cup – Gold medal



• All India Council of Sports (ASICS) has included famous wrestler Yogeshwar
Dutt and the Paralympian – Deepa Malik



• Recently the state government which has issued an order to read the text of
the constitution preamble daily in schools from 26 January –
Maharashtra



• The state whose municipal elections have announced the use of the Face
Recognition App – Telangana



• The Indian city that ranked first in the JLL Global Dynamic Cities Index –
Hyderabad



• The Ministry of Law has recently declared the country as the Reciprocating
Territory of India – UAE



• The country in which the Sikhs will be counted as a separate ethnic group
for the first time in the 2020 census- America



• The new president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who has been elected
JP Nadda



• Recently South India got the first squadron of Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter
aircraft equipped with this missile – BrahMos



• The state government that has approved the creation of three capitals for
the state – Andhra Pradesh



• According to the recent dolphin census, the state whose number of Irrawaddy
dolphins in Chilka Lake has been stated as 146 – Odisha



• The state government that will provide stalls for the disabled to the shops
at major places of the state for the welfare of the differently-abled –
Uttar Pradesh government



• Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and the country whose PM KP Sharma
Oli inaugurated the Jogbani-Viratnagar Integrated Check Post –
Nepal



• The Chief Guest of the 71st Republic Day celebrations of India who will
be- President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro



• The state government has selected famous Hindi music director Kuldeep Singh
for National Lata Mangeshkar Award 2018 – Madhya Pradesh



• India has got a place in the list of 82 countries of the World Economic
Forum’s ‘Global Social Mobility Index’ – 76



• IMF has reduced India’s GDP growth forecast for FY 2019-20 from 6.1 percent
to as much as 4.8 percent.



• Indian women’s wrestler Vinesh Phogat has won the medal in the 53 kg weight
category in the Rome ranking series – Gold medal



• Recently the World Bank has approved a loan of Rs. Crores for Assam Inland
Water Transport Project- Rs. 630 crores



• The state government that is planning to set up the first biotechnology
park in the state – Government of Rajasthan



• The country whose Prime Minister Olekshiye Honcharuk has resigned from his
post – Ukraine



• The country that has successfully tested the K-4 nuclear ballistic missile
recently – India



• Recently Bapu Nadkarni died in Mumbai, the sport he was associated with-
Cricket



• Archery Association of India (AAI) appointed as- Arjun
Munda



• The former Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister who has been appointed
as the Chairman of the Executive Council of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
(NMML) – Nripendra Mishra



• Deputy Chief of the Indian Army who has been appointed- Lieutenant
General SK Saini


• Recently Indian entrepreneur who was awarded Australia’s highest honor
‘Order of Australia’ – Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

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