INDIA
– PM inaugurates Golden Jubilee celebrations of Assam’s Agradoot group of newspapers
– Union ministers Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and R. C. P. Singh resign a day before the completion of their Rajya Sabha term
– Russia signs pact for supplying tech for Kudankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu
– Govt. reduces gap for coronavirus booster shot from 9 months to 6
– Freedom fighter Gandhian P Gopinathan Nair dies at 100 in Kerala
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
– RBI increases ECB (External Commercial Borrowing) limit under automatic route from
– Finance ministry extends exemption of customs duty on raw cotton imports by a month till October 31
– Govt asks companies to cut MRP of edible oils by up to Rs 10/litre within a week
– Shriram Transport Finance gets shareholders’ approval for merger with Shriram City Union Finance (SCUF)
– Google announces Startup School India for small-city entrepreneurs
– CM Arvind Kejriwal announces India’s biggest shopping festival in Delhi from Jan 28 to Feb 26, 2023
– TVS Motor Company launches 225-cc bike Ronin priced at Rs 1.49 lakh
WORLD
– Polish government honours maharajas of Jamnagar and Kolhapur for sheltering Polish refugees fleeing the Soviet Union invasion of Poland during World War II
– OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo dies at 63 in Nigeria
– UK: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid resign
