Current Affairs-January 15-16, 2023.

 

INDIA

• Festivals of Makar Sankranti, Magh Bihu and Pongal were celebrated in different parts of the country.
• Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad Vande Bharat Express train runs from today.
• G20: Two-day ‘Think-20’ meeting to start in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
• G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) to begin in Pune, Maharashtra.
• Centre to launch five-year National Urban Technology Mission for Municipal Services and ULBs.
• Chhattisgarh begins road construction work in Pudaang village, for the first time since India’s Independence.

ECONOMY

• Report: Richest 1% Indians own more than 40% of country’s wealth.
• Japan’s SMBC Bank and Oaktree Capital Management submit expressions of interest (EoIs) for strategic stake sale in IDBI Bank.
• Swiggy has rolled out Ambulance Service for Delivery Partners and its dependants.
• The government has extended the tenure of managing director (MD) and CEO of Bank of Baroda (BoB) Sanjiv Chadha till June 2023.
• CII Business Confidence Index for the October-December quarter records its highest reading in two years.
• World’s longest River Cruise MV Ganga Vilas will reach Patna today; The Cruise is on way to Dibrugarh via Bangladesh.

WORLD

• Davos 2023 : World Economic Forum Meeting begins today on the theme, ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’.
• Britain to send 14 of its main battle tanks along with additional artillery support to Ukraine.
• Earthquake of 6.0 magnitude strikes Indonesia’s Northern Sumatra.
• US President Joe Biden approves emergency declaration for California due to winter storms

SPORTS

• Shang Juncheng becomes the first male Chinese player to win an Australian Open match.
• Barcelona beats Real Madrid 3-1 to lift Spanish Super Cup
• India defeats Sri Lanka by the largest ever margin of 317 runs in the last ODI and clinched the series by 3-0.
• Indian team of Yuki Bhambri- Saketh Myneni wins Bangkok Open tennis title.