Current Affairs Quiz: January 12, 2022

Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala announced that Gurugram will get India s first heli-hub with all aviation facilities.The heli-hub will be the first of its kind in the country to have all facilities at one place for helicopters.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) in Kolkata via video conference.

In its ongoing efforts to strengthen the Hospitality & Tourism Industry in Jammu & Kashmir,the Union Territory government has signed a MoU with UAE’s pioneering financial services company, Century Financial that will invest 100 million dollars in the UT.

Cabinet has approved the signing of MoU between India and Turkmenistan on Cooperation in the field of Disaster Management.

Finance ministry released monthly Post Devolution Revenue Deficit (PDRD) Grant of 9,871 crore rupees to 17 States. This was the 10th installment of the PDRD grant released to the States. So far, an amount of 98,710 crore rupees has been released to eligible States as Post Devolution Revenue Deficit Grant in the current financial year.

Government has said that drinking water supply schemes of over six thousand 872 crore rupees were approved for Rajasthan under Jal Jeevan Mission.

Five of the world’s nuclear powers viz. China, France, Russia, UK and the US have jointly pledged to prevent the proliferation of nuclear arms agreeing that nuclear war is not an option.

The National Payments Corporation of India has introduced limits for cash withdrawals andmini statements.

State Bank of India’s economic research team expects GDP numbers for FY22 to be revised upwards to around 9.5 per cent as going forward, it believes even if rising infections impact mobility, the economic activity is not expected to get affected much.

India’s total coal production registered a growth of 6.74 per cent in the last month. A total of 74.78 million tonnes were produced during December 2021 as compared to the same period in 2019.

India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to rise 9.2 per cent in the current fiscal as compared to a contraction of 7.3 per cent in the financial year 2020-21.

Fourteen-year-old Bharath Subramaniyam has become the73rd Grandmaster of India, the All India Chess Federation confirmed.

Tennis, unseeded pair of Rohan Bopanna-Ramkumar Ramanathan has won the Adelaide International doubles trophy in Australia.

Tennis, 20-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal defeated American Maxime Cressy, 7-6, 6-3 in the Men’s Singles final of the Melbourne Summer Set ATP 250 event.

Lanka’s aggressive opening batter, Danushka Gunathilaka, has decided to retire from Test cricket at the age of 30 to focus on the white ball formats, the country’s apex cricket body said.

In Tennis, World No.1 Ash Barty won the Adelaide International by crushing world No. 14 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-2 in Women’s Singles final at Cannebara.

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Urjit Patel has been appointed as a vice-president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), a Beijing based multilateral development bank.

The Reserve Bank released the eligibility criteria for entities to be categorised as ‘Specified User’ of Credit Information Companies (CICs).The criteria sets out the requirements for the entities to become eligible as Specified User of CIC under the Credit Information Companies (Amendment) Regulations, 2021, RBI said in a release.

The Kerala Arts and Crafts Village near Kovalam has won the 2021 International Craft Award for the best craft village of the year.

Telangana Forest Minister A Indrakaran Reddy launched the first of its kind mobile app “Urban Forest Parks”, which gives all information about theme based Urban Forest Parks and facilitate the visitors to plan their visits and journey.

Former FIFA referee, AFC referee instructor and AIFF & AFC match commissioner, Madhav G Suvarna, passed away after a brief illness at his Mumbai residence. He was 78.

Veteran singer and actor Pandit Ramdas Kamat passed away at his residence in Vile Parle, in Mumbai. He was 90 years old.

HarperCollins Publishers India is set to publish a new book titled “Mamata: Beyond 2021”,authored by political journalist Jayanta Ghosal and translated by Arunava Sinha.