Daily Current Affairs : 02 January 2023 by Westbengaljob.in

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Here is the Daily Current Affairs of the 02 January 2023 covering the following news headlines: Atal Samman Award, Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards, Reserve Bank of India, Bekal International Beach Festival, E-Sushrut.

1) Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw launched the "Stay Safe Online" campaign and the G-20 Digital Innovation Alliance (DIA) as part of India’s G20 presidency.

2) The Indian Army inaugurated its first 3-D Printed House Dwelling Unit (with Ground plus One configuration) for soldiers at Ahmedabad Cantt in Gujarat.

▪️Gujarat:-

➨CM - Bhupendra Patel

➨Governor - Acharya Devvrat

➨Nageshwar Temple 

➨Somnath Temple

➠ Marine( Gulf of Kachchh) WLS  

➠Nal Sarovar Bird Santuary 

➠ Kakrapar Nuclear Power Plant 

➠ Narayan Sarovar wildlife sanctuary

➠ Sardar Sarovar Hydro Electric Power Plant 

➠Porbandar Lake wildlife sanctuary

3) Digital payments services platform Worldline ePayments India has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India to act as a payment aggregator (PA).

4) Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, a Pritzker Prize winner who designed the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, passed away at the age of 91.

5) United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti of Kuwait as United Nations Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative.

6) Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy RK Singh announced that a world-class Kayaking-Canoeing Academy is to be set up at Tehri in Uttarakhand.

▪️Uttarakhand 

CM :- Pushkar Singh Dhami

Governor :- Gurmit Singh

➠Asan Conservation Reserve

➠Country's first moss garden 

➠Country's first Pollinator Park 

➠Integrated Model Agriculture Village Scheme

➠Rajaji Tiger Reserve 🐅

➠Jim Corbett National Park

7) The Tamil Nadu government operationalised the "Nilgiri Tahr project" touted as the first-of-its-kind in the country which aims at restoring the original habitat of the state animal and stabilising its population.

▪️Tamil Nadu :- 

➨ CM - M K Stalin

➨ Guindy National Park  

➨ Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park

➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)

➨Mudumalai National Park  

➨Mukurthi National Park  

➨ Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) National Park  

➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)

8) HDFC Bank signed a fresh Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kerala Startup Mission to engage more deeply with the start-up community and to promote entrepreneurship in the state.

▪️Kerala :- 

➠Anamudi Shola National Park

➠Eravikulam National Park

➠Silent Valley National Park

➠Cherai Beach

➠Idukki Dam on Periyar River

➠Pamba River

➠Kumarakom National Park

9) Vigilance Commissioner Praveen Kumar Srivastava has been appointed as the acting Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC).

➨Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption.

10) Union Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the first phase of a new Zuari bridge on the Zuari river in Goa, that is expected to improve the connectivity between North Goa and South Goa districts.

➨The bridge is also the second largest cable stayed bridge in India, first being Mumbai's Bandra Worli sealink.

11) Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben passed away at the age of 100.

12) Noted Cuban social worker and human rights advocate Aleida Guevara has been selected for the first award instituted by the K.R. Gouri Amma Foundation.

13) Elon Musk-owned SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites to orbit atop its Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

➨ The company will now deploy satellites to new orbits enabling the company to add more customers to internet service.

14) Global Family Day is celebrated every year on January 01 to discourage unwarranted negative attitudes towards other cultures and nations.

➨ The day creates a sense of unity, community and brotherhood across nations and cultures through the idea of families.

15) The Andhra Pradesh government has introduced a lesson on the contribution of Fatima Sheikh in the textbooks of the eighth class. 

➨ Fatima Sheikh was India’s first woman Muslim teacher and one of India’s greatest social reformers and educators.

▪️Andhra Pradesh :- 

➨CM - Jaganmohan Reddy

➨Governor - Biswabhusan Harichandan

➨ Venkateswara Temple 

➨Sri Bhramramma Mallikarjuna Temple