Current Affairs: January 2024 Weekly One Liners

UAE to invest $2 billion in food parks in India
Gujarat to unveil India's first submarine tourism in Dwarka
Defence Secretary opens HAL's Aero Engine R&D Facility in Bengaluru
Hardeep Puri inaugurates India's first 'Zero Waste Street Food Festival' in Delhi
Guinness world record of performing mass Surya Namaskar created in Gujarat on New Year Day
Assam CM flags off 200 green buses for pollution-free Guwahati
Reliance Power to sell Kalai II hydropower project to THDC India
PM to attend DGP conference at Jaipur
India inaugurates its first all-girls Sainik School in Vrindavan, UP
PM Modi inaugurates new terminal building at Tiruchirappalli airport
Udhampur achieves 100% saturation in 'Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra'
Surat hosts 12th Divya Kala Mela 2023
J&K becomes first UT to implement PM Vishwakarma Yojana
Flipkart co-founder, Binny Bansal, launches e-commerce startup 'OppDoor'
IREDA declares 2024 as 'Year of HR Development and Discipline'
Reliance Industries becomes first in India to receive ISCC-Plus certification

Sukanya Samriddhi Schemes' interest rates hiked up to 20 bps for Q4FY24
GST collection rises 10% in December to Rs 1.64 lakh cr
UPI ends 2023 with record transactions worth ₹18-lakh crore
India Ratings revises PNB Housing Finance NCD ratings from AA to AA+
Bank of India introduces Super Special Fixed Deposit
India Ratings raises GDP growth forecast for FY'24 to 6.7% from 6.2%
Canara Bank to launch Data Analytics center in Bengaluru
REC Limited and Bank of Baroda join hands to finance Power, Infra, and Logistics Projects
SBI raises $250 mn via Green Bonds to fund sustainable projects
Indian economy to grow at 3% in current financial year; NSO

Arvind Panagariya appointed as 16th Finance Commission Chairman
Andrew Saberton appointed as the Deputy Executive Director of United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Ashok Vaswani assumes charge as Kotak Mahindra Bank's MD and CEO
Ravindra Kumar Tyagi takes over as CMD of Power Grid Corporation
Tshisekedi re-elected president of Congo
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II to step down after 52 years on the throne

Professor Ved Prakash Nanda dies
Former India defender Prabir Majumdar passes away### National News
Ramesh, Mahaveer Prasad Saini, Shivendra Singh, and Ganesh Prabhakar Devrukhkar are awardees of various sports and athletic honors.
Swachh Survekshan Awards 2023: Indore and Surat are the 'cleanest cities' in India.
Varanasi wins the 'Cleanest Ganga Towns' Award.
Sheetal Devi, the world's first armless woman archer, won the Arjuna Award.

9 January: Pravasi Bharatiya Divas.
10 January: World Hindi Day (Theme 2024 – Hindi–Bridging Traditional Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence).
11-17 January: National Road Safety Week.
12 January: National Youth Day.
14 January: 7th Armed Forces Veterans Day.
15 January: Indian Army Day (Theme 2024 – In Service of the Nation).
16 January: National Startup Day.

Boeing opens its first distribution center in India, located in Khurja, Uttar Pradesh.
IndoSpace Signs Rs 2000 Cr Deal With Tamil Nadu Govt.
L&T wins Rs 10,000 crore electrification order for high-speed rail project.
Haldia Petrochemicals becomes India's first BSI Certified ISO 27001:2022 Petrochemical firm.
BEL bags ₹695-crore order from Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders.
Parshotham Rupala launches project for artificial reefs in Vizhinjam.
Amit Shah inaugurates a new cooperative office for strengthening societies and rural economy in New Delhi.
Jagdeep Dhankhar inaugurates the 12th General Assembly of the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace.

Vineet McCarty is appointed as Commandant in the Indian Naval Academy.
AN Pramod assumes charge as the Director General Naval Operations (DGNO).
Shantanu Jha takes over as Chief Staff Officer at the Eastern Naval Command.
Hrithik Roshan is onboarded as a brand ambassador for RuPay.
Daljit Singh Chaudhary is appointed as the Director General of Sashastra Seema Bal.

Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi is to be honored with the 'Assam Baibhav' Award.
Engineers India Limited (EIL) is conferred with the SCOPE Eminence Award.
President Murmu presents the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar to 19 children.
Bangalore and Delhi Airports jointly bag the best airport award.

Indian President inaugurates the 5th Meghalaya Games.
Pat Cummins and Deepti Sharma win the ICC Players of the Month for December 2023.
Yogesh Singh wins the gold medal in men's 25m centre fire pistol.
Praggnanandhaa Surpasses Viswanathan Anand to become India's No.1 Chess Player.

Jagdeep Dhankhar releases a book titled 'Fertilising the Future', written by Mansukh Mandaviya.
Amit Shah launches a book 'Assam's Braveheart Lachit Barphukan' by Arup Kumar Dutta.