Current Affairs - January 6, 2022 Current Affairs

Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has launched India Semiconductor Mission to attract large investments for setting up semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities in India.

With an aim to enrich and simplify bill payments in the country, NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. (NBBL) has introduced a unique functionality called 'Unified Presentment Management System' (UPMS).

Researchers from SNM College Maliankara, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, and the Payyanur College have reported two new plant species from the biodiversity-rich Western Ghats regions in Thiruvananthapuram.

Union Ayush Minister, Sarbananda Sonowal has laid the foundation stone of the Heartfulness International Yoga Academy in Hyderabad, Telangana.

Jitendra Singh launches Web Portal for PM's Excellence Award, says prize money doubled to 20 lakh rupees for awarded District or Organization.

India's current account balance posted a deficit of $ 9.6 billion in the second quarter ended September 2021.

Telangana was ranked first in the country in the list of most Open Defecation Free (ODF+) villages under the Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin) Phase-II programme.

SMILE (Support for Marginalised Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise) is an umbrella scheme being formulated by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.

"ONGC Director (HR) Alka Mittal has been entrusted with the additional charge of ONGC CMD, making her the first woman to head the Energy major,".

Kerala High Court is going to become the first paperless court in the country. Supreme Court Justice DY Chandrachud inaugurated the Smart Court Room in the High Court Auditorium.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), under the Ministry of Communication, has constituted six Task Forces on 6 G technology.

Additional Secretary under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, G Asok Kumar was appointed as the new Director-General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

EMAAR Properties, a Dubai-based real estate group, will be developing a shopping mall in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched NEAT 3.0 to provide the best-developed Ed-tech solutions and courses on a single platform.

The parliamentary standing committee constituted to examine "The Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021" comprise of a total of 31 members, including only one women representative. Out of the total 31 members, TMC MP Sushmita Dev is the sole woman representative in the committee. The Bill seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women in India from 18 to 21 to bring it at par with men.

After the recommendation by the three-member committee, the Centre has decided to continue with the existing annual income limit of Rs 8 lakh for the identification of the economically weaker sections (EWS).

India has invited a total of 46 friendly countries to participate in the multinational naval exercise MILAN in Visakhapatnam.

The most prominent C-level executive awards have crowned Kishore Kumar Yedam as 'World CEO Winner of the Year 2021'.

After laying the foundation stone for 22 projects in Manipur, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the integrated terminal at Maharaja Bir Bikram (MBB) Airport in Tripura's capital, Agartala.

The world's population is projected to be 7.8 billion people, as of New Year's Day 2022, according to the US Census Bureau.