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DAILY DOSE 11TH JAN CURRENT AFFAIRS

DAILY DOSE 11TH JAN CURRENT AFFAIRS

 

1) Tallon Griekspoor wins Maharashtra Open tennis tournament 2023

  • The Netherlands’ Tallon Griekspoor won his maiden ATP World Tour title in Men’s singles category in Pune on 7 January 2023.
  • He defeated France’s Benjamin Bonzi to win his maiden ATP World Tour title.
  • It was the 27th edition of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP)’s 250 events, the only ATP tournament played in India, and was held from 2 to 7 January 2023.

 

2) Know About: Paytm Payments Bank

  • Paytm Payments Bank is an Indian digital payments and financial services company, based in Noida.
  • Paytm Bank got listed on the Indian stock exchanges on 18 November 2021 after an initial public offering.
  • Paytm became India’s first payment app to cross over 10 crore app downloads in 2017.
  • Founded: August 2010
  • Founder & CEO: Vijay Shekhar Sharma
  • Headquarters: Noida

 

3) Taiwan passes its Chips Act, offers tax credits to chipmakers

  • Taiwan passed the new Chips Act on 9 January 2023 which let local chip firms turn 25% of their annual research and development expenses into tax credits.
  • Chip companies in Taiwan can also claim tax credits on 5% of the annual costs of buying new equipment for advanced process technologies.
  • Any credits earned, however, cannot exceed 50% of the total annual income taxes.

 

4) India’s first coal gasification fertiliser plant will be ready by 2024

  • Union Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya has announced that the country’s first-ever coal gasification based Talcher Fertiliser plant in Odisha will be ready by October 2024.
  • The use of coal in alternative usages like in the gasification technology to produce urea will also reduce the carbon footprints on the environment.

 

 

5) World Hindi Day: 10 January

  • World Hindi Day is celebrated on Jan 10 every year to mark the importance and celebrate Hindi as a language.
  • It was started to mark the anniversary of the first time Hindi was spoken in the UN General Assembly in 1949.
  • On Jan 10, 2006, the World Hindi Day was celebrated for the first time.
  • In the year 1975, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi inaugurated the first World Hindi Conference.

 

6) Know About: BPCL

  • Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited is an Indian central public sector undertaking under Government of India.
  • It operates three refineries in Bina, Kochi and Mumbai.
  • It was ranked 309th on the 2020 Fortune list of the world’s biggest public sector undertakings, and 792nd on Forbes’s 2021 “Global 2000” list.
  • Headquarters: Mumbai
  • Founded: 1952
  • Chairman & MD: Vetsa Ramakrishna Gupta

 

7) MP CM Shivraj Singh unveils mascot, torch of Khelo India Youth Games

  • The anthem, mascot, and a ‘smart torch’ for the fifth edition of the youth games were unveiled by MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal on 7 January 2023.
  • A drone show was organized forming a sprinting cheetah, maps of India and Madhya Pradesh, and ‘Khelo India Youth Games 2022
  • The Games will be organized in eight districts of Madhya Pradesh from January 30.

 

8) Indian-American space expert named NASA’s new chief technologist

  • An Indian-American aerospace industry expert, AC Charania, has been appointed as NASA’s new chief technologist.
  • He will serve as principal advisor to Administrator Bill Nelson on technology policy and programmes at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.
  • Prior to joining NASA, he served as vice president of product strategy at Reliable Robotics.

 

 


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