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DAILY DOSE 29th JAN – 2025 CURRENT AFFAIRS
1) Belarus’s leader Lukashenko won the election for the seventh time.
- On January 27, Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko extended his 31-year rule after election officials declared him the winner of the presidential election.
- The Central Election Commission said in a statement that Lukashenko won by a landslide, garnering nearly 87% of the vote.
- Since taking office in 1994, President Lukashenko’s authoritarian rule has earned him the title of “Europe’s last dictator”.
- However, the European Union threatened new sanctions, calling the elections in Belarus illegal.
2) Pashmina festival organised for the first time in Kathmandu.
- The Nepal Pashmina Industries Association and the Confederation of Nepalese Industries organized the first three-day International Pashmina Festival cum Exhibition.
- The event drew attention to the delicate, lightweight, and warm natural fiber obtained from Chyangra or Pashmina goats.
- The exhibition, held until January 25, featured over 150 domestic stalls, including more than 40 dedicated to pure Nepali Pashmina.
- Nepal is one of the major producers of authentic pashmina, often branded as “Chyangra Pashmina” to emphasize its high quality and originality.
3) India joined Eurodrone as an observer.
- India Officially joined the Medium Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (MALE RPAS) or Eurodrone programme.
- Eurodrone is an initiative of Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.
- It is led by Airbus Defence and Space (Germany), includes Leonardo (Italy), Dassault Aviation (France), and Airbus (Spain) as major subcontractors.
4) M. Mohan has been appointed as director of the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC).
- Mohan was serving as the Director (Projects) at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC).
- The position fell vacant after the Union government picked former LPSC director Dr. V. Narayanan as the ISRO chairman.
- Mr Mohan was the director of the Human Space Flight Centre from June 2023 to June 2024.
- He was also the system leader of the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) project of the Chandrayaan-1 mission.
5) Christine Carla Kangaloo has been given the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by India.
- She is the president of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
- This is a recognition of her exceptional accomplishments in public life and her efforts to raise India’s reputation internationally.
- During the 18th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention, Kangaloo was the chief guest. She is an Indo-Trinidadian president.
6) Tripura became the first North East state to sign an MoU with Bhashini.
- The Government of Tripura signed a MoU with Digital India Bhashini Division (DIBD) for Multi-lingual Governance.
- The MOU signing ceremony was held at Pragna Bhavan in Agartala, during a State Level Workshop- ‘Bhashini Rajyam”.
- Tripura is the eighth state in India to sign a MoU with Bhashini.
- Bhashini integration with Tripura’s e-Governance software will fill the digital divide.
7) Padma Awards for 2025 have been announced by the government.
- This year a total of 139 people names have been announced for the Padma Awards.
- The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 19 Padma Bhushan and 113 Padma Shri Awards.
- 23 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 10 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 13 Posthumous awardees.
- Padma Awards are one of the highest civilian Awards in India. It is conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.
8) Assam Chief Minister has announced that Dibrugarh will be the state’s second capital.
- On January 26, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said Dibrugarh, the British-era center of tea, oil, and coal trade, will be Assam’s second capital by 2027 and will also have an assembly complex there.
- He said the decision to make Dibrugarh a full-fledged city and the second capital of Assam has been taken on solid groundwork aimed at improving Ease of Living and connectivity.
- He also announced a similar plan for two other cities in the state: Tezpur and Silchar.
9) Diya Chitale and Manush Shah won national table tennis champions titles.
- In the 86th Senior National Table Tennis Championship singles finals, they won over Sreeja Akula and Payas Jain, respectively.
- The Pandit Dindayal Upadhyay Indoor Stadium in Surat hosted the finals of the 86th Senior National Table Tennis Championship.
- Manush, who is from Vadodara and represents the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), continued to dominate Payas in five games.
- Diya is a Mumbai paddler who also plays for the RBI. The women’s final was won by Diya.
10) World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Georgia malaria-free.
- The only nation in the WHO European Region that still has malaria is Turkey.
- Georgia has achieved malaria free certification after decades of efforts and nearly century-long struggle.
- With this malaria-free status, Georgia has joined 45 other nations and one territory.
- Prior to the 20th century, three parasite species were prevalent in Georgia, making malaria a persistent problem there.
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