Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: January 20, 2022

– PM Modi to host first India-Central Asia Summit virtually on January 27

– Three Navy personnel killed in explosion onboard INS Ranvir in Mumbai

– Rajasthan: BSF to conduct ‘Operation Sard Hawa’ along Pak border from Jan 23 to 28

– Eleven cities selected as the winners of the Streets for People Challenge by the Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs

– Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry announces winners of Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge

– Cabinet approves extension of tenure of National Commission for Safai Karamcharis for three years

– Internet panel on languages ropes in Vijay Shekhar Sharma as ambassador

– Cabinet approves Scheme for grant of ex-gratia payment of difference between compound interest and simple interest for six months to borrowers in specified loan accounts

– Cabinet approves infusion of Rs.1,500 crore in Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA)

– SEBI launches mobile App — Saa?thi– to create awareness among investors about basic concepts of securities market.

– HAL signs contract with Mauritius for export of advanced light helicopter (ALH)

– Experts deliberate on widening scope of India-Israel Industrial R&D and Technological Innovation Fund

– Dileep Sanghani elected as Chairman of IFFCO (Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative)

– DGCA extends ban on international flights till February 28

– Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to remote Borneo

– French senators vote to ban headscarves in sports competitions

– Pfizer chief Albert Bourla wins $1 mn Genesis Prize for vaccine development

– Roberta Metsola of Malta becomes EU Parliament’s new president

– Saturnino de la Fuente of Spain, said to be world’s oldest man, dies at 112

– Pakistan’s Babar Azam named as the captain of ICC Men’s T20I team of the year