Page-39 of Current Affairs - January, 2022

Foreign direct investment in LIC

January 11, 2022

The Government of India recently decided to allow 20% Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in LIC (Life Insurance Corporation). This is to be done by amending the Foreign Exchange Management Rules (FEMA). What is the plan? The DFS, DIPAM are to ..

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Precautionary vaccine jabs in India

January 11, 2022

The Government of India is to provide third dose of vaccine. This third dose has been named “precaution dose” or booster dose. About the precaution dose The health care workers, comorbid patients (people with severe medical conditions) and frontline workers ..

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Turkmenistan’s ‘Gateway to Hell’

January 11, 2022

Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov recently ordered officials to find a method of finally extinguishing the ‘Gateway to Hell’ in the country. Key Points Turkmenistan’s Gateway to Hell is the raging flames, burning for five decades in a large natural gas ..

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Ban of Conversion therapy in Canada

January 11, 2022

On January 7, 2022, the Canadian government officially implemented a bill on ‘ban of Conversion therapy’ which was passed by the Canadian Parliament in December 2021. Key Points With the ban of conversion therapy, Canada joined a select list of ..

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First Pig heart transplant in Human

January 11, 2022

Recently, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last effort to save his life, in Maryland hospital in USA. It was done for the first time in the history of medical. Key Points The patient is doing ..

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New Directors of 4 IITs

January 11, 2022

Government appointed new directors to the Indian Institutes of Technology in Delhi, Indore, Madras, and Mandi, on January 10, 2022. Name of the new directors Prof Rangan Banerjee was appointed as next director of IIT Delhi. Prof V Kamakoti has ..

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What are ‘Western disturbances’?

January 11, 2022

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) projected that; western disturbance is likely to hit the eastern states from January 11, 2022. Key Points Making these predictions, IMD issued yellow and orange alerts for the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and ..

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IUCN assessment on Red Sanders

January 11, 2022

The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) recently categorised the Red Sanders (or Red Sandalwood) again into the ‘endangered’ category in its Red List. Red Sanders The species, called Red Sanders, is scientifically called as Pterocarpus santalinus. It is an ..

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