Top GKToday’s News Headlines-22 January, 2020

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Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for January 22, 2020.

PM Modi, Nepal’s PM K. P. Sharma Oli jointly inaugurate 2nd integrated border check post at Jogbani-Biratnagar; first ICP was built in Raxaul-Birgunj in 2018
Jharia (Jharkhand) is India’s most polluted city; Lunglei (Mizoram) least polluted: Greenpeace India report on air pollution
Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura celebrated their Statehood Day on January 21
Uttarakhand becomes first state to implement agricultural land leasing policy
Upgraded ‘Sharang’ artillery guns to be inducted into Army: Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur (MP)
Indian Navy signs MoU with Geological Survey of India (GSI) for sharing of offshore data
Indian Council for Child Welfare (ICCW) announces winners of National Bravery Awards

PSB appointments: Sanjiv Chadha: MD & CEO in Bank of Baroda; Lingam Venkata Prabhakar: MD and CEO in Canara Bank, Atanu Kumar Das: MD and CEO in Bank of India
Yudhvir Singh Malik appointed CMD of crisis-hit real estate firm Unitech by the govt.
ICICI Bank launches cardless cash withdrawal facility from its ATMs using its mobile banking application ‘iMobile’
India fourth best market after US, China and Germany for global companies looking for growth abroad: PwC CEO survey
Centre notifies structure of National Startup Advisory Council; to be headed by Commerce & Industry Minster

India opens its first Mahatma Gandhi Convention Centre in West African nation Niger at capital Niamey
Australia confers its highest civilian honour, the Order of Australia, on Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Guyana takes over chairmanship of the Group of 77 for 2020
WEF, partners launch 1t.org to support efforts to grow, conserve 1 trillion trees globally
Number of people registered as unemployed is expected to rise to 190.5 million in 2020: World Employment and Social Outlook report of ILO

India win 6 medals at 9th Nation’s Cup women’s boxing tournament in Sombor, Serbia
Silver (4) – M. Meena Kumari (54kg), Monika (48kg), Ritu Grewal (51kg) and Bhagyabati Kachari (75kg)
Bronze (2): Pavitra (60kg) and Pwilao Basumatary (64kg).

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and Paralympian Deepa Malik among new inductees in govt.’s All India Council of Sports (AICS)
Sachin Tendulkar and chess wizard Viswanathan Anand omitted for not being “active” enough
Formed in 2015, AICS is an advisory body to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports
Veteran sports administrator V K Malhotra is President of AICS.

Meyton Cup tournament in Innsbruck, Austria: Indian shooters Divyansh Singh Pawar (men’s 10m air rifle) and Apurvi Chandela (women’s 10m air rifle) win gold medals