Current Affairs January 2023

Monthly Current Affairs PDF for the Month February 2023 in English for UPSC, IAS, PCS, Civil Services, SSC CGL, CHSL, IBPS Banking and other Competitive Exams.

• World Leprosy day 2023 : 29 January
• Former NATO General Petr Pavel becomes new President of Czech Republic
• Air Marshal AP Singh will take over as the new Vice Chief of the Indian Air Force.
• 1st G20 Energy Transition Working Group meeting under the chairmanship of India will be held in Bengaluru.
• 1st meeting of Employment Working Group of the G20 Summit is scheduled to be held in Jodhpur from 2 to 4 Feb.
• 5th Khelo India Youth Games begin in Madhya Pradesh.
• Martyr’s Day (Shaheed Diwas) 2023 : 30th January Mahatma Gandhi death Anniversary.
• ICC Women’s U19 T20 World Cup: India beat England to win the inaugural Women’s U19 T20 World Cup.
• FIH Hockey World Cup 2023 : Germany beat Belgium in shootout to lift World Cup trophy for the 3rd time.
• Novak Djokovic won the Australian Open 2023 title.
• The meeting of the G20 International Financial Architecture Working Group will be held in Chandigarh.
• Best Marching Contingent Republic Day 2023
• Khadi Fest-23 inaugurated in Mumbai.
• UNGA President Csaba Korosi Visit in India from 29 to 31 January 2023
• Beating Retreat ceremony : at Vijay Chowk in New Delhi on 29 January 2023
• Amrit Udyan: The Renamed Mughal Gardens Open to the Public up to 26 March 2023
• Egypt plans to allot land to Indian industries in Suez Canal Special Economic Zone.
• England’s Ben Stokes and Nat Sciver win ICC annual awards 2022.
• RINL to organize its first National Vendor Interaction Program-2023 on 28th January
• Inter-governmental agreement signed to reintroduce Cheetah from South Africa to India.
• Data Privacy Day 2023 : 28 January
• Indian mixed doubles pair of Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna lose in Australian Open 2023 final
• 30th National Child Science Congress begins in Gujarat, over 1400 delegates to attend
• Defense Minister Rajnath Singh felicitated 25 winners of Veer Gatha 2.0.
• Union Health Minister unveils world’s first intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, Bharat Biotech’s iNNCOVACC
• Bharat Parv Celebration Kicks Off at Red Fort in New Delhi
• Halwa Ceremony : Marks Beginning of Printing for Union Budget 2023-24
• PM Modi named 21 Andaman islands after Param Vir Chakra awardees.
• President has approved 412 gallantry awards for defense personnel.
• Naresh Lalwani took charge as the new General Manager of Central Railway.
• Scientists at JNCASR Use Scandium Nitride to Develop Brain-Like Computing for Industrial Use
• Padma Awards 2023 announced
• ChatGPT: The Powerful Language Model Developed by OpenAI
• Aero India 2023 to be held in Bengaluru from 13 to 17 Feb 2023.
• India has become the No. 1 ODI team in ICC rankings after 3-0 series win over New Zealand.
• National Voters Day 2023 : 25 January
• The 2023 edition of TROPEX, the largest exercise of the Indian Navy is currently underway in the Indian Ocean region.
• Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar-2023
• President of India presented the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar, 2023.
• SCO Film Festival will be held in Mumbai from 27 to 31 January 2023.
• National Girl Child Day 2023 : 24th January
• International Day of Education 2023 : 24 January.
• Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi to be Chief Guest of Republic Day celebration 2023.
• The first G20 Environment & Climate Sustainability Working Group meeting will be held in Bengaluru from 9 to 11 February.
• The biennial exercise ‘AMPEX’ 2023 was conducted near Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
• 1st meeting of the Youth 20 group will be held in Guwahati from 6 to 8 February.
• Uttar Pradesh 74th Foundation Day : 24 January 2023.
• IIT Madras incubated firm developed BharOS – India’s indigenous mobile operating system.
• India Open Badminton Championship 2023 : Kunlavut vitidsarn won the men’s singles & An Seyoung won the women’s singles title.
• Parakram Diwas 2023 celebrates Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary on 23rd January.
• India’s deepest metro station to be built at Pune Civil Court.
• UNESCO dedicated In year 2023 International Day of Education to Afghan girls and women.
• Chris Hipkins will replace Jacinda Ardern as Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• India to become $26 trillion economy by 2047: EY report
• The inaugural edition of India-Egypt joint training exercise Cyclone-I began in Rajasthan.
• NASA awarded Boeing Company $425 million for the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project.
• World Bank said – Pakistan is the weakest economy in South Asia.
• NASA’s Geotel mission operations end after 30 years.
• Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation as the Prime Minister of New Zealand.
• Vagir, the fifth submarine of the Kalvari class, will be commissioned on 23 Jan 2023.
• India announced 100 million Maldivian rufiyaa for community development projects in Maldives.
• India’s first indigenously built destroyer, INS Delhi visited Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
• The Ministry of Tourism will organize the first Global Tourism Investors Summit from 10 to 12 April 2023.
• Shubman Gill became the youngest cricketer to score a double century.
• Ministry of Environment included Neelakurinji in the list of protected plants.
• Republic Day celebrations 2023 will be week-long, starting on 23rd to 30th January.
• National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) Day 2023 : 19th January
• French nun Lucille Randon, world’s oldest person, dies aged 118.
• K Venu honored with Federal Bank Literary Award 2022.
• India and South Korea held the 5th Foreign Policy and Security Dialogue in Seoul.
• NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovers new exoplanet named LHS 475b.
• Archaeological Survey of India is ready to dig once again in Purana Qila.
• Shahrukh Khan on the 4th position in the list of world’s richest actors.
• China’s population declined for the first time since 1961.
• Italian man Michele Centella sets Guinness World Record by creating ‘mirror typing’ books in ancient languages.
• UN declares Pakistan-based Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist.
• B-20 inception meeting will be held in Gandhinagar.
• 1st G20 Health Working Group meeting will begin in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala from 18-20 Jan.
• The 21st edition of Naval Exercise Varuna between India and France began.
• RRR won Best Foreign Language Film & Best Song at the Critics’ Choice Awards.
• National Startup Day 2023 : 16th January
• India Sets New Record for Largest Margin of Victory in Cricket with 317-Run Win Over Sri Lanka
• Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni won the Bangkok Open tennis title.
• Entire country will be covered by Doppler Weather Radar Network by 2025.
• The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is being held in Davos, Switzerland.
• The first Infrastructure Working Group meeting of the G20 will be held in Pune.
• R’Bonnie Gabriel was crowned Miss Universe 2022.
• Indian Army Day 2023 : 15th January
• Road Safety Week from 11th to 17th January 2023.
• India’s first Center of Excellence in Online Gaming to be set up in Shillong.
• Indian Railways will launch Bharat Gaurav tourist train on 17 February.
• Captain Surbhi Jakhmola became the first woman officer posted on foreign assignment in the Border Roads Organisation.
• Shanti Kumari appointed first woman Chief Secretary of Telangana.
• Vidisha has become the first Indian district to implement state-of-the-art 5G use cases proposed by startups.
• 7th Armed Forces Veterans Day : 14 January 2023
• Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of UAE, has been appointed as the President of COP 28.
• RBI Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra has re-appointed for an additional one-year term
• Former Union Minister and RJD leader Sharad Yadav passed away at 75
• India to send three person to 6,000 metre below sea level In MATSYA 6000 under Samudrayaan Mission
• Vrinda Rathi, Janani Narayanan, and Gayathri Venugopalan become first female umpires trio to officiate in the Ranji Trophy.
• ‘Sarang 2023’ India’s biggest student-run festival begins at IIT Madras.
• NASA appoints Indian-American space expert AC Charania as chief technologist.
• Henley Passport Index 2023: Japan retains its top position.
• National Youth Day 2023 : 12 January
• Surinder Chawla appointed as MD & CEO of Paytm Payments Bank.
• National Human Trafficking Awareness Day 2023 : 11 January
• Indian tennis star Sania Mirza announced her retirement.
• Joshimath, Uttarakhand has been declared as landslide and subsidence affected area.
• RRR’, ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’, ‘The Kashmir Files’, ‘Kantara’ join Oscars’ ‘reminder’ list.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is inaugurating the Global Investors Summit in Indore.
• DRDO successfully test-fired short-range ballistic missile Prithvi II off the Odisha coast.
• ‘RRR’ won its first Golden Globe for Best Original Song with ‘Naatu Naatu’.
• World Hindi Day 2023 : 10th January
• Kevin McCarthy named as new speaker of the US House of Representation.
• Kerala became the first fully digital banking state in the country.
• India will exclusively host the ‘Voice of Global South Summit’ on 12 & 13 January.
• International Kite Festival 2023 began on 8 January in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
• First education group meeting of G-20 countries will be held in Chennai from 31 January to 2 February.
• Indian-origin Manpreet Monika Singh became the first female Sikh judge in America.
• Former Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi has passed away at 88.
• Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated the three-day ‘North East Krishi Kumbh-2023’ in Meghalaya
• India has overtaken Japan to become the third largest auto market globally.
• The first meeting of the Working Group on G20 GPFI will begin in Kolkata.
• 17th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas on 9th January 2023.
• PM Modi to launch World longest river cruise MV Ganga Vilas at Varanasi.
• India, Japan to conduct joint exercise ‘Veer Guardian-2023’ to boost air defense cooperation.
• India’s real GDP may grow 7% : First Advance Estimates of National Income, 2022-23
• Cadets from 19 friendly countries to participate in the NCC Republic Day Camp 2023
• World’s first museum of palm leaf manuscripts set up in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
• Army Largest contingent of women peacekeepers deployed in United Nation mission at Abyei, UNISFA
• Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium.
• M Pranesh became India’s 79th Chess Grandmaster.
• 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Convention 2023 : 8 to 10 January.
• Senior Congress leader Kuldeep Singh Pathania elected as the 16th Speaker of HP Legislative Assembly.
• World War Orphans Day 2023 : 6th January
• Ghaziabad-Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay section becomes longest fully automatic block signaling section of Indian Railways.
• India assumed the leadership of the Asian Pacific Postal Union.
• Goa’s Mopa Airport will be named ‘Manohar International Airport’, Prime Minister Modi approved.
• First G-20 meeting to take place in Puducherry on 31 Jan.
• Madhya Pradesh government launched the Mukhyamantri Awasiya Bhoomi Adhikar Yojana.
• President Murmu inaugurated the 18th National Jamboree of Bharat Scouts and Guides in Rajasthan.
• China Becomes First Country in Asia to Launch Hydrogen Powered Train.
• Government begins process to buy 100 more K9-Vajra.
• Cabinet has approved the National Green Hydrogen Mission worth Rs. 19 thousand 744 crore.
• 50 electric buses were launched in Delhi under the FAME India Phase II scheme of the Ministry of Heavy Industry.
• DRDO’s celebrated its 65th foundation day on 1st January.
• Indian Army deploys woman officer for the first time in battlefield Siachen.
• Nation remembers Savitri Bai Phule, the first woman teacher of modern India, on her birth anniversary on 3rd January.
• UIDAI makes change in address on Aadhaar card easier.
• World Braille Day 2023 : 4th January.
• RBI launches Utkarsh 2.0 for the period 2023-2025.
• India’s first underwater metro is scheduled to be operational by December 2023.
• Dhaka Literary Festival 10th edition to be on 5 to 8 January.
• Global Family Day 2023 : 1st January
• India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations and facilities.
• Koustav Chatterjee becomes 78th Grandmaster of India.
• Ajay Kumar Srivastava assumes charge as MD & CEO of Indian Overseas Bank from 1st Jan 2023.
• International Year of millets (IYM) 2023.
• SpaceX Launched First 54 Starlink v2.0 satellites Into Low Earth orbit.
• India will assume the chairmanship of the Wassenaar Arrangement on 1st January for one year.
• Anil Kumar Lahoti took over as the new Chairman and CEO of the Railway Board.
• Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as the 39th President of Brazil.

GK Now Monthly Current Affairs (English) Edition : February 2023

Edition : February 2023
(1st to 31st January 2023)
Medium : English
PDF Pages : 142
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