{"id":6158,"date":"2023-01-13T13:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T07:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:09:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T06:39:33","slug":"january-12-2023-current-affairs-banking-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/january-12-2023-current-affairs-banking-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"January 12, 2023 | Current Affairs &#038; Banking Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Sr. No.<\/strong><\/th><th><strong>Current Affairs &amp; Banking Awareness<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>1.<\/td><td>The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 2,600-crore initiative to promote <strong>RuPay <\/strong>and <strong>BHIM-UPI.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2.<\/td><td>The DRDO created a UAV for operations in the <strong>Himalayan Frontier<\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3.<\/td><td>The Indian High Commission reached an agreement to establish a Hindi Chair at <strong>Sabaragamuwa University<\/strong> in Sri Lanka.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4.<\/td><td>Russia will deploy a rescue ship to the International Space Station to retrieve the three crew members who have become stranded.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5.<\/td><td>On January 12, PM Modi opened the <strong>26th National Youth Festival<\/strong> in Hubli, Karnataka.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6.<\/td><td>On January 13, PM will launch the <strong>Ganga Vilas Luxury Cruise.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7.<\/td><td>The <strong>Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana<\/strong> is the name of the new Integrated Food Security Scheme .<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8.<\/td><td>Home Minister Amit Shah published a book titled<strong> &#8220;Revolutionaries- The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom&#8221; <\/strong>at an event in New Delhi.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9.<\/td><td>The Union Cabinet has approved the formation of three new multi-state cooperative societies.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10.<\/td><td>Gabon&#8217;s new Prime Minister is <strong>Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11.<\/td><td>According to the <strong>Henley Passport Index 2023,<\/strong> India is placed 85th.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12.<\/td><td>Virat Kohli equaled Sachin Tendulkar&#8217;s record of 20 ODI century on home soil.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13.<\/td><td><strong>Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar <\/strong>delivered the keynote lecture during the 83rd All India Presiding Officers&#8217; Conference in Jaipur.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14.<\/td><td>The DRDO carried out a training launch of the<strong> Prithvi-II Short-Range Ballistic Missile.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15.<\/td><td>The first edition of the <strong>CareEdge States Ranking <\/strong>report will be published on January 11, 2023.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16..<\/td><td>Since FY2020-21, <strong>micro and small enterprises (MSEs)<\/strong> have secured 55.2% of the orders placed on the GeM (a public procurement website).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17.<\/td><td>The <strong>World Bank<\/strong> has maintained India&#8217;s growth prediction at 6.9% in FY23 and 6.6% in FY24.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18.<\/td><td>The <strong>Reserve Bank of India<\/strong> has published a list of six domestic credit rating companies.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19.<\/td><td>The term of <strong>RBI Deputy Governor Michael Patra<\/strong> has been extended by the centre for another year.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20.<\/td><td><strong>NPCI<\/strong> has approved UPI transactions for non-resident bank accounts linked to mobile numbers in ten different countries.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>21.<\/td><td><strong>Hitachi Payment Services<\/strong> has acquired preliminary authorisation from the RBI to act as a payments aggregator.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>22.<\/td><td>The RBI has granted <strong>BharatPe<\/strong> preliminary approval to function as an online payment aggregator.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>23.<\/td><td>The Union Cabinet approved a Rs 2,600 crore scheme to promote <strong>RuPay and BHIM-UPI.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>24.<\/td><td>PM Modi inaugurates the 7th edition of the <strong>Global Investors Summit<\/strong> in Indore.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sr. No. Current Affairs &amp; Banking Awareness 1. The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 2,600-crore initiative to promote RuPay and BHIM-UPI. 2. The DRDO created a UAV for operations in the Himalayan Frontier. 3. The Indian High Commission reached an agreement to establish a Hindi Chair at Sabaragamuwa University in Sri Lanka. 4. 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