- RBI released Annual Report of Ombudsman Schemes, 2020-21
- 2nd National Startup Awards 2021 : Department forPromotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT)
- The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 : Alexia Putellas and Robert Lewandowski
- GoI merges eternal flame of Amar Jawan Jyoti with National War Memorial flame
- Open Data Week : MoHUA
- PM Modi has declared to mark 16th January as ‘National Start-up Day’.
- The world’s largest national flag : at Longewala, along the India – Pakistan Border in Jaisalmer
- GOI : Postal stamp on the Covid-19 vaccination
- Subhas Sarkar has launched the Swachh Vidyalaya Puraskar (SVP) 2021 – 2022
- Startup India Innovation Week : 10th-16th of January 2022 :DPIIT
- PM Modi will inaugurate a 216-foot statue of Ramanuja charyain Hyderabad
- PM Modi : ‘Azadi Ke Amrit Mahotsav se Swarnim Bharat Ki Ore’
- 9thwomen National Ice Hockey Championship-2022 : Skating Rink (HP)
- 44th Kokborok Day : Tripura
- The first black woman ever featured on the USCoin : Maya Angelou
- South Africa has launched its first satellite : Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite (MDASat) constellation
- Arrow-3 : Israel
- Infinity Bridge : Dubai
- Indonesia’s New capital : Nusantara
- Un WFP – MOU With Odisha- To improve the food security of small and marginal farmers in India
- Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode’s (IIMK) Laboratory for Innovation Venturing and Entrepreneurship (LIVE) – MoU- Indian Bank
- Bose: The Untold Story of An Inconvenient Nationalist (Book) : Chandrachur Ghose
- The Legend of BirsaMunda (Book) : Tuhin A Sinha and co-authored by
- Ankita Verma
- The Union Cabinet approved infusion of 1500 Crore rupees in Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited
- The RBI’s Digital Payment Index : 304.06 in September 2021
- India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) : 7.6 %
- YES Asset Management : WhiteOak Capital Asset Management
- YES Mutual Fund : WhiteOak Capital Mutual Fund
- Reliance Jio: UPI AUTOPAY
- MobiKwik – Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) : ClickPay
- Microsoft Corp : Activision Blizzard Inc
- CEO of Adani Powers: Shersingh B Khyalia
- AEPC Chairman : Narendra Kumar Goenka
- President of the European Union’s Parliament : Roberta Metsola
- Vice Chief of Army Staff :General ManojPande
- CMD of Air India: VikramDevDutt
- 17th Chairman of IFFCO : DileepSanghani
- Ambassador of UASG : Vijay Shekhar Sharma
- Managing Director, National Highways &Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) : Chanchal Kumar
- Indian Navy and Russian Navy – PASSEX exercises at the port of Cochin, in the Arabian Sea
- Rajnath Singh : Raksha Pension Shikayat Nivaran Portal
- A Maritime Partnership Exercise was held between the Indian Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) in the Bay of Bengal
- Clive Lloyd received Knighthood
- Best National Costume : Navdeep Kaur
- Shaylyn Ford : Mrs World 2022
- Gold medal at the International Folk Art Festival : Sumit Bhale
- Axis Bank& CRMNEXT : IBS Intelligence (IBSi) Global FinTech Innovation
- Awards 2021
- Albert Bourla: Genesis Prize
- Sushmita Sen : International Association of Working Women Award
- 16thIndia Digital Summit, 2022: Piyush Goyal
- PM Modi has addressed the World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) Davos Agenda Summit 2022
- BRICS Summit : China
- Jahnavi Dangeti : NASA’s International Air and Space Program at the Kennedy Space Centre in Alabama, US
- The wealth of the top 100 families is Rs 57.3 trillion.
- International Labour Organisation (ILO) has released its World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2022 (WESO Trends) report
- Lakshya Sen : India Open 2022
- Tasnim Mir became the first Indian to grab World no 1 in Under-19 (U-19) Girls Badminton World Federation (BWF) Junior rankings.
- women’s Asia Cup(Hockey) : Muscat
- AFC Women’s football Asian Cupin Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune
- 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand
- New title sponsor and official technology consulting partner of the Toronto Water front Marathon : TCS
- Babar Azam has been named as the captain of the ICC Men’s T20I team of the year for 2021
- In ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year for 2021, Smriti Mandhana is the only Indian women player named in the 11 member team
- Nat Sciver has been made the captain of ICC Women’s T20I Team of the Year for 2021
- National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)’s Raising Day : January 19
- 126thbirth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose : 23 January 2022 is observed as Parakram Diwas
- Legendary Kathak dancer, Pandit Birju Maharaj has passed away
- Odisha’s social worker and Padma Shri awardee Shanti Devi has passed away
- The former President of Mali, Ibrahim BoubacarKeita has passed away
- The former Prime Minister of Japan, ToshikiKaifuhas passed away
- Legendary Bengali comics artist, writer and illustrator, Narayan Debnath, has passed away
- Noted environmentalist & ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner Prof M K Prasad passed away
- Renowned Bengali theatre personality SaoliMitrahas passed away
- The well-known Professional mountaineer Major HariPal Singh Ahluwalia passed away
- Guinness World Records holder for the oldest person living (male), Saturnino de la FuenteGarcía (Spain) has passed away at the age of 112 years and 341 days
- India’s “Supermom” tigress, popularly known as ‘Collarwali’, has passed away at Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Madhya Pradesh
- The Oxford University Press (OUP) has picked up ‘Anxiety’ as the Children’s Word of the Year 2021
- A new species of rain frog named after Greta Thunberg. The species has been named as Pristimantisgretathunbergae, or popularly known as the Greta Thunberg Rain frog
- First ‘Milk Village’ of Jammu and Kashmir : Jerri settlement in Reasidistrict
Static Take aways
- ISRAEL Capital: Jerusalem
- ISRAEL Currency: Israeli New Shekel
- ISRAEL Prime Minister: Naftali Bennett
- ISRAEL President: Isaac Herzog
- World Food Programme Founded: 1961
- World Food Programme Headquarters: Rome, Italy
- World Food Programme Head: David Beasley
- Indian Bank Headquarters: Chennai
- Indian Bank CEO: Shri Shanti Lal Jain
- Indian Bank Founded: 15 August 1907
- IREDA Founded: 1987
- IREDA Headquarters: New Delhi
- IREDA Chairperson: Pradip Kumar Das
- Reserve Bank of India Founded: April 1, 1935
- Reserve Bank of India Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Reserve Bank of India Governor: Shaktikanta Das
- National Payments Corporation of India Founded: 2008
- National Payments Corporation of India Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- National Payments Corporation of India MD & CEO: DilipAsbe
- SEBI Founded: 12 April 1992
- SEBI Headquarters: Mumbai
- SEBI Chairperson: Ajay Tyagi
- Microsoft CEO and Chairman: Satya Nadella
- Microsoft Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, United States
- Apparel Export Promotion Council Established: 1978
- Apparel Export Promotion Council HQ: Gurgaon
- European Union’s parliament Headquarters: Strasbourg, France
- European Union’s parliament Founded: 10 September 1952, Europe
- Indian Army Founded: 1 April 1895
- Indian Army Headquarters: New Delhi
- Indian Army Chief: Manoj Mukund Naravane
- Air India Ltd Founded: 1932, Mumbai
- Air India Ltd Headquarters: New Delhi
- IFFCO Headquarters: New Delhi
- IFFCO Founded: 3 November 1967, New Delhi
- National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd Founded: 2014
- National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd Headquarters: New Delhi
- Axis Bank Founded: 3 December 1993
- Axis Bank Headquarters: Mumbai
- Axis Bank MD & CEO: Amitabh Chaudhary
- Axis Bank Chairperson: Shri Rakesh Makhija
- Axis Bank Tagline: Badhti Ka Naam Zindagi
- World Economic Forum Founded: January 1971
- World Economic Forum Founder & Executive Chairman: Klaus Schwab
- World Economic Forum Headquarters: Cologny, Switzerland
- International Labour Organisation Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
- International Labour Organisation Director-General: Guy Ryder
- International Labour Organisation Founded: 1919
- Badminton World Federation Founded: 5 July 1934
- Badminton World Federation Headquarters: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Badminton World Federation President: Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen
- Tata Consultancy Services Founded: 1 April 1968
- Tata Consultancy Services Headquarters: Mumbai
- Tata Consultancy Services CEO: Rajesh Gopinathan
- UAE Capital: Abu Dhabi
- UAE Currency: United Arab Emirates dirham
- UAE President: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan