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Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 19th January 2022. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 19th January 2022 covering the following news headlines: AFC Women’s football Asian Cup 2022, EU parliament presidency, National Disaster Response Force, Startup India Innovation Week, MobiKwik.

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International News
National News
Business News
Awards News
Important Days
Obituaries News
Miscellaneous News

International News

Roberta Metsola takes over EU parliament presidency

Roberta Metsola, a Christian Democrat from Malta, was elected Speaker of the Parliament of the European Union. His election comes a week after the shock death of outgoing parliament speaker David Sassoli, who was due to step down as part of a power-sharing agreement.
She is only the third woman to be elected to the position. She is the youngest President of the European Parliament. Metsola was the candidate for the largest group in parliament, and received 458 out of 616 votes.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

European Union’s parliament Headquarters: Strasbourg, France;
European Union’s parliament Founded: 10 September 1952, Europe.

National News

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Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya launches commemorative postal stamp to mark first anniversary of Covid vaccination drive

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya released a commemorative postage stamp on COVID-19 vaccination on January 16, 2022 to mark one year of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. The drive was started on January 16, 2021.
The postage stamp shows a health worker administering the indigenously developed vaccine ‘Covaxin’ to a senior citizen. It also shows the image of the COVAXIN vial.
It marks the remarkable work done by frontline health care workers and the scientific community across the country to save people from the COVID pandemic.
The stamp is jointly developed indigenously by ICMR and Bharat Biotech.

DPIIT organized Startup India Innovation Week from 10 to 16 January

Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has virtually organised the 1st-ever ‘Startup India Innovation Week’ from 10th -16th of January 2022. The week commemorate the 75th year of India’s independence ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ and showcase the spread and depth of entrepreneurship across India.
Union Minister for Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal launched the Startup India Innovation Week. As part of the Start-up India Innovation Week, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode’s (IIMK) business incubator, Laboratory for Innovation Venturing and Entrepreneurship (LIVE), and Indian Bank has signed an MoU to launch a start-up funding scheme ‘IndSpring Board’ to support early-stage start-ups with loans up to Rs 50 crore.

Business News

MobiKwik launches ‘ClickPay’ in collaboration with NBBL

MobiKwik, one of India’s largest mobile wallets and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) Fintech companies launched ‘ClickPay’ for its customers, in collaboration with NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. (NBBL).
This feature enables MobiKwik customers to pay recurring online bills (such as mobile, gas, water, electricity, DTH, insurance, and loan EMIs) with ease by eliminating the need to remember individual bill details and due dates.
ClickPay is a two-step payment feature wherein the billers generate a unique payment link within the bill-pay message, allowing customers to make payments directly on the payment page. MobiKwik is focused on providing the Indian middle-class population a simple and secure payment platform to make daily life payments.

JIO becomes 1st telecom company to roll-out UPI AUTOPAY

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and Reliance Jio have announced that UPI Autopay is now introduced for the telecom industry with Jio.
Jio’s integration with UPI AUTOPAY has made it the first player in the telecom industry to go live with the unique e-mandate feature launched by NPCI.
Using UPI Autopay launched by NPCI, customers can now enable recurring e-mandate using any UPI application for recurring payments like Mobile Bills, Electricity Bills, EMI Payments, Entertainment/OTT Subscriptions, Insurance, Mutual Funds can do.

Awards News

9th Women National Ice Hockey Championship-2022 inaugurated in Himachal Pradesh

The 9th Women’s National Ice Hockey Championship 2022 was inaugurated on January 16, 2022 at an ice skating rink, Kaza in the Lahaul-Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh at an altitude of 12,000 feet.
The program was inaugurated by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.
National level ice hockey competition is being organized in Himachal Pradesh for the first time.
Six teams from Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Ladakh, ITBP Ladakh, Chandigarh and Delhi are participating in the mega event.

The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 announced

The Best FIFA Football Awards 2021 ceremony to crown outstanding players for outstanding achievement in football was held virtually in Zurich, Switzerland.
Spain midfielder Alexia Putelas and Poland/Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski were awarded the best FIFA players in women’s and men’s football respectively. Lewandowski won the Best FIFA Men’s Player award for the second year in a row, after receiving the first in 2020.

Important Days

NDRF celebrates its 17th Raising Day on 19 January 2022

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) celebrates its Raising Day every year on January 19, since it came into existence on January 19, 2006. In 2022, the NDRF is observing its 17th Raising Day. There are 12 NDRF battalions located in different parts of the country and comprises as many as 13,000 NDRF personnel who work to build a safer country.
The NDRF has earned a good name and fame nationally and internationally with its selfless service and unmatched professionalism in disaster management. NDRF has saved more than One lakh lives in its 3100 operations and rescued/evacuated over 6.7 lakh people during disasters.
NDRF is an Indian specialized force under the National Disaster Management Authority, constituted under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, to carry out the special responses in situations of threatening disaster.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams:

Director Generals of NDRF: Atul Karwal.

Obituaries News

Celebrated Bengali Cartoonist- Illustrator Narayan Debnath, passes away at 97

Legendary Bengali comics artist, writer and illustrator, Narayan Debnath, has passed away after prolonged illness. He was 97.
The celebrated cartoonist was the creator of the popular Bengali comic strips like Handa Bhonda (1962), Bantul the Great (1965) and Nonte Phonte (1969).
He holds the record of longest running comics by an individual artiste for Handa Bhonda comics series which completed its continuous 60 years of running.
In 2021, Debnath was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.

Noted environmentalist & ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner M.K. Prasad passes away

Renowned environmentalist and ‘Save Silent Valley’ campaigner Prof MK Prasad passed away recently. He was a key figure in the historic grassroots movement to save the evergreen tropical rain forests in Kerala’s Silent Valley from destruction.
He also led the popular science movement, ‘Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad’. Pro. Prasad, who had served as the vice-chancellor of Calicut University, was at the forefront of environmental protection activities in the state.

Miscellaneous News

Dubai opens its Infinity Bridge for traffic for the first time

Iconic ‘Infinity Bridge’ in Dubai, United Arab Emirates has been formally opened to traffic for the first time on 16th January 2022. Its design resembles a mathematical sign for infinity (∞). It represents the limitless, infinite goals of Dubai.
It consists of six lanes in each direction and a combined 3-metre track for pedestrians and cyclists. It is 300 meters long and 22 meters wide.
The bridge consists of six lanes and improves the link between Deira and Bur Dubai. It features a combined 3-metre track for pedestrians and cyclists.
First announced in 2018, the Infinity Bridge is part of an Al Shindagha Corridor Project. Consisting of six lanes in each direction, the bridge has an arch-shaped like the infinity symbol – which symbolises Dubai’s unlimited ambitions.

Important takeaways for all competitive exams: