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Daily GK Current Affairs News viable of 9 January 2022. – Here is the Regular current affairs viable of 9 January 2022 covering the following news headlines: Mobile Honey Processing Van, open rock museum, NSO projects Indian economy, Sidney Poitier, first black actor to win Best Actor Oscars Award passes away.

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National News

KVIC launches Country’s first ‘Mobile Honey Processing Van’ at Ghaziabad

India’s first mobile honey processing van was launched by KVIC on January 07, 2022 at Sirora village, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
The van was inaugurated by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) Chairman Vinay Kumar Saxena.
It has been designed in-house by KVIC at its Multidisciplinary Training Centre, Panjokehra.
The cost of developing the unit is around Rs 15 lakh.
It can process about 300 kg of honey in 8 hours.
The van also has a testing laboratory to quickly check the quality of honey.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurates India’s first open rock museum in Hyderabad

Dr Jitendra Singh, Union Minister of State for Science and Technology inaugurated India’s first Open Rock Museum in Hyderabad on January 06, 2022.
The Open Rock Museum displays about 35 types of rocks from different parts of India.
The age of these rocks ranges from 3.3 billion years of Earth’s history to about 55 million years.
Some of these rocks even represent the deepest part of the Earth, up to 175 kilometers from the Earth’s surface.
This museum will help to educate and enlighten people about many lesser-known facts.

Defence News

India participates in US-led six nations Exercise Sea Dragon 22

Six Indo-Pacific nations are participating in the multinational exercise Sea Dragon 22, which began on January 05, 2022 at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam in the Western Pacific.
The navies of the six countries participating in the exercise are the Quad Nations (United States, Australia, India and Japan), Canada and South Korea.
Sea Dragon is a US-led multi-national exercise focused on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training and excellence to conduct simultaneously in response to traditional and non-traditional maritime security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.

Appointments News

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MD & CEO of CSB Bank, C V R Rajendran announces early retirement on health grounds

CVR Rajendran, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CSB Bank has announced to take early retirement on health grounds.
He was holding the post of MD and CEO of CSB Bank since 9 December 2016 and his term was to end on 8 December 2022. He will now continue as the MD and CEO of the bank till March 2022.
CSB Bank Limited was formerly Catholic Syrian Bank Limited. It is an Indian private sector bank headquartered in Thrissur, Kerala.

OPEC elects Kuwait’s Haitham Al-Ghais as new secretary general

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has voted to appoint Haitham al–Ghis as its new Secretary-General.
Kuwaiti candidate Haitham Al-Ghis will assume office for a period of three years with effect from 01 August 2022.
He will succeed Mohamed Sanusi Barkindo of Nigeria, who has been in the position since August 01, 2016.
Al-Ghais currently serves as the Deputy Managing Director of International Marketing at KPC.
He was the OPEC governor of Kuwait from 2017 to June 2021.

Banking News

NSO projects Indian economy to grow 9.2% in FY22

The National Statistical Office (NSO) has estimated India’s GDP to grow at 9.2 percent in the current fiscal, 2021-22. NSO released its first advance estimates of economic output on January 07, 2022.
The GDP estimate for 2020-21 fiscal was projected at a contraction of 7.3 percent by NSO.
In terms of figures, real GDP in 2021-22 is estimated at Rs. 147.54 lakh crore against the provisional estimate of GDP for the year 2020-21 at Rs 135.13 lakh crore.
Nominal GDP for 2021-22 is estimated at Rs. 232.15 lakh crore, as against the Provisional Estimate of GDP for the year 2020-21 at Rs 197.46 lakh crore.
Fiscal deficit target likely to be achieved is 6.8%

Obituaries News

Sidney Poitier, first black actor to win Best Actor Oscars Award passes away at 94

Veteran Bahamian-American actor Sidney Poitier, who created history by becoming the first black person to win the Best Actor award at the Oscars, has died. He was 94 years old.
Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Leading Performance in 1964 for his film Lily of the Field.

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