1) In a medical first, US doctors have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life.
➨ Patient is doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.
➨ While it is too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants.
2) The Tata Group has replaced Vivo as the title sponsor for the Indian Premier League 2022 and 2023 editions.
▪️Board of Control for Cricket in India:-
President - Sourav Ganguly
Secretary - Jay Shah
Headquarters - Mumbai
Founded - December 1928
3) Kannada poet, playwright, critic and pro-Kannada activist Chandrashekar Patil, popularly known as 'Champa', passed away in Bengaluru. He was 82.
➨His first collection of poems 'Baanuli' was published in 1960.
4) Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, a French-born University of California-Berkley Economist, has been appointed as the next Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund.
➨ He has replaced the Indian-Origin Gita Gopinath.
➽International Monetary Fund :-
Formation - 27 December 1945
Headquarters - Washington, D.C.
Managing Director - Kristalina Georgieva
5) South Korean actor O Yeong-su won the country's first Golden Globe award for his role in Netflix hit "Squid Game", drawing cheers at home and abroad despite criticism for the ceremony's organisers over a lack of diversity.
6) The government’s inability to fill top slots in key regulatory bodies on time continues with the Centre extending the additional charge of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) Wholetime Member Navrang Saini as Chairperson till March 5 this year.
➠IBBI is a key institution in implementing the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), which came into force in 2016.
7) Indian-origin Ashok Eluswamy became the first employee to be hired to work for Tesla company.
➨Before joining Tesla, Mr Elluswamy was associated with Volkswagen Electronic Research Lab and WABCO Vehicle Control System.
▪️SpaceX :-
Founder: Elon Musk
Founded: 6 May 2002
CEO - Elon Musk
Headquarters - Hawthorne, California, United States
8) India and Sri Lanka crossed another significant landmark in bilateral ties as the island country launched a luxury train service with the help of a Line of Credit offered by India. The luxury train service connects the country's Tamil-dominated Jaffna district to the capital city, Colombo.
9) National Youth Day is celebrated on January 12 every year in honour of Indian Philosopher Swami Vivekananda.
➨National Youth Day 2022 marks the 25th edition of the special celebration that marks the importance of youth in the development of a country.
➨The theme for National Youth Day 2022 is “It’s all in the mind,” a key teaching of Swami Vivekananda.
10) The Ministry of Railways has announced to rename Kevadiya station as Ekta Nagar railway station.
➨ Kevadiya station is located under the Vadodara division and will be known as the ‘Ekta Nagar’ railway station.
▪️Gujarat:-
➨CM - Bhupendra Patel
➨Governor - Acharya Devvrat
➨Nageshwar Temple
➨Somnath Temple
11) Kerala Arts and Crafts Village near Kovalam has won the International Craft Award 2021 for the best craft village in the world.
➨ The Kerala Arts and Crafts Village is an organization established by the Uralungal Labour Contract Cooperative Society for the State Tourism Department.
▪️Kerala :-
➠Cherai Beach
➠Idukki Dam on Periyar River
➠Pamba River
➠Kumarakom National Park
➠Anamudi Shola National Park
➠Eravikulam National Park
➠Silent Valley National Park
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