5th January 2022 Current Affairs

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5th January 2022 Current Affairs is provided below.

1. 1st Smoke-Free Indian State:

Himachal Pradesh has become the first LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) enabled and smoke-free Indian state.

2. Largest, Single site solar project in India:

Azure Power fully commissions its 600MWs SECI (Solar Energy Corporation of India) in Bikaner, Rajasthan.

3. IC15:

CryptoWire launches India’s 1st index of Cryptocurrency IC15.
It will monitor the crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance coin, Solana, Cardano, Ripple, Terra, Dogecoin, and Shiba inu.

Cryptocurrency:

Decentralized digital money
Based on blockchain technology
No central authority

4. Apple becomes the first company to touch the $3 Trillion Market Cap on the first day of trading in 2022.

5. 1st Woman to make solo trip to South pole:

Captain Harpreet Chandi
Indian origin British Sikh Army officer
Popularly known as ‘Polar Preet’

India’s bases at Antarctica:

Dakshin Gangotri – 1983
Maitri – 1988
Bharati – 2021

6. Energy Transition Advisory Committee:

Formed by the ministry of petroleum and natural gas
Headed by Tarun Kapoor
It was formed to help India achieve its net-zero emission target by 2070; to create an energy transition road map within 6 months.

7. IndiGau Chip:

World’s largest cattle genomic chip
Launched by the National Institute of Animal Biotechnology (NIAB), Hyderabad.
India’s first single Nucleotide polymorphism based chip.
To conserve indigenous cattle breeds like, Gir, Kankrej, Sahiwal, Ongole, etc.

8. ONGC appoints Alka Mittal as its 1st woman Chairman and Managing Director.

9. OmiSure:

ICMR approves India made kit to detect omicron.
Manufactured by Tata medical and diagnostics.

10. Airtel payments bank:

Categorised as a scheduled bank by the RBI.
In the second schedule of RBI act, 1934

11. Ramnath Goenka Award:

Won by Zishaan A Latif
In the photojournalism category
He documented the plight of people who were dropped from the National register of citizens (NRC).

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