Wish a Happy New Year: Jan 2021

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Today’s top news: 1st January, 2021 (GPN):

NATIONAL NEWS:

1. President Ram Nath Kovind, PM Narendra Modi greet people on New year 2021
2. The government on Wednesday extended the date for filing income tax return to January 10 from December 31, 2020, for individual tax payers
3. Cold wave conditions intensify in North India; Delhi-NCR shivers with minimum temperature of 3.3 Degree C.
4. The Central Government has asked all States and UTs to ensure effective preparedness for the vaccine roll out and the dry runs are scheduled to begin on 2nd January 2021.
5. Night curbs imposed in Delhi on December 31 and January 1 from 11pm to 6am : The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Thursday imposed a night curbs in the national capital in order to check the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19). The restrictions have been imposed just ahead of New Year celebrations.
6. PM Modi will lay foundation stone of Light House Projects under Global Housing Technology Challenge-India across six States.
7. New Year celebrations: Restaurants, pubs to shut at 11 pm in Mumbai but people can visit friends, family. The LHPs are being constructed at Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
8. Jio to Offer Free Voice Calls to Other Networks Again, Starting January 1
9. Farmer unions reject govt appeal to suggest repeal alternative : A day after talks over new agri laws registered some progress, farm unions on Thursday said the Centre’s appeal to them to suggest an alternative to repeal of the laws wasn’t feasible.
10. The Government of India launched the Global Pravasi Rishta Portal and Mobile app. The application aims to connect the Indian Diaspora spread all over the world.
11. The Jhalawar town of Rajasthan has imposed a curfew in one-kilo metre radius after it was confirmed that fifty crows died of bird flu.
12. A huge wildfire in Dzukou valley located on the Manipur-Nagaland border caused severe damage to the environment.
13. EPFO begins crediting 8.5 pc interest for 2019-20, to reflect in EPF accounts from Jan 1 . All those members retiring on Dec 31 to get 8.5 pc rate of interest for 2019-20: The approval of the rate of interest had to be approved by the Finance Ministry.
14. The road transport ministry has announced the extension of mandatory FASTag toll collection deadline in the country. The new deadline for 100 per cent electronic-based highway toll collection is set on February 15, 2021.
15. PM Modi said that the people should not let their guard down and strictly abide by the COVID-19 preventive norms even after the vaccination. The PM said this while speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the AIIMS, Rajkot. Earlier, he said ‘ dawai nahi too dheelai nahi.” Now I am saying dawai bhi aur kadaai (caution) bhi. Our New Year mantra should be dawai bhi aur kadaai.
16. The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday transferred 16 IAS officers, including Hathras District Magistrate Praveen Kumar Laxkar who had hit the headlines after the rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman.
17. There is no alternative to farmers’ demands of legal guarantee for minimum support price and repealing the new agri laws, farmer leaders said on Thursday, a day after talks between the Centre and the protesting unions remained deadlocked over the two contentious issues.
18. Late Bollywood actor Irrfan Khan’s last film ‘The Song Of Scorpions’ will release on the big screen in early 2021.
19. The SAHAYAK-NG, an air droppable container was tested successfully by the Defence Ministry. It is the first indigenously developed air droppable container. The SAHAYAK-NG will help to provide critical engineering stores to ships that are deployed more than two thousand kilo metres from the coast. The SAHAYAK-NG can carry payload up to fifty kilograms. It can be dropped from heavy aircraft. It is GPS enabled.
20. Colonel Narendra Bull Kumar, the man who secured Siachen glacier for India passed away at Army Research and Referral (R&R) hospital in Delhi on Thursday. Kumar was 87 and was suffering from several age-related ailments. It was based on his maps and videos that the Indian Army launched Operation Meghdoot in 1984, which secured the glacier and prevented it from an evident Pakistan aggression.
21. For the first time, the Indian Army has appointed a major general rank officer to look into the human rights issue and suggest means to better the track record of the force. Major General Gautam Chauhan took charge as Additional Director General Human Rights on Thursday
22. The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the release of ten women naval officers, who are seeking grant of permanent commission (PC), from the services as scheduled on December 31 this year.
23. For the first time, the ITBT’s dog squad got Indian names instead of the traditional western names. A formal ‘Naamkaran Ceremony’ of the 17 Malinois pups was held at National Training Centre for Dogs, ITBP BTC, Bhanu, Panchkula Haryana.
24. Centre Grants 3-Month Extension To Defence Forces For Emergency Weapon Acquisition.
25. CBSE Board Class 10, Class 12 Exam Date Sheet 2021 HIGHLIGHTS: Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank announced the dates of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) classes 10 and 12 exams. The CBSE exam will be held from May 4 to June 10 and results will declare by July 15.
26. Coronavirus Cases: 10,286,329
    Deaths: 149,018
    Recovered: 9,881,786

✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. India has urgently dispatched a supply of 2400 vials of BCG vaccine to Male to bridge a shortfall in the National Immunization Programme of the Maldives. The dispatched supply of BCG vaccines comes on the request of the Government of Maldives and reaching the Island Nation today
2. Tata grabs bigger slice of AirAsia and India’s airline industry : the company announced it would increase its holdings in the Indian-based joint venture with AirAsia from 51% to 84%. AirAsia, owned by Malaysian tycoon Tony Fernandes, has been scaling back its operations during the Covid pandemic.
3. The Cabinet on Wednesday (December 30, 2020) approved the export of ‘Akash’ Missile System following which the Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh expressed that the decision would help India to improve its defence products.
4. Khalistani terrorist involved in killing of Shaurya Chakra awardee Balwinder Sandhu in Punjab in October arrested: Police
   Sukh Bikriwal is suspected to be involved in targeted killings at the behest of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI. The wanted gangster, who has several cases registered against him, was deported from Dubai and arrested by the special cell of the Delhi Police at the airport,

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. The United Kingdom exits the European Union’s orbit on Thursday , turning its back on a tempestuous 48-year liaison with the European project for an uncertain Brexit future that will shape the fortunes of its people for generations to come.
2. An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck central Croatia on Tuesday, killing seven people, injuring more than 20 and rattling several neighbouring countries.
3. In a shameful incident, a mob led by members of Pakistan’s radical Islamist party demolished a temple and set it ablaze in the deeply conservative northwestern town of Karak in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The incident comes weeks after the government allowed minority Hindus to build a new temple in Islamabad on the recommendation of a council of clerics.
4. French designer Pierre Cardin, who revolutionised fashion in the early 1950s, passes away at 98.
5. NASA has approved two missions to explore the Sun and the system that drives space weather near Earth : The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) will study electric currents in Earths atmosphere linking aurora to the Earths magnetosphere — one piece of Earth`s complicated space weather system, which responds to solar activity and other factors.
6. The European Union and China recently signed a New Investment Treaty after seven years of negotiations.
7. China on Thursday said it will provide free COVID-19 vaccines to all citizens as it has granted conditional approval to the first homegrown vaccine developed by state-owned pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm.
8. Coronavirus Cases:
   83,732,991
   Deaths: 1,823,806
   Recovered: 59,264,224

🚣🚴🏇🏁🏊Sports:

3-match ODI series between the Australian and Indian women’s teams originally scheduled for January 2021 will be postponed until next season, with plans to expand the tour to include an additional three Twenty20 Internationals.

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🇮🇳Facts about India🇮🇳

In 1845, along with Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, HonJaganath Shunkerseth (known as Nana Shankarsheth) formed the Indian Railway Association. The first commercial train journey in India between Bombay and Thane on 16 April 1853 in a 14 carriage long train drawn by 3 locomotives named Sultan, Sindh and Sahib.

😀Thought of the day
I was going to quit all my bad habits for the new year, but then I remembered that nobody likes a quitter.🤣😝

Joke of the day

New year Cake🎂, which was booked 10 days before. But forgotten to bring for New Celebration. So My New year started with……😕😳..😝😆😆😆😆😆😆😆 People make new resolution
1st Jan: I have left drinking
2nd Jan: I have left smoking

And after 10 days I m going to Start therapy

And after 10 days met to that friend In-front of him commitment done, Hey u said to leave these thing Buddy let leave it for next year’s resolutions That time I was in frolic…

😳Why..New Year❓ : ❓
Julian Calendar : January 1st Officially Instituted as the New Year. In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar introduced a new, solar-based calendar that was a vast improvement on the ancient Roman calendar, which was a lunar system that had become wildly inaccurate over the years

LEARN Sanskrit🙏🏻

Happy New Year ! नववर्षशुभकामनाः / शुभाशयाः

🤔 How it works ⁉

Who created the calendar we use today?

It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a minor modification of the Julian calendar, reducing the average year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days, and adjusting for the drift in the ‘tropical’ or ‘solar’ year that the inaccuracy had caused during the intervening centuries. The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Easter.

💁🏻‍♂️ GK TODAY

SAI : Sports Authority of India

🛕 VEDIK GYAN

Vedas are older than Ramayana. As Vedas came when this universe came into its existence. First yug in the starting of universe is Satyug, but the Ramayana came in Tretayug which came after the Satyug. Who owns the oldest physical copy of the Vedas, Upanishads and Mahabharata?

🧬 HEALTH CARE: HOME REMEDIES🩺
( Note : These home tips followed in villages/ancient traditions, it is up to you to use it or not🙏🏻)

Eating carrots will help improve eyesight . The body uses beta-carotene to make vitamin A, and “vitamin A is really important,

Happy New Year once again💐🌟

🙏PLZ FOLLOW GOVT. NORMS, MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE, KEEP YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY SAFE🌼