Vision IAS Current Affairs 2023 : January Affairs 2023

1. Mega Dairy at Mandya in Karnataka built at a cost of Rs 260 crore and get all technical and cooperation from Amul. Who has inaugurated Mega Dairy in Karnataka?

1. Smriti Irani
2. Narendra Modi
3. Amit Shah
4. Basavraj Bommai
5. Nirmala Sitharaman

Option “3” is correct.
Union Home and Cooperation Minister, Amit Shah has inaugurated Mega Dairy at Mandya in Karnataka.
The mega-dairy inaugurated at a cost of Rs 260 crore would process 10 lakh liters of milk per day and will have the capacity to increase it up to 14 lakh liters per day.
2. Who has been elevated as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from January 1, 2023 from his current posting as executive director?

1. Rajkiran Rai G.
2. Shanti lal Jain
3. A. Manimekhalai
4. Ajay Kumar Srivastava
5. Srinivasan Varadarajan

Option “4” is correct.
Ajay Kumar Srivastava has been elevated as Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank with effect from January 1, 2023 from his current posting as executive director.
He started his banking career as a probationary officer in 1991 with Allahabad Bank where he worked in various capacities in different parts of the country.
3. The Reserve Bank of India’s Medium-term Strategy Framework for the period 2023-2025 was launched by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, RBI. What is the name of this framework launched by RBI?

1. Aspirations
2. Garuda 2.0
3. Lakshya
4. Ambition 2.0
5. Utkarsh 2.0

Option “5” is correct.
The Reserve Bank of India’s Medium-term Strategy Framework for the period 2023-2025 – ‘Utkarsh 2.0’ – was launched by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, RBI.
Utkarsh 2.0 would allow the central bank to both react and act proactively to confront socio-economic challenges.
4. Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), the largest international literary festival in Bangladesh, which was postponed three years in a row owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, is scheduled for January 5-8, 2023. Which edition of Dhaka Lit Fest has organized?

1. 3rd
2. 20th
3. 15th
4. 10th
5. 5th

Option “4” is correct.
The 10th edition of Dhaka Lit Fest (DLF), the largest international literary festival in Bangladesh, which was postponed three years in a row owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, is scheduled for January 5-8, 2023.
The Dhaka Lit Fest has long been a well-liked annual occasion on Bangladesh’s winter calendar. The eighth Dhaka Lit Fest, which was most recently held in 2019, attracted almost 30,000 attendees.
5. The Prajjwala Challenge has been launched to invite ideas, solutions, and actions that can transform rural development. The Prajjwala Challenge has been launched by which of the ministry?

1. Ministry of Youth affairs and Sports
2. Ministry of Rural Development
3. Ministry of Women and Child Development
4. Ministry of Education
5. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship

Option “2” is correct.
Prajjwala Challenge Launched Ministry of Rural Development in New Delhi.
The Prajjwala Challenge was launched by the Secretary of, the Ministry of Rural Development, Shri Shailesh Kumar Singh in New Delhi.
6. In Hockey, Madhya Pradesh defeated Odisha 6-5 to clinch Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Men’s Under-18 Qualifiers title. Where the Khelo India Youth Games 2022 has been held?

1. Bhubaneswar
2. Indore
3. Chandigarh
4. Ratlam
5. Chennai

Option “1” is correct.
In Hockey, Madhya Pradesh defeated Odisha 6-5 to clinch Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Men’s Under-18 Qualifiers title in Bhubaneswar.
7. India’s first underwater metro service, The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) said that the East-West Metro Corridor project, is expected to be completed by which of the following time of period?

1. January 2030
2. December 2024
3. January 2027
4. December 2023
5. January 2024

Option “4” is correct.
India’s first underwater metro service, The Kolkata Metro Rail Corporation (KMRC) said that the East-West Metro Corridor project, is expected to be completed by December 2023.
8. A team of astronomers led by scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and their international collaborators decided to study the most massive globular cluster system in our galaxy, Omega Centauri. At which place Indian Institute of Astrophysics is located?

1. Dehradun
2. Hyderabad
3. Bangalore
4. New Delhi
5. Thiruvananthapuram

Option “3” is correct.
Indian Institute of Astrophysics is located at Bangalore, Karnataka. They have found that these hot stars emitted much less ultraviolet radiation than expected from theoretical models and in comparison, with stars of another globular cluster, M13 has similar overall properties.
9. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah has laid the foundation stone of the Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) in which Indian state?

1. Karnataka
2. Telangana
3. Odisha
4. Delhi
5. West Bengal

Option “1” is correct.
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah has laid the foundation stone of the Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) at Devanahalli in Karnataka and inaugurated the residential and administrative complexes of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
10. ‘SMART’ program for Ayurveda professionals launched to regulate and boost R&D in Ayurveda. What is the meaning of abbreviation of ‘S’ in ‘SMART’?

1. Science
2. Sports
3. Securing
4. Socialize
5. Scope

Option “5” is correct.
The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM) and the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), the two prominent institutions under the Ministry of Ayush, Government of India for regulating medical education and conducting scientific research respectively, have launched ‘SMART’ (Scope for Mainstreaming Ayurveda Research in Teaching Professionals).