Important Day
- Theme for ‘National Voters’ Day 2021’ (25 January) – “Making Our Voters Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and Informed”.
- National Tourism Day – 25 January.
Defence
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah has launched the Ayushman CAPF health scheme in ____ for about 28 lakh Central Armed Police Forces personnel and their families in all the states where Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana is operational – Guwahati.
National
- The Election Commission of India will formally launch the _____ programme on 25 January 2021 – e-EPIC (Electronic Electoral Photo Identity Card).
- First state in the country with two airstrips on expressways – Uttar Pradesh (on Purvanchal Expressway, & Lucknow-Agra Expressway).
- On 23 January, the Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah chaired the 69th meeting of the North East Council (NEC) in – Shillong, Meghalaya.
- Winners of the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar for the year 2021, given by Government of India – (i) Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (in the institutional category) and (ii) Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari (in the Individual category).
- The Government of India has conferred the Bal Shakti Puraskar under Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2021 to – 32 children.
- First state that received additional funds for capital projects for successfully carrying out reforms in various citizen-centric areas under the scheme of “Special Assistance to States for capital expenditure” – Madhya Pradesh.
Persons in News
- Author of the book, titled “Not Many, But One” (collection of Sree Narayana Guru’s sublime poems which has been translated in English from Sanskrit, Malayalam and Tamil) – Prof. G.K. Sasidharan.
Sports
- New vice-presidents for World Olympians Association (WOA) – Mikako Kontani (Japan) and Pernilla Wiberg (Sweden).
State Current Affairs
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will virtually inaugurate the year-long centenary celebrations of Chauri-Chaura incident in ____ on 4 February 2021 – Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
- Winner of the Republic Day Journalism Award 2021, given by the Government of Assam – Atin Das.
- Uttar Pradesh (formed in 1950) celebrated its Statehood Day on – 24 January 2021.
- The opening ceremony of the first BTR ( Bodoland Territorial Region) Accord Day celebration was organised at Kokrajhar in Assam on – 24 January 2021.
- A branch of Indian Institute of Skiing and Mountaineering (IISM) inaugurated in – Kargil of Ladakh Union territory.
Science & Technology
- This institute unveiled the first-ever WasteWater Treatment Technology Model, called ‘Aqua Rejuvenation Plant’, which purifies Waste Water for Irrigation/Farming purposes – CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur.
General Knowledge
- Constitutional provision that deals with “Power of Parliament to make provision with respect to elections to Legislatures” – Article 327.
- Constitutional provision that deals with “Power of Legislature of a State to make provision with respect to elections to such Legislature” – Article 328.
- Constitutional provision that deals with “Bar to interference by courts in electoral matters” – Article 329.
- Constitutional provision that deals with “Reservation of seats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in the House of the People” – Article 330 (Part XVI).
- Constitutional provision that deals with “Representation of the Anglo-Indian community in the House of the People” – Article 331.