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.