1. A joint committee comprising 21 Lok Sabha MPs and 10 Rajya Sabha MPs, headed by BJP MP Jagathambika Pal, has been constituted to study the Waqf Amendment Bill.
2. The Ordnance Factories Board of
the Union Ministry of Defence is operating an ordnance manufacturing factory in
Jawaharnagar area of Bhandara district.
3. Under the Sea Water Desalination
Project, desalination plants are operating in Minjur and Nelmeli.
4. The construction of a
desalination plant with a daily production capacity of 400 million liters at a
cost of Rs. 4,276.44 crore in Porur on the East Coast Road, Chennai is in full
swing.
5. 4 people were arrested for
selling methamphetamine in Chennai.
6. A wild elephant named ‘Bullet
Raja’, which had been roaming around residential areas in Pandalur area of
Nilgiris district last month, was taken to the Kothaiyur forest area.
7. The World Economic Forum for
2025 is being held in Davos, Switzerland.
8. National Girl Child Day was
celebrated on January 24.
9. The French government has passed
a law banning the use of smartphones in all schools in the country from January
2025.
10. The results of excavations
conducted by the Archaeological Department of the Tamil Nadu government at
Kilnamandi in Tiruvannamalai district, Mayiladumbarai in Krishnagiri district,
Mangadu in Salem district, Adichanallur and Sivakali in Thoothukudi district,
have now revealed that the technology of smelting iron in Tamil Nadu existed
5,300 years ago.
11. The samples collected during
the excavations carried out by the Tamil Nadu Archaeological Department were
sent to Birbal Sahani in Pune, the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad,
and the Beta Institute in Florida, USA, for analysis.
12. Deputy Chief Minister
Udhayanidhi Stalin honored the winners of the art festival competitions held
across Tamil Nadu on behalf of the School Education Department with the
‘Kalaiyarasan’ and ‘Kalaiyarasi’ awards at a function held at the Anna Centenary
Library in Chennai.
13. RSV, a respiratory tract
infection and influenza infection, are spreading during the winter season.
14. ISRO planned to develop the
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), which will help in land,
sea and air transportation and security use in India.