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january Current Affairs 2025

(ICC) men's cricketer of the year. 
  • In the Australian Open Tennis final in Melbourne, Madison Keys of the USA defeated two-time reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus to win her first-ever Grand Slam championship.
    • Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, will now house the sixth regional office of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). o It now operates five regional offices in Kolkata (West Bengal), Kochi (Kerala), Bhubaneswar (Odisha), Patna (Bihar), and Guwahati (Assam).
    • The Samsung India Workers Union (SIWU) was established by the Tamil Nadu labor department in response to orders from the Madras High Court.
    • According to the Meteorological Department, on January 27, 2025, the northeast monsoon stopped over Andhra Pradesh and the south peninsula of India.
    • To increase fish output, the State Fisheries Department intends to construct artificial coral reefs at 39 spots across two fishing villages in the Nagapattinam district.
    • The first-of-its-kind CSIR Mega "Innovation Complex" in India was opened in Mumbai.
    • The Indian Army has opened two brand-new bailey bridges across the Shyok River, enhancing communication between Ladakh's Shyok and Nubra regions.
    • After considering 14 revisions suggested by its members, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Waqf Amendment Bill accepted the draft.
    • According to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Indore (Madhya Pradesh) and Udaipur (Rajasthan) were the first two Indian towns to be included to the international list of recognized Wetland towns.
    • Iniyan Panneerselvam, an Indian grandmaster from Erode, Tamilnadu, won the 9th Johor International Open Chess Tournament in Malaysia thanks to a remarkable performance.
    • Italian Jannik Sinner defeated Alexander Zverev of Germany to win his third Grand Slam title overall and his second straight Australian Open Tennis Championship. 24
    • To increase awareness and spur action for a fair and equitable transition to clean energy, the International Day of Clean Energy was marked on January 26.
    • Amitav Ghosh, the Janpith award-winning novelist, released Wild Fictions, his most recent work.
    • This year, India will host the esteemed FIDE World Cup 2025 chess event.
    • The Ministry of Education's National Book Trust of India will host the New Delhi World Book Fair in 2025.
    • To debate funding and creative economic approaches for hosting the Olympics in India, Gujarat hosts the first International Olympic Research Conference.
    • The RBI has ordered banks to utilize the '1600xx' number series for all transactional calls and the '140xx' number series for promotional calls in order to fight financial fraud.
    • The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister dedicated a mani mandapam (monument) at Villupuram in remembrance of 21 "social justice activists" who were killed by police shooting during the September 1987 "Vanniyar" quota movement.
    • In Vazhudhareddi, Villupuram District, the Tamil Nadu chief minister dedicated a monument in Govindasamy's honor. He was a member of the Cabinets led by previous chief ministers C.N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi.
    • The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has officially accepted the ePlane firm

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