current affairs 15 january 2022

Rocket scientist S Somanath appointed as new ISRO chief.

Senior rocket scientist S. Somnath has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and Secretary, Department of Space.
Rocket scientist S Somanath will take place of K. Sivan as ISRO Chief.
K Sivan was appointed as ISRO chief in January 2018 and was given a one-year extension till January 14, 2022.
S Somnath will be the 10th chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation.
Before this he was serving as the Director of the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) in Trivandrum, Kerala.

India's 1st heli-hub with all aviation facilities is proposed to be built in Gurugram, Haryana.
Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala announced this.
The 1st of its kind heli-hub will have all the facilities for helicopters at one place like heliport, hangar, maintenance of air taxis and chartered helicopters.
The main objective of this heli-hub is to create landing and take-off points for various helicopter services to the national capital.

Arundhati Bhattacharya, the former chair of the State Bank of India (SBI), has come out with her new book titled Indomitable: A Working Woman’s Notes on Work, Life and Leadership.
In this book, Arundhati describes her life as a banker and the challenges she faced in a male-dominated industry.
She talks about her childhood, early education, college education and then her career in State Bank of India (SBI).
The book is published by Harper's Business.
Arundhati Bhattacharya was the first woman to head the State Bank of India (SBI).
She is currently the chairperson and CEO of Salesforce India, a cloud-based SaaS company headquartered in San Francisco.

PM Narendra Modi inaugurates 11 new government medical colleges and a new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) in Tamil Nadu on January 12, 2022 via video conferencing.
11 new medical colleges have been set up at an estimated cost of about Rs 4,080 crore.
This includes about Rs 2,145 crore by the central government and the remaining contribution by the Tamil Nadu government.
New medical colleges have been set up at Virudhunagar, Namakkal, Nilgiris, Tiruppur, Tiruvallur, Nagapattinam, Dindigul, Kallakurichi, Ariyalur, Ramanathapuram and Krishnagiri.
The new campus of the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT) with state-of-the-art infrastructure was inaugurated at Perumbakkam near Chennai. It has been constructed at a cost of Rs 24 crore.

Industrialist Gautam Adani-led Adani Group and South Korea's largest steel maker POSCO have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore business opportunities in India.
This includes setting up of a green, eco-friendly integrated steel mill in Mundra, Gujarat.
The estimated investment of the project is up to $5 billion (about Rs 37,000 crore).
The non-binding MoU intends to cooperate at the group business level in various other areas such as renewable energy, hydrogen and logistics in response to carbon reduction requirements.