current affairs 24 january 2022

Indonesia passes a bill to move its capital from Jakarta to Nusantara.

Indonesia's parliament has approved a bill to change the Indonesian capital from Jakarta to Nusantara.
The new capital, Nusantara, is located on the island of Borneo within the mineral-rich forest of East Kalimantan.
Jakarta will remain the commercial and financial center while government administrative functions will move to East Kalimantan.
The project to develop the new capital city Nusantara (the archipelago in Javanese) will be taken up in five phases and the first phase is expected to start in 2022.
The estimated cost of the project is approximately 466 trillion rupees ($32 billion).

India's 1st Para-Badminton Academy has been established in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
It has all the advanced equipment and facilities.
This set-up will improve India's medal prospects at the 2024 Paralympics to be held at the Stade de France Stadium in Paris, France.
The Badminton Center has been launched by Gaurav Khanna, Chief National Coach of the Indian Para-Badminton team in association with Ageas Federal Life Insurance.

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has released a book titled The Legend of Birsa Munda, authored by Tuhin A Sinha and co-authored by Ankita Verma.
The book is the story of a lesser-known tribal hero, Birsa Munda, who courageously fought against the oppressive British Raj for the rights of his tribal community.
The Legend of Birsa Munda is the story of a subaltern tribal hero whose contribution to India's freedom struggle should never be forgotten.

A new species of rain frog discovered in the Panama forest is named after Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg.
This species has been named Pristimantis Gretthunberge, or popularly known as Greta Thunberg Rainfrog.
The frog was originally discovered in 2012 and was previously thought to be part of the classified Pristimantis family.
However, recent DNA analysis has confirmed that the frog is a new species, according to the scientific journal ZooKeys.
It was named after Greta Thunberg when conservation non-profit The Rainforest Trust held an auction that allowed the winner to name the new species.
The frog was discovered in a reserve established by the conservation organization Adoptabosk with the support of the Rainforest Trust.

The Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate was merged with the eternal flame at the National War Memorial in the national capital on January 21, 2022.
The ceremony was led by Chief of Integrated Defense Staff, Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna.
That is, the flame of Amar Jawan Jyoti will not remain there after continuous lightning for 50 years.