Current affairs 01 January 2023

Centre to roll out new integrated Food Security Scheme from 1st Jan 2023.

• Centre will roll out new integrated Food Security Scheme from 1st January 2023 to provide free food grains to over 81 crore beneficiaries under National Food Security Act, NFSA in 2023.
• It will also ensure effective and uniform implementation of the Act and free foodgrains will concurrently ensure uniform implementation of portability under One Nation One Ration Card across the country.
• Under this scheme, Centre will provide free foodgrains to all NFSA beneficiaries.

Hockey Haryana Women’s U-18 team wins Khelo India Youth Games 2022.

• Hockey Haryana's women's team has won Khelo India Youth Games 2022 Women’s Under 18 Qualifiers after defeating Madhya Pradesh 2-0 in the final at Bhubaneswar.
• Pooja and Gurmail Kaur scored a goal each for Haryana to make the team the trophy winner
• Odisha stepped up to claim 3rd place after beating Hockey Jharkhand 2-1 in the 3rd and 4th place encounter.
• Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Jharkhand have qualified for the Khelo India Youth Games to be held in MP in 2023.

North Korea fires ballistic missiles towards east of Korean peninsula.

• North Korea has fired three short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea to the east of the Korean peninsula.
• South Korea's military has said that these ballistic missiles launch is a grave provocation that undermines peace and stability on Korean Peninsula as well as the international community.
• This latest volley comes 5 days after North Korea flew drones into South Korea's airspace for the first time since 2017.

Koneru Humpy wins silver at World Blitz Chess Championship.

• Former world rapid champion, Koneru Humpy has won India’s first-ever silver medal in FIDE World Blitz Chess Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan after defeating China’s Zhongyi Tan.
• He scored an impressive 12.5 points, just half a point behind the gold medal winner Bibisara Balabayeva of Kazakhastan.
• He is the second Indian to win a medal at World Blitz, after Viswanathan Anand.

Pokhara Regional International Airport to get operational from 1st Jan 2023.

• Pokhara Regional International Airport will be officially brought into operation from 1st January 2023.
• Inauguration programme of the airport will include different processions, fashion shows at coordination of Pokhara Metropolitan City and Pokhara Tourism Council.
• This airport is going to be a milestone for the promotion of tourism not only in Pokhara.
• This is constructed by a Chinese construction company.