Current affairs 29 January 2023

First Employment Working Group Meeting will be held in Jodhpur.

The first Employment Working Group Meeting under the Sherpa track of the G20 will be held from February 2 to 4 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
Focus areas: Addressing Global Skill Gaps, Gig and Platform Economy and Social Protection, and Sustainable Financing of Social Security.
The city has been decorated with Rajasthani culture and a special theme.
Dishes specially prepared with millets will be served to the Sherpas and delegates.

The 3rd INTERPOL Young Global Police Leaders Programme (YGPLP) is being organized from 25 January to 2 February 2023 in New Delhi, India.
It was virtually addressed by INTERPOL Secretary General, Jurgen Stock.
The event was organized by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
As many as 59 participants from 44 countries participate in the programme.
Director: Subodh Kumar Jaiswal
INTERPOL Headquarters: Lyon, France

The 15th BRICS summit will be held in Durban, South Africa in August 2023.
It was announced by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov in a joint conference with Foreign Minister of the State of Eritrea Osman Saleh in Massawa, Eritrea.
The fifth annual BRICS summit was held in Durban, South Africa in 2013.
BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
BRIC was founded in 2006 and later, in 2010, South Africa was included and it became BRICS.

HM Amit Shah has laid the foundation stone for a National Forensic Sciences University at the premises of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad in Karnataka.
Aim: It will help to create expert manpower for the country to combat crime and result in the prosecution of criminals.
He was also part of a road show in Dharwad and addressed a public rally in Belagavi district.
He had a darshan of God Shambulingeshwara and visit Sri Basavanna Devara mutt in Dharwad.

India and South Africa signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to introduce 12 African Cheetahs annually over the next eight to ten year.
An initial batch of 12 cheetahs will be flown from South Africa to India in February 2023.
The cats will join eight Cheetah brought to India from Namibia in 2022.
Aim: To reintroduce cheetah to a former range state is being carried out following the local extinction of this iconic species due to overhunting and loss of habitat.