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1. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​As farmers intensified their protests against the newly enacted farm laws, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted that agriculture was a "mother sector" and there was no question of taking any "retrograde steps" against it ever

2. Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami simultaneously inaugurated 2,000 Amma mini COVID-19 clinics across Tamil Nadu. The state is the fourth worst-affected in the country with nearly eight lakh people contracting the disease since its breakout in January.

3.The Supreme Court has agreed to examine if a simple declaration of the 1975 Emergency by the Congress government led by Indira Gandhi was unconstitutional will be feasible.

4.United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is scheduled to arrive in India on Monday for a four-day visit during which he will hold talks with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on bilateral, regional, and international issues of mutual interest.

5.In Gujarat, around 84 per cent of the beds in government as well as designated private COVID-19 hospitals are currently vacant, said Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel on Monday.

6.All 525 eligible students of IIM Bangalore were recruited for summer placements by over 130 companies, which made 529 offers.

7. Google services were reportedly down in many countries including India. Many users of the Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs, Maps, Adwords and Adsense and Google Pay experiences outages.Reports have been coming in from India, Europe, the US, Canada, South Africa, Australia and countries in Central and South America.

8.Bengaluru FC walked away with three points after a 4-2 win over Kerala Blasters in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2020-21 at the Fatorda Stadium, Goa, on Sunday.

9.Ola Announces Plans to Set up World's Largest Electric Scooter Factory in Tamil Nadu

10The Maharashtra government has allocated Rs 2,211 crore to provide relief to farmers hit by natural calamities and Rs 22 crore for COVID-19 vaccine air conditioning facilities as it tabled Rs 21,992.50 crore supplementary demands in the assembly on Monday

11.Centre on Monday approved the health data management policy of the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) that sets out the minimum standard for data privacy protection that should be followed across the board in order to ensure compliance with relevant and applicable laws, rules and regulations.

12. Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has written a letter to the telecom regulator, alleging that rivals Bharti Airtel Ltd and Vodafone Idea Ltd (Vi) are carrying out unethical and anti-competitive mobile number porting to capitalise on the ongoing farmers’ protest. To counter Jio, Airtel and Vi have called the allegations “baseless", urging the regulator to dismiss them

13 India is planning to establish a regional climate centre for the Himalayan mountain region which will not only provide weather-related advices within the country but also to its neighbours, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutunjay Mohapatra said on Monday. 

14.Registrations for IFFI have opened for the film festival that is slated to be held from 16-24 January, 2021

15.As India gears up for the coronavirus vaccination drive with three vaccine candidates under the review of DGCI, the Health Ministry sent its operational guidelines to States and Union Territories for the distribution of the vaccine as and when it becomes available.The document, which has been shared with all states, says that only 100 people per “session” at each site per day are likely to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

16.Singapore on Monday joined a growing list of countries including the US and the UK in granting use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to prevent Covid-19 in individuals aged 16 years and above.

17.India has set a high standard for the global mutual fund industry with monthly portfolio holdings disclosure requirement, a Morningstar report said on Monday.

18.The latest instalment of Rs 6,000 crore was released to the states on Monday, out of which Rs 5,516.60 crore has been released to 23 states and Rs 483.40 crore has been released to 3 Union Territories (UT) with legislative assemblies (Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Puducherry).

19.Assam’s BJP-led coalition government is “secularising” the state’s entire education system by deciding to operate the state-run madrasas like any other general educational institutes.

20. India Aims to Surpass China to Become World's Largest Smartphone Manufacturing Hub: Govt