Daily current affairs 24th January

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January 24, 2022

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# Omicron

  • Omicron is now in community transmission in India.
  • Omicron has become dominant in many metros, where case are rising exponentially.
  • This has been said by Indian SARS-COV-2 Genomics consortium (INSACOG).
  • INSACOG, Jointly initiated by the Union health and family welfare ministry, the department of biotechnology and others is a consortium of 38 laboratories monitoring the genomic variations in SARS-COV-2, the novel coronavirus causing covid-19.

# Republic Day celebrations

  • The Christian hymn ‘Abide with me’ has been dropped from the beating retreat event this year.
  • Government sources have said that this has been done to include more Indian tunes to the beating retreat ceremony.
  • This year only Indian origin or indigenous tunes are on the list.
  • ‘Abide with me’ has been replaced by Ae mere watan ke logon.

# Gujarat tableau

  • Gujarat government has announced the theme of the state’s tableau on republic day.
  • It will be based on a incident of tribal massacre worse than Jallianwala bagh massacre that occurred in the state 100 years ago.
  • Around 100 years ago, in Pal and Dadhvaav villages of North Gujarat’s Sabarkantha district, the Britishers massacred 1200 tribals.

# Taliban

  • The first Taliban delegation after seiging Kabul has reached Norway for a dialogue with civil society.
  • The discussion will be focused on human rights.
  • The Taliban delegation is headed by foreign minister Amir khan muttaqi.

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