Civils daily current affairs- Dec 16, 2022
1-From October 18 to 22, Gandhinagar, Gujarat hosted the 12th iteration of the prestigious biennial defence exhibition + DefExpo 2022 +, which was coordinated by the Ministry of Defense.
2-On November 8, 2022, Justice DY Chandrachud was sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI).
3-The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, in its seventh iteration, began on October 11, 2022, in the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar.
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4-The seventh of October is designated as “World Cotton Day.” The third anniversary of the global event will be commemorated in 2022.
5-India’s top cueist, Pankaj Advani, won the 2022 IBSF World Billiards Championships on October 8 in Kuala Lumpur, giving him his 25th gold medal overall.
6-On October 10, 2022, three US economists—Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig—presented the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences for 2022.
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7-To commemorate the Territorial Army’s founding on this day in 1949 by the first Governor General C. Rajagopalachari, the nation-wide celebration of the 73rd Raising Day of the Territorial Army was held on October 9.
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8-On October 1st, Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced 5G services at a ceremony at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
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9-On October 3, 2022, at Jodhpur Airbase, the indigenously developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) Prachanda, which is short for Prachanda, was formally admitted into the Indian Air Force.
10- Svante Pabo, a geneticist from Sweden, earned the Physiology or Medicine Prize for 2022 on October 3, 2022.
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