Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of Jan 22nd to 31st Jan 2023. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk 2023 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Jayanti 2023 is observed on the 23rd of January 2023.
• National Girl Child Day 2023 is observed on the 24th of January 2023.
• International Day of Education 2023 is observed on the 24th of January 2023
• National Tourism Day 2023 is observed on the 25th of January 2023.
• National Voters Day 2023 is observed on the 25th of January 2023.
• International Customs Day is celebrated on January 26 every year and was initiated by the World Customs Organization (W.C.O.) in 1983.
• World Leprosy Day 2023 is observed on the 30th of January 2023.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS

• The National Health Authority (NHA) is in the process of integrating the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) with the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM)
• The Center for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) and the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC) flagged what they said was “generalised surveillance” of Indian citizens by the Government, in an ongoing case before the Delhi High Court.
• The Atal Pension Yojana (APY) targeted towards unorganised sector workers — saw the highest-ever takers in 2022 with enrolments rising 36 percent.
• The Centre may enhance the income support to farmers under the PM-KISAN scheme to `8,000 from `6,000/year, in the upcoming Budget as it seeks to provide a modicum of consumption booster, despite the budgetary focus on macroeconomic stability.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi named the 21 largest unnamed islands of Andaman and Nicobar Islands after Param Vir Chakra awardees in a ceremony on the occasion of Parakram Diwas.
• The government made it mandatory for social media influencers to disclose their ‘material’ interest in endorsing products and services and violations can attract strict legal action, including a ban on endorsements.
• Traders from three sectors — hotels, healthcare, and education are not required to maintain average export obligations for FY21 and FY22 under the Export Promotion Capital Goods (EPCG) scheme.
• The government has held extensive discussions over the past few weeks to overhaul the new personal income tax regime without exemptions, with a new plan expected to be announced in the Union budget on 1 February
• The Centre spent a total of Rs 3.43 trillion for the seven-phase implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) between April 2020 and December 2022.
• The Centre has approved ₹15,225 crore credit for over 20,000 projects so far, under Agriculture Infra Fund (AIF), but co-operatives' disbursal rate (against the sanctioned loans) is less than 15 percent whereas it is nearly 80 percent in the case of banks.
• Indian stock markets are embarking on a shorter settlement cycle or T+1 regime for the final list of large stocks from January, a move that will help reduce margin requirements for clients and boost retail investment.
• India announced that it wants to modify the 62-year-old Indus Water Treaty (IWT) with Pakistan, citing what it called Pakistan’s “intransigence” in resolving disputes over the Kishenganga and Ratle hydropower projects, both in Jammu and Kashmir.
• As many as 12 cheetahs will be brought to India as the central government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with South Africa on the re-introduction of the big cats in the country.
• From April, all government vehicles that have completed 15 years will automatically lose their right to ply on roads as their certificate of registration will expire, according to a new rule of the central government.
• The Jal Shakti Ministry had provided 11 crore rural households with a tap water connection.
• State-run miner Coal India Ltd (CIL) plans to invest around ₹42,600 crore in low-emission infrastructure for fossil fuel mining and green energy to help India achieve its net-zero targets, chairman and managing director Pramod Agrawal
• The Mughal Garden, located within the grounds of the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city.
• The Centre notified three grievance panels that will take the final call on social media takedowns, as proposed by an amendment to the information and technology rules notified last year.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• President of Egypt Mr. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will be the chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 2023. 
• The Netherlands plans to close Europe’s largest gas field, Groningen in October 2023 because it is "very dangerous" to continue to manage it.
• The first meeting (Three-day meeting) of Business 20 (B20)- G20’s business group, was organised in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar city.
• The World Economic Forum (WEF) signed a new partnership with the Indonesian government to support its ambitions to scale blue carbon restoration and ocean conservation efforts at the Annual Meeting 2023.
• The Centre has set up a  G20 task force on digital public infrastructure for economic transformation, financial inclusion, and
• In line with New Delhi’s strong focus on energy transition and energy security, India planned to launch an initiative “ Energy Efficiency partnership for 2030” during its G20 presidency this year.
• India has become the first creditor nation to extend assurance towards restructuring the debt of Sri Lanka with financial assistance worth $4 billion as the island nation makes efforts to unlock a bridge financing package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
• India and Egypt reiterated support for the Non-Aligned Movement.
• The Ministry of Culture signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cultural cooperation between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt, to strengthen the cultural ties with Egypt.
• As part of its 75th National Independence Day celebrations, the government of Sri Lanka has decided to release a commemorative stamp that will include a portrait of the first Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
• The Rachid Karami International Fair (RKIF) located in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli has been officially inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List and List of World Heritage in Danger.
• According to the  data released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), the population in the Chinese mainland in 2022 is 41175 billion which will fall by 850,000 from 2021.
• India and South Africa have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to bring in dozens of African cheetahs to India over the next 10 years, in a new development for Project Cheetah.
• India’s External Affairs Minister Shri S. Jaishankar has extended a concessional USD 40 million Line of Credit for developing sporting infrastructure in the Maldives.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: STATE NEWS

• Kerala’s Wayanad becomes the first district in the country to provide basic documents and facilities such as Aadhaar cards, ration cards, birth/death certificates, election ID cards, bank accounts, and health insurance to all tribal people.
• The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare (MoA&FW) approved an "Apple Cluster" for Jammu and Kashmir's Shopian district under the Cluster Development Programme.
• The Government of Rajasthan will provide drones on rent to the low-income farmers of Rajasthan to help them in spraying fertilizers and pesticides.
• Biswa Sarma announced that the Centre has nominated the Charaideo Maidam, the burial ground of the Ahom Dynasty (1228-1826) in Assam for the coveted UNESCO World Heritage Site (cultural site) for the year 2023-2024.
• The Himachal Pradesh (HP) Chief Minister(CM) Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced that HP targets to become 1st Green Energy State by 2025
• The three-day Torgya festival, a Monastic festival of the Monpa tribe was celebrated at the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh‘s Tawang district.
• The Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has planned investments of around ₹2,200 crores in Tamil Nadu (TN) over the next two years, to take the major grassroots and expansion projects in TN.
• Ganjam district in Odisha has occupied the top position in the country in generating man-days and providing 100 days of work to rural households under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA).
• On the occasion of the 74th Republic Day  (Jan 26, 2023), Chhattisgarh Chief Minister (CM) Shri Bhupesh Baghel announced a monthly unemployment allowance for unemployed persons in Chhattisgarh from the next financial year (2023-24).
• Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Rajasthan to set up a 1 gigawatt (GW) renewable energy (RE) plant in Rajasthan as the nation's second-largest state oil refiner pivots, toward a net zero emission target by
• The Uttar Pradesh (UP) government received investment proposals worth ₹9000 crores at the eighth (8th) and last domestic roadshow organized in Chandigarh ahead of the Global Investors Summit to be held in Lucknow on February 10-12, 2023.
• The minister of state for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Shri Rameswar Teli revealed that India's first ever bio-refinery unit for production of bioethanol from bamboo is expected to be set up by October 2023 in Assam.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING & FINANCE

• The Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India has launched Jeevan Azad (Plan No. 868), aimed at individual savings and life insurance.
• Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has launched an information database on municipal bonds.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI ) extended the time for banks to renew their customer agreements for locker facilities to December 31, 2023, due to compliance delays.
• The Bombay High Court has declared the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) order to write off ₹8,300 crores of Additional Tier-1 (AT1) bonds of YES Bank to ineligible investors.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has directed the SBM Bank (India) Ltd to stop all Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) transactions with immediate effect till further orders.
• Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), has mobilised over Rs 30,000 crore for taking up projects in the agriculture infrastructure sector with a sanctioned amount of 15,000 crore under AIF.
• Capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) imposed a penalty of Rs 26 crore on Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd (CDEL), which runs Cafe Coffee Day, for the diversion of funds from subsidiaries to a company related to promoters.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Nhava Sheva Freeport Terminal Private Limited (NSFTPL) have signed a loan agreement of $131 million or Rs 1066 crore to upgrade the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Container Terminal located in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
• Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Aadhar Housing Finance Ltd (AHFL) have entered into a co-lending agreement to offer home loans at competitive interest rates.
• India is likely to peg its nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth at around 11% during the budget session, marking a slowdown from its estimate for the current fiscal year due to the prospect of weak exports.
• India's largest Small Finance Bank, AU Small Finance Bank (AU SFB), launched the first-of-its-kind platform in the credit card industry - the SwipeUp platform.
• On the Occasion of 74th Republic Day celebrations, Bank of Baroda’s (BoB) subsidiary BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL) has launched Vikram Credit Card, the contactless RuPay credit card dedicated to Indian defense, paramilitary, and police personnel.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a discussion paper on the securitization of stressed assets to provide an alternative mechanism for the sale of bad loans, in addition to the existing asset reconstruction route.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) conducted the auction of green bonds, with a total of 8,000 crore worth of two securities, a 5-year bond and a 10-year bond being
• HDFC Life has collaborated with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to enable policyholders to pay their premiums through a unique voice-based Unified Payments Interface (UPI) service, called UPI 123PAY.
• All asset management companies (AMCs) in India will move to T+2 - shorthand for "trade date plus two days", redemption payment cycle for equity schemes from February 1, 2023, in a move to benefit mutual fund investors.
• Global rating agency Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the long-term local and foreign currency deposit ratings of Bank of Baroda (BOB), Canara Bank, and Punjab National Bank (PNB) from "Ba1" to "Baa3", reflecting improving credit profile and macro economic conditions.
• India sold its first sovereign green bonds worth a total of 80 billion rupees ($979.61 million) at yields below comparable government bonds.
• Citibank and payments platform Paytm ( One97 Communications), have ended their partnership for a co-branded credit card Paytm CITI Card, ahead of the merger of Citibank’s consumer banking business with Axis Bank.
• Star Health and Allied Insurance, India’s first standalone health insurance company, has renewed its strategic corporate agency tie-up with Punjab National Bank (PNB) for a long-term

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS NEWS

• The micro-blogging platform Twitter is planning to release a higher-priced subscription plan with no ads.
• India’s foreign trade data for the first eight months of 2022-23 has been revised significantly higher than the initial estimates released by the commerce ministry, with each month raising the import bill by at least $2 billion or has been reduced.
• Foreign investors pulled out a net amount of Rs 15,236 crore this month so far on attractive Chinese markets and concerns about the US economy entering a recession.
• iPhone maker Apple has become the first company from India to export smartphones worth $1 billion (₹8,100 crores) in a single month, meeting the milestone in December 2022.
• Apple Inc (AAPL.O) wants India to account for up to 25% of its production from about 5%-7% now, the trade minister told a conference, as the iPhone maker continues to move its manufacturing away from China.
• The government is likely to kick off its first-ever issuance of green bonds on a strong note, with debt market participants predicting firm demand.
• The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has asked top income-tax officers to nudge entities that had claimed deduction on account of cess or surcharge over the past several voluntarily differential years to pay the tax to avoid penalties.
• As the government aims to set a template for the next 25 years through the Budget for FY24, it will likely renew its Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) pledge by focusing on five pillars – economy, infrastructure, technology, demography, and supply chain.
• Toll collections at national and state highways through FASTag touched Rs 50,855 crore in 2022, the highest yearly figure and 46 percent more than in 2021.
• India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate is projected to moderate to 5.8% in the calendar year 2023 from an estimated 6.4% in 2022 as higher interest rates and a global economic slowdown weigh on investment and export performance, the United Nation.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOUS AND AGREEMENT

• An agreement was signed between the Indian Ports Association (IPA) and Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) for setting up a Centre for Maritime Economy and Connectivity.
• To ensure stability in the supplies of soil nutrients four fertilizer firms – state-run National Fertilisers Limited and Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd and Chambal Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd and Paradeep Phosphates Ltd from the private sector– have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Morocco’s OCP Group for annual imports of 1.75 million tonnes (MT) of phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) fertilizers.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

• Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Energy Efficiency Services (EESL), Vishal Kapoor took over the additional charge of CEO of Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL).
• Sujeet Sharma has been appointed as Vice President – of Active Network, Commercial of Vodafone Idea. 
• New Zealand's ruling Labour Party selected Mr. Chris Hipkins(44) to replace Jacinda Ardern as its new leader and the 41st prime minister (PM) of New Zealand.
• Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Vikram Dev Dutt has been appointed as the next director general (DG) in the Directorate of General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
• Nykaa's parent firm, FSN E-Commerce Ventures Ltd., has appointed P Ganesh as the chief financial officer (CFO) from Feb. 3, 2023.
• One of the country's oldest public charitable foundations, Tata Trusts appointed Mr. Siddharth Sharma as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Trusts and Aparna Uppaluri as the Chief Operating Officer (COO).
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. has received approval from India’s central bank (Reserve Bank of India) to name Prabdev Singh as the lender’s chief executive officer (CEO) in the country for a period of a three-year.
• The Central government has extended the tenure of Sangeeta Verma as the acting Chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), which has been functioning without a full-time Chairperson for three months now.
• The board of directors of Gujarat Cooperative milk marketing federation Limited (GCMMF), the umbrella body of milk cooperatives in Gujarat that owns the brand Amul Re-elected Mr. Shamalbhai Patel and Mr. Valamji Humbal as Chairman and Vice-Chairman,
• Standard Chartered Bank has appointed Sarabjit Anand as the chief technology and operations officer (CTOO) for India and South Asia.
• During the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Technical Working Group (ITWG) on Animal Genetic Resources (AnGR) in Rome, Italy, India was elected as Vice-Chair and represented the Asia and Pacific region.
• Indian-American astronaut Raja J Chari has been nominated by President Mr. Joe Biden for the appointment to the grade of Air Force brigadier general.
• IDFC Asset Management Company Limited (‘IDFC AMC’), one of the top 10 AMCs in the country, has appointed Mr. Manish Gunwani as Head – Equities.
• Netflix Inc co-founder Mr Reed Hastings,the entrepreneur who reshaped the media landscape and led the charge into streaming, stepped down as co-chief executive of the company
• BJP leader and Union minister Shri Amit Shah announced that the Bharatiya Janata Party has extended its president Shri J.P. Nadda’s term till June, 2024.
• American Express Banking Corp., (AEBC) has appointed Mr Anurag Gupta as the Vice President (VP) and Head of Global Merchant & Network Services in India, bringing both the acquiring and the network cards issuance teams under one leader
• Mr BG Mallya, took charge as General Manager of Integral Coach Factory (ICF).

CURRENT AFFAIRS: AWARDS AND HONOURS

• ESAF Small Finance Bank has bagged the prestigious Inclusive Finance India Awards 2022 for its contributions to advancing the goal of financial inclusion and supporting inclusive growth.
• President Droupadi Murmu conferred the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar (PMRBP) 2023 on 11 children, including one with a rare bone disorder who is now an accomplished singer and a youngster who jumped into a river to save the life of a woman.
• Director SS Rajamouli’s historical epic RRR has scored a nomination in the Best Original Song category at the upcoming 95th Academy Awards, more popularly known as the Oscars.
• A total of 901 police personnel were awarded Police Medals on the occasion of Republic Day, a statement by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

CURRENT AFFAIRS: DEFENCE NEWS

• Tata-Boeing Aerospace Limited (TBAL), an Indo-American defense and aerospace joint venture firm, has delivered the first fuselage (the central part of an aircraft or helicopter, to which the wings and tail are connected), for the six AH-64 Apache attack helicopters ordered by the Indian Army.
• The first edition of a joint exercise between the special forces of the Indian Army and the Egyptian Army named “Exercise Cyclone-I” is being conducted at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan.
• The Indian Navy is set to commission the fifth of six French-designed Scorpone class submarines (Kalvari class) Vagir.
• The Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force (IAF) is set to conduct an annual Command-level exercise, Poorvi Akash, in the eastern sector in the first week of February 2023.
• The Indian Navy conducted a six-day-long mega military exercise - AMPHEX 2023 along with the Indian Army and Indian Air Force (IAF) near Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh (AP).
• The Border Security Force (BSF) has carried out an “Ops Alert” exercise to enhance security along the India-Pakistan border in the Kutch district of Gujarat and Barmer in Rajasthan ahead of the 2023 Republic Day.
• New Delhi is set to host a rare strategic dialogue with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) focused on regional security issues in development with potentially global ramifications.
• The 2023 edition of the Indian Navy’s major maritime exercise Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise (TROPEX), is currently underway in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR).
• The inaugural edition of the bilateral air exercise ‘Veer Guardian 2023’ between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Japan Air Self-Defence Force (JASDF) concluded in

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras)-the incubated firm has developed an Indigenous Mobile Operating System named 'BharOS' that can benefit India's 100 crore mobile phone users.
• Homegrown vaccine maker Bharat Biotech International Limited (BBIL) will launch its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine iNCOVACC (also known as BBV154), the first of its kind in India, on Republic Day January 26, 2023.
• To commemorate National Girl Child Day and Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Serum Institute of India (SII), Mr. Adar Poonawalla has launched CERVAVAC, India’s first indigenously developed quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccine for the prevention of cervical cancer.
• Canadian Prime Minister (PM) Mr. Justin Trudeau has announced a new federal investment of 40 million Canadian dollars ($32 million), which will enable Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc., a Toronto-based Canadian quantum computing company to build and commercialize the world's first photonic-based, fault-tolerant quantum computer.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: RANKING AND REPORTS

• Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio is the strongest brand in India and ranked ninth among the world's strongest brands, according to a report published by Brand Finance.
• Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has overtaken the likes of Satya Nadella of Microsoft and Google's Sundar Pichai to be ranked No.1 among Indians and second globally on the Brand Guardianship Index 2023.
• Israel has emerged as the top buyer of Indian petroleum products, with more than $1 billion worth of purchases in December, followed by the UAE, the US, and Togo.
• Delhi, Bengaluru, and Mumbai are among the top 50 cities providing a beneficial business environment for women entrepreneurs, according to the findings of Dell Technologies’ 2023 Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : PERSON IN THE NEWS

• Lt Commander Disha Amrith, a woman naval air operations official posted at a strategic base, will lead the Indian Navy’s Republic Day contingent of 144 young sailors.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS :

• Canara Bank sold its entire 40% stake in Russian joint venture (JV) Commercial Indo Bank LLC (CIBL), Moscow to the other venture partner State Bank of India (SBI) for about Rs 114 crore (USD 14.67 million).
• The National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL) also known as India's bad bank/Asset Reconstruction Company (ARC) has acquired its first stressed asset Jaypee Infratech from IDBI Bank-led lenders.
• Dell Technologies has acquired Israeli startup Cloudify which is known for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BOOKS AND AUTHOR

• 'COACHING BEYOND: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team,' published by R. Kaushik and R. Sridhar, provides an inside look at the Indian cricket team.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SPORTS NEWS

• Former India skipper Virat Kohli, who scored two centuries and scored 283 runs in three matches against Sri Lanka, jumped two places to break into the top five in the latest ICC ODI rankings.
• Committee that will run the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) and also probe into the allegations of 'sexual misconduct, financial irregularities and misgovernance' leveled by India's top wrestlers, including Olympic and World Championships medallists, against the federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, other officials and some coaches at the national camp.
• Women's cricket has touched a new glass ceiling in India and It is the latest goldmine that the Indian cricket Board has discovered.

• Indian skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has been named the captain of the ICC Women's ODI Team of the year for 2022 which also includes her teammates, opener Smriti Mandhana, and fast bowler Renuka Singh, the International Cricket Council.
• Swashbuckling India middle-order batsman Suryakumar Yadav, who had an outstanding run in the shortest format in the year 2022, was named the ICC Men's Cricketer of the Year by the sport's global governing body.
• India crowned first-ever ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World champions
• Aryna Sabalenka tamed her nerves to blast her way to a maiden Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, with a 4-6 6-3 6-4 win over Kazakh 22nd seed Elena Rybakina in a thrilling final featuring two power-hitters in the women's game.
• Novak Djokovic has won all nine of his previous Australian Open finals so confidence is sky-high as he bids to equal Rafael Nadal's Grand Slam record and return to world number one.
• The United States will host the 2024 Copa America, which will feature 10 teams from South America and six from North and Central America and the Caribbean.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: OBITUARIES

• Former Vice Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Harjeet Singh Arora passed away at the age of 61 in New Delhi, India.
• Renowned Indian architect Dr. Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi passed away at the age of 95.
• United States (US) Rock singer, David Crosby passed away at the age of 81.
• FLAME University, IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, NIFT Delhi, Amdavad ni Gufa, CEPT University, and the Aranya Low-Cost Housing development in Indore for which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture
• Former Indian decathlete & Iron Man of India Sabir Ali passed away at the age of 67 in New Delhi,
• Veteran Telugu film actress and former parliamentarian J Jamuna passed away at the age of 86 in Hyderabad.