Top 5 Current Affairs: 25 January 2022

Jan 25, 2022, 20:23 IST

Indian opener Shafali Verma has climbed to the top spot on the ICC Women's T20 Batting Rankings 2022.

Top 5 Current Affairs
Top 5 Current Affairs

Lucknow IPL team to be called Lucknow Super Giants

The Lucknow IPL team, owned by RPSG Group, will be called Lucknow Super GiantsDr. Sanjiv Goenka, Lucknow IPL Team owner, and RPSG Group Chairman unveiled the new name of the Lucknow IPL team. The Lucknow IPL team had decided to crowdsource its name from the fans under the 'Naam banao naam kamao' contest. 

Meta’s new Supercomputer to be called world’s fastest

Meta, the Facebook parent company, has said that its newly unveiled artificial intelligence supercomputer will be the fastest in the world by mid-2022. New AI Research SuperCluster (RSC) will help the company in building better AI models that will be able to learn from the trillions of examples, work across hundreds of languages. 

ICC Women’s T20 Rankings 2022

Indian opener Shafali Verma has climbed to the top spot on the ICC Women's T20 Batting Rankings 2022. Australia's Beth Mooney is ranked second, followed by Australian captain Meg Lanning at third place. Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma is ranked third in the ICC Women's T201 All-Rounder Rankings 2022.

President’s address Republic Day Eve 2022

President Ram Nath Kovind in his address to the nation on the eve of Republic Day 2022 stated diversity and vibrancy of our democracy is appreciated worldwide. He said this year’s celebrations may be muted due to the COVID-19 pandemic but the spirit is strong as ever. President also remembered the great freedom fighters who showed incomparable courage in their pursuit of the dream of Swaraj and fired up the people to fight for it.

Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha to have staggered timings during Union Budget 2022

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will have staggered timings during the Budget session of Parliament starting from March 31. Rajya Sabha will meet in the first half of the day and Lok Sabha will meet in the second half. President will address the joint sitting of both the Houses of Parliament on January 31 and the Union Budget 2022 will be presented on February 1.

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