BharOS’ is an indigenous operating system for smartphones developed by the
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT). It was developed by JandK Operations Private Limited (JandKops), which has been incubated by IIT Madras. It aspires to put India on par with those few countries that currently possess such capabilities. It aims to develop a free and open-source operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems. BharOS comes with No Default Apps (NDA).
Parakram Diwas/ Netaji Jayanti – January 23 India celebrated 126th Birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. His birth anniversary is also marked as “Parakram Diwas or Courage Day”.
National Girl Child Day – January 24. This day was established in 2008 by the Ministry of Women and Child Development. The goal of National Female Child Day is to highlight the prejudice and injustice that girl children face. International Girl Child Day is celebrated on October 11.
Aruna Miller has made a history by becoming the first Indian-American politician
to be sworn in as the Lieutenant Governor in the state of Maryland, USA
The five-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Film Festival – will
be held in Mumbai from January 27-31. Both India and Pakistan were admitted to the SCO in 2017.India took over the presidency of the SCO following the nine-member bloc’s
summit at Samarkand in Uzbekistan in September last year
