Subject: Daily Updates For this Month, Current Affairs For the Month of January 2015
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31/01/2015 & 30/01/2015:
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31/01/2015 & 30/01/2015:
- IIT Bombay launches mass open online courses
- Send money 24x7 using only your phone's address book by HDFC
- 1964 Nobel Prize in physics Charles Townes died of laser
- Jaipal Singh, a Gujarat-cadre IFS officer, has been appointed Private Secretary to Minister of State for Home Affairs Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary.
- Agni 5, successfully test-fired OF 5,000 km.
- Coal India stake sale fetches Rs. 22,600 crore
- Base year change pushes 2013-14 GDP growth to 6.9%
- India tops Credit Suisse Emerging Consumer Scorecard 2015
- Uniformity, innovation coming to credit data
- Krishna Chaudhary appointed as the Director General of ITBP
- Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova to win Australian Open
- West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has announced his retirement from Test cricket.
- India overtakes China as world’s leading gold consumer
- Defence Secretary RK Mathur is given additional charge of Department of Defence Research and Development (DDR&D).
- Shekhar Sen appointed as Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi
- Nation remembers Lala Lajpat Rai on his 150th birth anniversary
- BrahMos to be integrated with Sukhoi
- Governor nominates Anglo-Indian in Jharkhand Assembly
- Centre to dilute stake in CIL
- S Jaishankar took charge as Foreign Secretary, replacing Sujatha Singh
- Kalyan Singh sworn in as Himachal Pradesh Governor
- Hockey Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passes away
- Arundhathi Subramaniam won Khushwant Singh Memorial Prize for Poetry when God is a Traveller
- RBI signs an information sharing agreement with Brazil’s Central Bank
- Gujarat Technological University launches e-Raksha centre to fight cybercrime
- Ancient star with five Earth size planets discovered
- K Durga Prasad appointed as the Special DG of CRPF
- Sean Abbott has won Bradman young cricketer of the year award 2015.
- Cartoonist R.K. Laxman says in his autobiography, The Tunnel of Time.
- Libby Lane, first female bishop of England consecrated
- Paulina Vega Miss Colombia crowned Miss Universe 2015 in Miami
- Modi to hold first meeting of NITI Aayog on February 6
- Major Mukund Varadarajan, Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh posthumously awarded with Ashok Chakra
- Anti-austerity Syriza party wins Greece’s general elections
- Argentine playmaker Juan Roman Riquelme retired from Football
- Hindu share dips below 80%, Muslim share grows but slower
- Kerala government slaps Rs 54 cr fine on 4 online traders major Flipkart fine of Rs 47.15 cr, Jabong.Com Rs.3.89 cr, Vector e-commerce Rs 2.23 cr and Robemall Apparels Rs 36 lakh.
- SBI inks 100 mn euro loan pact with European Investment Bank for lending to private businesses in the country.
- 9 Crore sign up for LPG cash-subsidy scheme out of a total customer base of 15.33 crore, have joined the Direct Benefit Transfer for LPG (DBTL) scheme and Rs 2,262 crore
- National Girl Child Day - 24th January
- Saudi Arabia King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Died
- Jhumpa Lahiri Won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
- India observes 118th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
- RBI directs banks to display all loan costs
- South Korean President Park Geun-hye has nominated ruling party lawmaker Lee Wan Koo to replace Prime Minister Chung Hong-won .
- Kerala to get first International Institute of Music on 2nd Jan
22/01/2015:
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi Launched “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” campaign.
- Justice Easwar Appointed As Interim Chairman of Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA).
- Jasjit Ahluwalia Appointed as Dean of School of Public Health at Rutgers University.
- Microsoft unveils Windows 10 and ‘HoloLens’
- Pakistan bans JuD, Haqqani network
- OPEC, oil companies clash at Davos over price collapse
- Sunil Sood to succeed Marten Pieters as Vodafone India CEO
- Modi launched ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ scheme in Haryana
- Suzlon sells German unit for Rs. 7,200 crore
- Pakistan's Ex-Foreign Minister Khurshid M Kasuri penned 'Neither a Hawk nor a Dove'
21/01/2015:
- Union Government Launched HRIDAY scheme.
- Economist Bibek Debroy Takes Over As Member of NITI Aayog.
- Microsoft Unveils Virtual Assistant Cortana For Windows Handsets
- Government to allocate 36 coal blocks to PSUs
- India world's second-most trusted nation: Survey
- 2015 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.
- India’s Tiger Population Increases By 30% In Past Three Years around 2,226.
- European Union Lifts Ban On Import of Indian Mangoes.
- Ayonika Paul and Annu Raj Singh Won Gold At 4th Gun For Glory Shooting Championship.
- Periyar Tiger Reserve Won NTCA Award.
- The eighth edition of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival all set to begin
- Hyderabad to host World Congress on Information Technology in 2018
- India’s growth to reach 6.3 per cent in 2016: UN WESP report
- Singapore's GIC to invest Rs 1,020 crore in Bandhan Financial Services
- Shubham, 13, Silicon Valley’s youngest entrepreneur, develops Braille printer
- Twitter buys Indian mobile marketing start-up ZipDial
- Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani appointed as chairperson of CBFC
- Former PM Manmohan Singh adopted Pachim Bekeli Gaon Panchyat
- TCS ends RIL's 23-year run as most profitable firm
- Filmmaker Pahlaj Nihalani Appointed as new Censor Board chief.
- Eminent Political Scientist Rajni Kothari Died.
- Indian American Frank Islam Presented with Martin Luther King Award.
- Twitter Appoints Taranjeet Singh As Sales Head For India Operations.
- Manjul Bhargava to lead Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s teach in India programme
- Twitter ropes in Taranjeet Singh to head business in India
- 24 Children, including 8 girls selected for National Bravery Awards
- PSU bank employees to hold 4-day strike from Jan 21 on wage revision issue
- Indian-American Frank Islam receives Martin Luther award
- Telecom Commission clears Rs 3700-cr base price for 2,100-MHz
- Kudankulam Nuclear Plant Restarts Power Generation
- AB de Villiers: South Africa batsman smashes century record
- Sydney Open 2015:
- Women's: Czech Petra Kvitova beats Karolina Pliskova.
- Men's: Viktor Troicki defeated Mikhail Kukushkin.
- NASA, NOAA found 2014 Warmest Year In Modern Record.
- Ellen Hoog Named As FIH Player of the Year
- LCA Tejas Ready for Crucial Handover to Indian Air Force.
- Filmmaker Shaji N Karun quits Censor Board.
- Beagle 2 spacecraft found intact on surface of Mars after 11 years
- S.K. Sinha - first non-Muslim to lead the Bangladesh’s top judiciary,
- Book on Sonia Gandhi titled The Red Sari written by Javier Moro released in India
- HAL Chairman R K Tyagi conferred with JGBS-Top Rankers’ Excellence Award
- Sania Mirza wins Sydney Open title with Bethanie.
- Union Minister Smriti Irani Laid Foundation Stone For IIM-Visakhapatnam.
- Nepal Names Deep Kumar Upadhyay As India Envoy new ambassador to Indi.
- China To Start Building Five Nuclear Reactors In 2015
- Haryana picks Ramdev as brand ambassador
- Censor Board chief Leela Samson decides to quit
- Siddhartha Chatterjee appointed as CTO of Persistent Systems Ltd
- Noted RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal conferred with Giraffe Hero award 2015
- China Food and Drug Administration approved new vaccine to treat Poliomyelitis.
- Union Government Launched Venture Capital Fund for Scheduled Castes.
- Stephen Constantine Appointed As Indian Men’s Football Head Coach.
- Jammu and Kashmir gets National E-Governance Award 2014-15.
- Veteran Freedom Fighter Ghelubhai Naik Died
- PM Narendra Modi to launch 'Beti Bachao' scheme
- Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the reverse repo rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%.
- Pakistan to ban JuD and Haqqani network
- Army Day celebrated on 15 January
- Anupam Shrivastava appointed as CMD of BSNL.
- Hari Shankar Brahma Is New Chief Election Commissioner.
- Brett Lee Announced Retirement From All Forms Of Cricket.
- Noted RTI Activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal Won Giraffe Hero Award 2015
- H.S.Brahma to be the next chief Election Commissioner of India.
- DRDO chief Avinash Chander removed
- PVR set to acquire movie exhibition company SPI Cinemas popularly known as Sathyam Cinemas.
- Union Ministry of Health proposed COTPA (Amendment) Bill 2015
- Bharatiya Mahila Bank inks pact with Lakme Salons to fund franchisees
- Canara Bank bags 3 MSME awards
- Infosys CEO dedicates $250 million to innovate in India
- India will catch up with China’s growth rate in 2016-17: World Bank.
- Sanskrit scholar Prabhu Nath Dwivedi Conferred The Sahitya Akademi Award.
- Former CBI chief Resigns As UPSC Member.
- Joseph Vaz Canonized As Sri Lanka’s First Saint
- AS Kiran Kumar appointed as new ISRO chief.
- Raghuram Rajan named Governor of the Year, Jacques de Larosiere winning the Lifetime Achievement Award, Claudio Borio was handed the inaugural award for Economics in Central Banking Awards 2015.
- Retail inflation up at 5% in Dec on higher food prices
- India’s Mars Orbiter team won 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the science and engineering category from the US based National Space Society (NSS).
- Indian restaurant Zomato acquired U.S.-based rival Urbanspoon
- Deepak Parekh appointed as Chairman of BAE Systems India (Services) Private Limited
- Australia launched Online Visa Pilot Programme for Indian business and tourism visitors
- Cristiano Ronaldo retains the Ballon d’Or
- Microsoft ties up with Idea for paid apps, games
- National Youth Day observed across India on 12 January
- NRIs can vote through postal ballots
- SDSC-SHAR director MYS Prasad chosen for Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award 2015
- EC announces Delhi Assembly poll dates; voting on Feb 7, counting on Feb 10
- Stan Wawrinka wins Chennai Open.
- 72nd Golden Globe Awards announced in Beverly Hills, California
- Best Motion Picture-Drama: Boyhood
- Best Actor in a Motion Picture- Drama: Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture-Drama: Julianne Moore, Still Alice
- Best Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical: The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: Amy Adams, Big Eyes
- Best Actor in a Motion Picture-Comedy or Musical: Michael Keaton, Birdman
- Best Animated Film: How To Train Your Dragon 2
- Best Foreign Language Film: Leviathan (Russia)
- Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Patricia Arquette, Boyhood
- Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: J.K. Simmons, Whiplash
- Best Director-Motion Picture: Richard Linklater, Boyhood
- Best Screenplay: Birdman
- Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Johann Johannsson, The Theory of Everything
- Best Original Song - Motion Picture: John Legend and Common, "Glory," Selma
- Vibrant Gujarat: PM Narendra Modi promises to make India easiest place to do business
- World Bank projects 6.4% economic growth in India in 2015
- SunEdison and Omnigrid Micropower Company (OMC), merged.
- Federer notches 1,000th match win, claims Brisbane title.
- Thomas Kurian Is New Oracle President.
- Advanced Electronic Warfare (EW) Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was successfully tested onboard the country’s Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas-PV1 Suite.
- John Kerry Heads for India to Attend the Vibrant Gujarat Summit
- Sindhushree Khullar appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of NITI Aayog
- Rajiv Mehta appointed new DGP of Meghalaya.
- ISRO Scientist M.Y.S.Prasad Choosen For Vikram Sarabhai Award
- Sirisena's first overseas visit will be to India
- UN to Host New Libya Peace Talks in Geneva Next Week
- Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari presented Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards 2015
- SpaceX Launches for NASA, Aims for Rocket Landing at Sea
- Mahinda Rajapaksa concedes defeat to opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena
- SEBI proposes e-IPO norms(Electronic-Initial public offer)
- Qantas rated as ‘World’s Safest Airline for 2015′
- KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co), American multinational private equity firm, had set up a non-banking financial company.
- Governor’s rule imposed in Jammu and Kashmir from Jan9 .
- Vaccine Raksha Blu for bluetongue disease launched.
- Legendary Gospel Singer Andrae Crouch Died.
- Chinese Physicist Yu Min Awarded State Preeminent Science and Technology Award 2014.
- 13th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Sammelan at Mahatma Mandir in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
- 12 dead in shooting at French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris
- Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) schemes merged,Coins and stamps released at PBD.
- Person of Indian Origin (PIO) and Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI)
- Atul Khare appointed as the UN Under-Secretary-General
- New Jersey to host international conference on Hindi in April
- Gujarat govt announces industrial policy for 2015.
- Mali President Names Modibo Keita As New Prime Minister.
- Former Chief Justice RK Manisana Died.
- Australia's Qantas Named World’s Safest Airline.
- YP Singhal Named new Haryana DGP
- Railways' earnings up by over 12% uring April-December 2014,
- Google, New ally for 'Digital India' project
- IBA raises wage revision offer to 12.5%
- Amitabh Bachchan named as the Brand Ambassador of AP health sector
- President signed Ordinance to amend Citizenship Act, 1955
- Nilesh Shah resigned as MD & CEO of AXIS Capital Limited
- P Krishnamurthy appointed as Private Secretary of Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar
- Union Cabinet approved to set up India-based Neutrino Observatory in TN
- Former Minister of State for PWD Ram Prasad Kamal died
- LED bulb distribution under domestic efficient lighting programme (DELP) in Delhi.
- Laxman, SP Balasubrahmanyam new Swachh Bharat ambassadors
- 18 Jharkhand villages identified under 'Green India Mission'
- Arvind Panagariya to be Vice-Chairman of PM Narendra Modi's NITI Aayog
- Government to implement new Companies Act that includes setting up Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority (IEPFA) and National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA).
- DDA plans smart city in Dwarka, flats for senior citizens in 2015.
- Kiran Bhai Vadodaria Elected As Indian Newspaper Society (INS) president.
- Veteran Chinese Sports Administrator He Zhenliang Died.
- ICICI Launches Digital Village Project in Gujarat
- Gyan Sangam: Government on its way to overhaul public sector banks
- West Bengal is organising Bengal Global Business Summit
- Kumar Sangakkara fastest to 12,000 runs in Tests
- Intel invests $24.8 million to speed up launch of Google Glass rival
- RBI relaxed KYC rules for Non-Banking Financial Companies.
- PM Narendra Modi Inaugurates 102nd Session Of The Indian Science Congress in Mumbai.
- R.Koteeswaran Took Charge As New CMD of Indian Overseas Bank.
- Krishan Kant Paul will be sworn in as the sixth Governor of Uttarakhand on January 8.
- R.K. Srivastava took over as the new chairman of Airports Authority of India (AAI) replacing Sudheer Raheja.
- Uttarakhand governor Aziz Qureshi transferred to Mizoram
- BHEL bags first key power project in Telangana
- LIC International launches co-branded credit card with UAE's First Gulf Bank
- Government to prioritise drugs, states to revive Jan Aushadhi Pharmacies
- R Koteeswaran takes over as new Indian Overseas Bank CMD.
- Veteran Scientist Vasant Gowarikar Died.
- Petra Kvitova Named Right To Play Ambassador
- ISRO chairperson K Radhakrishnan retires
- Chhattigarh declares "Plastic Carry Bag Free State".
- Kishore Kumar Sansi takes charge as MD and CEO of Vijay Bank.
- 65 years Planning Commission renamed " NITI Aayog" called as National Institution for Transforming India, Ayog .
- Tropical storm Jangmi struck Philippines.
- M. Sathiyavathy is new DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) chief Sathiyavathy is expected to assume charge on Monday, replacing Prabhat Kumar .
- NASA's SMAP instrument to measure Earth's soil
- A K Mittal appointed railway board chairman
- Noted journalist Boobli George Verghese died
- Government splits CMD post in Public Sector Banks
- Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh launches women safety mobile app 'Himmat'.
- Dilma Rousseff Sworn In For Second Term As Brazilian President.
- A.K. Mittal Appointed As New Chairman of Railway Board.
- India To Host 2nd International Indian Ocean Expedition.
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