17 January 2014
• 28th Congress of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) conference was inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee.
• London-based Indian researcher Mahaveer Golechha was selected for a prestigious award for his work on a drug to cure Alzheimer’s.
• Famous Bengali actress Suchitra Sen died in Kolkota at the age 82. She was the first ever Indian actress to win an international award - receiving the Silver Prize for Best Actress at the Moscow Film Festival for 'Saptapadi'.
• The seventh edition of the popular Jaipur Literature Festival began at Diggi Palace here. It will feature as many as 240 speakers, including two Nobel laureates, Amartya Sen and Harold Varmus, who will engage in conversations on a wide range of subjects.
• Hong Kong and Macau, the 2 Special Administrative Regions of China, includeded in the sensitive list of countries by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
• Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of the Union Minister Sashi Tharoor was found dead in a luxury Leela Palace hotel room in Delhi. Her body was found by Tharoor after his return from the AICC meet.
• India occupies a disappointing 97th spot in the 'Global Food Index 2014' that listed 125 countries.
• India to send only 3 sportspersons to participate in 'Sochi Winter Olympics' commencing from 7th February 2014 in Russia. They are Shiva Keshavan for Luge event and Himanshu Thakur & Nadeem Iqbal for Alpine Skiing respectively.
• The spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohra community Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin passed away.
• The European Space Agency scientists have revealed a 1500 kms long and 7 kms wide river that once ran across Mars.
16 January 2014
• Arunachal Pradesh witnessed the first trial run of a rail engine. The first trial run was of 20 kms from Harmutty in Lakhimpur district of Assam to the Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may keep the interest rates “steady” in its monetary policy review later this month and a rate cut is likely only in the next financial year, according to an SBI research report.
• Karnataka becomes the first state in India to give its entire population of 6.11 crore some kind of health cover with the newly launched Rajiv Arogya Bhagya.
• Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) and SBI Cards have joined hands for roll-out of credit cards to customers of India’s first women-focused commercial bank.
• Anees Salim bags The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 for his second novel 'Vanity Bagh'.
• World Bank forecast Indian economy to grow over 6 percent in 2014-15 and 7% for 2016-17.
• The Indian Coast Guard Ship Abhinav was commissioned in Kochi by the Director General of Coast Guard Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapiyal. He is the third in the series of twenty Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) and has been designed and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.
• Adhip Chaudhuri, an international economist who taught at Georgetown University, died in Vienna, Virginia, earlier this week from lung cancer. He was 63.
• Jet Airways CEO Gary Kenneth Toomey resigned with immediate effect just three months after taking over as the CEO of Jet Airways, the airline announced.
• Akhilesh Das Gupta is reelected as President of the Badminton Association of India. He remained the only candidate for the coveted post at the end of the filing of the nominations.
15 January 2014
• Nation observed 66th Army Day. The day is celebrated in recognition of the appointment of General K M Cariappa as the first Commander in Chief of independent India. He succeeded British Army General Roy Butcher on this day in 1948.
• Renowned Marathi poet and activist Namdeo Dhasal passed away in Mumbai.
• American golfer Jimmy Walker wins 'Sony Open golf tournament' held in Hawaii (US).
• Sports broadcaster Sony SIX bagged the broadcast rights for India for FIFA World Cup in 2014 and 2018.
• Jeevandas Narayan has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore.
• The World Bank has projected India’s economy will grow over 6 per cent in 2014-15 and 7.1 per cent by 2016-17 as global demand recovers and domestic investment increases
• Senior IAS officer Rajeev Kher has been appointed Secretary in Department of Commerce. Kher. He is a 1980-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
• Kerala-based writer Anees Salim won "The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013" for his second novel “Vanity Bagh”. The Hindu Prize comprises a cash component of Rs. 5 lakh and a plaque.
• The US handed over to India three stolen antique sculptures, valued at over USD 1.5 million, in a display of cooperation between the two countries after a month-long tension over the arrest on an Indian diplomat in USA.
• Former India captain Sourav Ganguly would be conferred with an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by the prestigious Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpur. He has contributed to take Indian cricket to great heights in the arena of world cricket.
14 January 2014
• Corporation Bank will launch ‘Corp Micro Plus’, a special campaign for micro enterprises from January 17 to March 31.
• Cristiano Ranaldo awarded FIFA Ballon d’Or award 2013. He overtook Barcelona's Messi and France winger Franck Ribery to get the award.
• India celebrated Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Magh Bihu,Lohri and Milad-un-Nabi, marking the birth anniversary of prophet Mohammed is also celebrated with religious fervour.
• President of India, Pranab Mukherjee presented the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award of 2012 and 2013, two eminent Bengali poets, Nirendranath Chakraborty & Sankha Ghosh. The awards were given at a function at Raj Bhawan, Kolkata.
• Vijay Zol named captain of Indian ICC Under-19 World Cup 2014 squad. The U-19 Cricket World Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in February 2014.
• World Athletics Final Long jumper Anju Booby George awarded gold medal nine years after her second place finish at the 2005 Monaco
• Google buys out Nest Labs, smart thermostat and smoke alarm-maker, in a $3.2 billion deal.
• Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer has been voted the best women's football player in the world for 2013. Nadine Angerer is the current European player defeated United States forward Abby Wambach,
• Delhi became first state to withdraw Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI) in Multibrand Retail. This action can adversely affect the investment in the capital and tarnish its FDI friendly image.
• Tata AIA Life Insurance launched a product name is Money Maxima, a long term plan which is compliant with new IRDA guidelines. It is a long term plan that stretches to fit the dreams of our customers through flexibility of plan duration.
13 January 2014
• India declared "Polio Free" by World Health Organisation (WHO) as it meets the criteria of "no new reported polio cases in last three years". It is only the second time in the history that a disease is being eliminated in India through immunization after small pox in May 1980.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone of country's largest 2800 mw nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in district of Fatehabad, Haryana.
• Union Minister Sachin Pilot appointed as the Congress Chief in Rajasthan. The annoucement was made by party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi in New Delhi
• The harvest festival, Lohri celebrated with traditional fervour & enthusiasm. People in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, exchange gifts, sweets and enjoy bonfire at night.
• POSCO, the South Korean steel maker giant has received environment clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for a steel plant of Rs 52000 crore in Odisha.
• 71st Golden Globe Awards were announced. 12 Years a Slave has won best film (drama) at the Golden Globes. 12 Years a Slave directed by British filmmaker Steve McQueen, is the true life story of a free black man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in pre-Civil War America.
• The first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open Tennis tournament began in Melbourne.
• Veteran South Indian film actress Anjali Devi died in Chennai. The 85 year old actress was under treatment at a city hospital for a long time.
12 January 2014
• Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary celebrated at various places in the country.
• Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passed away in hospital near Tel Aviv at the age of 85, who was in a coma for eight years.
• Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina sworn in as Bangladesh's Prime Minister for third time.
• Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been named as the most admired person on the planet. Kapil Dev conferred with BCCI 'Lifetime Achievement Award'.
• Youngsters Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das clinched their maiden men's and women's singles titles respectively at the 75th Senior National Table Tennis Championships held at Patna.
• Road Transport and Highways Ministry is observing the National Road Safety Week across the country to create awareness among the people.
• World Bank will provide 50 million dollar assistance to Afghanistan, an agreement to this effect was signed by World Bank country director for Afghanistan, Robert Saum and Afghan Finance Minister Dr. Omar Zakhilwal in Kabul.
• NASA’s latest sky mapping spacecraft has discovered a new potentially hazardous asteroid, 43 million kms from Earth.
11 January 2014
• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has reduced refinance rate for banks and other lending agencies by 0.20 per cent to promote rural credit and rural infrastructure.
• Gorakhpur railway station’s platform number one of Uttar Pradesh has entered into the Limca Book of Records as longest rail platform in the world.
• LIC has re-launched its “Jeevan Anand”plan, This product provides financial protection against death throughout the lifetime of the policyholder.
• 58-year-old Nilekani, who is the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India ready to contest LS polls on Congress ticket
• Social activist IIa Pathak passed away due to prolonged illness in Ahmedabad on 9 January 2014. She was the president of India Chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) & professor in H K Arts College.
• Syndicate Bank introduced missed call service for its customers to know bank balance.
• 28th Congress of the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) conference was inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee.
• London-based Indian researcher Mahaveer Golechha was selected for a prestigious award for his work on a drug to cure Alzheimer’s.
• Famous Bengali actress Suchitra Sen died in Kolkota at the age 82. She was the first ever Indian actress to win an international award - receiving the Silver Prize for Best Actress at the Moscow Film Festival for 'Saptapadi'.
• The seventh edition of the popular Jaipur Literature Festival began at Diggi Palace here. It will feature as many as 240 speakers, including two Nobel laureates, Amartya Sen and Harold Varmus, who will engage in conversations on a wide range of subjects.
• Hong Kong and Macau, the 2 Special Administrative Regions of China, includeded in the sensitive list of countries by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
• Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of the Union Minister Sashi Tharoor was found dead in a luxury Leela Palace hotel room in Delhi. Her body was found by Tharoor after his return from the AICC meet.
• India occupies a disappointing 97th spot in the 'Global Food Index 2014' that listed 125 countries.
• India to send only 3 sportspersons to participate in 'Sochi Winter Olympics' commencing from 7th February 2014 in Russia. They are Shiva Keshavan for Luge event and Himanshu Thakur & Nadeem Iqbal for Alpine Skiing respectively.
• The spiritual leader of Dawoodi Bohra community Dr Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin passed away.
• The European Space Agency scientists have revealed a 1500 kms long and 7 kms wide river that once ran across Mars.
16 January 2014
• Arunachal Pradesh witnessed the first trial run of a rail engine. The first trial run was of 20 kms from Harmutty in Lakhimpur district of Assam to the Arunachal Pradesh capital Itanagar.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may keep the interest rates “steady” in its monetary policy review later this month and a rate cut is likely only in the next financial year, according to an SBI research report.
• Karnataka becomes the first state in India to give its entire population of 6.11 crore some kind of health cover with the newly launched Rajiv Arogya Bhagya.
• Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) and SBI Cards have joined hands for roll-out of credit cards to customers of India’s first women-focused commercial bank.
• Anees Salim bags The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013 for his second novel 'Vanity Bagh'.
• World Bank forecast Indian economy to grow over 6 percent in 2014-15 and 7% for 2016-17.
• The Indian Coast Guard Ship Abhinav was commissioned in Kochi by the Director General of Coast Guard Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapiyal. He is the third in the series of twenty Fast Patrol Vessels (FPVs) and has been designed and built by Cochin Shipyard Limited.
• Adhip Chaudhuri, an international economist who taught at Georgetown University, died in Vienna, Virginia, earlier this week from lung cancer. He was 63.
• Jet Airways CEO Gary Kenneth Toomey resigned with immediate effect just three months after taking over as the CEO of Jet Airways, the airline announced.
• Akhilesh Das Gupta is reelected as President of the Badminton Association of India. He remained the only candidate for the coveted post at the end of the filing of the nominations.
15 January 2014
• Nation observed 66th Army Day. The day is celebrated in recognition of the appointment of General K M Cariappa as the first Commander in Chief of independent India. He succeeded British Army General Roy Butcher on this day in 1948.
• Renowned Marathi poet and activist Namdeo Dhasal passed away in Mumbai.
• American golfer Jimmy Walker wins 'Sony Open golf tournament' held in Hawaii (US).
• Sports broadcaster Sony SIX bagged the broadcast rights for India for FIFA World Cup in 2014 and 2018.
• Jeevandas Narayan has taken over as Managing Director of State Bank of Travancore.
• The World Bank has projected India’s economy will grow over 6 per cent in 2014-15 and 7.1 per cent by 2016-17 as global demand recovers and domestic investment increases
• Senior IAS officer Rajeev Kher has been appointed Secretary in Department of Commerce. Kher. He is a 1980-batch IAS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre.
• Kerala-based writer Anees Salim won "The Hindu Prize for Best Fiction 2013" for his second novel “Vanity Bagh”. The Hindu Prize comprises a cash component of Rs. 5 lakh and a plaque.
• The US handed over to India three stolen antique sculptures, valued at over USD 1.5 million, in a display of cooperation between the two countries after a month-long tension over the arrest on an Indian diplomat in USA.
• Former India captain Sourav Ganguly would be conferred with an honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt) degree by the prestigious Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpur. He has contributed to take Indian cricket to great heights in the arena of world cricket.
14 January 2014
• Corporation Bank will launch ‘Corp Micro Plus’, a special campaign for micro enterprises from January 17 to March 31.
• Cristiano Ranaldo awarded FIFA Ballon d’Or award 2013. He overtook Barcelona's Messi and France winger Franck Ribery to get the award.
• India celebrated Makar Sankranti, Pongal, Magh Bihu,Lohri and Milad-un-Nabi, marking the birth anniversary of prophet Mohammed is also celebrated with religious fervour.
• President of India, Pranab Mukherjee presented the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award of 2012 and 2013, two eminent Bengali poets, Nirendranath Chakraborty & Sankha Ghosh. The awards were given at a function at Raj Bhawan, Kolkata.
• Vijay Zol named captain of Indian ICC Under-19 World Cup 2014 squad. The U-19 Cricket World Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in February 2014.
• World Athletics Final Long jumper Anju Booby George awarded gold medal nine years after her second place finish at the 2005 Monaco
• Google buys out Nest Labs, smart thermostat and smoke alarm-maker, in a $3.2 billion deal.
• Germany goalkeeper Nadine Angerer has been voted the best women's football player in the world for 2013. Nadine Angerer is the current European player defeated United States forward Abby Wambach,
• Delhi became first state to withdraw Foreign Domestic Investment (FDI) in Multibrand Retail. This action can adversely affect the investment in the capital and tarnish its FDI friendly image.
• Tata AIA Life Insurance launched a product name is Money Maxima, a long term plan which is compliant with new IRDA guidelines. It is a long term plan that stretches to fit the dreams of our customers through flexibility of plan duration.
13 January 2014
• India declared "Polio Free" by World Health Organisation (WHO) as it meets the criteria of "no new reported polio cases in last three years". It is only the second time in the history that a disease is being eliminated in India through immunization after small pox in May 1980.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh laid the foundation stone of country's largest 2800 mw nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in district of Fatehabad, Haryana.
• Union Minister Sachin Pilot appointed as the Congress Chief in Rajasthan. The annoucement was made by party General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi in New Delhi
• The harvest festival, Lohri celebrated with traditional fervour & enthusiasm. People in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, exchange gifts, sweets and enjoy bonfire at night.
• POSCO, the South Korean steel maker giant has received environment clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) for a steel plant of Rs 52000 crore in Odisha.
• 71st Golden Globe Awards were announced. 12 Years a Slave has won best film (drama) at the Golden Globes. 12 Years a Slave directed by British filmmaker Steve McQueen, is the true life story of a free black man who is kidnapped and sold into slavery in pre-Civil War America.
• The first Grand Slam of the season, the Australian Open Tennis tournament began in Melbourne.
• Veteran South Indian film actress Anjali Devi died in Chennai. The 85 year old actress was under treatment at a city hospital for a long time.
12 January 2014
• Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary celebrated at various places in the country.
• Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passed away in hospital near Tel Aviv at the age of 85, who was in a coma for eight years.
• Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina sworn in as Bangladesh's Prime Minister for third time.
• Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been named as the most admired person on the planet. Kapil Dev conferred with BCCI 'Lifetime Achievement Award'.
• Youngsters Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das clinched their maiden men's and women's singles titles respectively at the 75th Senior National Table Tennis Championships held at Patna.
• Road Transport and Highways Ministry is observing the National Road Safety Week across the country to create awareness among the people.
• World Bank will provide 50 million dollar assistance to Afghanistan, an agreement to this effect was signed by World Bank country director for Afghanistan, Robert Saum and Afghan Finance Minister Dr. Omar Zakhilwal in Kabul.
• NASA’s latest sky mapping spacecraft has discovered a new potentially hazardous asteroid, 43 million kms from Earth.
11 January 2014
• National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has reduced refinance rate for banks and other lending agencies by 0.20 per cent to promote rural credit and rural infrastructure.
• Gorakhpur railway station’s platform number one of Uttar Pradesh has entered into the Limca Book of Records as longest rail platform in the world.
• LIC has re-launched its “Jeevan Anand”plan, This product provides financial protection against death throughout the lifetime of the policyholder.
• 58-year-old Nilekani, who is the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India ready to contest LS polls on Congress ticket
• Social activist IIa Pathak passed away due to prolonged illness in Ahmedabad on 9 January 2014. She was the president of India Chapter of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) & professor in H K Arts College.
• Syndicate Bank introduced missed call service for its customers to know bank balance.
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