Jan 2015 Events (second week – Jan 09-16, 2015)
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Jan 09
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Mr. Maithripala Sirisena is the new President of Sri Lanka. He
defeated the decade old President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Indian Government decided to provide 69 million rupees to Nepal
as assistance to launch the Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Programme
(IDDCP) for goitre control across the country
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Jharkhand Assembly adopted resolution on opening High Court
bench in Dumka
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Australian airline Qantas named world’s safest by
AirlineRatings.com
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Union Government launched National Toll Free Helpline to assist
the drug dependent persons
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NASA Kepler Space Telescope made 1000th Exoplanet Discovery
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Five new countries (Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela and
Spain) joined the U.N. Security Council as non-permanent members, while Chile
assumed the rotating presidency for January
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Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari
announced in Haridwar that, a new national highways ("Char-Dham Project)
connecting the four shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri
would be constructed in Uttarakhand
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Vistara airline started domestic flight operation in
India;flight took off with its first flight from Delhi to Mumbai
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Presidential rule imposed in Jammu and Kashmir
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Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari presented Pravasi Bharatiya
Samman Awards 2015 to 16 persons
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Chinese nuclear physicist Yu Min was presented with the State
Preeminent Science and Technology Award 2014 by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
He was awarded for his involvement in research into nuclear weapons since the
1960s.
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Jan 10
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Urdu is purely an Indian Language which is loved and nurtured by
all Indians - Union Minority Affairs Minister
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Uma Bharti calls PSUS to Join Clean Ganga Mission
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Senior bureaucrat Sindhushree Khullar was appointed as the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI)
Aayog with effect from 1 January 2015. She will serve the position for one
year.
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Hindi Film "The Lunchbox" reached BAFTA nomination
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Buddha Heritage Walk: People from 11 countries walked through a
13-km forest trail which Lord Gautama Buddha had taken to reach Rajgir from
Bodh Gaya around 2,543 years ago.
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Andhra Pradesh government constituted the Fourth State Finance
Commission under the Chairmanship of M L Kantha Rao, the Professor of
Economics and Dean S K University
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Australia won the 4-match Border-Gavaskar Test series played
against India by 2-0.
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Jan 11
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Stanislas Wawrinka won the Chennai Open (Tennis) 2015
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Vibrant Gujarat Summit - 2015 at Gandhinagar. UN President,
World Bank President, Bhutan PM and several other global leaders attended the
Summit
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M.Y.S. Prasad, Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre,
Sriharikota, has been selected for the Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award for
2014-15.
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Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic won the 2015 Presidential elections of
Croatia. With this, she becomes the first female President of Croatia.
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United States announced that it will host an international
Anti-terror Summit in Washington (on Feb 2015)
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17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer of Switzerland won the
Brisbane International Tennis title; With this he became the third tennis
player in open era to win 1000 ATP titles.
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Jan 12
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Idukki in Kerala becomes the First District of India with
Complete Rural Broadband Coverage
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Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was appointed as the 21st chief
justice of Bangladesh; He becomes the first Hindu to become Chief Justice of
Bangladesh
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A. S. Kiran Kumar is appointed as the Chief of ISRO
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The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union Government on
voting rights for inter-state migrants.
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The Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has been
conferred “Governor of the Year” award by the British journal Central
Banking.
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The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Team of Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and
Engineering category.
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World Bank signed tripartite agreement with the Government of
Gujarat and the Government of India for Gujarat’s smart cities initiatives
and swachhta abhiyaan.
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Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the European Central Bank (ECB)
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of
central banking.
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Jan 13
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Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu inaugurated India’s
first compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered train on the Rewari – Rohtak link
of Northern Zone.
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USAID, Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation to assist in Swachh
Bharat Mission in urban areas
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First meeting of Steering Committee on Kyoto-Varanasi held
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Union Government removed Avinash Chander, the Chairman of
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)
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Search Engine Google launched its Flight Search Tool in India.
The tool allows to search directly for flights within Google to quickly find,
compare and book flights from mobile device, tablet or desktop
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Union Ministry of Health proposed COTPA (Amendment) Bill 2015
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Chinese archaeologists discovered Buddhist relics in Hubei
Province of Central China
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Union government reconstituted Pollution Control Board Working
Group to simplify procedures to get consent certificates and categorisation
of industries
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Actor Amitabh Bachchan was presented with the Social Media
Person of the Year Award 2015 by the Internet and Mobile Association of India
(IAMAI)
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Film 'Boyhood' won the Best Film Award in BAFTA Awards
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Jan 14
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TN Government Awards 2015 was announced
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Union Minister Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, sentenced to one year
jail for violating model code of conduct (6 years ago); Briefly taken into
custody in Uttar Pradesh and later granted bail.
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Will you clean up the Ganga in this term or in the next term? -
SC slams Centre
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Eminent Sanskrit scholar Prabhu Nath Dwivedi was named as the
winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit language.
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Pope Francis cannonised Joseph Vaz, the first saint of Sri
Lanka.
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Indian open water swimmer Bhakti Sharma set a world record by
swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature in the Antarctic
Ocean. She is the first Indian women as well as to achieve this feat.
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Japan approved its largest ever Defence Budget for 2015
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Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of cricket
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Jan 15
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Chief Election Commissioner Mr. Sampath retired; Mr. H. S.
Brahma is the new Chief Election Commissioner of India
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RBI cut Repo Rate by 0.25% in sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement
2014-15
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Scientists discovered hybrid insecticide-resistant mosquito in
Mali
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Kiran Bedi joins BJP
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Kalanithi Maran transfers Spicejet ownership to founder Ajay
Singh
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Pope on 'Charlie Hebdo': There are limits to free expression
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Do I look like Naxal? – Kejriwal
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Oscar 2015 nominations: 'The Grand Budapset Hotel' and 'Birdman'
lead with 9 nominations
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US President Barack Obama nominated two Indian-Americans Jonodev
Osceola Chaudhuri and Deven J Parekh to key posts in US.
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Jan 16
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Censor Board chief Leela Samson decides to quit
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Apple, Google settle U.S. lawsuit for $415 million
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We Came to US to Become Americans, Not Indian-Americans: Bobby
Jindal
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Pakistan decided to ban 12 terrorist outfits, including the
Jamaat-ud-Dawa--headed by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed -and the Haqqani
network
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Aerostate, a new domestic airline company, has announced the
launch of regional airline service in Kerala
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Baba Ramdev appointed as state brand ambassador of Haryana
Government
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Renowned Indian RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal was
conferred with the Giraffe Hero award 2015 by a US-based NGO The Giraffe
Heroes Project.
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China to launch construction of five new nuclear reactors with
total capacity of 5 Gigawatts in 2015
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PM releases Gujarati translation of Thirukkural, on
'ThiruvalluvarDay'
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