Friday, 24 January 2014

Current Affairs 24-Jan-2014

National Girl Child Day observed across India by the Government on 24 January with an aim to raise awareness and consciousness towards girl children.

NASA scientist confirmed life friendly fresh water once existed on Mars.

The DMK on Friday temporarily suspended its chief M Karunanidhi's son and former Union minister MK Alagiri from the party's primary membership and all posts for "indiscipline".

The Union Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas launched LPG Connection Portability Scheme on all India basis.

This year, 40 officers of the Customs & Central Excise Department have been selected for grant of Presidential Award of Appreciation Certificate for ‘Specially distinguished record of service’.

Richard Rossow has been named the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a leading Washington think tank.

In Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission EC would be starting a voter helpline in all 75 districts.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has assured global investors that India is prepared to face the impact of US Fed tapering.

Indian-American professor Rakesh Khurana has been appointed Dean of the prestigious Harvard College.

The Kerala government unveiled a comprehensive medical insurance scheme for the 56,000 police force, at an annual outlay of Rs 20 crore, with no liability on the part of those insured.

  Eight Indian-American students are among the 40 finalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search competition, America's premier national science research competition for high school seniors.

 Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of the country's largest biotech research firm, Biocon Ltd, has been named winner of the 2014 Othmer Gold Medal, a top award of the US-based Chemical Heritage Foundation.

 US-based leading online newspaper Huffington Post is planning to launch an India edition by May this year and negotiations are currently under way to finalise a local partner for this venture.


 Hopeful of launching flights in India in next 2-3 months, Air Asia chief Tony Fernandes says that airline would introduce low fares, which would be cheapest in the market.


UNWTO awarded CNN’s Richard Quest the 2013 UNWTO Award for Lifetime Achievement on 22 January 2014.

Morocco Parliament has amended an article of the penal code that allowed rapists of underage girls to avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.

Six people have been killed and some 100 others wounded in a series of explosions in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. A powerful car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in central Cairo on Friday morning, killing four people and wounding at least 76.

South Sudan Government and rebels signed a ceasefire agreement on cessation of hostilities and question of the detainees in Addis Ababa.

USA allowed the Sikh military men to wear turbans, head scarfs and other religious clothing with their uniform.

The Indian rupee crashed by 73 paise on Friday to close at two-month low of 62.66 against the US currency on on strong dollar buying by banks and importers.

The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) proposal to change its main policy tool to a 14-day rate from an overnight one is a move bankers expect to help them better align their lending rates with central bank decisions.

Facebook has debunked the recent study by the Princeton University that the social networking website would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017.

Indian women team won the three ODI series 3-0 by defeating Sri Lankan women team. India defeated the Lankan team by 95 runs in the third match.

Hard reality crushed a fairytale revival at Melbourne Park as a ruthless Rafa Nadal inflicted more grand slam agony on Roger Federer with a straight-sets rout on Friday that booked his third Australian Open final.
 
Shane Warne has been appointed as the specialist spin consultant of Australia team to play World Twenty20 game in Bangladesh.




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