Current Affairs, January 2014
31st January:
• Uttarakhand Chief
Minister Vijay Bahuguna resigns from his post.
• The
Supreme Court stayed the execution of Khalistani terrorist
Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar on 1993 Delhi bomb blast case.
• New Zealand wins the 5 match home ODI series by 4-0
against India.
30th January:
• India paid tribute to
Mahatma Gandhi on his 66th death anniversary.
• The Andhra
Pradesh assembly by a voice vote rejected the Andhra Pradesh
Reorganisation Bill 2013 on creating a separate Telangana state.
• Union Govt hikes the subsidised LPG cylinder quota to 12 per
year from 9.
29th January:
• Beating the Retreat
event celebrated near the Rashtrapati Bhavan marking the end of
the Republic Day celebrations.
• In a report by the Global
Intellectual Property Center (GIPC) of the US Chamber of
Commerce, for the second consecutive year India has been ranked
at the bottom of 25 countries in terms of protection and
enforcement of intellectual property practices.
28th January:
• Founder of Super30
classes and Leading mathematician Anand Kumar was conferred this
year's prestigious Ramanujan Mathematics Award.
• RBI hiked
key policy interest rates by 0.25 percent.
27th January:
• India lifts ban on
Airbus A380s planes to land at the country's four main airports.
• 56th Annual Grammy Award given at Los Angeles.
26th
January:
• India celebrates 65th Republic Day.
•
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attend as the Chief Guest of
Republic Day.
• Tata Motors Managing Director Karl Slym died
after falling from a high floor of a five-star hotel in Bangkok.
• 21 kills as a tourist boat has sunk off India's Andaman and
Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
• Stanislas Wawrinka
wins the Australian Open final after defeating Rafael Nadal by a
6—3, 6—2, 3—6, 6—3.
• Saina Nehwal wins the Syed Modi
International India Grand Prix title 2014.
25th January:
• Indian Govt announce 2
Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 101 Padma Shri Awardees.
27 of the Awardees are women.
• Dr. Raghunath A. Mashelkar
and BKS Iyengar awarded with Padma Vibhushan.
• Bangalore
became the first city in India to offer free Wi-Fi spots for the
public.
• China's Li Na defeat Dominika Cibulkova by 7-6
(7-3) 6-0 victory to win her first Australian Open title and
become the oldest woman ever to win the Australian Open at the
age of 31.
24th January:
• National Girl Child Day
observed across India.
• Supreme Court issued notice to
Centre and Delhi government over Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal's recent agitation in Delhi.
• The DMK temporarily
suspended its chief M Karunanidhi’s son and former Union
minister MK Alagiri from the party’s primary membership.
•
The pair of India's Sania Mirza and Romania's Horia Tecau
reaches the Australian Open mixed doubles final after beating
defending champions Matthew Ebden and Jarmila Gajdosova.
23rd January:
• Indian-origin professor
Rakesh Khurana has been appointed Dean of the prestigious
Harvard College.
22nd January:
• The Reserve Bank decided
to withdraw all currency notes issued prior to 2005 after March
31.
• Legendary Telegu actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao died in
Hyderabad at the age of 90.
21st January:
• Delhi chief minister
Arvind Kejriwal called off his dharna against Delhi Police.
•
Government has appointed senior IPS Aruna Bahuguna as the new
chief of the Hyderabad-based National Police Academy. She is the
first woman to be appointed chief of National Police Academy.
20th January:
• India tested 4,000 km
long range nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile
from a military base in Odisha.
19th January:
• Indian captain Mahendra
Singh Dhoni became the first Indian wicketkeeper and the fourth
overall to effect 300 dismissals in One Day Internationals.
•
Kenya's Evans Ruto and Dinknesh Mekash of Ethiopia win the 11th
Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Men and Women category
respectively.
• Virat Kohli becomes the fastest batsman in
the world to reach 18 ODI tons in 119 innings.
18th January:
• 18 people died and
nearly 50 were injured in a stampede in Mumbai as thousands of
mourners gathered following the death of Syedna Mohammed
Burhanuddin, the spiritual leader of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim
community.
17th January:
• Famous actress Suchitra
Sen died in Kolkota at the age of 82.
• The seventh edition
of the Jaipur Literature Festival started in Jaipur.
•
Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor wife of Minister of state for Human
Resource Development Shashi Tharoor, found dead in the Leela
Palaces Hotel in Chanakyapuri, Delhi.
• A two-day voting was
held in Egypt on 14 and 15 January 2014 for referendum on a new
constitution.
• BCCI announced India's list of 30 probable
for the World Twenty20 to be played in March and April of this
year.
16th January:
• Oscar nominations were
announced today.
• Jet Airways CEO Gary Kenneth Toomey quits
from his post.
15th January:
• Indian Army celebrates
66th Army Day.
• India's current account deficit (CAD) this
fiscal will be contained to around $50 billion as announced by
Finance Minister P.Chidambaram.
• Famous poet and founder of
Dalit Panthers Party Namdeo Dhasaldied at the age of 64.
14th January:
• India celebrates Makar
Sankranti, Pongal, Magh Bihu and Lohri.
• British Prime
Minister David Cameron has directed his Cabinet Secretary to
probe alleged involment of Margaret Thatcher's government in
planning Operation Bluestar in 1984.
• Anju Bobby George
became the first Indian track and field athlete to win a gold
medal in a major world event after IAAF upgraded her second
place finish at the 2005 Monaco World Athletics Final to the top
spot, following a dope violation by Russian competitor Tatyana
Kotova.
13th January:
• Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh laid the foundation stone of country's largest 2800 mw
nuclear power plant at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district,
Haryana.
• Union minister Sachin Pilot appointed as the
Congress chief in Rajasthan.
• India complete three years
without any polio case, a feat that is expected to prompt the
World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare the country
polio-free in March.
• Cristiano Ronaldo wins 2013 Ballon
d'Or award.
• Golden Globe Awards, 2014 announced.
•
Australian Open starts from today.
12th January:
• Sheikh Hasina sworn in
as Bangladesh's Prime Minister for a third spell.
11th January:
• Former Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday at
the age of 85.
• Bangladesh authorities allowed opposition
leader Begum Khaleda Zia to leave her home after house arrest of
two weeks.
• Kapil Dev honoured with the CK Nayudu Lifetime
Achievement Award and Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was given
the Polly Umrigar Award by the BCCI at its seventh annual awards
ceremony.
10th January:
• Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh inaugurated the Terminal 2 at Chhatrapati Shivaji
International Airport in Mumbai.
• Indian diplomat Devyani
Khobragade arrives in New Delhi Airport from New York following
Indo-US diplomatic row.
• Bhawanipur Football Club wins the
62nd Bordoloi Trophy, 2014 in Guwahati.
9th January:
• Former chief minister BS
Yeddyurappa joins BJP.
• The Election Commission aborts
proposed tie-up with Google over security concerns.
8th January:
• Nine passengers killed in
a fire that broke out on the Bandra-Dehradun Express near Dahanu
Road Railway station in Thane district.
• Social networking
site Facebook buy Bangalore-based Little Eye Labs as its first
take over in India.
7th January:
• US Senate confirmed Janet
Yellen to be first woman to lead the Federal Reserve in its
100-year history.
• India test-fires nuclear-capable
Prithvi-II missile from Chandipur near Balasore.
6th January:
• Former Supreme Court
judge Justice A K Ganguly has resigned from the post of the
chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.
• Aditya
Joshi from Madhya Pradesh has become the first male junior
badminton player from India to be ranked top in the world.
•
Telugu actor Uday Kiran has allegedly committed suicide at his
home in Hyderabad.
5th January:
• Indian GSLV-D5 with
indigenous cryogenic engine successfully places GSAT-14
communication satellite on orbit from Sriharikota.
• 11
workers were killed and many feared trapped when a half-built
apartment block collapsed in Goa.
• Danielle Steel receive
France’s highest award, the Legion of Honor.
• Portugal
football legend Eusebio has died from a heart attack at the age
of 71.
• Australia wins the Ashes Series by 5-0 against
England.
• Rafael Nadal wins the Qatar Open in Doha after
defeating Gael Monfils, French.
4th January:
• Gujarati poet Chinu Modi
has been conferred the Sahitya Akademi Award for the year 2013
for his poetry book "Khara Zaran".
• INS Vikramaditya arrives
in India from Russia.
• India Cricket team beats Pakistan by
40 run to wins the Under-19 Asia Cup.
3rd January:
• Aam Aadmi Party's MS Dhir
elected as Speaker of the Delhi Assembly.
• Petrol price
hiked by 75 paise and diesel by 50 paise a liter.
2nd January:
• Aam Aadmi Party wins the
trust vote in the Delhi State Legislature.
• Former Karnataka
chief minister B S Yeddyurappa formally rejoined the BJP.
•
Maharashtra Cabinet partially accepts Adarsh scam report
indicting three former CMs.
• 27 passengers were killed when
a bus fell into a 400 feet deep ravine in the Malshej Ghats,
Maharastra.
1st January:
• The Rs 3,600 crore VVIP
chopper deal between the Indian government and AgustaWestland
has been cancelled in the wake of allegations of corruption.
• India and Pakistan exchanged lists of their nuclear facilities
as part of a 1988 pact that bars them from attacking each
other's nuclear installations.
• President Pranab Mukherjee
giving assent to the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill for setting up
of an ombudsman.
• Corey Anderson of New Zealand scores the
fastest century in ODI history from 36 balls breaking the record
of Shahid Afridi.
• Non-subsidized LPG cylinder to cost Rs.
220 more as announced by Oil companies.
• Delhi govt ordered
an audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General of private power
companies.