News Updates This Month-Jan 2015
Appointments
1.
Senior IAS officer Alok
Kumar has been taken over as Secretary Of Central Vigilance
Commission(CVC), country’s top anti-corruption body.
2.
Lt. General Rizwan
Akhtar has taken over as the Head of the Inter-Services
Intelligence(ISI)
3.
The Former Supreme Court Judge Chandramauli Kumar Prasad has been selected to be the
next Chairman of the Press Council of India.
Deaths -
1.
Veteran actor of Indian Cinema Sadashiv Amrapurkar, died in Mumbai on Nov 3, 2014. He
was 65.
2.
Marxist Communist Party(CPM) founder leader M V Raghavan died on Nov 9, 2014 after prolonged
illness.
3.
M S S Pandian, an
eminent social scientist passed away in New Delhi on Nov 10, 2014. He was 53.
4.
Senior Congress Leader and Former Union Minister
Murli Deora passed away on Nov 24, 2014 after
prolonged illness. He was 77.
5.
Legendary Kathak Dancer Sitara
Devi died in Mumbai on Nov 25, 2014. She was 94.
Resignation –
1.
Us Defence Secretary Chuck
Hugel resigned in the last week of Nov 2014.
Defence –
1.
China has developed a highly accurate home made
laser defence weapon system capable of shooting down small scade drones flying
at low altitude.
Environment –
1.
Air pollution seems to have a direct negative
impact on grain production in India, a study warned on Nov 3, 2014. Upto the 90% of the decrease in potential food production seems
linked to smog, made of black carbon and other pollutants.
2.
The Defence Terrain Research Laboratory (DTRL)
of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed an early warning system through sensors to map the
triggers which can lead to landslides and other natural calamities.
Archaeology –
1.
More than two decades after they were unearthed
in South Delhi, a large hoard of 287 coins
medieval coins has been acknowledged as holding the key to an unbroken
numismatic narrative of the reigns of North Indian rulers spread over four
centuries.
Crime –
1.
Research in eight urban cities across the world
has found that Delhi has a very low crime rate
compared to New York and Istanbul.
Space –
1.
China Aerospace Science and Technology
Corporation displayed the machine and the technological hardware set up at air
show at Zhuai.
Misc News –
1.
A husband may have to pay monthly advance to his estranged wife from the day she
applied for maintenance and not always from the date of court order, the
Supreme Court has held.
2.
A nesting site of the extremely
rare white-bellied heron has been discovered in remote part of the Namdapha Tiger Reserve in
Arunachal Pradesh.
3.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Nov 7, 2014
launched his ambitious model village project in Uttar
Pradesh’s Jayapur village in Varanasi.
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