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• On 10th January 2019 every year, World Hindi day celebrated, marking the anniversary of first World Hindi Conference which was held in 1975 and inaugurated by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi.


• World Hindi Conference was first observed on 10th January, 2006. Since then, it is celebrated on 10th January every year.


• The main focus of World Hindi Day is “to promote the language at the global stage”.


• Whereas National Hindi Diwas is celebrated every year on 14th September, marks the adaption of Hindi, written in Devanagari script as the official language.

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• Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he hoped Britain and the European Union would avoid a no-deal Brexit.


• Abe said It is the strong will of Japan to further develop this strong partnership with the UK, to invest more into the country and to enjoy further economic growth with the UK.

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• Mexican authorities have discovered what they believe to be a 33-foot-long tunnel used to smuggle drugs into the US.


• The discovery was made in Nogales, a city divided by the US-Mexico border. At least 250 drug tunnels have been built connecting Mexico's Sonora state with the US state of Arizona since 1990, according to the US Drug Enforcement Administration.

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• The Taliban launched a series of attacks on security checkpoints in four Afghan provinces early, killing 32 members of the security forces and pro-government militias, provincial officials said.


• Both sides in Afghanistan’s 17-year war have kept up attacks this winter, with the Taliban inflicting a heavy toll on government forces, and the U.S. military and their government allies killing Taliban field commanders with air strikes.

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• Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated India’s longest 300-meter single- lane steel cable suspension bridge over Siang River in Upper Siang district of state bordering China.


• The suspension bridge, also known as Byorung Bridge was built at a cost of Rs 4,843 crore and funded by the ministry of development of North Eastern Region under Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources scheme.


• It will reduce the distance from Yingkiong to Tuting town by almost 40 km. The earlier road length was 192 km.


• Chief Minister Pema Khandu said the newly inaugurated bridge will benefit about 20,000 people residing on both sides of the bank of Siang River and will boost military preparedness.

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• Supreme court of india was suppose to hear the oldest case in the indian history Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.


• The case came in front of the 5 judge committee set by Our chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. The five members are as follows Justice Ranjan gogoi, SA Bobde,NV Raman,Uday U Lalit and DY Chandrachud.


• The head of the committee is the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. The committee was set to decide the timing of the hearing but again it had to be postponed tojanurary 29 th as one of the member Uday U Lalit rescued himself from the case. Justice Ranjan Gogoi mentioned that this case will come infront of the court with the new members reformed.

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• The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in building energy efficiency for five years.


• The MOU was signed by Shri Abhay Bakre, Director General, BEE and Shri Prabhakar Singh, Director General, CPWD.


• According to the MOU, BEE and CPWD will cooperate on promoting designs and construction of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) compliant new buildings, star rating of CPWD managed buildings across the country with no registration or renewal fee, awareness on energy efficiency in building sector and support for capacity building of CPWD officials in ECBC.


• This MOU was in line with Government of India’s vision for achieving energy security, economic growth and environmental sustainability.

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• 4th Edition of Raisina Dialogue was organized by Ministry of External Affairs in partnership with Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. The Theme of the Dialogue was “A World Reorder: New Geometries; Fluid Partnerships; Uncertain Outcomes”.


• The Raisina Dialogue whose first edition was held in 2015 is India’s flagship annual geopolitical and geostrategic conference.


• The Aim of the Discussion was to address the issues arising from ongoing global transitions and changes to the world order triggered by unique leadership, innovative partnerships and new technologies.


• The Inaugural address was delivered by the Prime Minister of Norway H E Ms Erna Solberg in the presence of India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj.


• More than 600 delegates from 93 countries of the world including influential political leaders, strategic thinkers, policy practitioners, technology innovators and business representatives shared their Vision in the Raisina Dialogue.

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• First 2019 edition of the ‘National Consultation on Child Protection’ was held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, under the Chairmanship of the Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development.


• To follow up on the exercise of monitoring of the CCIs by States/UTs, To deliberate upon various aspects of child protection and to take stock of the efforts made by States/UTs regarding improvements in the Child Care Institutions.

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• The Reserve bank of India has agreed to disbursed sri lanka’s loan amount of USD 400 million to boost the nation’s reserve.RBI has agreed to issue the fund under the SARRC SWAP facility system. It is also said that another request of currency swap USD 1 billion is under process.


• RBI’ S assistance is appreciated by the Sri Lanka government and it will help the nation to recover and build itself from the political and constitutional crisis that is prevailing in the nation.


• The RBI’s very rapid and timely assistance will serve to boost investor confidence by supporting Sri Lanka to maintain adequate level of external reserves while accommodating outflow related to imports, debt servicing and if necessary support for the currency to avoid disorderly adjustment.


• Due to the political crisis ,the nation’s economic rating is downgraded by the leading credit rating agenices- Moody’ s’, S&P rating,Fitch Rating.


• Sri lanka is to move forward to IMF for further finaicial assistance.IMF has hold back its discussion about next loan for sri lanka because of the political crisis.


• After IMF’s review ,sril lanka is to receive sixth tranche of USD 250 million as a loan amount,total amount would be disbursed as the seventh tranche in the mid of 2019.

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• Market regulator SEBI has set up a advisory committee that will help and analyse the new methods of policy making for the development of capital market. The committee formed will be headed by Sankar De.


• This committee is formed with an objective to define the objective of creating the policy for the development of the capital market and for as bridge between the analytical research to formation of the policy.


• For promotion and developing the researches that are relevant to the capital market.


• Exploring the research collaboration with external researchers from both domestic and international agencies.


• Another important factor for the formation of this committee is to maintain the database related to the capital market.

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• 36 years old boxer, M C Mary Kom attained the first position in the latest ranking released by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in the Light Fly 45-48 kilograms category with 1700 points.


• Ukraine’s Hanna Okhoto ranked number 2 in the ranking released by AIBA with 1100 points.


• Mary Kom will have to jump to 51 kg category in order to participate in 2020 Olympics because 48 kg Category is not included in the Olympics yet.


• Mary Kom has already achieved the feat to become the first woman boxer to win six world championship.


• Pinki Jangra has been placed 8th in the 51 kg Category whereas Asian Silver Medalist Manisha Maun is place 8th in 54 kg Category.


• Former World Silver-Medalist Sonia Lather was placed 2nd in 57 Kg Category and India Open gold-Medalist and world bronze winner Lovlina Borgohain has been place at 5th Position.

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• Bihar left- arm spinner Ashutosh Aman etched his name in record books, surpassing the great Bishan Singh Bedi as the highest wicket-taker in a Ranji Trophy season after claiming his 65th scalp in Moun-ul-Haq stadium Patna, Bihar.


• Ashutosh Aman hails from Gaya, Bihar and he is also an employee in Indian Air Force.


• He made his first class debut for Bihar in 2018-19 Ranji trophy on 1st November 2018.

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• Hockey India Performance and Development Committee held and decided to remove Harendra Singh as the coach of India’s senior men’s team.


• Harinder Singh was reprimanded by International Hockey Federation, founded guilty of breaching level 1, 2.2 k of code of conduct.


• He was appointed as the senior side’s coach in May 2018.

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• 12-year-old Dhruv Manoj from Singapore bagged two gold medals at the 27th World Memory Championship that was held in Hong Kong. He won the medals in categories of ‘names and faces’ and ‘random words’.


• He beat 56 other contestants to emerge victorious in the ‘kids category’.

• Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) pavilion received ‘Exhibitor of the Year Award’ at 106th Indian Science Congress held at Lovely Professional University (LPU), Phagwara, Punjab.


• DRDO’s outdoor exhibits included surface-to-air missile system – Akash, model of BrahMos missile, remotely operated vehicle – Daksh, heavy weight torpedo – Varunastra, Laser Ordnance Disposal System (LORDS) and Vehicle Mounted Dazzler etc.


• DRDO pavilion also had a dedicated stall on Technology Development Fund (TDF) Scheme for promoting public/private industries especially MSMEs.


• It also provided information on ‘Kalam’s vision: Dare to Dream’ the pan India online contest for engaging young minds in emerging technologies namely Artificial intelligence, Cyber security, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, etc.

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• Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a second term as Venezuela's President amid the economic and humanitarian crisis faced by the Latin American country.


• Maduro was re-elected last year amid allegation of vote buying and electoral fraud. The US, EU and 13 other countries have said that they would not recognise Maduro's Presidency.

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• CBI director Alok Verma has been removed from his post after a high-powered committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for over two hours to decide his fate, making him the first chief in the history of the agency to face such action. Verma’s tenure as CBI chief was till January 31.


• Additional director M Nageshwar Rao has been given interim charge of CBI chief till the appointment of a new director. Verma has been posted as Director General Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards.

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• IIT-Madras team created ‘space fuel’ by trapping carbon dioxide in crystalline form with the help of water molecules. This would in future help to curb greenhouse gases.


• This was made in vacuum, one thousand billion times below the atmospheric pressure called ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and temperature close to minus 263 degree Celsius.


• These conditions are present in deep space which they mimicked in the lab.


• The Study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).