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• National Youth Day will be celebrated here with the theme ‘Channelizing Youth Power for Nation Building‘.National Youth Day is celebrated in India when there was a Birthday of the Swami Vivekanand.


• The government has declared National Youth Day from the day of Swami Vivekanand’s Birthday and the day is Celebrated as National Youth Day. It is celebrated on the 12th of January.

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• After days of conflicting statements about a timeline for US President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out American troops from Syria.


• A US military official said Friday that the withdrawal process has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements.


• Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, said “the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria” has started.


• “Out of concern for operational security, we will not discuss specific timelines, locations or troops movements,” the Baghdad-based official said in a statement emailed to The Associated Press.

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• On H1-B visa, Donald Trump promises citizenship, welcomes talented, skilled people to US.


• US President Donald Trump on Friday said major changes are coming to the H1-B visa programme, which has become a popular gateway for Indians to the United States.


• That will bring it both “simplicity and certainty” and offer a potential path to citizenship to those holding it.


• H1-B holders in the United States can rest assured that changes are soon coming which will bring both simplicity and certainty to your stay, including a potential path to citizenship,” the president wrote on Twitter

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• Prime Minister Zoran Zaev narrowly secured the two-thirds majority needed in the historic vote amid a boycott by opposition nationalists.


• Protesters outside parliament denounced what they called an act of treason.


• The name change is aimed at ending a 27-year dispute with Greece, which has its own region called Macedonia.


• The Greek parliament must now give its approval under a deal signed by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Mr Zaev in June.

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• Rama Athawale had not a moment to spare. The activist had spent a frenetic week searching for a caterer to help her fix 200 kilograms of pulao and find a large banner of BR Ambedkar for the most important day of the year for her Shaurya Divas (Day of valour)


• when she and her husband Ashok travel to Bhima Koregaon to feed people.


• This has been Athawale’s New Year’s Day routine for a decade, but this time was different It is the first time she was going back after her family was almost killed by a rampaging mob that burnt down their home and shop – and unleashed violence that killed one person, injured 40 and sent ripples of Dalit anger surging through India.


• “I was scared at first but then thought I couldn’t be defeated. I am alive because of my community and we are on the side of justice,” she said.

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• The agitators carrying Congress flags allegedly entered an auditorium in central Kolkata’s Quest Mall round 8 pm while the screening of the film was about to start and damaged the screen, causing the show to be cancelled.


• A group of West Bengal Congress activists on Friday allegedly interrupted the screening of ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ and resorted to vandalism at a posh Kolkata multiplex on Friday evening.


• while the film based on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s tenure faced agitation across the city.

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• BJP leaders in Assam’s Bengali-speaking Barak Valley, where there is wide support for the Citizenship (Amendment)


• Bill for non-Muslims unlike the Assamese-majority Brahmaputra Valley, are hopeful that the bill will be passed in Parliament in the Budget session after it was stalled in the Rajya Sabha.


• The Lok Sabha passed the bill on Tuesday and its passage in the Rajya Sabha could boost the BJP’s fortunes in general elections later this year among the Bengali speaking Hindu population of Assam, many of whom migrated from Bangladesh and erstwhile East Pakistan.

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• 12 January 2019 Current Affairs: National Consultation on Child Protection’ for 2019 was held at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi under the Chairmanship of the Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development.


• The meeting was organized 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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• Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, in the presence of Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation, Road Transport & Highways and Shipping Shri Nitin Gadkari, signed an agreement for Renukaji Dam Multipurpose Project in New Delhi.


• Also a concession agreement was signed between U.P. Jal Nigam, NMCG and Prayagraj Water Pvt. Ltd., for Namami Gange projects for the city of Prayagraj, under Hybrid Annuity Mode and One City One Operator Concept.

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• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley raised the annual turnover for availing composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore from Rs 1 crore effective from April 1, 2019, to provide relief to small businesses under Goods and Services (GST) regime.


• The Goods and Services (GST) exemption limit has been doubled to Rs. 40 lakh annual turnover and Rs 20 lakh for northeastern states.

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• Infosys Ltd managed to grow its revenue in the December quarter (Q3) at a faster pace than its larger rival, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS)


• The Bengaluru-based company said on Friday as it offered to pay shareholders ₹8,260 crore through a share buyback, the second successive repurchase in as many years.

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• The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Friday suggested that all further proceedings for the transfer of assets of debt-laden Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) should take place under the supervision of a retired Supreme Court judge.


• “The appellate tribunal will suggest to the government and IL&FS to get the matter supervised by a retired Supreme Court judge,” said a two-member NCLAT bench headed by its chairperson, Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya.

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• One of India’s premier fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the 12th Indian pacer to take 100 ODI wickets during the first ODI against Australia in Sydney on Saturday.


• The speedster bowled out captain Aaron Finch in the third over of the match to give the visitors their first breakthrough of the series.

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• Indian Weightlifting Federation President Birendra Prasad Baishya is named as Chef de Mission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.Baishya is also one of the Indian Olympic Association Vice Presidents.Tokyo 2020 organizing committee president is Yoshiro Mori.


• Tokyo Olympics is commence from 24 July to 9 August, 2020 in whicg 207 nations will participate. There will be 339 event in 33 sports (50 disciplines) in the Games.

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• Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri received honorary membership of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) for their contribution to the sport of cricket.


• Apart from them, the only other international cricketers to be granted the honorary membership of the SCG are iconic Sachin Tendulkar and Brain Lara of the West Indies.

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• Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu ever elected to US congress, is running for the White House in 2020, and could end up vying with Kamala Harris, who is likely to run also, for the affection, support and, most importantly, the financial backing of the country’s richest ethnic community, Indian Americans.


• “I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week,” Gabbard told a CNN TV news anchor for a show that airs Saturday.

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• The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) announced its plan to send Indian astronauts to space in December 2021 under India’s flagship human space mission programme Gaganyaan, at a cost of Rs 100 billion.


• The crew, which is expected to have up to three members will include a woman and will orbit in space for up to a week.

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• The far side has been observed many times from lunar orbits, but never explored on the surface. It is popularly called the “dark side” because it can’t be seen from Earth and is relatively unknown, not because it lacks sunlight.


• China on Friday announced that the Chang’e-4 mission, the first-ever probe to land on the moon’s dark side, was a “complete success” as it transmitted images back to earth through a special relay satellite.


• With the assistance of the relay satellite Queqiao (Magpie Bridge), the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), the lander of the Chang’e-4 probe took photos, China National Space Administration (CNSA) said.