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1) Nation observed death anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi:
--> Nation observes the death
anniversary of the Father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi as Martyrs' Day on 30
January 2015.
-->The country also observed Martyrs'
day to honour all those who gave their life for the country.
--> Silence observed and work and
movement stopped for two minutes throughout the country at 11 am on Jan 30. The
day marks the 67th death anniversary of the Father of the nation.
--> Mahatma Gandhi, considered as the
pillar of India's freedom struggle movement, was assassinated on the 30 January
1948.
2) Krishna Chaudhary appointed new ITBP chief:
--> Indian Police Service (IPS) officer
Krishna Chaudhary will take over as the new Director General (DG) of the
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
--> Chaudhary, who is currently the
Director General of the Railway Protection Force, is a 1979-batch Bihar cadre
officer. He has been appointed for two years.
--> He succeeds Subhas Goswami who
retired on December 31, 2014.
3) Commemorative Postage Stamp on Swachh Bharat released:
--> Department of Posts, Ministry of
Communications & IT has come out with a set of Commemorative Postage Stamps
on the theme Swachh Bharat.
--> The Union Minister of Communications
&IT, Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad released a set of Commemorative Postage
stamps on Swachh Bharat on 30 January 2015.
--> The MOC&IT was hopeful that the
stamp on Swachh Bharat will provide impetus and momentum to the Clean India
campaign started by Hon'ble Prime Minister on 2nd October.
4) Union Govt. sold its 10% stake in Coal India Limited
(CIL):
--> Union Govt. has sold its 10% stake
in Coal India Limited (CIL) on 30 January 2015.
--> This stake sale was oversubscribed
1.05 times and fetched about Rs. 22,600 crore.
--> This was the biggest ever share sale
by any private or public sector company in India. It exceeded the previous
record of over Rs. 15,000 crore by CIL itself in 2010.
5) Jayanthi Natarajan quits Congress:
--> Former union minister Jayanthi
Natrajan resigned from the Congress party on 30 January 2015, accusing it of
not being democratic. She was Environment and Forest Minister in previous UPA
government.
--> Natarajan held a press conference in
Chennai and said that there is no internal democracy in the Congress party now.
--> A letter said to have been written
by her to Congress President Sonia Gandhi last November, has been published by
The Hindu newspaper.
--> She disclosed in her letter that
Rahul Gandhi was involved in policy decisions at a micro-level during the
UPA-II regime. Jayanthi Natarajan said that she has become a victim of a false
and motivated media campaign against her by some Congress leaders.
6) Anti-Leprosy Day observed:
--> Anti Leprosy Day is being held on
30th January every year to raise leprosy awareness among people and to offer
help to those affected by the disease.
--> President Pranab Mukherjee has
extended his best wishes to the Indian Leprosy Association on the occasion of
Anti Leprosy Day.
7) India knocked out of tri-series in Australia:
--> India were on 30 January 2015
knocked out of the tri-series cricket tournament after yet another spineless
display as England recovered from a top-order collapse to record a three-wicket
victory and secure a place in the final in Perth.
8) Railway Minister flagged off trains remotely through
Telepresence Service:
--> Minister for Railways Shri Suresh
Prabhakar Prabhu, flagged off four Express trains from Bengaluru remotely
through Telepresence Service of RailTel, a PSU of Railways.
--> All the four flag offs were done
remotely from concourse area of Bangalore City Railway station itself.
--> Telepresence offers a more engaging
video conference with cutting edge technology, so that the parties involved
feel the immersive presence of participants at different locations.
9) RBI constituted high level panel on urban cooperative
banks.
--> Reserve Bank on 30 January 2015
constituted a high-powered panel to re-examine and recommend appropriate set of
businesses, size, conversion and licensing terms for the urban cooperative
banking sector.
--> The committee under the chairmanship
of RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi has been set up on the recommendation made by
the Standing Advisory Committee (SAC) on UCBs last year.
10) V K Saraswat joined as full-time member of NITI Aayog:
--> Former DRDO chief V K Saraswat on 30
January 2015 assumed charge as a full-time member of the NITI Aayog.
--> Government had announced the
appointment of Saraswat and noted economist Bibek Debroy as full-time members
of (National Institution for Transforming India) NITI Aayog earlier this month.
11) Robert Mugabe appointed African Union chairman:
--> Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe
has been appointed the new chairman of the 54-nation African Union.
--> Announcement was made during the
African Union's two-day heads of state summit at the organisation's
headquarters in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.
12) Income Tax Department bagged National Award on E-Governance
2014-15:
--> The Income Tax Department has been
awarded GOLD by the Government of India under category Cat-I-Excellence in
Government Process Re-engineering for National Award on e-governance 2014-15.
--> The award has been conferred for TDS
Reconciliation Analysis & Correction Enabling System (TRACES) project
launched by the Department.
