1) BSE
Sensex hits record high, crossed 29000 mark: The BSE Sensex scaled the historical 29,000
peak for the first time on 22 January. Barring oil & gas, infrastructure
and consumer durables, all other BSE sectoral indices ended in the green. Among
them, healthcare index gained the most by 1.69 per cent, followed by capital
goods 1.12 per cent and auto 0.72 per cent. On the other hand, consumer
durables index was down 0.96 per cent, oil & gas 0.77 per cent and
infrastructure 0.27 per cent.
2) Jhumpa
Lahiri's 'The Lowland' won 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature: The
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 was awarded to Jhumpa Lahiri's The
Lowland at the Zee Jaipur Literature Festival on Thursday evening. The prize
shortlist included Kamila Shamsie's A God for Every Stone (Bloomsbury), Romesh
Gunesekera's Noontide Toll (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin), Bilal Tanweer's The
Scatter Here is Too Great (Vintage Books/Random House) and Shamsur Rahman
Faruqi's The Mirror of Beauty (Penguin Books). DSC Prize for South Asian
Literature is awarded annually to writers of any ethnicity or nationality
writing about South Asia such as culture, politics, history, or people. It was
instituted in 2011.
3) PM
Modi launched 'Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao' campaign: Exhorting people not to
regress to 18th century mindset PM Narendra Modi made an emotional pitch to end
discrimination against the girl child on 22 January 2015. Modi launched twin
programmes of "Beti bachao, beti padhao"(Save the Daughter, Teach the
Daughter) and "Sukanya Samriddhi
account" in a bid to encourage birth and education of girls and tackle the
abysmally low child sex ratio of 918 girls for 1000 boys. PM launched the two
schemes from Panipat in Haryana that has among the lowest child sex ratio in
the country (837 girls to 1000 boys). He also launched Sukanya Samridhi Yojna
(girl child prosperity scheme), under which girl children below 10 years will
have accounts with more interest and income tax benefits.
4) Vodafone
named Sunil Sood as India CEO: UK's telecom giant Vodafone on 22 January
2015 appointed the first Indian CEO, Sunil Sood, for its India operations to
replace Martin Pieters who has been its chief executive since 2009. Pieters,
the longest serving chief executive officer of a telecom firm in the country,
will step down from April 1 and will be succeeded by Sood, presently COO of the
company.
5) Supreme
Court barred N Srinivasan from contesting BCCI elections: The Supreme Court
on 22 January 2015 barred former BCCI chief N Srinivasan from contesting BCCI
elections citing a conflict of interest. While the apex court gave him a clean
chit on charges of covering up a betting scandal that has plagued the Indian
Premier League (IPL), it asked him to choose between the BCCI President's post
and owing the Chennai Super Kings team in the IPL. The court has directed the
BCCI to conduct elections within 6 weeks of the order.
6) High
Level Committee for Restructuring of FCI submitted report to PM: The High
Level Committee for Restructuring of Food Corporation of India, on 22 January
2015 submitted its report to the Prime Minister. The Committee was chaired by
Shri Shanta Kumar. The Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan, was present on the occasion. The Committee
was required to examine the present day administrative, functional and
financial structure of FCI and modus operandi of its various operations, and
suggest a model for restructuring FCI to improve its operational efficiency and
financial management, and suggest measures for overall improvement in
management of foodgrains by FCI.
7) Prof
Kaptan Singh Solanki sworn-in as 34th Governor of Punjab: Haryana governor
Prof Kaptan Singh Solani was on 22 January 2015 took over the additional charge
of Governor of Punjab. Solanki was given the additional charge after the tenure
of Shivraj V Patil as Punjab governor come to an end.
8) PM
Narendra Modi, Barack Obama to jointly address nation over radio broadcast
'Mann ki Baat': The monthly 'Mann ki Baat' radio broadcast of Prime
Minister Narendra Modi this time will be special as he will be joined by US
President Barack Obama. The programme will be aired on January 27, the Prime
Minister revealed himself on 22 January 2015 through a series of tweets and asked
for questions from the public.
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