25 January 2014
1) Election Commission of India celebrated
the 4th National Voters Day across the country.
2) Padma Awards announced by Government (2
Padma Vibhushan, 24 Padma Bhushan and 101 Padma Shri). Dr. Raghunath A.
Mashelkar and BKS Iyengar awarded with Padma Vibhushan. Actors Kamal Haasan and
Vidya Balan, tennis player Leander Paes, cricketer Yuvraj Singh, and former
chief justice of India, the late JS Verma are among the prominent persons who
were conferred with the Padma awards. 27 of the Awardees are women.
3) Japanese PM Shinzo Abe arrived in New
Delhi on a three-day official trip to
India.
4) Third ODI between India-New Zealand
ended in a thrilling tie.
5) China's Li Na won Australia Open 2014
singles title defeating Dominika Cibulkova by 7-6 (7-3) 6-0.Li Na, 32, also
became the oldest winner of the women's title, surpassing Margaret Court who
was 30 when she became champion in 1973.
6) Bangalore became the first city in India
to offer free Wi-Fi spots for the public.
24 January 2014
1) India observed 7th 'National Girl Child
Day'. The theme of this year is ‘Safety and Development of girl child’.
2) India & China launched Year of
Friendly Exchanges.
3) Nation's largest lender State Bank of
India launched Youtube Channel.
4) Rajasthan, Tripura, Karnataka, Delhi
bagged Election Commisssion award for best electoral practices.
5) Catherine Samba-Panza became the first
woman president of war-torn Central African Republic.
6) Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) has
temporarily suspended its south zone organising secretary, MK Alagiri.
7)
Sania Mirza and her Romanian team-mate Horia Tecau advanced into the mixed-doubles
finals in the Australian Open 2014.
8) Indian-American AJ Paulraj wins Marconi
Prize 2014.
23 January 2014
1) India celebrated 117th birth anniversary
of Subhas Chandra Bose.
2) Saina Nehwal slipped to 9th in BWF
rankings.
3) Indian-origin professor Rakesh Khurana
has been appointed Dean of the prestigious Harvard College.
4) Kerala bagged the prestigious United
Nations World Tourism Organisation’s Ulysses Award for “innovation in public
policy and governance”.
5) Cumbria University of UK became the
first public university to accept fees in digital currency 'Bitcoin'.
6) Alok Sinha has been given the additional
charge of Chairman of Airports Authority of India after the removal of V P
Agarwal.
7) Real Madrid retained title of world's
richest soccer club.
22 January 2014
1)
Reserve Bank decided to withdraw all currency notes issued prior to 2005
after March 31.
2) Legendary Telegu actor Akkineni
Nageswara Rao died in Hyderabad at the age of 90. He was the Dadasaheb Phalke
award winner in the year 1990.
3) Govt launched LPG portability across
India.
4) Kailash Meghwal elected as Rajasthan
Assembly Speaker.
5) T. Nanda Kumar to be appointed new
Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
6) Google acquired cybersecurity firm
Impermium for 9 million dollar.
7) Indian Energy Exchange appoints S N Goel
as CEO & MD.
8) Advanced Light Helicopter 'Garuda
Vasudha' dedicated to Geological Survey of India.
21 January 2014
1) Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal
called off his dharna against Delhi Police.
2) MF revised India's growth rate to 4.6
per cent for the financial year 2013-14.
3) Aruna Bahuguna became the first woman
head of National Police Academy (NPA) since its inception in 1948.
4) Kapurthala (Punjab) gets world's second
and nation's first 'Climate Change Theatre'.
5) Novak Djokovic knocked out by Stanislas
Wawrinka in Australian Open.
6) Amul launched India’s first ‘milk ATM’
7)
Tripura, Manipur, Meghalaya celebrated 42nd statehood day.
20 January 2014
1) Nuclear capable Agni-IV missile
test-fired from Odisha.
2) Jain community granted minority status
by Union Government.
3) Sudhir Gupta appointed new Secretary of
TRAI.
4) Union Minister for Health and Family
Welfare Gulam Nabi Azad launched the National Urban Health Mission in
Bangalore.
5) Abhishikta S Shetty of Karnataka won
Miss South India Pageant Title.
6) Mitchell Johnson won Allan Border Medal.
19 January 2014
1) Dhoni becomes first Indian keeper to
cross 300 dismissals in ODIs.
2) Technopark in Kerala became nation's
largest IT park.
3) Global retail giant Wal-Mart has
registered a new company in India called 'Wal-Mart India Private Ltd'.
4) Cyrus Mistry wins DSC Prize for 2014.
5) Kenya's Evans Ruto and Dinknesh Mekash
of Ethiopia win the 11th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Men and Women
category.
