Events of Jan second Week (Jan 09-16, 2015)

Jan 2015 Events (second week – Jan 09-16, 2015)
Jan 09	Mr. Maithripala Sirisena is the new President of Sri Lanka. He defeated the decade old President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa
	Indian Government decided to provide 69 million rupees to Nepal as assistance to launch the Iodine Deficiency Disorder Control Programme (IDDCP) for goitre control across the country
	Jharkhand Assembly adopted resolution on opening High Court bench in Dumka
	Australian airline Qantas named world’s safest by AirlineRatings.com
	Union Government launched National Toll Free Helpline to assist the drug dependent persons
	NASA Kepler Space Telescope made 1000th Exoplanet Discovery
	Five new countries (Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela and Spain) joined the U.N. Security Council as non-permanent members, while Chile assumed the rotating presidency for January
	Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari announced in Haridwar that, a new national highways ("Char-Dham Project) connecting the four shrines of Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri would be constructed in Uttarakhand
	Vistara airline started domestic flight operation in India;flight took off with its first flight from Delhi to Mumbai
	Presidential rule imposed in Jammu and Kashmir
	Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari presented Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Awards 2015 to 16 persons
	Chinese nuclear physicist Yu Min was presented with the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award 2014 by Chinese President Xi Jinping. He was awarded for his involvement in research into nuclear weapons since the 1960s.
Jan 10	Urdu is purely an Indian Language which is loved and nurtured by all Indians - Union Minority Affairs Minister
	Uma Bharti calls PSUS to Join Clean Ganga Mission
	Senior bureaucrat Sindhushree Khullar was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog with effect from 1 January 2015. She will serve the position for one year.
	Hindi Film "The Lunchbox" reached BAFTA nomination
	Buddha Heritage Walk: People from 11 countries walked through a 13-km forest trail which Lord Gautama Buddha had taken to reach Rajgir from Bodh Gaya around 2,543 years ago.
	Andhra Pradesh government constituted the Fourth State Finance Commission under the Chairmanship of M L Kantha Rao, the Professor of Economics and Dean S K University
	Australia won the 4-match Border-Gavaskar Test series played against India by 2-0.
Jan 11	Stanislas Wawrinka won the Chennai Open (Tennis) 2015
	Vibrant Gujarat Summit - 2015 at Gandhinagar. UN President, World Bank President, Bhutan PM and several other global leaders attended the Summit
	M.Y.S. Prasad, Director, Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, has been selected for the Vikram Sarabhai Memorial Award for 2014-15.
	Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic won the 2015 Presidential elections of Croatia. With this, she becomes the first female President of Croatia.
	United States announced that it will host an international Anti-terror Summit in Washington (on Feb 2015)
	17-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer of Switzerland won the Brisbane International Tennis title; With this he became the third tennis player in open era to win 1000 ATP titles.
Jan 12	Idukki in Kerala becomes the First District of India with Complete Rural Broadband Coverage
	Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha was appointed as the 21st chief justice of Bangladesh; He becomes the first Hindu to become Chief Justice of Bangladesh
	A. S. Kiran Kumar is appointed as the Chief of ISRO
	The Supreme Court issued notice to the Union Government on voting rights for inter-state migrants.
	The Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has been conferred “Governor of the Year” award by the British journal Central Banking.
	The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Team of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) won the 2015 Space Pioneer Award in the Science and Engineering category.
	World Bank signed tripartite agreement with the Government of Gujarat and the Government of India for Gujarat’s smart cities initiatives and swachhta abhiyaan.
	Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the European Central Bank (ECB) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the field of central banking.
Jan 13	Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu inaugurated India’s first compressed natural gas (CNG)-powered train on the Rewari – Rohtak link of Northern Zone.
	USAID, Bill & Milinda Gates Foundation to assist in Swachh Bharat Mission in urban areas
	First meeting of Steering Committee on Kyoto-Varanasi held
	Union Government removed Avinash Chander, the Chairman of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)
	Search Engine Google launched its Flight Search Tool in India. The tool allows to search directly for flights within Google to quickly find, compare and book flights from mobile device, tablet or desktop
	Union Ministry of Health proposed COTPA (Amendment) Bill 2015
	Chinese archaeologists discovered Buddhist relics in Hubei Province of Central China
	Union government reconstituted Pollution Control Board Working Group to simplify procedures to get consent certificates and categorisation of industries
	Actor Amitabh Bachchan was presented with the Social Media Person of the Year Award 2015 by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI)
	Film 'Boyhood' won the Best Film Award in BAFTA Awards
Jan 14	TN Government Awards 2015 was announced
	Union Minister Mr. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, sentenced to one year jail for violating model code of conduct (6 years ago); Briefly taken into custody in Uttar Pradesh and later granted bail.
	Will you clean up the Ganga in this term or in the next term? - SC slams Centre
	Eminent Sanskrit scholar Prabhu Nath Dwivedi was named as the winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit language.
	Pope Francis cannonised Joseph Vaz, the first saint of Sri Lanka.
	Indian open water swimmer Bhakti Sharma set a world record by swimming 1.4 miles in 52 minutes in one degree temperature in the Antarctic Ocean. She is the first Indian women as well as to achieve this feat.
	Japan approved its largest ever Defence Budget for 2015
	Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of cricket
Jan 15	Chief Election Commissioner Mr. Sampath retired; Mr. H. S. Brahma is the new Chief Election Commissioner of India
	RBI cut Repo Rate by 0.25% in sixth Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Statement 2014-15
	Scientists discovered hybrid insecticide-resistant mosquito in Mali
	Kiran Bedi joins BJP
	Kalanithi Maran transfers Spicejet ownership to founder Ajay Singh
	Pope on 'Charlie Hebdo': There are limits to free expression
	Do I look like Naxal? – Kejriwal
	Oscar 2015 nominations: 'The Grand Budapset Hotel' and 'Birdman' lead with 9 nominations
	US President Barack Obama nominated two Indian-Americans Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri and Deven J Parekh to key posts in US.
Jan 16	Censor Board chief Leela Samson decides to quit
	Apple, Google settle U.S. lawsuit for $415 million
	We Came to US to Become Americans, Not Indian-Americans: Bobby Jindal
	Pakistan decided to ban 12 terrorist outfits, including the Jamaat-ud-Dawa--headed by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed -and the Haqqani network
	Aerostate, a new domestic airline company, has announced the launch of regional airline service in Kerala
	Baba Ramdev appointed as state brand ambassador of Haryana Government
	Renowned Indian RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal was conferred with the Giraffe Hero award 2015 by a US-based NGO The Giraffe Heroes Project.
	China to launch construction of five new nuclear reactors with total capacity of 5 Gigawatts in 2015
	PM releases Gujarati translation of Thirukkural, on 'ThiruvalluvarDay'

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