CURRENT AFFAIRS JANUARY 2016

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CURRENT AFFAIRS JANUARY 2016:

• WHO declared public health emergency of International concern over the explosive spread of the mosquito borne Zika Virus. Zika Virus is spread by Aedes mosquito
• Former Army Chief Kotikalapudi Krishna Rao passed away

• AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2016

Mens Single: Novak Djokovic from Serbia

Womens Single: Angelique Kerber from Germany

Womens Double: Martina Hingis/Sania Mirza

Mixed Double: Elena Vesnina/Bruno Soares

Mens Double: Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares

• Nathuram Godse: The story of an Assassin is a book released in January and it was written by Anup Ashok Sardesai
• 30th January: Anti Leprosy Day
• Japan unveiled first Stealth Fighter Aircraft X-2 in january 2016
• Prince Mahidol Award 2015 was conferred upon professor Morton Mower & Michael Marmot for outstanding achievements in medicine & public health.
• Leslie Berland was appointed as Chief Marketing Officer of Twitter Inc.
• Nisid Hajari won the 2016 william E. Colby Award for his book "Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of Indian's Partition.
• Madhya Pradesh decided to impose a ban on Polythene in entire state form January  2017
• India test fired surface to air missile 'Akash' from Complex-3 at chandipur Odisha
• Rodney George Laver honoured with The Companion of the order of Australia on the occasion of Australian Day. Rodney Laver was a former tennis player of Australia
• Aparna Kumar, IPS Officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, became India's first Civil servant to scale Mount Vinson Massif the highest pick in the Antartica. He hosted tri-colour and the flag of the UP Police Service on Mount Vinson Massif
• Chenupati Jagadish and Jay chandra Indian-origin persons were honoured with the order of Australia, highest civilian honour of Australia on the Australian Day on the field of Physics, Engineering and Medicine.
• Union minister of Social Justice and Empowerment launched the National Level Job Portal - www.disabilityjobs.gov.in
• Australian batsman David Warner won prestigious Allan Border medel for 2016
• Transparency International released the corruption perceptions index (CPI) 2015 among 168 countries. Rank: 1. Denmark 2. Finland 3. Sweden. *India placed 76th place previous:85th
• Marvin Missky the Pioneer of Artificial Intelligence died
• Cottalango Leon a person of Indian origin was selected for the 2016Technical Achievement Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science
• Sivnarine Chandrapaul announced retirement from International Cricket
• Bollywood Actress Rekha was honoured with Yash Chopra Memorial Award.
• Highset Peace time gallantry award 'Ashok Chokra' to posthumously to Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami
• President rule in Arunachal Pradesh
• Kerala dentist Sajeev Koshy was honoured with highest civilian honour the order of Australia
• 67th Republic Day was celebrated; Chief guest: France President Francois Hollande
• National Voters Day: 25th January 2016
• Marcelo Rebelo de Souse became the President of Portugal
• Indian's Ace Suttler, P. V Sindhu won the Malaysia masters grand prix gold badminton title
• India won the first T20 Asia cup Cricket for blind in Kochi, India
• The Andhra Pradesh govt. launched Giriputrika Kalyana scheme to support the tribal women in their quest for livelihood
• Best Countries report by WPP's BAV Consulting and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and World economic forum-India ranked as 22. Sweden is recognised as the most modern country. Denmark Best country for Women. India no.1 as upcoming economy. Luxembourg is most business friendly. Brazil is no.1 nation to visit. Canada tops with the best quality of life. Germany best for entrepreneurship. US most powerful country

Best Country Ranking

1.Germany 2.Canada 3.UK

• Rahul Takhur won Scientific and Technical Award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science(OSCAR)
• Nuclear Thereat Initiative released among 176 countries. Australia was adjusted as the safest ranked 1. India least safe ranked 21 rank. Pakistan raked 22. Korea 24th were most unsafe.
• Atulesh Jndal Chairman of Central Board of Direct tax(CBDT)
• Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur of Rajasthan won the award of the World's best hotel at the Traveller's Choice award organised by trip advisor
• Moldovan parliament appointed Pravel Filip as the Prime Minister  
• Ravi Chellam took charge as the executive director of greenpeace India, a non-govt. organisation.
• The Z factor: My journey as the wrong man at the right time by Subhash Chandra released by PM
• UP won 2014-2015 Syad Mustaq Ali Trophy
• Jehan Daruwala won Lady Wigram Trophy Motor Race.
• INSEAD released Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2015-2016 in 46th annual summit of world economic forum. India slipped 11 place to rank 89. Singapore is the top of the rank(1) Least:Madagascar(109)
• 20 lmillion US dollar by World Bank for reconstructing of Indira Gandhi zoological Park
• Sikkim was declared as the first organic farming state of India
• India Dinesh Sharma at was elected to the member board of director of the China-sponsored Asian Infrastructure Bank(ADB)
• Tsai-Ing-Wen won Presidential election of Taiwan
• Arundhuti Roy won DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for her novel "Sleeping on Jupiter" at the galle literacy festivels in srilanka
• FLIMFARE AWARDS2016

Best Actor: Ranveer Singh for Baji Rao Mastani

Best Actress: Deepika Padukone for Piku

Best Film: Baji rao Mastani

Lifetime Achievement: Mousumi Chatterjee

• World Bank announced that India saved 1billion rupees annually by using Aadhaar by reduced curruption & Leakage in World Development Report 2016
• Army Day: 15th January 2016
• Dr. Jancy James the first women vice chancellor of kerala selected for the prof. Mv Pylee Award for the distinguished Academician of India
• The Coast Guards of India & Japan conducted their 15th Joint exercise off the coast of chennai named-Sahyog kaijin
• India's largest bank, SBI launched & inaugurated Indian's first start-up focused bank branch called SBI Incube in Bangaluru, Karnataka
• DRDO test fired Nag anti tank missile at the mahajan field range in Rajasthan
• Union Govt. sighned loan agrement with world bank in New Delhi for the Neeranchal National Watershed Project
• Actor Alan Rickman known for films including Harry Poter, Die Hard, Robin Hood died
• Bangaluru based activist Subhashini Vasanth was honoured with Neerja Bhanot Award
• David Beckham was presented with the Danny Kaye Humanitarian leadership award at the sixth biennial UNICEFF ball in Los Angeles
• Kerala become the first state in the country to achieve 100 percent Primary education
• Amitabh Bachchan made honorary life member of Mohammedan Sporting
• Telengana become the first state in India to introduce compulsory gender education at the graduate level
• Devendra kumar sikri sworn in as the chairman of competition commission of India (CCI)
• The Nati folk dance of Kulu district of Himachal Pradesh was listed in the guinness book of world records as the largest folk dance in the world
• Lionel Messi won the Ballon d 'or trophy for the World's best football player for the fifth time overall in the 2014-2015 session. Fifa women's world player of the year - Carli Lioyd
• Cloud Tibet: China's first Tibetan language search engine is testing by China
• Danish Kayaker Rene Holten Paulsen was named the Denmark Sportsperson of the year 2015
• Srilanka began the process to formulate new constitution
• 9th January 2016: Pravasi Bharitiya Divas
• Nepal was elected to the UNICEF executive board, representing the group of Asia-Pacific countries for the term 2016-2018
• stainless wawrinka won Chennai open title
• Economist Paul Kaba Thieba was named as the Prime Minister of Burkina faso
• 'Shakti 2016' in Rajasthan by French and Indian Army joint exercise
• Operation Green hunt: All out offensive against the Maoist(Naxalites)
• Amitabh Kant appointed as the Chief Executive Officers (CEO) of NITI Aayog
• RBI govornor Raghuram Rajan was felicitated with the central banker of the year award(Global and Asia Pacific) for 2016 by Financial times groups monthly publication The Banker
• Kunal Shah appointed chairman of Internet and Mobile Association of India
• Dr. Achyuta Samanta elected as the general president of 105th Indian Science congress Association
• The book "go set a watchman" by Harper Lee in news as it topped the 2015 US best seller list
• BCCI AWARD

Col. Ck Nayudu Lifetime achievement award: Syed Kirmeni

Polly Umriger Trophy for International cricketer of the year: Virat Kohali

• 15year old Pranab Dhanawade of Mumbai become first cricketer to score 1000 runs in an innings
• Filippo Grandi took over as the new high commissioner for the United Nations Refugee Agency(UNHCR)
• India and Nepal bus service after 27th year
• RBI impose monetary penalty on one crore rupees on SBI of violation of its instructions
• Radha Krishna Mathur sworn as Chief Information Commissioner of India
• Amament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE) successfully test fired Pinaka II multi barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) system from Pokhran, Rajasthan
• India won of the South Asian Football Federation Cup(SAFF) Championship in Kerala
• Vacalists Sanjay Subrahmanyam conferred with 2015 Sangita Kalanidhi award
• Giorgi Kvirikashvili elected as Prime Minister of Georgia
• Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik found place in Limca book of world records by creating 45 feet Santa Claus
• Gujrati writer Raghubeer chowdhary won 51st Jnanpith award for his contribution to the Indian literature
• Arunima Sinha, the amputee moutaineer who set a record by climbing the  Mount Aconchaua in Argentina
• PADMA VIBHUSHAN/ PADMA BHUSHAN/ PADMA SHRI

 Padma Vibhushan

1. Ms. Yamini Krishnamurthi — Art-Classical dance — Delhi

2. Shri Rajinikanth — Art-Cinema — Tamil Nadu

3. Smt Girija Devi — Art-Classical Vocal — West Bengal

4. Shri Ramoji Rao — Literature & Education-Journalism — Andhra Pradesh

5. Dr Viswanathan Shanta — Medicine-Oncology — Tamil Nadu

6. Shri Shri Ravi Shankar — Others-Spiritualism — Karnataka

7. Shri Jagmohan — Public Affairs — Delhi

8. Dr Vasudev Kalkunte Aatre — Science & Engineering — Karnataka

9. Shri Avinash Dixit(Foreigner) — Literature & Education — USA

10.Late Shri Dhiru Bhai Ambani (Posthumous) — Trade & Industry — Maharashtra

Padma Bhushan

11. Shri Anupam Kher — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra

12. Shri Udit Narayan Jha — Art-Playback Singing — Maharashtra

13. Shri Ram V Sutar — Art-Sculpture — Uttar Pradesh

14. Shri Heisnam Kanhailal — Art-Theatre — Manipur

15. Shri Vinod Rai — Civil Service — Kerala

16. Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad — Literature & Education — Andhra Pradesh

17. Prof NS Ramanuja Tatacharya — Literature & Education — Maharashtra

18. Dr Barjinder Singh Hamdard — Literature & Education - Journalism — Punjab

19. Prof D Nageshwar Reddy — Medicine-Gastroenterology — Telangana

20. Swami Tejomayananda — Other-Spiritualism — Maharashtra

21. Shri Hafeez Contractor — Others-Architecture — Maharashtra

22. Shri Ravindra Chandra Bhargava — Public Affairs — Uttar Pradesh

23. Dr Venkata Rama Rao — Alla Science & Engineering — Andhra Pradesh

24. Ms Saina Nehwal — Sports-Badminton — Telangana

25. Ms Sania Mirza — Sports-Tennis — Telangana

26. Ms Indu Jain — Trade & Industry — Delhi

27. Late Swami Dayanand Sarawasati (Posthumous) — Others-Spiritualism — Uttarakhand

28. Shri Robert Blackwill (Foreigner) — Public Affairs — USA

29. Shri Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry (NRI/PIO) — Trade & Industry — Ireland

Padma Shri

30. Smt Prathibha Prahlad — Art- Classical Dance — Delhi

31. Shri Bhikhudan Gadhvi — Art- Folk Music — Gujarat

32. Shri Sribhas Chandra Supakar — Art- Textile Designing — Uttar Pradesh

33. Shri Ajay Devgn — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra

34. Ms Priyanka Chopra — Art-Cinema — Maharashtra