Current affairs January 2014, Latest Current Affairs Jan 1st to 31st
1st January
Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Ramesh Chennithala
assumed charge as Minister for Home, Vigilance, Fire and Rescue Services and
Jails on 1st January 2014.
S. K. Sharma is the new Chairman and Managing
Director of Bharat
Electronics Ltd and took charge on 1st January 2014.
New CMD of Vijaya Bank is V. Kannan, he took charge
on 1st January 2014.
Palestinian Ambassador in Czech Republic Jamal al-Jamal died in a blast.
New Zealand Cricketer Corey
Anderson Cracked the fastest century in One Day international cricket
history. He took just 36 deliveries to reach century and broke the18 year’s old
record of shahid Afridi.
2nd January
India signed a labour
Cooperation agreement with South
Arabia on 2nd January 2014. This will cover about a quarter of
the 25 lakh Indian Expatriates working in South Arabia.
Rakesh Bamzai, marketing
head of Biocon, quits from company.
3rd January
Infosys appointed two presidents on 3rd January
2014 and announced their names B. G.
Srinivas and U. B. Pravin Rao.
Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)
launched Connect Card on 3rd
January 2014. Connect Card is a new ATM cum Debit Card in Assoisiation with
VISA that can be used for online Shopping (e-Commerce) up to 5 lakhs.
National Women’s squash champion Joshna Chinappa rose to her career best world ranking of 20 as per the latest list released by
the Women’s Squash Association.
4th January
Bangladesh will
host the next month’s Asia Cup and added Afghanistan as the fifth team in the
regional one-day tournament.
France won Hopman
Cup title for the first time on 4th January 2014 and won this
title against Poland.
World No. 1 Serena
Williams won the Season Opening WTA Brisbane International tennis
Tournament beat the 2nd Seeded Victoria Azarenka on 4th
January 2014.
Chinese LI Na beats Peng Shuai to
win the Shenzhen Open tennis tournament.
Ana Ivanovic overcomes Venus Williams to win the clash of the two former
world number one tennis players in a marathon Auckland Classic final on 4th
January 2014.
5th
January
GSLV-D5 lifts off from Sriharikota on the dot at 4.18 PM on 5th
January 2014.
Stanislas Wawrinka defeated Edouard
Roger Vasselin to win Chennai Open on 5th January 2014.
World No. 1 Rafael Nadal defeated France’s Gael Monfils to win the Qatar Open.
It was Nadal’s 61st Career title.
6th
January
Telugu film Hero V. Uday Kiran
ended his life at the age of 33.
Swami Nityananda Maharaj, founder of Secretary of Ramakrishna
Vivekananda Mission in Barrackpore in North 24 parganas, passed away on 5th
January 2014. He was 82.
7th
January
The Strategic Forces Command test
fired a surface to surface Strategic Missile Prithvi – II from the Mobile launcher in the integrated test range,
near chandipur in Odisha on 7th January 2014.
Ms. Yellen is the new Fed
chairman succeeds Ben Bernanke. She will become the first woman to run the
Fed in its 100 years history.
8th
January
Norwegian firm Telenor appointed
its Strategy and regulatory affairs head Morten
Karlsen Sorby as new Chief Executive Officer of its Indian Telecom arm Uninor.
Unveiled the glittering Trophy
for Hero Hockey World League Final on
8th January 2014.
9th January
Mahatma Gandhi grand Daughter Ela Gandhi, Australian Senator of
Indian Origin Lisa Maria Singh and
Ramakrishna Mission in Fiji were among the 13 recipients of the Pravasi
Bharatiya Samman Award.
Manoj Kumar Garga is director and Global Group CFO of Manipal
Group.
Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) won the men’s and women’s
titles in 75th senior National and Inter-State table tennis
championship.
10th
January
The president of Central African
Republic Michel Djotodia has
resigned. The resignation is took under pressure over his failure to stem the
sectarian unrest ripping his country apart.
IndusInd Bank reported a 30% growth in its net profit on 3rd
Quarter ended 31st December 2013.
11th
January
Ariel Sharon, the former Prime Minister of Israel died on 11th
January 2014. He was 85.
Juan Martin Del Potro won men’s title of Australia Open in ATP Apia
International and he defeated Bernard Tomic in the finals at Sydney.
Daniel Nestor & Nenad Zimonjic won the doubles title of
Australia Open in Apia International and defeated Rohan Bopanna &
Aisamul-haq Qureshi at Sydney.
John Isner won his 2nd Heineken Open title at
Auckland and defeated Lu Yen-Hsun.
Kei Nishikori won the Kooyong Classic Exhibition Tourment
and defeted World No. 7 Tomas berdych
at Melbourne.
Garbine Muguruza won the WTA Hobart International and
defeated Klara Zakopalova at Hobart.
Sabhyata Nihalani and Siddhant
Banthia won the HSBC Road to Wimbledon National series Under-14 girls and
boys tennis tournament at DLTA complex, new Delhi.
12th
January
Sheikh Hasina took oath as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh on 12th
January 2014.
24 years Sanil Shetty and 20 years Ankita
Das bagged the men’s and Women’s titles in style, in 75th Senior
National Table tennis championships.
13th
January
Kerala based writer Anees Salim won the Hindu Prize for the
Best Fiction 2013 for his second Novel “Vanity Bagh”.
Anjali Devi, veteran actor died on 13th Jabuary 2014.
She was 86.
15th
January
Juan Gelman, Argentine Poet died on 14th January 2014.
He was 83. He won the Spanish speaking world’s top literature prize.
Wholesale price index-based
inflation for December declined to 6.16% from 7.52% in November.
Jeevandas Narayan is the new managing director (MD) of the State
Bank of Travancore (SBT).
16th
January
Jet Airways Ltd announced about the
resignation of its CEO Garry Kenneth
Toomey with immediate effect.
Abhijeet Gupta is the champion of the Parsvnath Grandmasters
International Chess Tournament on 16th January 2014.
17th January
Suchitra Sen, the legendary actress who was known as the Greta
Garbo of Bengali Cinema, was died on 17th January 2014. She was 82.
Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, the spiritual leader of the
community, died on 17th January 2014. He was 99.
Hery Rajaonarimampianina is the new president of Madagascar. This was
declared on 17th January 2014.
William Barney is the new CEO of Reliance Globalcom. This appointment
news was announced by Reliance Globalcom.
Andhra Medium-Pacer D. Kalyan Krishna announced his
retirement from first class cricket on 17th January 2014.
India Infrastructure Finance Company
Ltd (IIFCL) has signed an agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Korea (K-EXIM)
for infrastructure finance.
18th
January
Netherlands won Hero Hockey World League title at the major Dhyan
Chand National Stadium and defeated New Zealand.
Vishnu Vardan of Tamil Nadu and Natash Palha of Gao won the men’s and women’s singles of national grass
court tennis at south club.
Cyrus Mistry won the prestigious DSC prize for South Asian
Literature for 2014 on 18th January 2014 for his book “Chronicle of
a Corpse Bearer”.
20th January
Agni-IV, surface to surface missile was successfully test fired
from wheeler Island, off the Odisha coast on 20th January 2014.
Catherine Samba-Panza elected as Interim President of the Central
African Republic on 20th January 2014.
Anand Sinha, RBI deputy governor, has retired after the new bank license
Process.
22nd
January
Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Legendary Telugu Film Actor, Died on 22nd
January 2014. He was popularly known as ANR. He was 91.
Laimdota Straujuma is the new Prime Minister of Latvia and she is
the first woman PM of Latvia also. She was 62.
23rd
January
India Women team won the ODI over Sri Lanka with 3-0 at ACA-VDCA stadium in Visakhapatnam.
Indian Army gives bravery awards to civilians for the first time. The awardees are
Stanzin Padma, Jigmet Urgain and Nima Norboo and it was given on the eve of
Army Day at Udampur, Jammu. The awards were given by Lt. Gen Sanjeev Chachra,
Army Commander of Northern Command.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be the chief guest at
Republic Day Parade.
24th
January
Firbrand Israeli leftwinger and Former
Cabinet Minister Shulamit Aloni died
on 24th January 2014. She was 85.
India regained its No. 1 ranking in the ICC ODI after Australia
lost its fourth ODI against England by 57 runs Because of that Australia
dropping to 2nd place.
25th
January
Sushil Kumar, Former Director
General of Police died on 25th January 2014. He was 81.
Sameer Kumar and Raveena
Kingsley won the boy’s and girl’s single titles in the ONGC ITF Grade-3
junior tennis at the red-clay courts of DKS complex, Kolkata.
Li Na won the Women’s singles in Australian Open title and defeated
Dominika Cibulkova at Melbourne.
The Centre for Study of Society
and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai, has been selected for the National Communal Harmony Award 2013 in the organisation category.
Mohinder Singh of Delhi and N.
Radhakrishnan of Kerala have been selected for the National Communal Harmony Award 2013 in the individual Category.
Padma Awards
2013:
Padma Vibhushan:
India’s second highest Civilian
honour, Padma Vidhushan is awarded
to world famous Yoga Guru B. K. S.
Iyengar and the former Chief of the Country of Science and industrial
Research (CSIR) R. A. Mashelkar.
Padma Bhushan:
25 people selected for Padma
Bhushan, Kamal Haasan, lyricist Vairamuthu, Ghatam Exponent T. H. Vinayakram,
Pullela Gopichand (badminton), Leander Paes (Tennis), Late Dr. Anumolu
Ramakrishna (Science & Engineering),
Classical Singer Begum Parveen Sultana, Justice Dalvir Bhandari, Author
Ruskin Bond, the former Chief Justice of India J. S. Verma, Former Comptroller
and Auditor General V. N. Kaul are
among Padma Bhushan 2013 Awardees.
Padma Sri:
7 Sportspersons is selected for Padma Shri, Yuvraj Singh (Cricket), Dipika
Pallikal (Squash Player), Anjum Chopra (Former Indian women’s Cricket Captain),
Sunil Dabas (Kabaddi), Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu and Mamta Sodha
(Mountaineering) and H. Boniface Prabhu (wheelchair tennis).
Ms Kilemsungla (member of UPSC),
Ms Vidya Balan (Actress), Vijay Ghate (Tabla Player), Santosh Sivan (Filmmaker
and Cinematographer), Mohammad Ali Baig (Theater Personality), Nayana Apte
Joshi (TV Actress), Ram Bhardwaj (Musician), Elam Endira Devi (Manipuri
Dancer), Rani Karnaa (Kathak dancer from Bengal), Ram Mohan (Film Animator),
Kalamandalam Sathyabhama (Dancer), Parveen Talha (former UPSC member), Sand
Artist Sudarsan Pattnaik, Mallika Srinivas (chairperson of the Chennai- based
Tractors and Farm Equipment), Pratap Govindrao pawar, Bansi Kaul (Theater
Artist) and Paresh Rawal.
26th
January
Karl Slym, the managing director of Tata Motor Ltd, died on 26th
January 2014. He was 51.
K. Prasad Babu, a Greyhounds Inspector was awarded the highest
pease time gallantry award, Ashok Chakra
by President Pranab Mukherjee on the occation of Republic Day.
Saina Nehwal won the Women’s singles in India Grand Prix badminton
title and defeated P. V. Sindhu. (Xue Song of china defeated K. Srikanth in
men’s singles, Junhui Li and Yuchen Liu defeated Huang Kiaxiang and Zhang Si
Wei in men’s Doubles, Chen Qingchen and Jia Yi Fan defeated Xiaohan Yu and Yaqiong
Huang in Women’s Double, Wang Yilv and Yaqiong Huang defeated Huang Kaixiang
and Chen Qingchin in Mixed doubles)
Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland won the Grand Slam title for the first
time and defeated World No. 1 Rafael
Nadal in the Australian Open men’s finals on 26th January
2014.
Kristina Mladenovic and Daniel
Nestor won the mixed doubles in Australian Open and defeated Sania Mirza and
Horia Tecau in the finals.
27th
January
Samsung Electronics Co signed an
agreement with Google Inc to cross-license their patents.
Legendary folk singer Pete Seeger “a Living archive of
America’s music and conscience” who inspired the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce
Springsteen, has died on 27th January 2014. He was 94.
28th
January
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
hikes the Repo Rate by 25 points from 7.75% to 8% on 28th January
2014.
Repo Rate – 8%
Reverse Repo Rate – 7%.
APJ Abdul Kalam inaugurated the
Centenary celebrations of the Pamban
railway bridge. this is India’s first Cantilever bridge, connecting the
piligrim-island of Rameswaram to the mainland.
29th
January
India’s illiterate population is largest in the world as per the
UNESCO report.
A former Norwegian Minister Edward Snowden is nominated for Nobel Peace
Prize this year.
Ajoy Misraand would be elected and appointed as CEO and Managing
Director of TGBL from 1st April 2014 and this was announced by Tata
Global Beverages Limited (TGBL) board of directors on 29th January
2014.
31st January
Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has been voted
the world’s 4th most beautiful woman in the recent poll conducted by
online magazine Holllywood Buzz.
Vice Admiral Michael Rogers, a Navy Cyber warfare specialist has been nominated
by U. S President Barack Obama as the next director of the National Security
Agency (NSA).
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