Top GKToday’s News Headlines- 11 January, 2020
Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for January 11, 2020.
INDIA
- SC calls access to the Internet fundamental right; asks J&K administration to review its order imposing curbs on internet services
- Youth Affairs & Sports Ministry and UP Govt. jointly organizing National Youth Festival in Lucknow on January 12-16; theme: ‘Fit Youth, Fit India’
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurates Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) in New Delhi; dedicates National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal (www.cybercrime.gov.in) to the Nation
- Veteran broadcaster, poet and academician Obaid Siddiqui dies in Ghaziabad at 63
- External Affairs Ministry and the Indian Missions celebrate ‘Vishwa Hindi Diwas’ on January 10
- Indian Navy to organise week-long multilateral Milan 2020 exercise in Visakhapatnam in March 2020; theme: ‘Synergy Across the Seas’
- Three Indian cities from Kerala – Malappuram (first), Kozhikode (fourth) and Kollam (tenth) — in top-10 of ‘world’s fastest-growing urban areas’ by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
CRIME IN INDIA
- 2018 edition of ‘Crime in India’ statistics released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB)
- A total of 50.74 lakh crimes was registered in 2018.
- Crime in India has increased by 1.3% in 2018 compared to 2017
- Crime rate per lakh population was down to 383.5 in 2018 from 388.6 in 2017.
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- Index of Industrial Production (IIP) records growth of 1.8 per cent in November
- Foreign exchange reserves rise $3.689 billion to touch a record high of $461.157 billion in the week to January 3
- Power Ministry launches ‘State Energy Efficiency Index 2019’ developed by Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in association with Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE)
- Govt launches paperless licensing through Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO) for road tankers
- Wings India 2020, a flagship event of Indian Civil Aviation industry, at Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad: March 12-15; theme: ‘Flying for All’
- SC stays NCLAT (National Company Law Appellate Tribunal) order restoring Cyrus Mistry as Tata Sons’ chairman
- PayU acquires controlling stake in fintech start-up PaySense at a valuation of $185 million
- Assets worth over Rs 78 crore of former ICICI Bank Chairman Chanda Kochhar and her family attached by the ED in connection with a money laundering probe against them
WORLD
- China-Pakistan bilateral naval exercise, code-named Sea Guardians-2020, being conducted in the northern Arabian Sea from January 6 to 14
- US House of Representative passes resolution limiting President’s ability to carry out military actions against Iran without the prior approval of Congress