Page-3 of Current Affairs - January, 2015
India to host ICC World Twenty20 in 2016
India is going to host International Cricket Council (ICC) World Twenty20 in 2016. It was announced by ICC Board meeting chaired by Chairman N. Srinivasan held in Dubai. ICC Board meeting also scheduled the ICC events during the period 2015-2019. ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
Packaging of foodgrains & sugar in jute material mandatory: CCEA
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has made packaging of foodgrains & sugar in jute material mandatory for jute year 2014-15. In this regard CCEA mentioned that packaging with jute material will be mandatory for minimum 90 per cent ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
Union Government to sell up to 10% stake in Coal India Limited (CIL)
Union government has announced to sell up to 10 per cent stake in state owned Coal India Limited (CIL) on 30 January 2015. This decision was cleared by high-powered ministerial panel headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. It will help ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
Nation pays tributes to Lala Lajpat Rai on his 150th birth anniversary
On 28 January 2015, nation paid tributes to national martyr of freedom movement, Lala Lajpat Rai on his 150th birth anniversary. Events marking this day: Various seminars and symposia were organised at many places in Punjab to remember Lala Lajpat ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
US tech giant Apple reports largest quarterly profit in history
US technology giant Apple, has reported the biggest quarterly profit of 18 billion US dollar. It is the biggest quarterly profit ever made by any public company in World and broke the previous record of ExxonMobil which had earlier topped ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
Hike Messenger introduces free voice calling service to its users
Hike Messenger, a home-grown chat application has introduced free voice-calling feature called Hike Calls to its users. This feature will allow its users to call each other for free, over 2G, 3G and Wi-Fi and across the globe in over ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
SC directs search engines to block sex determination advertisements
Supreme Court (SC) has directed search engines like Google India, Yahoo and Micrsoft’s Bing to block advertisements on sex determination and strictly comply with the laws. This ruling was given by SC bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla ..
Month: Current Affairs - January, 2015
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar appointed as new Foreign Secretary
Union Government has appointed Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as the new Secretary of Ministry of External Affairs (i.e. Foreign Secretary). His name was cleared by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He will be replacing incumbent ..