Top GKToday’s News Headlines-12 January, 2020

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Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for January 12, 2020.

PM Modi attends 150th anniversary celebration of Kolkata Port Trust in Kolkata; launches Interactive Light & Sound Show of Rabindra Setu (Howrah Bridge)
PM dedicates 4 refurbished heritage buildings in Kolkata to the nation — Old Currency Building, the Belvedere House, the Metcalfe House and the Victoria Memorial Hall
Lt Col Yuvraj Malik appointed new Director of the National Book Trust (NBT)
Chief Justice of India Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde inaugurates new building of Karnataka Judicial Academy in Bengaluru
A 10-day coastal Karnataka festival ‘Karavali Utsav’ being held in Mangaluru
Noted Kannada scholar, epigraphist and activist Chidananda Murthy dies in Bengaluru at 88
Naval Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) lands on INS Vikramaditya, becomes 1st indigenous fighter aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier
Karnataka: First-year-degree students in government colleges to get free laptops from January 12
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar meets Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Relations, Skills Development, Employment and Labour Relations, Dinesh Gunawardena in New Delhi
Naga People’s Front (NPF) suspends Rajya Sabha member K.G. Kenye from the party’s primary membership for voting in favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in December 2019

Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launches ‘Mission Purvodaya’ to develop steel sector in eastern India
Govt. announces promulgation of ordinance allowing auction of coal mines without any end-use restrictions

Iranian armed forces accept responsibility for accidental shoot-down of Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft after take-off from Tehran on January 8
Tsai Ing-wen of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) re-elected President of Taiwan
Oman’s ruler Sultan Qaboos bin Said dies in Muscat at 79