Top GKToday’s News Headlines-21 January, 2020

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Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for January 21, 2020.

IAF inducts its first squadron of Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft equipped with BrahMos missiles at its airbase in Thanjavur (TN); named ‘Tigersharks’ 222 squadron
AP to have three capitals: Visakhapatnam: executive capital, Kurnool: judicial capital and Amaravati: legislative capital
Former Congress Haryana MLA and ex-Rajya Sabha MP Shamsher Singh Surjewala dies at 87

DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) launches paperless licensing process for petroleum service stations
IMF lowers India’s economic growth estimate in 2019-20 to 4.8% from 6.1% in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) Report
Challa Sreenivasulu Setty appointed as Managing Director of SBI for a period of three years
SC accepts Centre’s proposal to take over management control of real estate firm Unitech
Ashish Garg elected President of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

Global Investment Trend Monitor report released by UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
India among top 10 recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2019, attracting USD 49 billion (16% increase from 2018)
Global FDI in 2019 was USD 1.39 trillion (1% decline from 2018)
US remained the largest recipient of FDI at USD 251 billion in 2019

World’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60% of the planet’s population, said NGO Oxfam in its ‘Time to Care’ report
Number of international tourist arrivals was 1.5 billion in 2019 (4% more than 2018): Madrid-based UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organisation)
IMF revises downwards growth estimate for global economy in 2019 to 2.9% from 3% in its World Economic Outlook (WEO) Report
India ranked 76th out of 82 countries on WEF’s Social Mobility Index topped by Denmark
Berlin Summit on Libya fails to initiate talks between the warring parties — strongman Khalifa Haftar and the head of Tripoli’s UN-recognised government Fayez al-Sarraj