MBT ARJUN
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• His birth anniversary, which falls on 12
January, is annually observed as National Youth Day
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Swami
Vivekananda
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• United States and Jordan on 11 January 2016
signed Joint Action Plan in Washington and agreed to enhance efforts to
combat
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nuclear terrorism
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• Barcelona forward who on 11 January 2016
won the Ballon d'Or trophy for the world’s best football player for the fifth
time overall
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Lionel Messi
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• The folk dance of Kullu district of
Himachal Pradesh that was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the
largest folk dance in the world is
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Nati
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• Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL)
commissioned a 520-MW coal-based thermal power unit in
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Andhra
Pradesh
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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up eight
groups of Secretaries for focussed attention on areas like
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Good
governance, inclusive growth, employment generation, education and health,
Swachch Bharat and energy efficiency
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• 'Missionary Day', anniversary of the
arrival of two Welsh Christian missionaries, was observed and celebrated on
11 January 2016 across the Christian-dominated north eastern state of
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Mizoram
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• The city in which the Arab League Foreign
Ministers was held on 10 January 2016
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Cairo,
Egypt
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• The city in which the main event of the
14th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas was inaugurated
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New
Delhi
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• The day on which the 11th World Hindi Day
was observed
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10
January 2016
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• He won the 2016 Brisbane International
Tennis men’s singles trophy
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Milos
Raonic of Canada
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• The professional kayaker who was named the
Denmark’s sportsperson of the year 2015 is
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Rene
Holten Poulsen
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• The legendary soul singer, famous for the
song Trying To Live My Life Without You, who died on 8 January 2016 in
Chicago is
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Otis Clay
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• The first female Formula One driver who
died on 8 January 2016 in Italy is
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Maria
Teresa de Filippis
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• The noted Hindi writer, known for his works
like Nau Saal Chotti Patni and Kala Register, who died on 9 January 2016 is
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Ravindra Kalia
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• The country which was elected to the UNICEF
executive board that will represent the group of Asia-Pacific countries for
the term 2016-2018 is
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Nepal
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• Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis on 9 January
2016 won the WTA Brisbane Tennis trophy by defeating
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German
Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic 7-5, 6-1
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• Stanislas Wawrinka on 10 January 2016 won
his Chennai Open title by defeating
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Croatian Borna Coric 6-3, 7-5
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• Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on
10 January 2016 inaugurated the 28th edition of International Kite Festival
at
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Sabarmati River front in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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• The Kite festival of Gujarat marks
Uttarayan which is observed as the day
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When
winter begins to turn into summer, according to the Indian calendar
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• An Indian-American professor Sukanya Chakrabarti
devised a new method that may help in detecting dwarf galaxies dominated by
dark matter and
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explain ripples in the outer disk of the
galaxy
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• NASA's revamped planet-hunting Kepler
spacecraft has discovered more than
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100
confirmed planets orbiting other stars
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• Cricketer of New Zealand who on 10 January
2016 scored second-fastest fifty in T-20 Internationals is
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Colin
Munro
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• The country which on 9 January 2016 began
the process to formulate a new constitution
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Sri
Lanka
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• DRDO successfully test fired the new
Penetration-Cum Blast (PCB) and Thermobaric (TB) Ammunition tank which was
specially designed for
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Arjun
Main Battle Tank (MBT)
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• PM Narendra Modi released a book titled
“MARU BHARAT SARU BHARAT “authored by
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Jain
Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj
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• In the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, the
best Director award was won by
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Alejandro Inarritu for film The Revenant
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• The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated
the three day long 88th annual conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan
in
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Ranchi, Jharkhand
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• He was appointed as the Chief Coach of the
new Pune franchise of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament
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Former
New Zealand Captain Stephen Fleming.
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