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Milos raonic
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• The merchant vessel whose 35 crew members
were sentenced to 5 years in jail by a Tutucorin district sessions court on 11
January 2016 on charges of illegally entering Indian waters with the
possession of weapons
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MV Seaman Guard Ohio
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• The startup launched by Illumina in
partnership with BillGates and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to develop blood basedcancer
tests
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Grail
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• He is the PresidentDesignate of the Beijing
based AsianInfrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and on a state visitto India
in the second week of January 2016
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Jin Liqun
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• His birth anniversary, which falls on 12
January, is annually observed as National Youth Day
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SwamiVivekananda
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• United States and Jordan on 11 January 2016
signed JointAction Plan in Washington and agreed to enhance efforts tocombat
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nuclear terrorism
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• Barcelona forward who on 11 January 2016
won the Ballond'Or trophy for the world’s best football player for thefifth
time overall
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Lionel Messi
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• The folk dance of Kullu district of
Himachal Pradesh thatwas listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as
thelargest folk dance in the world is
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Nati
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• Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL)
commissioned a 520MW coalbased thermal power unit in
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Andhra Pradesh
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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi set up eight
groups ofSecretaries for focussed attention on areas like
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Goodgovernance, inclusive growth, employment
generation,education and health, Swachch Bharat and energy efficiency
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• 'Missionary Day', anniversary of the
arrival of two WelshChristian missionaries, was observed and celebrated on
11January 2016 across the Christiandominated north easternstate of
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Mizoram
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• The city in which the Arab League Foreign
Ministers washeld on 10 January 2016
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Cairo, Egypt
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• The city in which the main event of the
14th PravasiBharatiya 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’ssingles trophy
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Milos Raonic of Canada
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• The professional kayaker who was named the
Denmark’ssportsperson 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 ToLive My Life Without You, who died on 8 January 2016 inChicago
is
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Otis Clay
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• The first female Formula One driver who
died on 8 January2016 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 SaalChotti Patni and Kala Register, who died on 9 January 2016is
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Ravindra Kalia
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• The country which was elected to the UNICEF
executiveboard that will represent the group of Asia Pacificcountries 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 theWTA Brisbane Tennis trophy by defeating
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GermanAngelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic 7
to 5, 6 to1
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• Stanislas Wawrinka on 10 January 2016 won
his ChennaiOpen title by defeating
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Croatian Borna Coric 6 to 3, 7 to 5
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• Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on
10 January2016 inaugurated the 28th edition of International KiteFestival at
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Sabarmati River front in Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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• The Kite festival of Gujarat marks
Uttarayan which isobserved as the day
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When winter begins to turn intosummer,
according to the Indian calendar
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• An Indian American professor Sukanya
Chakrabartidevised a new method that may help in detecting dwarfgalaxies
dominated by dark matter and
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explain ripples inthe outer disk of the
galaxy
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• NASA's revamped planet hunting Kepler
spacecraft hasdiscovered more than
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100 confirmed planets orbiting otherstars
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• Cricketer of New Zealand who on 10 January
2016 scoredsecondfastest fifty in T20 Internationals is
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ColinMunro
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• The country which on 9 January 2016 began
the process toformulate a new constitution
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Sri Lanka
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• DRDO successfully test fired the new
PenetrationCumBlast (PCB) and Thermobaric (TB) Ammunition tank whichwas
specially designed for
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Arjun Main Battle Tank (MBT)
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• PM Narendra Modi released a book titled
“MARU BHARATSARU BHARAT “authored by
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Jain Acharya Ratnasundersuriswarji Maharaj
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• In the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards, the
bestDirector award was won by
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Alejandro Inarritu for film TheRevenant
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• The President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated
the threeday long 88th annual conference of Nikhil Bharat BangaSahitya
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 crickettournament
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Former New Zealand Captain Stephen Fleming
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