Jin Liqun
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• Bihar government on 12 January 2016 decided
to impose 13.5 percent tax on luxury items to mop up
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additional revenue for carrying development
work
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• The operation which was launched by the
Border Security Force to contain infiltration from Pakistan along the
international border in Rajasthan
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Operation Cold
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• The state which was on 12 January 2016
declared as the first in the country to achieve 100 percent primary education
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Kerala
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• He edited the book titled Jawaharlal Nehru
and The Indian Polity in Perspective that was released by the Vice President
of India Hamid Ansari on 12 January 2016 in Thiruvananthapuram
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Dr P J
Alexander
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• The Chinese multinational computer
technology company that will launch a new smart phone in collaboration with
Google as part of its Project Tongo
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Lenovo
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• The city in which the 5-day long 20th
National Youth Festival was inaugurated on 12 January 2016
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Naya
Raipur
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• The Hall of Fame outfielder and former
Negro Leagues player who died on 11 January 2016 is
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Monte
Irvin
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• An international team of scientists led by
Indian-American devised a new method, galactoseismology, to detect dwarf
galaxies dominated by dark matter
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Sukanya Chakrabarti
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• Participants of the Conference of
Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG) on Afghan Peace and Reconciliation
process that was held in Islamabad on 11 January 2016 are
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the US
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• The 1975 batch Indian Administrative
Service Officer sworn in as the Chairman of Competition Commission of India
(CCI)
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Devender Kumar Sikri
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• Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu
on 11 January 2016 inaugurated implementation of
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E-enabled Track Management System (TMS)
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• The Supreme Court on 12 January 2016 stayed
the Union Government’s notification lifting ban on controversial bull taming
sport Jallikattu during the festival of
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Pongal
in Tamil Nadu
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• The Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited and the
Andhra Pradesh Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding to
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invest
38500 crore rupees
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• Ashish Saraf was appointed as the
Vice-President - Industry Development, Strategic Partnerships and Offsets of
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Airbus
Group
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• Telangana became the first Indian State to
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introduce compulsory gender education at the
graduate level
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• Scientists at Central Institute for
Research on Buffaloes in Hisar successfully produced a cloned buffalo offspring,
which is named as
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Cirb
Gaurav
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• The legendary artist, mostly known for his
androgynous alter ego Ziggy Stardust, who passed away on 10 January 2016 is
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David
Bowie
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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 Bill Gates and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to develop blood-based
cancer tests
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Grail
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• He is the President-Designate of the
Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and on a state
visit to India in the second week of January 2016
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Jin
Liqun
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