January:-Current affairs

  • Golden Globe Awards 2013: Argo Won Best Picture and Best Director Award.

  • India reported zero fresh cases of polio in 2012 and this is the second year in a row that no fresh cases of Polio has been discovered.

  • Simon Taufel would become the first umpire to deliver, the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture scheduled to be delivered on 24 July 2013.

  • President gave his assent to Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill and Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2012 to make it the law of land.

  • The Government of India on 11 January 2013 approved 14 FDI proposals which is said to be about 1311 crore rupees including that of Hindustan Port Ltd.

  • Microsoft to shut down Windows Live Messenger Service from 15 March 2013.
  • Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl from Pakistan shot by Taliban received France's Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom in Paris on 9 Jan 2013.
  • The Union Cabinet on 10 January 2013 approved the Ministry of Rural Development’s proposal to increase the unit cost under Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), keeping under
  • consideration the sharp increase in the cost of materials.

  • Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir on 10 January 2013 set up a Special Bench of Justices of A.K. Patnaik and Gyan Sudha Misra to hear cases of crime against women.

  • GAIL India announced successful commissioning of 5 million tonne capacity Dabhol LNG terminal on 10 January 2013 at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

  • Renault Duster was awarded the Car of the Year Award 2013 by the automotive magazine Autocar India on 9 January 2013 in Mumbai.

  • Barrack Obama, signed into law the Former Presidents Protection Act of 2012 which extends life-time protection to the former American presidents and family.

  • The Union Cabinet on 10 January 2013 approved a proposal of infusing 12517 crores rupees in public sector banks so that bank could enhance the lending activity and meet the capital adequacy norms.
  • Chandrakanta Rawat, the 37-year-old Uttrakhand woman became the first complete body donor in January 2013 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
  • The Union Government on 10 January 2013 approved 10 per cent stake sale in Engineers India Ltd (EIL), which is supposed to bring back a sum of around 800 crore Rupees to the government.

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