1. Indian government has signed 25 crore dollar agreement with World Bank for Bihar ‘ Kosi’ Basin development project. This loan has been sanctioned by World Bank lending arm IDA. Kosi river is known as ‘ sorrow of Bihar’ as major floods in state occur from this river.
2. Narendra Modi chaired Union cabinet approved Policy on Promotion of City Compost under. This policy will help in circulating compost produced from city was
3. A new bird species named Himalayan Forest Thrush has been discovered in northeastern India. It has been given name Zoothera Salimalii
4. MoU between India ISRO and Kuwait ISR has been approved by Union government. With this both countries enable cooperation for pursuing potential interest in commercial and cooperative areas of space research.
5. Cabinet approved MoU between India and UK in the field of Public administration and governance reforms
6. A 4 day conference of World Economic Forum(WEF) has been organized in Swiss resort of Davos, Switzerland with more than 40 countires business people attending. This year agenda is Outlook of the global ecomomy and measures to fight terrorism.
7. ISRO has successfully launched India’s fifth navigation satellite(IRNSS 1 E) in PSLV-C31 rocket from satish Dhawan Sapce Centre, Sri harikota in Andra Pradesh state.
8. India ranked 89th globally in Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) for the year 2015-2016 in a list of 106 countries published by INSEAD . This is based on the quality of talent a country can produce, attract and retain. Switzerland stood in 1st position followed by Singapore in 2nd position.
9. 35% Reservation for women in government jobs has been approved by Bihar Governament.There is also 50% reservation for women as primary school teachers and in Panchayat Raj .
10.Senior Journalist Aroon Tikekar(72) passed away in Maharashtra .He was associated with many news papers and has written over 20 books .
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