Current Affairs Updates– 29th January 2016 | Avakar GK Page Latest Current Affairs Update

Current Affairs Updates– 29th January 2016 | Avakar GK Page Latest Current Affairs Update:

1.Union Ministry of Finance will organise India Investment Summit in New Delhi:

2.The second volume of memoirs of President of India Pranab Mukherjee was released with title The Turbulent Years – 1980-1996


3.UP IPS Aparna Kumar scales Mount Vinson Massif: The highest peak in Antarctica

4. Assam Regiment won the Best Marching Contingent title on the occasion of the Republic Day Parade

5. Union Minister of Urban Development M Venkaiah Naidu announced names of 20 smart cities

6. NGT asked Government’s to fix environmental norms on noise pollution in residential areas near airports

7. India overtook Thailand as the world’s largest rice exporter in the year 2015

8. Gyan Jyoti app helped rural Indian women use modern contraceptive

9. India successfully test fired Akash missile at Chandipur

10. Union Government formed expert panel to review Specific Relief Act, 1963

11. Madhya Pradesh to impose ban on polythene from January 2017

12. Union Government launched National Job Portal for Persons with Disabilities

13.MSDE signed MoU with Yashaswi Academy to provide 1 lakh trade apprentices for youth

14.Customs Department Launches Mobile app

15. Japanese Economy Minister Akira Amari resigned

18.World Health Organization set up a Zika emergency team

19.Well-known wild life film maker Naresh Bedi chosen for V Shantaram Life Time Achievement Award at MIFF 2016

20.Persons of Indian origin awarded Medal of order of Australia

21.Indian Human Rights Activist Henri Tiphagne chosen for Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016

22.Intelsat launched the first of its new Epic telecommunications spacecraft named Intelsat 29e

23.Google’s AlphaGo software defeated the European champion of the board game Go

24.Mirza-Hingis win Australian Open Doubles Title

25.Pakistan Cricketer Imran Farhat retired from International Cricket

26.Australian diving player Matthew Mitcham retired from the sport

27.Navneet Kaur, Santosh Kadale won gold in Senior National Rowing Championship

28.Ishika Shah won 12th Sub-Junior National Snooker championship title