01 January 2015 GK 1. Justice Kumaraswamy to hear Jayalalithaa appeal 2. NITI Aayog to replace Planning Commission The 65-year-old Planning Commission was on Thursday replaced by a new body, NITI Aayog or National Institution for Transforming India, which will serve as a policy think-tank for the central as well as State governments and have Prime Minister as its Chairperson. 3. Krishan Kant Paul will take over as the sixth Governor of Uttarakhand on 08 January 2015 4. 32 websites go blank The DoT invoked Section 69A (power of blocking public access to Internet contents) of the Information Technology Act and the Information Technology (Procedures and Safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules to issue the directive on December 16. 5. Isro chairperson K Radhakrishnan retires Spearheading Indian Space Research Organisation triumphantly through several milestones, its chairperson K Radhakrishnan retired on Wednesday carrying the crowning glory of the much-hailed Indias mission to Mars. 6. Tropical storm Jangmi struck Philippines Jangmi, a tropical storm made landfall in northeastern Mindanao Island of Philippines on 28 December 2014. The storm that caused heavy rains and triggered flash floods and landslides in the country killed at least 30 people. 7. A K Mittal appointed railway board chairman 8. Eminent journalist Boobli George Verghese died on 30 December 2014 following a brief illness. He was 87. 9. Govt splits CMD post in Public Sector Banks The government of India decided to split the post of chairman and managing director at public sector banks (PSBs).The finance ministry has appointed chief executive officers (CEOs) of four banks, while confirmed that non-executive chairman would be declared shortly. 10. Rajnath Singh launches women safety mobile app Himmat Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on 1st Jan 2015 launched Indias first integrated mobile application for women safety called Himmat, in the presence of Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi and Delhis Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.
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