Current Affairs: 15 – 01 -2015 (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) (y) 1) Pahal Scheme or DBTL(Direct Benefit Transfer scheme on LPG) Under this Scheme LPG subsidy will be directly transferred to bank accounts of consumers. This Scheme comes under Ministry of Petroleum. Govt. launched this scheme firstly in 2013 but laterly revised and relaunced in Nov ,2014. 2) New Chief Election Commsioner of India: H.S. Brahma, the seniormost Election Commissioner, will succeed V.S. Sampath as the next Chief Election Commissioner of India. Mr. Brahma, who hails from Assam, is an IAS officer from the 1975 batch of the Andhra Pradesh cadre. 3) Mike Marqusee passed Away: Writer, columnist and long-time campaigner for left and progressive causes, Mike Marqusee, died . He was 61. 4) Samsung launched the first phone powered by Tizen operating system in India Samsung launched the first phone powered by Tizen operating system in India — Samsung Z1. The device is priced at Rs.5,700. About Tizen: . Tizen is an operating system based on the Linux kernel. Like Microsoft having window and Google is having Android as their operating system 5) Meningitis A meningitis A vaccine (MenAfriVac) is manufactured by Serum Institute of India, Pune .This vaccine will cure Meningitis What is Meningitis : It is inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, known collectively as the meninges.This is a epidemic in Africa.This diseases is killing 20k to 25k children every year. 6) 67th Army Day: 15th jan
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