Current Affairs 16-Jan-2015: ------------------------------------------------ Hari Shankar Brahma appointed as the New Chief Election Commissioner. China to launch construction of five new nuclear reactors with total capacity of 5 Gigawatts in 2015. Legendary social activist and freedom fighter Ghelubhai Naik passed away on 16 January 2015 following a brief illness in Dang District, Gujarat. e-Panchayat project of J&K was selected for the National Award for e-Governance for the best district-level initiative in Citizen-Centric Service Delivery through ICT. First set of Resident Identity Card (RIC) readers were handed over to Navy Chief Admiral R K Dhowan and Coast Guard Director General Vice-Admiral A G Thapliyal by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh. Trade deficit of India declined to ten month low of 9.43 billion US dollars in December 2014. Chinese drug regulator China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) on 15 January 2015 approved a new vaccine S-IPV to treat the Poliomyelitis. Final guidelines that allow banks to act as insurance brokers were issued by Reserve Bank of India on 15 January 2015. Renowned Indian RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal was on 15 January 2015 conferred with the Giraffe Hero award 2015 by a US-based NGO The Giraffe Heroes Project. Siddhartha Chatterjee was on 14 January 2015 appointed as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Persistent Systems Ltd with effect from 14 January 2015 itself. Baba Ramdev appointed as state brand ambassador of Haryana Government. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on 15 January 2015 unveiled its flagship phablet Mi Note in Beijing, China. Veeravalli Sundaram Sampath, Chief Election Commissioner demitted his office on 15 January 2015 after attaining the upper age limit to hold the post as per the Constitution of India. US President Barack Obama nominated two Indian-Americans Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri and Deven J Parekh to key posts in US. Chairperson of Central Board of Film Certification Leela Samson resigned from her office on 16 January 2015. Tarun Rai was appointed as CEO of J Walter Thompson South Asia. Indian Cricket team and Nike unveiled the new ODI Kit at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Nike is the main kit sponsor of Team India. The wholesale price index based inflation raised marginally to 0.11 percent in December 2014 from zero percent in November 2014. Sandip Das resigned as MD of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd to join Reliance Retail Ltd.
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:42:11 +0000
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