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National Bilateral  President of announced 104 Padma  Indo-USA relation took a new turn with US Awards on the eve of 66th . President Obama’s India visit. The following conferred on L.K. Advani, areas of cooperation were worked out. , Dillip Kumar & Prakas Singh Badal. . Cooperation on solar energy 20 persons conferred and 75 . Renewal of 10 yr. old Defence Padmashree Awards. 17 among the awarders Framework Agreement and are woman and 17 are NRI & PIO and 4 . Agreement to intensity cooperation posthumous. in counter-terrorism and dismantle  President also approved 374 Gallantry Awards the terror heavens in . and other defence decorations to Armed Forces . MOU on money laundering and Personnel. black money. Highest peacetime Gallantry Award has been  India, U.S. sign three MoUs on smart cities conferred posthumously to Naik Neeraj Kumar India and United States (US) have signed three Singh. 3 Kritichakra, 12 , 48 Memoranda of Understandings (MoUs) on Sena Medals were also declared. smart cities.  Guru & Spiritual leader Sri Sri These MoUs were signed by the Ravishankar declined the Padma Award. representatives of United States Trade and  CBI has filed a new case in the coal block Development Agency (USTAD) and the allocation scam against Hindalco led by Aditya respective Chief Secretaries of State Birla Group. Governments of , and  PM Modi launched the “Beti Bachoo, Beti in the presence of Union Padhoo” abhiyan at Panipath in which Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah seek to address the gender imbalance and Naidu. discrimination against the girl child. Madhuri These MoU’s seeks to give a boost to Union Dixit become the brand ambassador for this. governments flagship smart cities scheme, by building smart cities in  commissioned 3 Immediate Support Vessels for fast coastal patrolling.  Vishakapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.  Ajmer in Rajasthan.  TRAI has issued draft regulation to facilitate full mobile portability set to start from May  Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. 2015. US will help each respective state to conduct feasibility studies, finding investors, ways to  govt. distributed e-kishan tablets to use the best technology and formulating the the farmers. plan for building three smart cities.  Eminent cartoonist RK Laxman passes While, respective state Governments will away provide resources like technical information Eminent cartoonist, illustrator and humorist and data related to smart cities planning; staff, Rasipuram Laxman passed away in Pune. He logistical and travel support and budgetary was 94. resources. Rasipuram Laxman (famously known as RK  India funds ’s Pancheshwar project to Laxman) was born on 24 October 1921 in counter Kheri floods Mysore, Karnataka. Famous novelist R. K. India will provide fund of Rs 1500 crore to Narayan was his older brother. Nepal’s Pancheshwar multi-purpose project He is best known for creation of iconic on Mahakali river for countering the Kheri character The Common Man, for his daily floods in Uttar Pradesh. cartoon strip, You Said It in The Times of This move of Union government comes after a India(TOI). It was started in 1951. This delegation of MPs visited Nepal and had character held a mirror to the society and submitted their report to government. targeted politicians for more than five decades. Pancheshwar multi-purpose project He also created a popular mascot for the Asian It is located at Narayan Ghat of Dharchula on Paints group called Gattu in 1954. Mahakali River( also known as Kali Ganga in He is recipient of Padma Vibhushan (2005) ) in Nepal. The height of dam is and Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, the 315 meters. Literature and Creative Communication Arts After completion dam will be the second (1984) largest dam in the world with a capacity of

6720 Mega Watt (MW) power production.

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In case of power sharing, India has reached  Despite the initial set back the Union govt. has into an agreement with Nepal to procure decided to go ahead with the disinvestment additional electricity produced by project. plan in PSU. This project will regulate and control the free  The govt will release a new series of Consumer flow of Karnali and Mohana rivers which Price Index (CPI) with 2012 as base year for cause floods in Kheri, Pilibhit of Uttar Pradesh computing retail inflation. and other Terai districts of northern India.  Six studies in 4 continents including one in India have shown no evidence of micro credit International successfully alleviating poverty.  Islamic states militants beheaded the Japanese hostages which created wide outrage in Japan. Appointments  Apparent rebel attack on power link plunged  Edgar Lungu has sworn in as Zambia’s new 80% Pakistan into darkness. President. He is sixth president of Zambia.  Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz died and has half brother Salman bin Abdula Aziz took Sports over reign of the world’s top oil exporting  Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold Title 2015 country.  Men's Singles Winner : Parupalli Kashyap by  Impeachment motion passed by the Parliament defeating Kidambi Srikanth of Singapore on former PM Yingluck  Women's Single : by defeating Sinawatra. Carolina Marin (Spain)  The European Central Bank launched a bond- buying programme to pump hundreds of Awards billions of new money into the Eurozone  Prime Minister on 24 January economy which is marching towards recession 2015 presented National Bravery Awards 2014 again. to 24 awardees.The lists of awardees are  Yemen drifted towards political crisis after Sanjay Chopra Award President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi resigned. •Devesh Kumar  UNO will send a two member team to Pakistan Gaidhani Award & Afghanistan to assess the JuD fund freeze. •Monika  Sri Lankan govt. has scrapped the compulsory •Rumoh Meto military training for teacher & under graduate •Riya Chaudhary students enforced during the previous govt. Geeta Chopra Award  Nepal PM Sushil Koirala promised for a new •Gunjan Sharma constitution soon for the country. Bharat Award  Summit started at •Resham Fatma Davos in Switzerland.  Famous Greek singer Demis Roussos passed General National Bravery Award away in Athens, Greek. He was 68.He was best . Aqil Mohammad N K known for his hit operatic pop ballads in the . Anjith. P 1970s and 1980s and for his high-pitched voice . Gaurav Kumar Bharti and melodies inspired by Greek folklore which . Hiral Jitubhai Halpati sold about 60 million records worldwide. . Midhun P P  Anti-austerity Syriza party wins Greece’s . Ripa Das general elections . Zeal Jitendra Marathe Das In Greece, anti-austerity Syriza party has won . Stevenson Lawriniang . general election.In this election Syriza party Bandu Ughade has won about half the seats in Parliament. . Kumar Bharti . Brainson Singh

. Labhanshu Economy & Banking . G. Tooldev Sharma  IRDA proposed no fee for change in . Mhonbeni Equng nomination in a insurance policy. . Mesak K. Remnalalnghaka  Fall in crude oil price to less than $ 50 per . Sahanesh R barrel led to improve in Indian Forex reserve to . Balram Dansena $ 322 billion and lower its fiscal deficit.  Poet Arundhathi Subramaniam has won the  RBI plans to introduce comprehensive inaugural Memorial Prize guidelines to protect consumers from being forPoetry .He won this award forher work cheated by entities regulated by it. "When God is a Traveller".

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 Wing Commander Pooja Thakur became the honour, the Ashok Chakra posthumously by first woman to lead the ceremonial Guard of President Pranab . Honour which was inspected by the U.S. The awards were received by their wives at the President at Rashtrapathi 66th Republic Day celebrations. Bhavan  Colombia’s Paulina Vega crowned Miss Padma Awards 2015 Universe 2015  President has announced the Colombia’s Paulina Vega was crowned 63rd names of Recipients of this year’s Padma after beating out contenders awards. He approved conferment of 104 from the United States, , and Padma Awards. Netherland. Padma Awards, the country’s highest civilian Miss USA Nia Sanchez from Las Vegas was awards, are conferred in three Categories viz. named a runner-up, along with Miss Ukraine Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Diana Harkusha. Shri. Paulina Vega- She is granddaughter of This years list comprises 9 Padma Vibhushan, celebrated Colombian singer Gastón Vega. 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Currently, she is a student of business from the Awardees. Among these awardees 17 are northern Colombia city of Barranquilla. women and equal number are in category of  Major Mukund Varadarajan and Naik foreigners, NRIs, PIOs. While, 4 are awarded Ashok posthumous awardees. Chakra posthumously. These Padma Awards are conferred by the Two army personnel, Major Mukund at a function held at Varadarajan and Naik Neeraj Kumar Singh Rashtrapati Bhawan around March/ April were awarded the highest peacetime military every year.

2015 Padma Vibhushan Awards It is the second highest civilian award. It is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service. Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline State/Domicile No. 1 L. K. Advani Public Affairs 2 Amitabh Bachchan Art 3 Prakash Singh Badal Public Affairs Punjab 4 Dr.D. Social Work Karnataka 5 Art Maharashtra 6 Swami Others Uttar Pradesh 7 Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan Science & Engineering 8 Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal Public Affairs Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan 9 Trade & Industry France/UK (Foreigner)

2015 Padma Bhushan Awards It is the third highest civilian award. It is awarded for distinguished service of high order. Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline State/Domicile No. 1 Art 2 Dr. Vijay Bhatkar Science & Engineering Maharashtra 3 Literature & Education Delhi 4 Giri Others Uttar Pradesh

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5 N. Gopalaswami Civil Service Tamil Nadu 6 Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap Public Affairs Delhi 7 Dr. (Pandit) Gokulotsavji Maharaj Art 8 Dr. Ambrish Mithal Medicine Delhi 9 Art Tamil Nadu 10 Public Affairs Delhi 11 Dr. Medicine Delhi 12 Literature & Education Delhi 13 Satpal Sports Delhi 14 Others Karnataka 15 Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya Science & Engineering Karnataka 16 Prof. (NRI/PIO) Science & Engineering USA 17 Others USA (Vamadeva)(Foreigner) 18 (Foreigner) Social Work USA 19 Melinda Gates (Foreigner) Social Work USA 20 Saichiro Misumi(Foreigner) Others Japan

2015 Padma Shri Awards It is the fourth highest civilian award. It is awarded for distinguished service in any field. Sl. Name of the Awardee Discipline State/Domicile No. 1 Dr. Medicine Telangana 2 S. Arunan Science & Engineering Karnataka 3 Kanyakumari Avasarala Art Tamil Nadu 4 Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer Literature & Education Jammu & Kashmir 5 Art Delhi 6 Social Work Jharkhand 7 Art Maharashtra 8 Dr. Literature & Education Assam 9 Dr. Literature & Education Madhya Pradesh 10 Prof. (Dr.) Medicine Chandigarh 11 Jayakumari Chikkala Medicine Delhi 12 Literature & Education Delhi 13 Dr. Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi Medicine 14 Dr. Public Affairs Delhi 15 Dr. Medicine Delhi 16 Dr. K. P. Haridas Medicine 17 Art Delhi

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18 Art Maharashtra 19 Dr. Literature & Education Delhi 20 Art Maharashtra 21 Dr. Art Odhisa 22 Saba Anjum Sports 23 Ushakiran Khan Literature & Education 24 Dr. Medicine Rajasthan 25 Prof. Medicine Delhi 26 Dr. Medicine Delhi 27 Narayana Purushothama Mallaya Literature & Education Kerala 28 Literature & Education Goa 29 Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan Social Work Madhya Pradesh 30 Social Work Delhi 31 Tarak Mehta Art Gujarat 32 Neil Herbert Nongkynrih Art 33 Chewang Norphel Others Jammu & Kashmir 34 T. V. Mohandas Pai Trade & Industry Karnataka 35 Dr. Medicine Gujarat 36 Jadav Molai Peyang Others Assam 37 Others Uttar Pradesh 38 Dr. N. Prabhakar Science & Engineering Delhi 39 Dr. Prahalada Science & Engineering Maharashtra 40 Dr. Narendra Prasad Medicine Bihar 41 Literature & Education Delhi 42 Mithali Raj Sports Telangana 43 P. V. Rajaraman Civil Service Tamil Nadu 44 Prof. J. S. Rajput Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 45 Art Andhra Pradesh 46 Prof. Bimal Roy Literature & Education West 47 Shekhar Sen Art Maharashtra 48 Literature & Education Gujarat 49 (Bhaiji) Literature & Education Delhi 50 Manu Sharma Literature & Education Uttar Pradesh 51 Prof. Medicine Delhi 52 Vasant Shastri Science & Engineering Karnataka 53 S. K. Shivkumar Science & Engineering Karnataka 54 P. V. Sindhu Sports Telangana 55 Sardara Singh Sports Haryana 56 Arunima Sinha Sports Uttar Pradesh

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57 Mahesh Raj Soni Art Rajasthan 58 Dr. Medicine Delhi 59 H. Thegtse Rinpoche Social Work 60 Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi Medicine Gujarat 61 Huang Baosheng(Foreigner) Others China 62 Prof. Jacques Blamont(Foreigner) Science & Engineering France Late Shri Syedna Mohammad 63 Others Maharashtra Burhanuddin(Posthumous) 64 Jean-Claude Carriere(Foreigner) Literature & Education France 65 Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty(NRI/PIO) Trade & Industry USA 66 George L. Hart(Foreigner) Others USA Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha 67 Others Portugal Raja(NRI/PIO) Late Shri 68 Social Work Rajasthan (Posthumous) 69 (NRI/PIO) Art USA 70 Dr. (NRI/PIO) Medicine USA 71 Dr. Raghu Pillarisetti(NRI/PIO) Medicine USA 72 Dr. (NRI/PIO) Medicine UK 73 Prof. (Foreigner) Literature & Education Germany Kumar Sharma alias 74 Art Delhi Pran(Posthumous) 75 R. Vasudevan(Posthumous) Civil Service Tamil Nadu

Miscellaneous  Prime Minister Narendra Modi & US President  State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest Barack Obama will jointly address the nation public sector bank, has signed a loan in the next edition of Mann Ki Baat on All agreement for 100 million (about Rs 700 India Radio. The programme will be broadcast crore) with European Investment Bank on 27th of January. (EIB)for lending to private businesses in the  For first time all-women contingent marches country. This is the third tranche of a total on 66th Republic Day parade. sanctioned loan of 200 million euro by EIB. For the first time in the history of India’s  The (RBI) has amended Republic Day, all-women contingent from the a regulation on “Export and Import of Indian three forces Army, Air Force and Navy Currency” to allow individuals to use the notes marched down in the parade. in Nepal and Bhutan.  Army contingent was led by Capt Divya  According to this amendment, individuals from Ajith. India could carry 1,000 and/or 500 rupee  Navy contingent was led by Lt Indian currency (IC) notes to Nepal, up to the Commander Sandhya Chauhan. limit of Rs. 25,000.  Air Force contingent was led by Squadron  Earlier, the Indian central bank had banned the Leader Sneha Shekhawat. use of the notes in Nepal, citing security concerns. Travelers were allowed to carry with them IC notes up to IRs 100 denomination.  The Fifth National Voters Day is being celebrated across the country today. The theme of this year is Easy Registration, Easy Correction.

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