General Awareness Series: Updated News Jan Week 2 - Part 2

January is a month where many things are happening. The 5 states are seeing the politics and the environment gets hot because of it even in severe cold. While the finance ministry is brushing up for the budget. Lets see what week 2 of this month brings for us.

MINORITIES UNIVERSITIES: PANELS TO LOOK INTO MODALITIES

·         Narendra  modi government has appointed two panels to look into modalities of setting up five universities for minorities and offer grant-in aid madarsas offering mainstream education, a move that ahead of polls in five states including Utter Pradesh which has a sizeable Muslim population

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FRENCH TO BACK INDIA’S NSG BID

·         French minister of foreign affairs and international development jean-marc ayrualt has agreed to support India’s bid of a permanent membership in the nuclear supplier group said external affairs minister  Vikas swarup

LICENCE ROW IN CHILLI YARD OF GUNTUR

·         Asia’s biggest chilli market which was the spurious chilli powder scam in recent past is now caught in another controversy of licences scam

·         The traders have to renew their licences periodically but 293 traders are doing business without renewing licences out of the total 685

·         Two years back 85 new licences were issued by the officials in addition to the existing 685licences and now these licences became controversial as the marketing department decides to cancel them

SURVEY BEGUNS ON KIDS HEALTH IN TELANGANA

·         Though the government has been spending crores of rupees on the health of kids in the age group 0-3 years, the morality rate among them is alarming. To check this, the government is collecting child-wise details including their weight, anaemia, nutrition-levels, etc.

KOCHI CANCER CENTRE SET TO GET KIIFB GREEN LIGHT

·         The health department is proceeding with second phase of the cochin cancer research centre project costing 354 crores by ensuring that it  will pass the tests of Kerala infrastructure investment fund board

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SOLAR SCAM

·         Former Kerala chief minister oommen chandy on Monday appeared in a city civil court in connecting with a solar project cheating case

·         Bengaluru –based businessman MK kuruvilla had filed petition in 2015 return of rs 16058700 deposited with SCOSSA educational consultants private limited, the first defendant for setting up as olar power project in kerala

PAKISTAN TEST-FIRES FIRST NUCLEAR –CAPABLE SUBMARINE CRUISE MISSILE

·         Pakistan on Monday test-fired submarine-launched cruise missile, capable of carrying a nuclear war head and giving the country a credible second strike capability, the military said

MS DHONI’S LAST HURRAH AS SKIPPER

·         Having manfully shoulder the responsibility of captaining India for close to a decade, it will be one last time that a team list will find the word SKIPPER alongside mahendra singh dhoni when he lead India in the first warm-up game against England in Mumbai

KANE WILLIAMSON JOINS VIRAT KOHLI IN ICC TOP-5 OF ALL THREE FORMATS

·          New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has become the second batsman after Indian skipper virat kohli to feture in the top five of ICC rankings for all three formats by climbing to fourth in latest

NEW FAULTS IN INDAIN OCEAN MAY TRIGGER QUAKES IN FUTURE

·         A new plane boundary may be forming on the floor of the Indian ocean as a result of the largest earth quake that shook the Andaman Sumatran region in 2012 according to scientists who warn that the new fault system could trigger more quakes in future.

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