General Awareness Series: Updated News Jan Week 4

With just few days to the two best entries of defense which can convert dream into reality lets review what happened across the globe with the help of this series of SSB vision. General knowledge and awareness plays a important role in these exams. Keep a watch.

CONGRESS, SAMAJAWADI PARTY TIE-UP A NATURAL ALLIANCE OF REJECTED & DEJECTED PEOPLE: BJP

·         Senior BJP leader and Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today dubbed the talks of Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) coming together to take on the saffron party in UP polls as a "natural alliance" of the "rejected and dejected" people.

·         "Both of them together formed disorderly allies during UPA regime and ruined the country. Now they want to experiment UPA two in Uttar Pradesh. Best of Luck to them," Naidu told reporters on the sidelines of an event

·         Taking at a dig at the possible alliance, Naidu said, "It is a natural alliance of the people who are rejected and dejected."

 

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NAGPUR POLLS: CANDIDATE HANDS OVER RS 8500 IN RE 1 COINS AS SECURITY DEPOSIT

·         Independent candidate from Gadchiroli district Vilas Shankarao Balamwar paid Rs 8,500 of Rs 10,000 security deposit sum in Re 1 coins while filing his nomination for the polls at Returning Officer's chamber in Divisional Commissioner's Office along with his nomination papers.

·         He brought the coins in four bags and it took a few hours for election officials to count the money.

·         When asked about rationale behind paying the security deposit sum in Re 1 coins, Balamwar said, "The amount has been collected in coins from 8500 non-aided school teachers in my constituency, who have contributed towards my nomination. The remaining Rs 1,500 has been paid by me."

 

Punjab polls: IT seizes 4.5 crore post model code of conduct announcement

·         The Income Tax department is keeping a close watch on social media to check any violation of election expenditure limit in poll-bound Punjab, even as it seized Rs 4.50 crore unaccounted cash post notification of the model code of conduct.

·         Several candidates in the state are using social media to post pictures and videos of their election campaigns ahead of the February 4 assembly elections.

·         the department has also deployed informers in the fields in the state to get an actionable intelligence to check misuse of black money in the elections.

 

Justice Lodha spoke to Sachin, Dravid, Ganguly before making recommendations

·         Justice RM Lodha, whose committee recommended sweeping reforms to revamp Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which later got the assent of the Supreme Court on Monday asserted that the committee reached the recommendations only after consulting former top Indian player and top brass of BCCI.

·         “We had discussed these with almost every office-bearer starting from Jagmohan Dalmiya, Anirudh Chaudhary, Anurag, who was the secretary then, the vice-presidents, six national captains —Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Kapil Dev and Bishan Singh Bedi,” Justice Lodha was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.

 

CHINA SAYS 2,500 WARTIME JAPANESE CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTROYED

·         China's military says more than 2,500 abandoned Japanese chemical weapons collected from northern China, including Beijing and Tianjin, have been destroyed at a facility in Shijiazhuang in a four-year disposal process.

·         Japanese occupation troops left behind hundreds of thousands of chemical weapons at the end of World War II, and Tokyo is responsible for their cleanup under a 1997 treaty.

·         China says thousands of Chinese have been killed or hurt since the end of the war in 1945 from accidents related to the buried weapons.

·         China's ministry of defence said today that because they were widely scattered, the remaining pieces of Japanese chemical weapons were difficult to find and destroy. The ministry urged Japan to "increase manpower and resources" to finish the job under the conditions of the international convention.

 

HEALTH EMERGENCY IN SAUDI AS OVER 150 FALL ILL AFTER EATING SHAWARMA SANDWICH

·          Saudi authorities declared a health emergency after blaming a small-town restaurant for food poisoning outbreak that struck at least 150 people, media said on Tuesday.

·         The incident occurred in Turabah, about 100km east of Taif in the kingdom’s southwest.

·         The official Saudi Press Agency said 150 people suffered food poisoning “because of eating meals” at the restaurant.

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GUJARAT TO HAVE WORLD’S BIGGEST CRICKET STADIUM, TO ACCOMMODATE 1.10 LAKH SPECTATORS

·         India has started building the world's biggest cricket stadium that will accommodate 110,000 spectators and cost around $100 million.

·         Since the capacity of Kolkata's Eden Gardens was reduced as part of a major rebuilding project, Melbourne Cricket Ground has held the title of the sport's largest stadium with seating for around 100,000.

·         But speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony on Monday in western Gujarat state, officials said a new stadium in the city of Ahmedabad would be able to welcome 110,000 people.

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