Jharkhand inaugurated its land bank portal
Jharkhand
Chief Minister Raghubar Das inaugurated the states land bank web portal, jharbhoom.nic.in
that would help investors to know land-related information. Land bank will help
investors to get information through district-wise nodal officers, along with
this mobile numbers and email ID of officers will be available on the website.
Former Chief Justice of India Sarosh Homi Kapadia passed away
Ex-Chief
Justice of India Sarosh Homi Kapadia passed away on 4 January 2016 in Mumbai.
He was 68. Kapadia is survived by wife and a son and a daughter.
He
retired on 29 September 2012. During his tenure as CJI, he served as the
Chairman of the General Council of the Gujarat National Law University and the
Visitor of the National Law School of India University.
Toilets made mandatory to contest Panchayat polls in Bihar
State
election commissioner (SEC) Ashok Kumar Chauhan on 4 January 2016 announced
that toilets will be mandatory requirement for eligibility to contest panchayat
elections. This declaration means that no one can contest the Bihar panchayat
elections scheduled in 2016 without having a toilet at their home.
India-Nepal Bus Service resumed after 27 years
India-Nepal
Bus Service resumed after a gap of 27 years. The service was suspended 27 years
ago in the wake of the Indo-Nepal Trade and Transit Treaty. The service runs
between Kanchanpur in Nepal, which is close to Banbasa border in Champavat
district of Uttarakhand, and Anand Vihar ISBT in Delhi.
Neemuchwala appointed as Wipro’s CEO
Abid
Ali Z. Neemuchwala appointed as Wipro’s CEO. He will replace T.K. Kurien, who
has been appointed as the Executive Vice Chairman. Both the appointments will
be effective from 1 February 2016. Wipro is a multi-national IT consulting and
system integration firm being headed by its Chairman Azim Premji.
South China Sea tensions surge as China lands plane on
artificial island
Increasing
military presence in the disputed sea could effectively lead to a
Beijing-controlled air defense zone. South China Sea tensions surge as China
lands plane on artificial island. China’s first landing of a plane on one of
its new island runways in the South China Sea. China has been
building runways on the artificial islands for over a year, and the plane’s
landing was not a surprise.
Sri Lank and Pakistan signed Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
Sri Lanka and Pakistan have agreed to expand
their bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) by inclusion of services and
investment. Statement in this regard was made by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif during his official visit to Sri Lanka.
The
FTA between Sri Lanka and Pakistan came into effect in June 2005. Since the
Pakistan’s exports to Sri Lanka were to the tune of 150 million dollars. Sri
Lanka’s exports to Pakistan were valued at about 52 million dollars, accounting
for around 70 per cent of the country’s total exports to Pakistan.
Nokia completed acquisition of Alca-Lucent for 15.6 billion euro
Nokia
Corporation announced that it completed the regulatory formalities for acquiring
the French telecom equipment company Alca-Lucent. The deal, worth 15.6 billion
euro, was signed in 2014 and later approved by the European Commission.
15-year-old Pranav Dhanawade scores a record 1009
Pranav
Dhanawade, who has broken a century-old cricketing record, became the first
batsman to score 1000-plus runs in an innings in any form of cricket. Batting
against Arya Gurukul School in a Bhandari Cup match, Pranav reached 1000 runs
in just 323 balls. The tournament is an under-16 inter-school event organised
by the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) mainly for the benefit of suburban
schools.
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