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January 2019 Current Affairs

January 2019 Current Affairs
Awards
Sr no
Name of the Award
Names
1
BHARAT RATNA AWARD
1.PRANAB MUKHERJEE
2.NANAJI DESHMUKH
3.BHUPEN HAZIRKA
2
ASHOK CHAKRA
LANCE NAIK NAZIR AHMAD VANI
3
CARNOT PRIZE
(Contribution to Energy policy)
PIYUSH GOYAL
(FOR POWER REFORM RURAL ELECTRIFICATION )
4
GANDHI PEACE PRIZE FOR 2018
YOHEI SASAKAWA
(FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION OF LEPROSY ERADICATION)
5
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARD
1.GLENN CLOSE(BEST ACTRESS)
2.RAMI MALEK(BEST ACTOR)

APPOINTMENT
Sr no
Appointment
Names
1
Chief Information Commissioner
Sudhir Bhargawa
2
1st Chief Justice of Telangana High Court 
B.Radha Krishna
3
Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina
4
IMF first Female Chief Accountant
Gita Gopinath
5
Chairman of the Railway Board
Vinod Kumar Yadav






Events
1
15th Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas held at
Varanasi
2
1st Global Aviation summit held at
Mumbai”Flying for All”
3
106th Indian Science Congress held at
Punjab
4
India’s New Naval Airbase at
INS Kohasa in Portblair
5
Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade 2019
Mr.Cyril  RamaPhosa, President,South Africa
6
The National Voters Day on
January 25
Sports
1
Novak Djokovic
Wins Australian Open for 7th Time
2
Khelo India Youth Games
Held in Pune , Maharashtra
3
National Billiards and Snookers Championship
Held In Indoor
4
MC Mary Kom
Top the ranking chart of International Boxing Association
5
Virat Kohli
Only play to bag all the three ICC awards
Government Initiatives
1
Indian Constitution (103rd Amendment)Act201
10% of jobs in Jobs and in education for Economically backward classes
2
Vande Bharat Express
Acknowledging its made in India Status Train 18 (first Engineless Train)



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