Wednesday, 11 January 2017

         Daily GA Update -- 11th January, 2017
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1) India has announced a $100 million (₹683    crore) line of credit to Kenya for agricultural  mechanisation after talks between PM Narendra  Modi and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. 

2) Morocco has banned the production and sale of     burqas for security reasons.

3) The Museo Atlántico, which is known to be the    first underwater museum in Europe, was    inaugurated off the coast of Lanzarote, Spain. 

4) Filmmaker Karan Johar has been invited to the  upcoming 47th World Economic Forum's annual  meeting as a cultural leader in Switzerland.
 This year's Theme of the event : 
 'Responsive and Responsible Leadership'. 

5) Turkey today renamed the street that serves    the Russian Embassy after Andrei Karlov.

6) Citibank has launched voice verification for its    phone banking clients to replace the current  authentication process of remembering PINs or  answering verification questions.

7) Pankaj Advani has won the 3rd Kolkata Open    National Invitation Snooker Championship.

8) The United Kingdom has become the world's  first country to officially recognise parkour as a  sport.

9) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has   inaugurated the 'The Nobel Prize' exhibition at Science City in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

10) To promote ease of ticketing through digital  transactions, railway minister Suresh Prabhu  released the new passenger mobile application  named ‘IRCTC Rail Connect app’.

11) China launches 1st commercial space mission with new rocket "Kuaizhou-1A".

12) Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat’s    biography "Akhada" released by Sports  journalist Saurabh Duggal.

13) FIFA has decided that the World Cup will be    expanded to host 48 teams, up from 32.

14) Roman Herzog, former President of Germany, passes away.

15) 21st National Youth Festival to be held in Rohtak, Haryana. The Mascot of the festival is ‘Lado.’

16) Union Health Ministry introduces Rubella vaccine in its Universal Immunization Programme (UIP).


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