• Today (30th January) is National Martyrs' Day.
This day is also known as Sarvodaya day / Shaheed Diwas.
• Members of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to meet this week on Wednesday & Thursday at Kathmandu.
• Miss France Iris Mittenaere was crowned as the 65th Miss Universe in the Philippines.
• The Supreme Court today named a 4-member administrative panel to head the BCCI, naming former Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Vinod Rai, as the panel's head.
The panel includes historian Ramachandra Guha, former women's cricketer Diana Edulji and IDFC Bank CEO Vikram Limaye.
• Indian shuttler PV Sindhu has won the Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold after beating Indonesia's Gregoria Mariska in the final .
• Roger Federer became the oldest Grand Slam champion, after his Australian Open title against rival Rafael Nadal .
• Boxer Sarita Devi, who recently became India's first female professional boxer, won her debut pro bout in Imphal by defeating Hungary's Zsofia Bedo by unanimous decision.
• The Centre has appointed AP Singh, who was earlier Joint Secretary in the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management, as the interim Managing Director and CEO of IPPB.
• Prince Mahidol Award 2015 was conferred upon Professor Morton Mower and Sir Michael Marmot for outstanding achievements in medicine and public health worldwide.
• Actress Anushka Sharma has been appointed the Ambassador of the Swachh Bharat campaign by the Ministry of Urban Development.
• Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat was elected as the Chairman of the African Union (AU) commission at the 28th AU summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa.
• On the occasion of Anti-Leprosy Day, the Union Government has launched nationwide “Sparsh Leprosy Awareness Campaign (SLAC)”.
• India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) kicked off its operations by rolling out pilot services in Raipur and Ranchi.The bank will offer an interest rate of 4.5% on deposits up to Rs25,000; 5% on deposits of Rs25,000-50,000 and 5.5% on Rs50,000-1,00,000.
• Future Generali India Insurance Company (FGII) Enters Into Bancassurance Tie-Up With Bank Of Maharashtra .
• The first edition of the North East Investors Summit was inaugurated on January 29, 2017 by the Union Textiles Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani in Shillong, Meghalaya.
• Dushyant Chautala has been appointed as the president of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI). Chautala is the youngest president of the apex body.
• Film producer and Wimbledon tennis player, Ashok Amritraj has been appointed the United Nations in India Goodwill Ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals .
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