Note 5 :Current Affairs January 2017 Only Important Facts Overview

                                                       January 2017

1. 27th meeting of Southern Zonal Council held at - Thiruvananthapuram.
                                        Chairman: The Union Home Minister

2. India's first multi sports museum  inaugurated in Kolkata.

3. The world’s longest bullet train network has been established in which country China

4. Nedumkayam, Nilambur in Malapuram District of Kerala has become the India’s first cashless and digital tribal colony.

5.39th Nation Game host will announced in Meghalaya

6. India's first transgender school “Sahaj International” has started  at Thrikkakara in Kerala's Ernakulam district.

7. The 104th Indian Science Congress (ISC) has been inaugurated by Prime Minister 
Narendra Modi on January 3, 2017 at the Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh.

8. India’s first bus to run on biogas will start from kolkata city.

9.The 14th edition of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas (PBD) began in the country’s IT hub Bengaluru, Karnataka. The theme of this edition is “Redefining Engageme with the Indian Diaspora".

10  The World Braille Day (WBD) is observed  :January 4

11   Sergey Karjakin of Russia has  won gold in the 2016 World Blitz Chess 
Championship in Doha, Qatar by defeating Norway’s Magnus Carlsen

12  India’s first international stock exchange “India International Exchange” has been set up by the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE  at  Gandhinagar, Gujarat, which is recently inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

13 Moonlight”, written and directed by Barry Jenkins, has won the best motion picture award at the 2017 Golden Globes awards 

14 Pakistan's Younus Khan becomes first batsman to score Test hundreds in 11 countries.

15 The Nobel Prize Series India 2017  exhibition has  started in Gujarat.

16  The government, in collaboration with telecom and IT industry, has launched a toll-free helpline – 14444 – to address consumer queries on digital payments.

17 Norway Becomes World’s First Country to Ban Deforestation

18 Norway becomes 1st country to ban FM radio broadcasting

19The 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting will be held in Davos,Switzerland

20 The 2017 National conference for e-governance has started in Vishakapatanam

21 India’s first-ever solar powered boat “Aditya” has been launched by the Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan at a function held in Vaikom boat jetty at Vembanad Lake in Kochi, Kerala. The 75-seater boat fitted with 78 rooftop solar panels, will ferry along a 2.5-kilometre route between Vaikom and Thavanakkadavu 

22 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has signed pact with French Space agency (CNES) on satellite launch technology in Bengaluru, Karnataka. 

23 World's biggest cricket stadium to come up in Ahmedabad,Gujarat

24 Mawlynnong village, which is termed as Asia’s cleanest village, is located at the East Khasi Hills district of the Meghalaya. 

25 ‘Missing element’ in earth's core identified; scientists in Japan say it is silicon

26 Manipur’s Karang is India’s first cashless island

27 Mission 41K” has been launched by  union ministry of Railway to save energy

28 Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh declared Dharamshala as the second capital of Himachal Pradesh state, making Himachal Pradesh the third state of India with two capitals after Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra.

29 The theme of National Girl Child Day was celebrated on January 24, 2017: Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao

30 The theme of 7th National Voters Day observed on 25 January 2017: Empowering Young and Future Voters

31  Name father of India's first supercomputer  has been appointed the Chancellor of the Nalanda University: Dr Vijay Bhatkar

32 Patna  city will host world's first Gender Literature Festival.

33 India's biggest aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya becomes first warship to have ATM onboard

34 Name the US astronaut, who was the last man to walk on the moon, who passed away on 16 January 2017 :Eugene Cernan

35 Donald Thrumph  sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America

36 Netherland became first in the world to run all its electric trains on 100% wind power.

37 India won the 2016 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women's Championship defeating Bangladesh in the finals held at Kanchenjunga Stadium.

38 Name the Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo won the Best FIFA Men's Player Award

39 Men's Singles title in Australian Open 2017:Roger Federer

40 Women's Singles title in Australian Open 2017:Serena Williams

41 India’s first Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) has been inaugurated on  at the Mysuru

42 Punjab just got India's first all-woman Post Office Passport Seva Kendra