Current Affairs Onel Liners: 31 January 2020

Current Affairs Headlines: 31 January 2020 

1. 9th India-Bangladesh joint exercise SAMPRITI-IX to be conducted in Umrong, Meghalaya
2. Telangana tops in best performing state in sustainable growth: UNDP India
3. IR Undertakes RFID project for Automatic Identification & Data Collection of Rolling Stock
4. Under PMAY-G, centre aims to achieve objective of housing for all by 2022
5. 12th South Asia Conference held in New Delhi
6. Government took over process related to IMEI from private body MSAI
7. Nagoba Jatra festival celebrated in Telangana
8. India Railways to offer content on demand service by 2022
9. 9th Tomtom Traffic Index 2019: Bengaluru has world’s worst traffic; 4 Indian cities in top 10 list
10. Coronavirus declared as a global health emergency by WHO
11. ICICI Bank launches first-of-its-kind 24×7 self-service delivery facility , ‘iBox’
12. Indian Bank launched two-tailor made credit products for textile sector
13. Google commits $ 1 million grant to Internews for news literacy promotion in India
14. Tata AIG in collaboration with DFI to develop insurance products for drone industry
15. Journalist Yusuf Jameel won 2019 PEN Gauri Lankesh Award for Democratic Idealism
16. Padma Shri awardee Rani Rampal became 1st hockey player to win World Games Athlete of the Year
17. Shri Vinay Mohan kwatra designated as the next Ambassador of India to Nepal
18. OPPO signs MoU with IIT Hyderabad for research on 5G, AI
19. Bala Devi the first Indian woman to sign up for a Rangers FC foreign football club
20. Canada’s Christine Sinclair becomes all-time top scorer with 185 goals in international soccer
21. Noted Urdu poet Ajmal Sultanpuri passed away at 97
22. Former India basketball captain Matthew Satya Babu passes away 79
23. Assamese litterateur Sashi Sarma passed away at 89
24. “Calcutta Nights” – Book reveals Kolkata’s best kept secrets
25. 72nd Martyrs’ Day observed on Jan 30, 2020
26. CM Palaniswamy announced Direct CTO scheme for green industries in Chennai, TN
27. CM Naveen patnaik launches odisha’s 1st virtual police station in Bhubaneswar