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- A 1982 IOFS (Indian Ordnance Factories Service) officer Saurabh Kumar took over as the Director General of Ordnance Factories (DGOF) and chairman of the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) following the superannuation of P.K. Shrivastava in Kolkata.
- P K Singh was appointed secretary of the Competition Commission of India (CCI).
- The Department of Financial Services announced the appointment of Hemant Bhargava, Managing Director, Life Insurance Corporation of India, as the Acting Chairman.
- A 12-year-old Indian-origin student Dhruv Manoj from Singapore has bagged two gold medals at the World Memory Championships held in Hong Kong.
- IIT Roorkee professor Jayanta Kumar Ghosh was facilitated with the National Geospatial Award for Excellence-2017 (Life Time Achievement Award) by the Indian Society for Remote Sensing.
- It has been awarded for his contribution towards the development of geospatial science and applications.
- The players in France’s football team which last year defeated Croatia to win the World Cup were awarded the Legion of Honour, France’s highest award for “exceptional service” to the nation, in the New Year’s honours list.
- The football World Cup 2018 at Russia was France’s 2nd World Cup title, after the 1998 World Cup.
- Lakhs of women from across Kerala formed a 620-km long Women’s Wall or Vanitha Mathil, that stretched from Kasargod in northern Kerala to the southernmost district of Thiruvananthapuram, to uphold gender equality and renaissance values on January 1, 2019.
- Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah became the highest international wicket-taker of 2018 with 78 wickets.
- The Eminent English and Odia writer Manoj Das received the Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, instituted by the Berhampur University.
- India defeated Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) of Australia by the margin of 137 runs and it turned out to be India's 150th Test victory.
- It is their first ever Boxing Day Test win in Australia.
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