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January 6 , 2019 2041 days 700 0
  • The Eminent Bharatanatyam exponent Shanta Dhananjayan was conferred the title of Nritya Kalanidhi at the 13th dance festival inaugurated held at Chennai.
  • The Group of researchers at Nagpur-based Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology have developed a new technique which promises to help produce high value graphene from discarded dry cells batteries.
  • The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Communications and Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha released a Commemorative Postage Stamp on Rajkumar Shukla at New Delhi.
    • He made a seminal contribution culminating in the launch of the Champaran Satyagraha in 1917 by Mahatma Gandhi.
  • The HDFC Mutual Fund has surpassed ICICI Prudential MF to regain top position after two years as the largest asset management company (AMC).
  • Pakistan has decided to withdraw the facility of on-arrival visas for Afghan nationals citing security risks and the spike in terror attacks.
  • The Ministry of Rural Development Signs MoU with Maruti Suzuki India Ltd for Training Rural Youth for Skill Development Under Deendayal upadhyaya grameen kaushalya yojana (Ddu-Gky).
  • The New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago.
    • The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a dusty rain of ice particles under the influence of Saturn’s magnetic field.
  • The Andhra Pradesh government has launched works for erection of the first radial gate - the 41st one - at the Polavaram project site.
    • The state hopes that the project works would be completed by May 2019 and water would be released to canals under gravity by December 2019.
  • The Polavaram multi-purpose irrigation project is all set to break the Guinness Book record in terms of using the highest volume of concrete in a given day.
  • The famous dal lake in Srinagar is frozen. The city recently witnessed the lowest temperature ever in 11 years at minus 7.6 degree.
  • The Government of India has notified a High-level committee of nine members under the chairmanship of  M.P. Bezbarauah for implementation of Clause VI of the Assam Accord.

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