Daily Current Affairs : 1

1. Australia's Trade and Investment Minister Andrew Robb Visited India.
2. Google’s CEO Larry Page has named as the ‘business person of the year’ for 2014 by Fortune magazine.
3. Justice Mohammad Yaqoob Mir as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
4. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) launched GreenPHABLET for small farmers to help them purchase inputs at lower price, get a better price for their produce, and link them to markets.
5. SnoopSnitch Android app launched in Chaos Computer Congress’ annual meeting in Germany. The app can detect International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) catchers so as to inform a person that someone is spying on him.
6. S Shrikrishna won National Sub-Junior Billiards title berating Ishpreet Singh Chadha of Maharashtra.
7. Government approved to set up India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) in Tamil Nadu
8. P Krishnamurthy is appointed as Private Secretary of Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.
9. RBI allowed Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)/Registered Foreign Portfolios Investors (RFPIs) to buy up to 49 % of paid-up capital of Bajaj Corp Ltd under Portfolio Investment Scheme (PIS).
10. Andy Murray (Scotland) won ATP World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi after Serbian Novak Djokovic withdrew from finals due to illness.
11. International Hindi Conference will be held in New Jersey (USA) in April 2015 with theme Expanding World of Hindi: Possibilities and Challenges.
12. Jiji Thomson resigned as Director General of Sports Authority of India (SAI).
13. Scientists of UK's University of Southampton are planning to grow lettuce on Mars in 2018 under Project LettuceOnMars.
14. China's submersible Jiaolong started exploration for active hydrothermal vent for first time in southwestern Indian Ocean.
15. Sutirtha Bhattacharya took charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Coal India Limited.
16. Arvind Panagariya has been appointed as Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog that replaced Planning Commission. Sindhushree Khullar has been appointed as CEO of NITI Aayog.
17. Boxing India has been recognised as governing body for representing boxing in India.
18. ICICI Bank launched Digital Village Project in Akodara Village of Gujarat to provide various services from cashless banking to digitised school teaching with themes - cashless, comprehensive and connected.
19. PM Narendra Modi Inaugerated 102nd session of Indian Science Congress (ISC) at University of Mumbai.
20. Kiran Bhai Vadodaria has been elected as President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) for 2014-2015.
21. Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Sangakkara became fastest cricketer to score 12000 Test runs.
22. Government accepted recommendations of M P Bezbaruah committee to look into concerns of people of the the North East states living in other parts of the country.
23. RBI Relaxed Know Your Customers (KYC) rules for Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) due to difficulties being faced by NBFCs in getting KYC documents at frequent intervals. Now, the KYC exercise will be required to be done -
1. High-risk individuals and entities - Every 2 years
2. Medium risk individuals and entities - Every 8 years
3. Low risk individuals and entities - Every 10 years
24. Amitabh Bachchan has been conferred with the second Yash Chopra Memorial Award.
25. A.K. Mittal has been appointed as Chairman of Railway Board replacing Arunendra Kumar.
26. Government appointed M Sathiyavathy as First Women Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
27. Beji Caid Essebsi has been appointed as President of Tunisia.
28. Government launched women safety mobile app called Himmat.
29. Maharashtra government launched online Facility for filling Right to Information (RTI) application.
30. Koppillil Radhakrishnan Retired as Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
31. President signed bill for creating new system of appointment of judges to Supreme and High Courts by forming National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) to replace collegium system of appointing judges to higher judiciary by six-member panel comprising Chief Justice of India, two Supreme Court judges, Law Minister and 2 eminent persons.
32. British government honored Indian Fauja Singh by prestigious British Empire medal for being world's oldest marathon runner
33. Government Scrapped Planning Commission (Formed in 1950) and created National Institute of Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.
34. South American Country Venezuela entered recession with shrinking economic growth and Recession Jumping upto 63%.