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i. India's LIC International and Abu Dhabi based First Gulf Bank are planning to
introduce a unique co-branded credit
card in the United Arab Emirates to
address concerns of insurance policy
holders.
ii. It is first of its kind payment solution.
Daily GK Update - 3rd January 2015
services ranging from cashless banking to
digitised school teaching.
ii. Digital village has three themes -cashless, comprehensive and connected.
iii. Village,
named
Akodara,
in
Sabarkantha
district
of
Gujarat
incidentally happens to be the same
place wher e Modi started Gujarat's first
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Canaveral,
Florid
iii. The primary mission for SpaceX is
delivering more than 5,000 pounds (2,300
kilograms) of food, experiments and
other items ordered up by NASA.
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2. DRDO
removed
chief
Avinash
Chander
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Viktor Troicki
ii. The world No.4 and second seed
needed to win two tie-breakers to clinch
victory over her team mate in a big
hitting contest at the Ken Rosewell
Arena.
iii. While in the Men's section, Viktor
Troicki crushed fellow qualifier Mikhail
Kukushkin 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the
Sydney International.
iv. In the first ATP final in history
featuring two qualifiers, Troicki
dispatched Kukushkin in 64 minutes
after breaking the Kazakh twice in each
set.
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wins
i. In
Greec e, anti-austerity Syriza party has
won general election. In this election
Syriza party has won about half the
seats in Parliament.
ii. While the earlier ruling government
led by outgoing Prime Minister Antonis
Samaras of centre-right New Democracy
party has been placed second.
Something about Syriza party:
It was formed in 2004 as an umbrella
group. Syriza- an acronym means the
Radical Coalition of the Left.
It is led by Alexis Tsipras and first came
to prominence following the 2008 Greek
riots.
In this general election, Syriza Party has
promised to end Greeces painful
austerity measures and wants to
renegotiate its debt.
8. Argentine playmaker Juan Roman
Riquelme retired from Football
i. 36-year-old Argentine player Juan
Roman Riquelme retired from football
Daily GK Update 28th January 2015
i. Two-time gold medal winning hockey
Olympian Jaswant Singh Rajput passed
away on 28th January 2015 following a
prolonged illness
ii. The former India centre-half was part
of the gold medal winning teams in 1948
London and 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
iii. With the likes of Leslie Claudius,
Keshav Dutt and Meldric Daluz, Jaswant
had formed a lethal foursome and was
part of a golden era in Bengal hockey
with as many as seven players in the
Helsinki-bound side.
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everything
from
medicine
to
manufacturing, including DVD players,
gun sights, printers, computer networks,
metal cutters, tattoo removal and vision
correction.
5. Jaipal Singh appointed PS to MoS
Home
i. Jaipal Singh, a Gujarat-cadre IFS officer,
has been appointed Private Secretary to
Minister of State for Home Affairs
Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary.
ii. Singh, a 1991-batch Indian Forest
Service officer is presently working as
Director in Department of Higher
Education.
iii. He has been appointed for a period of
upto September 26, 2018, which is
maximum period of seven years of stay
outside the cadre in a single stint, or on a
co-terminus basis with the minister's
tenure.
6. India overtakes China as worlds
leading gold consumer
i. India overtook China as the worlds
biggest gold consumer in 2014 as global
physical demand fell.
ii. Chinese gold demand slid by more than
a third last year to a four-year low of 866
tonnes.
iii. Indian jewellery demand rose 14
percent last year to a record 690 tonnes,
putting it back ahead of China as the
worlds
number
one
jewellery
manufacturer.
7. RK Mathur to hold additional charge of
DDR&D
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