January 2017 Key Points: Important for CLAT & BBA Entrance

 British-Indian Shankar Balasubramanian knighted for his work on DNA sequencing
 Shraddha, Ghyansham Kumar Devansh chosen for 2016 Bharatiya Jananpith Navlekhan
award
 Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa takes charge as new Air Force chief
 General Bipin Rawat takes over as next Chief of Army Staff
 ICBM Agni-IV successfully test-fired off Odisha coast
 David R Syiemlieh appointed new UPSC chairman
 SC sacks BCCI President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke
 Justice JS Khehar sworn in as 44th Chief Justice of India
 Government launches Swachh Bharat Survekshan 2017 in 500 cities
 Election Commission announces dates for assembly elections in five states
 Scientists discover mesentery, a new human organ in digestive system
 UN declares 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development
 Government constitutes Injeti Srinivas Committee to frame National Sports Code
 Veteran actor Om Puri passes away
 India and Kazakhstan sign Protocol to amend DTAC.
 44th New Delhi World Book Fair begins
 India’s GDP growth expected to be slower at 7.1% in 2016-17: CSO
 14th Pravasi Bhartiya Divas begins in Bengaluru
 20th National Conference for e-Governance begins in Visakhapatnam
 Indian Army conducts test of indigenous heavy artillery gun Dhanush
 74th Golden Globe Awards
 January 10: World Hindi Day
 Sex ratio in Haryana touches 900-mark for first time in 20 years
 Cristiano Ronaldo named the world’s best player for 2016
 PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Nobel Prize Series India Exhibition in Gandhinagar
 Gujarat Government launches India’s first Student Startup and Innovation Policy
 PM Narendra Modi inaugurates India’s first international exchange at GIFT city
 January 12: National Youth Day
 Effects of Endosulfan use devastating: SC
 Guided Pinaka successfully test-fired
 Second Scorpene class submarine INS Khanderi launched
 Union Government forms committee to look into Haj subsidy issue
 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket successfully places 10 satellites into orbit
 IMF cuts India’s FY17 growth rate to 6.6% from 7.6%
 India ranks 60th in Inclusive Development Index India ranks 92nd in 2017 Global Talent
Index
 Silicon identified as ‘missing element’ in Earth’s core
 India becomes associate member of CERN
 Railway Ministry unveils Mission 41K to save energy worth Rs 41,000 crore
 Second Raisina Dialogue held in New Delhi
 Bengaluru ranked world’s most dynamic city: JLL Index
 Delhi Police commissioner Alok Verma appointed as new CBI director
 Union Government clears Tamil Nadu’s Ordinance on Jallikattu
 ISRO to launch record 103 satellites on a single rocket
 Committee constituted to set rules for implementation of Disabilities Act, 2016
 N K Singh panel submits report on changes in FRBM Act
 US President Donald Trump signs executive order to pull US out of TPP
 Union Cabinet approves Indian Institute of Management Bill, 2017
 Union Cabinet approves Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2017
 68th Republic Day celebrated on 26 January 2017
 Padma awards 2017
 India ranks 79 in Corruption Perception Index
 President appoints Banwarilal Purohit as Governor of Meghalaya
 Dr Vijay Bhatkar appointed new vice-chancellor of Nalanda University
 Indian Navy’s Theatre Level Exercise TROPEX 17
 GAAR will be effective from April 1, 2017
 IndiaPost gets payments bank licence from RBI
 Karnataka government to amend law for conducting kambala
 SC appoints Committee of Administrators headed by Vinod Rai to run BCCI
 Highlights of Economic Survey 2016-17