1.

The US has called for fresh polls in Bangladesh that

reflect the will of the people, even as it expressed
strong concern over the just concluded general
election which it alleged was neither credible nor
fair.
2. Arson destroyed the Venezuelan Embassy and
damaged offices used by the Organization of
American States in St. Kitts and Nevis in what the
prime minister of the small Caribbean nation said
Monday was a politically motivated attack.
3. Malaysia's fast-food restaurants will no longer be
allowed to hire foreign workers; the Home ministry
said today, a decision that will affect thousands of
Indians who come seeking work as waiters and
cooks.
4. Sikhs Celebrate Gurpurab, birth of Guru Gobind
Singh Ji today
5. 12th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas began in
NewDelhi today; Malaysian Environment Minister G
Palanivel is the chief guest.
6. Ghualm Nabi Azad, Union Minister for Health and
Family Welfare launched the Rashtriya Kishor
Swasthya Karyakram (RKSK) at delhi today. He also
inaugurated the three-day National Adolescent
Health Consultation.
7. Maharashtra governments ambitious health
programme Jeevan Amrut Yojana or Blood-onCall launched across the state today.

8. Jharkhand High Court has directed the state

government to post at least one policewoman in
every police station to deal with the problem of
eveteasing.
9. The ambitious North Eastern Region Community
Resource Management Project (NERCORMP) was
officially launched for the districts of Tirap,
Changlang and Longding in Arunachal Pradesh
today.
10. Govt launches 'Maulana Azad Taleem-e-Baligan'
scheme to educate Muslim adults.
11. Delhi Government has decided to disband the
existing hospital management society functioning in
government hospitals here after a large number of
complaints of corruption against them.
12. Dhanu Yatra of Bargarh, considered to be world's
biggest open-air theatre, all set for 11-day festival in
Odisha .
13. India today successfully test-fired its indigenously
developed Prithvi-II missile, which is capable of
carrying 500 kg to 1,000 kg of warheads and has a
strike range of 350 km, from a test range at
Chandipur near Balasore (Odisha).
14. Jammu and Kashmir government is promoting
vertical housing colonies in Srinagar in an effort to
stop the trend of conversion of agricultural land for
residential and commercial purposes.
15. Banks may have just two years to achieve the

ambitious target of providing a universal electronic

bank account to every Indian resident above the
age of 18. This recommendation, among several
others, was made by the central bank-appointed
Nachiket Mor Committee on Comprehensive
Financial Services for Small Businesses and LowIncome Households.
16. RBI panel on financial inclusion recommends
raising priority sector lending cap for banks to 50%
from the current 40%.
17. In order to safeguard the interest of the investors,
Sebi has put in place a new framework to strengthen
the supervisory and monitoring role of depositories
and their participants for issuance and processing of
Delivery Instruction Slips.
18. US Senate confirms JanetYellen as head of
Federal Reserve making her first woman to lead
world's most powerful central bank.
19. Former Additional Judge Sudip Ranjan Sen was
sworn in as judge of the Meghalaya High Court at
shillong today.
20. Writer-director Jane Campion will succeed Steven
Spielberg as the jury president of the next Festival de
Cannes, slated to take place from May 14 to 24 this
year.
21. The 61st Kohima Village Sports Association meet,
one of the biggest sporting events in the northeast
begins at Kohima (Nagaland) today.

22. 75th National table tennis championship begins

today in Patna.
23. Hockey India on Tuesday announced
complimentary tickets to hockey Olympians and
international players for the forthcoming Hockey
World League Final from January 10-18, in New Delhi.