Important Current Affairs January 24 One liner
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January 24 – International Day of Education
January 24 – National Girl Child Day
- Theme – ‘Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow’.
- Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari will inaugurate the third bridge over the Mandovi river in Panaji on January 27.
- The Winter Carnival has commenced at Drass, the second coldest inhabited place in the world.
- Information and Broadcasting Ministry will facilitate Jharkhand International Film Festival, 2019 through Directorate of Film Festivals.
- The two-day Global Investors Summit, being organised by Tamil Nadu government, is underway in Chennai.
- Uttar Pradesh is celebrating it’s 69th foundation day.
- UN chief warns, world is “losing the race” on climate change.
- Venezuela announces breaking off diplomatic ties with US.
- Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ welfare today organised a national conference on Agriculture-Zaid/summer campaign 2019 in New Delhi.
- Railways Minister Piyush Goyal given additional charge of Finance Ministry.
- Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba commissioned the new Naval Air Base ‘INS Kohassa’ at Diglipur in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award – Girish Pant, Surender Singh Kandhari and Dr Zulekha Daud
- Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy – Virat Kohli
- Emerging Cricketer of the Year – Rishabh Pant
- Umpire of the Year – Sri Lanka’s Kumar Dharmasena
- Spirit of Cricket award – New Zealand cricketer Kane Williamson
- PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth reached the quarter-finals at the Indonesia Masters Badminton in Jakarta.
- Petra Kvitova from Czech Republic and Naomi Osaka from Japan have reached the Women Singles Grand Slam finals.
- India crushed New Zealand by 8 wickets in the first ODI in Napier to lead the 5 match series 1-0.
- Indian Women’s team thrashed New Zealand by nine wickets in the first One-day International at Napier.
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