Important note : 4 ( Jan Month Current Affairs)

1) ‪‎India became‬ the ‪‎world‬'s ‪‎largest‬ ‪rice exporter‬ (2015: India overtakes Thailand)

1st - India
2nd - Thailand
3rd - Vietnam

2) ‪China‬ remained the ‪number‬ ‪one‬ ‪importer‬ of ‪rice‬.

3) ‪Supreme‬ Court ‪appoints‬ Justice ‪Sanjay‬ Mishra as new ‪UP‬ ‎Lokayukta‬ ( Previous : Virendra Singh )

4) ‪‎Intelsat‬ has ‪launched‬ the ‪first‬ of its new ‪Epic‬ ‪telecommunications‬‪ spacecraft‬. (Intelsat is the Commercial satellite giant)

5) ‪Manoj‬ Sinha, MoS Railways has inaugurated a new ‪‎private freight‬‪ terminal‬ at ‎Sachana‬ village near Viramgam in ‪Ahmedabad‬.

6) ‎Indian Government‬ announces the first 20 ‪smart‬ ‪cities‬ in India

7) Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office and Atomic Energy and Space, ‪Jitendra‬ Singh has inaugurated the Hall of Nuclear Power in New Delhi

8) Smriti Irani releases literary calendar 2016 of NCPUL ( National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language)

9) Chinese President Xi launches Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. (The bank was formally established in Beijing on December 25, 2015)

10) Andhra Bank has announced the launch of the Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme Tranche-II

Important points :-

• Its 2,755 branches
• Eligible persons (individuals, joint persons, associations and trusts)
• Can apply For #minimum 2 gm and the #maximum of 500 gm
• A rate of interest of 2.75 per cent per annum and a rate of Rs. 2,600 per gm for subscriptions under SGB Tranche-II.
• Tenor of the bonds is eight (8) years with provision for premature cancellation after Five (5) years

12) Haiti has been hit by an outbreak of the Zika virus. It is a mosquito-borne ailment similar to Dengue fever that is rapidly spreading through the Caribbean.

13) CONCOR to set up Rs. 450 crore multi-modal logistics park at Kakinada

Info:-
(I) Investment of about Rs. 450 crore
(II) Andhra Pradesh government has allotted 89.35 acres of land to CONCOR on lease for 60 years at Rs. 100 per acre per annum

14) Bhaskar Bhat becomes Tata SIA Airlines Chairman