Top GKToday’s News Headlines-18 January, 2020

January 18, 2020 January 18, 2020

Here are Top GKToday’s News Headlines for January 18, 2020.

ISRO’s communication satellite GSAT-30 launched onboard Ariane 5 rocket of Arianespace from French Guiana
Aadhaar required to get benefits under scheme for civilian victims of terror, communal violence
Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani flags off the inaugural run of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Tejas Express from Ahmedabad
Travellers from China to be screened for novel coronavirus (nCoV) at Indian airports

Foreign exchange reserves reach a life-time high of $461.21 billion in the week to January 10
NHIDCL (National Highways and Infrastructure Development Corporation) awards 6.5 km long Z-Morh Tunnel project in J&K to APCO Amarnathji Tunnelway Pvt Ltd to be built at a cost of Rs 2,379 crore
Logo and brand ‘Apna Urea Sona Ugle’ of Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan Ltd (HURL) unveiled by Fertiliser Minister D V Sadananda Gowda
China’s Great Wall Motors (GWM) to acquire manufacturing facility of General Motors (GM) in Talegaon, Maharashtra
TRAI directs telecom service providers to deposit all unclaimed refunds of customers in the Telecommunication Consumers Education and Protection Fund (TCEPF)
NPCI (National Payment Corporation of India) launches blockchain-based Vajra platform for secure online transactions
BCCL (Bennett Coleman & Company Limited) Chairperson Indu Jain conferred ICSI Lifetime Achievement Award of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI)

53-year old bureaucrat Mikhail Mishustin appointed new Prime Minister of Russia
Ukraine: Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk resigns after less than six months in office.

12-day, 7,800-km Dakar Rally held in Saudi Arabia ends: Spain’s Carlos Sainz wins car rally; Ricky Brabec of US wins motorbike rally
India (340/6 in 50 overs) beat Australia (304 in 49.1 overs) by 36 runs in 2nd ODI at Rajkot; level series 1-1
Former India all-rounder Bapu Nadkarni dies in Mumbai at 96; made 1414 runs and took 88 wickets in 41 Tests
‘The Winning Sixer’, book written by former Indian batsman W.V. Raman, released