Current Affairs 26th January 2017 | General Awareness 26th January 2017.

1. India, UAE sign 14 agreements

Main areas are covered in this agreement.

India and the UAE today inked 14 agreements in various areas including in defence, maritime transport, comprehensive strategic partnership, shipping, agriculture and allied sector, trade, oil storage and management, energy efficiency, road transport and highways and prevention and combating human trafficking.

Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

2. Animal rights groups challenge new TN law on Jallikattu in SC

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the pleas.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear on Monday the pleas of Animal Welfare Board of India and other animal rights organisations challenging the new law passed by Tamil Nadu Assembly to allow bull taming sport Jallikattu in the state.

January 30

Applications which will be taken up for hearing.

3. Awards 2017.

Padma Vibhushan for Pawar, M.M. Joshi, Yesudas; Kohli to get Padma Shri

• Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Sharad Pawar and senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi have made it to the list of Padma awardees for this year. They will be accorded the Padma Vibhushan.
• Legendary singer K.J. Yesudas, late Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, late Lok Sabha Speaker P.A. Sangma, late Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Sunder Lal Patwah will also be accorded the second highest civilian honour.

Bharat Ratna

The nation’s highest civilian honour award will not be awarded this year.

4. It’s Trump time to roll out decrees

He signed an executive order to advance construction.

• Five days into his presidency, United States President Donald Trump has wasted no time in converting his poll promises into action.
• Since he was sworn in on Friday, Mr. Trump’s White House has been pilloried for lying to the public about crowds at the inauguration, and the President himself for making a campaign style speech before a memorial to fallen CIA officers.

Signs three orders

• Withdrawing the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal
• Freezing the hiring of federal workers
• Hitting foreign NGOs that help with abortion.

  5. Massive networks of fake Twitter accounts discovered

  

  largest consisting of over 350,000 profiles
  

• Scientist have stumbled upon massive networks of fake Twitter accounts — with the largest consisting of over 350,000 profiles — which may have been used to forge number of followers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics.
• On Twitter, bots are accounts that are run remotely by a person.

BOT

Those are accounts that are run remotely by a person.

6. Just 5 attempts can open Android pattern lock

Pattern lock holds risk factors.

If you think that the popular pattern lock system in Android smartphones is the best option to safeguard your device, you are mistaken as security researchers have found that it takes just five attempts to break into Android devices.

Unlock

They were able to crack more than 95 per cent of patterns within five attempts.

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