General Awareness 10th January 2017 |Current Affairs 10th January 2017.

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate country’s first International Exchange

Being set up by Bombay Stock Exchange in Gandhinagar this afternoon

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached Ahmedabad a short while ago on a two-day visit to Gujarat. He will inaugurate the country’s first International Exchange being set up by Bombay Stock Exchange in Gandhinagar this afternoon. Mr. Modi will also inaugurate Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show.

India’s first International Exchange

Bombay Stock Exchange in Gandhinagar.

NGT notice to Centre, Delhi govt on pleas against plastic ban

Plastic bags in Delhi has come under challenge.

The city government’s 2012 notification banning manufacture, sale and usage of plastic bags in Delhi has come under challenge, with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) seeking the response from the Centre, Delhi government and others on the matter.

Anil Madhav Dave

Ministry of Environment and Forests.

BSNL to connect 1500 gram panchayats through OFC in 2017

BSNL will provide three thousand hot spots

• BSNL plans to connect 1,518 gram panchayats with Optical Fibre Cable (OFC) this year in Assam to ensure rural connectivity.
• “We have emphasised on rural connectivity and 5,200 kms of OFC will be laid this year to cover 1,518 gram panchayats, which accounts 70 per cent of the total gram panchayats in the state,

70%

Gram panchayat to get OFC connectivity.

Millions of devotees in Philippines join Black Nazarene procession

The faithful reached out towards the icon.

About a million and a half bare foot Philippine devotees praying for miracles joined a procession on for a black statue of Jesus Christ being paraded through the old commercial centre of the capital, Manila

Black Nazarene

A life-sized wooden statue of Christ kneeling with across on his shoulder.

New fault in Indian Ocean may trigger quakes in future: study

Largest tremor that shook the Andaman-Sumatra.

A new plate boundary may be forming on the floor of the Indian Ocean as a result of the largest earthquake that shook the Andaman-Sumatra region in 2012, according to scientists who warn that the new fault system could trigger more quakes in the future.

Earth quake 2012

The largest inter-plate earthquakes ever recorded.

I am Samajwadi Party chief and party symbol should stay with me, Mulayam tells EC

Expulsion of Ramgopal Yadav

Mulayam Singh Yadav told the Election Commission (EC) that he remained the Samajwadi Party president and termed the convention called by the camp of his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav “unconstitutional.” He asserted that the party’s electoral symbol , ‘Cycle’, should remain with his camp.

Hamid Ansari

Rajya Sabha Chairman

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