1.The Global Communication Association (GCA), a not-for-profit professional organisation, to host the 11th international conference of media experts and communication specialists from around the world at Mysuru on January 28-29.
2.ICICI Bank will partner FINO PayTech to foray into the payments bank space .
3.The BJP has decided to support Mehbooba Mufti to succeed her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, who passed away on Thursday, on the J&K CM's chair.
4. A Chinese state-run company on Thursday announced plans to go ahead with a mega dam in Pakistan- occupied Kashmir (PoK), the latest indicator of Beijing moving forward with major projects in the region despite India's strong opposition.
5. Telangana launched "e-Vahan Bima Scheme" to issue motor insurance policy in digital form, it's first kind of India .
6.Apple Inc bought Emotient Inc, an artificial intelligence startup that reads people's emotions by analyzing facial expressions, the Wall Street Journal reported.
7.Facebook Inc's Messenger app surpassed 800 million users, the company said on Thursday, making it the fastest-growing app of 2015 according to research firm Nielsen.
8.The Global Economic Prospect report published recently by the World Bank (WB) has projected a robust 7.8 per cent growth for the Indian economy in the year 2016. It will grow at a 7.9 per cent growth in the next two years 2017 and 2018.
9.India and France have started their eight-day counter- terrorism and counter- insurgency bilateral military exercise Shakti-2016 in Rajasthan.
10.Wattan Ko Jano, an initiative being carried out by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs in coordination with the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Government.
11.The Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was felicitated with the Central Banker of the Year Award (Global and Asia Pacific) for 2016.
12.Devender Kumar Sikri, a former Gujarat cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, was appointed as chairman of fair-trade regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI).
13.BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha’s biography, “ Anything But Khamosh” written by very famous journalist author Bharathi S Pradhan.
14.Online classifieds portal Quikr announced the merger of real estate listing company CommonFloor.com, making the combined entity the biggest in the space.
15.Pavan Kapoor, a 1990 batch Indian Foreign Service officer,.was named as India’s new ambassador to Israel.
16.Sampoorna Arogya Keralam project is to bring together the major health services initiated by Kerala’s Government provides the financial assistance of 2,00,000
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