Current Affairs Shorts 13-01-2016

1. World number one Jordan Spieth matched Tiger Woods by winning his seventh PGA Tour event with a dominant victory at Hawaii's Tournament of Champions .

2.The Nati folk dance of Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest folk dance in the world.

3.The Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari inaugurated KR Narayanan National Institute of Visual Sciences & Arts at Kottayam, Kerala.

4.China announced that it began testing the country’s first Tibet language search engine named 'Cloud Tibet'.

5.The Employees ’Provident Fund Organisation has won the National Award on e-Governance 2015-16 for launching the Universal Account Number (UAN).

6.BSE had recently become the world's fastest stock exachange clocking a median trade speed of 6 micro seconds .

7.The United States government agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has established a Planetary Defence Coordination Office to locate asteroids that might hit Earth in future. The agency has also planned to respond to any possible asteroid impact.

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