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1) In a path-breaking development India and Pakistan on 18 January 2014
agreed upon numerous measures to smoothen trade between the two
countries. Indian Commerce Minister Anand Sharma and his Pakistani
counterpart Khurram Dastgir Khan in their meeting held at New Delhi
decided to re-start the trade liberalisation process stalled for 16
months and work towards non-discriminatory market access on a reciprocal
basis. What are important agreements achieved at this meeting?
- India and Pakistan decided to open the Wagah-Attari border for trade 24X7
- The two countries allowed containers from two countries to be moved right up to Amritsar and Lahore instead of being unloaded at the check-post and re-loaded on the other side
- It was decided to expedite the process of giving banking licences so that Indian and Pakistani banks can operate in the other country
(India
and Pakistan had started negotiations to normalise trade ties in
January 2011 and had made several concessions for each other before the
talks came to an abrupt halt due to violence across the Line of Control)
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2) Legendary Bengali actress Suchitra Sen passed away on 17 January 2014
at a private hospital in Kolkata. She was admitted to the hospital with
a with chest infection on 23 December. Sen acted in over 50 movies
between 1952 and 1978 of which six were in Hindi. She went into recluse
after her last film was released. Over the past three decades she
withdrew herself from public life and did not meet people except her
family members. She was considered for Dada Saheb Phalke Award in which
year, which she reportedly refused in order to remain away from public
life? – 2005
(The award that year was conferred upon Shyam Benegal. Capturing the
public’s imagination for three decades through her ethereal beauty and
intense celluloid performance, Suchitra Sen symbolised the golden age of
Bengali cinema with memorable films like ‘Agnipariksha’, ‘Devdas’ and ‘Saat Paake Bandha’. Gulzar’s ‘Aandhi’ was one of her foremost Hindi films)
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3) Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin passed away on 17 January 2014 at Mumbai. 102-year old Dr. Burhanuddin was a spiritual leader of which sect of Muslims? - Dawoodi Bohra community
(Dawoodi Bohra is a sect of Shia Muslims spread all over the world. The
word Bohra means trader and traditionally, most members of the sect
have been entrepreneurs. Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin was credited
with transforming Dawoodi Bohras into a vibrant community. Bohras
thronged to Syedna’s sermons in thousands. He was cremated on 18 January 2014. However at least 18 persons died in the early hours of 18 January
due to a stampede outside his south Mumbai residence where innumerable
of his followers had assembled to have a last glimpse of this great
preacher)
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4)
According to the recently released report of the World Health
Organisation (WHO) Pakistan is the only polio-endemic country in the
world where polio cases rose from 2012 to 2013. Which Pakistani city is
now the largest reservoir of endemic polio virus in the world, as stated
by the WHO on 17 January 2014? – Peshawar
(Peshawar is the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to
the latest genomic sequencing results of the Regional Reference
Laboratory for Poliovirus, 83 out of 91 polio cases in the country
during the last year are genetically linked to the polio virus
circulating actively in Peshawar. Moreover, 12 out of the total 13 cases
reported during the previous year from Afghanistan are also directly
linked to Peshawar)
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5) The 108 National Ambulance service was launched in the state of Uttar Pradesh on 17 January 2014. Which enterprise has been given charge to operate this ambulance service? - GVK EMRI
(GVK EMRI is currently operating 988 Ambulances under 108 Scheme in
Uttar Pradesh. They have also bagged the project of operating 2,000 more
ambulances under 102 Scheme which is meant for the transportation of
pregnant women and neonates to the hospital and also back to home after
delivery. Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) was set up
in 2005 with the objective of delivering comprehensive, speedy, reliable
and quality Emergency Care Services)
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6) Sunanda Pushkar, who was found dead in a New Delhi hotel late on 17 January 2014, was the wife of which union minister? - Shashi Tharoor, the Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (Her last rites were performed on 18 January at New Delhi)
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7) What was position of hosts India in the Hero Hockey World League Final, in which it played its last classification match on 18 January 2014? – Sixth
(India finished at sixth position after it was defeated 2-1 by Belgium
in the fifth-sixth place classification game. The sixth place finish in
this League is certain to give a major boost to India’s world rankings.
India are presently lying 10th in the world rankings)
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