27 January 2018
Current Affairs Assam, North East, India Today- 27 January 2018
- Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), to host the next fashion show at Mumbai featuring six fashion designers from the North east region on Sustainable Fashion Day on 1st February
- ASEAN leaders from ten countries attended the India’s 69th Republic Day parade event as chief guests. Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith and Cambodian Premier Hun Sen, Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, Thai Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, Singaporean Premier Lee Hsien Loong, Brunei’s Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah attended the grand parade.
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- President of India honoured Ashok Chakra (India’s highest peacetime gallantry award) to Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala (Posthumous) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) at the India’s 69th Republic Day programme.
- Kolkata gets its Floating Market and becomes first in the country to have such floating market
- ‘Mahatma Gandhi Sarbat Vikas Yojana’ (MGSVY) launched by Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh
- World Economic Forum to launch a new Global Centre for Cybersecurity to safeguard the world from hackers
- India ranks 81st in the 2018 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI)
- Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD and CEO, Allahabad Bank becomes first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association (IBA)
- Small Finance Banks and Payments Banks to offer Atal Pension Yojana (APY) scheme of Govt.
- Supriya Devi, the veteran film actress from West Bengal has passed away.
- Himachal Pradesh celebrates 48th Statehood Day on 25th January
- Small Finance Banks and Payments Banks to offer Atal Pension Yojana (APY) scheme of Govt.
- Supriya Devi, the veteran film actress from West Bengal has passed away.
- Flipkart Ties up with Vodafone to provide a range of entry-level 4G smartphones at an effective price of Rs999
- Karnataka to get new IIT.
