1. Current Affairs 2014 – January
1. Mammen Mathew chosen for prestigious journalism Lokmanya Tilak National Award
2. Danielle Steel awarded Frances highest honour, the Legion of Honor
3. Ronaldinho got South American footballer of the year award
4. Japan's population dipped to record low in 2013
5. International Petroleum Conference 2014 to be held in New Delhi
6. LeBron James & Serena Williams: AP’s Athletes of the Year
7. Pakistan appoints Ashraf Jehan as first female judge of Shariah court
8. Losar–a New Year festival of Ladakh is celebrated on 2nd January
9. Latvia became the 18th member of Euro Zone
10. Supercomputer PARAM Yuva-II ranked 1 in India
11. Hubble discovered the two new planets, GJ 436b and GJ121 4b with clouds.
12. Scientists designed Moclic software to predict weather
13. Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved amendments to Mega Power
14. S.K.Sharma appointed Chairman and Managing Director of BEL
15. World Braille Day observed on 4 January
16. Pradhyuman Singh appointed as pro-tem speaker of 14th Rajasthan Assembly
17. Raja Ravi Varma award for K.V. Haridasan
18. R R Verma : new chief of NCRB
19. Lucknow High court bans cutting of Mango trees in UP
20. Malayalam playback singer K.P Udayabhanu passed away
21. Rafael Nadal's Won at Qatar Open 2014
22. India defeated Pakistan and won Under-19 Asia Cup
23. Meena Kandasamy selected for Mayilamma award
24. R. Chandrashekhar appointed as NASSCOM President
25. India signed a Credit Agreement with World Bank for RRSMP
26. Cristiano Ronaldo was awarded the Order of Prince Henry
27. Raj Jain appointed as CEO of Bharti Retail
28. Manmohan Singh launched total E-literacy project in Kerala

2. 29. MS Dhir elected as Speaker of Delhi Assembly
30. India's Former Shooting Coach Tibor Gonczol died
31. Srinivas and Pravin Rao appointed Infosys Presidents
32. GSLV-D5 carrying communication satellite GSAT-14 successfully launched
33. South India's first science city to come up in Kottayam
34. Indian Pittas, endemic bird spotted in Delhi
35. Serena Williams won the Brisbane International Title 2014
36. 12th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held at New Delhi
37. World War II aircraft wreckage found in Manipur
38. Aditya Joshi became world no. 1 junior shuttler
39. Singer Phil Everly died at age 74
40. Chhattisgarh launched toll free number to report graft
41. Awami League won in Bangladesh's Poll
42. World's first Ramayan University to come up in Bihar
43. Chhattisgarh launched toll free number to report graft
44. The US Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as new leader of the Federal Reserve
45. Anti-corruption helpline launched in New Delhi
46. India ranked 23rd in nuclear material security index
47. Munish Sharda New CEO of Future Generali Life
48. Prem nazier international prize for Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer
49. Yaya Toure : African Footballer of the Year
50. India's Gorakhpur railway station has world's longest platform
51. World Hindi day celebrated on January 10
52. Lions club awards for Gouri Lakshmi Bhai, Rishi Raj Singh
53. Ariel Sharon, the former Prime Minister of Israel, died
54. Kerala lifted the at the 59 National Schools Athletics title.
55. Sanil Shetty, Ankita Das : Table tennis national champions
56. 2013 Odakkuzhal award winner: K. R Meera
57. Andaman and Nicobar Tribal Research and Training Institute inaugurated
58. Army Day observed across India on 15 January

3. 59. Portugal’s former footballer Eusébio died
60. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance launched an all women branch in Pune
61. Saturn’s Ring 4.4 billion years old
62. Justice A K Ganguly resigned as chairman of WBHRC
63. Mahesh Mangaonkar won Open du Gard squash title
64. Prithvi II, the Nuclear capable Surface-to-Surface missile, successfully test-fired
65. China to be become a partner in the proposed NIMZ in Andhra Pradesh
66. India launched 3rd phase of Housing Project in Sri Lanka
67. Jamila Bayaz : First Woman Police Chief in Afghanistan
68. TN, Pondicherry first to implement foreigner tracking system
69. Cyrus Mistry won DSC Prize for 2014
70. Hery Rajaonarimampianina declared as the President of Madagascar
71. Sir Christopher Chataway, former 5,000m world record-holder died.
72. Co- Founder of Twitter, Biz Stone unveiled a new mobile service called Jelly on 8
January 2014Election Commission decided to call off the tie with Google for
registering the new voters
73. Vishwanath Ramachandra, the former Ranji Trophy cricketer of Mumbai died
74. Dr. Ambedkar National Merit Awards conferred by Kumari Selja
75. ASSOCHAM organized Seventh Global Insurance Summit at Hyderabad
76. Facebook acquired Little Eye Labs for 90 crore rupees
77. Israel’s Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon died
78. Sanil Shetty and Ankita Das won their maiden men’s and women’s singles
championship The Union Cabinet approved the introduction of the National Youth
Policy, 2014 (NYP, 2014) on 9 January 2014.
79. IIa Pathak social activist died at 80
80. Nirbheek, India's first gun for women, launched
81. Ali Larayedh, the Prime Minister of Tunisia resigned
82. Army Day observed across India on 15 January
83. Malaysian Government to introduce high-tech ID cards
84. Anju Bobby George declared winner of World Athletics Final, 2005

4. 85. 151st Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda celebrated worldwide
86. Vijay Zol selected captain of India to lead U-19 Cricket World Cup
87. Pranab Mukherjee presented the Sunil Gangopadhyay Memorial Award of 2012 and
2013 to Nirendranath Chakraborty and Sankha Ghosh, Cristiano Ronaldo won the
FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2013
88. Delhi became first state to withdraw FDI in Multibrand Retail
89. P.K.Goyal, Director of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) was awarded the Best CFO
Award on 12 January 2014
90. President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated ANTRI at Port Blair
91. Andhra Pradesh bagged Oil and Gas Conservation Award, 2013
92. Nikhat Zareen won gold medal at the third Nations Cup International Boxing
93. Sheikh Hasina sworn-in as Bangladesh Prime Minister
94. Sanjay Mehrotra named CEO of the Year
95. Abhishikta of Karnataka : Miss South India
96. Information stealing virus Dexter, detected in Indian online banking space
97. Jayanto Narayan Choudhury has taken over as the new Director General of the
National Security Guard
98. Cumbria University of UK became the first public university to accept fees in digital
currency, Bitcoin.
99. India's only hospital for fish will open in Kochi
100. Panmana Ramachandran Nair Selected for Guptan nair Award
101. Richard Quest won UNWTO Lifetime Achievement Award
102. Kerala became the first Indian state to win top UN Award in Tourism
103. The Election Commission of India celebrated the 4th National Voters Day
across the country on 25 January 2014
104. Garry Kenneth Toomey resigned from Jet Airways
105. Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner Actor ANR died
106. Famous Bengali Actress Suchitra Sen died
107. Yushi, Taiwanese poet awarded Thiruvalluvar award
108. Deepika and Farhan won best actors at Screen Awards

5. 109. Famous Marathi writer Namdeo Dhasal died
110. Arunachal Pradesh witnessed the first trial run of rail engine
111. Jimmy Walker won Sony Open Golf tournament
112. UP government launched Samajwadi pension scheme for rural poor
113. U.N. report Says: India tops in adult illiteracy
114. India, Australia launch bio robots in Indian Ocean
115. Saina won Syed Modi International India Grand Prix title
116. MS Dhoni first captain to feature in four tied ODIs
117. RBI raised Repo Rate by 25 basis points to 8 percent
118. India won gold in men's Basketball at Lusofonia Games
119. Anand Kumar got Ramanujan Mathematics award
120. India ranked 155th in global environment performance list
121. High performance computing system Dhruva-3 inaugurated