Current Affairs in short : 14 January 2020

14 January celebrated as Armed Forces Veterans Day every year. Armed Forces Veterans Day is being celebrated since 2017. 

Sardar Patel’s 182 meter tall Statue of Unity in Gujarat included in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s ‘8 Wonders of SCO’ list. S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister has announced today

Income-Tax Department was launched 24×7 control room to monitor black money and illegal inducements in poll-bound Delhi. This facility will also host a toll-free number (1800117574).

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has developed a special class diesel conforming to North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) grade for use in ships and vessels of Indian Navy.

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch GSAT-30 satellite onboard Ariane-5 launch vehicle (VA 251) from French Guiana, overseas department of France.

India's flagship global conference on geopolitics and geo-economics Raisina Dialogue began with Prime Minister Narendra Modi attending the inaugural session in New Delhi. 

Captain Tania Shergill has been selected to be the first woman parade adjutant for the Republic Day parade.

Centre has renamed the Kolkata Port Trust after Bharatiya Jana Sangh founder Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

China operationalized the world's largest radio telescope in southwest China’s Guiyang city, the capital of Guizhou province. The FAST telescope is was launched after three years of trial operation.

The World Bank has forecast Sri Lanka’s economic growth at 3.3% for 2020 saying the growth is likely to remain below four per cent in the next three years.

Iran’s Olympic medalist, Kimia Alizadeh took to her instagram to announce that she is leaving the country.

Robert Abela has been sworn in as Malta’s 14th prime minister in a ceremony at the Grand Master’s Palace in Valletta.

The Japan Coast Guard Ship ‘Echigo’ has arrived in Chennai on a five-day goodwill visit.

The Uttar Pradesh government switched to the commissionerate system of policing for Lucknow and Noida, giving magisterial powers to the top cops in both cities.

The Centre government has appointed Michael Debaprata Patra as the Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India. 

Aashman Taneja, a five-year-old boy, from Hyderabad has set the Guinness world record in Taekwondo for the most full contact knee strikes in one-hour non-stop.

Odia Filmmaker Manmohan Mohapatra passed away on 13 January in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He died due to the prolonged illness. He was 69-years-old.