Today's Important News : 16 January 2014

Today's Important News (16-01-2014)

The Hindu

National:

1. SC notice to ex-judge on sexual harassment
2. 41 coal allocations may be axed
3. ‘Over a quarter of enrolments in rural India are in private schools’

Current Affairs MCQ

International:

1. Massive investments, emission cuts needed: U.N. climate science panel
2. Sino-Japanese acrimony spills over into Africa
3. China backs Hasina government

India & The World:

1. Pakistan wants better market access
2. India, Japan coast guards to firm up ties
3. India, Sri Lanka to free all fishermen in custody

Business News:

1. Tilaiya project of RPower gets Cabinet clearance
2. India seeks Kuwait investment in LNG terminals

S&T, Environment, Defence :

1. Why oral polio vaccination must for India-bound Pakistanis
2. Cancer risk cut by H. pylori coevolution
3. Majority of Indians prone to malaria
4. Choroideremia: gene therapy shows promise
5. Rosetta to reawaken for final mission

Sports:

1. New Zealand seals the series
2. Djokovic and Serena power into third round
3. Australia rallies past India into last four

Others:

1. U.S. returns idols stolen from India
2. Obesity rises among poor American children
3. AAP to contest over 400 seats
4. RAW chief consulted MI6 in build-up to Operation Bluestar

Editorials & Articles:

1. The judges’ dilemma

2. Estrangement and engagement
3. Testing the limits
4. Troubled legacy of a bulldozer
5. Bengali Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh

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Courtesy: The Hindu