Current Affairs January, 2016

• Sikkim becomes Indiaâ��s first organic state.
• World record by Sania-Martina as they win 29th match on trot.
• SBI enters into wealth management space; opens branch for start-ups.

India�s Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis broke a 22-year-old world record by winning their 29th women�s doubles match in a row en route to their entry into the women�s doubles final of the WTA Sydney International, in Sydney.

State Bank of India today became the first public sector lender to launch wealth management service, a space dominated by private and foreign players, to cater to fast-growing affluent segment of the country.

Sikkim has become India�s first fully organic state by implementing organic practices on around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land.

Kerala has become the first Indian state to achieve 100 per cent primary education. Declaration to this effect was made by the Vice President Hamid Ansari during his speech at special ceremony organised at Thiruvananthapuram.

Union Government has inaugurated Second Liquid Chemical Berth of Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) at Pir Pau, Mumbai.

The Union Cabinet has given its approval for the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and Maldives on cooperation in the field of Health.

India has decided to become member country of the International Energy Agency � Ocean Energy Systems (IEA-OES) to boost for country�s quest for tapping ocean energy sources.

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According to World Bank�s World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends, India is on track to register its entire 1.25 billion population using its Aadhaar digital ID which would help the government to promote the inclusion of disadvantaged groups in its welfare schemes.

With 60 per cent of the world�s population still offline, institutional and regulatory barriers to efficiency are exacerbating the problem of low and unevenly distributed �digital dividends� from growing Internet penetration across countries, a new World Bank study has found.