Daily Current Affairs Updates

• Current Affairs weekly bullets is the collections of weekly current affairs in the form of bullet points so you can grab it in easily. Here, we have brought the bullet points of current affairs from 18th to 24th January, 2016.

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• India celebrated its 67th Republic Day.
• Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 came into force.
• Union Government has launched Sahaj Scheme for online booking of LPG cylinders.,

Veteran Bollywood actress and Rajya Sabha MP Rekha has been conferred with the third edition of Yash Chopra Memorial Award.

American actor Abe Vigoda best known for roles in The Godfather and Barney Miller, a sitcom of 1970s passed away in New Jersey, US. He was 94.

India celebrated 67th Republic day 26th January 2016 by displaying its cultural diversity, economic progress and military might were on display at Rajpath, New Delhi.

The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 came into force from 26th January 2016.

India and France have singed 14 pacts for enhancing the bilateral cooperation various fields including defence, space, railways, education etc.

Union Government has launched Sahaj Scheme for online booking of LPG cylinders.

President Pranab Mukherjee has conferred the country̢۪s highest peacetime gallantry award Ashok Chakra to Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami posthumously.

• Padma Vibhushan for Rajinikanth, Dhirubhai Ambani, Jagmohan.
• India, France sign agreement on purchase of Rafale jets.
• Red Fort all set to host four-day festival Bharat Parv.

Kalpana, who had won the national award the best actor in a supporting role in the film Njaan Thanichalla (2012), died reportedly due to a heart attack at a hotel in Hyderabad.