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Haryana Government frames rehabilitation policy for slum-dwellers.

• Haryana government has framed a rehabilitation policy for people living in slums on government land.
• Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has approved the slum-in-site policy.
• The policy applies to slums identified under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana survey, conducted by the state.
• The developer will pay rent to every household so that the beneficiaries could move to other locations and construction activities could start.
• Rent for such households in Municipal Corporation of Gurugram and Faridabad would be Rs 3,000 per month and Rs 2,000 per month for other areas, the release said.
• For 15 years, the unit would be given to the beneficiary on lease.
• The ownership rights of the unit allotted will be given after 15 years of allotment.

Assam Government keen on starting flight operations between Guwahati and ASEAN nations.

• Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said his government wants to start flight operations between Guwahati and the capital cities of the ASEAN nations.
• The construction of a new terminal building at the LGBI Airport in Guwahati will be starting soon.
• Sonowal said his government was determined to step up efforts in increasing interactions with the ASEAN countries, including enhancing people-to-people contact and trade and other relations.
• Assam and other Northeastern states are close to many of the ASEAN countries.
• Most ASEAN capitals are within a 2,000 km flying distance from Guwahati.
• Therefore, the government is keen on starting flights between Guwahati and ASEAN capitals.

Indigo starts service from Tirupati to Hyderabad and Bengaluru.

• IndiGo Airlines commenced three daily flights to Hyderabad and two to Bangalore from Temple town Tirupati.
• Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Union Minister of Civil Aviation and IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh flagged off the air services at Sri Venkateswara International Airport at Renigunta.
• The airport is locatd 15 kms from Tirupati.

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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad named as prime ministerial candidate.

• Malaysia’s opposition alliance named former PM Mahathir Mohamad as its prime ministerial candidate for a general election.
• Mahathir, who ran the country for two decades and is now 92 years old.
• Anwar Ibrahim, the country’s most popular opposition leader  in jail, Mahathir is seen as the biggest threat for premier Najib Razak.
• Anwar’s wife Wan Azizah Wan Ismail will be the candidate for deputy prime minister.

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Patanjali Ayurved to partner with eight leading e-tailers and aggregators.

• Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved will partner with eight leading etailers and aggregators to give a big push to online sales.
• The Haridwar-based company is expected to enter into agreements this month with major online retailers — Amazon, Flipkart, Paytm Mall, 1MG, bigbasket, grofers, shopclues and snapdeal.
• Patanjali is organising a function on January 16 here and representatives of all the online companies are expected to attend it along with Ramdev and its MD Acharya Balkrishna.
• Patanjali had forayed into kids and adult diapers and affordable sanitary napkins segments.
• It has announced that it is venturing into solar equipment manufacturing.
• Besides FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) segment, Patanjali Ayurved is present in other sectors such as education and healthcare.

Sebi imposes Rs 5 lakh fine on IFCI Factors and three others.

• Markets regulator Sebi has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on IFCI Factors and three others.
• Apart from IFCI Factors, the other three entities are Shiva Cement’s promoters — Unicon Merchants, Akash Gupta and Preeti Gupta.
• The four entities had violated SAST (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulation for the transactions dated April 21, 2014 in the shares of Shiva Cement.
• The promoters had pledged Shiva Cement’s shares, which were released on April 21, 2014. IFCI Factors was the counter-party to the transactions and had acquired the shares.
• For the violations, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has levied a fine of Rs 3 lakh on the promoters and Rs 2 lakh on IFCI Factors.

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Volkswagen US sales chief Ron Stach quits.

• Senior sales manager of Volkswagen’s North America operations has quit the company.
• Ron Stach, senior vice president of sales at Volkswagen of America, has left the automaker.
• The reason for Stach’s departure is unknown.
• Stach, had joined VW’s North America operations in 2006 and previously worked at Mazda Motor Corp.
• Stach became vice president of sales in March 2016, when Michael Horn, Volkwagen’s then-CEO of North American operations, resigned.
• He will be replaced temporarily by Derrick Hatami who joined VW of America last June as executive vice president for sales and marketing.

Sports Updates

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Makhaya Ntini steps down as Zimbabwe’s bowling coach.

• Former South African seamer, Makhaya Ntini has stepped down from his position as Zimbabwe’s bowling coach.
• Ntini had taken over the reigns as a specialist bowling coach in February 2016 on a two-year contract.
• He was the head coach until Heath Streak took over in November this year.
• Under his tenure, Zimbabwe had won the ODI series against Sri Lanka, which was their first major overseas one-day series win since 2001.
• He is the first South African to take 10 wickets in a Test match at Lords.
• Ntinin played 101 Test matches, 173 one-day internationals and 10 Twenty20 international matches for South Africa.

Bengaluru FC beat defending champions ATK 1-0.

• BFC Skipper Sunil Chhetri struck the only goal as Bengaluru FC beat defending champions ATK 1-0.
• The win gave three crucial points to Bengaluru FC, who are now leading the points table with 18 points from six wins in nine matches.
• Chennaiyin FC and FC Pune City are placed at second and third places respectively with 17 and 16 points.
• Chhetri scored the lone goal in the game in the 39th minute.

CS Santosh finishes at 13thin the 1st stage of Dakar Rally.

• India’s C S Santosh was placed at 13th among the bikers at the end of the first stage of the Dakar Rally.
• His Hero MotoSports Rally teammate Joaquim Rodrigues met with a spectacular crash to end his race.
• Santosh clocked 24 minute 11 seconds to cover the first stage of 30 km. The first stage covered from Lima to Pisco.
• Another 13 stages are remaining in the world’s toughest off-road rally which will end on January 20 in Cordoba of Argentina via Bolivia.
• Santosh used a vastly improved Hero RR 450 bike with the Indian tri-colour imprint on it.
• Joaquim Rodrigues met with a crash midway into the 1st stage.

Obituary News

NASA astronaut John Young dies at 87.

• Astronaut John Young, 87, passed away after contracting pneumonia.
• He was the only astronaut to fly in NASA’s Gemini, Apollo and space shuttle programmes.
• Also, the first to fly into space six times and the first to command a shuttle flight.
• He was one of the only three astronauts to launch to the moon on two occasions and was the ninth person to set foot on the lunar surface.
• Young became the first astronaut to orbit the moon alone. He had also set the record for attaining the highest speed, 38,897 kilometres per hour, by an astronaut aboard a spacecraft.
• In 1962, he set the world “time-to-climb records” to 3,000 and 25,000-meter altitudes onboard the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom.

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