04th January 2019 One Liners Current Affairs (English)

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1. Parliament has Passed Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education bill
• Aim- To abolish the “no-detention” policy in schools.

2. HRD Ministry constitutes a task force to look into suicides of JNV students
• It will be headed by Psychiatrist, Dr. Jitendra Nagpal.

3. Trump signed the ‘Asia Reassurance Initiative Act’ (ARIA) into law.
• Date- 04-01-2019

4. Panj Tirath site declared as National Heritage by Pakistan

5. Turkmenistan launches first messaging app ‘BizBarde’

6. V K Yadav takes charge as Chairman, Railway Board
• Yadav succeeds Ashwani Lohani

7. World Braille Day observed on 4 January
• Aim- To raise awareness about Braille System

8. Telescope to detect cosmic X-rays launched
• Name- ‘X-Calibur’

9. Veteran Bengali Writer Dibyendu Palit Passed Away
• Date- 04-01-2019
• Conferred with Sahitya Akademi for ‘Anubhab’

10. East Siang Dist. of A.p achieves 100% electrification

11. Arunima Sinha Becomes First woman Amputee to climbs Mount Vinson
• Also, first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest in 2013

12. Syndicate Bank and SBI Life Insurance Signed Bancassurance Pact