21.01.2007

• EC removes Punjab Police Chief
• The Election Commission has directed the Punjab government to remove the DGP, Mr. S.S. Virk from all election-related duties and appointed R.S. Gill from a panel of three names sent to it by the State.
• This follows complaints about the concessions that were given to a family business venture of his brother.
• India, China and Russia trilateral talks
• These talks are set to enter into more substantive phase than earlier. The first ever summit of the three took place in July 2006 at St. Petersburg on the sidelines of the G-8 summit.
• PoK Prime Minister
• Attique Khan
• IICT (Indian Institute of Chemical Technology)
• Director: J. S. Yadav
• NIN (National Institute of Nutrition)
• Director: B. Sesikeran
• Snippets about Lord Ayyappa temple
• It is customary for the temple to be closed after holy darshan by the royal representative of the Pandalam Palace.
• Uranium mines of India
• Jaduguda Mines of Jharkhand. The first uranium mines of the country, which started production in 1967.
• Bhatin Mine. This is just 5 km away from Jaduguda Mines.
• Narwapahar Mine. This was commissioned in 1995.
• Turamdih Mine: Located 5 KM away from the Tatanagar Railway station, this was commissioned in 2002.
• ‘Holocaust Day’
• Kashmiri Pandits observe January 20^th as ‘Holocaust Day’. They have been doing so for the past 17 years to mark the exodus of Pandits on the night of January 19, 1990.
• Myanmar’s capital
• Naypyitaw, meaning royal palace, is the new capital of Myanmar. This was declared the capital on March 27, 2006.
• The capital was shifted from Yangon to Naypyitaw.
• Turkey’s history
• Hrant Dink, an Armenian community leader and journalist was shot dead recently. This killing is believed to have resulted from his describing the mass killings of Armenians at the beginning of the 20^th century as genocide.
• Turkey’s relationship with its minority Armenian community has long been fraught with tension, controversy and painful memories of a brutal past. Much of Turkey’s once sizeable Armenian population was killed or driven out beginning around 1915 in what is recognized as the first genocide of the 20^th century.
• The Prime Minister of Turkey Racep Tayyip Erdogan has promised a speedy investigation into the murder.
• Personalities related to Palestinian issue
• Mahmoud Abbas: President of Palestine
• Bashar al-Assad: Syrian President
• Khaled Meshaal: Chief of Hamas, a key Palestinian militant group
• Something about LTTE
• 2002: Norway brokers a ceasefire agreement between Sri Lankan government and the LTTE.
• 2004: ‘Colonel’ Karuna breaks ties with the LTTE.
• Jungle woman
• A woman who was found naked, grunting, and walking like a wild animal near the Combodian village of Oyadao.
• World’s oldest woman dies and passes on her legacy
• 115 year old Canadian Julie Winnifred Bertrand was the oldest woman. She died on Thursday.
• Emma Faust Tillman, became the oldest woman now. She is was born on 22.11.1892. She is 114 years old now.