- BJP and PDP agreed on forming the government in Jammu and Kashmir, both the parties confirmed that the two have finalized the deal.
- Sources said the status quo is likely to continue on Article 370 and there will be no re-looking on the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act as of now.
- PDP will have chief minister's post for full term and BJP deputy chief minister's post which is expected to be given to state BJP leader Nirmal Singh.
- PDP, has 28 MLAs and BJP has 25 MLAs after results for the state Assembly were declared on December 23.
- Tributes poured in for veteran Communist leader Govind Pansare who succumbed to bullet injuries.
- All the leaders from around the country condemned this cowardly act and shown condolences to the social worker.
- For the first time, two women are part of the Sarang team of the Indian Air Force, a show-stopping helicopter-formation team that is performing at the Aero India show.
- In a major policy shift in 2010, the IAF allowed women pilots to fly twin-engine medium to heavy-lift helicopters.
- Deepika Misra is the Squadron Leader and Sandeep Singh an engineering officer, is the Flight Lieutenant.
4. State Bank of India to finance small tea growers in NE
- State Bank of India(SBI) will provide finance totaling Rs 100 crore benefiting 3,000 small tea growers in the North East.
- Finance will be provided to tea growers who have proper basic documents of their existing garden as per Tea Board of India norms.
- The benefit is not only for Assam, but also for new tea garden growing states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Meghalaya which will also be covered under a similar scheme .
- Eminent scientist Tapan Misra has been appointed the Chief of ISRO’s Space Applications Centre (SAC), Ahmedabad Gujarat.
- He will succeed A S Kiran Kumar, who was appointed as the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in January 2015.
- He was awarded Hari Om Ashram Prerit Vikram Sarabhai research Award (2004), ISRO Merit award (2008), Sir JC Bose National Talent Search (JBNSTS) Scholarship (1981).
- He has 2 granted patents, 6 pending patents, 5 copyrights and many research papers to his credit.
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