(Y) :) ~*~ Top Current Affairs of 17th January 2014 ~*~ :) (Y) ********************************************** 1. Legendary Bengali actress Suchitra Sen passed away at the age of 82 on Friday, January 17, 2014. 2. India and South Korea sign nine agreements in different areas including trade and commerce. 3. Indian Coast Guard and Sri Lankan Coast Guard have started repatriation of Tamil and Lankan fishermen. 4. ONGCs second unit of gas-fired thermal power project at Palatana in Tripura will be operational in June this year, a top company executive said. 5. Noted Indian-American economist Adhip Chaudhuri, who recently retired from a prestigious US university has died, his family said. 6. The World Bank has approved $410 million to improve municipal governance and basic urban services in district towns and municipalities in Bangladesh, which will benefit 3.4 million people. 8. US President Barack Obama has declared 2014 as a year of action to accomplish his key administrative goals and said that he would continue to use his executive authority — his pen and phone — to get things done. 9. Union minister Shashi Tharoors wife Sunanda Pushkar was found dead in a Delhi hotel late on Friday 10. Eminent social anthropologist Gerald D Berreman, widely recognised for championing socially- responsible anthropology and for his pioneering work on social inequality in India, has died. ******************************************* (Y) ~*~ Share with Everyone - IBPS Examination ~*~ (Y)
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