🎯 TODAY'S HEADLINES - 9 JAN 2018

🎯 TODAY'S HEADLINES

🔸PM Modi Inaugurates 1st PIO Parliamentary Conference in Delhi

🔹India’s 1st Multi-Petaflop Supercomputer ‘Pratyush’ Dedicated to Nation

🔸In a First, Delhi Government Launches Common Card for Bus & Metro Rides

🔹Indian Railways Launches Transparent and Efficient “New Online Vendor Registration System”

🔸World’s Largest Ice Festival Held in China

🔹A R Rahman Becomes Sikkim’s Brand Ambassador

🔸Direct Tax Collections for FY 2017-18 Show Growth of 18.2% up to December, 2017

🔹Gujarat Tops Logistics Performance Index Chart: Report

🔸World Champion Powerlifter Saksham Yadav Passes Away

🔹Shri Ananthkumar inaugurates 18th All India Whips’ Conference at Udaipur, Rajasthan

🔸Defence innovation centre to come up in Coimbatore

🔹Iran bans English from being taught in primary schools

🔸PNB ties up with NSFDC for assisting SC families

🔹NPCI appoints Dilip Asbe as new MD and CEO

🔸Akshay Kumar roped in by BMC for Swachh Survekshan 2018

🔹CM Nitish receives Mufti Mohammad Sayeed award in J&K

🔸India’s first all-women station in Mumbai enters Limca records

🔹Senior sports journalist Shashikant Bhagwat passes away

🔸Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) observed annually on 9 January

🔹Government cancels Rs.32,000-crore Make in India warship project:

🔸Amarinder Singh launches farm debt waiver scheme:

🔹Bihar government bans electronic cigarettes in state:

🔸BCCI suspends Yusuf Pathan for five months on doping violation

🔹Bengali actor Soumitra Chattopadhyay to be conferred French honor