Current Affairs 25th January 2015

Current Affairs 25th January 2015

Updated : 26-Jan-2015

Current Affairs 25th January 2015 - Important Points
Current Affairs 25th January 2015 - Details
Padma Awards Announced, which two personalities politely declined it - Ramdev and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
On 25th January 2015, President of India Pranab Mukherjee approved the conferment of Padma Awards to 104 person this year, awardees comprises of 9 Padma Vibhushan, 20 Padma Bhushan and 75 Padma Shri. A day before Padma awards were to be officially announced Yoga guru Ramdev and Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar politely declined to receive the honours.

Following is the full list :
Padma Vibhushan Awards
- Shri LK Advani (Public Affairs)
- Shri Amitabh Bachchan (Art)
- Shri Prakash Singh Badal (Public Affairs)
- Dr. D. Veerendra Heggade (Social Work)
- Shri Mohammad Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar (Art)
- Shri Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Swami Rambhadracharya (Others)
- Prof. Malur Ramaswamy Srinivasan (Science and Engineering)
- Shri Kottayan K. Venugopal (Public Affairs)
- Shri Karim Al Hussaini Aga Khan - Foreigner - (Trade and Industry)
Padma Bhushan Awards
- Shri Jahnu Barua (Art)
- Dr. Vijay Bhatkar (Science and Engineering)
- Shri Swapan Dasgupta (Literature and Education)
- Swami Satyamitranand Giri (Others)
- Shri N. Gopalaswami (Civil Service)
- Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap (Public Affairs)
- Dr. Gokulotsavji Maharaj (Art)
- Dr. Ambrish Mithal (Medicine)
- Smt. Sudha Ragunathan (Art)
- Shri Harish Salve (Public Affairs)
- Dr. Ashok Seth (Medicine)
- Shri Rajat Sharma (Literature and Education)
- Shri Satpal (Sports)
- Shri Shivakumara Swami (Others)
- Dr. Kharag Singh Valdiya (Science and Engineering)
- Prof. Manjul Bhargava - NRI/PIO - (Science and Engineering)
- Shri David Frawley (Vamadeva) - Foreigner - (Others)
- Shri Bill Gates - Foreigner - (Social Work)
- Ms. Melinda Gates - Foreigner - (Social Work)
- Shri Saichiro Misumi - Foreigner - (Others)
Padma Shri Awards
- Dr. Manjula Anagani (Medicine)
- Shri S. Arunan (Science and Engineering)
- Ms. Kanyakumari Avasarala (Art)
- Dr. Bettina Sharada Baumer (Literature and Education)
- Shri Naresh Bedi (Art)
- Shri Ashok Bhagat (Social Work)
- Shri Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Art)
- Dr. Lakshmi Nandan Bora (Literature and Education)
- Dr. Gyan Chaturvedi (Literature and Education)
- Prof. (Dr.) Yogesh Kumar Chawla (Medicine)
- Smt. Jayakumari Chikkala (Medicine)
- Shri Bibek Debroy (Literature and Education)
- Dr. Sarungbam Bimola Kumari Devi (Medicine)
- Dr. Ashok Gulati (Public Affairs)
- Dr. Randeep Guleria (Medicine)
- Dr. K. P. Haridas (Medicine)
- Shri Rahul Jain (Art)
- Shri Ravindra Jain (Art)
- Dr. Sunil Jogi (Literature and Education)
- Shri Prasoon Joshi (Art)
- Dr. Prafulla Kar (Art)
- Ms. Saba Anjum (Sports)
- Smt. Ushakiran Khan (Literature and Education)
- Dr. Rajesh Kotecha (Medicine)
- Prof. Alka Kriplani (Medicine)
- Dr. Harsh Kumar (Medicine)
- Shri Narayana Purushothama Mallaya (Literature and Education)
- Shri Lambert Mascarenhas (Literature and Education)
- Dr. Janak Palta McGilligan (Social Work)
- Shri Veerendra Raj Mehta (Social Work)
- Shri Tarak Mehta (Art)
- Shri Neil Herbert Nongkynrih (Art)
- Shri Chewang Norphel (Others)
- Shri T. V. Mohandas Pai (Trade and Industry)
- Dr.Tejas Patel (Medicine)
- Shri Jadav Molai Peyang (Others)
- Smt. Bimla Poddar (Other)
- Dr. N. Prabhakar (Science and Engineering)
- Dr. Prahalada (Science and Engineering)
- Dr. Narendra Prasad (Medicine)
- Shri Ram Bahadur Rai (Literature and Education)
- Ms. Mithali Raj (Sports)
- Shri P. V. Rajaraman (Civil Service)
- Prof. J. S. Rajput (Literature and Education)
- Shri Kota Srinivasa Rao (Art)
- Prof. Bimal Roy (Literature and Education)
- Shri Shekhar Sen (Art)
- Shri Gunvant Shah (Literature and Education)
- Shri Brahmdev Sharma - Bhaiji - (Literature and Education)
- Shri Manu Sharma (Literature and Education)
- Prof. Yog Raj Sharma (Medicine)
- Shri Vasant Shastri (Science and Engineering)
- Shri S. K. Shivkumar (Science and Engineering)
- Ms. P. V. Sindhu (Sports)
- Shri Sardara Singh (Sports)
- Ms. Arunima Sinha (Sports)
- Shri Mahesh Raj Soni (Art)
- Dr.Nikhil Tandon (Medicine)
- Shri H. Thegtse Rinpoche (Social Work)
- Dr.Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi (Medicine)
- Shri Huang Baosheng - Foreigner (Others)
- Prof. Jacques Blamont - Foreigner (Science and Engineering)
- Late Shri Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin (Posthumous) (Others)
- Shri Jean-Claude Carriere - Foreigner (Literature and Education)
- Dr. Nandrajan “Raj” Chetty - NRI/PIO (Trade and Industry)
- Shri George L. Hart - Foreigner (Others)
- Jagat Guru Amrta Suryananda Maha Raja - NRI/PIO (Others)
- Late Shri Meetha Lal Mehta (Posthumous) (Social Work)
- Ms. Tripti Mukherjee - NRI/PIO (Art)
- Dr. Dattatreyudu Nori - NRI/PIO (Medicine)
- Dr. Raghu Rama Pillarisetti - NRI/PIO (Medicine)
- Dr. Saumitra Rawat - NRI/PIO (Medicine)
- Prof. Annette Schmiedchen - Foreigner (Literature and Education)
- Late Shri Pran Kumar Sharma alias Pran (Posthumous) (Art)
- Late Shri R. Vasudevan (Posthumous) (Civil Service)
RBI lifted ban on carrying 1000 & 500 bank notes to which two countries - Nepal and Bhutan
Among Important Banking Current Affairs, On 24th January 2015, Reserve Bank of India lifted ban on carrying Indian bank notes of Rs 1000 and 500 denominations to and from Nepal and Bhutan. Earlier it was restricted to export and import these bank notes for Nepal and Bhutan.
But it is important to mention here that one person can carry Rs 25000 of such notes only.
It has been done to help the workers from both nations as well as Indian tourists travelling to Nepal and Bhutan.
US President Barack Obama on three day visit to India
On 25th January 2015, United States President Barack Obama arrived in New Delhi to begin his three day visit to India. PM Narendra Modi himself received him at Palam airport. US President Barack Obama was also accompanied with First Lady Michelle Obama and a delegation.
US President will be the chief guest at Republic Day parade as earlier Indian PM invited him to be chief guest at this important occasion.
Do You Know :
United States President Barack Obama is the first US President to be in India twice while in office.
He is also the first US president present at Republic Day parade as a chief guest.