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	NEWS HEAD_LINE	DETAILS OF THE NEWS	TRICK TO REMEMBER
1	Mori in Andhra Pradesh gets Smart Digital village tag	Mori, a tiny village under Sakhinetipalli mandal in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh has sealed its place on India's digital map by transforming completely into a Smart Digital Village, in every sense of the term.All the 1189 households in the village with a population of 4500	Mori-andhra-smart digital village
2	British-Indian Professor Shankar Balasubramanian Receives Knighthood	Indian- origin British professor of chemistry and DNA expert at Cambridge University, has received a Knighthood along with Olympic stars Andy Murray and Mo Farah among others by Queen Elizabeth II for their contributions.	Balasubramanian Receives Knighthood
3	NRIs can exchange defunct notes up to June 30: RBI	Resident Indian citizens who were abroad from November 9th to December 30th can avail this facility up to March 31st, 2017 and NRI citizens, who were abroad during this period, can exchange their defunct notes up to June 30th, 2017.	NRIs imp dates-march 31,june 30
4	Sikkim became India’s first fully organic state in 2016	Sikkim has emerged as the India’s first fully organic state by converting around 75,000 hectares of agricultural land into sustainable cultivation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally certified Fully Organic State Status to Sikkim at a sustainable agriculture conference in Gangtok earlier in 2016.	sikkim-fully organic state
5	State Bank of India cuts lending rate by 90 bps	The new interest rate for other tenures including one month, three months and six months has been reduced by 0.9 per cent	SBI-CUTS LENDING RATE
6	Justice Mian Saqib Nisar appointed as Chief Justice of Pak	Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has taken oath as the 25th Chief Justice of Pakistan. The oath was administered by the country's President Mamnoon Hussain at the President House. The event was attended by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and other dignitaries.	MIAN SAQIB NISAR - CHIEF JUSTICE OF PAK
7	India successfully test-fires intercontinental ballistic missile Agni-IV	home-grown long range intercontinental surface-to-surface nuclear capable ballistic missile Agni-IV from the Abdul Kalam Wheeler Island off Odisha coast. Agni-IV is a two-stage, surface-to-surface missile that is 20 metres long and weighs 17 tonnes. It can carry a one-tonne nuclear warhead over a distance of 4,000 kilometres.	Agni-Iv -- India's intercontinental missile
8	Bharatiya Jananpith announces Navlekhan award 2016	The decision to confer the award on Shraddha for her short story, ' Hawa Mein Phadphadati Chitthi' and on Devansh for his poem 'Akash Mein Deh' was taken unanimously by a selection panel chaired by eminent poet Vishnu Nagar.	Navlekhan award - to confer Shradda
9	World famous 11-day gala festival Bargarh Dhanua Jatra to begin	All rituals were performed before Goddess Samaleswari, the presiding deity of the event.	Bargarh Dhanua - odhisha-2nd jan
10	Sivalingam Sathish Kumar of Railways clinches gold for sixth time	Rio Olympian Sathish Sivalingam from Railways won the gold, for the sixth consecutive year, in the men's 77 kg category in the 69th men's and 32nd women's Senior National Weightlifting Championship, at the Ponjesly College of Engineering.	sivalingam satish kumar - weightlifter