current affairs of January 16th 2017 for IBPS CLERK,PO/MT,SO,SSC CGL,CHSL,MTS

• 'Kiran Doshi',a retired diplomat and educationist from Gujarat,won 'The Hindu Prize 2016' for his work of fiction,'Jinnah often came to our house'.
•  The Housing and Urban Development Corporation(HUDCO) chairman and Managing Director M.Ravikanth told the press that the corporation would soon come up with its Initial Public Offering(IPO) following the centre's decision to divest 10 percent of its stake.
• Economic Affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das asked the global e-tailer Amazon to behave better and must withdraw all products insulting Indian icons and symbols by tendering unconditional apology.
• Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy(CMIE) said that the country's GDP(Gross Domestic Product) would grow at 6 percent for the next five years,post-demonetisation.
• Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages,the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in India is setting up two greenfield units at a cost of Rupees 1,000 crore.
• Amazon India to create over 7,500 temporary jobs in logistics,for its upcoming Great Indian Sale from January 20th-22nd,2017.
• The Securities and Exchange Board of India(SEBI) has tightened the norms for merger of an unlisted company with a listed one.
• The first grand slam of the season,Australian Open to commence from today.The tournament is scheduled to be organized between January 16th-29th,2017.
• India beat England by three wickets in the opening match of the three match ODI series at Pune.Kedar Jadhav named Man-of-the-match for his 120 runs off 76 balls.
• Gujarat clinch their maiden Ranji Trophy title as captain Parthiv Patel(Man-of-the-match) shines with 143 runs.Gujarat beat Mumbai in the final at Indore(Madhya Pradesh).
• A UN(United Nations) study revealed that Electronic Waste is rising sharply across Asia due to increased usage of smartphones and other gadgets.