current affairs of January 20th 2017 for IBPS CLERK,PO/MT,SO,SSC CGL,CHSL,MTS EXAMS

• The Bengaluru Bench of the Debt Recovery Tribunal(DRT) allowed a consortium of 15 banks led by the State Bank of India(SBI) to initiate proceedings for recovering dues of 6,203.35 crore INR from Kingfisher Airlines Limited(KAL) and its guarantors Vijay Mallya,United Breweries(Holdings) and Kingfisher Finvest(India) Ltd.
• Alok Kumar Verma has been appointed as the director of the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) succeeding Anil Sinha.Mr Verma is an Indian Police Service(IPS) officer of the 1979 batch and is currently Delhi's Police Commissioner.
• Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi said that the Tamil Nadu government has the power to enact a law to treat 'Jallikattu' as a traditional sport.
• The two-day(January 18th-19th,2017) Digi Dhan Mela organised by National Institution for Transforming India(Niti Aayog) at People's Plaza,Hyderabad concludes.
• Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh announced that 'Dharamsala' would be the second capital of Himachal Pradesh.'Shimla' is the first and the present capital the state.
• The National Investigation Agency(NIA) likely to summon controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik to quiz him on his 78 bank accounts and real estate investments worth 100 crore INR in and around Mumbai.
• The British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has sought Indian assistance in resolving 'Chagos Archipelago' dispute.The Chagos Archipelago is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual islands in the Indian Ocean.
• Nandan Nilekani,ex-chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India(UIDAI) hopeful of significant push towards digital transactions,with technologies like BHIM(Bharat Interface for Money).Retired IAS officer J Satyanarayana is the present chairman of the UIDAI headquartered in New Delhi.
• The Centre has so far awarded 60.9 crore INR as prize money under two lucky draw schemes 'Lucky Grahak Yojana' and 'Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana'.These schemes were announced to boost digital payments post demonetisation.