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Awards:
1) Order of Canada Award : Scientist Venkatesh Mannar .
2) 58th Idea Filmfare Awards:
a) Best Actor was given
to Ranbir Kapoor for Barfi.
b) Best Actress was given to Vidya Balan, for Kahaani.
c) Best Film award : Barfi.
3) 70th Golden Globe Awards:
a) Best Picture - Drama
: Argo.
b) Best Picture - Musical
or Comedy : Les Miserables.
c) Best actor -
Drama: Daniel Day-Lewis (lincoln).
d) Best actress - Drama:
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty).
e) Best actor -
Musical or Comedy: Hugh Jackman (Les Misérables).
f) Best actress -
Musical or Comedy: Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings Playbook).
Miscellaneous:
1) The Reserve Bank of India slashed its key interest rates
by 0.25 per cent and released 18000 crore liquidity into the system. RBI cut short-term
lending rate called repo, by 0.25 per cent to 7.75 per cent and Cash Reserve
Ratio (CRR) to 4 per cent.
2) The three-day 11th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) held in
Kochi in January 2013.
3) The implementation of General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR)
was deferred by two years. It will now come into force from 1 April 2016.
4) The Election Commission (EC) of India announced Saina Nehwal
and Mary Kom as the National Icons to promote, voter participation in India.
5) International Monetary Fund (IMF) updates World Economic
Outlook (WEO) in January 2013, projected that the global economic growth rate
would be 3.5 percent in 2013.
6) Kamal Nath, the Union Minister for Urban Development and
Parliamentary Affairs, elected as a leader of Indian delegation for annual
meetings for World Economic Forum 2013.
