Current Affairs One liner of the Day: 20 January 2017

20 January 2017: Jagranjosh.com provides the one liners of the day to help aspirants of different competitive exams to revise the day at an ease. Today’s one liners cover important happenings like 8th Dantan Gramin Mela 2017, cleanest village in Asia and Karang Island among others.

•    The Pro Wrestling League Season 2 title was won by – Punjab Royals

•    President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 8th Dantan Gramin Mela 2017 in – West Bengal

•    A three-day National Conference of Central and State Ministers and Secretaries of Tourism, Culture and Sports is being organised in – Kutch, Gujarat

•    Union Government released Rs 2207 crore to this State as special assistance for FY 2016-17 – Jammu and Kashmir

•    His named was cleared for being the Director of CBI - Alok Kumar Verma

•    Adama Barrow was recently sworn-in as the President of The Gambia. He is a member of - the United Democratic Party

•    St Petersburg recently launched an official emblem for the 2020 UEFA Euro Cup. The city is located in - Russia

•    Karang, which has become first cashless island of India, is located in - Manipur

•    As per a study published in journal ‘Science Advances,’ 60 per cent of primate species in the world are in danger of - becoming extinct

•    City chosen as the second Capital of Himachal Pradesh recently- Dharamsala

•    Person who won the prestigious The Hindu Prize 2016- Kiran Doshi

•    Person appointed as CEO and MD of Bharti AXA General recently- Sanjeev Srinivasan

•    President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 28th Dantan Gramin Mela -2017 in- West Bengal

•    It is with this country Union Cabinet approved signing of a MoU in the filed of cyber security - Vietnam

•    Country that recently became an associate member of European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)- India

•    Village declared as the cleanest village in Asia - Mawlynnong village