*CURRENT AFFAIRS (05-01-2015)

1).World Tennis Championship title in Abu Dhabi bagged by Andy Murray

2).International Hindi Conference to be held in New Jersey in April 2015

3).LED-based Home and Street Lighting National Programme launched by PM

4).Director General of SAI Jiji Thomson resigned

5).Sutirtha Bhattacharya took charge as CMD of Coal India Limited

6).Arvind Panagariya appointed as the first Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog

7).Sports Ministry recommends Saina Nehwal's name for Padma Bhushan

8).Edward Brooke, first black elected to U.S. Senate, dies

9).Project LettuceOnMars: To grow lettuce on Mars in 2018

10).Jiaolong, the Chinese deep sea submersible, began exploration in
Indian Ocean