*CURRENT AFFAIRS (17-01-2015)

1).Indian men football team got Stephen Constantine as head coach

2).13th Parsvanth International Grandmasters Chess Tournament title
won by Andrey Baryshpolets

3).Book on Sonia Gandhi, The Red Sari written by Javier Moro released

4).Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands lifted women doubles title of
Sydney International

5).Deep Kumar Upadhyay appointed as Nepal's ambassador to India

6).Mark Knowles (In Men) and Ellen Hoog (In Women) named FIH Player of
the year 2014

7).Sydney International Tennis tournament 2015 title lifted by Petra Kvitova

8).Anupam Shrivastava appointed as CMD of BSNL

9).Bhakti Sharma sets world record in Antarctic Ocean by swimming 1.4
miles in 52 minutes

10).Sahitya Akademi Award 2014 for Sanskrit bagged by Prabhu Nath Dwivedi