→ ‘La La Land‘ gets 11 nominations at BAFTA Awards 2017.

→ 13-time gymnastics world champion retires aged 19.

→ 8-year-old Manipur boy breaks limbo skating world record.

→ All MP schools to hold mass Surya Namaskar session on Jan 12.

→ Assam - Digi Dhan mela being held in Guwahati.

→ Banks admit depositing Rs.1 to reduce zero-balance Jan Dhans.

→ BIS revises Indian Standard on gold hallmarking.

→ Centre plans to set up independent railway regulator.

→ China launches 1st commercial space mission with new rocket.

→ Delhi plans underpasses at BRT intersections.

→ Europe‘s first underwater museum opens in Lanzarote.

→ Flipkart‘s Binny Bansal invests in 3D printing startup.

→ Flipkart‘s logistics arm Ekart‘s head quits.

→ Former German president Roman Herzog passes away aged 82.

→ Former wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat’s biography released.

→ Govt panel calls for making DD, AIR corporate entities.

→ Health Ministry to launch Measles-rubella vaccine to roll out in February 2017.

→ IBM becomes first company to get 8,000 US patents in a year.

→ In pictures - Snowboarding big air World Cup in Moscow.

→ India now world‘s 6th largest manufacturing nation - Modi.

→ India, France strengthen 50 years space bond, ink pact for satellite launch.

→ India, Kenya sign agreements in area of agriculture.

→ Jimmy Adams appointed new West Indies director.

→ Journalist who first reported outbreak of WWII dies aged 105.

→ Karan Johar invited to World Economic Forum annual meeting.

→ Maharashtra govt announces Rs.316 cr for ‘ailing‘ cotton mills.

→ Manohar Parrikar inaugurates International Conference & Exhibition on Re-enforced Plastics.

→ Mobile app launched to help locate public toilets in Mumbai.

→ New material 10 times stronger, 20 times lighter than steel.

→ Pankaj Advani wins Kolkata Open National Snooker C‘ship.

→ PM Modi inauguarates Nobel Prize exhibition in Gujarat.

→ Prime Minister of Portugal Antonio Costa arrives in Goa on 2 day state visit.

→ Railway minister launches new IRCTC app to promote digital ticketing.

→ Reliance invested Rs.2.4 lakh crore in Gujarat - Ambani.

→ Reliance Jio beats Airtel to become fastest 4G operator.

→ Shreyas Mehta bags Scottish Jr open squash title.

→ Trump drops announcer who presented last 11 presidents.

→ UK becomes first country to recognise parkour as a sport.

→ USA calls for India, Pakistan & Afghanistan partnership on counter terrorism.

→ Virat Kohli removed as Adidas brand ambassador.

→ WeChat launches apps that work without downloading.

→ World Bank - ‘Effects of demonetisation will disappear in medium term‘.

→ World Cup - FIFA to expand competition to 48 teams.

→ Yana Kudryavtseva, 13-time gymnastics world champion, retires aged 19.