Daily Current Affairs of 29th January 2019
International Current Affairs
- The United States and Taliban agreed in principle to the framework of a peace deal that seeks to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan.
- A Pakistani delegation arrived in Jammu today to visit the Chenab river basin in Jammu and Kashmir for inspection.
- The Pakistan delegation is led by Pakistan's Indus Commissioner Syed Mohammad Mehar Ali Shah while Indian Indus Commissioner Pradeep Kumar Saxena is leading the Indian delegation.
- Note : Under the Indus Waters Treaty 1960 between India and Pakistan both the commissioners are mandated to inspect sites and works on both the sides of Indus basin in a block of five years.
National Current Affairs
- The Swasth Bharat Yatra, the world’s biggest cyclothon to push people to eat right, culminated in New Delhi today.
- The campaign was flagged-off on 16th October last year on the occasion of World Food Day.
- The yatra began from six different locations - Leh, Panaji, Thiruvananthapuram, Puducherry, Kolkata and Agartala on six different tracks in which more than ten thousand volunteer cyclists covered over twenty thousand kilometres spreading the message of ‘Eat Safe, Eat Healthy and Eat Fortified.