NEWS 10-01-2018. NEWS FOR 12-JAN (FRIDAY) 1. Maldives after two 2 months of diplomatic tussle has finally agreed to reach out to India by sending its foreign minister. This comes after Yameen government signed Free trade Agreement with China. 2. Supreme Court has passed judgement that it is no longer mandatory for cinema halls to play the national anthem before screening a film. 3. As per new data released by RBI, agriculture Non-Performing Assets (NPA) rose 23 per cent from Rs. 48,000 crore in 2016 to Rs. 60,200 crore in 2017. 4. World Bank has projected India’s GDP growth rate at 7.3 per cent for 2018 and 7.5 per cent for the next two years. 5. Central government has sanctioned the raising of a Territorial Army (TA) battalion comprising of ex-servicemen to clean Ganga by 2020. 6. Aanchal Thakur became first Indian to win an international medal in Skiing in Erzurum, Turkey. 7. As per latest reports, there were 415 transgressions by Chinese soldiers into Indian side of the LAC in 2017. < < Back