Cyrus Mistry won the DSC prize 2014 for South Asian literature for his book Chronicles

of a Corpse
Bearer on 18 January 2014. Mistry was awarded with a cash price of 50000 dollars at Jaipur
International Literature Festival 2014.

India on 20 January 2014 test-fired nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Agni-IV missile with a range of
4000 kilometers from Wheeler Island in Dhamra of Odisha Coast. The

Netherlands on 19 January 2014 won the Hero Hockey World League Final by defeating New Zealand
7-2 in New Delhi

The four-member women fencing team from India was barred from competing in the Qatar Fencing
World Cup in Doha on 17 January 2014

Peshawar in Pakistan had the largest number of polio cases in the world in 2013. This was revealed
by World Health Organisation (WHO) in a global analysis for polio cases on 17 January 2014.

Hery Rajaonarimampianina, a former Finance Minister of Madagascar on 17 January 2014 was
declared as the new President of the nation

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed the foreign investors to buy the shares of South Indian
Bank. The permission has been given as the foreign shareholding in the bank has gone below the
prescribed limit that is stipulated under the extant FDI policy.