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The former Pakistan cricket team captain, Javed Miandad, has cancelled his visit to Delhi to watch the last one-day match in the ongoing series. 30. Mr. Purryag is on a week-long visit to India for attending Pravasi Bharatiya Divas sammelan held in Kochi. 31. Wei Wei will be next new Ambassador of China to India. Mr. Wei replaces Zhang Yan. 32. After the success of the Pinaka multiple rocket launcher, ordnance factories are now developing two more of its variants. 33. The mission to Mars would take place as scheduled in October 22. Mission would be launched with the help of ISROs workhorse PSLV XL. 34. IRDA is likely to come up with Bancassurance guidelines by the first week of February. 35. Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has cancelled the visit of a parliamentary delegation led by her to Namibia to attend a Commonwealth Speakers conference during January 10-13. 36. Noted Bengali actor Haradhan Bandopadhyay passed away in a hospital after a brief illness. 37. A national cooperative fair started in Jaipur on January 17. 38. Justice B.N. Srikrishna committee For Creation of Telangana State. 39. Work on the worlds largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir by the end of this year. 40. Centre has effected a five per cent cut in the Rs.1.93-lakh-crore defence budget for this financial year. The cut is estimated to be around Rs.10,000 crore, Defence Ministry sources said. 41. Former diplomat, artist, writer and freedom fighter, Madanjeet Singh, a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 2000, passed away in Beaulieu sur Mer in France. 42. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will lay the foundation stone for the integrated refinery expansion and modernisation projects of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. in Kochi. It will be largest public sector refinery in India. 43. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) withdrew support to the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led coalition government, reducing it to a minority in the State Assembly. Chief Minister Arjun Munda submitting his resignation to Governor Syed Ahmed. 44. Justice D.K. Jain has been appointed Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India. 45. The government is planning a single, toll-free helpline number across India to help women in distress.