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1. The UPA Coordination Committee favours
creation of a seperate
State of Telangana. The
crucial decision comes ahead of the Congress Working Committee which is in
session to take a final call on the issue.
2. The Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep all the
key rates unchanged in its first quarter monetary policy review for 2013-2014
today.
Interest Rates are as Follows:
1. The repo rate was kept unchanged at 7.25
percent.
2. Reverse repo remains at 6.25 percent.
3. Cash reserve ratio unchanged at 4.00
percent
4. Keeps Marginal Standing Facility rate at
10.25 percent.
5. Bank rate stands at 10.25 percent.
6. SLR – 23%
3. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan will
be honoured with the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award for promotion
of communal harmony peace and goodwill.
4. India-born Pakistani businessman Mamnoon
Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has been elected as the
12th President of Pakistanafter he trounced his lone opponent in a one-sided
contest.
5. Indian multinational oil and gas
company, Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has signed an agreement to explore
hiring Reliance Industries’ unutilised production facilities on the east to
quickly bring to production its gas finds in the Krishna Godavari basin.
6. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have
resumed long-stalled peace talks with US asking both sides to make the
compromises to reach a long lasting deal.
7. Bombay High Court held as “illegal and
unconstitutional” the two-member probe panel set up by BCCI to look into
spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL tournament.
8. Taliban militants have freed 248
prisoners in an assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan . Militants armed with
automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and bombs blasted down
the walls of the jail in the town of Dera
Ismail Khan and streamed inside.
9. “Metro Man” E. Sreedharan has been
selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013 for his outstanding
contribution to society.
10. Astrophysicists from the Irkutsk State University
here have begun the construction of the world’s largest gamma-ray telescope
Tunka-HiSCORE. The telescope will be constructed in Tunka
Valley in Buryatia, close to Russia ’s border with Mongolia .
