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1. Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland has been listed among 13 novels longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013.
2. Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the widest US global surveillance operations, was on 25 July 2013 awarded German Whistleblower Prize 2013 worth 3900 Dollars in absentia.
3. The Mission Directorate of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) program has been shifted to the Ministry of finance to fastrack rollout of government benefits and subsidies directly to the bank accounts of beneficiaries.
4. India and Saudi Arabia have decided to set up a “Saudi-India Business Network (SIBN)” separately in Riyadh and Dammam.
5. Assange launches political party in Australia. The WikiLeaks Party will field seven candidates, including Assange, for the upper house Senate seats in the federal election.
6. India held on to their third spot after the annual update of the ICC Twenty20 Rankings was announced on Thursday.
7. Delhi will be the first state in the country to launch the food security scheme, dubbed a ‘game changer’ by Congress for the Lok Sabha polls next year.
8. India is in talks to export natural gas to Pakistan through a pipeline from Punjab to help the country overcome crippling energy shortage. State gas utility GAIL has proposed to lay a 110-km pipeline from Jalandhar to Wagah border via Amritsar to supply natural gas to Pakistan, company Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi told reporters here.
9. India’s leading realty firm DLF on Thursday announced that it had decided to exit the life insurance business, selling 74 per cent stake in its joint venture — DLF Pramerica Life Insurance — to Dewan Housing Finance, for around Rs. 350 crore.
10. Red Bull veteran Mark Webber says his decision retire from Formula One at the end of the season was the ‘perfect timing’ for him. The Australian, who made his F1 debut with Minardi Racing team in 2002, will be joining sports car manufacturer Porsche next season.
1. Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland has been listed among 13 novels longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013.
2. Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who exposed the widest US global surveillance operations, was on 25 July 2013 awarded German Whistleblower Prize 2013 worth 3900 Dollars in absentia.
3. The Mission Directorate of Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) program has been shifted to the Ministry of finance to fastrack rollout of government benefits and subsidies directly to the bank accounts of beneficiaries.
4. India and Saudi Arabia have decided to set up a “Saudi-India Business Network (SIBN)” separately in Riyadh and Dammam.
5. Assange launches political party in Australia. The WikiLeaks Party will field seven candidates, including Assange, for the upper house Senate seats in the federal election.
6. India held on to their third spot after the annual update of the ICC Twenty20 Rankings was announced on Thursday.
7. Delhi will be the first state in the country to launch the food security scheme, dubbed a ‘game changer’ by Congress for the Lok Sabha polls next year.
8. India is in talks to export natural gas to Pakistan through a pipeline from Punjab to help the country overcome crippling energy shortage. State gas utility GAIL has proposed to lay a 110-km pipeline from Jalandhar to Wagah border via Amritsar to supply natural gas to Pakistan, company Chairman and Managing Director B C Tripathi told reporters here.
9. India’s leading realty firm DLF on Thursday announced that it had decided to exit the life insurance business, selling 74 per cent stake in its joint venture — DLF Pramerica Life Insurance — to Dewan Housing Finance, for around Rs. 350 crore.
10. Red Bull veteran Mark Webber says his decision retire from Formula One at the end of the season was the ‘perfect timing’ for him. The Australian, who made his F1 debut with Minardi Racing team in 2002, will be joining sports car manufacturer Porsche next season.
