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1. Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi has been appointed as the new chief of the country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF.
2. One of India’s most wanted terrorist, Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda, accused of masterminding over 40 bombings in the country, has been arrested by Delhi police from the Indo-Nepal border after he was apparently deported from one of the Gulf countries.
3. For the first time, the Election Commission or EC would be using the paper trail system along with the Electronic Voting Machines in the Nagaland by-election scheduled to be held on September 4.
The system, called the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail system (VVPAT), will accompany the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM).
4. An Indian-American professor of biological and agricultural engineering has been recognised for lifetime achievement by a top US environmental and water resources institute.
5. D.Bala Venkatesh Varma on 26 July 2013 was appointed as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.Bala Venkatesh Verma is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1988 batch.
6. A local court of UP on Saturday directed the police to register a case against social activist Anna Hazare for allegedly showing disrespect to the National Flag during his visit here on July 29.
7. M Kavita Devi and T Lalchhanhima opened India’s medal account in the 2nd Asian Youth Games with a bronze medal each in girl’s judo and boy’s weightlifting respectively on the first day of the competition in Nanjing, China on Saturday.
8. Iran continues to detain Indian tanker citing environment concerns for the sixth day on Saturday even as the two countries are involved in hectic negotiations to resolve the issue. MT Desh Shanti, the tanker belonging to the country’s largest ocean liner Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), was apprehended on 12th August in Persian Gulf by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and taken to Bandar Abbas port while carrying crude from Bashra in Iraq. India, through its mission in Tehran, is engaged in hectic negotiations for release of the tanker, the Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said here.
9. Yahoo Inc said it appointed veteran technology executive and Silicon Valley investor Maynard Webb as chairman, replacing Fred Amoroso at the company, which is struggling to jumpstart its advertising business.
10. India may not be short of foreign exchange to cover its import bill but the falling rupee and fears of FIIs withdrawing some of their investments in the country have put a spotlight on the reserves. From an import cover of over 17 months a decade ago, India now has reserves of around $279 billion, sufficient to fund imports of just under seven months. In contrast, the BRIC peers — China, Russia and Brazil — have reserves to cover imports for one-and-a-half to two years. Compared to some of its Asian countries, such as South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia, the situation in India would appear to be under control. But, economists are quick to point out that barring Indonesia, all other economies with similar import covers have a surplus on the current account, while India reported a record deficit of 4.8% of GDP in 2012-13.
1. Senior IPS officer Dilip Trivedi has been appointed as the new chief of the country’s largest paramilitary force CRPF.
2. One of India’s most wanted terrorist, Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda, accused of masterminding over 40 bombings in the country, has been arrested by Delhi police from the Indo-Nepal border after he was apparently deported from one of the Gulf countries.
3. For the first time, the Election Commission or EC would be using the paper trail system along with the Electronic Voting Machines in the Nagaland by-election scheduled to be held on September 4.
The system, called the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail system (VVPAT), will accompany the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM).
4. An Indian-American professor of biological and agricultural engineering has been recognised for lifetime achievement by a top US environmental and water resources institute.
5. D.Bala Venkatesh Varma on 26 July 2013 was appointed as the next Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the UN Conference on Disarmament, Geneva.Bala Venkatesh Verma is an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1988 batch.
6. A local court of UP on Saturday directed the police to register a case against social activist Anna Hazare for allegedly showing disrespect to the National Flag during his visit here on July 29.
7. M Kavita Devi and T Lalchhanhima opened India’s medal account in the 2nd Asian Youth Games with a bronze medal each in girl’s judo and boy’s weightlifting respectively on the first day of the competition in Nanjing, China on Saturday.
8. Iran continues to detain Indian tanker citing environment concerns for the sixth day on Saturday even as the two countries are involved in hectic negotiations to resolve the issue. MT Desh Shanti, the tanker belonging to the country’s largest ocean liner Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), was apprehended on 12th August in Persian Gulf by Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and taken to Bandar Abbas port while carrying crude from Bashra in Iraq. India, through its mission in Tehran, is engaged in hectic negotiations for release of the tanker, the Spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs said here.
9. Yahoo Inc said it appointed veteran technology executive and Silicon Valley investor Maynard Webb as chairman, replacing Fred Amoroso at the company, which is struggling to jumpstart its advertising business.
10. India may not be short of foreign exchange to cover its import bill but the falling rupee and fears of FIIs withdrawing some of their investments in the country have put a spotlight on the reserves. From an import cover of over 17 months a decade ago, India now has reserves of around $279 billion, sufficient to fund imports of just under seven months. In contrast, the BRIC peers — China, Russia and Brazil — have reserves to cover imports for one-and-a-half to two years. Compared to some of its Asian countries, such as South Korea, Malaysia and Indonesia, the situation in India would appear to be under control. But, economists are quick to point out that barring Indonesia, all other economies with similar import covers have a surplus on the current account, while India reported a record deficit of 4.8% of GDP in 2012-13.
