Sarkar Naukri Job Now - Top 10 Current Affairs 15 June 2013:::
1. A summit meeting of G-8 countries in Northern Ireland next week would discuss the issue of “tax avoidance” by companies in this increasingly globalised economy, a White House official has said.
2. In Washington, Deborah K. Jones has just been sworn in as the next Ambassador to Libya at a ceremony in the presence of US Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, the Ambassador of Libya, Ali Aujali and the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman, Hunaina al-Mughairi.
3. Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani, bolstered by a late surge in support from suppressed Iranian reformists, was leading the race on Saturday to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, initial election results showed.
4. The Government of India decided to appoint SK Roy as the new Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). SK Roy, on 31 May 2013 was appointed as the Managing Director of LIC after retirement of the then MD, D K Mehrotra. On 31 May 2013, Thomas Mathew was appointed as the interim chairman.
5. In a bid to boost the Congress’s electoral prospects ahead of the Lok Sabha election due next year, Rahul Gandhi will launch Umeed, a central social welfare scheme for poor rural women in Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday.
6. Rajasthan is set to get various rail projects, including a broad gauge line connecting holy city Nathdwara and a Shatabdi-like train between Jaipur and Udaipur.
7. The heavy rain forced the Group B match of the Champions Trophy between India and Pakistan into 40 overs a side contest at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
8. Petrol price hiked by Rs 2 per litre due to weak rupee. For laptop, tablet, desktop and smartphone buyers the time to buy the gizmo is now as these are set to get dearer by 5-12% by month end.
9. Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand’s South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.
10. Farm equipment-to-aerospace conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) today announced a multi-structured deal under which it will pick up 13.5 per cent stake in Spain’s auto component maker CIE Automotive for 96.24 million euros (nearly Rs 740 crore). In turn, M&M will sell stakes in its three group firms for Rs 673.68 crore to Participaciones Internacionales Autometal Dos, SL, CIE Automotive SA and Autometal, SA.
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1. A summit meeting of G-8 countries in Northern Ireland next week would discuss the issue of “tax avoidance” by companies in this increasingly globalised economy, a White House official has said.
2. In Washington, Deborah K. Jones has just been sworn in as the next Ambassador to Libya at a ceremony in the presence of US Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, the Ambassador of Libya, Ali Aujali and the Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman, Hunaina al-Mughairi.
3. Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani, bolstered by a late surge in support from suppressed Iranian reformists, was leading the race on Saturday to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, initial election results showed.
4. The Government of India decided to appoint SK Roy as the new Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). SK Roy, on 31 May 2013 was appointed as the Managing Director of LIC after retirement of the then MD, D K Mehrotra. On 31 May 2013, Thomas Mathew was appointed as the interim chairman.
5. In a bid to boost the Congress’s electoral prospects ahead of the Lok Sabha election due next year, Rahul Gandhi will launch Umeed, a central social welfare scheme for poor rural women in Jammu and Kashmir, on Saturday.
6. Rajasthan is set to get various rail projects, including a broad gauge line connecting holy city Nathdwara and a Shatabdi-like train between Jaipur and Udaipur.
7. The heavy rain forced the Group B match of the Champions Trophy between India and Pakistan into 40 overs a side contest at Edgbaston in Birmingham.
8. Petrol price hiked by Rs 2 per litre due to weak rupee. For laptop, tablet, desktop and smartphone buyers the time to buy the gizmo is now as these are set to get dearer by 5-12% by month end.
9. Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand’s South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.
10. Farm equipment-to-aerospace conglomerate Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) today announced a multi-structured deal under which it will pick up 13.5 per cent stake in Spain’s auto component maker CIE Automotive for 96.24 million euros (nearly Rs 740 crore). In turn, M&M will sell stakes in its three group firms for Rs 673.68 crore to Participaciones Internacionales Autometal Dos, SL, CIE Automotive SA and Autometal, SA.
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