Sarkari Naukri Jobs - Sarkar Naukri Job Now: Top 10 Current Affairs 12 June 2013
1. Today is World Day Against Child Labour. This year, the theme is – “No to Child Labour in Domestic Work”. The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization.
2. Smart phones, emails and SMS seem to have pushed the humble telegram service to a quiet corner with the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) deciding to discontinue the 160-year-old telegraph service from 15th July.
3. The world’s oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116, officials in Japan said on Wednesday.
4. Indo-Russian INDRA 2013 military exercise is scheduled to take place in October 2013 at Mahajan field firing range of Rajasthan in India. There will be a practice of joint planning and execution of anti-terrorist missions and leading intelligence activities by the serviceman.
5. China, on Tuesday successfully launched its fifth and longest space mission, ‘Shenzhou-10’ with three astronauts including a woman on board.
6. The Early Tsunami Warning System installed at Rangachang in Andaman and Nicobar Islands can predict a tsunami immediately after an earthquake.
7. The Union environment ministry is expected to approve the K Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats and declare around 60,000 square kilometers of the southern hills — spanning across six states — as no-go area for mining, thermal power plants and heavily polluting industries.
8. Bringing cheer to the government struggling to arrest rupee’s slide, global rating agency Fitch on Wednesday revised India’s sovereign credit outlook to stable from negative.
9. India’s Apollo Tyres Ltd is buying Ohio’s Cooper Tire & Rubber Co for about $2.22 billion. Apollo says the combined company will be one of the world’s largest tire makers, with a strong presence across four continents and combined 2012 sales of $6.6 billion.
10. Capital market regulator Sebi will soon get powers to summon phone call records, emails and SMSes of persons it is probing for insider trading and other market manipulations. With these powers, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) aims to prevent black money coming into the market as well as to keep an eye on insider trading.
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1. Today is World Day Against Child Labour. This year, the theme is – “No to Child Labour in Domestic Work”. The World Day Against Child Labour is an International Labour Organization.
2. Smart phones, emails and SMS seem to have pushed the humble telegram service to a quiet corner with the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) deciding to discontinue the 160-year-old telegraph service from 15th July.
3. The world’s oldest person and the oldest man ever to have lived has died of natural causes aged 116, officials in Japan said on Wednesday.
4. Indo-Russian INDRA 2013 military exercise is scheduled to take place in October 2013 at Mahajan field firing range of Rajasthan in India. There will be a practice of joint planning and execution of anti-terrorist missions and leading intelligence activities by the serviceman.
5. China, on Tuesday successfully launched its fifth and longest space mission, ‘Shenzhou-10’ with three astronauts including a woman on board.
6. The Early Tsunami Warning System installed at Rangachang in Andaman and Nicobar Islands can predict a tsunami immediately after an earthquake.
7. The Union environment ministry is expected to approve the K Kasturirangan panel report on Western Ghats and declare around 60,000 square kilometers of the southern hills — spanning across six states — as no-go area for mining, thermal power plants and heavily polluting industries.
8. Bringing cheer to the government struggling to arrest rupee’s slide, global rating agency Fitch on Wednesday revised India’s sovereign credit outlook to stable from negative.
9. India’s Apollo Tyres Ltd is buying Ohio’s Cooper Tire & Rubber Co for about $2.22 billion. Apollo says the combined company will be one of the world’s largest tire makers, with a strong presence across four continents and combined 2012 sales of $6.6 billion.
10. Capital market regulator Sebi will soon get powers to summon phone call records, emails and SMSes of persons it is probing for insider trading and other market manipulations. With these powers, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) aims to prevent black money coming into the market as well as to keep an eye on insider trading.
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