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Lokpal Bill Passed by Government Biggest News Ever India

Lokpal Bill Passed by Government Biggest News Ever India :

 1. About Lokpal Bill
Lokpal Bill Passed by Government
Lokpal Bill is an anti-corruption account delineated and pulled up by municipal humanity activists in India, searching the nomination of a Jan Lokpal, an autonomous body to enquire corruption situations.

2. It furthermore proposes evolution to the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill 2011, which was to be passed by Lok Sabha in December 2011.

3. The Jan Lokpal Bill proposes to efficiently discourage corruption, compensate civilian grievances, and defend whistle-blowers. The prefix Jan (translation: civilians) denotes that these expansion include inputs supplied by "ordinary citizens" through an activist-driven, non-governmental public consultation.

4. Historical instants :
"The Rajya Sabha undoes the doorways of Lokpal account on 17 December 2013 and the Lok Sabha unsecured the secure of lokpal Bill on 18 December 2013"

5. Today, the historic Lokpal Bill took a mammoth pace in the direction of ordinance after a 40-year wait, with the Lok Sabha transient it a day after the anti-corruption measure sailed through the Rajya Sabha with the support of opposition parties.

6. Abstaining from food for the last eight days, Anna Hazare thanked the parties which aided to pass Lokpal account in the Rajya Sabha and demanded to the members of the Lok Sabha to protected fluent passage of the legislation tomorrow after which he will call off his very quick.

7. A Fragile-looking but pleased Hazare powerfully undulating the nationwide tricolour and chanted ‘Bharat Mata Ki Jai’ and ‘Vande Mataram’ as he commemorated the route of the bill in the top House.

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• Father of Microscopy – Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek
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• Father of the American Constitution – James Madison
• Father of the Indian Constitution – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
• Father of Humanism – Francesco Petrarca
• Father of Geometry – Euclid of Alexandria
• Father of New France – Samuel de Champlain
• Father of Genetics – Gregor Mendel
• Father of the Green Revolution – Norman Ernest Borlaug
• Father of the Green Revolution in India – M.S Swaminathan
• Father of Scientific Management -Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Father of Biology – Aristotle
• Father of Evolution – Charles Darwin
• Father of Microbiology – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
• Father of Nuclear Chemistry – Otto Hahn
• Father of Periodic Table – Dmitri Mendeleev
• Father of modern Medicine – Hippocrates
• Father of Modern Physics – Galileo Galilei
• Father of Modern Astronomy – Nicolaus Copernicus
• Father of Nuclear Physics – Ernest Rutherford
• Father of Nuclear Science – Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
• Father of Computer Science -George Boole and Alan Turing
• Father of American Football – Walter Camp
• Father of Walter Camp – Geoffrey Chaucer
• Father of modern Olympic – Pierre De Coubertin
• Father of of Numbers – Pythagoras
• Father of Botany – Theophrastus
• Father of Electricity – Benjamin Franklin
• Father of Electonics – Michael Faraday
• Father of Television – Vladimir K. Zworykin
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Current Affairs 21st Dec 2013 in English,Telugu

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1. Jayanthi Natrajan has resigned from the Union Cabinet as Environment and Forests Minister. She is reportedly to play a bigger role in the Congress party ahead of general elections-2014.

2. The Election Commission recognized Aam Aadmi Party as a state party and reserved symbol of broom in Delhi on 19 December 2013. As per laid norms, a party may be recognized by the Election Commission if the party wins at least three percent seats.

3.  The Reserve Bank of India, RBI, has tightened norms for credit card holders. In a notification on Friday, the RBI advised banks to treat a credit card account as a non-performing asset if the customer fails to pay the minimum due amount within a stipulated 90-day period.

4. Usha Sangwan was appointed as the first woman managing director of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) by the Government. She is the first woman director of LIC in its near six decades of existence.

5. IRCON International Limited on 20 December 2013 has been awarded the prestigious India Pride Awards for Excellence in Central PSUs in India Image Enhancement. The award was received by Mohan Tiwari, the CMD of IRCON from M.M. Pallam Raju, the Union Minister for Human Resources Development.
6. Senior advocate P.H. Parekh has been appointed as the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for 2013-14. This is Mr. Parekh’s sixth term as SCBA President.

7. China built a new research station in Antarctica called Taishan. It was China’s fourth research station in the southern pole. The aim of the research station would be to provide a base for research on bio-ecology and remote satellite sensing.

8. Bolivia on 20 December 2013 launched the country’s first telecommunication satellite Tupak Katari. The satellite has been named upon an indigenous national hero, who fought the 18th century Spanish colonial rule.

9. India post 421 in 2nd innings, set 458-run target for South Africa. After extending the lead to over 350 runs, India lost Virat Kohli (96), Rohit Sharma (6) and Cheteshwar Pujara (153) in quick succession.

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Q1 :    According to Google who becomes the most searched sportsperson of 2013?
  •         Sachin Tendulkar
  •         Lionel Messi
  •         Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  •         Usain Bolt
 Q2 :   Which University scientists ‘print’ new eye cells that could be used to treat blindness?
  •         University of Cambridge
  •         University of Oxford
  •         University of Michigan
  •         University of Maryland
 Q3 :   Who has been won the men’s crown at National Ranking Table Tennis Championships?
  •         Gaurav Mehta
  •         Narendra Jain
  •         Sanil Shetty
  •         Mukesh Pawar
Q4 :    According to data provided in Rajya Sabha which Indian state tops list of communal violence and related deaths?
  •         Rajasthan
  •         Gujarat
  •         Delhi
  •         Uttar Pradesh
Q5 :   Name the Britain’s ‘Great Train Robber’ Who passes away on 18th December 2013?
  •         Buster Edwards
  •         Ronnie Biggs
  •         Jack Slipper
  •         Bruce Reynolds
Q6 :    Who has been cleared to fight the Rajasthan Cricket Association presidential elections?
  •         Arun Jaitley
  •         Sharad Pawar
  •         Lalit Modi
  •         Ajay Jadeja
 Q7 :   Who among the following to be the new Chairman of Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC)?
  •         General Bikram Singh
  •         Vijay Kumar Singh
  •         Joginder Jaswant Singh
  •         Devendra Kumar Joshi
Q8 :    Name the china actress who won the libel case against US website over sex scandal allegations?
  •         Gong Li
  •         Michelle Yeoh
  •         Zhang Ziyi
  •         Zhou Xun
Q9 :    About 500 people were killed in clashes in-
  •         Malaysia
  •         New Zealand
  •         Japan
  •         South Sudan
Q 10 :     Who among the following to be conferred with BCCI’s lifetime achievement award for 2013?
  •         Saurav Ganguly
  •         Kapil Dev
  •         Rahul Dravid
  •         Anil Kumble
 Answer :
1. Sachin Tendulkar:Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar most searched sportsperson of 2013
2. University of Cambridge:Scientists ‘print’ new eye cells that could be used to treat blindness
3. Sanil Shetty:Sanil Shetty wins men’s crown at National Ranking Table Tennis Championships
4. Uttar Pradesh:Uttar Pradesh tops list of communal violence and related deaths
5. Ronnie Biggs:Britain’s ‘Great Train Robber’ Ronnie Biggs dies at 84
6. Lalit Modi:Lalit Modi cleared to fight Rajasthan Cricket Association elections
7. General Bikram Singh:General Bikram Singh to be the new Chairman of COSC
8. Zhang Ziyi:Zhang Ziyi settles libel case against US website over sex scandal allegations
9. South Sudan:About 500 people were killed in clashes in South Sudan
10. Kapil Dev:Kapil Dev to be conferred with BCCI’s lifetime achievement award


Sarkar Naukri Job Now All Current Affairs Free Download On 20th November 2013

Sarkar Naukri Job Now All Current Affairs Free Download On 20th November 2013, 2014 :: 1. The Reserve Bank of India on 18 November 2013 opened a 5000 crore rupees refinance window for MSME sector, for a period of one year to ease the liquidity.

2. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 19 November 2013 directed Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to provide loans to women self-help groups (SHGs) at 7 per cent per annum to avail the benefit of interest rate subvention scheme under the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana-Aajeevika (SGSY) scheme.

3. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, on Wednesday issued a Rs 1,000 crore (approximately $160 million) global Indian rupee bond of three years maturity.

4. Anjolie Ela Menon, a contemporary artist was awarded with Dayawati Modi Award for Art and Culture and Education by Dayawati Foundation on 19 November 2013.

5. The 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will begin in the Indian beach State of Goa on Wednesday evening.

6. India and Russia on 18 November 2013 agreed to expand the range of strategic partnership in a significant manner in Moscow. The two countries will also hold a Joint Air Force Level exercise for the first time in 2014.

7. Engineering Excellence Award 2013 was conferred on the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL), a Public Sector Unit under the Ministry of Finance, and Government of India on 19 November 2013.

8. Sixteen-year-old Pakistani campaigner Malala Yousafzai has received the EU’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

9. Barcelona forward Lionel Messi was presented with a record third Golden Boot on Wednesday for scoring the most goals in Europe’s domestic leagues last season.

10. Cyclonic storm ‘Helen’, expected to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm on Friday morning, may not bring much rainfall to the city, say meteorologists.

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Sarkar Naukri Job Now Current Affairs Free Download On 05 November 2013, 2014 ::-- 1. The first phase of India’s first Mars mission “Mangalyaan” was pronounced a success.

2. The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination will be held from December 2 to 8 this year. It’s the first time in the last 35 years that the examination is being spread over a span of just seven days.

3. Actor Hrithik Roshan’s ‘Krrish 3′ is the latest film to enter elite Rs 100 crore club within four days of its release. Krrish 3 created history on Monday by collecting Rs 35.91 crore at the box office, the highest single day figure ever.

4. India is happy with the withdrawal of United Kingdom’s proposal to subject visitors from six “high-risk” Commonwealth countries to pay a surety of £3,000 for a visa.

5. Nirupama Rao, Indian envoy to the US, bid farewell to her career of diplomacy, as members of the American diplomatic corps and her counterparts from countries like China and Brazil gathered at a reception hosted in her honour by the State Department.

6. A Bangladeshi court on Tuesday sentenced to death 152 soldiers in one of the world’s biggest ever mass criminal trials for their role in a 2009 mutiny and massacre of 74 people, including top army officers.

7. Bharti Airtel on Tuesday said it has entered into an agreement with the Warid Group to acquire its Congo operations — Warid Congo SA — a move that will help the Indian telecom operator strengthen footprint in the African market.

8. India men’s hockey team defeated Oman 3-0 to register their first win in the third Asian Champions Trophy at Kakamigahara, Japan on Tuesday.

9. Encouraged by public response to its Passport Sewa mobile app for Android phones, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has now launched the application for Windows and Apple iOS platforms.

10. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India largest software services exporter, today said the US-based financial services firm Zions Bancorporation has chosen its core banking software TCS BaNCS.



Current Affairs Free Download On 03 & 04 November 2013

Current Affairs Free Download On 03 & 04 November 2013, 2014 ::--- 1. India is inching towards a milestone in space technology with preparatory work in full swing at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota to launch the country’s first inter-planetary satellite to Mars tomorrow.

2. India and China is all set to hold their third joint military exercises after a gap of five years, as a 150-strong Indian army contingent today arrived in Chengdu city to take part in anti-terrorism drills.

3. India is placed seventh out of 37 in a list of countries ranked in terms of expat quality of life, according to a a research commissioned by HSBC Expat. Thailand tops the list which is dominated by Asian countries with mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan are ranked 3rd, 6th, and 8th places respectively. Others in the top 10 include Bahrain (2nd), Cayman Islands (4th), Australia (5th), Spain (9th) and Brazil (10th).

4. Indian men’s hockey team today officially qualified for the Rabobank Hockey World Cup in The Hague (NED), according to the latest release issued by the FIH.

5. In India, Maharashtra tops list of women arrested for crime. aharashtra has witnessed more women being arrested in criminal cases from 2010 to 2012 than any other Indian state

6. Recently crowned world champion for the fourth time, Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel has won the Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix.

7. World Number Two Serbia’s Novak Djokovic has lifted the Paris Masters Tennis tournament. In the title clash at at the Bercy arena last night, Djokovic defeated defending champion David Ferrer of Spain in straight sets, 7-5, 7-5.

8. India and Myanmar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on strengthening skills in the Information Technology sector in this country.

9. Virat Kohli today became the number one batsman in One-day cricket after a superb batting show against Australia in the just-concluded series, in which he scored 344 runs.

10. Rihanna has stormed into number 1 spot in UK charts, as the featured artist on Eminem’s new track The Monster. The track Eminem’s first number one hit since 2006, and is taken from his latest album Marshall Mathers LP 2.

11. Sikkim has been named as the best region to visit in 2014 by a leading global travel guide, with Brazil emerging as the top destination in terms of countries.. Sikkim was the first Indian state to frame an eco-tourism policy with the help of Japanese and American experts.

Current Affairs Free Download Of 01, 02 November 2013

Current Affairs Free Download Of 01, 02 November 2013, 2014 ::--- 1.Syria’s entire declared stock of chemical weapons has been placed under seal, inspectors said on Thursday, as international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi wrapped up a visit to muster support for peace talks.

2. Six Major Central Banks Permanently Made Currency Swap Accords
i. Six major central banks in the world made currency swap arrangements permanent on 31 October 2013 as a prudent liquidity backstop in case of future global financial strains.
ii. Previously these banks had temporary bilateral currency swap arrangements.

Names of Six major central banks

1. The Bank of Japan
2. U.S. Federal Reserve
3. European Central Bank
4. Bank of England
5. central bank of Canada
6. central bank of Switzerland

3. MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) has appointed Gopal Krishna Pillai IAS (Retd.) as Chairman and Thomas Mathew T., as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.

4. India and Australia are to hold the third round of negotiations to finalise a civil nuclear agreement that could enable the sale of Australian uranium to India, in Delhi during the week beginning November 25, it was announced on Friday.

5. . India developed a new tactical surface-to-surface missile Pragati which has a range between 60-170 km.

6. Scientists discovered a new planet called Kepler 78b which has a similar mass and density to that of Earth. It orbits a star 400 light years away. Kepler78b is composed mostly of rock and iron.

7. India’s men’s compound Archery team on 31 October 2013 won a gold medal in the 18th Asian Archery competition held at Chinese Taipei. Abhishek Verma, Ratan Singh, Sandeep Kumar forming the compound team defeated the Korean trio of Lihong Min, Yong Hee Choi and Jongho Kim 233-231 to win the gold.

8. Israel secretly provided arms to India in 1971: A book ” The Blood Telegram” by Gary Bass, which focusses on the manner in which US President Richard Nixon turned a blind eye to the repression of then East Pakistan by military ruler Yahya Khan, offers a tantalizing glimpse of what was probably the first instance of military cooperation between India and Israel.

9. An estimated 14.3 crore accounts on the popular social networking site Facebook may be false or duplicate, with a major chunk of them coming from developing markets like India and Turkey.

10. India and Australia are to hold the third round of negotiations to finalise a civil nuclear agreement that could enable the sale of Australian uranium to India, in Delhi during the week beginning November 25, it was announced on Friday.

Current Affairs Free Download Of 01, 02 November 2013:: (Top 10 Current Affairs 02 November 2013)

1. Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has nominated the country’s interior minister as his successor. The nomination on Saturday of Irakli Garibashvili comes a week after elections that chose Ivanishvili’s ally Giorgi Margvelashvili as the country’s new president.

2. Riding on Rohit Sharma’s record-breaking 209, India registered their first bilateral ODI series win at home against Australia as they crushed the visitors by 57 runs in the seventh one-day international on Saturday.

3. Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to 16 matches as he came back from a set down to defeat Roger Federer on Saturday and reach the final of the Paris Masters.

4. Australian Mark Webber put Red Bull on pole position for the floodlit Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday in a front row sweep with quadruple world champion teammate Sebastian Vettel.

5. Russia and Japan have moved to dramatically upgrade bilateral ties, holding their first joint Defence and Foreign Ministers’ meeting and agreeing to expand their defence and security cooperation.

6. The Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, famous for dense population of one-horn rhinos, reopened to tourists on Saturday after remaining closed during the monsoon.

7. The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday confirmed the death of its leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike.

8. Kannur (also known as Cannanore, is a city in Kannur district in the Indian state of Kerala) declared first zero-landless district in country.

9. India moved a step closer to sourcing uranium from Australia, the world’s biggest exporter of the radioactive mineral, with the Foreign Ministers of both countries agreeing to hold the third round of talks on a bilateral civil nuclear agreement towards the end of this month.

10. President Barack Obama has wished Indians “a Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak” saying the festival reminded Americans that the US “is home to many faiths and traditions, and that our diversity makes us stronger.”

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1. Along expected lines, the Reserve Bank of India Governor hiked the repo rate by 25 basis points in the October monetary policy review today. The repo rate is now at 7.75 per cent. Current Rates:
1. Repo Rate – 7.75%
2. Reverse Repo Rate – 6.75%
3. CRR – 4%
4.SLR – 23%
5. Bank Rate – 8.75%
6. MSF – 8.75%

2. Rajendra Yadav, the noted Hindi writer passed away on 28 October 2013 at Mayur Vihar, Delhi because of prolonged illness. He was 84 years old.

3. India is prepared to announce the name of Suresh Reddy as the first Indian ambassador to Asean.

4. Tennis player-producer Ashok Amritraj, who has produced 109 Hollywood films, was presented with the ‘Soul of India Award’ for his outstanding achievements in the film industry.

5. The Government of India on 29 October 2013 decided to appoint Air Marshal Arup Raha as the next Chief of the Air Staff.

6. The Centre has constituted a high-level committee headed by former CRPF Chief, K Vijay Kumar, to look at the division of assets and the administrative framework which would be required when Telangana is created upon bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.

7. With a networth of $21 billion, Mukesh Ambani has retained his title as India’s wealthiest for the sixth year in a row. NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal ($16 billion) also continues to hold the second position, while Sun Pharma’s Dilip Shanghvi has jumped to third place.

8. The country’s richest woman, Savitri Jindal, was Tuesday inducted as a minister in the Haryana cabinet by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

9. Priyanka Chopra, the Bollywood actress became the global brand ambassador of American fashion brand Guess in the last week of October 2013.

10. P.S. Raghvan was appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Russia on 28 October 2013.

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1. As inflation continues to hover above its comfort zone, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to increase the short-term lending or repo rate by another 25 basis. Current repo rate is 7.50%.

2. Today is the United Nations’ Day. The day is celebrated to commemorate the launch of the UN Charter in 1945. The theme of this year is-‘Partnerships for Global Progress’

3. A CBI court here yesterday sentenced former Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Bank M Gopalakrishnan and four others to one year imprisonment for defrauding various branches of the bank to the tune of about Rs 6.5 crore.

4. Internet giant Google has emerged as the world’s best multinational company to workfor, followed by software developer SAS Institute and network storage provider NetApp in the second and third place, respectively.

5. Manna Dey, the legendary singer died on 23 October 2013 in Bangalore hospital. He was 94 years old.

6. Actor Ranbir Kapoor was Thursday named the brand ambassador for Philips, the country’s leading lighting company.

7. Market regulator Sebi has disqualified Cals Refineries from issuing equity shares and any other security for a further eight years, as the company was found guilty in a case involving irregularities in issuance of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs).

8. The US comedian Carol Burnett was on 20 October 2013 honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

9. The Sports Ministry and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) have launched ‘India Sports 2014′ at the 5th Global Sports Summit to promote sports among youth in the country.

10. The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a GIRO Advisory Group (GAG) to implement a national Indian Bill Payment System so that households will be able to use bank accounts to pay school fees, utilities, medical bills and make remittances electronically.








Current Affairs 22nd October 2013

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1. Russia has proposed that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members develop a strategy of multilateral economic cooperation. The BRICS countries together account for around 3 billion people, and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of over $16 trillion.

2. Aung San Suu Kyi collected on Tuesday the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she was under house arrest. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, finally collects the European Union’s 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights

3. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor was synchronised with the Southern regional electricity grid on Tuesday.The first 1,000-megawatt (MWe) unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project was synchronised with the southern regional electricity grid in the early hours of Tuesday.

4. Jamaica’s athletes, including sprint star Usain Bolt, could be banned from major events like the Olympics due to the island’s handling of recent drug scandals, according to Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph.

5. The world’s most wanted woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the “White Widow”, wrote a poem telling of her “love” for Osama Bin Laden. She was present in Nairobi at the time of the attack by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.

6. US-based sports website has placed India’s prolific batsman Cheteshwar Pujara in its latest list of potentially good top ten investment options in sports.

7. India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 2.36pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday.

8. PM is in Beijing. India, China to sign landmark pact on border cooperation.

9. BlackBerry said that it has begun to roll out its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to users of Android and iPhone devices.

10. Hurricane Raymond swirls off Mexico, hits Acapulco with more rain.



Current Affairs 21st October 2013

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1. Action has been initiated on making the Communal Violence Bill a law to protect minorities from targeted attacks, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said, but was not sure if it will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament.

2. The French-owned energy company EDF is to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant in 20 years, the British government said on Monday.

3. India will launch its ambitious pension scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana for over five million overseas workers in Dubai next week.

4. Convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood today became the first MP to lose his seat after the Supreme Court struck down a provision that protects a convicted lawmaker from disqualification on the ground of pendency of appeal in higher courts.

5. North Zone and South Zone were declared joint winners of the Duleep Trophy this year after the fifth day’s play of the final match was also called off without a ball being bowled in Kochi on Monday.

6. Keeping in view next year’s Global Investors Meet in the State, the Congress government, headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has decided to bring out a new industrial policy to attract investment in various sectors of the economy and in tier II cities.The industrial promotional policy (2009-14) comes to an end on March 31, 2014

7.Spain’s Rafael Nadal remained top in the men’s tennis rankings issued on Monday by the ATP, while Frenchman Richard Gasquet boosted his chances of making the season-ender in London

8. Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza has broken back into the top 10 of the world women’s doubles by gaining two spots to ninth place in the latest WTA Team Rankings issued on Monday.

9. Israel on Monday recognized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the first ever recipient of the $1 million Genesis Prize, an award popularly dubbed the “Jewish Nobel Prize.”

10. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday he had summoned the U.S. ambassador over allegations that the US National Security Agency monitored millions of French telephone calls between December 2012 and January 2013.

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1. Two Americans, James Rothman and Randy Schekman, and Germany’s Thomas Suedhof won the 2013 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology for research into how cells organize their transport system, the award-giving body said on Monday.

2. The country’s largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI) today got its first woman boss, Arundhati Bhattacharya after Pratip Chaudhuri’s tenure as chief came to an end.

3. India today successfully test-fired indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile from Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Odisha coast.

4. China plans to build its largest outsourcing base for aero-engine with an investment of USD 100 million, which will supply aero parts for Boeing and Airbus.

5. World Habitat Day is being observed today. The purpose of the day is to create global awareness about the State of the towns and cities and the basic human right to adequate shelter.

6. C V Wigneswaran, Sri Lanka’s first elected Tamil Chief Minister took oathbefore President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Colombo this morning. The swearing in ceremony was held in Temple Trees, the official residence of Sri Lankan President.

7. Giant 250-metre high channels of ice, almost the height of the Eiffel Tower, have been discovered beneath a floating ice shelf in Antarctica. Researchers said,the channels, that stretch hundreds of kilometres along the ice shelf, will help predict future of Antarctic ice.

8. The World Bank today lowered its 2013 growth forecast for East Asian developing countries to 7.1 per cent. It also warned that a prolonged US fiscal crisis could be damaging to the region.

9. Mumbai Indians clinched the Champions League Twenty-20 title by defeating Rajasthan Royals by 33 runs in New Delhi.

10. Rohan Bopanna and his French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin lifted the Japan Open trophy in the men’s doubles section , sailing past Jamie Murray and John Peers Tokyo.

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1. The flame that will burn at next year’s Sochi Winter Olympics was handed over to Russia on Saturday in the marble stadium that hosted the first modern Games in 1896.

2. Novak Djokovic won his fourth China Open title in five years on Sunday, prevailing 6-3, 6-4 in the final against Rafael Nadal who will replace him as the men’s new world number one on Monday.

3. The long-delayed aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya will be inducted into Indian Navy by Defence Minister A K Antony during his Russia visit slated between November 15-17.

4. Rohan Bopanna ended his long wait for the second title of the season as he lifted the Japan Open trophy with French partner Edouard Roger-Vasselin, sailing past Jamie Murray and John Peers on Sunday.

5. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid – are against each other for the last time as both the batsmen will quit the shortest format after the Champions League Twenty20 final at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Sunday.

6. Egyptian jetfighters staged celebratory flights over Cairo on Sunday, ushering in a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the nation’s last war with Israel on a day when rival rallies by supporters and opponents of the ousted Islamist president carry the potential for violence.

7. China evacuates 4,17,000 people ahead of typhoon. The National Meteorological Center says typhoon ‘Fitow’ is expected to make landfall on early Monday between Zhejiang and Fujian provinces.

8. India is in talks with Uzbekistan for procuring uranium for growing requirement of fuel for its nuclear plants, expected to increase in number in coming years.

9. India’s largest lender, the State Bank of India(SBI) has joined the ranks of a host of other headless public sector undertakings (PSU) after its chairman Pratip Chaudhuri retired on the 30th of September without a successor being notified. Arundhati Bhattacharya was set to take over as the new head, but her appointment has been delayed.

10. India and Bangladesh are set to sign a historic deal to allow cargo trucks from both sides to ply within each other’s territories. This will be for the first time India enters such an agreement with any of its neighborliness countries.

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1. India and Bangladesh have begun cooperation in the power sector in a big way with the launching two projects – a 500 MW grid and 1320 megawatt Maitri MW Thermal station.

2. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development has sanctioned Rs 40.35 crore for rural water supply scheme in the Union Territory of Puducherry under Nabard’s Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF).

3. Ushering in a new regime for overseas investments in Indian capital markets, SEBI today announced new Foreign Portfolio Investor (FPI) regulations to put in place easier registration process and operating framework for such entities.

4. Rail fares will go up by about two per cent from Monday. Railways has also decided to increase the freight tariff by about 1.7 percent effective from 10th of this month.

5. Corporation Bank has a new Chairman and Managing Director in S.R. Bansal. Prior to this elevation, Bansal was an Executive Director at Punjab National Bank.

6. President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Arun M Kumar to a key administration post. He has been made in charge of international trade.

7. Veteran director Shyam Benegal will head the accomplished jury for the Seventh Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) to be held in Brisbane on December 12.

8. Sale of five kilogram cooking gas (LPG) cylinder at select petrol pumps in four metro cities of Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bengaluru starts today. The sale will not be allowed in Delhi, as it is a poll-bound state.

9. US govt shutdown may force Isro to delay October 28 Mars mission launch by 2 years.

10. China on Saturday issued a red alert as typhoon Fitow, packed with high-power gusts, approached the country’s southeast coastal region.

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1. As per share market regulator SEBI, investments into Indian shares through participatory notes (P-Notes), hit a three-month high of Rs 1.65 lakh crore (about $26 billion) in August 2013.
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2. Five years after India and the US signed a landmark civil nuclear deal, the two countries have clinched the first commercial agreement on civilian nuclear power cooperation that was stalled over India’s nuclear liability law.

3. The UN Security Council voted unanimously to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating 2 1/2-year conflict.

4. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will address the 68th session of UN General Assembly tonight focusing on terrorism, expansion of U N Security Council, disarmament and development.

5. The Reserve Bank of India has set up a committee headed by Nachiket Mor on comprehensive financial services for small businesses and low-income households.

6. Global rating agency Fitch has scaled down its projections on India’s growth to 4.8% for the current fiscal from the earlier estimate of 5.7% made in June, 2013.

7. Area under kharif crops has increased by five per cent to over 1,047 lakh hectare so far this season as compared to nearly 994 lakh hectare last year on account of good monsoon.

8. India and China are to hold talks on a new border agreement in Beijing tomorrow. The talks will be held by a key Sino-Indian group on border matters called ” Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China – India Border Affairs”.

9. India and China have called for early conclusion of IMF quota reforms. They gave the call in the joint statement issued at the end of sixth Financial Dialogue between the two countries in Beijing.

10. In a bid to speedily recover Non-Performing Assets (NPA), the IDBI Bank has launched a campaign named ‘Own Your NPA’.

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1. Angela Merkel wins historic third term in German elections. Angela Merkel is heading for a third term as Germany’s chancellor, as exit polls showed she could even be on course for the historic achievement of an absolute majority in the country’s parliament.

2. Deutsche Bank has become the first bank in India to use the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s window to swap fresh foreign currency non-resident (bank), or FCNR (B), dollar funds.

3. Tata Power, country’s largest private power generator, today said it has signed an agreement with EESL for energy efficiency and conservation initiatives. EESL ( Energy Efficiency Services Ltd) is a joint venture of public sector units of the Ministry of Power.

4. Beverage and snacks maker PepsiCo on Monday named company veteran Sanjeev Chadha as its CEO, Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region, effective immediately.

5. All new credit card swipe machines and automated teller machines (ATMs) will be required to have a mechanism for Aadhaar authentication using biometrics.

6. Justice Darmar Murugesan, the former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on 21 September 2013 appointed as member of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for a five-year term.

7. Sandeep Tulsi Yadav has created history by winning India’s first-ever medal in the 66kg Greco-Roman category at the Senior World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

8. Russia would hand over 1,000 Megawatt Bushehr nuclear reactor to Iran today. The project under IAEA Control, began 35 years ago with Germany’s help and was finished by Russia.

9. Ailing former South African President Nelson Mandela has been presented with a humanitarian achievement award for his contribution to South-South cooperation and sustainable development.

10. India’s Deepika Kumari has settled for a silver medal at the Archery World Cup in Paris, France. In the finals, Deepika lost to the Korean Olympic champion Ok-Hee Yun, 6-4, and had to settle for a Silver in the showpiece annual fixture, held after four stages.

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1. The world’s first mangrove zoo, a specialized facility housing the fauna of the Sunderbans, is to open in West Bengal soon, an official said on Wednesday.

2. Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan is likely to maintain his predecessor Duvvuri Subbarao’s “hawkish” policy and keep key rates on hold due to continued inflationary pressure and the volatility in rupee.

3. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance has launched Easy Retirement, a unit-linked plan that enables customers to build their retirement corpus.

4. Market regulator, SEBI has inked a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with its counterpart in Argentina to promote mutual assistance and exchange information related to securities markets in both the countries.

5. India’s impressive show at the World Wrestling Championships continued as Bajrang bagged a bronze medal in the 60kg freestyle category with an overwhelming 9-2 win over Mangolia’s Nyam-Ochir Enkhsaikhan in a match which was held in Budapest on Tuesday.

6. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for championing girls’ education, and US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden have been nominated for the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize on 17 September 2013.

7. India continue to occupy the number one position in the latest International Cricket Council, ICC ODI rankings with 123 rating points followed by Australia with 115 and England with 111 points.

8. Bhartiya Mahila Bank, the first nationalised bank for women expected to be operational from November, intends to recruit 115 officers initially.

9. Russia has accused the United Nations Weapons Inspectors of producing a biased report on the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

10. Tony Abbott has been sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Australia. 55 year-old Abbott took oath at the Government House in Canberra, in front of Governor-General Quentin Bryce.

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1. YES Bank has become the first bank to raise funds overseas using the swap loan facility provided by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last week.The private sector lender raised $255 million ($180 million and €58 million) by way of dual currency, multi-tenor syndicated loan facility.

2. Air India has tied up with SBI Cards to launch a co-branded travel credit card that seeks to add value to the travel experience of Indian customers.

3. India and China on Monday agreed to initiate steps to include media co-operation as part of the 2014 celebrations being observed to commemorate ‘Friendly Exchanges’.

4. RTI applicants will no longer have to wait to get their applications processed as the Department of Posts is all set to bring out an RTI stamp for sale soon and also set up special counters, according to a senior officer.

5. National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) was awarded Indira Gandhi Official Language Award for propagation of Rajbhasha (Official Language) in the company by the Union Government of India on Hindi Divas on 14 September 2013.

6. Bollywood actor John Abraham was on Monday conferred the ‘Pride of the Nation’ award for his attempt to raise the sensitive issue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination through his role as a RAW agent in “Madras Cafe”.

7. Asian Champion Amit Kumar settled for silver after going down narrowly in the final of the 55kg category on the opening day of World Wrestling Championships on Monday.

8. China opened the world’s highest civilian airport on Monday, in a restive and remote Tibetan region of southwestern Sichuan province, which will cut journey times from the provincial capital from two days to a little more than one hour.

9. India pushed import duty on gold jewellery up by half to 15 per cent, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday, setting it higher than raw gold duty in a move aimed more at protecting the domestic jewellery industry than stemming bullion imports.

10. Software major Microsoft today announced the availability of Office 365 for nonprofits and non governmental organisations (NGOs) through its software donation programme in India.



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1. International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer was observed on 16 September 2013 across the world to bring awareness about the depletion of Ozone layer in the atmosphere.

2. India’s wholesale price based inflation jumped to 6.10 percent in August, government data showed Monday. The headline inflation, measured in terms of the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), accelerated to 6.10 percent in August as against 5.79 percent in the previous month.

3. Abhinav Shiv Tiwari’s “OASS”, a movie on human trafficking, was named the best film at the second edition of the Ladakh International Film Festival (LIFF).

4. Saudi Arabia, where cinemas are banned, is to compete for an Oscar for the first time next year with feminist film “Wadjda” directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, a Saudi official announced on Sunday.

5. Nina Davuluri (24 year old) has become the first person of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America.

6. In Turkey, clashes between anti-government demonstrators and police continued into the early hours on Monday in Istanbul.

7. Foreign banks will provide upfront financing for wealthy non-resident Indian clients to entice them to place bulky dollar deposits back home in response to India’s drive for dollar funding to defend its weak currency, sources said.

8. The Union Ministry of Science and Technology, and RIKEN, Japan’s largest research organization have signed Ministry of Understanding (MOU) for Launching joint Research programs in applied science.

9. Kanoon Lugat, an Urdu law dictionary, a first of its kind in the country was released on 15 September 2013 in Mumbai.

10. With huge trade imbalance in favour of China, India Monday strongly pitched for market access and invited Chinese investments in infrastructure sector to address the deficit.