Current Affairs | 21st July 2013 . *Forensic report says pesticide in meal snuffed out young lives *Rethink Rangarajan formula on gas pricing, says Yashwant Sinha-led committee *Curfew continues in Kashmir *Arunachal has 90 languages: survey There are over 780 languages and 66 different scripts in India and Arunachal Pradesh is the richest among the States with 90 languages. These findings and more are set to come to light with the publication of a baseline survey of Indian languages by the People’s Linguistic Survey of India. Comprising 50 volumes, the survey would be published between September 2013 and December 2014. *Land grants in woman’s name The government is proposing to make all new land distribution among landless poor families in the women’s name, instead of jointly with her husband, according to the draft National Land Reforms Policy formulated by the Rural Development Ministry. The draft policy was formulated at a meeting chaired by Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh. *Israel agrees to release Palestinian prisoners Israel has agreed to release Palestinian prisoners to resume peace talks, but will not yield to other demands the Palestinians say must be met before they return to the negotiating table. *Venezuela ‘ends’ truce with U.S. Venezuela said it has “ended” its rapprochement with the U.S. following a statement by Samantha Power, nominated to become the U.S. envoy to the U.N. *G20 backs fundamental reform of corporate tax The G20 backed a ‘fundamental’ rethink of the rules on taxing multinational corporations, taking aim at loopholes used by companies such as Apple and Google to avoid billions of dollars in taxes. The group of leading economies released an action plan drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that said the existing system didn’t work, especially when it came to taxing companies that trade online. *Maharashtra Government granted Tax Exemption to film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Published on: 21-JUL-2013 Film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag got tax exemption by Maharashtra Government for next six months. The film is a biopic on athlete Milkha Singh. *Prof. Oommen Mathew, Former MLA form Kuttanad, Kerala died :- Former Kuttanad MLA and Chairman of the Kerala State Farming Corporation, Prof. Oommen Mathew died at a hospital in Kochi. He was 73. *India topped in the Chart of Sri Lanka’s Foreign Visitors India ranked at the top in the list of foreign tourists to visiting Sri Lanka data released by Tourism Development Authority of the country. . saurav~anand
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