Current Affairs : 25th January 2014: Kailash Meghwal elected as the Speaker of Rajasthan Assembly : Kailash Meghwal was elected unanimously as the Speaker of GKRajasthan Assembly on 22 January 2014. His name was proposed by the Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje and the leader of Opposition.Apart from this, 143 of the 200 newly-elected MLAs of the state sworn-in by the Pro Tem Speaker Pradyuman Singh on 21 January 2014, the first session of the 14th Rajasthan Assembly. Vasundhara Raje was the first person to take the oath of the office. New RBI guidelines for loan restructuring norms by NBFCs : In order to minimise the risk of defaults, RBI has issued revised guidelines for loan restructuring norms by non-banking financial companies, NBFCs. The key provisions include that the relaxation or extension of commencement of projects will not amount to restructuring for infrastructure, non-infrastructure and corporate real estate projects. The benefit will, however, be withdrawn with effect from April 1 next year. RBI to run pilot to test plastic notes : The Reserve Bank of India has finally floated a tender for plastic currency notes after years of deliberation. However, the tender is only for a pilot project and a final call on introduction would be taken subject to the performance of the notes.”We have only recently floated the tender. This requires coordination from various parties, including the government, the printing presses and the Reserve Bank of India,” said a senior banker. He said the plastic notes should be launched by the middle of the year. Favour free ATM services : Financial services secretary Rajiv Takru has said that he favours free ATM services as they exist now.However clarified that no bank has approached the government seeking approval to raise ATM fees and said that a final decision in this regard will be taken by RBI. Mr. Takru said banks should look at ways to encourage customers to increase their ATM usage so as to make them profitable. Mr. Takru also called for a re-look at orders of some state governments asking banks to have round-the-clock security at ATMs. Errani-Vinci retain women’s doubles title In Australian Open : Top seeds Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci of Italy produced a great escape on Friday as they beat Russia’s Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4 3-6 7-5 to retain the Australian Open women’s doubles title.The Russian third seeds led 5-2 in the decider before Errani and Vinci roared back to clinch their fourth grand slam title and retain their world number one ranking. Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer to set up final with Stanislas Wawrinka : World No 1 Rafael Nadal proves too strong for his great rival Roger Federer, finishing a comfortable 7-6 (7/4), 6-3, 6-3 winner.This was Nadal’s 23rd victory in the series, and also his heaviest over Federer in any grand slam other than Roland Garros. Ravindra Jadeja helps India tie 3rd ODI against New Zealand : Ravindra Jadeja very nearly pulled off a sensational victory with some lusty hits but could not take India home in the last over as the third one-dayer against New Zealand ended in a nail-biting tie to keep the visitors afloat in the five-match series on Saturday. Chasing New Zealand’s stiff target of 315 largely built around opener Martin Guptill’s 111, India came back from the dead to tie the game, riding on R Ashwin’s 65 and Jadeja’s 45-ball unbeaten 66 to save themselves the blushes of another overseas ODI series defeat. Facebook rolls out ‘trending stories’ in India : Social networking giant Facebook launched last week its new feature ‘trending stories’, replicating Twitter’s popular model of finding the most popular topics on the website.The new Facebook feature is now being launched in India as part of a gradual roll out, and is so far available only to a few users in the country. Google fixes Gmail after brief outage around the world : Google Inc suffered a service outage on Friday night that briefly took down Gmail, the email service used by hundreds of millions of people and many businesses across the globe.Google, which first acknowledged the outage at 11:12am Pacific Time (1912 GMT), said a little over an hour later that the problem with Gmail had been resolved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U Want More Job Alerts & Bits ----------------------------------- Then Like This Link ------------------------------------ facebook/pages/Jobcafe/388013287954997?fref=ts ------------------------------------ Forward This Msg to Ur Frnds
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