Current Affairs : 6th September 2013: 1. The International Olympic Committee has asked the Indian Olympic Association to drop charge-sheeted members by October 31 to enable its return to the Olympic family. 2. After a delay of nearly a decade, Parliament on Friday passed a key economic reforms legislation, the Pension Bill, that aims to create a regulator for the sector and allows at least 26 percent FDI. 3. Hari Dutt Pathak, a veteran journalist, died today after a fall from his 12th floor residence in Vaishali locality. 88-year-old Pathak was a senior journalist who had worked with some Hindi newspapers. 4. India and Japan have decided to more than triple their bilateral currency swap arrangement to USD 50 billion, a development that is likely to bring stability in financial markets in the country. 5. India has slipped to 60th position in terms of its competitiveness globally, while Switzerland has retained its top rank. This is India’s lowest ever rank and also 31 places below its peer emerging market China. 6. World acclaimed orchestra conductor Zubin Mehta was conferred the prestigious Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony on Friday by President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi. He is the second recipient after Sitar maestro late Pandit Ravi Shankar. 7. A Delhi court has issued a summon to Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in a forgery case. He has been charge sheeted by CBI along with controversial arms dealer Abhishek Verma in the case. 8. Indian national Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir about her dramatic escape from the Taliban was turned into a Bollywood film, was shot dead in Afghanistan by militants, police said today. 9. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan will inaugurate the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) beginning on the 10th of November this year. 10. Angelina Jolie is to receive an Honorary Oscar in recognition of her humanitarian work, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Thursday. 11. Sania Mirza’s US Open campaign ended with a tame semifinal defeat in the women’s doubles with partner Jie Zheng against Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. 12. World Number Three Andy Murray crashes out of US Open Tennis tournament. 13. Rochus Misch, who served as Adolf Hitler’s devoted bodyguard for most of World War II and was the last remaining witness to the Nazi leader’s final hours in his Berlin bunker, has died. He was 96. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U Want More Job Alerts & Bits ----------------------------------- Then Like This Link ------------------------------------ facebook/pages/Jobcafe/388013287954997?fref=ts
Posted on: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:08:31 +0000
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