★ Important Current affairs : oct. 21st ★ 1. The BJP central leadership will decide on whom to name as the partys chief ministerial candidate or whether to go without a nominee to the polls in a parliamentary board meeting this week. A decision was expected on Sunday following a meeting of the partys election committee, but did not materialise. 2. Days after criticising the treasure hunt in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Monday took a U-turn and praised seer Shobhan Sarkar based on whose dream the Archaeology Survey of India (ASI) is carrying out excavation in Unnao district. 3. Convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood on Monday 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. 4. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was on Monday conferred an Honorary Doctorate by the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations. 5. India and Russia agreed to extend indefinitely their 15-year-old partnership for producing the Brahmos supersonic anti-ship missile and to develop a still more potent hypersonic version of the missile. 6. France and Mexico have angrily demanded prompt explanations from the United States after new spying allegations leaked by former US security contractor Edward Snowden. 7***** . Residents of a Syrian town besieged by President Bashar al-Assads forces appealed to the world to save us from death in an open letter describing desperate conditions and suffering. 8. A government-appointed panel to investigate General Motors Indias recall of over 1.26 lakh Chevrolet Tavera vehicles has held the company responsible of committing corporate fraud and said its top management — including CEOs and managing directors — from 2005 to 2011-12 were involved in this. 9. After years of delay, marked by technical glitches and protests, the nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tirunelveli, south Tamil Nadu is finally a reality. 10. Neiphiu Rio, the nagaland chief minister has been appointed as NERPF convener and prafulla kumar mahanta, asom gana parishad president has been appointed as NERPFs chief advisor. 11. Justice Lakshmi knata mohapatra, judge of the allahabad high court, was sworn in as the judge of the high court of manipur today. 12. Indias squash player dipika pallikal won the macau open title at macau, china yesterday. 13. Scientists developed the worlds first robot human (Bionic man) made entirely of prosthetic parts. The bionic man can walk, talk and has a beating heart. 14. The proposed aviation venture of TATA with Singapore Airlines(SIA) has got corporate Affairs Ministry’s approval to use the name “Tata SIA Airlines Ltd.”which plans to offer full-service passengers sevices on domestic and international routes. 15. Syndicate Bank has launched 5 products keeping in mind the needs of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME).These products will cater the credit needs of these industries. The products are- 1.SyndDoctor 2.SyndGranite 3.SyndTextile 4.SyndCashew 5.SyndTransport 16. Rajendra Kashyap was appointed as the Financial Commissioner (Railways) and ex-officio Secretary to the Government of India on 21 October 2013. He took charge of the office immediately. 17. Police Commemoration Day was observed on 21 October 2013 at the Police Memorial, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. On this day, tribute is paid to the martyred Police personnel.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 06:36:04 +0000
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