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October 20: Top 10 Current Affairs Sunday 1. Indias top squash player Dipika Pallikal upstaged former World No.1 Rachael Grinham of Australia to win the Macau Open on Sunday, the seventh Womens Squash Association (WSA) title of her career. 2. Indias plans to wrap up a quick nuclear deal with Russia on the setting up of two new units at Kudankulam have received a jolt with a commercial agreement on it unlikely to be signed tomorrow. 3. World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on 20 October. The day marks the launch of a year-long campaign dedicated to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. 4. Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has been conferred with the first Yash Chopra Memorial Award. 5. Israel has allowed 899 Indian Jews from Manipur and Mizoram, the members of the lost Bnei Menashe tribe, to immigrate to the Jewish state. 6. Four Indians led by ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar have made to Fortune magazines global list of top-50 women business leaders, while PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi has been ranked second in a similar list for the US. 7. JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $13 billion deal with the US justice department and other government agencies to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors before the financial crisis, a source familiar with the talks said on Saturday. 8. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Italy and Portugal on Saturday to protest against budget cuts and the social cost of the economic crisis, amid concern over possible clashes in Rome. 9. India’s first rubber park yet to achieve tensile strength. Nearly a decade after it was commissioned, Rubber Park India Limited at Irapuram — which claims to be the first industrial park in the world exclusively for rubber-based units — still looks a work in progress. 10. Reserve bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan on Saturday said the new real time gross settlement (RTGS) system for fund transfers will improve the efficiency of the country’s financial markets.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:02:59 +0000

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