************** ~~~~~~~~~~~~ SHARE WITH EVERYONE ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 24 October 2013 - (data by facebook/ AllCurrentAffairs) 1. As inflation continues to hover above its comfort zone, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to increase the short-term lending or repo rate by another 25 basis. Current repo rate is 7.50%. 2. Today is the United Nations Day. The day is celebrated to commemorate the launch of the UN Charter in 1945. The theme of this year is-‘Partnerships for Global Progress’ 3. A CBI court here yesterday sentenced former Chairman and Managing Director of Indian Bank M Gopalakrishnan and four others to one year imprisonment for defrauding various branches of the bank to the tune of about Rs 6.5 crore. 4. Internet giant Google has emerged as the world’s best multinational company to work for, followed by software developer SAS Institute and network storage provider NetApp in the second and third place, respectively. 5. Manna Dey, the legendary singer died on 23 October 2013 in Bangalore hospital. He was 94 years old. 6. Actor Ranbir Kapoor was Thursday named the brand ambassador for Philips, the countrys leading lighting company. 7. Market regulator Sebi has disqualified Cals Refineries from issuing equity shares and any other security for a further eight years, as the company was found guilty in a case involving irregularities in issuance of Global Depository Receipts (GDRs). 8. The US comedian Carol Burnett was on 20 October 2013 honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. 9. The Sports Ministry and Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) have launched India Sports 2014 at the 5th Global Sports Summit to promote sports among youth in the country. 10. The Reserve Bank of India has constituted a GIRO Advisory Group (GAG) to implement a national Indian Bill Payment System so that households will be able to use bank accounts to pay school fees, utilities, medical bills and make remittances electronically. ********************************* 25 October 2013 - (data by facebook/ AllCurrentAffairs) 1. Global financial services major HSBC today lowered India’s current account deficit (CAD) forecast for this financial year to 3.4 per cent of GDP from 4.1 per cent earlier. 2. According to the China-based Hurun India Rich List, Ambani retained the top position for the second year even after a wealth decrease of 2 percent. Ambani is followed by London-based steel baron LN Mittal with assets of USD 15.9 billion. 3. The Centre has sanctioned 1,260 crore rupees to fortify and upgrade jawans facilities in far-flung Indo- Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) posts located along the Sino-Indian border. 4. Fallen politician Bo Xilai has lost a final appeal against his life sentence today, after a Chinese court upheld his conviction for corruption and abuse of power. 5. Indicating a poor state of affairs on gender parity front, India was today ranked at a low 101st position on a global Gender Gap Index despite an improvement by four places since last year. 6. Astronomers may have identified one of the richest planetary systems yet. The discovery of a seventh planet around the dwarf star KIC 11442793 could be a record, according to two separate teams of researchers. 7. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a petition seeking the cancellation of this weekends Indian Grand Prix because organisers have allegedly not paid entertainment taxes for the 2012 event. 8. Three Indian-Americans have been elected members of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM), including Subra Suresh, who has become the only current university president to be elected to all three US national academies. 9. Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood actor, was on 23 October 2013 appointed as the goodwill ambassador for South Korea. 10. The Great Indian Bustard is currently listed under the category of Critically Endangered birds, in the 2013 ‘Threatened Bird’ list by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). ********************************* 26 October 2013 - (data by facebook/ AllCurrentAffairs) 1. Global Gender Gap Report 2013, which was published on 25 October 2013 by World Economic Forum- India was ranked 101 out of 136 countries on Gender Gap index. Top 5 country: -------------------- 1. Iceland 2. Finland 3. Norway 4. Sweden 5. Philippines 2. The Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has assigned Corporation Bank No. 1 rank under the ‘National Awards for Excellence in MSE (micro and small enterprises) Lending’ for 2012-13. 3. The World Bank has approved $250-million assistance for Uttarakhand, which was hit hard by rains and landslides in June that killed 580 people, to help the State undertake rehabilitation work and strengthen its capacity for disaster management. 4. Government of India on 25 October 2013 signed an agreement with World Bank for credit of 360 million US Dollar for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh Water Sector Restructuring Project. 5. Himachal Pradesh on 26 October 2013 became the second state after Haryana to introduce Union National Vocational Qualitative Framework (NVQF) Scheme. The scheme has been implemented by the All India Technical Education Council and the National Skill Development Council. 6. Ethiopias government on 24 October 2013 temporarily banned its citizens from travelling abroad to look for work. 7. The worlds oldest national football body, the English Football Association, or FA is marking its 150th anniversary today. 8. The Uttar Pradesh Government on 25 October 2013 appointed retired Justice Tarun Chaterjee as the new chairman of the state Human Rights Commission. 9. Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers on 25 October 2013 sanctioned setting up of a Plastic Park at Siju Village, Kujanga Tehsil of Jagatsinghpur District in Odisha. A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) called Paradeep Plastic Park Limited would set up the Plastic Park. 10. Indian cueist Alok Kumar could not add the World Billiards trophy to his cabinet as he lost in the final to local favourite David Causier to settle for the silver medal at the mega- event here. ********************************* 27 October 2013 - (data by facebook/ AllCurrentAffairs) 1. The Indian cricket team will open its campaign in next years World Twenty20 Championships against arch-foes Pakistan when the event is staged in Bangladesh from March 16 to April 6. 2. Serial bomb blasts rocked Patna on Sunday even as the Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJP) prime ministerial candidate and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modis arrived in the city for Hunkar rally. 3. Sebastian Vettel roared into history as Formula Ones youngest four-time champion in superlative style as he dominated the Indian Grand Prix on Sunday. 4. Paradip Port Trust inked an initial pact with public sector pipeline operator GAIL (India) for setting up a liquefied natural gas terminal at Paradip at a joint investment of 3108 crore rupees. 5. Nasas Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before and search for the most distant and faint galaxies that can possibly be seen. 6. The power generation at Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor, which was resynchronized with the southern grid on Thursday night, has been stabilised at 200 MWe. 7. The Japan-aided drinking water project for Kozhikode (Calicut, Kerala) will be ready for commissioning by April next year, District Collector C.A. Latha has said. 8. Global retail giant Walmart has resumed its lobbying with the US lawmakers on matters related to FDI in India and it spent USD 1.5 million on about 50 specific issues, including those related to Indian market during the last quarter. 9. Human Development Index (HDI) front as the Gujarats Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) has declined significantly. It has fallen to 38 in 2012 from 57 in 2003 - a drop of 33.3% - better than the 30% decline at the national level. 10. Georgians geared up to vote in presidential polls on Sunday to pick a successor to flamboyant Mikheil Saakashvili, with a trusted proxy of his billionaire foe Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili frontrunner to claim victory in the ex-Soviet state.
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