TOP - 10 HEADLINES - 26.11.2013 1. President Pranab Mukherjee called for modernizing coir industry as it provides employment to large number of women in coastal areas. 2. Cheteshwar Pujara retained his sixth position to be the highest-placed Indian batsman, while Virat Kohli also maintained his 20th spot in the in the latest ICC Test rankings issued. 3. The Reserve Bank said it will launch CPI-indexed bonds aimed at protecting the savings of retail investors from the impact of price rise by the end of next month. 4. The RBI said about USD 25 billion has been received from special concessional swap windows for deposits by NRI and overseas foreign currency borrowings by banks. 5. The State Bank of India (SBI) said it has constituted an internal panel comprising two Managing Directors to probe the corruption charge against its Deputy MD Shyamal Acharya, who has been asked to go on leave a day after his residence was raided by CBI. 6. Arjan Vekaria, President of Hindu Forum of Britain, has died, the organisation has said. 7. RJD Chief Lalu Prasad, who is undergoing a five-year jail term after being convicted in a fodder scam case, moved his bail plea before the Supreme Court which will hear the matter on November 29. 8. The crust of Antarctica, the earth’s southernmost continent of which 95 per cent is covered with thick ice, is similar to that of south India and Mozambique, which indicates that the three were joined together in the past, researchers have found. 9. Mexico will award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for championing girls rights to education. 10. Sebastian Vettel won Formula One’s season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix, matching Michael Schumacher’s record of 13 victories in a year and equalling the nine consecutive wins of Alberto Ascari.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:54:29 +0000
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