Top Current Affairs of 3rd October 2013 1. Former Bihar chief minister and RJD president Lalu Prasad was finally sentenced for five years with fine of Rs 25 lakh n fodder scam case. He is one among the 37 people accused in the same case. Another former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra has been sentenced for four years. 2. Over one thousand crore rupees have been released to 26 States and three Union Territories under different schemes during the first five months of the current financial year for socio-economic development of Scheduled Tribes. 3. The government today launched a unique project to put 100 most important Indian heritage sites online. The sites include the Taj Mahal, Khajuraho and the Ajanta and Ellora caves. An agreement to this effect was reached at between the Archaeological Survey of India and Google in New Delhi today. 4. Indian banks will get additional capital to provide loans at lower interest rates for purchases of two-wheelers and other consumer durables, the finance ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The move is aimed at stimulating demand in Asia’s third-largest economy that is struggling to recover from the worst slowdown in a decade. 5. India has adopted a landmark UN General Assembly’s document aimed at inclusion of disabled persons in all aspects of development and giving them due consideration in the post-2015 UN development agenda. 6. In a report on the state of internet in 60 countries, Freedom House, a US-based organization, said that in 2013 India saw the “most significant year-on-year decline” in terms of the web freedom. Iceland and Estonia topped the list of countries with the greatest degree of internet freedom. 7. Leander Paes of India and his partner Daniel Nester have entered the men’s doubles semifinals of the China Open Tennis championship. 8. India will overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2050, according to a new French study which predicts the global population to surge to 9.7 billion people by the middle of the century. 9. India has topped the global chart of remittances with a whopping $71 billion in remittances in 2013, just short of three times the FDI it received in 2012, according to a revised World Bank forecast. 10. Wipro has undertaken a major organizational revamp, reshuffling its senior leadership. The revamp has also led to the exit of Wipro veteran and head of its infrastructure and India businesses Anand Sankaran. Soumitro Ghosh, senior VP and global head of BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance), is replacing Sankaran as the head of Wipro Infotech, the division that looks after the business in India and the Middle East. #InstantJobAlerts
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:17:02 +0000
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