28 November: TOP 10 CURRENT AFFAIRS Thursday at 10:38pm 1. A day ahead of the announcement of GDP figure for the July-September quarter of the current fiscal, industry body Assocham has pegged the countrys growth at 5.4 per cent for the period on improved agricultural output. 2. Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) on 27 November 2013 voted in favour of Dubai to be the host city for the World Trade Fair or EXPO 2020. 3. Standard & Poors, the worlds largest credit rater, named Citigroups Neeraj Sahai as president, succeeding Douglas Peterson. 4. The Assam Pavilion was adjudged “First for Excellence in display amongst State Governments and Union Territory Pavilions” and was given the award of Gold Medal in the India International Trade Fair 2013 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. 5. Nepal and the UAE have qualified for the ICC T20 World cup which will be held in Bangladesh next year. 6. Rafael Nadal was named the greatest Spanish sports star in history by readers of Spanish sports daily. 7. Youth Asian Games champion Ragala Venkat Rahul (77kg) stole the show with half a dozen gold medals as India signed off with a whopping 87 medals at the Commonwealth Youth and Junior Championships which concluded in Penang, Malaysia on Thursday. 8. The UAE would establish worlds largest solar-powered desalination plant that will process more than 22 million gallons of potable water per day. 9. Pak PM Nawaz Sharif has named Lt General Raheel Sharif to the powerful post of the Army chief, superceding the senior-most General. 10. A host of private investors from GCC countries, including a royal family from the UAE have planned to set up the first full-fledged Islamic bank in the euro zone. The Eurisbank will come up in Luxembourg during the last quarter of 2014. ***************************♥♥**************************** For daily Current Affairs; join us on twitter too twitter/sansarlochan
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:08:44 +0000
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