Current Affairs 06-AUG-2014: -------------------------------------------------------------- For distribution of Doordarshan’s overseas India channel, DD India on a DTH platform, Prasar Bharti inked MoU with Deutsche Welle of Germany. India put on hold all defence procurements from the Italian company Finmeccannica and its affiliate firms in the wake of an alleged chopper scam. Gopal Subramanium, former Solicitor-General withdrew as amicus curiae in Padmanabhaswamy Temple Case. US Congress approved a bill to provide help of 225 million US dollars to Israel for repairing Iron Dome anti-missile defence system. Pran the creator of cartoon character, Chacha died due to cancer of the intestine. He was 75. Lights Out Project was unveiled on 4 August 2014 across Britain to commemorate 100 years of First World War (WW-1). Blencathra Mountain in Britain was in news due to bid made by Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal to buy the mountain range. The geneticist Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys, discoverer of DNA fingerprinting, awarded with Copley Medal 2014 by Royal Society of London. Beijings Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau announced the plans to ban coal use in Beijing by the end of 2020. The 1968 Olympic javelin champion of Hungary, Angela Nemeth, died after a long illness. She was 68. Egypt launched construction work of a new Suez Canal with an aim to speed up the traffic along the existing waterway and boost countries economy.
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:55:23 +0000
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