DailyCurrent Affairs : 7th November 2013 1. Tarla Dalal, one of the first celebrity chefs of India as well as prolific cookbook writer died on 6 November 2013 due to heart attack in Mumbai. 2. India’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on 6 November 2013 increased its lending rates by 0.20 percent with effect from 7 November 2013. 3. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 6 November 2013 permitted the Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (WOS) of the foreign banks to acquire the domestic private sector banks. 4. India home to 103 billionaires; 6th largest globally. 5. Sunita Sharma was on 6 November 2013 appointed as the managing director and chief executive director of the LIC Housing Finance. 6. The government today appointed Prem Narain as the Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs Ministry in place of Rajiv Mehrishi, who is now new Fertilisers Secretary. 7. Yogesh Malik resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of Uninor, Norwegian telecom giant Telenor’s India unit on 7 November 2013. 8. Central Election Commission (CEC) of Tajikistan on 6 November 2013 declared that Imomali Rakhmon was re-elected as the President of Tajikistan. 9. Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited (HUDCO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi. 10. The US and India have launched the third India-US-Africatriangular agricultural training programme at the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE). 11. The Minister of Railways Mallikarjun Kharge flagged off the first ever Dual Cab 4500 HP Freight Diesel locomotive called Vijay from Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW), Varanasi, a production unit of Indian Railways, on 6 November 2013. 12. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of India reconstituted the Medical Council of India (MCI) on 6 November 2013 with 68 members. 13. K Rahman Khan, the Union Minister of Minority Affairs inaugurated the National Conference on the Wakf (Amendment) Act, 2013 in New Delhi on 6 November 2013. 14. Scientists discovered a black hole in a collection of stars in the constellation Ophiuchus, which is about 22000 light years from Earth. 15. Hawk 132 inducted into the Indian Navy. 16. Gross Direct Tax Collections during April-October in 2013-14 up by 11.58 Percent. 17. Russia launched the Olympic torch into space on Thursday, as part of the flame’s journey ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The Sochi Winter Olympics are due to begin on February 7 next year.
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 04:29:53 +0000