Important CURRENT AFFAIRS : 23rd July 2013. 1. Today is 106th birth anniversary of fearless revolutionary and freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad. 2. Poverty ratio in the country has declined to 21.9 per cent in 2011-12 from 37.2 per cent in 2004-05. 3. India and China are holding the third meeting on border affairs in New Delhi today. 4. Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla has resigned from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board to avoid any conflict of interest as one of his group firm is in the race for a new banking licence, a company spokesperson said Tuesday. 5. India and Nigeria on 22 July 2013 signed an agreement in Abuja to locate sites for solar power plants in Niger state. 6. Arvind Sharma, the Chairman and CEO of Leo Burnett, India subcontinent was re-electedas the President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI). 7. C.P. Srivastava, who was conferred with the Padma Vibhushan in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 1972, died on 22 July 2013 in Genoa, Italy. 8. US Vice President, Joe Biden has arrived New Delhi. 9. The Delhi High Court on Monday introduced online payment of court fee, the first such facility in the country which will save litigants from standing in long queues at the counter. 10. Deeshit Salat, a 24-year-old youth succeeded in applying henna (mehndi) on 420 hands in 27 hours, breaking the existing Guinness world record. 11. The city of Incheon in South Korea has been named World Book Capital for the year 2015 by an international committee of experts representing the book industry and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 12. Jammu & Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather has been elected as the new Chairman of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers on GST. 13. Satish Babu, Director, International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS),has been elected to the 2014 Nominating Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN). 14. 59 Years old Manjula Vijaya kumar the south India yesteryear actor, died in Chennai on 23 July 2013 followed a brief illness. 15. India are placed second in the latest ICC test cricket team ranking after South Africa. 16. Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams remained atop the latest tennis rankings issued on Monday by the ATP and the WTA.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:24:56 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015