TOP 10 CURRENT AFFAIRS - 15.01.2014 1. The average life expectancy of people in the country has increased by 5 years since 2004 due to consistent investments in public health sector by the government. 2. British PM David Cameron has ordered a probe into claims by an MP that Margaret Thatchers government assisted India in the Operation Blue Star in 1984. 3. Smt. Krishna Tirath, Minister for Women & Child Development inaugurated a two-day National Convention on ‘Three Years of Completion of the RTE Act” in New Delhi. 4. Google announced it is buying smart thermostat start-up Nest in a deal valued at USD 3.2 billion. 5. With the government giving BHEL Chairman B Prasada Rao a two-year extension, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) Chairman R S Butola may be the next in line to get a post-retirement service extension as his case is similar to that of Raos. 6. Noting that India continues to suffer from low, but improving, levels of economic freedom, the latest Index of Economic Freedom ranks the nation 120th globally and 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. 7. Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka have signed a landmark labour pact in a renewed bid to regulate hiring of domestic workers from the island nation and to ensure protection to those who were already employed in the kingdom. 8. Pakistans capital Islamabad was declared the most expensive city in the country, while Karachi was the second among the cheapest cities, a media report said. 9. The Union Government extended the term of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman U K. Sinha for a period of two years on 14 January 2014. 10. A researcher at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in Kolkata has become the first Indian to win the Young Investigator Award from a renowned international scientific organisation.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 06:04:13 +0000
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