IASIBPS: JULY 06

Education

Current Affairs

MONTH:JULY, DATE:06, YEAR:2013

1. Nasscom, the IT software services industry body appointed R. Chandrasekhar, the former Secretary Department of Telecommunications (DoT), as its president.

2. According UN report India is on track to meet the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of poverty reduction by 2015. According Report: In India, the poverty rate fell from 49 per cent in 1994 to 42 per cent in 2005 and to 33 per cent in 2010. If the current pace continues, India will meet the poverty reduction target by 2015.

3. In defiance of the United States, two Latin American countries - Venezuela and Nicaragua – on Saturday offered asylum to Edward Snowden, leaker of the US secretive surveillance programme.

4. UAE Exchange, one of the largest foreign exchange firms in the United Arab Emirates, has applied to RBI for a banking license in India. UAE Exchange Managing director and Chief executive Dr BR Shetty said that the group has been present in India since 1999 and has strong presence in other countries, from where Indian expatriates send money to their families in India.

5. Ratings agency Crisil Friday assigned 'AAA' ratings to India Infradebt Limited, the country's first infrastructure debt fund under the non-banking finance company structure.

6. France's Marion Bartoli won her first Grand Slam title with a dominant 6-1 6-4 victory over Germany's Sabine Lisicki in the Wimbledon final.

7. The Argentine men’s hockey team secured qualification for the 2014 World Cup by defeating England 3-1 in Saturday’s semifinal at the current World League Round 3 tournament held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

8. The storm system Erick has strengthened to a hurricane off the Pacific coast of Mexico. The US National Hurricane Center in Miami says Erick became a hurricane on Saturday and is centered about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Manzanillo and about 510 miles (820 kilometers) southeast of the southern tip of Baja California. It is moving northwest at 9 mph (15 kph) and has maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (110 kph).

9. BJP’s Madhya Pradesh unit today suspended its senior leader Shiv Shankar Pateria from the primary membership of the party, hours after he claimed he had a role in “exposing” the alleged immoral acts of Ragahvji, who resigned as Finance Minister after the scandal surfaced.

10. Kick starting the process of coal blocks allocation; the government has allocated 14 coal mines to Central and state PSUs, including four to NTPC.