Current Affairs
MONTH:JULY, DATE:15, YEAR:2013
1. A special Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced a top leader to 90 years in prison for masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war. Ghulam Azam, 90, the wartime head of the Jamaat-e-Islami and now its spiritual leader, was found guilty of all five charges by the controversial International Crimes Tribunal.
2. Supreme Court refuses to entertain PIL challenging appointment of CAG. The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a PIL challenging appointment of Shashi Kant Sharma as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). A bench headed by Chief Justice Altamas Kabir asked the petitioners, including former Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami and former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral (retd) R H Tahiliani, to approach the high court which is "equally equipped to deal with the matter".
3. The 163-year old telegram service in the country - the indication of good and bad news for generations of Indians – comes to an end.
4. Sri Lanka has banned a film about the island nation’s ethnic conflict and civil war because it insults the government and its military, a government spokesman said on Monday. The film, “Flying Fish,” was banned in Sri Lanka because the film’s creators used images of the Sri Lankan military uniform without permission from the Ministry of Defense
5. The RBI has imposed fines totalling Rs 49.5 crore on 22 private and public sector banks including SBI, PNB and Yes Bank for violating KYC/anti-money laundering norms.
6. Japan may nationalise any unclaimed remote islands in its waters in a bid to bolster its territorial claims.
7. Grandmaster and former world junior champion Abhijeet Gupta has won the Commonwealth Chess Championship title.
8. US sprinter Tyson Gay and Jamaica's former 100 meter world record holder Asafa Powell have failed drug tests.
9. State-run ONGC Videsh has emerged as the Indian company having the most international exposure, replacing Tata Steel, according to a survey.
10. Periodic jumps generated in the Earth’s core change the length of a day every 5.9 years on our planet, a new study has found.
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