Wednesday 15 January 2014

Current Affair 15- Jan 2014

The police have reportedly arrested two men and are questioning two others in the gang-rape case of a Danish woman, that has rocked the newly formed Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi

A Samajwadi Party leader, involved in a number of criminal cases, was shot dead by some persons, riding a motorcycle, in broad daylight in Barabanki on Wednesday.

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.

British PM David Cameron has ordered a probe into claims by an MP that Margaret Thatcher's government assisted India in the Operation Blue Star in 1984.

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.

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 Rao's.

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.

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.

Pakistan's capital Islamabad was declared the most expensive city in the country, while Karachi was the second among the cheapest cities, a media report said.

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.

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.

Scientists have found that the first placental mammal lived between 88.3 to 91.6 million years ago, suggesting that the ancestor of humans shared the planet with dinosaurs.

A court here rejected the bail plea of Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal in a sexual assault case. Tejpal has spent exactly a month and a half cumulatively in both police as well as judicial custody.

Finance minister P. Chidambaram says Indian economy will recover step by step in the next three years

A benchmark index of Indian equities markets Wednesday closed 256 points or 1.22 per cent higher on fall in headline inflation in December.

Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams raced into the third round of the Australian Open and out of the heat on Wednesday as controversy over play continuing in scorching temperatures rumbled on for a second day.

Top Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu, Parupalli Kashyap and Kidambi Srikanth made winning starts in the New Year, notching up first round wins at the $500,000 Malaysia Open Super Series Premier here Wednesday.

New Zealand defeat West Indies by 4 wickets, seal series Wellington: New Zealand inflicted a further defeat on the West Indies in their second Twenty20 international on Wednesday to bring a dismal end to the visiting team`s tour.

Zaka Ashraf was elected chairman for a four-year term under a new PCB constitution but the court suspended him after a petition challenging the transparency of the process.

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