1.
Rabindranath Tagore, the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in
Literature will be at the centre of celebrations of the Sweden India
Nobel Memorial Week in the country.
2. LIC Housing Finance Ltd has appointed Sunita Sharma as Managing Director and CEO with effect from November 5, 2013.
3. Pakistan on 5 November 2013 successfully test-fired Hatf IX (Nasr)
missile, a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 60 km.
4.
Sri Lanka has approved visa on arrival to Callum Macrae, the Director
of Channel 4 documentaries on Sri Lanka's war crimes, to attend the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting later this month.
5.
Tarla Dalal, noted food writer, chef, best-selling cookbook author and
host of multiple cooking shows, passed away on Wednesday morning.
6. Microsoft has narrowed its list of CEO candidates including India's
Satya Nadella, Ford chief Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen
Elop.
7. Home, auto and consumer loans are expected to become
costlier with the country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI)
raising its lending rates by 20 basis points with effect from Thursday.
The bank has revised the base rate or the minimum lending rate to 10 per
cent from 9.80 per cent, SBI said in a statement.
8. Moderate
Republican Chris Christie easily won re-election as New Jersey
governor, while a conservative Republican popular with the Tea Party
movement narrowly lost his bid for the Virginia governorship, in two
races closely watched for their potential impact on future races for
Congress and the White House.
9. Attacks in Iraq killed 13
people Tuesday, most of them security personnel, officials said, the
latest casualties in a country-wide spike in violence that the
government has failed to stem.
10. Gaganjeet Bhullar, who has
never won the Indian Open, nor a pro title at the Delhi Golf Club gave
himself a great booster by leading his team to a fine win in the Pro-Am
of the 50th Hero Indian Open which kick-started the Golden Jubilee
edition of the tournament, here on Wednesday.
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