1. South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant.
2. World’s biggest-ever floating vessel and first ocean-based LNG plant ----"Prelude”
3. Indians seeking British visa will have to pay the visa fees online through debit or credit cards or via e-wallet. The other modes of payments including cash or demand draft will be discontinued from 16th of this month.
4. OPEC agreed on Wednesday to hold its crude production ceiling at 30 million barrels per day despite oversupply concerns and competition from cheaper shale oil.
5. In a landmark development for Indian football, the country was awarded the right to host the 2017 Under-17 FIFA World Cup on Thursday by the world governing body of the game in its executive committee meeting in Brazil.
6. Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, has been awarded the 2013 UN Human Rights Prize, an honour previously given to icons like late Nelson Mandela in recognition of outstanding achievement in human rights.
7. The Reserve Bank of India will soon introduce cash-settled interest rate futures on 10-year government bonds and has also permitted exchanges to launch these derivatives in other smaller tenure securities in the future.
8. The nation is paying homage to Dr. B R Ambedkar on his 58th Mahaparinirvan Diwas today. Floral tributes were paid to the father of the Indian Constitution at his portrait in Parliament House complex, New Delhi.
9. MS Dhoni becomes India's highest scoring ODI captain. The skipper reached 5278 runs in his 152nd ODI, leaving behind former captain Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of 5239 in 174 matches.
10. Astronomers have discovered the most distantly orbiting planet namely "Kepler-62e" and "-f" to date, weighing in at 11 times Jupiter’s mass and revolving its host star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance.
2. World’s biggest-ever floating vessel and first ocean-based LNG plant ----"Prelude”
3. Indians seeking British visa will have to pay the visa fees online through debit or credit cards or via e-wallet. The other modes of payments including cash or demand draft will be discontinued from 16th of this month.
4. OPEC agreed on Wednesday to hold its crude production ceiling at 30 million barrels per day despite oversupply concerns and competition from cheaper shale oil.
5. In a landmark development for Indian football, the country was awarded the right to host the 2017 Under-17 FIFA World Cup on Thursday by the world governing body of the game in its executive committee meeting in Brazil.
6. Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year, has been awarded the 2013 UN Human Rights Prize, an honour previously given to icons like late Nelson Mandela in recognition of outstanding achievement in human rights.
7. The Reserve Bank of India will soon introduce cash-settled interest rate futures on 10-year government bonds and has also permitted exchanges to launch these derivatives in other smaller tenure securities in the future.
8. The nation is paying homage to Dr. B R Ambedkar on his 58th Mahaparinirvan Diwas today. Floral tributes were paid to the father of the Indian Constitution at his portrait in Parliament House complex, New Delhi.
9. MS Dhoni becomes India's highest scoring ODI captain. The skipper reached 5278 runs in his 152nd ODI, leaving behind former captain Mohammad Azharuddin's tally of 5239 in 174 matches.
10. Astronomers have discovered the most distantly orbiting planet namely "Kepler-62e" and "-f" to date, weighing in at 11 times Jupiter’s mass and revolving its host star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance.
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