GIST OF CURRENT AFFAIRS (10.08.2013) 1.Indigenous cryogenic engine to power GSLV-D5 on Aug. 19 As Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D5) is slated to lift off around 5 p.m. on August 19 from Sriharikota, and various checks showing that the vehicle is in the pink of its health, the mood is one of optimism at the spaceport.The mission’s significance….. 2. Justice is still teething, 15 years on On July 17, 1998, the Rome Statute for establishing a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) was adopted: 120 countries voted it in, the United States, Iraq, China, Israel, Qatar, Yemen and Libya voted against, and 21 countries abstained, India among them….. 3. Crisis looms on the horizon Till barely a month ago, industry was pleading with the Reserve Bank of India to end the high interest rate regime that has brought its growth to a standstill and caused a wholesale…… 4. Squaring the Turkish circle The conviction by Turkish courts of 275 military officers, politicians, academics, and journalists, after a five-year trial on terrorism charges, has exposed fundamental differences over the very nature of the Turkish state; it has also deepened the confrontation……. 5. A year of curiosity Curiosity — the car-sized remote vehicle with an array of sophisticated instruments — may have travelled only a little more than 1.6 km within the Gale Crater on Mars as it completed one year on the red planet August 6, but the invaluable information it has sent back has certainly changed….. 6. Why Telangana needs Hyderabad Now that the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) have announced their backing for Telangana’s Statehood, the economic prospects and growth potential of India’s proposed 29th State have once more come to the fore…… 7. Good potential for growth in Telangana If having good road infrastructure and owning a vehicle, computer and mobile phone are indicators of growing mobility and connectivity, the people of soon to be State of Telangana are on firm ground, compared with the rest of Andhra Pradesh’s Seemandhra region.According to the AP Census data of 2012….. 8. Mineral resources hold promise in Telangana Telangana, excluding Hyderabad, may have been lagging behind coastal Andhra Pradesh in industrial growth in the last few years. But the region can expect a burst of industrial activity, given the mineral resources it is endowed with. Its biggest challenge….. 9. Telangana: The economic realities of a new state Andhra Pradesh stands at a historic T-junction. The largest south Indian State, with 23 districts, is on the verge of bifurcation, with Telangana (10 districts) set to emerge as the 29th State in the Indian Union…….
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