Last week current affairs ----------------- ● Union Government delicensed manufacturing of defense items ● Sudarsan Pattnaik Wins Award at Sand Sculpting World Cup ● 35th National Games to be held in Kerala from 31 January to 14 February 2015 ● GAIL gas pipeline explosion: 15 dead, Oil Minister constitutes committee to probe ● Maharashtra State Cabinet approved reservation for Marathas and Muslims ● Union Government granted Navratna Status to EIL and NBCC ● A.K. Dubey appointed as Chairman of Coal India Limited ● Indian-origin judge V K Rajah appointed as 8th Attorney- Genera l of Singapore ● Union Cabinet approved pact with China for setting up industrial park ● Bhojegowda elected Bar Council of India Vice- Chairman ● Indian men stand at 9th position in IHF rankings ● World’s most powerful telescope ATLAST to be built by NASA to track alien’s life ● Indian-origin Woman Honoured with International Radio Award ● Subramaniam Seeks Withdrawal of Candidature as a Judge of Supreme Court ● Robots can be programmed by casually talking to it: Cornell University Study ● Jitu Rai became first Indian shooter to win three medals in successive ISSF Shooting World Cups ● Switzerland to work with Indian government on tax evasion ● Centre to hike import duty on sugar to 40% from current 15% ● Noted Hindi poet Kedar Nath Singh selected for Jnanpith Award 2013 ● Kodela Siva Prasada Rao elected as the first Assembly speaker of Andhra Pradesh after bifurcation ● Railway passenger fares increased by 14.2 percent ● Salman Rushdie selected for 2014 Pen Pinter prize ● Magnus Carlsen bagged FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship ● India has registered highest number of Facebook users outside US ● Once denied visa, Modi to address US Congress ● Country gets 45% below average rainfall: IMD ● For the first, Pune’s Fergusson College on 26 June 2014 has included the category of third gender in its application forms for academic programs. ● Jean-Claude Juncker on 26 June 2014 was named as the next president of the European Commission. ● Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry on 27 June 2014 upgraded the NIC-1987 to NIC-2008.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:09:47 +0000
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