Friday, 11 April 2014

News Capsule upto 21MAR14

World Poetry Day observed across the world

Published on: 21-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 38 people agreed
World Poetry Day observed on 21 March 2014

The Sahara Testaments written by Tade Ipadeola

Published on: 21-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 21 people agreed
The Sahara Testaments was written by Nigerian poet, Tade Ipadeola.

Sharp rise in asylum industrialised countries: UNHCR report Asylum Trends 2013

Published on: 21-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 13 people agreed
UNHCR report Asylum Trends 2013 claims sharp rise in asylum in 44 industrialised countries, primarily driven by the Syrian crisis.

Wipro and Tata Power among world's most ethical firms

Published on: 21-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 20 people agreed
Ethisphere Institute’s 2014 list of World's Most Ethical Companies marked Wipro and Tata Power as the only Indian entities.

UN observed International Day of Forest

Published on: 21-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 9 people agreed
International Day of Forests was observed by the United Nation on 21 March 2014.

KC Chakrabarty, Deputy Governor of RBI resigned before end of term

Published on: 21-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 37 people agreed
Deputy Governor of RBI, Dr KC Chakrabarty resigned from the office on 20 March 2014 three months ahead of the completion of the term.

Aditi Khanna became first women President of Indian Journalist's Association

Published on: 20-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 63 people agreed
Aditi Khanna became the first women President of Indian Journalists’ Association (IJA) in London in its 67-years long history.

World Sparrow Day observed across the world

Published on: 20-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 18 people agreed
World Sparrow Day was observed on 20 March 2014

Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared in the South China Sea

Published on: 20-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 64 people agreed
Malaysia Airlines MH370 disappeared in the South China Sea.

Khushwant Singh, the renowned author and journalist died

Published on: 20-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 29 people agreed
The renowned author and journalist Khushwant Singh died on 20 March 2014 at the age of 99 in Delhi. He was mainly famous as the best storyteller.

PEACE-Promoting Energy Access through Clean Energy

Published on: 20-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 17 people agreed
PEACE is a MoU between India and US to promote increase the energy access and to develop several priority activites.

Pro-Russian forces seized Ukraine’s Navy headquarters in Sevastopol

Published on: 20-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 10 people agreed
Ukraine’s Navy Headquarters in Crimean, Sevastopol was seized by the pro-Russian forces. It also detained Navy Chief of the country, Serhiy Hayduk.

India ranked 4th in spam e-mails export: Microsoft Report

Published on: 19-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 33 people agreed
India ranked fourth among the countries sending out spam e-mails with malicious content report released by Microsoft

Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare won audience choice award in North Carolina film festival

Published on: 19-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 32 people agreed
Ekhon Nedekha Nadir Xipaare (As River Flows), an Assamese thriller film won the audience choice award in North Carolina film festival.

UK decided to honour the Indian heroes of World War I

Published on: 18-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 49 people agreed
UK to honour the Indian soldiers (participants of World War I) through a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the war.

India is the world’s largest arms importer: SIPRI

Published on: 18-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 31 people agreed
SIPRI in its data on international arms transfers claimed India as largest importer of weapon systems, which is three times more than Pakistan and China.

Gyan Correa bagged the Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013

Published on: 18-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 16 people agreed
Gyan Correa bagged the 17th Gollapudi Srinivas National Award 2013 for his debut film as a director, The Good Road in Gujarati.

India nominated Rani-ki-Vav and GHNP for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site Status

Published on: 18-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 24 people agreed
India nominated Rani-ki-Vav located in Patan, Gujarat and GHNP in HP for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site Status.

Divide between the rich and poor in UK is Widening: Oxfam Research Report

Published on: 18-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 19 people agreed
A Tale of Two Britains research report concluded that the divide between the rich and poor in the United Kingdom has widened.

Tomas Halik won Templeton Prize 2014

Published on: 15-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 173 people agreed
Tomas Halik won the Templeton Prize for 2014

FICCI-KPMG report on Indian Civil Aviation released

Published on: 15-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 14 people agreed
The FICCI-KPMG report on Indian civil aviation released at the Hyderabad

T C Teli, former Arunachal Pradesh Minister died

Published on: 15-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 10 people agreed
Former Arunachal Pradesh Minister, TC Teli died on 14 March 2014 in Itanagar at 50. He is now survived by his two wives, four sons and five daughters.

GK Pillai resigned as Chairman of MCX-SX

Published on: 15-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 30 people agreed
GK Pillai resigned as Chairman of MCX-SX and will be succeeded by Thomas Mathew T.

Former Sierra Leone President, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah died

Published on: 15-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 12 people agreed
Former president and leader of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah died in Freetown at the age of 82.

US grand jury re-indicted Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the Visa fraud case

Published on: 15-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 17 people agreed
Grand jury of US indicted Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who was accused for visa fraud and for under paying her housekeeper.

Nandan Nilekani resigned as chairman of UIDAI

Published on: 14-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 124 people agreed
Nandan Nilekani resigned as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.

World Kidney Day observed across the World

Published on: 13-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 38 people agreed
World Kidney Day was observed annually on the second Thursday in March. The theme of World Kidney day of 2014 is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and aging.

President presented the Standard and Colours Award

Published on: 13-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 40 people agreed
President Pranab Mukherjee on 12 March 2014 presented the President's Standard and Colours Award.

Indian diplomat Khobragade had diplomatic immunity at time of indictment: US court

Published on: 13-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 16 people agreed
Court of US ruled that Devyani Khobragade had full diplomatic immunity at the time of indictment on visa fraud and underpaying her maid.

Soma Mondal appointed first Women director of NALCO

Published on: 13-MAR-2014
Important for Exam: 51 people agreed
Soma Mondal on 12 March 2014 was appointed as the first woman director (commercial) of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO)

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