Page-20 of Current Affairs - January, 2013

Rajiv Takru appointed as Financial Services Secretary

January 13, 2013

1979-batch IAS officer Rajiv Takru has been appointed as Financial Services Secretary in the Finance Ministry. Mr. Takru will take over as Secretary, Department of Financial Services, from outgoing Dinesh Kumar Mittal. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed ..

Month: 

Category: 

President confers Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on NRIs

January 13, 2013

President Pranab Mukherjee honored 15 NRIs with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards. Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag, who was the chief guest at the inaugural of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, was also one among the awardees. Other Recipients of the Award: ..

Month: 

Category: 

France honors Malala with Simone de Beauvoir Prize

January 13, 2013

France honored Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, withSimone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom. Malala Yousafzai was undergoing treatment at a British hospital and is awaiting reconstructive surgery on her ..

Month: 

Category: 

Rangarajan opines to increase taxes on “super-rich”

January 13, 2013

The chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C. Rangarajan has suggested that increasing taxes on the “super-rich” could be one of the ways to improve the tax-to-GDP ratio. He opined two ways to improve tax-to GDP ratio: To ..

Month: 

Category: 

Lionel Messi creates record by winning 4th FIFA Ballon d'Or

January 12, 2013

Lionel Messi added yet another feather in his cap as he won an unprecedented fourth, consecutive, Ballon d’Or at a FIFA gala in Zurich. The awards makes Messi’s status as the greatest player of his generation after he left behing ..

Month: 

Category: 

Golden Cleats Awards to Bolt and Fraser-Pryce

January 12, 2013

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) 2012 Golden Cleats Awards. Bolt and Fraser-Pryce took the male and female athletes of the year awards for their astounding performances at the London Olympic Games. ..

Month: 

Category: 

UIDAI to get new data centre in Gurgaon

January 12, 2013

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency which is implementing the Aadhaar project, will get a new data centre at Manesar town in Gurgaon, Haryana. The centre would serve as central repository for UIDAI to store basic demographic and ..

Month: 

Category: 

Scientists develop drug to help paralyzed walk again

January 12, 2013

As per scientists at Stanford University, they have developed a drug called LM11A-31 which they claim could help paralyzed people walk again. During tests on mice with no movement in their lower limbs, the drug was found to allow them ..

Month: 

Category: