Page-13 of Current Affairs - January, 2014

POSCO's steel plant gets environmental clearance

January 13, 2014

India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has given environmental clearance to South Korean steel manufacturer POSCO for its Rs 52,000 crore steel plant in Odisha. The company who made the largest FDI investment in India has got the clearance after a long wait ..

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Trade Deficit of India with China soars to $ 31.42 bn

January 13, 2014

India’s trade deficit with its largest trading partner China reached a humongous $ 31.42 billion as the bilateral trade fell by 1.5% in 2013, recording a declining trend for the second consecutive year. Compared to 2012, India’s trade deficit surged by $ ..

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Social Activist Ila Pathak passed away

January 13, 2014

Well-known Social activist Ila Pathak (80) passed away. Ila Pathak: Born in 1933, she was an active member of Movement for Secular Democracy (MSD) and vice-president of Peoples’ Union for Civil Liberties’ (PUCL). She became the founder secretary of Ahmedabad Women’s ..

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Gorakhpur now has world's longest railway platform

January 13, 2014

A newly constructed railway platform in Gorakhpur, U.P. entered into the Limca Book of World Records for being world’s longest railway platform. Platform No. 1 of the Gorakhpur is 1366.33 metres with ramp and 11355.40 metres without it. Gorakhpur is headquarter of ..

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Rate of gas to be doubled as Government notifies new Gas Pricing Formula

January 13, 2014

On the eve of Petrotech Conference, the Government has given a respite to the gas exploration industries by notifying the new Gas Pricing Formula which will double the rate of gas to $8.4 per unit from April 2014, for all domestic ..

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Trident Group first corporate to pay salaries via Aadhaar Payment Bridge (APB)

January 13, 2014

Diversified business house Trident Group became the first corporate to use Aadhaar Payment Bridge (APB) for payment of salaries to its employees. The facility launched in the presence of Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Unique Identification Authority ..

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India's first indigenously developed stratospheric balloon penetrates into mesosphere

January 13, 2014

For the first time in India, an indigenously developed stratospheric balloon penetrated into the Mesosphere. It is developed at the Balloon Facility, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad under the High Altitude Balloon Development Project (HAA). Till yet, only balloons ..

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FM: Plan to open 10,000 bank branches a year from next fiscal

January 13, 2014

The Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram stated that in order to take the banking services to rural areas, the Centre has revised its target upwards to opening 10,000 new bank branches a year from the next financial year. Thus, an ..

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