Page-10 of Current Affairs - March, 2014

RBI hiked trade related remittance limit from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.5 lakh per transaction

March 22, 2014

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) hiked the trade related remittance limit from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.5 lakh per transaction with immediate effect and also increased the number of transaction handled by exchange houses. The hike in per transaction is ..

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Mr. Nandan Nilekani resigned as UIDAI chairman

March 22, 2014

Mr. Nandan Nilekani resigned as chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and formally joined Congress. Infosys co-founder Mr. Nilekani will contest Lok Sabha polls from Bangalore. Mr. Nandan Nilekani declared that his and wife Rohini’s assets were worth Rs.7,700 ..

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DoT issued new guidelines to tackle the threats of Cyber attack

March 22, 2014

Under the Union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued guidelines to tackle the threats of cyber attacks and hacking of websites. As per new guidelines issued by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), all Internet ..

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SIPRI: India is the world’s largest arms importer

March 22, 2014

As per the report published by the Sweden-based Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), India become the world’s largest arms importer over 2004-13 and its import of weapon systems is three times more than Pakistan and China.  As per the ..

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“Rani-ki-Vav and GHNP” nominated by India for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site Status 2014

March 21, 2014

India nominated Rani-ki-Vav and the Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) for UNESCO’s World Heritage Site Status for 2014. The World Heritage Committee will convene in Doha, Qatar, in June 2014 to review the nomination and take a final decision. Process ..

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Indian soldiers of World War I to be honoured by UK

March 21, 2014

The United Kingdom (UK) will honour the Indian soldiers, who participated in World War-I (WW-I) as part of British India, through a series of events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the conflict of World War I that was started ..

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ATP Indian Wells 2014: Novak Djokovic won BNP Paribas Open by defeating Roger Federer

March 21, 2014

The World No.2 Tennis player, Novak Djokovic won the BNP Paribas Open singles title 2014 by defeating Roger Federer by 3-6, 6-3,7-6 in California. Other winners of BNP Paribas Open 2014 Women’s singles title: Flavia Pennetta (Italy) defeated Agnieszka Radwanska ..

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“HR 5171 A”- the largest ever yellow hypergiant star discovered

March 21, 2014

The astronomers of Oliver Chesneau of the Cote d’Azur Observatory (Nice, France) discovered the largest Yellow star “HR 5171 A” in our Milky way Galaxy. Technique used by astronomers: Interferometry that helps to combine the light collected from multiple individual telescopes, ..

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