Page-8 of Current Affairs - November, 2013
India wins significant support on the issue of emission cuts affecting farmers: Warsaw Climate talks
In a development favorable to the developing countries, India has managed to turn the focus of the ongoing climate negotiations in Warsaw (Poland’s capital) on adapting agricultural practices to climate change and not on costly emission reduction measures that would ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
Category: Places in News Current Affairs
U.S. to emerge as world's top oil producer in 2015: IEA
According to International Energy Agency (IEA), the United States will leave behind Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world’s top oil producer in 2015. This development will enable the US to become almost self-sufficient reducing its dependency on OPEC supply. However, the IEA ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
Category: International / World Current Affairs
China introduces new reforms, to allow market play decisive role
Chinese government has introduced a slew of reforms focused at markets in order to check its sliding growth. Objective: The reforms are aimed at giving the market a decisive role in the allocation of resources. However, the government has retained ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
Register all records of equitable mortgages with CERSAI: RBI to NBFCs
All Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) have been advised by the RBI to file and register the records of all equitable mortgages created in their favour on or after March 31, 2011 with the Central Registry of Securitization Asset Reconstruction and ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
CBI will get functional autonomy but is under norms of executive: Fin Min
As per Finance Minister P Chidambaram, who chaired the Group of Ministers on the issue of imparting autonomy to CBI, government will give functional autonomy to it but the agency would be governed by the general rules of the executive ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
Category: Legal & Constitution Current Affairs
Researchers working to replace computer passwords with Biometrics
Scientists at Purdue University (USA) are working on technology that could replace passwords used in computer with biometrics such as iris and fingerprint scans. As per experts, iris and fingerprint scans as well as facial and voice recognition some of ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
Category: Science & Technology Current Affairs
Over 34,000 public sector banks branches to lose Windows XP support from April, 2014
As per a study conducted by software giant Ascentius Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, over 34,000 branches of Indian public sector banks would become susceptible as the popular Windows XP operating system would no longer be supported by Microsoft from ..
Month: Current Affairs - November, 2013
Android phone market share rose to 81%
As per a survey by IDC, the penetration of Google’s Android platform enhanced such that it is used on four out of five smartphones sold worldwide. Microsoft’s Windows Phone too registered sharp rise with an increase of 156% in sales. ..