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GIST OF NEWS - 07 JANUARY 2016

GIST OF NEWS - 07^th January 2016

·         North Korea declared that it had detonated its first hydrogen bomb.

·         The maximum characters allowed in a Tweet are 140. Twitter is exploring increasing its limits on text to as many as 1000.

·         The union cabinet approves closure of HMT Watches. Two unviable units of the public sector company, HMT Chinar watches and HMT Bearings, are also to be shut down.

·         Emission control: India to go straight to BS – VI from 2020. (leapfrog from Bharat Stage-IV to BS-VI)

·         Road Transport & Highways minister Nitin Gadkari.

·         PAN Card is mandatory for purchases over Rs.2 lakhs at Jewellery shop. Jewellers want to increase the limit to Rs.10 lakh.GIST OF NEWS - 07^th January 2016

·         North Korea declared that it had detonated its first hydrogen bomb.

·         The maximum characters allowed in a Tweet are 140. Twitter is exploring increasing its limits on text to as many as 1000.

·         The union cabinet approves closure of HMT Watches. Two unviable units of the public sector company, HMT Chinar watches and HMT Bearings, are also to be shut down.

·         Emission control: India to go straight to BS – VI from 2020. (leapfrog from Bharat Stage-IV to BS-VI)

·         Road Transport & Highways minister Nitin Gadkari.

·         PAN Card is mandatory for purchases over Rs.2 lakhs at Jewellery shop. Jewellers want to increase the limit to Rs.10 lakh.

GIST OF NEWS - 06.01.2016

GIST OF NEWS - 06^th January 2016

·         Mumbai school cricketer Pranav Dhanwade became the first player in the world to score 1000 runs (1009 runs not out off 323 balls) in a single innings, surpassing a 117 year old record held by AEJ Collin’s who scored 628 in 1899.

Dhanwade is a student of class 10 of KC Gandhi school, Kalyan.

·         Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) President – Sumit Mazumder

·         BCCI Awards

International Cricketer of the year 2014-15          Virat Kohli (Test Captain)

Col.C.K.Naidu Lifetime Achievement award         Syed Kirmani (Former Indian Wicket keeper)

·         President of BCCI – Shashank Manohar

·         Supreme court upheld a temporary ban on the sale of large diesel cars with 2000 cc and above in New Delhi to combat toxic smog in the Capital.

·         One basis point is equal to one-hundredth of a percentage point

·         State Bank of India wants the centre to consider differential interest rates on small savings according to age groups.

·         Reserve Bank of India has agreed to share relevant extracts of its bank inspection reports with a central economic intelligence wing to help it check money laundering and violation of other banking laws.

GIST OF NEWS - JAN 5, 2016

Gist of News - 05.01.2016

NASSCOM - National Association of Software and Services Companies.

CRILC - Central Repository of Information on Large Credits

Abidali Neemuchwala took over as Chief Executive Officer of Wipro from TK Kurian.

SBI to set up special branch for catering exclusively to the growing banking needs of startup companies at Bangaluru.

IDBI raised 1900 crores through 2 different separate Basel III compliant tier II bonds on private placement basis. In december, SBI had raised 4000 crore by issuing tier II bonds on private placement basis under the Basel III norms.

RBI imposed penalty of 1 crore on SBI for violation on reporting data to CRILC. Banks are required to report credit information including SMA (Special Mention Accounts) to CRILC on all borrowers having aggregate Fund based and non fund based exposure of Rs.5 crore and above with them.

CURRENT AFFAIRS - DECEMBER 2010

Current Affairs December 2010
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Award

Bopanna-Qureshi, with their message 'Stop War Start Tennis'. fetches the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year award during the ATP World Tour Finals at London

Lata Mangeshkar has been presented lifetime achievement award at the Global Indian Music Awards(GIMA) 2010

Kumar Raman from Syntel has won QAI's software testing award at the 10th Annual Software Testing Conference 2010 for his paper titled 'Healthcare Testing for the Compliance Era'


Book

At 96, Khushwant Singh pens a book 'The Sunset Club', that will be released on November 30th 2010 by Gurcharan Kaur


Business

Motorola to split into 2 companies on January 4th 2011. The split will result in Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions and businesses to focus on cellphones and Internet and other equipments

Tata Motors has launched its mini-truck 'Ace Super City' in Thailand, to enter the Thai car market soon

Qualcomm India to launch Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) services in 2nd half of 2011

HCL signs a multi-year IT infrastructure management deal with Prudue Pharma

Google to launch e-book store venture in Jan-Mar 2011

TCS opens BPO center in Phillippines

Lubrizol opens Applications and Business Center in Mumbai

Mastek acquires assets of American firm SEG Software

Hughes Communications India to provide broadband satellite and managed network services, has bagged two contracts from public sector banks worth about $12 million


Event

The Society of Indian American Engineers and Architects (SIAEA) held an annual gala at the Grand Hyatt in New York Ciy. The theme for 2010 was "Helping Rebuild America" keeping in the view the slowdown of the economy

Indian Trade Fair to be held in Poland on December 4th 2010, to focus on B2B meets and showcase a range of products

9th Agro Tech 2010 to be held in Chandigarh between December 3rd to December 6th


People

Jaigopal Tiwari aged 64, ex-IAF serviceman goes back to college to spread awareness of basic laws among poor people. Tiwari has enrolled at Deena Ram Public Law College, Robertsganj, in Sonbhadra district

Kiran Kumar Reddy is the 16th Chief minister of Andhra Pradesh

LIC has appointed VK Sharma as the chief executive officer of LIC Housing Finance with effect from November 25

Vishal Bali appointed CEO of Fortis Global Healthcare

Kamalkar Kaul has been appointed as Chief Strategy Officer for EMC's government business

Sabrina Bachai aged 23 of Long Island has been crowned Mazza Miss India New York 2010

Jace Johnson, former Chief of staff of Sen. Orrin G.Hatch(R-Utah) has been appointed as the Vice President of Government Affairs and Public Policy with Adobe Systems

Dr.Arogyaswami Paulraj, co-founder of Beceem Communications Inc. has been named the recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal


Rank

Gulmarg rated Asia's 7th best ski resort


Sports

Peter Siddle becomes the 10th Australian and 38th player to get a hat-trick in test match cricket on 25th Nov 2010

Zaheer Khan ranked 3rd in the ICC Test Rankings

ICC ODI league to commence after World Cup 2011

Russia and Qatar to host FIFA World Cup 2018 and 2022 respectively


Technology

Acer is set to launch 5, 7 and 10 inch tablets in April 2011

Google Earth has launched the newer version, 6

Hewlett-Packard unveils its latest range of large-format printers priced at Rs.5,50,000(T2300), Rs.6,50,000(T7100) and Rs.9,00,000(Z6200)