Current Affairs 29th June 2013 - Important Business News

Current Affairs 29th June 2013 - Important Business News

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1. Today is Statistics Day - 7th in a row since 2007. This day calls for strengthening our resolve to revamp the statistical system. The theme chosen is,“Labour & Employment Statistics” is extremely relevant in the context of our State where unemployment is a social issue of serious concern.

2. RBI proposes separate wealth management unit for banks involved in wealth & portfolio management services.

3. Railways on Friday launched SMS-based ticketing with two dedicated numbers -139 and 5676714- for the service.

4. India and China began the 16th round of their border talks here Friday led by their special representatives - National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon from India and State Councillor Yang Jiechi from China.

5. Bimal Jhulka has been appointed as secretary in the information and broadcasting (I&B) ministry. He succeeds U K Verma who retires on June 30.

6. The 64-and-a-half-hour countdown for the launch of PSLV-C22, carrying India's first dedicated navigation satellite IRNSS-1A on July 1, began today at Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota.

7. Reliance Infra that runs the Delhi Airport Metro line has expressed its inability to continue running Delhi Airport Metro after tomorrow.

8. In a reprieve to the suspended Indian Olympic Association, the IOC has decided to extend the deadline for adopting an amended constitution.

9. Shrishti Asthana, a Class 11 student from Millenium School, Mohali has become the only Indian student to make it to the finals of the Google Science Fair, 2013.

10. NASA has launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. It was placed in orbit by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket. The aim of the mission is to study the solar atmosphere.

11. In Wimbledon: Leander Paes & Radek Stepanek to face Jamie Delgado & Matthew Ebden in the second round. In other second round match Mahesh Bhupathi and Julian Knowle will clash with Nicholas Monroe and Simon Stadler.


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