4th September 2013 Current Affairs Updates on Daily GK News
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1. Raghuram G. Rajan took over as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India today. The 50-year-old economist took charge from D. Subbarao.
2. Faced with a tough economy and unstable rupee against the dollar, new RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday stressed the need for monetary stability saying it was a top priority.
3. In order to encourage capital flows, the RBI today eased the External Commercial Borrowing, ECB norms by allowing companies to use funds raised from foreign partners for general corporate purposes.
4. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed Rakesh Sood, India’s former Ambassador to Nepal, Afghanistan and France and the country’s first Ambassador in charge of Disarmament in Geneva, as his new Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.
5. Noted Indian homeopath Mukesh Batra has been honoured with Asia's "most promising leader" award at a recent function in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for pioneering work in healthcare, using natural medicine.
6. Ronald Coase, the British-born US economist who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1991, died today in Chicago, the University of Chicago announced. He was 102. He studied at the University of London and London School of Economics and was famed for his 1960 article, “The Problem of Social Cost,” was the basis for the famous Coase Theorem.
7. The HRD Minister Dr. M M Pallam Raju today inaugurated the Sixth Global Skills Summit (GSS) at FICCI today. This two day FICCI annual event is being organized in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Labour and Employment and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
8. India and Japan on Tuesday agreed to "intensify" their negotiations on the civil nuclear pact towards an early conclusion at a high-level official meeting in Tokyo.
9. The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal for setting up of the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) as an independent charitable society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
10. In yet another victory for the security forces, Hizbul Mujahideen’s self styled commander Talib Lali was arrested from his native Ajas in Bandipore on Wednesday.
11. Tommy Morrison, the former heavy weight champion, who was diagnosed positive for HIV died atthe age of 44. As a boxer, he was nicknamed as The Duke and in his entire boxing career; he played 52 professional fights and lost only 3 of them.
Read Also: Current Affairs 3rd September 2013
Read Also: Current Affairs 3rd September 2013
1. Raghuram G. Rajan took over as the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India today. The 50-year-old economist took charge from D. Subbarao.
2. Faced with a tough economy and unstable rupee against the dollar, new RBI governor, Raghuram Rajan on Wednesday stressed the need for monetary stability saying it was a top priority.
3. In order to encourage capital flows, the RBI today eased the External Commercial Borrowing, ECB norms by allowing companies to use funds raised from foreign partners for general corporate purposes.
4. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed Rakesh Sood, India’s former Ambassador to Nepal, Afghanistan and France and the country’s first Ambassador in charge of Disarmament in Geneva, as his new Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.
5. Noted Indian homeopath Mukesh Batra has been honoured with Asia's "most promising leader" award at a recent function in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for pioneering work in healthcare, using natural medicine.
6. Ronald Coase, the British-born US economist who was awarded the Nobel prize in 1991, died today in Chicago, the University of Chicago announced. He was 102. He studied at the University of London and London School of Economics and was famed for his 1960 article, “The Problem of Social Cost,” was the basis for the famous Coase Theorem.
7. The HRD Minister Dr. M M Pallam Raju today inaugurated the Sixth Global Skills Summit (GSS) at FICCI today. This two day FICCI annual event is being organized in collaboration with Ministry of Human Resource Development, Ministry of Labour and Employment and National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).
8. India and Japan on Tuesday agreed to "intensify" their negotiations on the civil nuclear pact towards an early conclusion at a high-level official meeting in Tokyo.
9. The Union Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal for setting up of the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) as an independent charitable society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
10. In yet another victory for the security forces, Hizbul Mujahideen’s self styled commander Talib Lali was arrested from his native Ajas in Bandipore on Wednesday.
11. Tommy Morrison, the former heavy weight champion, who was diagnosed positive for HIV died atthe age of 44. As a boxer, he was nicknamed as The Duke and in his entire boxing career; he played 52 professional fights and lost only 3 of them.
Read Also: Current Affairs 3rd September 2013
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