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Page-17 of Current Affairs - August, 2013

India, China play key role to break potash cartel

India and China together played a significant role in busting a giant Russia-Belarus potash cartel. This move will benefit the importers of potash and ultimately the cultivators as...

August 3, 2013

Researchers develop CNT-Cu (Carbon Nanotubes and Copper) material using carbon nanotubes for next-gen conductors

Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, have developed a new material called CNT-Cu (Carbon Nanotubes and Copper) which makes possible lighter conductors that...

August 3, 2013

Bhim Sain Bassi is the new Delhi Police Commissioner

Bhim Sain Bassi, the 1977-batch IPS officer of AGMU (Arunachal Pradesh-Goa-Mizoram-Union Territories) cadre has taken over the charge as the 20th Delhi Police Commissioner as he succeeded Neeraj Kumar,...

August 3, 2013

Nationwide survey shows 44 top Indian cities below global median of doctors

The IMS Health Physician and Chemist survey on the state of healthcare in the country disclosed that 44 of the top 120 Indian (metro and non-metro) cities are below the global...

August 3, 2013

RBI lowers GDP growth to 5.7%

The GDP growth for the current fiscal has been fixed lower by the Reserve Bank of India’s professional forecaster’s survey. From the earlier estimation of 6% it has now been...

August 3, 2013

Mechanism behind brains ability to pay attention unveiled

Researchers from Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the University of California Davis have decoded the cellular mechanisms behind human brain’s ability to pay attention to relevant information...

August 3, 2013

Government agrees to share classified hydrological data at a cost

The government has decided to share classified hydrological data at a cost only if the user is able to convince a panel about the requirement. The classified data...

August 3, 2013

Google India introduces “Start Searching India” campaign

Google India introduced ‘Start Searching India’ campaign to help internet users get the most out of the web with its search tool. Objective of “Start Searching India”: To help Indian users...

August 3, 2013

Weakening rupee is biggest risk to inflation: Subbarao

Duvvuri Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, stated that the declining of the rupee is the biggest risk to inflation. RBI left interest rates unchanged as it...

August 3, 2013

BrahMos receives orders worth Rs 25,000 crore

Indo-Russian (49.5 % stake) joint venture, BrahMos Aerospace developed the world’s first supersonic cruise missile and has already bagged orders worth Rs 25,000 crore from the Indian defence...

August 3, 2013

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