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Page-5 of Current Affairs - August, 2014

Snapdeal partners with Tata Value Homes to sell affordable housing on its platform

Snapdeal has partnered Tata Value Homes in order to sell the latter’s affordable apartments on its e-commerce platform. This is the first an e-commerce company has tied up...

August 26, 2014

Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards for 2012 declared

Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Awards for the year 2012 were declared by Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan. The awards are awarded...

August 26, 2014

Hindi Sevi Samman for 2010 and 2011 presented by President Pranab Mukherjee

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented the Hindi Sevi Samman for the years 2010 and 2011: Various Categories included:  Ganga Sharan Singh Award (For work in the...

August 26, 2014

BSF & BGB agreed on vulnerability mapping to implement CBMP along Bangladesh border

An agreement has been reached between the Border Security Force (BSF) and Board Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to carry out vulnerability mapping in every 6 months. It will be...

August 26, 2014

NASA to launch SMAP satellite in November 2014

American space agency NASA has planned to launch Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite in November 2014. It is part of the first tier of missions recommended for...

August 26, 2014

'Coal block allocations from 1993 to 2010 illegal, done arbitrarily': Supreme Court

The Supreme Court declared illegal all coal block allocations between 1993 and 2010, saying these were done in an unfair, arbitrary and non-transparent manner without following any objective criteria....

August 26, 2014

“The Green Bus project”: India‘s first ethanol-run public bus launched in Nagpur

India launched “The Green Bus project” in Nagpur with the launch of its first ethanol-run, environment-friendly public bus. The bus will emit carbon dioxide as low as 15%...

August 26, 2014

Oscar-winning director and actor Richard Attenborough passed away

Eminent Oscar-winning British director and actor Richard Attenborough (90) passed away. In his six-decade long career, he appeared in movies including Brighton Rock, World War Two prisoner of war...

August 26, 2014

General Prayuth Chan-ocha is new PM of Thailand

Thailand’s military’s top official, General Prayuth Chan-ocha (60), has been named the new Prime Minister of the country. Gen Prayuth was nominated in a legislature chosen by the junta...

August 25, 2014

All about Richard Attenborough

A well known actor-cum-director Richard Samuel Attenborough died at the age of 90 on August 24, 2014. Career He had served in Royal Air Force during WWII before...

August 25, 2014

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