Page-30 of Current Affairs - February, 2013

Pakistan gives Gwadar port to China for operations

February 5, 2013

Pakistan has handed over the operations responsibility of its strategically located Gwadar port to China’s Overseas Port Holdings. Previously it was with Singapore’s PSA (Port of Singapore Authority) International. Why the port offered to China? There occurred some discords b/w ..

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UK bans sale of five invasive non-native aquatic plants

February 5, 2013

The British Government, for the first time, has declared to impose a ban over the sale of five species of invasive non-native aquatic plants. Why this ban? According to UK’s Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) invasive species are plants or animals ..

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Microsoft takes Office to the cloud

February 5, 2013

Now, people can subscribe to Office 365 as a service in the Internet cloud, obviating the need to buy the popular productivity software on a disk. How would it benefit users? This service would allow the customers to use the ..

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SEBI permits HSEL to exit

February 4, 2013

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has allowed the erstwhile Hyderabad Stock Exchange (now Hyderabad Securities and Enterprises Limited (HSEL)) to exit as a stock exchange. HSEL has shifted the companies listed exclusively on it to the dissemination ..

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RIM renamed as BlackBerry

February 4, 2013

Developer of Blackberry, Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) is changing its name to BlackBerry to refresh its tarnished image as it begins marketing a reengineered line of BlackBerry 10 smartphones. CEO of the company Thorsten Heins announced this as the ..

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India falls nine places to 140th rank in World Press Freedom Index

February 4, 2013

India has stumbled nine places to 140th position in the list of 179 countries in the latest World Press Freedom Index2013. India’s show is worst since 2002. The decline is attributed to increasing impunity for violence against journalists and because ..

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