Page-16 of Current Affairs - January, 2013

Jayashri competes for Oscar

Playback singer Bombay Jayashri Ramnath, along with composer Mychael Danna, has been nominated in the Original Song category...

📅 January 14, 2013

Government approves Rs.12,517 cr capital infusion in PSBs

The Union Cabinet cleared infusion of Rs.12,517 crore in about 10 Public Sector Banks (PSBs) during the current...

📅 January 13, 2013

Rajiv Takru appointed as Financial Services Secretary

1979-batch IAS officer Rajiv Takru has been appointed as Financial Services Secretary in the Finance Ministry. Mr. Takru...

📅 January 13, 2013

President confers Pravasi Bharatiya Samman on NRIs

President Pranab Mukherjee honored 15 NRIs with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards. Mauritius President Rajkeswur Purryag, who was...

📅 January 13, 2013

France honors Malala with Simone de Beauvoir Prize

France honored Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was shot by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, withSimone...

📅 January 13, 2013

Rangarajan opines to increase taxes on “super-rich”

The chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C. Rangarajan has suggested that increasing taxes on the...

📅 January 13, 2013

Lionel Messi creates record by winning 4th FIFA Ballon d'Or

Lionel Messi added yet another feather in his cap as he won an unprecedented fourth, consecutive, Ballon d’Or...

📅 January 12, 2013

Golden Cleats Awards to Bolt and Fraser-Pryce

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) 2012 Golden Cleats Awards....

📅 January 12, 2013

UIDAI to get new data centre in Gurgaon

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the agency which is implementing the Aadhaar project, will get a new...

📅 January 12, 2013

Scientists develop drug to help paralyzed walk again

As per scientists at Stanford University, they have developed a drug called LM11A-31 which they claim could help...

📅 January 12, 2013