Page-27 of Current Affairs - June, 2014

India's HSBC services PMI expands for first time in nearly a year

June 4, 2014

Motivated by a spurt in new business, India’s giant services industry stretched for the first time in a year in May 2014. HSBC Services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), accumulated by Markit, climbed to 50.2 in May 2014 from 48.5 in April 2014, ..

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Pakistan Budget 2014 allocates Rs.700 billion for Defense

June 3, 2014

Pakistan’s Defense budget has been raised to Rs700. 2 billion for the fiscal year 2014-15 starting on July 1, compared with Rs 627.2 billion provided in the last fiscal, which shows a jack up of Rs 73 billion. However, the ..

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West Bengal, Maharashtra sign agreement to help victims of trafficking

June 3, 2014

The governments of West Bengal and Maharashtra have inked an MoU to facilitate identification and repatriation of women and children who are victims of human trafficking. The governments signed pact to follow a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to establish identities ..

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Lalima: Female buffalo calf cloned by National Dairy Research Institute

June 3, 2014

Scientists of National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) in Karnal, Haryana have cloned a female buffalo calf named as Lalima. The cloning is the work of advanced “hand-guided cloning technique”. Lalima is NDRI’s seventh cloned calf. The institute had produced the ..

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Obama administration demonstrates historic rules to cut coal pollution by 30%

June 3, 2014

The Obama administration showed notable environment directives for clipping carbon pollution from power plants by 30%, stimulating vision for a global agreement to end climate change. The fresh rules, officially declared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), characterise the first ..

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Union Rural Development Minister Gopinath Munde dies

June 3, 2014

Rural Development Minister and senior BJP leader from Maharashtra Gopinath Munde (64) died in a road accident in Delhi, while he was on his way to Delhi airport when his car was rammed by a speeding Indica, leading to his death. Although he didn’t suffer any ..

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