Daily Current Affairs: 26 December 2013
Daily Current Affairs: 26 December 2013
1) Narendra Modi gets a clean chit in
Gujarat riots case: In a big relief to BJP's prime ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi, an Ahmedabad court on Thursday rejected a petition filed by
Zakia Jafri against the closure report of Special Investigation Team (SIT)
which gave a clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister in connection with the 2002
post-Godhra riots case.
2) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Pakistan's
richest parliamentarian.
3) Arvind Ranjan is new CISF chief: Senior IPS officer Arvind
Ranjan will take over as the full-time chief of Central Industrial Security
Force (CISF) in place of J N Choudhury.
4) Bitcoin operators shut shop in India
amid RBI warning: Bitcoin is a virtual currency that can be generated through
complex computer software systems with solutions shared on a network, although
the process is complex and such 'mining' can be done only on very powerful
servers.
5) J N Choudhury is new Chief of NSG: Senior IPS officer J N
Choudhury has been appointed as head of National Security Guard (NSG) in place
of Arvind Ranjan who will take over as the full-time chief of Central
Industrial Security Force (CISF).
6)
Cabinet approves pension proposal for MTNL employees: Union Cabinet
today approved a pension proposal for 43,000 MTNL employees, who joined the
public sector company from Department of Telecom.
7) Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs
(CCEA) has approved the proposal of Axis Bank for increase in foreign
investment from 49 percent to 62 percent.
8) India won the toss and elected to bat
against South Africa in the second Test being played at Durban. At the end of
day One play India were at 181/1 with both Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara
hitting half centuries.
9) Deepika Kumari creates national record
in women's 50 m archery: Top ranked women recurve archer Deepika Kumari has
created a national record in women's 50 metre round in the 34th Senior National
Archery Championship in Jamshedpur.
10) Punjab government starts pension scheme
for construction workers.
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December 2013
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