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March 21, 2013

Current Affairs 2013 - 20th March

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National

  • Submarine variant of BrahMos, Indo Russian supersonic missile, was test fired successfully from a pontoon off Vishakhapatnam coast. The anti-ship version of the missile has a range of 290km.
  • Datla Vijay Kumar, chairman and managing director of Biological E. Ltd. Passed away on Wednesday.
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International

  • Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician who’s regarded as one of the most celebrated mathematicians of 20th century has been chosen for Abel prize this year. Abel prize is regarded as Nobel in mathematics which is given by Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.  Instituted in 2002, award carries a cash prize of 6 million Norwegian Krone ($1 million).
  • Of the 95% voted in referendum, opted for the new constitution for Zimbabwe. This referendum was backed by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsavangirai. With this, elections will be held in the country sooner.
  • In a deal struck between US Military and Afghan Govt., US agreed for the gradual pull out of its troops from the country. Earlier President Hamid Karzai blamed US forces for human rights abuses in Wardak province.
  • IMF’s chief Christina Lagarde’s house was raided by the French police on Wednesday in connection with a high profile scandal when she was a minister.

Economy

  • NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) launched ‘10000 start ups’ programme which is aimed to encourage entrepreneurship and to create significant impact on employment and GDP. President of NASSCOM is Som Mittal.
  • While addressing reporters at NASSCOM event, Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt gave call to focus on innovation and hoe it helps for small business.

Sports

  • Standard Operative Procedure (SOP) was listed by Ministry of youth affairs and sports, a medical examination to identify Female Hyperandrogenism, which makes the sports person ineligible for competition.  According to SOP, a test can be carried out at any stage of competition.

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