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February 19, 2014

18th February 2014 Current Affairs Updates

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International Affairs
  • Indo-Italy diplomatic ties over the marines issue, Italy  "recalled" its Ambassador to India for consultations, asserting it will decide to deal with the situation of "ambiguous and unreliable" behaviour by Indian authorities.
  • India will be represented by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid at the third Nuclear Security Summit to be held in the Netherlands next month.
  • UN chief Ban Ki-moon is convinced that Geneva peace talks are the best way to resolve the Syrian conflict and urges all sides to return to the table.
  • Russia and Estonia have signed a border pact that took between two countries 23 years to negotiate.
  • Maulana Masood Azhar, the Pakistani Islamic hardliner blamed for an attack on India's Parliament that brought the nuclear rivals to the brink of war has resurfaced after years in seclusion, setting off alarm bells in New Delhi.
National Affairs
  • Amid loud protests and a blackout of House proceedings on television, the Lok Sabha cleared the contentious Telangana Bill barely two months before the general elections.
  • Supreme Court commutes death sentence of three convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to life imprisonment.
Appointments
  • CPN-UML's Subash Chandra Nembang was elected unopposed as Chairperson of the Constituent Assembly.

Awards and Honors
  • Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh have been jointly given the award for the First Prize in the category of “Best State/UT Comprehensive Development of Tourism.” The second and third prizes in this category have gone to Kerala and Gujarat respectively.
Science & Technology
  • A new system that uses GPS technology to calculate the number of miles an email has travelled before reaching an inbox has been developed.
  • Archaeologists in Mexico discovered ancient Aztec dog remains, believe it could be world's oldest canine cemetery.
  • Cyber security sleuths have alerted Android software based mobile phone users against a suspicious activity being detected in the commonly used search engine 'Bing' on Internet-enabled communication devices.

Business & Economy
  • CBI has registered cases related to supply of low quality imported coal to NTPC and NSPCL ( NTPC-SAIL Power Company Ltd) .
  • Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles, a part of the Mahindra Group, slashed the price of its electric car e2o by up to Rs 1.7 lakh by introducing a scheme under which a consumer pays a rental fee for the battery.
  • Finance Minister P Chidambaram said that huge penalties have been imposed on Reliance Industries for producing less than committed gas and bank guarantees will be taken before allowing any price hike.
Mounika Rao

 
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