10th July 2014 - Current Affairs Updates

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International Affairs

• US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns met Sushma Swaraj; discussed forthcoming Indo-US strategic dialogue.
• Typhoon Neoguri slammed into Japan's southern main island early on Thursday after lashing the Okinawa island chain, with three people killed as powerful winds and torrential rains battered the country.
• The BRICS group of emerging giants are expected to sign a deal next week to open their own development bank by 2016, Russia's finance minister said. The entity would be called "New Development Bank", with each BRICS member to contribute US$2 billion to its capital, Anton Siluanov said, according to Russian news agencies.

National Affairs

• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presented the Narendra Modi government’s first budget.  Earlier, the Finance Minister briefed the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee on the main features of the budget. Download Pdf version of Union Budget 2014-15 Highlights from here. 
• A total of 795 television channels have been granted permission by Information and Broadcasting ministry to uplink from the country in the news and non-news categories while 235 applications were still pending for inter-ministerial clearances, I&B minister Prakash Javadekar said today in reply to a written question in the Lok Sabha.
   

New Appointments

• Dr Kamla Beniwal was sworn-in as the 12th Governor of Mizoram,.

Deaths

• Zohra Sehgal, fondly called as the Grand Old Lady of Indian Cinema, Dies at 102

Sports

• To encourage sports in India, the government will set up a National Sports Academy, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Today.

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