12th July 2014 - Current Affairs Updates

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National Affairs

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave New Delhi on Sunday for Brazil for attending the five-nation summit of BRICS nations on 14th and 15th July which is expected to finalise the setting up of a development bank and seek reforms of the United Nations and international financial organisations.
• Today is the First Death Anniversary Of Bollywood’s Most Loved Villain Pran.
• Telangana government has sanctioned 200 additional medical seats across three medical colleges in the state from the current academic year.

Deaths

• Senior journalist and Editor-in-Chief of NewsX, Jehangir Pocha, passed away in Gurgaon today due to cardiac arrest.

Science & Technology

• Exactly 75 days from today, India’s Mars spacecraft is scheduled for a rendezvous with the red planet as it is rapidly coasting towards its target.

Appointments

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the new leader of the reconstituted BJP Parliamentary Party in both Houses of Parliament.
• Home Minister Rajnath Singh has been named deputy leader of BJP Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Rajya Sabha.
• Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu is the government’s Chief Whip, Arjun Ram Meghwal is BJP chief whip in Lok Sabha and Avinash Rai Khanna in Rajya Sabha.

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