09/02/2013
February 09: Top 10 Be Update -Current Affairs
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1. Afzal Guru, convicted in the audacious terrorists attack on Parliament in 2001, has been hanged. His body was buried in Tihar Jail in New Delhi.
2. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has launched the much-awaited Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme in Mumbai. The move would encourage new investors to put their money in the stock market.
3. Karnataka has released Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu to abide by the Supreme Court order which directed the State to release 2.44 tmc ft of Cauvery water.
4. A Chilean judge has ordered the remains of poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda be exhumed, as part of a probe into whether he died of cancer or was killed by agents serving Augusto Pinochet.
5. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Summit in Cairo has decided to hold a Palestinian donor’s meet to set up a financial safety net for them through member nation donations.
6. The five-week long crisis that rocked Indian tennis ended as all 11 players ended their rebellion & made themselves available for the tie against Indonesia.
7. The Government has expressed difficulty in implementing the National Food Security Bill, touted to bring in revolutionary changes in alleviating poverty, through an executive order prior to its approval by Parliament, saying it involved a cost of Rs 23,000 crore.
8. European Union leaders have reached a deal on 960-billion euro (USD 1.3 trillion) budget for the next seven years, averting a stand-off over 27-nation bloc's future spending.
9. In the first such mission, Nasa is planning to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples from a Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began.
10. A worldwide study has shown that pregnant mothers exposed to air pollution emitted by vehicles and coal power plants, are significantly more likely to have smaller babies.
