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GK Power Capsule April` 2014 (The Hindu Review)

1. Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan
kept the repo rate unchanged in BiMonthly
Monetary Policy on 1st April since retail inflation
still remains 'sticky', but introduced steps to
increase liquidity and contain volatility in the
money market.
a. Bank Rate 9 % (Unchanged)
b. Cash Reserve Ratio 4 % (Unchanged)
c. Statutory Liquidity Ratio 23 % (Unchanged)
d. Repo Rate 8 % (Unchanged)
e. Reverse Repo Rate 7 % (Unchanged)
f. Marginal Standing Rate 9 % (Unchanged)
2. The 15th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA)
Awards 2014 was held in Tampa Bay, US from 23
April to 26 April 2014.
a. Best Picture Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
b. Best Direction Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
c. Performance in a Leading Role (Male)
Farhan Akhtar Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
d. Performance in a Leading Role (Female)
Deepika Padukone Chennai Express
e. Music Direction Mithoon, Ankit Tiwari,Jeet
Ganguly Aashiqui 2
f. Outstanding Contribution To International
Cinema John Travolta
g. Lifetime Achievement Shatrughan Sinha
3. The 61st National Film Awards for 2013 was
announced in New Delhi on 16 April 2014 by the
Directorate of Film Festivals. Ship of Theseus
directed by Anand Gandhi was selected as the Best
feature film.
a. Best Actor Raj Kumar for Shahid in hindi




and Suraj Venjaramoodu for Perariyathavar
in Malyalam
b. Best Actress Geetanjali Thapa for Liars
Dance in Hindi
c. Best Direction Hansal Mehta for film Shahid
4. Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram has
been designated as new Finance Secretary.
Previous Finance secretary was Sumit Bose.

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5. Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha was appointed as 41st

Chief Justice of India. He will succeed Justice P.
Sathasivam.
6. Justice G Rohini was appointed as the Next Chief
Justice of Delhi High Court.
7. Ratan Tata was appointed as a member of the
Board of Boao Forum for Asia (BFA). The post is a
rare distinction for an Indian in the Chinese
governmentbacked influential body.

8. Viktor Orban was reelected as Prime Minister of
Hungary for the second consecutive fouryear term.
9. Rajeev Suri appointed as President and CEO of
Nokia Corporation.
10. MarieLousie Coleiro Preca was swornin as the
President of Malta.
11. R Gandhi was appointed as the Deputy Governor of
the Reserve Bank of India for a period of three
years. He replaced Anand Sinha.
12. D K Pathak was appointed as the new Director
General of the Border Security Force.
13. Karim Massimov, the Chief of Staff of Kazakhstan
was named as the new Prime Minister of the
country by the President, Nursultan Nazarbayev.
14. President Francois Hollande appointed Interior
Minister Manuel Valls as next prime minister of
France.
15. NR Narayana Murthy was honoured with the 2014
Canada India Foundation Chachalani Global Indian
Award in Toronto, Canada.
16. Environmental activist Ramesh Agrawal won the
prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for the
year 2014.
17. Hollywood star John Travolta received the Most
Popular All Time International Star in India at the
International Indian Film Academy. The 15th IIFA
awards were held in Tampa Bay, Florida from 23 to
26 April 2014.
18. Time Magazine released the 100 most influential
people in the world list on 24 April 2014. The four
Indian have made it in to the list. The cover page of
the annual issue of Times Magazine features
American Pop singer Beyonce Knowles. The Four
Indians who made in to the list are Narendra Modi,
Arvind Kejriwal, Arundhati Roy and Arunachalam
Muruganantham.
19. Vijay Seshadri won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer
Prize in the poetry category.
20. Ratan Tata received the Knight Grand Cross award
by UK Government.
21. Union Government announced that legendary poet
and film lyricist Gulzar was selected for the 45th
Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2013.
22. BritishAmerican physicist Stuart Parkin won
Millennium Technology Prize 2014.
23. Indian American novelist, Jhumpa Lahiris Lowland
has been shortlisted for the 2014 Baileys Women's
Prize for Fiction.
24. Koyal Rana won the 51st edition of the Femina Miss
India 2014 crown.
25. MS Dhoni won the United Kingdoms 2014 Asian
Award for outstanding achievement in Sports.
26. Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd recieved the Most
Efficient Navratna Award for the year 2013.
27. Renowned music director Zubin Mehta won the
special jury award of Times Now NRI Awards 2014.
28. George Clooney stepped down from his role as UNs
Messenger of Peace amid the reports of his
engagement with the human rights lawyer, Amal
Alamuddin.
29. Union Ministry of External Affairs appointed Suresh
Kumar Reddy as India's first Ambassador to the
separate Indian Mission to Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) & East Asia Summit.
30. IndianAmerican professor Rajendra Singh was
named as one of ten Solar Champions of Change by
the White House.
31. IndianAmerican hotelier Sant Singh Chatwal
pleaded guilty at a US court for violating federal
election laws by using straw donors.
32. President Barack Obama nominated Sunil
Sabharwal as the next US Alternate Executive
Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
33. Election Commission confirmed Amir Khan as its
national icon for the Lok Sabha elections 2014. The

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other four national icons were President A P J

Abdul Kalam, cricketer M S Dhoni, badminton star
Saina Nehwal and boxer Mary Kom.
34. British actor Bob Hoskins died.
35. Arturo Licata, the Worlds oldest man died in Italy.
36. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate in
literature died.
37. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Anja Niedringhaus
shot dead by a policeman in Afghanistan.
38. Prime Minister of South Korea Chung Hongwon
resigned. He resigned over the governments
inability and untimely response to the ferry
disaster that happened on 16 April 2014.
39. Nancy Powell, the US Ambassador to India
announced her resignation.
40. Earthquake of magnitude 8.3 on Richter Scale
struck Solomon Islands on 13 April 2014.
41. The Supreme Court reconstituted a Special
Investigation Team to monitor the probe into the
black money case. Court appointed retired judge
MB Shah as its Chairman and retired Judge Arijit
Pasayat as the Vice Chairman.
42. The Supreme Court constituted a threemember
committee headed by N R Madhava Menon to frame
guidelines to prevent misuse of public funds by the
government and its authorities by providing
advertisements in newspapers and television.
43. South Korean ferry carrying 459 passengers and
crew drowned on 16 April 2014. The ferry ran into
trouble some 20 kilometres off the island of
Byungpoong.
44. United States and India launched a reading
initiative named READ (ReadEngageAchieve
Dream) Alliance. This initiative has been launched
with an aim to improve the reading skills of
millions of primary schoolaged children in India.
45. Publisher Simon & Shuster announced that they
will release a book named Hard Choices authored
by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
46. A memoir entitled "Crusader or Conspirator?
Coalgate and other Truths" authored by former
Coal Secretary PC Parakh was released.
47. A memoir entitled the 'The Accidental Prime
Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan
Singh' authored by Sanjaya Baru was released.
48. India dropped to 78 in the latest Freedom of the
Press freedom index. Sweden topped the list.
49. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) released its report titled Climate Change
2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability in
Yokohama, Japan. The report warns that due to
global warming, poorer Nations may see fall in
their GDP by 2%.

50. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited handed over a
Dornier Nabhrathna lightweight aircraft to DRDO.
51. India successfully test fired indigenously
developed surfacetoair Akash missile from at
Chandipur Wheelers island Odisha.
52. India testfired an exoatmospheric interceptor
missile, called Prithvi Defence Vehicle with
capability to neutralise any longrange missile at
higher altitude. This interceptor was testfired for
the first time from Integrated Test Range at
Wheeler Island, about 100 km from Balasore in
Odisha.
53. Admiral Robin K Dhowan took over as the 22nd
Chief of Indian Navy. He is a successor of Admiral
DK Joshi, who resigned taking moral responsibility
of the accident on INS Sindhuratna in Mumbai.
54. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
released a report. World military expenditure
declined by 1.9 percent in real terms, since 2012.
The release ranked India at the ninth position in
the list of top spenders in 2013 compared to 8th
rank in 2012. As per the report the three highest
spenders with substantial increases are China,
Russia and Saudi Arabia.
55. INS Vikrant, the decommissioned aircraft carrier of
the Indian Navy has been sold for 60 crore rupees
to a company named IB Commercial Pvt Ltd.

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56. India and Nepal started a joint military exercise

named ExSurya Kiran Drills VI at Saljhandi in
Rupandehi district of Nepal.
57. India threatened to drag the European Union to the
World Trade Organization if the 28nation bloc did
not lift its ban on the import of Indian mangoes and
vegetables.
58. Petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily has made it
clear that once the Election Commission lifts its
model code of conduct on May 12, its order for the
deferment of a new gas pricing regime based on the
Rangarajan formula will cease to exist and a price
hike would come into effect.
59. Government said foreign investors will pay only 5
per cent withholding tax on interest earned from
such investments till May 2015.
60. The United States named China and India among
countries on its blacklist of countries failing to
properly protect US copyrights and patents but
kept their status unchanged from the previous
review.
61. India is now the world's third largest economy in
terms of purchasing power parity, ahead of Japan
and behind the US and China which hold the top
two spots. This was revealed by the 2011 round of
the World Bank's International Comparison
Program (ICP) released.
62. Centre revealed names of 18 persons in the
Supreme Court who allegedly stashed black money
with LST Bank in Liechtenstein and against whom
prosecution have been launched by the Income Tax
department.
63. Social Progress Index 2014 has put India at a
dismal rank of 102. The study measures a countrys
achievement on three pillars of satisfying Basic
Human Needs, Foundations of Wellbeing, and
Opportunity to progress. Top three countries are
New Zealand, Switzerland and Iceland.
64. Given even the first forecast of the met predicts a
60% chance of El Nio and a 23% chance of a
deficit monsoon, the government is taking no
chances and is finalising a comprehensive
contingency plan for 500odd districts to deal with
any exigency.
65. India slid down to 83rd spot among 148 economies
in terms of leveraging information and
communications technologies (ICT) for growth and
well being, says a World Economic Forum report.
66. The railways will launch semihighspeed trains
that will run at an average speed of 130 km per
hour. To start with, these trains are expected to
become operational on three routes Delhi
Chandigarh, DelhiLucknow and DelhiBhopal by
the end of this year.
67. Andhra Pradesh has recorded highest growth in
terms of both milk production and percapita milk
availability at over 41 per cent and about 36 per
cent, respectively.
68. India has concluded an 'in substance' agreement
with the US to combat possible tax evasion by
Americans through Indian financial entities. The 'in
substance' agreement with India under Foreign
Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was
concluded on April 11, the US Treasury said.
69. The Supreme Court lifted the nearly oneandahalf
year ban on iron ore mining in Goa.
70. International Monetary Fund expects country's
economic growth to move up to 5.5 per cent in the
current fiscal and 6.25 per cent in the next fiscal.
71. China's economic growth recorded its slowest pace
in 18 months at the start of 2014. The economy
grew 7.4 percent in the JanuaryMarch quarter
from a year earlier.
72. Finance ministers and central bank governors of
the Group of 20 Nations reiterated their
commitment to boost global growth by 2 per cent,
or over USD 2 trillion, over the next five years and
achieve exchange rate flexibility. G20 said in a
communique issued on the sidelines of the annual
spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank in Washington.
73. Having received USD 70 billion in 2013, India has
topped the list of countries receiving remittances
from overseas workers, the World Bank said.
74. Global rating agency Fitch pegged India's growth at
5.5 percent in the current fiscal and 6 percent in
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75. Gold and silver imports declined 40 per cent to USD

33.46 billion in 201314 mainly due to restrictions
imposed by the government. Imports of gold and
silver in 201213 stood at USD 55.79 billion.
76. Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the services
sector declined by about 61 per cent yearonyear
to USD 1.8 billion during AprilJanuary.
77. Congress CM Prithviraj Chavan's Maharashtra has
emerged as the number one investment destination
in India replacing Gujarat.
78. India's GDP is poised to accelerate to 5.5 per cent in
201415 on the back of improved performance in
industry and services but it may take some time for
the country to reach its potential growth rate, says
an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report.
79. In a bid to prevent bank failures in the future, a
highpowered panel has proposed the setting up of
a Financial Resolution Authority (FRA) to deal with
any exigency in a financial institution and even
allow "temporary public ownership" of troubled
banks. The committee under Financial Stability and
Development Council, chaired by RBI deputy
governor Anand Sinha, said the experience and
expertise of Deposit Insurance and Credit
Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) could be
transformed into the proposed FRA to deal with
failures of banks.
80. Reserve Bank's plan to put in circulation Rs 10
plastic currency notes on trial basis will be delayed
as the initial bids have failed to qualify the technical
criteria and the whole process will start again. The
selected cities are Kochi, Mysore, Jaipur, Shimla and
Bhubaneswar.
81. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board deferred
a decision on HDFC Bank's proposal to increase its
overseas shareholding limit to 67% from 49%.
82. Government is planning to make additional
infusion of up to Rs 7,000 crore in the public sector
banks during the current fiscal. In the interim
budget, the government provided Rs 11,200 for the
public sector banks.
83. Of the 369 million debit and credit cards in the
country, 1015 per cent are used only for online
transactions, the Reserve Bank said.
84. Qatarbased Doha Bank has entered into an
agreement with HSBC Bank Oman to purchase the
latter's banking business in India.

85. Stepping up pressure on public sector banks (PSBs)
to bring down bad loans, the finance ministry has
widened its monitoring of nonperforming assets
(NPA) from top 30 NPA accounts to top 50 for all
stateowned lenders.
86. ICICI Bank has lodged an FIR in a city police station
alleging fake currency notes with a face value Rs 10
crore were deposited in its different branches in
the past several years.
87. After launching accounts on Facebook and Youtube,
the country's largest lender SBI took one more step
on the social media front by launching a twitter
handle.
88. IDFC Ltd and Bandhan Financial Services Pvt Ltd
won banking licences, with the Raghuram Rajan's
RBI approving permits for only two of the 25
applicants.

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89. Reserve Bank asked banks not to levy penal

charges on customers who don't maintain a
minimum balance in basic savings bank accounts.
90. A recent and most modern acquisition of the Indian
Air Force from the United States, the C130J Super
Hercules military transport aircraft, crashed near
Gwalior.

91. Fijis military rulers set September 17 as the date
for the South Pacific nations first democratic
elections in nearly eight years following a military
coup.
92. Indias total external debt stock stood at $426
billion as on December 31, 2013, or 5.2 per cent
higher than that on March 31, 2013. The external
debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio has
marginally worsened to 23.3 per cent from 21.8 per
cent.
93. Ajay S. Shriram has been elected President of
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 201415.
He succeeds S. Gopalakrishnan.
94. The BJP announced the expulsion of senior leader
Jaswant Singh and Subhash Mahariya for six years.
95. President Pranab Mukherjee cleared the re
promulgation of the SEBI (Securities and Exchange
Board of India) Ordinance. The move to arm the
regulator with more stringent powers against the
proliferation of chit fund companies and the
Rs.2,000crore Sardhaa chit fund scam.
96. The UNs International Court of Justice (ICJ) asked
Japan to stop its whaling programme in the
Antarctic. Japan catches about 1,000 whales each
year in the region for what it calls scientific
research.
97. Communications satellite INSAT3E has completed
its life and gone out of service.
98. The Centre will provide an assistance of Rs. 352
crore to farmers for replanting horticulture crops
that were hit by untimely rain and hailstorm earlier
this month in parts of Maharashtra, Madhya
Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan. The fund
release was sanctioned by an Empowered Group of
Ministers (EGoM) headed by Union Agriculture
Minister Sharad Pawar.
99. RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan said that the central
bank had adopted the new Consumer Price Index as
the key measure of inflation instead of Wholesale
Price Index.
100. NATO decided to freeze bilateral cooperation,
while the European Union promised to help
Ukraine reduce its energy dependence on Russia.
101. The RBIappointed Urjit Patel panel, in its report,
has set CPI target of 8 per cent by 2015 and 6 per
cent by 2016.
102. Axis Bank, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary,
announced the launch of Asha Home Loan, a 30
year home loan product for first time home buyers
in the lower income segment, seeking affordable
EMIs.
103. The 1992 Babri Mosque demolition was an act of
planned sabotage , news portal Cobrapost claimed
on the basis of a sting operation it carried over a
period of two years.
104. India marched towards establishing its own
navigation system when its Polar Satellite Launch
Vehicle (PSLVC24) put into precise orbit the
countrys second navigation satellite, the Indian
Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS1B).
IRNSS1B will form part of a constellation of the
seven navigation satellites. It was the 25th success
in a row for the PSLV, after it majestically lifted off
from the first launch pad at Sriharikota.
105. Doha Bank will be opening its first branch in
Mumbai next month.
106. The Uttar Pradesh police lodged an FIR in Bijnore
against Bharatiya Janata Partys general secretary
incharge of Uttar Pradesh Amit Shah for his alleged
hate speech in Muzaffarnagar.
107. India was the third most affected country in 2013
by the notorious Zeus malwareattack that is used
to steal sensitive data from industries like finance.
108. Mukesh Ambaniled Reliance Jio Infocomm has
signed an agreement with younger brother Anil
Ambanicontrolled Reliance Communications

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optic fibre infrastructure.
109. Social media giant Facebook has crossed 100
million active users in India, its largest base outside
the US.
110. Sabotage is one of the six possible reasons for the
sinking of kiloclass submarine INS Sindhurakshak
in August 2013 according to the committee report
chaired by Commodore Deepak Bisht.
111. Indias Mars Orbiter completed half the distance of
its epic voyage to the red planet. On 10 April, the
spacecraft sailed past 34 crore kilometres of its 68
crorekm curved path. On November 5, 2013, the
Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLVC25) put the
Mars Orbiter into its earthorbit. ISRO has been
continuously monitoring the spacecraft using its
deep space network station at Byalalu, near
Bangalore.
112. The World Bank projected an economic growth
rate of 5.7 per cent in fiscal year 2014 for India.
113. The National Association of Software and Services
Companies (Nasscom) appointed Executive Vice
Chairman of Cognizant India R. Chandrasekaran as
its Chairman for 201415.
114. Delhi witnessed a record 64.77 per cent voter
turnout.
115. State Bank of India has hit the overseas bond
market with a dual tranche benchmark issue of 5
year and 10year maturity to raise up to $1 billion.
116. Election Commission directed the Chief Secretary
of Uttar Pradesh to initiate criminal proceedings
against Azam Khan and Amit shah and ban public
meetings where they are expected to be present.
117. India has decided to send the naval stealth frigate
INS Shivalik to participate in an international fleet
review and maritime exercise hosted by the
Chinese Navy on April 23. Chinas Peoples
Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is hosting the review
and exercise in the northeastern port of Qingdao,
the headquarters of its North Sea fleet, as it
prepares to mark its 65th anniversary with great
fanfare.
118. Gunmen attacked Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister
Saleh alMutlaks convoy in the Abu Ghraib area
west of Baghdad.
119. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority
(IRDA) imposed a fine of Rs.1.77 crore on Reliance
Life Insurance for violation of various norms.
120. U.S. regulators have warned Facebook and
WhatsApp to uphold the data privacy of their users,
following the announcement of their $19 billion
merger.
121. Libyas interim Prime Minister Abdullah alThani
stepped down.
122. In a groundbreaking trial, researchers in the UK
will test artificial blood made from human stem
cells in patients for the first time.
123. Supreme Court recognised the transgender
community as a third gender along with male and
female.
124. Noida Authority sealed realty firm Supertechs two
40storey towers with more than 800 flats
following the Allahabad High Courts order to
demolish the buildings.
125. Indiaborn poet Vijay Seshadri has won the
prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry
category for his collection of poems 3 Sections.
126. State Bank of India launched three digital banking
facilities at the customers door step using TAB
banking; one for customers opening Savings Bank
accounts and another for Housing Loan applicants.
The third is eKYC (Know your Customer).
127. The Mt Gox bitcoin exchange in Tokyo is headed
for liquidation after a court rejected its bankruptcy
protection application.
128. The Supreme Court made it clear that it was open
to the Delhi LieutenantGovernor deciding on the
timing for dissolution of the Assembly and it could
not impose any opinion on him or the President of
India as to when they should take a call on the
issue.
129. The Supreme Court made it clear that private
companies that share revenue from natural
resources such as spectrum with the government
would be subjected to audit by the Comptroller and
Auditor General.

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130. Russia, the United States, the European Union and

Ukraine have agreed on a plan to resolve the crisis
in Ukraine through a constitutional reform that
would grant more powers to Russianspeaking
regions. After eighthour talks in Geneva, the
Foreign Ministers of the four nations signed a joint
statement on deescalation of the Ukraine crisis.
131. Indias foreign exchange reserves jumped to
$309.444 billion in the week ended April 11 on the
back of a healthy rise in currency assets.
132. China has for the first time released details of its
recently announced maritime Silk Road plan,
announcing that the Indian Oceanfocused initiative
will prioritise building ports and improving
infrastructure in littoral countries like Bangladesh
and Sri Lanka.
133. Syria will hold presidential elections on June 3,
despite a civil war.
134. After a sixyearlong court battle, Rohit Shekhar
heaved a sigh of relief when the Delhi High Court
decreed him to be the biological son of Congress
leader N.D. Tiwari.
135. For the first time, senior Indian Army officers
interacted with the Chinese General responsible for
troop operations on implementing the Border
Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA).
136. Pakistan conducted a successful training launch of
the short range surfacetosurface ballistic missile
Hatf III (Ghaznavi), which can carry nuclear and
conventional warheads to a range of 290 km.
137. Reserve Bank of India has suggested that banks
introduce twostage authentication to ensure
security of transactions. The banks have been
mandated to issue EMV (card with chip and pin) to
certain category of customers and for the other
customers, banks have been given option to either
issue EMV cards or adopt Aadhaar biometric
authentication as additional factor of
authentication.
138. India has concluded an in substance agreement
with the U.S. to combat possible tax evasion by
Americans through Indian financial entities. The in
substance agreement with India under the Foreign
Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) was
concluded on April 11, the U.S. Treasury said.
139. Promoters of National Power Exchange have
decided to wind up the company. National Power
Exchange is jointly promoted by NTPC, PFC and
NHPC and private sector Tata Consultancy Services.
140. India and Bhutan signed an agreement for the
development of joint hydropower projects in a bid
to further strengthen their bilateral strategic
partnership.

141. Air passengers can now use portable electronic
devices such as mobiles, laptops and tablets in all
phases of flight, the Directorate General Civil
Aviation (DGCA) said.
142. AAP leader Somnath Bharti was on assaulted
allegedly by BJP workers at the Assi ghat at an
electionrelated programme.
143. WhatsApp now has 500 million regular, active
users around the world. Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg announced in February that his social
network was acquiring WhatsApp for $19 billion.
144. The Supreme Court has clarified that children
born out of a livein relationship, where the couple
have lived together for a long time as husband and
wife, could not be called illegitimate.
145. Siddharth , a Hindi film by IndianCanadian
director Richie Mehta, was the surprise winner at
the Beijing film festival.
146. The tiny Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands is
taking on the United States and the worlds eight
other nucleararmed nations. The island group that
was used for dozens of U.S. nuclear tests after
World War II was filing a suit against each of the
nine countries in the International Court of Justice
in The Hague, Netherlands.
147. The muchpublicised InflationIndexed Bonds
(IIBs) failed to attract investor interest, either retail
or institutional, in the last financial year. The
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is now planning to re
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148. The Enforcement Directorate filed a prosecution

complaint before a Delhi court against former
Telecom Minister A. Raja, Dravida Munnetra
Kazhagam MP K. Kanimozhi and DMK chief M.
Karunanidhi's wife Dayalu Ammal among others
for money laundering in the 2G spectrum allocation
case.
149. Japan and the United States have announced joint
support for the U.N. Womens Safe City Programme
in Delhi. The announcement was made during U.S.
President Obamas visit to Tokyo.
150. Ecuadors President Rafael Correa has ordered all
U.S. military officers to leave the country by the end
of the month and cancelled a security cooperation
programme with the Pentagon, U.S. officials said.
151. Syria still holds around eight per cent of its
declared chemical weapons material, as the
deadline for it to be handed over expired on 27
April according to Sigrid Kaag, head of the joint
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
WeaponsU.N. team.
152. The Philippines and the United States announced
they would sign an agreement to allow a greater
U.S. military presence on Filipino soil for the next
decade.