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Current Affairs 6^th January 2014 | Rs.5600 crore National Spot Exchange Limited Scam: 9600 Pages Charge sheet filed

Justice Ganguly, former Supreme Court Judge, Resigns from WBHRC

06.01.2014: Justice Ganguly, former Supreme Court Judge, Resigns from WBHRC (West Bengal Human Rights Commission). He has been accused of sexual assault by a law intern. PIL was filed by Doctor M.Padma Narayan Singh in the Supreme Court seeking to take action against Ganguly. Supreme Court rejected the petition.

First Women to Lead US Federal Reserve is Janet Yellen

06.01.2014: First Women to Lead US Federal Reserve is Janet Yellen. This is confirmed by US Senate.

Best Scientist Award of Science Tech Foundation achieved by Lingaiah Nagarapu

06.01.2014: Best Scientist Award of Science Tech Foundation (STE) achieved by Lingaiah Nagarapu. He has selected for this award for his efforts in basic and applied research. These researches resulted in developing 80 international publications, 2 patents and 15 technologies.

Steel Consumption increased by 0.5%

06.01.2014: During April to December period, India’s steel consumption increased by 0.5 % and reached to 53.789 million tonnes.

RBI allowed Indian companies to issue Redeemable Preference Shares to Non Resident Shareholders

06.01.2014: RBI allowed Indian companies to issue Redeemable Preference Shares to Non Resident Shareholders as Bonus.

RBI Selected CCIL for issuing LEI’s

06.01.2014: For issuing LEI’s (Legal Entity Identifiers), Reserve Bank of India selected CCIL (Clearing Corporation of India). LEI’s are a 20 character unique identity code assigned to entities which are parties to a financial transaction.

Rs.5600 crore National Spot Exchange Limited Scam: 9600 Pages Charge sheet filed

06.01.2014: 9600 Pages Charge sheet filed against Rs.5600 crore National Spot Exchange Limited Scam. This charge sheet was filled against 5 accused arrested by Economic offences wing of Mumbai. Accused persons were Company’s CFO Anjani Sinha, Vice Presidents Jay Bahukhundi and Amit Mukherjee and Borrowers Arun Sharma (Chairman of Lotus Refineries and Film financer) & Nilesh Patel (Managing Director of NK Proteins).

Young Shuttler Aditya Joshi from India Ranked top in the World Junior Badminton

06.01.2014: Young Shuttler Aditya Joshi from India Ranked top in the World. He became the first male junior badminton player of India to be ranked top. Aditya belongs to Dhar town of Madhya Pradesh. Rankings released by World Badminton Federation are as follows. First place attained by Aditya Joshi followed by Christie Jonatan, Zhaojun Peng, Max Weisskirchen, June Wei Cheam, Shi Yuqi, Cao Cuong Pham, Harsheel Dani, David Peng, Wolfgang Gnedt.

Open DU Gard Squash title won by Mahesh Mangaokar

06.01.2014: Open DU Gard Squash title won by Mahesh Mangaokar. To won this title he defeated Scottish Player Scot Greg Lobban 9-11, 11-3, 11-4, and 11-5. Mangaokar belongs to Mumbai.

Aya Ohori from Japan Ranked top in the Women’s single World Junior Badminton

06.01.2014: Aya Ohori from Japan Ranked top in the Women’s single World Junior Badminton. She is followed by Busanan Ongbumrungpan, He Bing Jiao, Xiaoyu Liang, Akane Yamaguchi, Ruthvika Shivani, Jinjing Qin, Luise Heim, Maja Pavlinic, and Chochuwong Pornpawee.

Saturn’s Iconic Rings formed 4.4 billion years ago

06.01.2014: Researchers at the University of Colorado has stated that Saturn’s Iconic Rings formed 4.4 billion years ago. On 3^rd January 2014, it was announced by American Geophysical Union.

Prithvi II Missile test fire at Chandipur

06.01.2014: India successfully test fired at Chandipur near Balasore. It is having the capacity to carry warheads of 500kgs to 1000 kgs. Advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory was used in this missile.

Official visit of Bhutan King and Queen to India

06.01.2014: Official visit of Bhutan King and Queen to India between 6^th January 2014 to 10^th January 2014. They will Economic Affairs Minister, Home Minister and Foreign Minister.

World Renowned Dhanu Yatra Started

06.01.2014: World Renowned Dhanu Yatra of Bargarh Started. This is 11 day long festival. It will celebrate till 16^th January 2014. This festival was started in 1948 as performance charged with a nationalistic fervour.

Environment Information Dissemination Centre set up in Choolai

06.01.2014: Environment Information Dissemination Centre (EIDC) set up in Choolai’s Chennai Corporation Middle School. It is a part of NGC (National Green Crops). This centre will aid the students as well as teachers to learn about the environmental related topics. Topics include pollution and energy conservation.

6 tonnes of smuggled ivory destroyed by China

06.01.2014: 6 tonnes of smuggled ivory destroyed by China in Guangdong Province. Main aim of china is to protect the dwindling elephant populations. From past 6 months this is the 3^rd ivory crash. Earlier 6 tonnes of ivory crashed by US Government in November 2013 and 5 tonnes of Ivory destroyed by Philippine Government in June 2013.

China to become to partner in Andhra Pradesh NIMZ proposal

06.01.2014: One of the partners of Andhra Pradesh NIMZ (National Investment and Manufacturing Zones) is China. Centres of NIMZ will be at Prakasam, Medak, Chittor districts of Andhra Pradesh. Both investment and technical support will be given by China. NIMZ project will support by both state and Central Governments. Expected investment of each NIMZ is Rs.3000 crores. Proposal of NIMZ is to increase the overall share of manufacturing in GDP of India. This was the proposal of Ministry of Commerce and Industry in 2010.

Nataraj temple of Chidambaram will be managed by Priests: Supreme Court

06.01.2014: Nataraj Temple of Chidambaram in Tamilnadu is most famous temple. This will be managed by Priests but not by the state government, order was passed by the Supreme Court. To the government this is the 1000 years old Lord Shiva Temple. Appeal was filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swami and the temple priests.