1.
Bangalore
ranked India’s top business destination
i. Bangalore,
known as India’s silicon city, has been ranked as the country’s top business
destination, followed by Chennai, Mumbai and Pune in terms of
ii. While
Delhi does not figure on this list, Noida and Gurgaon from the National Capital
Region have been ranked 17th and 19th respectively.
iii. The survey,
conducted by Global Initiative for Restructuring Environment and Management
(GIREM) and real estate consultancy firm DTZ, also found that smaller cities
like Indore (5th), Bhubaneswar (6th) and Coimbatore (7th) are competing with
top metros in the race to be ideal business destinations.
iv. The list includes a
total of 21 top business destination in the country. Ahmedabad has been ranked
8th, followed by Nagpur at 9th and Kochi at the 10th place.
v. “The ranking
provides companies across industries and sectors with insights for future
investment opportunities,” Prasad added.
vi. The ranking rated
the cities based on factors such as human capital, energy, water, transport,
housing, healthcare, climate, office space availability and city culture, which
constitute the basic eco-socio-economic parameters critical in determining the
growth of the city.
2. Tata Steel won a New Contract to Supply Britain's
Network Rail
i. Tata Steel on 21
October 2013 won a new contract to supply Britain's Network Rail with more than
95 percent of its rails for at least five years.
ii. It could supply more than 1 million tonnes of
rail under the contract. The company's Scunthorpe plant is the present supplier
to Network Rail.
iii. It produces steel
for construction and infrastructure. The plant's future would have been
affected had the contract not been renewed.
iv. The Tata Steel
Group, with a turnover of 24.82 billion US dollars in Financial Year 2012-
2013, has over 81000 employees across five continents and is a Fortune 500
company.
3. 2nd India-Philippines Joint Commission on Bilateral
Cooperation Held at Manila
i. The
2nd meeting of the India- Philippines joint commission on bilateral cooperation
was held on 21 October 2013 in Manila. You are reading gk on http://jobentra.blogspot.com.
ii. The meeting was
co-chaired by the Albert F. Del Rosario, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of the Philippines and the Salman Khurshid, Minister of External
Affairs of the of India.
iii. During the meeting
they discussed on political, defense, security, economic and cultural
cooperation, and reviewed the progress of the Joint Working Groups on Trade and
Investment, Tourism, Agriculture, Health and Medicine, Joint Committee on
Renewable Energy and of the Joint Defense Cooperation Committee.
4. Justice Rajesh Kumar Agrawal Appointed as the Chief
Justice of Madras High Court
i. Justice
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal (60), the acting Chief Justice of Madras High Court
appointed as the regular Chief Justice of Madras High Court on 21 October 2013.
ii. The President of
India also appointed seven of the eight names recommended by the Supreme Court
collegium of judges headed by the Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam as
Judges of the Madras High Court.
‘iiii. The names of the
seven Judges were R. Mahadevan, K. Kalyanasundaram, P.N. Prakash, S.
Vaidyanathan, Pushpa Sathyanarayana , V. Ravi and G. Chockalingam.
5.
Laxmikanta
Mahapatra appointed Chief Justice of Manipur High Court
i. Justice
Laxmikanta Mahapatra was on 21 October 2013 sworn in as Chief Justice of the
Manipur High Court at Raj Bhava in Imphal, Manipur. He was appointed by the
President of India, Pranab Mukherjee.
ii. Governor Ashwani
Kumar administered the oath of office to Justice Laxmikanta Mahapatra. Justice
Mohapatra would act as acting chief justice of the high court till appointment
of a full time chief justice.
iii. The post of chief
justice of High Court of Manipur remained vacant after the first chief justice
Abhay M Sapre was transferred as chief justice of the Gauhati High Court.
6. Lalu Prasad, Jagdish Sharma disqualified from Lok
Sabha
i. RJD chief Lalu Prasad
and JD(U) leader Jagdish Sharma have been disqualified as Lok Sabha members
following their conviction in the fodder scam.
ii. While Prasad stands
disqualified for a total of 11 years — five years of jail term and six years
subsequent to his release, Sharma stands disqualified for ten years — four
years in jail and six more years after that as per electoral laws.
iii. Theirs is the first
disqualification from the Lok Sabha after the Supreme Court struck down a
provision that protects a convicted lawmaker from disqualification on the
ground of pendency of appeal in higher courts.
iv. Lok Sabha Secretary
General S. Bal Shekar has issued the notifications disqualifying Lalu and
Sharma.
v. The Election
Commission has also been intimated about the disqualification and the subsequent
creation of vacancies in the Lok Sabha.
Note: 5-year-old Prasad,
convicted in the fodder scam, was sentenced to five years in prison and imposed
with a fine of Rs. 25 lakh. He was till now an MP from Saran in Bihar.
7. Kanwar Deep Singh Elected as the President of the
Indian Hockey Federation
i. The
Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) on 21 October 2013 unanimously elected Kanwar
Deep Singh as the president of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) for a
four-year term.
ii. He was succeeded by
Dinesh Reddy, Andhra Pradesh's Director General of Police (DGP).
8. Sania Mirza in Top 10 of World Women’s Doubles
Rankings
i. Indian
tennis ace Sania Mirza came into the top 10 of the world women's doubles by
gaining two spots to ninth place in the latest WTA Team Rankings issued on 21
October 2013.
ii. Sania Mirza jumped
from 11th spot to 9th spot. The 26-year-old Sania moved up as a result of other
players dropping points.
iii. Italians Sara Errani
and Roberta Vinci hold on to the joint number one ranking, while Su-Wei Hseih
climbed two spots to number four and Katrina Srebotnik moved one spot higher to
number three.
iv. Sania Mirza had won back-to-back titles as she lifted the China
Open trophy, followed by another triumph in Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo in the
month of October 2013. Her partner Cara Black of Zimbabwe too gained a position
to be at number 13.
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