Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 09 June, 2014

Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams

Government has promised to facilitate development and promotion of sports, particularly rural sports, and said it will launch a National Sports Talent Search System.
Addressing the first joint sitting of Parliament after the recent Lok Sabha polls, President Pranab Mukherjee said the new government will also formulate a National Education Policy and set up IITs and IIMs in every State. Maintaining that India is the world’s oldest civilisation and today it is also a country with the largest population of the youth, the President said government must equip and nurture the youth with the right kind of education, skill-set and opportunity to reap this demographic dividend.

Belying hopes of breakthrough to resume proceedings of the Parliament, the three major political parties on S failed to reach agreement after claiming they were close to it. As a result, the opposition parties obstructed Parliament for the 10th straight day.
Speaking in the Parliament after the talks ended inconclusively, Bijay Gachchhadar of Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum (Democratic) accused the ruling coalition of breaching a previous agreement on a number of issues, including forming a high level political committee (HLPC) comprising of political parties.
When Mr. Gachchhadar said NC President and Prime Minister Sushil Koirala and other ruing party leaders should go to Sarnath in India if they failed to deliver a Constitution, the ruling MPs objected to his remarks. With neither side relenting, Speaker Subas Nembang, adjourned the House.
Mr. Nepal said the Nepali Congress and his party are in favour of rotating leadership of the HLPC.

Reliance owned- RCom has introduced One India, One Rate scheme.
As per this plan RCom's customers will pay the same rate for local, STD and roaming calls from anywhere in India.

After all the consecutive victories and the confidently clenched fists, after the new hires and the new attitude, the 2014 French Open was just another red-clay rerun for Novak Djokovic.
He arrived in Paris full of fresh and legitimate hope. He will depart again without the trophy, which is officially called the Coupe des Mousquetaires but which is clearly in need of a name change at this belief-beggaring stage of the tournament’s history.
In the modern era, no man has had a tighter grip on a Grand Slam event than Rafael Nadal, whose 3-6, 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 victory over Djokovic allowed him to win his ninth French Open by the age of just 28.