Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams - 08 September, 2014

Current Affairs for BANK, IBPS Exams

The flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir was declared a “national-level disaster” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi even as the Army alone evacuated 15,000 people from inundated areas across the State.
As more personnel of the National Disaster Relief Force (NDRF), Air Force and Army were pressed into action, the Prime Minister asked other States to also pitch in.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh made a separate appeal to NGOs to mobilise their resources to help deal with the situation.Five additional NDRF columns and 70 boats were sent to the flood-affected areas .
Mr. Modi took stock of the flood situation and relief operations in meetings with the State administration in Jammu and Srinagar. Before leaving for J&K — where he announced Rs. 1,000-crore assistance in addition to Rs. 1,100 crore already made available to the State government through the State Disaster Relief Fund — he convened a crisis review meeting with the Cabinet Secretary and other senior officials in the national capital.
The Centre also announced Rs. 2 lakh ex-gratia to the next of kin of those who died in the floods.
Also, Rs. 50,000 would be given from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to those grievously injured.
Though official figure of the deaths is not available, by all accounts at least 160 people have lost their lives so far.

President Hassan Rouhani re-entered Iran’s feverish debate on Internet censorship and gender segregation, saying neither policy was in the country’s interest.
Mr. Rouhani was elected last year having pledged to be more moderate on social issues.
Iran has a policy of filtering online content, which leaves popular websites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube inaccessible without the use of illegal software.
The decision of Mr. Rouhani’s government to approve faster 3G mobile Internet licences for two Iranian companies last month was seen as the first step toward making Internet access easier. But he went further and said filtering was counter-productive.

With the teams entering the final phase of their preparations for next year’s World Cup, Ian Chappell said defending champion India, Australia and South Africa were the favourites to win the showpiece event.
Chappell said that the leading teams — India and Australia — were in good shape partly due to strong leadership.
Despite Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s obvious flaws as a Test captain, he is still an excellent leader in the shorter forms of the game, according to the Australian.

R.K. Sinha, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, ruled out India signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT ) since India is a “strong supporter of the non-discriminatory [nuclear] regime.”