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

Current Affairs For Bank, IBPS Exams

The Delhi High Court on Friday advised the Delhi Government to organise camps for registration of e-rickshaws to protect the operators from further loss of earnings.
However, it refused to lift the ban on them plying on the Capital’s roads till the drivers have licences, registration certificates and insurance papers in their possession.
Filing the draft guidelines to regulate the battery-operated rickshaws, the Centre sought two months to finalise and notify them and urged the Court to let the vehicles ply during the this period. But the Court declined.

Under attack over his absence from Rajya Sabha, Sachin Tendulkar said that a medical emergency kept him away from Delhi and that he did not mean disrespect to any institution.
In a veiled reference to the raging discussion about him in Parliament and outside by media, he said “They are discussing everything about you in the media but I think you should be focussed on your job and nothing else.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread.
The WHO announced the Ebola outbreak the largest and longest in history is worrying enough to merit being declared an international health emergency. WHO declared similar emergencies for the swine flu pandemic in 2009 and for polio in May.
Countries affected to date simply do not have the capacity to manage an outbreak of this size and complexity on their own, The current outbreak of Ebola began in Guinea in March and has since spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia.