Current Affairs-5

1. Petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily has said, Diesel prices will be hiked by 40-50 paise per litre every month till losses on the nation's most used fuel are completly wiped out.

2. Oil India share sale today got over-subscribed even before the closure of market hours and the government is estimated to get a minimum of 3,100 crore Rupees from the third divestment this fiscal.

3. India and Mauritius have signed a number of MoUs to strengthen collaboration in textiles sector. The MoUs include one between Apparel Export Promotion Council and Enterprise Mauritius to establish cooperation in standards compliance and enhancing competitiveness of the apparel industry.

4. A suspected suicide bomber has blown himself up outside the US embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, killing a security guard.

5. A Russian rocket, Zenit-3SL carrying a US-made communications satellite has plunged into the Pacific Ocean shortly after its launch.

6. In a major development, the Bangladesh government has decided to withdraw its request to the World Bank for financing the 2.9 billion US Dollar multipurpose Padma Bridge project.

7. The second meeting of the sub group of the India -Bangladesh Joint Rivers Commission on various issues related to the Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project has begun in Dhaka today.

8. South Korea has taken a 2-0 lead against India in the Group I Asia/Oceania first round tie in New Delhi.

9. An ordinance will be brought to amend the criminal law with focus on crime against women, providing punishment upto the entire life of a convict in case of rape whose terminology has been expanded to 'sexual assault'.

10. Giving relief to sociologist Ashis Nandy, the Supreme Court has stayed his arrest over alleged anti-Dalit remarks at the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) but made it clear that he has no license to make such comments. 



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