Top 10 Current Affairs (February 2013)
1.President Pranab Mukherjee has promulgated an ordinance on sexual violence against women under which rape leading to death of the victim can attract capital punishment.
2.The 12th five year plan document has said that manufacturing sector can be a genuine engine of growth by generating 100 million work opportunities by 2022.
3.A Delhi court is likely to frame charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others tomorrow for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over 90 crore rupees to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case.
4.The Indian Railways will host the 10th International Heavy Haul Association Conference in New Delhi from tomorrow.
5.Pakistan's main opposition PML-N has demanded an independent panel to probe the Kargil conflict of 1999 following revelations by retired army officers that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had masterminded the operation.
6.The Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, during the ongoing Munich Security Conference, said today that six major countries would hold new talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear program in Kazakhstan on February 25.
7.The Mars rover Curiosity has used its drill system for the first time. The robot's tool bit hammered briefly, without rotation, into a flat slab of rock on the floor of Gale Crater, the huge bowl where it landed last August.
8.The joint sitting of the Karnataka legislature with the Governor's address will be held in Bangalore tomorrow against the backdrop of political uncertainty in the state after resignation of 13 BJP legislators loyal to B S Yeddyurappa.
9.The Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has got the Maharatna status from the Central Government.
10.India suffered its first home Davis Cup defeat in seven years as it lost the Asia Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie against South Korea 1-4 today.
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2.The 12th five year plan document has said that manufacturing sector can be a genuine engine of growth by generating 100 million work opportunities by 2022.
3.A Delhi court is likely to frame charges against sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and others tomorrow for allegedly cheating, conspiring and causing a loss of over 90 crore rupees to the exchequer in a Games-related corruption case.
4.The Indian Railways will host the 10th International Heavy Haul Association Conference in New Delhi from tomorrow.
5.Pakistan's main opposition PML-N has demanded an independent panel to probe the Kargil conflict of 1999 following revelations by retired army officers that former military ruler Pervez Musharraf had masterminded the operation.
6.The Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, during the ongoing Munich Security Conference, said today that six major countries would hold new talks with Iran on its disputed nuclear program in Kazakhstan on February 25.
7.The Mars rover Curiosity has used its drill system for the first time. The robot's tool bit hammered briefly, without rotation, into a flat slab of rock on the floor of Gale Crater, the huge bowl where it landed last August.
8.The joint sitting of the Karnataka legislature with the Governor's address will be held in Bangalore tomorrow against the backdrop of political uncertainty in the state after resignation of 13 BJP legislators loyal to B S Yeddyurappa.
9.The Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has got the Maharatna status from the Central Government.
10.India suffered its first home Davis Cup defeat in seven years as it lost the Asia Oceania Group I Davis Cup tie against South Korea 1-4 today.
Click Here to Download PDF File of the Current Affairs (February 2013)
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