Top Ten Current Affairs 20/June/2013
1. World Refugee Day is being observed today. This year the theme of the day is – Take One Minute to Support a Family Forced to Flee.
2. India has invited China to become the ‘principal guest country’ at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2014, which is scheduled to be held in Goa, I&B Min Manish Tewari said.
3. Scientists at the department of linguistics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor discovered a new language called Light Warlpiri in Northern Australia. The language, Light Warlpiri, is spoken by approximately 300 people in a remote desert community about 644 kilometres from Katherine, a town located in Australia’s Northern Territory.
4. The rupee today (Thursday) weakened to an unprecedented 59.9275 per dollar, past the previous all-time low of 58.9850 touched on June 11.
5. Global retailers like Walmart and Tesco have sought assurance from India that any change of governments at both centre and states should not result in reversal of FDI policy in multi-brand segment, before taking investment decisions in the country.
6. Lionel Messi and his father were ordered by a Spanish court on Thursday to appear for questioning in September as part of an investigation into tax fraud allegations.
7. Search engine giant Google has launched an application “Person Finder” to offer information on missing people in flood-affected areas in the country, including Uttarakhand.Google Person Finder is a web application that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster, Google said in a blogpost.
8. The BSE benchmark Sensex on Thursday plunged by over 526 points, its biggest fall in nearly two years, to end at 18,719.29 due to massive selling on worries that capital inflows may dry up if US Fed’s sticks to its plan of slowing down monetary stimulus later this year. The stock markets were also under heavy pressure after rupee touched life-time low of 59.93 against the dollar.
9. In this file photo women protest against sexual and domestic violence in Dehradun. About a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner, a major global study says.
10. China said it has sentenced 11 people for inciting religious extremism and related crimes in the northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang.
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