Grammy Lifetime Achievement award for Ravi Shankar
Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar will be honoured with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously.He becomes the first Indian to get the prestigious award, which will be presented on February 10 at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.The decision to honour Ravi Shankar, a three-time Grammy winner, was made before his death.
Scientists discover mini Nile river on Saturn’s moon Titan
Nasa scientists had spotted the longest extraterrestrial river system ever – on Saturn’s moon Titan – and it appears to be a miniature version of Earth’s Nile river.
Nationwide mobile number portability by Feb 2013
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal announced on 13 December 2012 that the nationwide mobile number portability (MNP) is expected to be rolled out by February 2013, which will allow users to retain their numbers even if they move from one state to another.
India clinches World Cup
India won the first T20 world cup for the Blind .In the final on 13 December 2012 India defeated the Pakistan by 29-runs.
68% turnout in phase-I Gujarat polls
A record 68 per cent voting was registered in the first phase of polling in the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections on 13 December 2012. The polling percentage is the highest in the elections held so far in Gujarat. The highest polling recorded earlier was 63.70 per cent in 1967.
Staff Selection Commission to notify over one lakh jobs
In a massive recruitment drive, the Staff Selection Commission will notify more than one lakh jobs in 2013-2014 and expects to complete the process of recruitment by September 2013.The recruitment process will cover the departments of Income-Tax, Central Excise, Food Corporation of India, AIR and Doordarshan apart from notifying jobs for Central Paramilitary establishments. The notification for vacancies will shortly be issued.
Usha Thorat Committee for NBFCs
India’s majority of Non-Banking Finance companies (NBFCs) may be freed from the regulatory clutches provided Reserve Bank of India (RBI) implements one of the recommendations made by Usha Thorat Committee. which suggested maintaining a minimum asset size of more than Rs 50 crore along with a net owned fund of Rs 2 crore; for registering any new NBFC.The committee had submitted its recommendations to RBI. The working group was constituted to review the existing regulatory and supervisory framework of NBFCs with special focus on the risks in the sector.Currently, those recommendations are under RBI’s consideration.
Chandrashekhar Committee to Frame Rules for Foreign Investors
On 13 December The market regulator Sebi has appointed a committee under ex-Cabinet secretary K M Chandrashekhar to frame a single set of guidelines for all types of foreign investors.The committee will suggest ways to simplify the investment process for all overseas entities like foreign institutional investors, foreign venture capital investors (FVCIs), qualified financial ,institutional investors (QFIs) among others, and also to strengthen surveillance over them.
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