Current Affairs - 03rd Feb - 2014

Current Affairs February 2014

• New Director of ONGC of offshore is Tapas Kumar.  He is a Chemical engineering graduate.
  
• Serena Williams Retains top Position in WTA Women’s Tennis Rankings with 13000 points. Second place occupied by Victoria Azarenka with 6581 points and third position announced in the name of Australia Open Winner Li Na with 6570.
  
• Rafael Nadal Retains top at ATP Ranking list followed by Serbia’s Novak Djokavic and Switzerland’s Statislas Wawrinka.
  
• Virat Kohli Ranked 4th in ICC T20 Rankings followed by Suresh Raina at 5th place and Yuvaj Singh at 6th place.
  
• National Mission on Libraries was launched by Pranab Mukherjee, Union Ministry of Culture. Main features of this mission are Capacity building, Quantitative and Qualitative Survey of Libraries, Setting up to NML model libraries, Creation of National Virtual Library of India. Major component schemes of the National Mission on Libraries are creation of a National Virtual Library of India (NVLI).
  
• Jan Lokpal Bill cleared by Delhi Cabinet. This bill provides for covering all public servants from Chief Minister to Group D Employees and seeks life term as maximum punishment for those found guilty of corruption.
  
• BCIC (Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce) has requested Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for timeline for revision of monthly or quarterly returns under the Karnataka VAT Act.
  
• NABARD Sanctioned Rs.1533.90 crores for creation of infrastructure such as construction of ware houses and irrigation in Gujarat. As a part of this Rs.1407 crores were allotted towards the Kutch Branch Canal System under RIDF XIX (Rural Infrastructure Development Fund XIX).