Top 10 Current Affairs 21 June 2013

1. Russia has rejected U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for deeper cuts in nuclear weapons, dismissing it as misleading and not serious.

2. The much-awaited railway section, providing all-weather surface link to Kashmir valley, will be launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on June 26. Singh and Gandhi will jointly flag off the first train on the 18-km-long section between Banihal in Jammu and Qazigund in Kashmir, marking start of the service.

3. Market regulator SEBI has notified guidelines for investment advisers and their ‘associated persons’ making it compulsory for them to get requisite certifications to operate in stock markets.

4. India and Iraq agreed to revive bilateral ties and intensify cooperation by moving beyond buyer-seller relation, with Baghdad inviting New Delhi to invest more in the oil-rich Arab country, scarred by years of conflict.

5.The Export-Import Bank of India has approved a $300 million worth of line of credit to Ethiopia, paving the way for construction of a railway line linking this landlocked country in the Horn of Africa to a port city in neighbouring Djibouti.

6. Amid growing concerns over huge gold imports hurting the country’s economic strength, financial services major Reliance Capital on Friday became the first company to suspend gold sales across all its businesses.

7. The Capital will host the South Asian Junior Table Tennis Championships next month instead of Ranchi after the organisers in Jharkhand expressed their inability to the stage the event.

8. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Friday cleared the Food Ministry’s proposal to offload 10.5 million tonnes of Food Corporation of India (FCI) foodgrains in the open market to control retail prices. However, the proposal on allowing extra 2 million tonnes of wheat export through public sector trading agencies was not listed on the CCEA agenda for discussion.

9. Violence breaks out in more than 10 cities as a million people take to the streets across Brazil. About a million people took to the streets of 100 Brazilian cities as their protests against corruption and social and economic injustice saw their first death.

10. Google given 35 days to delete personal data gathered through wi-fi connections in its Street View project. Britain’s data regulator has ordered Google to delete personal data scooped up in its Street View project or face contempt of court.