Top 10 Current Affairs 30 July 2013

1. The UPA Coordination Committee favours creation of a seperate State of Telangana. The crucial decision comes ahead of the Congress Working Committee which is in session to take a final call on the issue.

2. The Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep all the key rates unchanged in its first quarter monetary policy review for 2013-2014 today.

Interest Rates are as Follows:
1. The repo rate was kept unchanged at 7.25 percent.
2. Reverse repo remains at 6.25 percent.
3. Cash reserve ratio unchanged at 4.00 percent
4. Keeps Marginal Standing Facility rate at 10.25 percent.
5. Bank rate stands at 10.25 percent.
6. SLR – 23%

3. Sarod maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan will be honoured with the 21st Rajiv Gandhi National Sadbhavna Award for promotion of communal harmony peace and goodwill.

4. India-born Pakistani businessman Mamnoon Hussain, a close aide of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has been elected as the 12th President of Pakistanafter he trounced his lone opponent in a one-sided contest.

5. Indian multinational oil and gas company, Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has signed an agreement to explore hiring Reliance Industries’ unutilised production facilities on the east to quickly bring to production its gas finds in the Krishna Godavari basin.

6. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have resumed long-stalled peace talks with US asking both sides to make the compromises to reach a long lasting deal.

7. Bombay High Court held as “illegal and unconstitutional” the two-member probe panel set up by BCCI to look into spot-fixing and betting charges in the IPL tournament.

8. Taliban militants have freed 248 prisoners in an assault on a prison in north-west Pakistan. Militants armed with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and bombs blasted down the walls of the jail in the town of Dera Ismail Khan and streamed inside.

9. “Metro Man” E. Sreedharan has been selected for the prestigious Lokmanya Tilak award for 2013 for his outstanding contribution to society.

10. Astrophysicists from the Irkutsk State University here have begun the construction of the world’s largest gamma-ray telescope Tunka-HiSCORE. The telescope will be constructed in Tunka Valley in Buryatia, close to Russia’s border with Mongolia.