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30 Oct 2014

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Iran Wants all Sanctions Lifted

  • Iran wants all Western sanctions to be lifted before striking a deal on its contested nuclear programme by the end of November deadline.
  • The announcement came amid intensifying efforts to conclude a definitive pact. The six powers in the talks with Iran – Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States plus Germany, known as the P5+1 – have set November 24 as the deadline.
  • The Chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, said the US proposal of lifting the sanctions gradually was “unacceptable.”
  • “If we want a definitive accord on November 24, there must be an immediate lifting of sanctions.”

Africa's First White Head of State this Century

  • Zambia's Guy Scott became Africa's first white head of state in 20 years.
  • He will be interim leader until an election in three months.
  • Scott, is ineligible to run in a presidential election because his parents were not born in Zambia, leaving defence minister Edgar Lungu and finance minister Alexander Chikwanda the most likely contenders for the ruling Patriotic Front party's ticket.
  • Many Zambians welcomed his interim appointment.
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ENVIRONMENT

Galapagos Island Tortoises Make a Comeback

  • Giant tortoises that were once driven to the brink of extinction on a tiny Galápagos island have made an amazing comeback.
  • The tortoise population on the island of Española dwindled to just 15 animals in the 1960s, because of damage to their habitat. Then, about 40 years ago, captive-bred tortoises were released on the island, and now there are about 1,000 of them living and breeding in the wild.
  • Giant tortoises used to be found all over the world, but now, in the wild, they're found only on the Galápagos Islands.

NASA Photograph Clearly Captures Active Regions in Sun's Corona

  • A haunting face reminiscent of a carved jack-o'-lantern emerges from the active regions of the sun's corona in this image captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
  • According to NASA, "the active regions appear brighter because those are areas that emit more light and energy — markers of an intense and complex set of magnetic fields hovering in the sun’s atmosphere, the corona."
  • To understand and track how particles and heat move through the corona, scientists observe the sun in different wavelengths using a measurement known as angstroms. The image above is a blend of shots taken at two different wavelengths — 171 and 193 angstroms.
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BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

FDI Norms Relaxed for Construction, Real Estate Sector

  • In a boost to cash-starved real estate industry, the government relaxed rules for FDI in the construction sector by reducing minimum built-up area as well as capital requirement and easing the exit norms.
  • In case of development of serviced plots, the condition of minimum land of 10 hectares has been completely removed.
  • These measures are expected to enhance inflows into the construction development sector.
  • The real estate sector has been facing a slowdown for the last 2-3 years, leading to liquidity crunch and huge delays in completion of housing as well as commercial projects.

List of 627 Foreign Account Holders Given to Supreme Court

  • A list of 627 Indians with bank accounts at HSBC in Switzerland has been given to the Supreme Court.
  • The court has set a deadline of March 2015 to complete the probe into whether these account holders have violated tax laws.
  • In a signal that it does not intend to disclose the names, the Supreme Court has passed on the list to a panel of retired judges and regulators to map the recovery of black money.
  • The Supreme Court has been monitoring the black money investigation since 2009 based on a petition by noted lawyer Ram Jethmalani.
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Mars Orbiter Crossed Comet Hurdle

  • With NASA's Mars orbiter spacecraft's successful encounter with comet Siding Spring last week, a major hurdle was over and the satellite is now in a normal phase of the mission to proceed with other experiments.
  • The comet, known as Siding Spring (C/2013 A1), made its closest encounter with Mars on October 19th midnight for which ISRO had repositioned its Mars Orbiter satellite to avoid collision.

World's Slimmest Smartphone

  • Oppo, apart from launching its new flagship smartphone N3, also introduced its slimmest smartphone, the R5. The R5 is just 4.85mm thick.
  • As claimed by the company, the Oppo R5 is the 'slimmest smartphone in the world' surpassing the Gionee Elife S5.1, which is 5.1mm thick. Notably, Gionee's Elife S5.1 was recently recognised by Guinness Book of World Records as the slimmest smartphone in the world.
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SPORTS

Sachin Tendulkar Inducted into Bradman Hall of Fame

  • Sachin Tendulkar added another feather to his cap when the Indian batting legend was inducted as one of the latest honourees in the Bradman Foundation.
  • Tendulkar, who had the honour of meeting Bradman on his 90th birthday at his Adelaide home, was later listed in an all-time XI prepared by the batting genius himself.
  • Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as one of the greatest batsmen of all time, popularly holding the title "God of Cricket" among his fans.
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