Eaglejob Gk updates June 2013

Eaglejob Gk updates June 2013 Eaglejob Current Affairs 2013

Sanjay Patel is new BCCI secretary

Sanjay Patel has been appointed the new secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), its interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya announced .

Srinivasan finally agreed to step aside at the BCCI working committee meeting on Sunday during the pendency of the spot fixing probe for which the board has formed a commission.

The working committee has entrusted Dalmiya the task of running the day-to-day affairs of the board.

India take on West Indies tomorrow

i. With eyes firmly set on a semifinal berth, a confident India will seek to keep the momentum going when they take on an unpredictable West Indies in a crucial Group B match of the ICC Champions Trophy at the Oval in London on Tuesday.

ii. Both the teams have won their opening group matches in contrasting fashion, and know very well that a win will almost guarantee a spot in the last four stage of the tournament, being held for the last time.

iii. While reigning world champions India defeated injury-hit South Africa by 26 runs in Cardiff after posting a commanding 331 for 7, the West Indies eked out a close two-wicket win over Pakistan in a low-scoring game on Friday.

iv. But come tomorrow, the clash will be a battle between many players who have solid 'knowledge' of each other.

Scottish fiction writer Iain Banks dies at 59

Scottish writer Iain Banks, who alternately wowed and disturbed readers with his dark jokes and narrative tricks, has died, his publisher said Sunday. He was 59.

Banks, whose writing took readers from rural Scotland to the edge of space, announced in April that he was terminally

ill with cancer and that his soon-to-be released novel, "The Quarry," would be his last.

Banks had two parallel literary careers: One as a general fiction author whose twisted plots are sprinkled with brutality, the other as a science-fiction writer whose imaginative universes spawned a fanzine and spun out a devoted online following. He even had two names: Iain Banks for the general fiction, Iain M. Banks, for the sci-fi.

Banks published his first novel, the dark and funny "The Wasp Factory" in 1984. His first science fiction book, "Consider Phlebas," was published three years later.

His books were both critical and popular successes. "The Crow Road" - which opens with the memorable line "It was the day my grandmother exploded" - was adapted for television in 1996.

Srikanth  clinched the Thailand Open Badminton 2013

i. K Srikanth became the latest badminton sensation to emerge from India as he lifted his maiden men's singles title with a stunning straight-game triumph over top-seeded local favourite Boonsak Ponsana at the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold in Bangkok on Sunday.

ii. The 20-year-old from Guntur, Andhra Pradesh beat world number eight Ponsana 21-16 21-12 in a 34-minute match to script the biggest win of his still nascent career.

iii. Thailand Open Badminton 2013 was held in Bangkok.

China to send second woman into space: officials

A woman astronaut, the daughter of a farmer, will be among the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft when it flies into space on Tuesday. Wang Yaping, from a farmer’s family in east China, is the second female astronaut in China’s manned space mission and the first one born in the 1980

Liu Yang was the first Chinese woman astronaut to go space when Shenzhou-9 was launched in June, 2012.

Wang’s two male colleagues aboard the spacecraft Shenzhou-10 — divine craft in Chinese — are Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang; all three are Communist Party of China (CPC) members and officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

“The spacecraft will travel in the space for 15 days and go through two docking tests with the orbiting space lab module Tiangong-1, one automatic and the other manual. Besides medical and technical tests, astronauts will give a lecture to a group of students on the ground inside the Tiangong-1, introducing the weightless condition,” Wu Ping, the spokesperson for China’s space programme, told a press conference at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre located in the Gobi desert.

Bob and Mike Bryan won Doubles Title at French Open 2013

i. Top-ranked American twins Bob and Mike Bryan won their record 14th major doubles title by defeating Michael Llodra and Nicolas Mahut of France 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 in the French Open men's doubles final.

ii. The local favourite Llodra and Mahut were looking to become the first French pair since Yannick Noah and Henri Leconte in 1984 to win the doubles title at Roland Garros.

iii. The Bryans had won their only other French Open in 2003. This is their 14th major doubles title. 

Advani quits BJP posts

i. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani on Monday resigned from all posts in the party, a day after Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was appointed as the chief of the party’s election campaign committee.

ii. Mr. Modi’s elevation was announced at the three-day meeting of the BJP national executive in Goa which Mr. Advani skipped, citing health reasons

iii. It was for the first time in his more than four-decade-long political career that Mr. Advani had given the national executive of the party a miss, apparently in a bid to express his displeasure over elevation of Mr. Modi.

iv. In his one-page resignation letter to the party president, Mr Advani said: “For some time, I have been finding it difficult to reconcile either with the current functioning of the party, or the direction in which it is going... most leaders of ours are now concerned just with their personal agendas.’’

v. A founder-member of the BJP, Mr. Advani, 85, resigned from all main bodies of the party --- Parliamentary Board, National Executive and Election Committee.

vi. With Mr. Advani’s resignation, the internal rift in the BJP has come out in the open as also the unease which some of the party leaders had been feeling over the elevation of Mr. Modi who would now be the face of the party to take it through the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

vii. BJP president Rajnath Singh called on Mr Advani at his Prithviraj Road residence in the national Capital on Monday afternoon but failed in his attempt to appease him.

Rajnath rejects Advani's resignation

i. BJP president Rajnath Singh Monday refused to accept party leader L. K. Advani's resignation from organisational posts

ii. "I have not accepted Shri Advaniji's resignation," Rajnath Singh said in a tweet.

iii. BJP sources said that the party leadership would make efforts to persuade Advani to reconsider his decision.

Serena Willimas won French Open Title 2013 

i. Serena Williams  won the Women's Singles title of French Open Tennis tournament  by defeating Maria Sharapova in straight sets by 6-4, 6-4.

ii. This is Serena's second French Open title and 16th grand slam.

iii. It was Sharapova’s 10th straight loss to Williams.

At 31 years, 247 days Serena Willimas is the oldest women in the Open Era to win the French Open title. She beat the record of Chris Evert who set the previous mark in 1986

Google close to buying Israeli mapping start-up Waze: report

Google is close to buying Waze for $1.3 billion, an Israeli newspaper reported potentially trumping rival offers for the Israeli mapping start-up.

The report on the website of financial newspaper Globes did not cite sources or provide further details. Last month

sources told Reuters the Internet search giant was in talks to acquire Waze, while a second Israeli newspaper reported Facebook (FB.O) was willing to pay up to $1 billion for the firm.

Waze is a crowd-sourced, mobile-oriented navigation device for drivers that relies on information provided by its 47 million members to populate its maps.

Mapping services are among the five most-used applications on smartphones and are crucial to engaging and retaining mobile users. The key advantage of owning, rather than licensing, a mapping service is that it allows the product to be personalized for users.