1* President Pranab Mukherjee presented one Padma Vibhushan, twelve Padma Bhushan and fifty-three Padma Shri awards (March 31, 2014) at a Civil Investiture Ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan*
2* The Supreme Court commuted the death sentence of 1993 terror convict Devenderpal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment on the grounds of inordinate delay in deciding his mercy petition*
3* The Empowered Group of Ministers, EGoM, has cleared an assistance of 352 crore rupees for replanting horticultural crops in hailstorm-hit four States*
4* India's cotton production this year is projected to be 376 lakh bales (170 kg each) — 15 lakh bales higher than the earlier estimates — on account of better yields in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, says the Indian Cotton Federation*
5* Complying with the SC's order, BCCI gives marching orders to all employees of India Cements or its associate companies*
6* Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp said that it is buying Ford’s shuttered plant in the Philippines to grow in a market where car ownership is on the rise*
7* Member of Parliament from Guntur, R Sambasiva Rao, who was expelled from the Congress joined the Telugu Desam Party (TDP)*
8* Former Pakistani dictator Pervez Musharraf was indicted by a special court hearing the high treason case against him, becoming the first-ever military ruler to face criminal prosecution*
9* State-owned power equipment maker Bhel has secured Rs 125 crore contract for setting up a 120 MW Hydro Electric Project in Uttarakhand*
10* Six-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic claimed his fourth Miami Masters crown with a dominating straight sets win over world number one Rafael Nadal*
Vodafone India gives 7-8% salary hike to employees
Vodafone
India has given an average pay hike of 7-8% to its employees for the current
financial year.
The increase per individual is based on performance that has
been mapped out on a Bell Curve, which
assesses performance not as an absolute but relative to peers, said the
company's human resources director AshokRamachandran.
Vodafone India employs around 11,500 people of these,
around 1,500 sit in corporate offices while the rest are
ground staff.
Staff costs account for less than 6% of the company's total
expenditure.
Vodafone's India arm showed a healthier operating free cash
flow with a 58.3% jump to 6,295 crore in the financial year 2013 compared with
3,977 crore in the previous fiscal.
It faces issues like one-time charge on
airwave usage and its impending licence renewals in metro cities.
Greece shuts public broadcaster ERT
ii. Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said "ERT
is a case of an exceptional lack of transparency and incredible extravagance.
iii. Shortly after the announcement, thousands rushed
to the main ERT headquarters in a northern Athens suburb to show their support.
iv. "At midnight all screens will go black, nobody
knows when it will open again. This is a total shock," ERT journalist
Pantelis Gonos told media persons.
v. "ERT belongs to the Greek people... It is the
only independent, public voice and it has to remain public... We condemn the
government's sudden decision," public sector union GSEE said in a
statement.
vi. The government said all current employees will be
compensated and will be allowed to reapply for a job at a revamped
organisation.
By 2028, India to be most populous
India would pip China as the world’s most populated country in the world by 2028, says a United Nations population report released on Thursday.
It would also have one of the worst sex ratios, the report said.
The report based on new fertility data says that India’s population would increase till 2050, and then decline to be around 1.54 billion by the turn of the century.
China would enter the downturn in population from 2025 onwards and would lose its top spot to India in 2028.
The population will still rise as life expectancy would increase from 64.9 years in 2013 to 80.6 years in 2100 and would be just one percentage point below the global average.
Now, it is four percentage points less than the world average of 67.1 years, the report says.
The average age would also increase from 26.4 years in 2013 to 44.3 years by the end of the century hinting India will start losing its demographic dividend after 2025.
The report also shows that India has the worst sex ratio, behind only the Middle East.
Presently, India has 107 men for every 100 women, a ratio worse than Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.
Pune to host Asian Athletic
Championship meet
ii. The decision was finalized at the State’s Cabinet
meet held in Mumbai.
iii. The State government has said that it would incur
an expenditure of 18 crore rupees for this tournament.
iv. Maharashtra has agreed to host the event after
Tamil Nadu and later Delhi backed out of hosting it.
देश की अग्रणी और राष्ट्रीयकृत बैंक स्टेट बैंक ऑफ इंडिया में बड़ी संख्या में भर्तियां होने वाली हैं।
सूत्रों के मुताबिक एसबीआई आगामी 15 जून को इसके लिए नोटिफिकेशन प्रकाशित कर सकता है। एसबीआई में 19000 पदों पर यह भर्ती होगी।
ये भर्ती क्लर्क के पद के लिए की जाएगी।
French Nuclear Reactors will be
First Tested in China
i. Nuclear Reactors of Areva, the French company will
start the production at first in China before supplying the production to
Jaitapur in Maharashtra.
ii. The French Ambassador to India Francois Richier
announced that Areva will facilitate two reactors to China. These reactors are
under construction.
iii. France explained that reactors like those in China
will also be built up in Jaitapur.
iv. For this project, Areva and Nuclear Power
Corporation of India signed a multi-billion contract, which costs around 9.3
billion US dollar.
v. The joint project will also facilitate joint
collaboration for the purpose of nuclear energy.
The Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in
Maharashtra includes 6X1,650 MW light water reactors which will be constructed
in cooperation with France for the purpose of generation of 9900 MW of power.
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