National

National Current Affairs 2010

• Total National highway in India is 205 with distance 67,000 km. NH1 is divided so NH7 is now Longest from Varanasi to Kanyakumari (2369 km) 
• NEWS: Washington, Sep 12- Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani will become the world's richest man in 2014
• SY KURAISHI is new Chief Election Commissioner of India
• India and Chaina tied in Forbes List of becoming ASIA Power
• At just 2ft 9in, Indian muscleman Aditya 'Romeo' Dev is the world's smallest bodybuilder.
• From 2006-2009, Saudi Arabia ranked first in arms transfer agreements with USD 29.5 billion, India is second with USD 17.1 billion
• National Film Award: *Malyalam film Kutty Srank wins Best Feature Film *Best Hindi film: Paa *Best actress: Ananya Chatterjee in Abohoman
• Indira Nuyi , C.E.O. of the Cola company PEPSI Co top salary getter in india. She gets appr. 47 Crore rs. salary per
• Sep 13, 2010, On Monday:India has become the seventh largest vehicle producing nation in the world, six years ahead of target   
• In the Global Peace Index 2010, India ranked at 128.
• 2010 Failed State Index- Somalia top the list followed by Zimbabwe, Sudan & Chad. India is ranked at 87 place out of 177 countries. Norway in ranked at the bottom of the list.
• President Rule imposed in Jharkhand.
• Amar Singh launches a new party ‘Akhil Bhartiya Lok Manch’.
• South African president Jacob Zuma visited India.
• Turkmenistan President Gurbaguly Bardimuhamedov visited India.
• Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India. India signed 7 pacts with Sri Lanka. India will assist in building 50000 houses in the northen & eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.
• Bangladesh Govt has requested to rename the train linking West Bengal to Tripura via Banglades as ‘ Sonar Tori’. Earlier the name of the train as envisaged in the Railway Budget 2010 is ‘Epar Bangla Opar Bangla’. Sonar Tori is a collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, whose 150th birth anniversary is being celebrated in 2010.
• Maharastra will become first state in the country to have a real estate regulatory authority.
• BWA- Broadband Wireless Access. The BWA spectrum was auctioned by the Govt. BWA Spectrum is essential for rolling out WiMAX services enabling hand held devices and laptops to access Intranet. It will allow firms to offer high speed Net, Web telephony & TV Services. The govt fixed Rs.1750 crore as base rate for BWA license. The auction was held for 117 rounds and in 16 days. Rs.12848 crore was the pan India BWA license price which was won by Infotel Broadband services ( in all 22 circles). The Govt auctioned the BWA license for a total of Rs.38,543 crore. Mumbai had the highest bid of Rs.2293 crore followed by Delhi with Rs.2241 crore respectively.
• India signed Civil Nuclear agreement with Canada. The agreement was signed by Manmohan Singh and Canada’s PM Stephen Harper. Canada is the 8th nation to enter into such an agreement with India. Canada served nuclear ties with India in 1974 when India conducted its first nuclear test at Pokhran in 1974. India’s nuclear power programme is based on the CANDU ( Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.
• India become a full fledged member of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a 34 member inter governmental body that devises policies at both national & international levels to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. FATF membership will enable Indian authorities to access information on suspect accounts in nations such as Switzerland & UK. India become its 34th member.