2nd November 2014 - Important Current Affairs

2nd November 2014 - Important Current Affairs


National Affairs

• Assam government today announced that they have decided to hand over the cases relating jihadi activities to National Investigation Agency for investigation.
• The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said disclosure of names in violation of tax treaties will help account holders as the reciprocating state could refuse any evidence.
• “An unauthorised disclosure of information is fraught with both investigation and economic consequences. They can sabotage the investigation. They can attract sanctions in the form of withholding taxes,” he said in a Facebook post on a day when Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that all efforts would be made to bring back black money stashed abroad.
• In Kochi, police arrest organisers and sympathizers of controversial "kiss of love" event while protesting against moral policing.
• With 5.5 lakh posts in police force lying vacant across the country, the Centre has asked all states to fill up the vacancies in a time-bound manner, preferably within a year, as the crime graph is soaring gradually.
• Union Home Secretary - Anil Goswami
• An NGO, The Umar Alisha Rural Development Trust (UARDT), under its 'Make Vizaggreen' initiative, planting of as many as 10 lakh trees over next five years in Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) and adjoining areas in a bid to restore the green cover destroyed by cyclone Hudhud last month.
• Delhi University students will now be trained to work in the five villages adopted by the varsity as part of the Centre's Swacch Bharat campaign.
• Five villages : Majra Dabas, Jatkhore, Sevapuri, Timarpur, Nandnagri

International Affairs

• Nearly 50 people, including children and security personnel, were killed and 70 others injured in a powerful suicide blast in Pakistan at Wagah today, minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony at the Indo-Pak border.

Books & Authors

• Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar's Autobiography 'Playing it My Way — My Autobiography', will be released worldwide on 6th November 2014.
• Mumbai-based NGO Apnalaya will be a beneficiary of this autobiography as proceeds from its sale will be given to the organisation for fighting malnutrition in children.

People in News

• British-Iranian woman, Ghoncheh Ghavami detained in Iran after trying to watch a men's volleyball match has been sentenced to a year in prison. .
• Note : Iran banned women from volleyball games in 2012, extending a long-standing ban on football matches.
• The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) today handed death penalty to Mir Quasem Ali, infamous for leading Al-Badr force in torturing freedom fighters at a hotel in Chittagong, to death for committing crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.

Sports

• Duleep Trophy 2014 (Cricket) : Central Zone lift DuleepTrophy beating South Zone by nine runs.
• 54th edition of National Open Athletics Championships began at JJawaharlal Nehru Stadium (New Delhi) today.
• Asian Games bronze medalist O P Jaisha stole the show by winning the women's 5000m race on the opening day