Top 10 Current Affairs : 11th August 2013
1. India will launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on Monday, making an entry into a select club of countries capable of designing and building a carrier of this size and capability.
2. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) liquidity tightening measures may have an adverse impact on the country's already sluggish economic growth, which could fall below 5 per cent, experts warned.
3. Against the backdrop of recent incursions by Chinese troops into India, the two countries are working to conclude a new border defence agreement with an aim of signingit when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to Beijing possibly in October. The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) proposes prevention of face-offs between the troops of the two countries along the over 4,000 km disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC).
4. India signed a Protocol amending the India – Morocco Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC). The Protocol was signed by Dr Sudha Sharma, Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes on behalf of Government of India and Mr. Larbi Reffouh, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to India on behalf of Government of the Kingdom of Morocco.
1. India will launch its first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant on Monday, making an entry into a select club of countries capable of designing and building a carrier of this size and capability.
2. The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) liquidity tightening measures may have an adverse impact on the country's already sluggish economic growth, which could fall below 5 per cent, experts warned.
3. Against the backdrop of recent incursions by Chinese troops into India, the two countries are working to conclude a new border defence agreement with an aim of signingit when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh travels to Beijing possibly in October. The Border Defence Cooperation Agreement (BDCA) proposes prevention of face-offs between the troops of the two countries along the over 4,000 km disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC).
4. India signed a Protocol amending the India – Morocco Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC). The Protocol was signed by Dr Sudha Sharma, Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes on behalf of Government of India and Mr. Larbi Reffouh, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to India on behalf of Government of the Kingdom of Morocco.