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1.
Unveiling a set of 13 corporate governance principles for the banking
sector, the BCBS has said that regulators should set corporate
governance guidelines in line with these principles, besides addressing
expectations for checks and balances, clear allocation of
responsibilities, accountability and transparency among the members of
the board, senior management and within the bank.
2.
The January-June period of 2015 was the hottest such period since
1880, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has
said. During the period, the average temperature across global land and
ocean surfaces was 0.85 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average.
3.
Seven Indian companies, including Reliance Industries and Tata
Motors, are among the world’s 500 largest companies, according to a list
compiled by Fortune that has been topped by retail giant Walmart. While
Indian Oil, Reliance, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum, and Oil
and Natural Gas slipped in rankings from the previous year, Tata Motors
and SBI improved in rankings.
4.
Popular Tamil film producer Ibrahim Rowther, who gave actor
Vijayakant his moniker ‘Captain’ and produced some of his biggest hits
such as Pulan Visaranai and Captain Prabhakaran, died in Chennai. He was
64 years old.
5.
With 14,310 suicides contributing 10.9 percent of total suicides in
the country in 2014 West Bengal ranks third among of States in the
number of suicides after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu as per the
statistics released by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Rate of
suicides per lakh population in West Bengal was 15.5 per cent, while the
national average was 10.6 per cent in 2014.
6.
Non-resident Indians (NRIs) can invest in National Pension System
(NPS) to get a social security cover, pension regulator PFRDA’s Chairman
Hemant Contractor has said. While RBI has communicated to PFRDA about
NRIs being eligible to make such investments, the government will
shortly come out with a clarification on Foreign Exchange Management Act
(FEMA) guidelines to facilitate non-resident Indians to invest in
National Pension System (NPS), he said.
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7.
Nobel prize winner Peter Higgs has joined the ranks of Charles Darwin
and Albert Einstein by winning the world’s oldest scientific prize, the
Royal Society’s Copley Medal, for his pioneering work on the theory of
the Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012. The Copley medal was
first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the first
Nobel Prize.
8.
R K Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by a woman employee, has
been sacked as the chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI).
He will be replaced by Ajay Mathur who is the Director General of Bureau
of Energy Efficiency.
9.
Indian hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand will be conferred with the
‘Bharat Gaurav’ Lifetime Achivement Award by NRI orgainsation Sanskriti
Yuva Sangstha at the House of Commons inside the British Parliament of
July 25. On behalf of Dhyan Chand, his son and former Indian hockey
player Ashok Kumar will receive the award.
10.
India and Russia pursue joint programmes in a few areas of space
research. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Russian Federal
Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) on expansion of cooperation in the field of the exploration and
use of outer space for peaceful purposes. There is no transfer of space
technology envisaged under this MoU.
