Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 07 August, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

The two –day 18th BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) Ministerial Meeting will get underway to discuss important issues relating to the current UNFCCC Climate Change negotiations specially on matters pertaining to the Adhoc Working Group on the Durban Platform.
The 17th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in Hanzghou, China last October.
The BASIC Ministerial meeting provides an opportunity to Environment Ministers to enhance coordination on important issues in climate change negotiations and to arrive at a common position on such issues. The BASIC Ministers have been meeting regularly since the Conference of Parties in Copenhagen.

Japan marked the 69th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Wednesday, as Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders to visit the city to see the scars of the atomic bombing first hand.
About 45,000 people stood for a minute of silence at the ceremony in Hiroshima’s peace park near the epicentre of the 1945 attack that killed up to 140,000 people. A second bombing, over Nagasaki three days later, killed another 70,000, prompting Japan’s surrender in World War II.
Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, among dignitaries attending the event, said that as the sole country to have suffered nuclear attacks, Japan has the duty to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Facebook India Online Services Pvt. Ltd. has been inducted as an associate member of Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the mobile communications association representing the largest mobile service operators and the majority of telecom equipment manufacturers.
Founded in 2004, people use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family. It has more than 1.32 billion monthly active users globally, including over 100 million monthly active users in India.
Associate membership of COAI comprises companies that manufacture or support the functioning, promotion, research development and evolution of mobile communications services.