Current Affairs for SSC CGL Exams - 08 September 2015

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The three-day World Hindi Conference in Bhopal is going to be a mega event; at least the preparations afoot suggest so.
But the ministry of external affairs and the state government are tight-lipped about the budget of the conference that will be inaugurated on September 10 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
There is dynamism in the budget process. Funds would be no constraint for such a programme,” said minister of state for external affairs, Gen (retired) VK Singh.
The Bhopal Municipal Corporation and district administration, which has been carrying out various beautification works across the city, told HT that most of the works were being carried out in anticipation that the budget would be sanctioned.
Some officials hinted that the ministry of external affairs had decided upon a budget of Rs 20 crore for the event.
But the expenses are expected to go much beyond the mark and the state government is expected to bear the budget above this limit, said the official, not wishing to be named.

North and South Korea have agreed to host family reunions for families separated by the Korean War, according to media reports.
The reunions for 100 separated families will be held Oct. 20-26 at Mount Kumgang, a resort on the North's east coast., South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday.
They will be the first reunions since February 2014 and only the second in the past five years.
The BBC reported that the talks were being held by Red Cross officials from both sides.
The two countries remain technically at war as the Korean War only ended in an armistice.
The discussions come after tense weeks on the Korean peninsula, which included exchanges of fire at the border and the evacuation of thousands of South Koreans from the border region.
Tensions began when a border landmine injured two South Korean soldiers. South Korea responded by broadcasting propaganda messages into the North.
The two sides reached an agreement to defuse the situation after marathon talks, the BBC reported.

Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party re-elected Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as its president on Tuesday after his potential rival, Seiko Noda, failed to achieve enough support from lawmakers to contest the post. Mr. Abe will remain party leader for a second three-year term.
Mr. Abe also pledged to push forward with his plan to permit Japan’s military to be dispatched to conflicts abroad, which has been banned for 70 years under the pacifist Constitution.
Legislation allowing that change is expected to be enacted next week, despite rare large-scale protests across the country.

Anirban Lahiri added another feather to his cap by becoming the first Indian to qualify for the prestigious President’s Cup.
Lahiri, World No.40, came through as one of the automatic qualifications for the International Team, which will take on United States in the biennial Presidents Cup in Korea.
In the International Team standings, the deadline for which ended on Monday, Lahiri finished seventh to make the team.
Also becoming the first from his country to make the team was Thailand’s Thongchai Jaidee, who was ninth
At one stage, Lahiri had fell out of the Top-10, but his fifth place finish at the PGA Championships hauled him back into the zone.