Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 10 August, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Former Bharatiya Janata Party leader Jaswant Singh “continues to be in a coma and very critical” on Saturday in hospital, where he is being treated for a severe head injury he sustained after a fall on Thursday night at his residence.
Seventy-six-year-old Mr. Singh is under care and treatment at the Army Research and Referral Hospital, where he was admitted early on Friday. He is on life support systems and under constant monitoring by a team of neurosurgeons and critical care providers.

A scientific mission to map the seabed surrounding the North Pole got under way amid Canada’s push to claim the area and surrounding Arctic waters ahead of Russia and others.
After a decade of surveying the country’s eastern and far north seabeds and gathering supporting evidence, Canada had filed a U.N. application in December seeking to vastly expand its Atlantic sea boundary.
The U.S. Geological Survey thinks the region could hold 13 per cent of the world’s undiscovered oil and up to 30 per cent of its hidden natural gas reserves.

IDBI Bank and Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) have come under the Central Bureau of Investigation scanner for sanction of a loan of Rs. 950 crore to the beleaguered airline.
The CBI has instituted a preliminary inquiry to ascertain how the bank sanctioned the loan when KFA had a negative net-worth and negative credit rating.
The agency would seek all the documents from the bank on the basis of which the loan amount was sanctioned to KFA. A preliminary enquiry can be converted into a regular case if we come across prima facie evidence of any irregularity.