Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 18 January, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor was found dead in her hotel room on 17th of Jan, 2014.
Her body was found in Room number 345 of the Leela Hotel in the capital, and the Delhi Police Commissioner has ordered an inquiry into this matter.
There was no obvious sign of any foul play or any struggle.
Her death comes a day after the Twitter scandal allegedly involving her, husband Shashi Tharoor and a Pakistani journalist Mehr Tarar.
Sunanda Pushkar had accused Tarar of stalking her husband and trying to ‘break’ her marriage.
Tarar in her twitter page wrote: “I just woke up and read this. I'm absolutely shocked. This is too awful for words. So tragic I don't know what to say. Rest in peace, Sunanda.
Earlier Tharoor had come out with a joint statement with Sunanda Pushkar stating that they were "happily married", but distressed by "some unauthorised tweets".

Trinamool Congress has nominated Bollywood actor Mithun Chakraborty as one of the five Rajya Sabha members to be elected from West Bengal, said WB Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Out of five Rajya Sabha members who would l be elected this time, one of the seats will be given to Mithun Chakraborty from All India Trinamool Congress. Chakraborty is a well-known film personality. He has devoted his life to the cause of cultural and social activities with great success.

At least 18 people died in a stampede and about 45 were injured early morning in the Malabar Hill area, where an overwhelming crowd from the Dawoodi Bohra community had gathered to pay their last repsects to the departed spiritual leader Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin.
Officials from the municipality’s Disaster Management Cell said the incident occurred around 1.30 a.m on 18th Jan. Thousands of people had gathered outside the residence of Burhanuddin – Saifee House — in the south Mumbai Malabar Hill area, where his body was kept. Saifee House is located next to Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan's residence, Sahyadri.
Union Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde expressed profound grief over the incident.
According to police sources the gates of the Syedna's bungalow were closed at 1.30 am without informing the authorities. Sources added that the community leaders and authorities were unprepared for the large number of people who gathered to pay last respects to the spiritual leader.

Chelsea’s coach Jose Mourinho has said Manchester United will sell their ace striker Wayne Rooney this summer only to a club outside the Premier League.
Chelsea bid twice for Rooney and there are strong indications that Mourinho still believes he can sign the player, who has just one further season of his contract left to run.
He said maybe this summer they will try to sell Rooney to a non-direct rival, The Independent reports.
Mourinho later clarified that by non-direct rival he meant an overseas club.

Rafael Nadal swept into the Australian Open third round under the Rod Laver Arena roof but Juan Martin Del Potro was sent packing as sweltering temperatures, lightning and rain caused chaos on the outside courts.
Fifth seed Del Potro, whose match was shunted back to the late evening by the disruptions, was the first major casualty of the men's draw in the early hours of Friday morning when he lost 4-6 6-3 5-7 6-4 7-5 to 62nd ranked Spaniard Roberto Bautista.
On a third consecutive day of sauna-like heat and with temperatures climbing towards a peak of 43.4 degrees Celsius (110 Fahrenheit), organisers finally enacted the third stage of their "Extreme Heat Policy" after three hour's play.
Play was suspended for more than four hours on the exposed outer courts and, in a bizarre turn of events, the players had been back on court for less than two hours when a thunderstorm sent them scuttling back to the locker rooms.
While third seed Maria Sharapova had a tougher time, though, and a quirk of the rules meant her match against Karin Knapp was concluded in the full glare of the sun some 50 minutes after it was adjudged too dangerous to play.
The Russian reflected the confusion and anger of players over the last three days at a perceived lack of transparency over when the Extreme Heat Policy is put into force.