Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 23 January, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Indian-American professor Rakesh Khurana has been appointed Dean of the prestigious Harvard College, becoming the latest addition to a long list of Indian-origin academicians assuming leadership roles at renowned global universities.
Khurana, 46, is currently the ‘Marvin Bower’ Professor of Leadership Development at Harvard Business School (HBS), professor of sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and co—master of Cabot House at Harvard.
He succeeds Evelynn Hammonds, Professor of History of Science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard and will assume his new role on July 1.
Harvard College is the school within Harvard University that grants undergraduate degrees.
Khurana earned his Ph.D. through a joint programme between HBS and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1998.
Harvard Business School’s India—born Dean Nitin Nohria also welcomed Khurana’s appointment saying his selection is a testament to his skill and vision as a teacher and scholar.

A unified criminal database and a security alert system, a web application, have been prepared by the police to keep tabs on criminals and prevent their entry into the offices of the Chief Minister and Ministers.
The database would prevent criminals from bypassing police verification, and taking passport from other districts. It would help the police to nab them easily in case they committed crime .

US-based leading online newspaper Huffington Post is planning to launch an India edition by May this year and negotiations are currently underway to finalise a local partner for this venture.
Starting with English language, the India online edition would also eventually offer news in other local languages.
Having established itself as a major media force in India through its namesake online newspaper, Huffington Post has already begun its expansion in other markets with ten international editions already under its stable. It has just launched a new section called, World Post.
Without disclosing the name of its prospective partners in India, the Huffington Post CEO said that it has got a couple of options, but the negotiations have reached almost final level and a deal was very close to be finalised.

Chinese trailblazer Li Na marched towards a second Grand Slam title by blasting past teenager Eugenie Bouchard and into the Australian Open final, where she will face Dominika Cibulkova.
The fourth seed steamrolled the rising Canadian 6-2, 6-4 to continue her stellar form at Melbourne Park where she has now reached three finals, as well as another semi-final and the fourth round over the past five years.
After an agonising defeat to Victoria Azarenka in last year's decider on Rod Laver Arena, when she dramatically twice rolled her ankle and briefly blacked out, she is desperate to go one better.

New Zealand pushed India off the No. 1 position in ODIs with another clinical performance although India's middle order demanded that their bowlers stay at it till the end.
Largely, though, the match followed the first ODI's script. Jesse Ryder went bang bang for too brief a while, Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor scored fifties to set up a final assault, Corey Anderson nearly blasted the fastest ODI fifty too, India had a big chase at hand and were kept alive by Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni but New Zealand kept producing timely wickets to pull India back every time they brought some semblance of parity to the chase.