Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 28 December, 2013

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

Ed Currie holds one of his world-record Carolina Reaper peppers by the stem, which looks like the tail of a scorpion.
On the other end is red fruit with a punch of heat nearly as potent as most pepper sprays used by police.
The Guinness Book of World Records decided Mr. Currie’s peppers were the hottest on Earth, ending a more than four-year drive to prove no one grows a more scorching chili.
But whether Mr. Currie’s peppers are truly the world’s hottest is a question that one scientist said can never be known.
The science of hot peppers centres around chemicals compounds called capsaicinoids.

AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal took oath as the seventh Chief Minster of Delhi.
Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung administered the oath of office and secrecy to Mr. Kejriwal and six other ministers at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi.
Six ministers -- Manish Sisodia, Somnath Bharti, Rakhi Birla, Satyendra Jain, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Girish Soni -- also took oath of office and secrecy at the ceremony.
After the ceremony, Mr. Kejriwal would visit Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial Rajghat to pay homage.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will keep Home, Finance, Vigilance, Power Planning and Services departments.
Mr. Manish Sisodia has been allotted Education, PWD, Urban Development, Local Bodies and Land and Building departments.
Administrative Reforms, Law, Tourism and Culture will be taken care of by Mr. Somnath Bharti.
The only women Minister, Ms. Rakhi Birla, will handle Social Welfare and Women and Child Development departments. Mr. Girish Soni to handle Labour, Development and SC,ST departments Mr. Satyendra Jain has been allocated Health and Industries departments.
Mr. Saurabh Bhardwaj was given the charge of Transport, Food and Civil Supplies and Environment.

Arvind Kejriwal is only the second Chief Minister to be an IITian after his Goa counterpart Manohar Parrikar and joins a select group of ministers like Ajit Singh and Jairam Ramesh whose alma mater is the crown jewel of the country's higher education.
A product of Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Khargapur, 45-year-old Kejriwal studied Mechanical Engineering and passed out in 1989. Besides Parrikar and Kejriwal, the other IIT alumni who are among the handful of highly-qualified technocrat politicians include Union Ministers Ajit Singh and Jairam Ramesh. Parrikar passed out as a metallurgical engineer from IIT, Mumbai.
Like Kejriwal, Ajit Singh, a computer engineer by profession, is a B Tech from IIT, Kharagpur while Ramesh graduated from IIT Bombay with a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering.

The training camp of the senior men core probables for the World Hockey League Final to be held in the capital from January 10-18 will begin at Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium .
India is placed in Pool A with Germany, England and New Zealand, while Australia, Netherlands, Belgium and Argentina are placed in Pool B.
India will open its campaign against England on January 10 followed by New Zealand on January 11 and Germany on January 13.
Playing against all top teams of the World in this tournament will be good exposure for the Indian Men Hockey team prior to their preparations for the FIH Men's World Cup to be held in The Hague, Netherlands from May 31 to June 15.

Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson may reportedly cap his impressive international comeback by being only the fourth Australian bowler to collect 40 or more wickets in a Test series against England in the 130 years the two combatants have gone head to head.
The three other Australians to have that honour are Terry Alderman, who claimed 42 in 1981 and 41 in 1989, Rodney Hogg (41 in 1978/79) and Shane Warne (40 in 2005), with Alderman and Hogg making the mark in six-match series.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Johnson, with 28 to his name with an innings remaining in Melbourne and the fifth Test in Sydney next Friday, is within sight of entering that category, having reached speeds of 155.8km/h in front of a world-record crowd on Boxing Day and continuing his burst on the second day with three scalps.