Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam - 31 July, 2014

Current Affairs For SSC CGL Exam

An influential Chinese journalist and a crusading environmental lawyer from China are among this year’s winners of Asia’s Magsaysay awards.
Among this year's six awardees is Hu Shuli (61), founder and editor of Caijing, a business magazine famed for its groundbreaking investigative reporting that has had a profound impact on China.
Another winner was Chinese lawyer Wang Canfa (55), founder of the Centre for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, which has handled thousands of environmental complaints and beaten powerful industrialists in court.
Also honoured were Indonesian anthropologist Saur Marlina Manurung, National Museum of Afghanistan director Omara Khan Masoudi, Filipino teacher Randy Halasan, and the Pakistani non-government group The Citizen’s Foundation.

The United States has decided to focus on three areas in India which include infrastructure, manufacturing and sectors that are more open for global investment.
India’s new government is committed to an agenda of accelerating growth, attracting investment, generating good-paying jobs, and ushering in a new era of global co-operation and economic dynamism.
With India likely to spend $1.7 trillion by 2020 to develop infrastructure, the U.S. is seeing greater opportunity to participate.
U.S. would like to create a business climate in India that was more open for global investment. Bilateral trade between the two countries now stands at more than $96 billion.