Current Affairs for IAS Exams - 20 August 2014

Multi-level parking lots planned

• Chennai Metro Rail Limited planned to create multi-level parking lots at a few stations.
• Initially, the stations will have only surface-level parking facilities on the elevated stretch. Once, the entire phase-I becomes operational by August 2016, multi-level car parking lots may be created, according to officials. Stations, including Koyambedu, CMBT, Arumbakkam, Vadapalani etc. would have ground-level parking lots initially.

No LoP post for Congress: Speaker

• Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan has written to the Congress that neither “rules” nor “tradition” permits her to accede to the party’s demand for the post of Leader of the Opposition as it had failed to win at least 10 per cent of the seats in the House.
• The Speaker’s decision came in response to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s letter to her, seeking the post for Mallikarjun Kharge, the party’s leader in the Lok Sabha.

Ravi Shastri is Director of Cricket

• In a damage-control move, the BCCI has appointed former Test all-rounder Ravi Shastri Director of Cricket in the Indian team for the five-match ODI series against England, beginning August 25.
• The Board’s dramatic action was a response to India’s disastrous 3-1 Test series defeat against England.

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