Today's Important News: 08 January 2014

Today's Important News (08-01-2014)

The Hindu

National :

1. Congress brings in Priyanka
2. MGNREGS to include rural sanitation

Current Affairs MCQ

International:

1. Russia begins security clampdown for Sochi
2. Humanitarian crisis deepens as S.Sudan fighting continues
3. Polar vortex snaps weather records

India & The World:

1. Homework done, India ready for Geneva meet on Syria

Business News:

1. RBI panel moots bank accounts for all by 2016
2. RBI panel moots credit access to all by January 1, 2016
3. Nasscom chief calls for shift in focus
4. Samsung unveils super-sized tablets, curved TV
5. Intel is now looking beyond PCs

S&T, Environment, Defence :

1. GSAT orbit raised again

2. Prithvi-II test-fired, covers full range

Sports:

1. Mattek-Sands shocks Radwanska

Others:

1. CBI report finds 33 benami transactions in Adarsh
2. Indicted by Lokayukta, punished by electorate
3. Supreme Court to hear Kanimozhi’s plea in 2G case on January 21
4. PM to lay stone for nuclear power plant in Haryana

Editorials & Articles:

1. Belated, but right decision
2. A battle for the soul of Islam
3. Riga’s new currency
4. Ordinary lives, extraordinary deaths
5. The power of hot bubbles

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Courtesy: The Hindu