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Senior IPS officer Anil Kumar Sinha has been appointed as the new CBI Director. He will take place of Ranjit Sinha.

2. Hero MotoCorp, the country’s biggest bike company, announced that it had inked a four-year endorsement deal with America’s ace golfer Tiger Woods for a whopping Rs. 250 crore.

Government has evolved a national supercomputing mission to keep up with global trends and meet growing requirements in the country. According to Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to initiate supercomputing activities, Rs 42.50 crore has been proposed for the mission during 2014-15.

4. Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO) signed an MoU with Ottobock, Germany in the presence of Union Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot.

Virat Kohli remains second in the latest ICC ODI batsmen rankings while captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has slipped a place to be ninth as India maintain second spot in the team standings.

The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved the amendments in the Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) Act, 1976 to enhance authorized and issued capital to strengthen their capital base and to bring flexibility in the shareholding between Central Government, State Government and Sponsor Bank. The term of the non-official directors appointed by the Central Government will be fixed not exceeding three years.

India’s sporting legend P T Usha is the Goodwill Ambassador of the 2nd Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB). Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF] co-founder Riyas Komu, while announcing the decision, noted that the sprinting champion has been a modern-era pioneer in convincing her country about the essence and elementary significance of speed and time. “In that context, there is nobody better suited to spread the message and philosophy of the 2014-15 biennale than her,” he added.

India joined the elite group of countries including USA, China and Japan to build the largest telescope in

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