31 October 2013 Current Affairs
Gujarat CM Laid Foundation Stone Of Sardar Patel Statue
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on 31 October laid the foundation stone of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel’s statue in Bharuch of Gujarat.The proposed statue which will be called ‘The Statue of Unity’, will be erected on a small rocky island called Sadhubet in the middle of the Narmada riverbed facing the Sardar Sarovar Dam at Kevadia.The proposed statue will be 182 metre tall and will be the tallest in the world. The total height from the base will be 240 metre, which includes base level of 58 metre.It will be double the size of ‘Statue of Liberty’.The ‘Spring Temple Buddha’ statue in China is the closest rival at a height of 153 metre.Sardar Vallabhai Patel was an Indian freedom fighter and one of the great social leaders of India.He is one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India.After India’s independence, he became the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India.He was the man behind the consolidation of 565 semi-autonomous princely states to form a united India.
Bharat Joshi is new British Deputy High Commissioner
Bharat Suresh Joshi has been appointed on 31 October as the new British Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai. He succeeds Mike Nithavrianakis who has been in that position for the past four years.Bharat Suresh Joshi joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1995.He was worked as the British High Commissioner to Camaroon and non-resident Ambassador to Gabon, Chad, Equatorial Guinea and Central African Republic.