27 April 2013 Current Affairs
Major Anup Joseph awarded Kirti Chakra, 12 others get Shaurya Chakra
Major Anup Joseph Manjali was on Saturday awarded the second-highest peacetime gallantry award Kirti Chakra by President Pranab Mukherjee for killing three foreign militants in Jammu and Kashmir. 12 defence personnel were awarded the Shaurya Charkra for their acts of bravery including Captain A Rahul Ramesh and Naik Krishna Kumar who were given the honour posthumously.
India became the world's eighth most powerful nation
According to Delhi-based Foundation for National Security Research (FSNR), the world's 10 most powerful countries, India had been ranked 8th. India is ranked eighth in 27 countries. Professor Satish Kumar says that we study about the selection of powerful countries on several grounds. Some of these countries had to fulfill the necessary criteria. For instance, were the countries, whose population was more than 5 million. The level of GDP was over U.S. $ 500 billion. India is one of such countries.Study states that the United States is the world's most powerful country and China stood in 2nd position.
Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta
On 28 April Italian Centre Left Politician, Enrico Letta from People of Democratic Party formed a new coalition Government in Italy by winning the support from his party,Centre right-wing People of Freedom and the centrist Civic Choice and presented the list of members of his cabinet.Now he is the new Prime Minister of Italy.Enrico Letta met Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy to inform him about the coalition agreement reached with the leaders of the centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party.Enrico Letta served in the government as Minister of Industry from 1999 to 2001; he also served as Secretary to the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008.
Takehiko Nakao is new ADB President
On 27 April Takehiko Nakao has been unanimously elected president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by the Board of Governors at New Delhi.He succeeds Haruhiko Kuroda, who resigned in March to take up his assignment as Bank of Japan governor.Nakao assumed office as ADB’s ninth president on 28 April.