GAIL to sign a gas purchase agreement with Turkmenistan’s national oil firm in TAPI pipeline;Donna Summer dies

1. Cabinet allowed state-run gas-firm GAIL (India) Ltd to sign a gas purchase agreement with Turkmenistan’s national oil firm, for supplies from a planned multi-national pipeline, the proposed 1,700-km (1,056-mile) Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India line (TAPI) will have a capacity to carry 90 million cubic metres a day (mcmd) gas for a 30-year period and will be operational in 2018. 2. Country’s largest private mobile operator Bharti Airtel and Axis Bank made a partnership to provide banking services through…
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AUSTRALIA will give more than $300 million in assistance to Afghanistan;Parimarjan Negi won Asian continental chess championship

1. AUSTRALIA will give more than $300 million in assistance to Afghanistan to help sustain and support the nation’s security forces after Australian troops withdraw from the country. Australia will contribute $100 million a year to the Afghan National Security Forces from 2015. 2. Aziz Qureshi was sworn in as the fifth Governor of Uttarakhand by Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice Barin Ghosh at a simple ceremony in Raj Bhavan here on…
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World’s most Powerful Mom’s in 2012 by Forbes; Hillary Clinton tops the list.

Here is a list of top 20 powerful Moms in the world according to Forbes. Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of state is at No.1 position. Chairman of Pepsico is at No.3 position and Congress President Sonia Gandhi is at No.6 position. Serial No. Name Country 1 Hillary Clinton USA
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Irrfan Khan to play Dr Ratha in “The Amazing Spider-man”; Polar Music Prize to Yo-Yo Ma and Paul Simon.

1. Bob Dylan is to be awarded with America’s highest civilian honour, the presidential medal of freedom. He was praised by the White House as being among “the most influential American musicians of the 20th century”, as well. 2. The biggest search engine Google has awarded Google Photography Prize 2012 award to Sweden’s Viktor Johansson, earlier the names of the 10 Finalists for the Google Photography Prize 2012 were announced by Google.
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