Usain Bolt takes 100m title at the IAAF World Championship

Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt lifted track and field out of the doping doldrums as he reclaimed his emphatic style on Sunday 11^th Aug. 

Bolt clocked a season’s best 9.77 seconds in heavy rain at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, with American Justin Gatlin claiming silver in 9.85sec and Nesta Carter also of Jamaica, taking bronze in 9.95sec.

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v  Reflecting subdued economic sentiments GDP figures shared growth dipping to a decade’s low of 5% in 2012-13, while improvement in fiscal deficit gave relief to government.

v  With spiraling Gold imports putting huge pressure in the Current Account Deficit (CAD), the government has hiked the import duty on the gold to 8% from 6%.

v  The Centre has approved a legislation seeking to setup a regulator for the real estate sector to protect the interest of home buyers. It provides jail term of up to three years for private developers for cheating customers with false advertisements.

v  Missile scientist Avinash Chander, the man behind India’s 5000 km range Agni missile and is smaller range variants, has been appointed as the Director General of Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

v  The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that political parties are covered Right to Information (RTI) Act.

v  IT major Infosys, which has been grappling with dwindling revenues in the last nine quarters, has recalled its 66-year-old co-founder and Chairman Emeritus N R Narayana Murthy as the executive  Chairman of the company, seven years after his retirement.

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v  Rafael Nadal beats David Ferrer to win eighth French Open title. Rafeal becomes the first man to capture the same Grand Slam title eight times.

v  Sarena Williams has defeated her longtime rival Maria Sharapova 6-4,6-4 in the final of the 2013 French Open and won her 16^th  Grand Slam title, its first French Open Championship since 2002.

v  At least 29 people, including senior Congress Leader Mahendra Karma were killed and many others injured including former Union Minister VC Shukla when heavily armed Maoist ambushed a convoy of party leaders inside dense forest in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. Mahendra katna was the founder of Salwa Judum, an anti-insurgency operation in Chhattisgarh aimed at countering the Naxalite violence in the region.

v  India Air Force will provide day and night helicopter sorties to provide logistical support to anti-naxal operations from a new helicopter base at Nagpur.

v  A Group of Minister (GoM) has approved a bill to setup an independent regulatory authority for the coal sector to address issues like pricing, supply and quality.

v  The Union Government is preparing a draft legislation to curb dishonest practices in all sporting events.

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