TESTFunda Weekly Newsletter 17-Oct-13

	17-Oct-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback IN THE SPOTLIGHT • Weekly Dose of GK and Current Affairs from October 10th to October 16th This section will keep you abreast of all the important news and latest happenings around the world without looking at different sources across the internet. • Share Your CAT 2013 Experience | Read how others belled the CAT! Are you taking CAT 2013? Tell us all about your experience - the nervousness, the test environment, the actual test itself. Post your write-up and earn reward points. • Oct 18 @ 5 pm: Chat on Last minute prep for IBPS PO with expert Sumesh Chahal What should be the D-Day strategy for the IBPS PO exam? How many questions should be attempted in each section? Get answers to these queries and more in this real time chat tomorrow. • TF Expert CAT 2013 experience - Gaurav Dave Read the first day first slot experience of our content expert for CAT 2013. • Script it Contest Guess the dialogues between the characters in a picture that we will upload on our official FB page. Create a wacky caption for it to get exciting rewards. • How To Prepare For Bank Exams Read this detailed article on Bank exam preparation covering section format, question types, tips, tricks and strategies. • Poll of the week: Do you believe that the government was well prepared and took sufficient measures for handling tropical Cyclone Phailin? Cast your vote and let us know your views about the same. 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The Hague-based OPCW is backed by the UN and was founded in 1997. Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J Shiller were given the Nobel Prize in Economics for their empirical analysis of asset pricing. • Walmart, Bharti enterprises call off India Joint Venture Wal-Mart and Bharti Enterprises have announced the termination of their retail joint venture in the cash-and-carry-space. The appointment of former Walmart India Country Head Raj Jain as an advisor to Bharti group is being seen as the immediate fallout of the termination. • Libyan PM Ali Zeidan abducted and held hostage On 10th October, Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was abducted from a luxury hotel called Corinthia in Tripoli and held for several hours in an unknown location by militia gunmen on 10th October. Justice and Security has become a cause of concern in Libya since the ouster of Gaddafi in 2011. • Archers from Arunachal issued stapled visas miss event in China Two young archers flying to China to participate in the Youth World Championships were stopped from boarding the flight at the Delhi airport. China considers Arunachal Pradesh as a part of China and not India and has been issuing stapled visas to residents of Arunachal Pradesh since 2010. India on the other hand thinks that this move violates Indian sovereignty and has decided that those issued stapled visas will not be allowed to travel to China. • Odisha, Andhra Pradesh hit by Cyclone Phailin Last week, a severe cyclone, Phailin, the worst in the last 14 years, hit the coast of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Telecom towers have been damaged, train services disrupted, flights cancelled and electricity supply has been cut. 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