TESTFunda Weekly Newsletter 7th March

	07-Mar-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback IN THE SPOTLIGHT • Weekly Dose of GK and Current Affairs from Feb 28th to March 6th This section will let you keep abreast of all the important news and latest happenings around the world without looking at different sources across the internet. • Online Chat - What after Engineering? - Friday, 8th March @ 5 p.m. Discuss higher study and career options after engineering. To participate go to testfunda.com > Free Resources > Quizzes, Contests & Chats > Chats with experts. • Campus Recruitment prep-II quiz: Saturday @ 7 p.m. Participate in our Special Quiz designed on the lines of the recruitment tests conducted by companies like Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Accenture and others. • Create a quiz contest | Last date of sending entries - 10th March Make your own quiz to be shared online with all TF users and you can win a Fast Track Watch or Sony Headphones. The best entry on each topic will feature as official TESTfunda Quizzes (with due credit to you). • TestFunda is hiring Looking to recruit Student Counselors, Content experts, freelance authors and other positions. Mail your CVs to careers@testfunda.com • Design a T-Shirt and Win Cash Rewards We present to you the T-shirt Design Contest. Put on your thinking caps and design a t-shirt. Rewards up to Rs. 5000 up for grabs. WHAT'S NEW @ TESTFunda!! March is TestFunda Engineers' Month Get waivers upto 70% |Participate in contests & quizzes and win Fastrack Watches, Sony Headphones and more! The more events you participate in, closer you get to win a KINDLE! SPECIAL GROUP WAIVER Procure Test Prep Courses along with your friends and colleagues and avail upto 50% waiver Applicable on all courseware in all formats. Know here   30% off on all our courseware in all formats Coupon code: TESTPREP Valid only till 10th March Procure here   THE WORLD THIS WEEK • India's 82nd Union Budget announced Finance Minister Mr. P. Chidambaram presented India's 82nd Union Budget on the 28th of February. The total budget expenditure for 2013-14 is seen at 16.65 lakh crore rupees. There was no change in basic tax slabs. However, a surcharge of 10 percent was imposed on those with a taxable income of over Rs. 1 crore. Mobile phones, cigarettes, mp3 players, set-top boxes, imported cars will get costlier whereas diamonds, leather goods, readymade garments, imported garments are likely to get cheaper. The budget encouraged home loans and stated that Foreign Institutional Investor entry rules might be eased further. The budget also put forth the Rs. 1000 crores Nirbhaya Fund for the welfare of women. • US Government orders broad cuts in US Government spending US President Barack Obama formally announced budget sequestration after he and fellow congressional Republicans failed to reach a deal to avert automatic reductions that could dampen economic growth and defence spending. The US federal government is reducing spending by $1.2 trillion over the next nine years, including $85 billion over the final seven months of this fiscal year. The area most affected will be discretionary spending which includes both defence and non-defence spending. The sequestration will also affect medicare and certain mandatory spending. • Child born with HIV cured for the first time A baby girl born in Mississippi infected with the HIV virus has been cured after early treatment with standard HIV drugs. This is the first instance of a child achieving functional cure i.e. a stage where it has been cured of the disease completely without the need for regular drugs and standard blood tests do not show the virus duplicating itself. • Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton Economic Forum scrapped The Wharton India Economic Forum revoked its decision to invite Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi to deliver a key note address after three Indian-American professors from the University of Pennsylvania sent a petition signed by more than 250 people against inviting Modi to address the forum on March 23 via video conferencing. • Bangladesh War Crimes accused sentenced to death, violent protests kill 44 people A special war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh has sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami top policy maker Delwar Hossain Sayedee to death after he was found guilty of war crimes during the nine-month war against Pakistan. The sentence sparked off violent protests between Jamaat-e-Islami supporters and police which led to the death of more than 44 people. Earlier in February, activists protested in Shabagh demanding death penalty for Jamaat leaders. TestFunda.com - LEARN with THE LEADER in Online MBA Test Prep Demo Lessons   |   Take a Demo Test   |   Buy Courses   |   Fun Learning Games   |   100-Percentilers About TestFunda.com - TestFunda is backed by www.ZeusLearning.com. 3 IIT-IIM graduates form the Management Team. - The 85+ member team has vast experience in MBA Coaching and Computer-Based Training and Testing. - For 12 years Zeus has created award-winning courseware for companies like Discovery Channel, Reader's Digest, Texas Instruments, Pearson Education. - The TestFunda Advisory Board comprises CEOs and MDs of international educational companies. About This Newsletter You received this email because you have registered with www.TestFunda.com. 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