TESTFunda Weekly Newsletter 11th April

	11-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback IN THE SPOTLIGHT • Weekly Dose of GK and Current Affairs from April 4th to April 10th 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. • N L Dalmia - PGDBM form availability and submission date extended till 30th April 2013 N.L.Dalmia PGDBM form availability and submission date has been extended till 30th April 2013 from 31st March, 2013. It's a golden chance for all those who missed to enter this prestigious institute. • Chat With Expert Nitin Gupta On DI-LR Prep for CAT CAT Expert Nitin Gupta has a decade of experience in coaching students for CAT and other competitive exams. Get all your prep related queries solved. • Participate in our 'Story Marathon' and win exciting rewards Put on your thinking caps, the story marathon has begun! We provide you a start and you bring us the end. Exciting rewards up for grabs! • Chat Transcript- Strategies to crack CAT Expert M. Balakumaran gave his valuable inputs and shared his fundas to prepare for the upcoming exam season. Read the transcript. • IIM Bangalore Final List Announced The results for the Post Graduate Program at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore have been declared. • Results: Engineer's Month Bumper Reward & April Fools' Day Prank Contest The result for the bumper reward for the Engineers' Month has been announced. Accolades to Manish Kumar for achieving the highly coveted Kindle. Also see the April Fools' Day Prank Contest results. • Poll: Does signing online petitions make a difference? Cast your vote for and express your views by participating in our poll. Post comments and discuss. WHAT'S NEW @ TESTFunda!! Flat 30% Off on All Courseware Use Code: GUDIPADVA Ends on 11th April Procure here   CAT/XAT Scholarship Use your last CAT/XAT score Get waivers upto 60% on MBA courseware Know more Online UPSC CSAT Scholarship Test at NO COST Get waivers up to 100% on UPSC courseware 13th April @ 5 p.m. Register here   THE WORLD THIS WEEK • Pakistan allowed US drone strikes in secret deal by insisting drones should avoid mountains camps where Kashmiri militants were trained An article from the book "The Way of the Knife: The C.I.A., a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth", reveals a secret deal in which the C.I.A. agreed to kill Nek Muhammad, a tribal militant who was considered an enemy of the state by Pakistan, in exchange for Pakistani airspace so that it could use drones to hunt down its own enemies. ISI negotiated that US drones could not venture in Pakistan's nuclear facilities or in mountain camps where Pakistani militants were trained for attacks on India. • Supreme Court cuts down austerity measures in Portugal, government warns of severe economic woes Portugal faces fresh crisis as the government said it would be forced to introduce more spending cuts and everyday life would become difficult after Portugal's constitutional court struck down four of nine contested austerity measures that the government had introduced last year as part of a 2013 budget that included about 5 billion of tax increases and spending cuts. Portugal had received 78 billion as aid from IMF and European creditors but has failed to fulfill its economic goals and plunged further into deep recession. • Notices to Vodafone, Essar, HSBC for Rs.35000 cr under-reporting; Adani, Tata, Essar, JSW face Rs.2500 cr import duty evasion charges Four Essar group firms, Vodafone India Services, HSBC Securities & Capital Markets and Bharti Telecom have been issued notices for under-reporting revenues of Rs 35,000 cr because of lower transfer pricing of shares than the rate specified by the government. In another case, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has accused Adani Power, Tata Power, Essar Power and JSW Energy and other companies of evading Rs.25,000 cr of import duty by allegedly importing bituminous coal as steam coal. • Deep seabed mining of polymetallic nodules to become a reality U.K. firm Lockheed Martin, for the first time in the world, will mine polymetallic nodules in a 58,000 sq. km. area in the Pacific Ocean. India, which is a pioneer in this research has been allocated 150,000 sq. km in the Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) for pursuing mining of nodules. The mining of polymetallic nodules, which are rich sources of Manganese, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, is of extreme importance to India which does not have a terrestrial source of these metals. Read the articles here 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. 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