TESTFunda Weekly Newsletter 18th April

	18-Apr-13 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback IN THE SPOTLIGHT • Weekly Dose of GK and Current Affairs from April 11th to April 17th 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. • 20th April @ 7 pm: SBI PO GK Quiz With just 10 days left for the SBI PO exam, get set to test your GK and boost your preparation. • Story Marathon Part 2 | Story Marathon Part 1 – Result Announced Send in your entries for the second part of our Story Marathon Contest. Hidesign bag and Casio watch up for grabs. • B-School News: IIMs review fees; IIM B hikes while IIM L slashes IIM Bangalore has hiked its Post Graduate Program (PGP) fees by 13.3% to Rs 17 lakhs this year while IIM Lucknow has reduced the fees by 10% for the PGP & PGP ABM. • 26th April @ 5 pm: Chat on smart preparation in CAT by Gajendra Kumar Learn wise ways to boost your preparation and get an edge over others in this chat with expert Gajendra Kumar. • Poll of the week: Which of the following is the best fictional series of books? Cast your vote for your favourite fictional book series. WHAT'S NEW @ TESTFunda!! New Range of MBA Courseware – Available at an Introductory Rate Purchase them at 35% less (highest waiver of the year) Coupon code: INTRODUCTORY13 Purchase here CMAT Scholarship Do you feature among the top 40,000 ranks in Sept 2012 or Feb 2013 CMAT? Avail upto 60% off on our courseware. View the details here   THE WORLD THIS WEEK • Gold rates drop 9 percent, biggest one-day fall in 30 years Gold rates plunged $140.30 to $1,361.10 an ounce on Monday, 15th April, a decline of 9% and its biggest one-day drop since 1983. The rate of gold has dropped nearly 13 percent in the last 2 days. The sharp rate decline prompted worried traders to sell their shares and move out of the market. • BJP must name Prime Ministerial candidate by year end, rule out Narendra Modi; demands Nitish Kumar A rift in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seems apparent after the BJP rejected JD (U) chief and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's demand to rule out Narendra Modi as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate in 2014. Nitish also demanded that the BJP name its Prime Ministerial candidate by year end. The BJP stood by Modi and reprimanded Nitish for losing the focus of removing the UPA. • SFI activists heckle Mamata Banerjee to protest SFI leader Sudipto Gupta's death; in retaliation Trinamool vandalize Presidency University Left supporters heckled West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Finance Minister Amit Mitra outside the Planning Commission Office in New Delhi to protest the death of SFI leader Sudipto Gupta who was allegedly killed in police custody on 2nd April after being thrashed brutally by the police. In retaliation, Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad members vandalized and ransacked the physics department of Presidency University on April 13th. Trinamool termed the incident trivial and faced strong criticism from all quarters. • 3 killed and more than 140 wounded at Boston Marathon bomb blasts Two powerful bombs exploded at the popular Boston Marathon killing 3 and critically injuring over 140 people. Although no militant outfit has taken responsibility for the blasts, White House is approaching it as an act of terror. • Massive Earthquake strikes Iran, 40 feared dead; tremors felt in North India too A powerful earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck the border regions between Iran and Pakistan and tremors were felt across the Gulf region and parts of North-West India. The death toll is assumed to be more than 40. • Mukesh Ambani to take on lease 50,000 towers owned by Anil Ambani's Reliance Infratel Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Jio Infocomm will take on lease 50,000 towers owned by Anil Ambani's Reliance Infratel to launch his 4G mobile services business. This is part of a series of intended business collaborations between the two brothers. • Infosys misses its annual revenue guidance and forecasts slow revenue growth for 2013-14 Infosys missed its full-year revenue guidance by 0.97 per cent in rupee terms and 0.6 per cent in dollar terms and announced that its revenue growth forecast for 2013-14 would be 6 to 10 percent which is much lower than the industry average of 12 to 14 percent. This prompted Infosys' shares to dip by over 20 percent. Infosys cited the volatile business environment for the low revenue guidance. 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