CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR 10TH OCTOBER 2015

CORPORATE AFFAIRS, TECHNOLOGY AND E-COMMERCE

1. PepsiCo has raised concerns over the controversial and ethical issues confronting the IPL tornament. It is believed that the value of title sponsorship could fall by 30% if cola maker terminates it contract ahead of schedule.
2. Private equity group Apax Partners acquired a 23.2% stake in mid-tier Infotech firm  Zensar Technologies for Rs 860 Crores by buying out existing investor Electra Partners.
3. Passenger Vehicles sales may Grow 6-8% this fiscal year.
4. Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has taken a dig at Apple saying his employees refer to the Tech company as 'The Tesla Graveyard'.
5. The Prasar Bharti Board has been reconstituted with businessman Sunil Alagh, Shashi Shekhar, Singer Anup Jalota and former journalist Ashok Tandon.
6. Videocon Industries has bagged a contract to make 5 Lakh handests for CoolPad India.
7. Chinese handset maker Huwaei is considering manufacturing its smartphones in India, as its Honor Brand of mobile handsets gain traction in the country's market.
8. Vodafone to offer latest I-Phones with user freebies worth Rs 8,885 for subscribers.
9. Aion Capital Partners a joint venture between private equity firms Apollo Global Management and ICICI Venture has invested Rs 600 Crores in Ravi Jaipuria flagship Varun Beverages.
10. SK Mohanty tooks charge as executive director of Securities and Exchange Board of India in Mumbai.
11. Sun Pharma has withdrawn suit filed by Ranbaxy against USFDA.
12. Income Tax Department has slapped a fresh tax notice on Nokia India.
13. Stock Holding Corporation plans to raise Rs 750-900 crores through an initial public offering.
14. Transport Corporation of India has decided to demeger its express logistics business to increase focus on the e-commerce segment.
15.  Tata Motors Jaguar Land Rover to invest $ 2 billion to build a plant in Slovak Republic which will help to create 400 direct jobs and 50,000 supplementary jobs .
16. Videocon looks to raise Rs 12000 crores in sale of spectrum in 6 circles.

POLITICS, CRIMES, ECONOMY, SPORTS, ENTERTAINMENT & WORLD NEWS

1. Vikas and Vishal Yadav serving 30 years jail term for killing Nitish Katara in 2002 escaped Death penalty as Supreme court rejects Death penalty plea.
2. Pakistan singer Ghulam Ali has accepted Delhi Government's invitation to perform in the national capital in December.
3. The Missionaries Of Charity (MoC) has confirmed that it had shit down child adoption centres since August 15, since it was unable to comply with certain mew norms issued by the Union women and Child Welfare Ministry.
4. Jammu and Kashmir passes resolution against religious extremism, urging leadership in the country to create enviornment of peace and harmony so that all the sections of the society become real stake holders of India.
5. India's application to enter the Missile Technology Regime(MTCR) has been accepted and well received at plenary meeting of the coveted club that ended in Norway.
6. Indirect tax collection increased in the first six months of the current fiscal to Rs 3.24 lakh crores hitting more than 50% of the annual target.
7. Singer Taylor Swift has become the most followed celebrity on Instagram with 50 million followers.
8. Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet won the Nobel Peace Prize for building democracy in the country after 2011 revolution.
9. India's first airport in Juhu will be nation's first civil aviation museum.
10. The AAP government in Delhi sacked Envionment and Food Minister Asim Ahmed Khan after a whistleblower accused him of coruption.
11. Author Shashi Deshpande resigned from The Sahitya Academi's General council to protest its silence on the murder of Kannada writer and rationalist MM Kalburgi.
12. Filmmaker Jerrit John gets five year rigorous imprisonment for attacking his ex-girlfriens Aryanka Hosbetkar.
13. Music Composer Ravindra Jain died following Kidney failure.
14. Rs 6000 crores scam in Bank of Baroda's delhi branch has been detected. The funds are transferred to hongkong through newly opened accounts.
15. 3,500 new taxis may hit road this diwali in Mumbai.
16. Supreme court said that it would levt Rs 1,300 as pollution tax on heavy trucks and Rs 700 on light commercial vehicles to deter the smoke spewing vehicles from entering Delhi.
17. 35% jump in online applications for RSS membership in poll-bound Bihar.
18. Since 1947, 31% mercy pleas have been commuted to life imprisonment from death.
19. UK firms create world's first drone freezing gun.
20. Smoking will kill 2 million chinese annually by 2030.