CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR 12TH OCTOBER 2015

1. India's nation brand value has increased by a whooping 32 percent to $ 2.14 trillion, compared to $ 1.62 trillion last year.
2. Snapdeal owned mobile transaction platform Freecharge plans to spend Rs 1,000 crores in the next 10-12 months on marketing and promotions.
3. Truecaller India's userbase grows to 100 million from 35 million past quarter.
4. Tata Realty and Infrastructure promoted by Tata Sons, has returned Rs 1,250 crores to investors in its first real estate fund.
5. Apple Inc Buys Perceptio , a start up developing technology , to let firms run advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems on smartphones without needing to share as much user data.
6. Rich Ford joins Roofstock an online trading platform for rental home investors.
7. Hero MotoCorp sells 300,000 bikes on snapdeal valued at Rs 1,500 Crores in 10 months.
8. US retail giant Walmart will open its next store by 2017 in punjab.
9. Air India will soon start training 3,500 strong cabin-crew for all types of aircraft in its fleet.
10. Binoy Job takes over as secretary general of Confedeartion of Indian Textile Industry (CITI).
11. The Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme (DBT) administrative controls shifts from Finance Ministry expenditure department to Cabinet Secretariat.
12. Obama won't seek access to encrypted user data.
13. K P Sharma Oli is the Nepal's New PM.
14. Dell Inc is offering about $ 33 a share to acquire EMC corporation.