1. Reserve Bank of India on 27 May 2013 imposed restrictions on banks and NBFCs for providing loans against gold coins as well as units of gold ETFs and mutual funds to curb demands for gold.
2. A short film based on the project- affected people of Tarapur Atomic Power Station has won the ‘Yellow Oscar’ award at the Uranium Film Festival at Rio-de-Janeiro, Brazil.
3. The West Bengal government announced here on Monday the appointment of the first woman graduate from the endangered Toto community in north Bengal as a social worker in the Backward Classes Welfare Department.
4. Rich tributes were paid to revolutionary leader Veer Vinayak Damodar Savarkar on Tuesday at his birth place Bhagur in the district on his 130th birth anniversary.
5. China supported Sri Lanka against a US-backed resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, while India backed the resolution. China has provided loans to the war-ravaged country to develop infrastructure and Chinese enterprises are active in building highways, railroad systems, harbours as well as energy facilities in the country.
6. India’s capabilities to protect its vast interests in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and to tackle any threat there received a boost with the setting up of a Sukhoi fighter aircraft base in Tamil Nadu, the first such station in the southern part of the country.
7. England’s staging of the 2019 Cricket World Cup has been rubber-stamped as the International Cricket Council confirmed the same on Monday.It was originally announced in 2006 that England would stage what will be the 12th edition of cricket’s leading one-day international tournament.
8. Odisha on 27 May 2013 clinched the boy’s title while Haryana won the girl’s championship at the third National Sub-Junior Hockey tournament.
9. Pole vault great Sergei Bubka of Ukraine is expected to be the sixth declared candidate in the race to become the next International Olympic Committee president.
10. Having avoided the media before and after the final of the Indian Premier League, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday maintained a stoic silence on the spot-fixing scandal that has, among others, also led to the arrest of CSK’s Team principal Gurunath Meiyappan.
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