NASA releases new picture of planet Saturn taken from the Cassini spacecraft

● Nasa have today released a new picture of Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, taken by their Cassini spacecraft

● It is the first-ever natural-colour portrait of Saturn, in which the planet, its seven moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible

● Cassini’s imaging team processed 141 wide-angle images to create the panorama. The image sweeps 6,51,591 km across Saturn and its inner ring system, including all of Saturn’s rings out to the E ring, which is Saturn’s second outermost ring.

Tokyo trilateral to focus on civil nuclear issues

● The fifth India-U.S.-Japan trilateral in Tokyo is to be held on 14th and 15th November.

● All three countries want to push forward the stalled civil nuclear energy agreement. Japan is a vital third leg because one of its companies will supply a crucial component for the American nuclear reactors. This requires an India-Japan civil nuclear agreement and Tokyo’s nod on the terms of liability in case of an accident.

● The meeting will pick up the issue of a route starting from India and going through upper Myanmar to eventually touch Vietnam.

INDIA :Don’t force developing nations to review their voluntary emission cuts

● India, China and other countries in the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC) group on 12th November took the position to formally protest against reviewing their voluntary emission cuts.

● The ongoing Warsaw talks are part of consultation and negotiation process before the agreement on Climate Change to be signed in 2015.

RBI announces lower CAD at $56bn

● RBI said that CAD in 2013-14 will be $56 billion, much lower than the quantum projected earlier, and there was no fundamental reason for the depreciation of the rupee

● The current account deficit (CAD), which is the difference between outflow and inflow of foreign exchange, touched an all-time high of $88.2 billion or 4.8 per cent of the GDP in 2012-13

● Earlier, the government had projected the CAD in the current fiscal at $70 billion, which was revised downwards to $60 billion by Finance Minister P Chidambaram following declining gold imports and recovery in exports

Mumbai-Bangalore corridor set to create 25 lakh jobs

GOI appoints Usha Ananthasubramanian as the First CMD of Bharatiya Mahila Bank

Rupee – the Slumdog mountaineer becomes the first canine to reach Mount Everest

Bacon painting the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

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